[gentoo-user] Wildcards in /etc/group

2006-02-27 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Hi group, I administrate a gentoo box, that authenticates with ldap. Authentication works fine, and the ldap server is giving my user an uid and one gid : 1000(Domain Users) in my case. I have NO access to the ldap server. I want now, on this local machine, that everybody, who can login, is in an

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 22:13, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/27/06, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ > > total 0 > > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp > > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 audio > > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 19 20:29 dsp

[gentoo-user] [OT] Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless Media Player

2006-02-27 Thread John J. Foster
Just wondering if anybody is using this device, and what their experience with it is. Possibly in conjuction with their TeraStation Home Server. Thanks, festus -- I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possi

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Richard,> Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program,> which is used for console logins.  You should still be able to use the> color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes.  But > the substitution stu

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > The current time will be difficult. But you could create a file (like > /etc/issue.ssh) with the rest of the information in it: > > echo "This is `hostname`.`hostname -d` ( `uname -s` `uname -m` `uname > -r` )" > /et

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ > total 0 > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 audio > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 19 20:29 dsp > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 19 20:29 mixer > crw

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antoine wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > >> Antoine wrote: >> >>> I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde >> >> >> >> Check the permissions and owners in /dev/s{,ou}nd? >> >> Benno > > > tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ > total 0

Re: [gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My questions are: (1) does anyone know what might have caused the > lockups? My experience has been that lockups occuring during heavy IO can be caused by aggressive memory timings. If your BIOS supports it, try increasing the memory timi

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program, > > which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the > > color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But > > the s

[gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5

2006-02-27 Thread matthew . garman
I've got a homebuilt server running gentoo. I just built a software (linux md) RAID5 array using four SATA drives (connected via a Promise PCI SATA card). In addition to the RAID array, there's a SCSI drive from which the OS boots and runs; two PATA drives merged together under lvm2; and one PAT

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:33:46 -0500 Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Your statement is probably true for all of the binary distribution | folks. But I doubt that you'll get many from this crowd that would | say that we want or expect the gentoo team to "know what's best for | [us]." Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread Antoine
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Antoine wrote: I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde Check the permissions and owners in /dev/s{,ou}nd? Benno tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-27 Thread kashani
Bo Andresen wrote: I decided I wanted to remove the ipv6 use flag which I have had enabled in make.conf for quite a while but never really been on a ipv6 network and don't suspect I will in the near future. When upgrading firefox I noted it has that use flag and decided I want to know what it a

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 18:48, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for > > use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. > > ;-) > > This won't help. Grub uses BIOS call

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Richard, > Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program, > which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the > color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But > the substitution stuff is getty specific, and will not work with ssh.

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the download be faster? When I download something with wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always maxing out the saturation of the line. On my 1Gig line on my workstation at work it's usually _not_ saturizing the line.

Re: [gentoo-user] After upgrading to the latest Baselayout...

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Seo Boon, NG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bringing up lo > * "127.0.0.1/8" > * No loaded modules provide ""127.0.0.1/8"" ("127.0.0.1/8"_start)[ > !! ] Looks like your /etc/conf.d/net file is confused. Please post the contents of that file, and also specify which ve

Re: [gentoo-user] python stack smashing attack

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yesterday i sync my portage. but after it completed i can't compile > some applications, its always saying following error. please help me > to solv this. i sync the portage today but still same result. > > python: stack smashing attack in function s

Re: [gentoo-user] After upgrading to the latest Baselayout...

2006-02-27 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seo Boon, NG wrote: >I have the following error upon booting up after the latest baselayout upgrade. >My lo interface can comes alive after I manually do a "ifconfig lo up". Any I'm >operating a number of services on lo, I need lo to be up and running

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:05:39 +0100 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the > download be faster? When I download something with > wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always > maxing out the saturation of the line. On my 1Gig line o

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you from having to know what's best for you. That's a little harsh, Ciaran. I did the linux from scratch thing. Had a lot of fun with it. Enjoyed being down in the bowels of the linux system and the

[gentoo-user] python stack smashing attack

2006-02-27 Thread El Nino
dear friends, yesterday i sync my portage. but after it completed i can't compile some applications, its always saying following error. please help me to solv this. i sync the portage today but still same result. python: stack smashing attack in function sha_done() Aborted #emerge info Gentoo B

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/27/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Nino wrote: > > > is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge > > by using prozilla or some other tool? > > I never quite understood the sense in those tools. > > Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the > download

[gentoo-user] using gnupic

2006-02-27 Thread maxim wexler
Hello group, Like to learn from others their experiences using gnupic tools. What is the best programmer? DIY preferred. Serial or parallel. What sorts of pitfalls, tradeoffs? Are some of the pic chips more linux-worthy than others? I plan to use a K6 500MHz AMD as a dedicated pic development p

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:26:54 -0500 "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That's a very true statement, and part of the attraction of Gentoo. | But your comment about most users (at least of this distro) not | having the slightest clue what's best for them is totally off base, | (except, per

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with > > Banner /etc/issue > > file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. > However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc but onl

[gentoo-user] Re: SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Mick
Javier Payno wrote: > El Lunes, 27 de Febrero de 2006 16:52, Muthu escribió: >> > is your sata support compiled in as modules or into the kernel? >> >> sata support is compiled in to the kernel. It is detecting as SCSI >> drive. I could access the disk. > > At the boot while rub is runing the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
> Look for the supoort of your sata chipset on grub homepage or something like Grub doesn't support SATA chipsets, IDE chipsets, SCSI chipsets, or any other kind of chipset. It supports PC BIOS interface calls to find and read bootable disks. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for use > an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. ;-) This won't help. Grub uses BIOS calls to access the disk drives...kerrnel drivers/initrd doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Muthu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody give me a suggestion why the SATA is not > recognized while booting in the grub? Grub uses BIOS calls to access disk drives. Is this SATA disk on a separate controller card? If so, I suspect that card doesn't have a bootable B

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Penguin Lover Marco Calviani squawked: > file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. > However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc but only > this: > > This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t > > Password: > > it

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread El Nino
On 2/27/06, Boris Fersing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/2/27, El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > AybOwan! > > > > is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge > > by using prozilla or some other tool? > > > Hi, > > if you want to use prozilla, just change the FETCHCOMMAND and > RES

[gentoo-user] After upgrading to the latest Baselayout...

2006-02-27 Thread Seo Boon, NG
I have the following error upon booting up after the latest baselayout upgrade. My lo interface can comes alive after I manually do a "ifconfig lo up". Any I'm operating a number of services on lo, I need lo to be up and running afteri each reboot. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks. init.d £ ./net.

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 17:27, Muthu wrote: > Hai, > > I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. > > I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 > SATA(sda)). > > I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the > plain cursor comes). When the gr

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Javier Payno
El Lunes, 27 de Febrero de 2006 16:52, Muthu escribió: > > is your sata support compiled in as modules or into the kernel? > > sata support is compiled in to the kernel. It is detecting as SCSI > drive. I could access the disk. At the boot while rub is runing the kernel isn't loaded on the system,

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
El Nino wrote: > is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge > by using prozilla or some other tool? I never quite understood the sense in those tools. Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the download be faster? When I download something with wget, or watch emerge invoki

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/2/27, El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > AybOwan! > > is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge > by using prozilla or some other tool? > Hi, if you want to use prozilla, just change the FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND in /etc/make.conf There is some examples in /etc/make.conf.e

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Muthu
On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Muthu wrote: Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loa

[gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread El Nino
AybOwan! is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge by using prozilla or some other tool? -- ... "The future lies ahead." ___ < Have you mooed today? > \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \

[gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, using this page of the gentoo wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Console_Prompt i'm trying to use the /etc/issue file. After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with Banner /etc/issue file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. However

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Too bad the guy willing to answer your question didn't live up to the > expectations No, it's too bad the guy willing to answer his question didn't adhere to the etiquette rules of this and other mailing lists. He should have: 1. trimme

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Muthu wrote: Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loade

[gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Muthu
Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loader loads initially, if I type the the command

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-27 Thread brettholcomb
Thanks for the input. I've come to the conclusion my two motherboards are too old. One doesn't work on 2005.1-r1 and the other doesn't work on Windows XP Pro. Both systems install but they can't boot because they don't see the drives and don't see the controller. > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

2006-02-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, >i need to search for a particular string inside a list of text > files: i've thought of this very simple one: > > cat *.C | grep GetChi > > it works but however if the string is found it does not say in which > of the file it has been found. > > Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 February 2006 03:17, "Ducky Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound': > I've removed kernel support for ALSA and using alsa-driver instead. > Still no luck and same error. And I still don't have /etc/asound.conf >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

2006-02-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Boris, > try grep GetChi *.C poor me, this was very easy. It was my fault because man grep says it all. Many thanks for your help Boris, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

2006-02-27 Thread Christian Heim
On Monday 27 February 2006 15:01, MC wrote: > Hi list, >i need to search for a particular string inside a list of text > files: i've thought of this very simple one: > > cat *.C | grep GetChi > > it works but however if the string is found it does not say in which > of the file it has been foun

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

2006-02-27 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/2/27, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list, >i need to search for a particular string inside a list of text > files: i've thought of this very simple one: > > cat *.C | grep GetChi > > it works but however if the string is found it does not say in which > of the file it has been f

[gentoo-user] [OT] search for a string in a list of files but.....

2006-02-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i need to search for a particular string inside a list of text files: i've thought of this very simple one: cat *.C | grep GetChi it works but however if the string is found it does not say in which of the file it has been found. Is there a simple way to do it? Thanks in advance

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source cross-platform video conferencing?

2006-02-27 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2006/2/26, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:58, Francisco J. A. Ares wrote:> Mark Knecht wrote:> >Hi,> >   I wonder if anyone knows about a solution for Open Source video> >conferencing that would allow people using Linux, Windows and Macs to > >get together in a singl

Re: [gentoo-user] redundant Perl module?

2006-02-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: # epm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Digest/MD5.pm perl-5.8.8 So Digest::MD5 is installed as part of Perl 5.8.8. But this may not be true for older Perl versions. OK, so it comes with the standard package. Mine is 5.7.7. Thanks, Jorge -- gento

[gentoo-user] Acerhk and dri problem on travelmate 803

2006-02-27 Thread Benoit Joseph
Hello all,I have an acer travelmate LCI803 laptop running gentoo (of course)I have followed the instructions and gentoo-wiki about my laptop and several others ressources on forum and wiki. everything was fine: * hotkeys (using acerhk)* fglrx (using latest ati-drivers )* fbsplash/bootsplash* ...unt

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
060226 David Corbin wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:02 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: >> On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:01, David Corbin wrote: >>> grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory Which version of Kdegraphics are you trying to install ? Have you thought of using the split ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] redundant Perl module?

2006-02-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 12:57 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: > How to explain this? Are the packages perl-core/Digest-MD5 and > virtual/perl-Digest-MD5 obsolete? Meaning, are the modules included in > the standard packages? # epm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Digest/MD5.pm perl-5.8.8 So Di

[gentoo-user] redundant Perl module?

2006-02-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
I made a perl script using the Digest::MD5 module. _It works_. Now, a "emerge -s md5" displays, besides some other packages unrelated to perl: * dev-perl/Authen-DigestMD5 Latest version available: 0.04 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?

2006-02-27 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Too bad the guy willing to answer your question didn't live up to the expectations Do you never read to the end of mails to which you reply? Stop top-posting. Don't include quotes to which you do not reply. Reply below quotes to which you do reply. It is not that hard! http://www.catb.org/ja

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-27 Thread jarry
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have > you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands Personally I could not install gentoo 2005.1-r1 on ASUS A8N-VM mobo (southbridge nVidia 410 MCP, + northbridge GF6100 graphics). Lo

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-27 Thread Ducky Z.
Hello, Here are some more interesting output from dmesg while I was trying to play a sound file. PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1e.2 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50457 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:1e.2 disabled ACPI: PCI Int

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

2006-02-27 Thread Ducky Z.
Hello, I've removed kernel support for ALSA and using alsa-driver instead. Still no luck and same error. And I still don't have /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc. Is that a problem? Thanks. On 2/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:46, Zac Slade