Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-30 Thread Miroslav Flídr
Michal Kurgan napsal(a): Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel (2.6.12) and sync mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat filesystem. This is my case, but i want to have

[gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I cant find a way to have it start in gnome. (its an applet) John D

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread Jarry
Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their $HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? Dont know if you can stop that. Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem, if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings... After logging there I get either message

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% / udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-30 Thread George Garvey
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:44:24AM -0500, Joe Menola wrote: So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. Perhaps. But, I hope you don't find out the unpleasant way what it is not to backup your

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:54:42 +1000, Amphibian wrote: So I remove them, and run the ocaml-rebuild again and it's happy, so I emerge mldonkey again and lo! It installs lablgl and lablgtk, then moves on to mldoney and drops out with the same error given above. What USE flags appear in emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 08:49 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev Hmm, mine takes 116k, how comes your /dev uses 2.6M? cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:50:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm wondering a couple of things: I've ben using LVM2 on my AMD64 box since I built it. 1) Should use all of the drive, other than the boot and swap partitions, for the

[gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Armer
Good day list, Does anyone know what I can do to achieve the same effect in gentoo that I get when using sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 in FreeBSD, thereby allowing 4 virtual channels for my dsp device, and stopping those annoying Device in use errors when trying to open 2 or more sound related

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:54:47 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep. it's a bug. As soon as I remove iptables from the kernel config, ipw2100,ieee80211_crypt_tkip, ieee80211_crypt_ccmp, ieee80211_crypt_wep, ieee80211 all show up fine in lsmod. no dmesg errors, and eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Running a script to update PerlPython modules is a common issue after updating them (PerlPython) to a new (specially) major version. Try the testing (~x86) version of gentoolkit it *may* work. It doesn't. I had already tried it. For dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?

2005-08-30 Thread Amphibian
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:54:42 +1000, Amphibian wrote: So I remove them, and run the ocaml-rebuild again and it's happy, so I emerge mldonkey again and lo! It installs lablgl and lablgtk, then moves on to mldoney and drops out with the same error given above.

[gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I am losing up to 10 minites a day on my system clock ie. if it is correct at boot then the following day, date will reply with a time that has lost up to 10 minites. Points that may be relavent, - The system has worked correctly for many months prior to next point. - This problem has

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 10:25 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:38 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 08:49 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Amphibian schreef: emerge mldonkey gives me this: * If the compile with gui fails, and you have updated ocaml * recently, you may have forgotten that you need to run * /usr/portage/dev-lang/ocaml/files/ocaml-rebuild.sh * to learn which ebuilds you need to recompile * each time you update

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:43:26 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: We recommend you enable _everything_ except ipchains support and ipfwadm support as modules under this menu I never read this as meaning that everything should be selected, but rather that everything that you select under this menu,

RE: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
Holly~ Way Cool! Are there more of these outside of the ones that are listed in gnome? John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock John Dangler

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ Would your consensus also agree with Hans-Werner's on this? The problem was (posted earlier) that having ipw2100/ieee80211 compiled in and then adding iptables to the kernel caused the wireless to go south on a reboot. That incorporation of netfilter into the kernel changes some internal

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:06:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: # echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use Or even: echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use :-) -- Neil Bothwick Eat shit - 50 million flies can't be wrong pgpFJPrdjJCJU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:51:26 +1000, Amphibian wrote: However, where do the defaults come from? There is no use.defaults in the make.profle folder, even though the wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_USE_Flags#Default_Use_Flags says that there should be. Portage uses cascading profiles now, so

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock John Dangler schreef: Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but

[gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
I have ACPI support compiled as modules. When I start gnome, I get an error that says Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and the acpid daemon is running. I tried modprobe acpi (which didn't complain). But when I restarted gnome, I got an

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:06:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: # echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use Or even: echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use :-) Indeed. You see, there's the downside of having too many aliases. You forget how

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ The Firestarter kernel requirements doc says - *Device drivers *Networking support [y] *Networking support *Networking options *Network packet filtering [y] *Network packet filtering IP: Netfilter Configuration (*) We recommend you enable _everything_ except

[gentoo-user] Appropriate -march flag for AMD64 in 32-bit mode?

2005-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
Should I be using -march=k8 or -march=athlon-xp for a 32-bit Gentoo install on an AMD64? After looking at the backward-compatibility issues of running 32-bit code in a 64-bit install, and the fact that there wasn't any major benefit to be had in 64 bits, I decided to go with a 32-bit install.

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I can’t find a way to have it start in gnome. (it’s an applet) John D Yes, I've used it several times, under various versions of gnome-panel. The way to start it (or most any panel applet), is to

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Make sure the acpid daemon is running. rc-update show = acpid | default alsasound | default alsasound~ | apmd | Is this daemon running? Try (as root) /etc/init.d/acpid start (or, change the settings and

RE: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. /lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/acpi exists (with battery.ko and some others in it). John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Oliver Friedrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Dangler wrote: weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. /lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/acpi exists (with battery.ko and some others in it). John D -Original Message- From:

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. Well, you can't very well run the acpi daemon if you don't have it, can you-- and if you don't have it, how is GNOME supposed to find it? * sys-power/acpid Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-30 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Tuesday 30 of August 2005 08:11, Miroslav Flídr wrote: This behaviour is caused by change in the vfat driver. It now respects the sync option and the slow speed is caused by frequent updating of the FAT table. Some info can be found here:

[gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this disk, boot from this partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). nice ;-) Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer schreef: Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of

Re: [gentoo-user] firestarter [Personal Linux Firewall]

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
Is it necessary to build all of these modules into the kernel in order for firestarter to work properly? No, but would you rather build everything as a module (in case you find that you do need it at some point) or build research each module individually to find out what it is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Frank Schafer
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Frank Schafer schreef: Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there

RE: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
ok... rc-update show _does_ have apmd (although it's not assigned a run level). And, emerge -pv gnome-applets has {ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 -acpi +apm -debug -doc +gstreamer +ipv6 0 kb But -- /etc/init.d/apmd start shows apm support is not compiled into the kernel. (Which I

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
You can use it all or into chunks of 20GB each as the how-to suggests; I agree. I think the biggest reason to use the whole drive as one logical partition would be if you had dual SATA and you were striping. It's nice to have that extra space available as non-LVM2 just in case you need it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: Nice reading ... 5.8. ... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to continue with the install. We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;) No, we are chrooting into our diskless directory. 6. ...untar the tarball that is mounted... We can mount tarballs ???

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-30 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Michael, on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 16:51:54, you wrote: Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: [gibberish] That's because fdisk tries to interpret the data it finds as a partition table, but actually there is none. Floppies aren't supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: ok... rc-update show _does_ have apmd (although it's not assigned a run level). And, emerge -pv gnome-applets has {ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 -acpi +apm -debug -doc +gstreamer +ipv6 0 kb But -- /etc/init.d/apmd start shows apm support is not compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem, if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings... Not if you have quotas on /home -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread Jarry
A. Khattri wrote: Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem, if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings... Not if you have quotas on /home Yes I do have quotas both on /home and /var. But if user can redirect its mails from /var (where userquota is 100MB, mail is

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-30 Thread Miroslav Flídr
Michal Kurgan napsal(a): Exactly this is the problem... so sync every sector. I have one question, how this work earlier? With sync i know when files where copied in realtime, not after the umount command (there is info that fat filesystem ignore sync option, then why it works differently with

Re: [gentoo-user] Black background on OpenOffice and wine icons

2005-08-30 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Just when I finished writing my question I found it at bugzilla. Thanks anyway !! El Martes 30 Agosto 2005 01:35, William Kenworthy escribió: The problem is not OO but xorg (upstream). Mask the current version and downgrade to 11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1. There's a bug in bugzilla about it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Piles of errors from rsnapshot follown emerge world -u

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Following an emerge world -u all my rsnapshot scripts are erroring out like this: ERROR: config_version was not defined. rsnapshot can not continue. /usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \ /etc/rsnapshot_News.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: - I tried to install chrony to adjust the time, though it seems to be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time, could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost something that checks or sync's the system time? -

[gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Jerry Turba
As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file to overwrite the old file. 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Nagatoro
Matt Randolph wrote: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself Not an answer but a

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Stuart Howard
thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean ought not to have removed it as it should belong to something [world ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
ntp of any flavor does not seem to be in the default install, i had to emerge it on all my boxes. I'm from an ibm rs/6000 aix background, so I learned long ago to NEVER trust the system clock. rs/6000 boxes tend to have very poor hardware clocks for some reasonprobably because you never

[gentoo-user] [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting it up to use more of its features, notably the dock. Now, I always ran OB from a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/30/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: Matt Randolph wrote: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Roger Light
On 30/08/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread bshlists
On August 23, 2005 04:25 am, Nagatoro wrote: Hi, I've got another interesting problem with the splash. It seems like no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 resolution. At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play nicely): Using

[gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

2005-08-30 Thread bshlists
I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/bash if [ ${ACTION} = add ] [ -f ${DEVICE} ] then rmmod garmin_gps chmod 666 $DEVICE fi -- DWW -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file to

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere a change to a config file which would change when

[gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/bash if [ ${ACTION} = add ] [ -f ${DEVICE} ] then rmmod garmin_gps chmod 666 $DEVICE fi $ man test

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
emerge nmap On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:51 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Martin Marcher
Dienstag 30 August 2005 16:51, Andrew Lowe: Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a range and reporting what addresses responded? if it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), that is is there a program that can block foo from web access but allow it to imap and at the same time allow bar web access?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the solaris or sunos machine... On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:12,

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread bshlists
On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Holly Bostick wrote: [snip] Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), Please anybody, correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik, this assumption that there are multiple firewall programs in the first

[gentoo-user] [OT]Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I can't find anything in Google about it, either). This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness

2005-08-30 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, * Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [30/08/05 17:30]: Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting it up to use more of

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread Ron Bickers
On Mon August 29 2005 04:19 pm, A. Khattri wrote: And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox format). After logging there I get either message No mail, or You have new mail. But I do not get any similar message on my Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activate it?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Crossman
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:46 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Jerry Turba schreef: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-30 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 29 August 2005 01:59 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: Why not use dispatch-conf instead? Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features added to it.

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Randolph
$ emerge -ep system | genlop -p [...] Estimated update time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. $ emerge -ep world | genlop -p [...] Estimated update time: 14 hours, 40 minutes. But genlop is entitled to make mistakes. Those did seem like rather small numbers to me. What would be more realistic? 100

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Randolph
Have a look at the comp.unix.shell newsgroup. There are some insanely talented people in there dispensing free advice. bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness [SOLVED?]

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Moshe Kaminsky schreef: Hi, * Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [30/08/05 17:30]: Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to make choices when the system can't figure it out. It seems like etc-update (and friends)

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-30 Thread Calvin Walton
On 8/29/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it.

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:51, Holly Bostick wrote: bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing

[gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

2005-08-30 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? emerge Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-crypt/opencdk-0.5.5 -doc 322 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libtasn1-0.2.13 -doc 855 kB [ebuild N] net-libs/gnutls-1.2.3 +crypt -doc +zlib 2,389 kB [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

2005-08-30 Thread Sergio Polini
Hareesh Nagarajan: Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? I don't know ;-) But I can notice: emerge ... [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls ^

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Hareesh Nagarajan schreef: Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? emerge Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls No, it doesn't *need* it-- but do you see that +eds with a star? That's the new USE flag which

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine?

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote: thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean ought not to have

[gentoo-user] rsync problems

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Armstrong
Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage but to no avail. I know it isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Joshua Armstrong schreef: Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage but

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

2005-08-30 Thread Joshua Armstrong
They are syncing from the same mirror. I haven't tried changing mirrors though. If it helps, when I read the kernel logs I notice that during the time it's syncing, I see a lot of readlink() failed: I/O error for files in /usr/portage. I've run fsck on the disk and it detects no errors. All

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: It's all about the ruleset. In this case, it looks like this option is involved: [...] Thanks. This seems like it would do the trick. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: Hi, When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Cheers Antoine Perhaps Firefox is no longer set as your default browser (it must be reset after an upgrade)? Maybe Thunderbird is trying to open links

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Holly Bostick wrote: OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I can't find anything in Google about it, either). This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color

[gentoo-user] Re: Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Mauch
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
John, As per a thread over the last couple of days I was planningon using the 2005.0 CD that I've used for a number of other machines, but that CD doesn't have any 64-bit stuff on it. If there's a 64-bit install CD then I'll go look for that. Thanks for the info! With best regards, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: $ emerge -ep system | genlop -p [...] Estimated update time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. whoa! that is scary. 2 hours 30 minutes is barely enough for me to emerge gcc and glibc. $ emerge -ep world | genlop -p [...] Estimated update

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
Yeah, there's a 2005.1 amd_64 universal install. I know, because I just used it to set up 4 servers :) On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: John, As per a thread over the last couple of days I was planningon using the 2005.0 CD that I've used for a number of other machines, but

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
well, not sure what stage files, if any that one has on it. I used the universal installer. On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. I'm buring a copy of the minimal install for AMD64 now. Cheers, Mark On 8/30/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, there's a 2005.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Mauch schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don't seem to. They do, however, take named colors (orange,

[gentoo-user] two(related?) sound problems

2005-08-30 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, From the boot console: * Restoring Mixer Levels /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:994: bad control.7.value type No state is present for card UART !!! Sound still works but about 1/2 an hour after having started realplayer sound stops

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Yeah, I decided to go for the Universal install since it has stage files. Seemed that the Minimal didn't. I'd forgotten that. The AMD64 will be nicer to install from. I'm getting 65MB/S DMA on the hard drive whereas the x86 Universal didn't have the right chipset stuff and I was only getting

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