RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending mail to a program

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Here is my code: > > #include > using namespace std; > > int main (int argc, char* argv[]) > { >ofstream out; > >out.open("/root/test.data"); > >for (int x = 0; x < argc; x++) > out << argv[x]; >out.close(); >return 0; > > } > > It works fine from the command line

RE: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Why people use "Reply to all" on a list such as this I have no idea... Because the standard for most lists is that a reply goes to the original sender only and 'reply to all' is used to send a message to the OP and the list. The gentoo list is the only one that we have seen that violates this p

RE: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> The other problem that was confusing everything is still a problem though. > When I start the machine the /etc/init.d/sshd script doesn't start > sshd, /etc/init.d/sshd restart doesn't work and /etc/init.d/sshd status > tells me that sshd is running when it isn't . I have to /usr/sbin/sshd > ma

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder! > > On Apr 1, 2005 8:39 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:10:00 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I say again, no other list I am on exhibits

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK. > > What does CHOST do? It's the basis for the hosting architecture. By defining it as 686 it (plus the right CFLAGS) is supposed to optimize compiles for your platform. > OK. What does -pipe do? > Gcc will build intermediary files to pass between the internal components (i.e. the prep

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ > > Nah! It's got to be an april fool's joke... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
NOTE: Making the changes I suggest below may impact your system (especially by changing the CHOST). If you choose to make them be sure to "emerge --emptytree system" at least and probably the world as well. > My make.conf has > CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" use CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-

RE: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Anyways, I emerge synced, which went fine, but when I try > to pretend to emerge -uDvp world to see what it's going to install, I get > the error about missing /etc/make.profile and check symlink. What does > this mean and what can I do about it? Are those the emerge options I > should be using f

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: > > #ifdef ERROR_MESS > > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc localealias.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -mcpu=i686 > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fPIC -g0 -O99 -fomit-frame-pointer > -D__USE_STRING_INLINES

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I don't think 'fixing' is likely to happen as this discussion happens > frequently. It mostly boils down to the list handling being correct but > some clients seems to behave incorrectly. > > Personally, I'd prefer if the clients handle lists properly. As would we all. But the truth of the mat

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well after I updated gcc I run the updatescript and this script merges > some pacage (portage gcc-config distcc linux-headers etc..) so gcc was > working when i updated the system to 2005.0 else I will received an > error.. (at least i suppose so :-) > > locate output this: > Mjolne spetznaz # l

RE: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> There may not be nothing wrong with it, but it is nevertheless almost as > crappy way to do it. This is because the next time the package with custom > CFLAGS gets updated as part of a world/system update, it will be emerged > with the default CFLAGS again... In these cases it is better to manag

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> # during boot ## > Mar 31 15:31:31 [kernel] NET: Registered protocol family 10 > Mar 31 15:31:31 [net.agent] add event not handled > # guess this line is the problem # > Mar 31 15:32:07 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server > response_ > # guess this line is the p

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> You could also try setting up ifplugd. If nothing else, it would allow > your users to reset the network by removing and reinserting the network > cable. That's not something I'd let *my* users do ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work > directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is > fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing > [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if > someone has

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> The advice was: > rm -f /usr/lib32 > ln -s ../../emul/linux/x86/usr/lib /usr/lib32 > FEATURES=-sandbox emerge gcc > > This fix the update off gcc problem. (but i am wondering it may break > somting else?) Well probably you lost your /usr/lib32's file crt1.o file. Bummer. If you remember what

RE: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Is there any way to see what libraries hare linked to library? ldd is your friend... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> grep: /usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la: No such file or directory > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la: No such file or directory > libtool: link: `/usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la' is not a valid libtool archive > > I have kde 3.4, but he tries to compile with a library from kde 3.3 that > is

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > As to whether to move all of /usr or just parts of /usr, I have separate > > partitions for /usr/local and /usr/portage but leave /usr on the root > > partition. > > Okay. I can live with that, if I know it's possible. I just need a little > extra space, as the disk use approaches 90%. Moving

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: On-topic, possible mailing list issue

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm trying to figure out how two copies of my email You should not be posting mail to robin.gentoo.org, just [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I want more space under /, so I tried to move /usr to a different > partition - and (IIRC) had a 'failure to unmount the initrd' on boot... > and no boot. > > So, is there a safe way to do this? /usr is a little tricky because it will usually have open processes on it. You can move /usr to a ne

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > What's wrong with "emerge cyrus-sasl"? > > emerge cyrus-sasl fails. How about posting a transcript of what is actually going on? Have you tried sync'ing since this started? If it was a temporary fluke there may be a new or updated ebuild to fix it. And just because the emerge fails doesn't

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Yeah, but why are you trying to use ebuild to > > install the package in the > > first place? Did emerge choke on it? Do you need > > custom configure script > > options? Having that background will help to figure > > out how to complete the > > task it seems you're trying to do... > > Bei

RE: On-topic, possible mailing list issue: was RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I received six different copies of Mark's message... Make that 8 copies now... Looked at the actual message headers and other than repeats for mailing list stuff (see below), there's nothing really helpful in identifying the problem source... Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: [EM

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well I took the same options ebuild uses when it ran > ./configure, i used the same options again. Hence I > believe the use flags might be retained. I wouldn't > know until it is installed. A wild swing and try. I > just want to get over the compile error so that I can > compile openldap which

On-topic, possible mailing list issue: was RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay, mailing list question... I received six different copies of Mark's message... Granted he did cross post to gentoo-user@gentoo.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can understand getting two copies, but six? No offense to you, Mark, but was this something he did or something that either the norma

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > > Why does something have to act/look like Windows to be ready for the > > > desktop. If that's what you need/want just use Windows already! > > > > It's not that the next OS has to act/look like windows to supplant > windows, > > it's a question of usability... > > > > There's a lot of resear

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> My biggest worry now is Internet predators. I wish there was a real > solution for that sort of stuff under Linux, like Net-nanny etc. under > Windows. That's what scares me as a parent. Heard of squid? It's only the standard proxy for linux-based systems and kicks the crap out of net nanny...

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Unfortunately, Holly, I don't think linux will be ready for the desktop > for > > quite awhile (yes, that does make me sad). > > Novell disagrees: [snip] > > AT&T disagrees: [snip] > > Various governments disagree: [double-snip for an nytimes link] > > The tide is turning. Only if you can'

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Why does something have to act/look like Windows to be ready for the > desktop. If that's what you need/want just use Windows already! It's not that the next OS has to act/look like windows to supplant windows, it's a question of usability... There's a lot of research that has been done and is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Dave V
, some people, like myself, are just a little newer to > >gentoo than others or by sheer dumb luck didn't make all the same mistakes > >as everyone else. > > Dave, dear heart, get over yourself. My question was never about you, > per se, but rather about a class of user

RE: [gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I would like instead to "enumerate" the two files (starting from monday > = 1, till friday=5) > in order to keep a week backup, such as for instance: curve.1.tar.gz , > curve.2.tar.gz, > .. curve.5. tar.gz and the same for etc > > How can I obtain this result with crontab? Use "date +%u" to ge

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Everyone assumes that "the masses" must have a GUI, because the > command-line is "too scary" in some way. > > But if the command-line was intuitively understandable, *would these > users still be scared of it*? Would they continue to avoid Linux, just > because text is not as "pretty" as icons,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave V
ith Mandrake or Ubuntu, would probably work just as well. On (2005-03-30 08:20), Dave Nebinger wrote: > > We can't make Linux "better" and "ready for the desktop"-- which does > > *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can > > cert

RE: [gentoo-user] '[Masked]' packages - another newbie question...

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Can someone explain (or point me to a document which explains) exactly > what the implications of the 'Masked' annotation... Masked means, as you assumed, that it is not considered 'production ready' under gentoo. Could mean that it hasn't been fully tested yet, could mean that there are issues

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave V
re plenty of things that could be done, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort in this case as it was just a simple typo that spawned this whole discussion. Dave On (2005-03-30 14:49), Holly Bostick wrote: > Nicolas Bailey wrote: > >I think you are being a little unfair in your ju

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> We can't make Linux "better" and "ready for the desktop"-- which does > *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can > certainly use the command-line comfortably *if they know how*-- unless > we identify where people are falling over it and how to remove the > obstacles to

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am trying to compile cyrus-sasl and during configure > i got the error that build options where changed in > CFLAGS even though they were not. the recommended at > the end of the script was to make distclean or rm > config.cache and try again > so i did that and ran > > ./configure with optio

RE: [gentoo-user] Config Files Update?

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> There is a program called 'etc-update' this will show you the changes > that will be required to update your files in /etc and subdirs, but I > find it doesn't do all the updates.. Really? I use etc-update all the time but was running under the assumption that it was supposed to handle all of t

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > In any case, Dave still had to search for the typo one way or another > > even with the advice; this was unavoidable. But the error message > > already contained the information on where to start the search (and in > > fact what was wrong, by indicating that there w

RE: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] A Windows shell Im creating

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Does it mean that non .NET will not run properly on their > forthcoming pieces of vomit OSes? Nope, it just means that support for VB 6 and earlier versions of the development tool will not be supported. Applications built under VB 6 will still run (obviously as there is a huge installation bas

RE: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.conf > file??? No, that's not what make.conf is used for. > I want to remove balckdown/ibm JDKs. You can use the 'emerge -i dev-java/blackdown-jdk dev-java/blackdown-jre' command to make portage think it's installed but not

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-base/arts doesn't see qt

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3) (library qt-mt) not > found. Please check your installation! > For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. > Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! > > !!! ERROR: kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1 failed. > !!! Fu

RE: [gentoo-user] again gdeslets please help

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
e has an answer for you - trust me, this list generates traffic for almost anything. Aren't there gnome-specific lists out there? I think with a focused group of gnome users and/or developers you'd stand a better chance at fixing the problem. Sorry, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge wget failed - help

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am trying an emerge on wget. I get a compile error: > > In file included from ftp.c:52: > ftp.h:81: error: parse error before numeric constant > make[1]: *** [ftp.o] Error 1 Jason, wget-1.9.1-r3 builds fine on my system. Perhaps you could send the output from a few lines before this error r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Dave V
is clear, but the location of the command in question was the problem. Dave On (2005-03-29 12:36), Holly Bostick wrote: > Dave V wrote: > > You got me looking in the right places at least. Turned out that the > offending file was in /etc/conf.d. I somehow managed to insert a random

Re: [gentoo-user] help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave V
You got me looking in the right places at least. Turned out that the offending file was in /etc/conf.d. I somehow managed to insert a random B character on line 6 of /etc/conf.d/hdparm. Thanks for the help all. On (2005-03-28 12:54), A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Dave V wr

RE: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> For instance you refer to /sbin/rc as the way to change from > one runlevel to another, yet 'man rc' shows nothing. Whereas > a 'man telinit' on gentoo does give a description of a program > claiming to be the correct way to change runlevel... Documentation (and man pages in general) are typical

RE: [gentoo-user] configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
toolchain is corrupted probably due to a misguided attempt to alter your CHOST value after the initial install. I'd suggest re-emerging your entire toolchain (binutils, gcc, glibc) before going any further. Hopefully the end result will be a working toolchain that will get you by these problems

RE: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Oh, I agree that being able to nominate a runlevel at boot time is > > a good thing. But I think it would be more consistent to do it > > by specifying it the same way that it is specified in inittab or > > to telinit, and the same way it is reported by 'who -r' > > > > That is, they should

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > > It seems odd to me that you have 3.4.3 emerged, but 3.3.5 is > > > selected. Anyone else know what might be going on here? > > > > Gcc are slotted, there's nothing bad having multiple versions. > > I didn't say it was wrong, but it *is* curious that the *older* version is > selected, rather

[gentoo-user] help "line 6: B: command not found"

2005-03-28 Thread Dave V
around for a while and so far hasn't caused any noticable trouble, but the locations are a bit worrisome. Any idea how I can fix this or what might be causing it? Dave -- What UNIVERSE is this, please?? pgpXRgtnLMWvt.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Obviously I need to get a bit more used to where to find documentation > > on gentoo. I am used to being able to use 'man -k' to find most system > > documentation on BSD, with the addition of 'texinfo' and 'locate' since > > experimenting with linux... > > Web browser meet Digby. Digby meet w

[gentoo-user] Any posters getting bounce messages?

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought the mailing list was set up to auto-unregister folks when the bounce messages are returned? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deli

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge system = many automakes

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Why does emerge system want to install 6 different automake versions > in different slots and 2 different autoconf versions? They are slotted. Different packages need different versions of auto{make,conf} to build properly. They don't take up that much space and ensure the system builds proper

RE: [gentoo-user] configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
ibrary or header file or something. If you want to send me the config.log I'll help you figure it out. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge/make failure i386 vs i686

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> >Trying to emerge the kde packages I get a make error from kde-libs > >build. > > > >Its looking for: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: > >i386 packages but what is installed there is: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la > >i686 stuff. > > > >Do I

RE: [gentoo-user] CHOST *can* be changed!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Impatient to an answer to my query whether or not I > could change CHOST and CFLAGS in make.conf after > having installed everything with reference to Intel > arch instead of AMD, I went ahead anyway -- and it > worked! After 7 3/4 tense hrs(!)xorg was emerged > successfully. Well, almost. While

RE: [gentoo-user] one more su problem

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Now I'm wondering what you're trying to do. Are you > > trying to su to a user > > ??? in user -> root, like I said!! If I'm > already root where on earth could I su to? or why? Su is just that - switch user. I do it frequently from root to another user, i.e. I want to test some cha

RE: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4 b0rkage with segmentation fault

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" You really should try to match your CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. It's safer that way. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] one more su problem

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Can you log in as the user at all? Or are you > > trying only from su? > > only from su... You should try to log in as the user specifically to ensure that the login is not expired. > don't know what this means. After boot > I login as user or root. If, as user, I enter su, I > get error, a

RE: [gentoo-user] xorg emerge seg-fault -- NOT ram!

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" > > Why i386, could go i586, coudn't it? Because you never change the CHOST after the initial gentoo build. Besides, the PIII is i686. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] managing servers

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have most of this done already... I guess what I am really looking for > is package management / security updates and building new machines. I'm sure I'm not dealing with the sizes you are, but I'm running gentoo on a number of my systems at home. To that end I've got a 'gentoo server' that's

RE: [gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Put it in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sys-kernel/homebrew-sources and emerge. Did that, but portage still thinks I want the 2.4 kernel: server homebrew-sources # emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild

RE: [gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
;m going to give it a whirl... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] kde-split ebuilds advice

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> My ? is, do I have to emerge or in order > to be > able to emerge individual apps at a later time for updates etc... I installed my KDE via the "emerge kde" command. I don't typically see updates for individual applications but do see updates for the core KDE component groups (i.e. kdelibs, k

RE: [gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
e to try to keep the kernel in sync because I'm not using a portage-managed kernel. Possibly I could be missing your point - does 'homebrew sources' translate into "I'm managing my own kernel so portage ignore it"? Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'd imagine that 100% of the people on this list interact with email, > which is a much better ratio than those that use X, setup a bootsplash, > or want sound to work. I quitely delete those threads as being of no > interest to me, but interesting and on topic for others on the list. I > expect

[gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
the unused gentoo kernels... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] /dev/dri/card0 gone (ATI Radeon 9600)

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have recently lost 3d support for my ATI Radeon 9600, and am using > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 and media-video/ati-drivers-8.10.19. > > In my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, excerpted below, it complains that > /dev/dri/card0 doesn't exist and sure enough: 6.8.2-r1 is a new release of xorg; I'm going t

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: gnu time command

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
'll probably get the 'no time in ...' response). You can find the gnu version of time at http://www.gnu.org/software/time/time.html. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> | Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4. > > Hrm. Are we talking app-vim/colorschemes stuff here? If so, sync and > upgrade. Checked both systems, neither has colorschemes installed. I guess if the working one did and the failing one did not I could understand. But I compared the /usr/

RE: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Thanks, but I've already added those to my package.mask, but the 1.0-6111 > nVidia kernel module refuses to compile on 2.6.11 and most its the release > candidates for me. When I was using nvidia I downloaded the 6111 release from nvidia.com and had to modify some of the code to get it to compil

RE: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
You can safely drop /var/tmp/portage to reclaim a lot of space. /usr/portage will typically contain the distribution files for those pieces that you've emerged; you can remove these but re-emerging/updating would download them again. To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing th

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo mirrors

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster > downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets > unreachable after a while (usually one week or two). What do you mean by 'unreachable'? emerge --sync reports an error, or is it more of a network problem that ping/trac

RE: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
What is /etc/localtime linked to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Take a look at the contents of /etc/make.profile. There's really not much in there outside of (from what I can see) files containing use flags and package masks. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it was the default values used to construct the base system from your initial install, whether 200

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4. > -Original Message- > From: Ciaran McCreesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors... > > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:26:16

[gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
syntax. Term is set for xterm on both SSH sessions. Color works for both (i.e. "emerge -uDp world" and ls both output color info). Anyone have suggestions for getting the color syntax working on the second system? Thanks! Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
fference between it and netbeans. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost par_port printer after emerge

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I did 'emberge unmerge ghostview' and 'merge ghostview-afpl' earlier > today... In that case I'd re-emerge cups. There are parts of cups that tie into ghostview for the printing of postscript files. Having a different ghostview implementation could be causing you some problems. -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not get an ATi (Was: Newbie Hardware Advice)

2005-03-01 Thread Dave V
rouble from day 1. Dave On (2005-03-01 06:52), Heinz Sporn wrote: > Hi! > > That recommendation is quite harsh IMHO - although I prefer Nvidia over > Ati myself. With the latest release of stable drivers both Ati and > Nvidia fully support Xorg 6.8 including 3D DRI. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB on JFS root partition won't boot

2005-03-01 Thread Dave V
sure if I should try tinkering with it, but just leave it alone and be happy it works. Dave On (2005-03-01 18:05), Douglas James Dunn wrote: > Before I heard that it just started working again I thought that > possibly jfs wasnt compiled into the kernel. but now that it works im > not s

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost par_port printer after emerge

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
sr/sbin/cupsd root 10287 10280 0 14:20 pts/100:00:00 grep cups > 'man cups' says No manual entry for cups. That's par for the course. 'man cupsd' or an actual cups executable will give you the info. > Ideas are most welcome Check the printer from http://localhost:631 to see what the status of it is... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Root cannot open display

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
you need to: 1. remove the "-nolisten tcp" from the config files in /etc/X11 and the startx script (if you start X from the console). 2. use the xhost command to allow users to open windows in your session. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-02-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Where is uuencode packaged? I think it's part of uulib. > What is the correct way way to find this out myself? esearch -S uuencode Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB on JFS root partition won't boot (Magically Solved?)

2005-02-28 Thread Dave V
again, I'll try and give more details so other can work around whatever problem I might have bumped into. Dave On (2005-02-28 08:27), Keith Gable wrote: > I'm pretty sure your boot partition has to be ext2/ext3. HTH. > > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:58:32 -0500, Dave

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie Hardware Advice

2005-02-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> From personal experience, I can say this: > DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD. > > I am very happy with my new nVidia card. I went through hell with my > ATI card. So I greatly recommend nVidia. >From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN NVIDIA C

[gentoo-user] GRUB on JFS root partition won't boot

2005-02-27 Thread Dave V
rather well. So.. things work if I use grub exterally, but not from the MBR. I'd really like to avoid making an ext2/3 partition to house grub if I can. Any ideas? Dave pgpv11I9GFA7e.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time emerge --searchdesc analyzer > Searching... -/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 21: > ... > real22m48.548s > user18m54.880s > sys 3m29.307s do an "emerge --meta" which might help a little. > Second, is this the only way to see all of the packages in a s

RE: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I know that today I sent two messages back to the people who originally > posted when I really wanted it to go back to the list. Yes I was not > thinking and just did a reply (which should have gone to the list). That's just it - the thought process should go into which messages go to the list,

RE: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Yes, but the point of the list is to tell the list, not that one person > alone. Had all 7 replies been to the OP, then no one else who wanted the > answer, now or in the future, would know what the answer was. The broken 'reply to' means that you don't have to think about where your replies go,

A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken, recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state. One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a simple google search. But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get 7 different replies

RE: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I think you're right. Does this mean anyone could easily intercept my > login and password and log in as me? The basic answer for this is "yes". Definitely your password could be intercepted and used by others. But consider for a minute what is involved with that... Someone floating out ther

RE: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm also concerned about sending my > password for these systems over the internet in clear text. Ah, you're doing that whether you are doing it manually or automagically via a cron task. So if you're not worried about the manual upload, why worry about the automated upload? Based on the syste

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Hope you have a spare week or so with a machine that slow. :) Either that or a distcc compile farm, which is what I use for keeping a gentoo p133 system up to date... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> >From /etc/make.conf: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > MAKEOPTS="-j2" > > > The machine is has a Pentium MMX 199MgHz processor, so I'm not sure if > the i686 is right (I thought i686 was a Pentium II) so I changed CHOST > to

RE: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my > machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded > from my router, however, I can only connect to the server locally and > only by specifying 127.0.0.1:8000. Outside of the machine, all I get is > connect

RE: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any > investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it > is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. Last I heard write support to ntfs was still classified as experimental. I don't know that I'd w

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > > Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you > > didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're > > running xscreensaver, do - > > Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver. > > Wel

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