Re: [gentoo-user] ati drivers

2003-08-14 Thread David
On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:03 am, Kees Bergwerf wrote: > bash-2.05b# emerge -up world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] media-video/ati-drivers-3.2.4 [2.9.13-r1] > > > so after "emerge -u world" > ...trying a lo

[gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread David
I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge -upv world...etc). Emerge last worked about 4 hours ago when I emerged mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Then... > emerge sync Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2003 (Could take a couple minutes if y

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread David
On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:55 am, Mike Williams wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:28, David wrote: > > I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge > > -upv world...etc). Emerge last worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage errors

2003-08-24 Thread David
On Sunday 24 August 2003 07:33 am, David wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:55 am, Mike Williams wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:28, David wrote: > > > I get the following message whenev

Re: [gentoo-user] last ebuild of qt has problem, how to fix.

2003-08-28 Thread David
On Thursday 28 August 2003 06:31 am, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > The last qt-3.2.1 ebuild has a problem. It's easy to fix. > In the line: S=${WORKDIR}/${PV}, the ${PV} has to be replaced with > "qt-x11-free-3.2.1" or S=${WORKDIR}/qt-x11-free-${PV} -- "Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each ot

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: chkrootkit output !!!

2003-08-31 Thread David
On Saturday 30 August 2003 02:57 pm, Al Raq wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone here help me to understand why I got this after running > chkrootkit: ... > Checking `env'... INFECTED > ... > > Many thanks, > Al Raq > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Check out the doc @ http://www.chkrootkit.or

Re: [gentoo-user] avifile won't stay with one version

2003-09-04 Thread David
On Thursday 04 September 2003 04:58 am, gabriel wrote: I have the same problem. I am fairly new to Gentoo, so I hpe this is useful: an "etcat -d avifile" on my system showed that some programs dependant upon avifile require >=media-video/avifile-0.7.37* and others (mjpegtools) the other day

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbian Gentoo question.

2003-09-05 Thread David
On Friday 05 September 2003 09:03 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: check out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap3 & scroll down to Code listing 3.5: Editing /etc/rc.conf and read on. This & other helpful documentation can be found at: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/docs.xml#top > On F

[gentoo-user] Curious..

2003-09-07 Thread David
I'm not sure what I did, but nearly all the packages in my portage tree are showing up as masked. I've run emerge sync, I've run emerge regen, they all seem to be working fine. For some reason, nearly everything is masked though. My make.conf has Keyword "~x86". Any suggestions? -- [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsuccessful first attempt but a great learning experience

2003-09-07 Thread David
On Sunday 07 September 2003 04:47 pm, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: I have Comcast working. I just needed to make sure the correct ethernet card modules were loaded (modprobe 3c95x) install the dhcp client (emerge dhcpcd) and then start the dchp service (dhcpcd eth0). > Okay, I attempted to in

[gentoo-user] cron and mail

2004-02-01 Thread David
What ebuild(s) do I need for cron to mail its output (locally) to root? /david -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: cron and mail

2004-02-01 Thread David
ok, thanks! vcron tries to sent to port 25 though, and ssmtp doesn't run as a daemon. Know where I cat set it so that it uses /sur/sbin/ssmtp? Mike wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:21:07PM +0100, David wrote: What ebuild(s) do I need for cron to mail its output (locally) to root? /

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't update portage

2004-02-02 Thread David
If you have set several mirrors in GENTOO_MIRRORS in /etc/make.conf, try # emerge -f sys-apps/coreutils This only downloads the file(s), but it keeps trying the different mirrors untill it gets it all right. After that you can run # emerge -u system HORSTMAN, MARK A (SBCSI) wrote: I recently (1/3

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread david
ful as AOL free trial CDs? I've got around 5 or so myself -d Hey then send me one! Thanks David Holt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] how NOT to start net.eth0?

2003-11-24 Thread David
Hey Guys, I may very well be missing something here, so please forgive me if I am, but would doing this suffice ? : rc-update del net.eth0 default or rc-update del net.eth0 boot ? or is it the issue that this has been done, but it is starting anyways? HTH, Dave >simply mv /etc/init.d/n

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding a package into the world group

2004-01-07 Thread David
Liviu BURCUSEL wrote: Hello ! I am a newbie in using Gentoo (comming from RedHat). I made a emerge -Uu perlmagick and after that I think that imagemagick is not in the world group because it is only a dependency (correct me if I'm wrong). How can I insert by hand imagemagick into the world group ?

[gentoo-user] Mozilla and XEmacs freezes

2004-01-07 Thread David
ge. Any hints as to what to start examining much appreciated! /David # emerge info: -- Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-gentoo-r2) = System uname: 2.4.22-ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge fails with KeyError

2004-01-14 Thread David
O.K. I finally found out via forums that the portage upgrade effected world file as well as files beneath /etc/portage--they now need to be prefaced by = or >= etc. I guess I missed something as I was making coffee during the emerge. On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

[gentoo-user] Replies to Gentoo Polls

2003-09-16 Thread David
The following lines are in EVERY Gentoo Poll, beneath the question. > >Please respond by emailing your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > >Please do NOT reply within the mailing list, any replies to the list > >will be not be counted. Discussion on the list about the poll are > >encouraged. Results wi

[gentoo-user] Portage snapshot

2003-09-19 Thread David
Does anyone know of a mirror that has a portage snapshot after portage-20030914.tar.bz2 I've been looking for days for a newer snapshot after reading about the recent update to openssh. I can't emerge sync because of the firewall I'm behind so a new snapshot is my only hope.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade question..

2003-09-23 Thread David
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:16 am, Joshua Banks wrote: try genkernel --config and then make sure the cpu settings and modules you want are included. Would be nice if genkernel had a man page or a -h or --help option! > I just recently upgraded KDE from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3. This went sm

Re: [gentoo-user] Why the block?

2003-09-27 Thread David
On Friday 26 September 2003 09:42 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: I have both emerged with everything working O.K. I deleted the line: ! emerge -upvD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] Jerry McBride wrote: > > Can someo

[gentoo-user] webmin-1.110

2003-10-01 Thread David
When will webmin-1.110 become availble within the portage snapshot? I currently use portage-20030930.tar.bz2 and webmin is still at webmin-1.100. I have done emerge -Dup webmin, emerge -Up webmin, emerge -Dup world and no new version of webmin comes up. I've downloaded webmin-1.110.tar.gz from my

Re: [gentoo-user] rpm problems

2003-10-09 Thread David
I downloaded the RedHat rpm from rpmfind.net > rpm -Uvh Xconfigurator-4.10.7-1.i386.rpm warning: Xconfigurator-4.10.7-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e error: Failed dependencies: XFree86 >= 4.1.0 is needed by Xconfigurator-4.10.7-1 kbdconfig is needed by Xconf

Re: [gentoo-user] rpm problems

2003-10-09 Thread David
Also, the download page shows this: Requires * XFree86 * kbdconfig * mouseconfig >= 2.8 * kbd * hwdata * initscripts >= 3.94 * XFree86-xfs = 4.2.0 * kudzu * ld-linux.so.2 * libc.so.6 * libdl.so.2 * libgdk-1.2.so.0 * libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 * libg

Re: [gentoo-user] converting and editing mov's

2003-11-09 Thread David
On Saturday 08 November 2003 10:33 pm, gabriel wrote: > On November 8, 2003 10:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I got some mov files from a friend of my dog, but one is hugh, > > over 11MB. I would like to edit it to a smaller size and convert > > to mpeg. What software do you recommend? > > i'v

[gentoo-user] Messed up my grub

2003-11-10 Thread David
Hello Gentooers, (Hopefully I am providing enough info, but if not let me know) I just atempted my first stage 3 gentoo install this weekend, and was partially successful. I had windows and redhat dual booting, and I decided to give gentoo a try so I went ahead and overwrote my redhat partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up my grub

2003-11-10 Thread David
>David wrote: >> >> Hello Gentooers, >> >> (Hopefully I am providing enough info, but if not let me know) >> >> I just atempted my first stage 3 gentoo install this weekend, and >>was partially >> successful. I had windows and redhat dual boo

[gentoo-user] can't locate module...

2003-11-11 Thread David
Hey Everybody, I am having a strange problem. I just finished a stage 3 install and now when I login I get something like 25 error messages saying "modprobe: Can't locate module video* which is needed for /dev/video" "modprobe: Can't locate module radio* which is needed for /dev/radio" "modpr

[gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread David
Hey Gentooers, 2 quickies: 1. Anyone had any luck with linksys 802.11b wireless pcmcia cards and gentoo on a laptop? I have found some documentation, but I want to check with the more experienced users to see if it is going to be worth my time to try out. Also (sorry to post again but this i

Re: [gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread David
related in anyway... Oh well, If anyone knows please help us :D Dave >David -- > >Regarding question #2, I get 3 similar messages during >system boot. I can not remember when this started or what >I did that caused it. > >Modprobe is looking for things that do not exis

[gentoo-user] 19160 SCSI

2003-02-17 Thread david
Any of you guys using an Adaptec 19160 card under gentoo? If so are you using the AICXXX module?   Thanks,   Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] pkg's safe for removing ?

2003-06-06 Thread David
I don't know if there is an 'official' script to remove them, just like there isn't an official way to backup your system. U just kindof gotta do it. :) Like when you do backup your computer, most people recommend that you delete all the /usr/portage/distifiles and a couple other places. They are

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

2003-06-06 Thread David
Right, that is usually what happens. Logout as user and back in as root. Then set the permissions backup again. On Thursday 05 June 2003 05:25 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel > group. I could log on to root in a console, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] changing emerge download site

2003-06-06 Thread David
You can emerge mirrorselect Then just run it and it will append to your /etc/make.conf Haven't done it in awhile, so as root, do: mirrorselect --help On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:55 am, Seo Boon, NG wrote: > Hi, > > whenever I emerge any ports, the sources get downloaded from > gentoo.oregons

[gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-06 Thread David
Someone wanted to know about using Kmail and gkrellm. I accidently deleted the mail. So don't remember the question, but I got mine configured to remote check the mail, haven't gotten the local mailbox protocol figure out yet, but if you wanted to know how repost. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-06 Thread David
;t have to respond to every email that arrives unless it arrives from a certain person(s). On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:05 pm, David wrote: > Someone wanted to know about using Kmail and gkrellm. > I accidently deleted the mail. So don't remember the question, > but I got mine configured

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-06 Thread David
Okay, posted how to on Forum at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=354595#354595 if anyone is interested. :) On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:30 pm, David wrote: > Got it working with mailbox protocol now, not sure if was a glitch or bug, > but had to setup a pop3 remote check first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gkrellm and kmail

2003-06-07 Thread David
Cool. Was wondering if it got to the original poster. :) On Saturday 07 June 2003 03:34 pm, Timothy Grant wrote: > Thanks David! > > I was the original poster. I appreciate all the info! > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:00 pm, David wrote: > > Okay, posted how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper updating of /etc config files

2003-05-29 Thread David
There is a command: etc-update it will run through it for you. There are several options you can select while running it. Like automerge, ask for confermation to delete old file, I only watch out for stuff that I edit. Like /etc/group , /etc/make.conf ,... Other stuff usually just let it m

Re: [gentoo-user] system rebuild from chroot

2003-05-29 Thread DAVID
No, I did my 2nd Gentoo Installation like that for the same reason. Slow?? Depends on your System. On my 'old' 1.333Ghz TBird it was fine. On Thu, 29 May 2003 06:24:42 + Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to rebuild my gentoo partition using new cflags, but I'm loath to give

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop Crashing..

2003-05-30 Thread David
1) Can it be configured to download patches, instead of complete source files? ** As far as I know you can install any patch you want, just like with any other system. You would just apply the patch rather than 'emerging' the source. Some packages, like kernel sources, you also have the choice

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and 'fixpackages'?

2003-05-30 Thread David
Forum Thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55863&highlight=fixpackages On Thursday 29 May 2003 12:42 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Thanks. > > Why doesn't the message say this? /usr/lib/portage/bin/fixpackages > > Without knowning that portage puts binary commands or scripts in

Re: [gentoo-user] problem finding network card?

2003-05-31 Thread David
Does that command 'pci-setup' still work. Not sure my install doc might be old. On Friday 30 May 2003 12:56 pm, Brian Budge wrote: > It looks like a bunch of different modules are trying to query various > addresses, but each message pertaining to eth0 says something like: > > ...: not at I/O 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums

2003-05-31 Thread David
Maintenance. Said so at the top for a couple days. On Friday 30 May 2003 04:36 pm, Shawn wrote: > What's fup ucked with the forums? > > I just joined the mailing lists, and they are fairly silent. Are they > always this low traffic? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage query

2003-05-31 Thread DAVID
I don't think so. emerge sync or rsync should work, cause it rebuilds the portage tree anyway. Only one way to find out, do it. I would delete my tree and rebuild it, but lucky for me I am not at home to try it. :) Think you just need to rsync again. On Sat, 31 May 2003 15:49:02 +1200 Tom Ea

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase emerge problem

2003-05-31 Thread DAVID
Hmmm, is there a .kde link in your /root folder? Last time I looked, there was always a .kde3.1 folder, .kde3.1.backup folder and a .kde link folder. That or something close. Not at home so can look. But what is in your root folder? On 30 May 2003 22:52:08 -0500 Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage query

2003-05-31 Thread DAVID
That was the thing I was looking for 'regenworld'. Forgot about that command, even though used it before. I just generally use it though when portage sometimes loses track of some of the packages I have installed. Would think you could test it by renaming the portage directory to something els

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.8.6.8-r1 and errors in initscripts.

2003-05-31 Thread DAVID
Hmmm, French. Probably mistaken. Just joking. I think your right. Have you looked to see if there is such a thing as rc-envupdate.sh ? I think it should be the other way you mentioned. This might be one of those 'masked' things cause there is some problems, and maybe you found the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] devfsd question

2003-06-02 Thread David
Are you using lilo or grub. I use lilo and besides having it in the kernel, you need to put in in the append line of lilo.conf as: devfs=mount my example # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/bzImage-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root = /dev/hdb2 label = Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] devfsd question

2003-06-02 Thread David
Learn something new everyday. Guess I had it in there so long I didn't think about that. I will have to remove it and try it. Thanks. On Sunday 01 June 2003 07:03 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > If you select the menuconfig option to start devfs at boot you don't need > this option. I run lilo an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge jedit fails.

2003-06-02 Thread David
Just tried to see and got error also: >>> md5 src_uri ;-) jedit41source.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jedit41source.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/jedit-4.1/work >>> Source unpacked. !!! java not found Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. We cannot execute !!! ERROR: app-editor

[gentoo-user] Portage and User again.

2003-06-02 Thread David
creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. Did the group number change for portage in /etc/group and I didn't update it? /etc/group portage::250:portage,david -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and User again.

2003-06-02 Thread David
Hmmm, reboot numerous times since it started happening. This has been going on since The Change. On Sunday 01 June 2003 11:29 pm, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > Same happenned to me until I rebooted. > > Josh > > On June 2, 2003 12:14 am, David wrote: > > I think this has bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and User again.

2003-06-02 Thread David
bin daemon sys adm tty disk lp mem kmem wheel floppy mail news uucp man cron console audio cdrom dialout ftp sshd at tape video gdm xfs games named mysql b) groups david (edited, but portage is here) bin wheel floppy mail news man portage users c) groups portage root portage d) This is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and User again.

2003-06-02 Thread David
This is getting stupid. If I run the command: groups david portage shows up now, but still gives that stupid message even though in the group. Well at least it works. On Monday 02 June 2003 07:42 am, David wrote: > Hmmm, tried various post here and still nogo. > 1) Checked /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and User again.

2003-06-03 Thread David
stupid message. Working now. On Monday 02 June 2003 12:11 am, Norberto BENSA wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${David} > Monday 02 June 2003 01:36 am > > > Hmmm, reboot numerous times since it started happening. This has been > > going on since The Change. >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -s shows no info: Feature/bug?

2003-06-03 Thread David
emerge -s lm-sensors dash, not underscore. When something like that name shows up, just use part of the word and you will see what it is really called. I did a search on 'sensors' and got the real name. On Monday 02 June 2003 03:17 pm, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: > Hello! > > Strange, but > root# e

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling lm-sensors

2003-06-03 Thread David
I have only heard of a few people that have compiled it with vanilla sources and I tried their way and didn't work, maybe they left out something, like forgetting they patched the kernel or something. Anyway, I have it working but with gentoo-sources. 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 On Monday 02 June 2003 04:

Re: [gentoo-user] environment too big for exec?

2003-06-03 Thread David
See a thread on it in forums if you want to look. What kernel are you running? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55496&highlight=xargs+environment On Monday 02 June 2003 05:06 pm, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Hi all, > > While starting up gentoo I get: > Cleaning /va

Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm sensors with Asus

2003-06-03 Thread David
I don't have that board, but now that you have gentoo-sources. Yes I would compile as a module for the kernel. And emerge i2c and lm_sensors. I believe the i2c emerge is for the user-mode tools or something like that. After all is said and done you can run 'sensors-detect' as root #sensors-de

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse

2003-06-03 Thread David
There was a problem a while back where you couldn't load 'input' because of a modutils problem. It has been fixed though. Can you 'insmod input' ? I dont' use usbmouse, but can you modprobe or insmod 'mousedev' ? On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:33 am, Patrick Quealy wrote: > I've been trying on and

Re: [gentoo-user] sound question

2003-06-03 Thread David
Maybe: dsp dsp1 midi mixer Mine uses dsp, but I use arts and not alsa or anything. On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:07 am, Rick Sivernell wrote: > I have a soundblast pci card in my system, and compiled in the kernel all > of the rquired drivers, I think. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # grep audio /

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions

2003-06-04 Thread David
I was trying to get a camera going in kde and this thread got it going. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=12523&highlight= On Tuesday 03 June 2003 02:55 pm, Robert Cole wrote: > I'm trying to access my digital camera. The system sees it from gphoto2 and > in KDE but when I try to access i

Re: [gentoo-user] What is installed?

2003-06-05 Thread David
qpkg -I will show all packages installed. On Wednesday 04 June 2003 09:48 am, John wrote: > How do I find out what packages have been installed on my system? > > It doesn't seem like the emerge command by itself does the trick. > > John > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.2 to 1.4 upgrade

2003-06-05 Thread David
on this for ant and postgresgl I just had that and used: USE="-java" emerge postgresql On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:04 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I followed the instructions on teh upgrade, and have gotten to the emerge > -e world. I have run it 3 times, it takes 3 days then errors out o

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone out there like to settle an argument

2003-06-05 Thread David
I don't have any real life enterprise environments. But I found of all the distro's that this was the most stable. I found it so stable, that I moved my finances over here finally. If I were going to use a linux distro for an enterprise situation I would take Gentoo. Just my two cents since you

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone out there like to settle an argument

2003-06-05 Thread David
dignity years ago) > > Mike > > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 03:55 pm, David wrote: > > I don't have any real life enterprise environments. But I found of all > > the distro's that this was the most stable. I found it so stable, that I > > moved my finances over

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever! SOLVED!

2003-06-05 Thread David
I would only worry about the swap if like what was happening to you before; slowing down. You fixed that though. I have 512MB of Ram and 500Meg swap and it is hardly used either. I am not going to worry about it unless stuff starts going slow. Right now I have mozilla, kmail, gkrellm, konqueror,

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and CGI?

2003-06-07 Thread DAVID
I don't know about all that, but am getting back into Python right now. As far as databases, I am currently writing an app to do some stock analysis for me. Beancounter (perl) didn't do everything I wanted and figured I would write my own to learn. Haven't written much, but so far have been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and CGI?

2003-06-07 Thread DAVID
Just came across this: http://www.contentpeople.co.uk/issue3/whatthehellispython.php On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 01:05:31 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm curious if anyone has any input on how python is for web based applications -- handling forms, querying databases, and all that

Re: [gentoo-user] new feature for portage/ebuilds

2003-06-10 Thread David
Yes, I had the same annoyance and started using '-U' On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:35 am, Martin Lesser wrote: > Jan Drugowitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 08:24, Tom Wesley wrote: > > > A quick switch in the mask of something like "dont-downgrade" or > > > some such cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailbox vs. maildir

2003-06-10 Thread David
Found a couple or so items you might want to read. http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/mail/qmail/qmail-manual-html/misc/INSTALL.mbox.html http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/mb2md/ On Tuesday 10 June 2003 04:25 pm, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Is there any way that I can change my current mbox setup (using > /

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-11 Thread David
You can remove it from boot with: rc-update del ntpd default I stopped using ntpd and just put ntpdate in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file. # ntpd doesn't work to well so use this for clock setting ntpdate ntp0.mcs.anl.gov not sure if this would stop the problem if it cannot connect to the server

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
I had 3 servers and when looking in the logs, saw a lot of connection problems. Also, system was showing problem stopping the ntpd when shutting down or rebooting. If I would check the server it was usually fine from my memory. Also, I think it would depend on if your system keeps time well or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
That is that way I understood it. I never did try try ntpd and with ntpdate in my local.start. That probably would have corrected my problems, but ntpdate seems to be working fine by itself right now. Interesting conversation on the subject though. Dave > > > > I don't know but the use of ntpd is

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
Yes, I would agree on that. I don't think it contradicts any of my previous statements or ideas either. > > That is correct. At bootup time no applications are running that would > suffer from a time lapse, so then ntpdate is safe. Running ntpdate from a > cronjob though, is not. > > Paul -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
>ntpdate should only be run on system boot >time to initially set the correct time. It was never meant to keep the >time continously up-to-date. Correct. Never said it did. It is in the local.start and only runs at startup. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] Skining Windows 98 or ME

2005-03-06 Thread david
J. Patrick Campbell wrote: On Sat, March 5, 2005 8:28 pm, Ian K said: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 23:36 +, Ian K wrote: Hey everyone, I have Windows ME on the family computer, and was wondering if there are any open or free programs that could go about it? I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Problem

2005-03-31 Thread david
Do you have intel onboard graphics?Are you using genkernel?See if this helps; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=198023&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=125 -- david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x client

2003-07-17 Thread David Golpira
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Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-19 Thread David Mallwitz
wes chow wrote: This is probably not the most elegant solution, but here it is anyway: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP -d ! 192.168.0.2 /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -j DROP -d ! 192.168.0.10 I'll try it out. Don't have access to the machines right now, but I'll let you know later th

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread David Mallwitz
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:45 pm, Stroller wrote: > On 30/7/03 3:45 am, "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy > >> my logfiles..? > > > > This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up > > with the config files

RE: [gentoo-user] xft blocking qt?

2003-08-01 Thread David Figueroa
I had the same question myself. I tried to install xft, with just emerge -p x11-libs/xft and it was blocked by xfree. David Figueroa -Original Message- From: Jan Drugowitsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] xft

RE: [gentoo-user] xft blocking qt?

2003-08-01 Thread David Figueroa
I just tried it again, and with emerge -up xft, it didn't block. I'm emerging it in now. David -Original Message- From: Shane Hickey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xft blocking qt? I was h

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread David Friggens
's needed. (*) Select "1) Replace /etc/fstab with merged file" > > Or you can start with the gentoo life cd, mount the partition and edit fstab. That's how I've got myself out of similar sticky situations. :-) David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:36 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: > I'd like some sort of flag system which says to etc-update: > "I've chosen to alter this file myself before, at some point in time" > or > "I've never touched this file in my life before, in fact, I didn't > know it even existed." > > Of cours

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I tell the true size of a partition (df != fdisk)?

2003-08-12 Thread David Cuddeback
> > > > However, df reports that the root partition only has 60G on it. It > seems > > > > like fdisk is correctly querying the pdcraid module and communicating > with > > > > the card to discover the striped 120G virtual disk, while df seems to > be > > > > physically querying one of the physical

Re: [gentoo-user] bttv WHERE IS IT?

2003-08-14 Thread David Mallwitz
Look under /usr/src//drivers/media/video for the source, /usr/src//Documentation/video4linux/bttv for the docs and /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/media/video for the module. Dave On Sunday 10 August 2003 05:45 pm, Meka[ni] wrote: > I've seen that my friend has no problem with bttv, but I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] 3ware Escalade 7500-4 and Gentoo 1.4

2003-08-26 Thread David Mallwitz
Ing. Martin Gauklitz wrote: hi. i checked my gentoo linux 1.4 cd1 and i found that there is a 3ware kernel module is available! try 'modprobe 3w-'... i checked the file /proc/config (it is the current kernel-config) for the occurence "3W" and it shows that 3ware support is done via a

Re: [gentoo-user] x freezes sometime

2003-08-26 Thread David Golpira
of buying new RAM. Thermal grease and a better fan may be all you need. Good luck. -- David Golpira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread David Gethings
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:32, Mike Williams wrote: > Why would you forward the virus onto anyone, when you are immune? I think he meant that if he got an email with the virus and then forwarded that email - and its attachment - onto a Windows user. Rather than have the worm spread by itself. Now wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth

2004-01-30 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed a D-Link DBT-120 usb bluetooth adapter, with seems to be working > fine. > Dmesg: > BlueZ Core ver 2.2 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc > Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BlueZ HCI USB

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird

2004-01-30 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:49, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hi, > > I emerged > > net-www/mozilla-firebird > > but have no clue how to run it. The command you want to run is MozillaFirebird. > Should I emerge > > net-www/mozilla-firebird-bin > > instead? Not unless you want to install the

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird

2004-01-30 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:25, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Thanks. > How can I modify /etc/env.d to get the correct /etc/ld.so.conf > once I run env-update? Add the path to the LD_PATH variable in /etc/env.d/00basic then run env-update That should fix your problem. -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] office (or at least excel)

2004-01-30 Thread David Olsen
On 2004-01-30 at 13:20:00, "Meka[ni]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there some kind of office that is not so huge like Open Office? I actually > need Excel, > but if there is an office that is small enough (source not above 20mb) I would like > to > test it. Please anyone. I need it for s

Re: [gentoo-user] D-link DI-614+ wireless router

2004-01-30 Thread david stevenson
e it also gets it own IP the same way, so you may have to search around to find it before you can config it any more. Or if all else fails the way I started was to use static IP's David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] 2.6.1 gnome terminal dead

2004-02-06 Thread David Stevenson
message in dmesg that looks half relevant is atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, Code 0x7a on isa0060/seno0) Any suggestions as where I should look? Thanks David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.1 gnome terminal dead

2004-02-06 Thread David Stevenson
ooted 2.6.1-mm, and it booted in to gnome as usual. But when I start an terminal window it opens OK, but I get no prompt or any text in the window. typing has no affect. Thanks - that fixed it. genkernel had included the first 2, but left out devpts. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and x of y in xterm title....

2004-02-07 Thread David Obwaller
? This is a built-in feature. If you're using some terminal emulator which allows changing the window title this should work. Don't know if xterm has this functionality. I'm using gnome-terminal and it works fine here. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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