[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Many thanks for the other useful info I've snipped >> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" >> is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
"Dan Wallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The blocks regarding sys-fs/e2fsprogs, sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs, > sys-libs/ss and sys-libs/com_err were discussed recently on this list. > Basically you need to: > > emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs > emerge -C com_err ss e2fsprogs > emerge -1 e2fsprogs

[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:51:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook >> > to install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to >> &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook to > install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to > install Gentoo, and suitable working Linux environment will do the job, > and an existing Gentoo installation

[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're installing to a new disk, do a standard Gentoo install to that > disk, but do it from your working setup instead of the live CD > environment. Your existing installation has all the tools you need to > build a new setup in a chroot. I'm havin

[gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think there have been enough changes that I don't even want to try to get it cleaned up. Rather, I'd

[gentoo-user] Re: Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otherwise hit this page > > to learn your outer IP address Sorry I left out the final part of the address: http://www.jtan.com/~reader/remote_addr.cgi

[gentoo-user] Re: Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyhow, it is surely not the router setup which is the problem - name > lookup works fine under my Debian sarge system. Is the sarge system pointed at the same router for default route? Show first line of /etc/hosts Show Sarge system /etc/resolv.conf

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that. I do know there's a vnc server >> that will let you grab your current xsession and I think that's the one. >> Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. > I can confirm that x11vnc is the one. I use it often. > Go

[gentoo-user] Re: Curious ping problem with no FW

2008-07-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 14 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've had a problem with being able to ping out to the internet from my >> gentoo box, while at the same time I'm able to ping outbound from >> several windows boxes on same home

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Josh Cepek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH >>> (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the e

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just realized I'd left the usb to ps/2 adapters in place from when I > tried that to see if it would help. > > I hooking the KVM usb cables to actual USB ports again now and > rebooting. Maybe it will be ok... I'll

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? >> > > I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It > supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used

[gentoo-user] KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch Summary: Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru the the KVM switch. Details: I've run a: Model: GCS-138 8-Port Iomega MiniView Ultra KVM Switch (ps/2 based)

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH > (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details > off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem > to remember thinking it felt like a klud

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried connecting to a MSWindows RealVNC server with krdc and I remember > that > I couldn't login. It could be latency across the pond, or network traffic > causing the login to time out. Eventually I ran out of patience/time and > decided to remove the l

[gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Tightvnc installed with server flag and seems to be working, at least as far as viewing from gentoo through servers running on windows machines. But when tried the other way round I get no connecton and no log output from the gentoo server. Just a message on the windows machine `Failed to conn

[gentoo-user] Re: Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)

2008-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > echo '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0' >> /etc/portage/package.mask > emerge mozilla-firefox > > Remove the entry from package.mask when you feel firefox-3.0 is good > enough for your needs Nice... thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Curious ping problem with no FW

2008-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I've had a problem with being able to ping out to the internet from my gentoo box, while at the same time I'm able to ping outbound from several windows boxes on same home lan. I don't run a firewall at all from linux but do have a Netgear switch/router/Firewall upstream between me and the interne

[gentoo-user] Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)

2008-07-14 Thread Harry Putnam
What is my best option to back down to the last 2.X of firefox? It appears version 3 does not have compatibility with several addons that I like to use (sitebar being the main one). Is it best done in .../package.provided or some other way? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Which really just means the latest cvs code committed. > > Thank you. I had guessed something like that, but . wouldn't > compile for me. I submitted a bug report via >M-x report-emacs-bug > and it was promptly fixed. Then . compiled and

[gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including > bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running > 23.0.50 now with success. What ever is the most recent cvs version is what will get installed if you run `emerge emacs-cvs

[gentoo-user] emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-07 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a time getting ksh93 to install (build error at the end) USE='static' emerge -v ksh93 The only other use flag coming up was `nls' I wasn't real eager for `static' necessarily but without `static' had already failed and I saw it was a possible flag. Also it might be handy sometime in

[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. > > If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks > when appropriate!): Of course it has a neg

[gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions

2006-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Being an Event Videographer one runs into hefty space requirments very quickly. I'm running 4 machines 3 are loaded for video editing and other graphics intensive stuff like photoshop and all the adobe tools. They have large drives but very quickly I've begun to need more massive storage acce

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 > does too? One could never determine something that basic from the man page supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it works. With a disk m

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Gian Domeni Calgeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this >> > tool on board? >> >> ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a "knoppix style" >> CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. > > Hi > > On >

[gentoo-user] Memory = blank linux image for web processor

2006-06-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry to pester with this but I've worn out my google fingers and gmane search with this one. I'm looking for a developmental package for linux that is an image processor and web gallery sort of tool. It was mentioned in a thread I started here sometime ago but cannot be dredged up... at least no

[gentoo-user] Re: more CFLAG

2006-05-17 Thread Harry Putnam
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I measured the performance differences for the things I care > about (compression, media encoding, and dm-crypt encryption), and > ended up choosing -Os for my Core Duo system. As James says, some > things run faster, other things run slower. And

[gentoo-user] Re: Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup > and use? > > My current setup is postfix, procmail and bogofilter. Maybe I haven't > trained bogofilter enough or something. After three weeks, I have yet > to have one spam marked as sp

[gentoo-user] more CFLAG

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Taking the opportunity of a major update to adjust CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf and I found something that looks like it might be a typo of mine. CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe" Does the `O' (uppercase oh) have an `s' component? gcc man says the `O' is to set levels and I think this may be su

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 16:35:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > If you only use KDE, you may as well define all your key bindings in > > > KHotkeys. > > > > Maybe you haven't noticed that KHotkeys is painfully

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am writing this from Gentoo running in VMware workstation on Windows > Server 2003. It works just fine, just install it like a normal install > except you need to use lspci to find what hardware vmware is showing > Gentoo, and compile accordingly. I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside vmware on winxp > > and if they might coach me on that. > > I usually set it to other linux 2.6 kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on > > > a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its > > > u

[gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Using vmware on winxp and I see gentoo is not listed as a supported OS like Suse is. I'm currently running Suse from vmware for that reason. I did try to get gentoo running there sometime ago and don't remember what the problems were now. I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside v

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, to cut short the confusion, Harry, your march setting in your > CFLAGS should be k8, and the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS should be either x86, or > ~x86, depending on if you want to run stable. Thank you James. I was beginning to wonder if those settings were

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a > miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. > Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop* there's trusty old > YaKuake. It supports multiple console tabs

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked: > > I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I > > believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top > > of > > my head

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > >I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE > >flag still be ~x86? or something else? > > > > > k8 > -- Sorry to be a pest on this, but I was u

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 12:44:37 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So it appears then that something is wrong with this update process. > > emerge -v -uDp gcc doesn't want to update the current gcc whi

[gentoo-user] USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > OK, what does the output of gcc-config -l (ell) show you - what > version of gcc is currently being used? Did gcc get updated prior to > the glibc update attempt? If so, was env-update && source /etc/profile > run after the gcc update? It output

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 11:11:18 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setup: > > Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo > > > > Running these use flags in make.conf: > > [...] > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS

[gentoo-user] Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo Running these use flags in make.conf: [...] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" USE="samba smb mysql symlinks kde qt dvd alsa cdr emacs xinerama mbox apache2 hal logrotate objc gcj sasl vmmouse wacom radeon tga vesa vga via vmware -ipv6 -imap -maildir -gnome" I'm

[gentoo-user] Puzzled by update world pretend output

2006-05-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I've started an update after a couple of mnths of not keeping updated. After emerge sync and installing latest portage I run: emerge -v uDp world I see this in the output... only showing a couple of dozens of lines like this (wrapped for mail): [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking

[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Rick van Hattem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of ufed I'd recommend profuse, it has the same options as ufed and > more. Really a great tool, very easy to use and gives you a clear list of > what use flags you have enabled (I do prefer the ncurses "profuse -n" command > above gtk) Wow

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> echo $? >> 16 > I'm probably splitting hairs here, but... have you tried actually > typing 'Yes' with a capital Y? A case mismatch and an assumption of > No' would explain the syntax error return. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Peter <[

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:58:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > all snip... > > Here's what I would do. Boot off a floppy or livecd. > Then, do NOT mount your root drive (/dev/hdb6) you may have a problem > with. run Maybe

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 10:19 am, Harry Putnam wrote: >> But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence >> as reported. >> >>    reiserfschk >> -su: reiserfschk: command not found >>

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt >> really quick and no output. > > No such file "reiserfschk", typo or are you looking fo

[gentoo-user] reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I've run into an unexpected boot problem on last reboot. I get an error proceeded by this: [...] Reiserfs Jornal /dev/hdb6 in blocks [18..8211]: 0 Transactons replayed Check internal tree ... finished ** fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed. Give root passwd for m

[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include files. I've downloaded and installed most of it not they look like: ls -F /usr/local/include/ GL/ GLES/ /usr/local/include/GL: GLwDrawA.

[gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted because the package I was after was actually installed already. I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old anyway. I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage for mesa libs I fin

[gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you >> can simply change the directory to Amaya/WX/redland/raptor, type >> "make", return to "Amaya/WX/amaya" and continue building with a

[gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ebuild needs a fix, or even better: upstream needs to be fixed. > It's mentioned in bugzilla already (gentoo bugzilla, that is). > > I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you > can simply change the directory to Amay

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Windows identifies the Network Storage Link as a windows NT 4.9 server >> >> > I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs >> > The network storage unit is a LINKSYS Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 >> > Disk Drives. >> > I have 2 discs attached to t

[gentoo-user] how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya The tail end of emerge shows: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/amaya-8.7/work/Amaya/LINUX-ELF/amaya' make: *** [amaya_prog]

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
"Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where are these trick tools found? > > Answered ;) emerge -s Not quite... sometimes yes, but not always. If it isn't in the package name that won't find it. I made a bad assumption that since I'd never heard of these tools they were not in packa

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry, > This problem has nothing to do with windows, in fact my XP machine isn't even > switched on. You say the fs was created by the the router and that you don't know what the fs is. Yet you also say it has nothing to do with windows. Your error out

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
>> eix > epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? Maybe I'm way out of date but here is what I'd use: First (equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit) (Go thru the man page of course) It has many of the same functions you may have used with rpm. o See list of all *installed* software.

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Typo alert! > The receiving fs does not support symlinks .. not the comments ^^^ note -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Stear wrote: >> I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs > > I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed I've heard, but really isn't the problem that the rece

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: >> > symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterf

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: > symlink "/mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0" -> > "libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0" failed: Operation not supported > > I am wondering if this is a permissions problem. > My net

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync backup problem

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks > that each message should be a directory and then fails to copy. > How can I get round this What are the exact errors? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Tim Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I love zsh ;-) > > ,- > | % setopt | grep -i "append.*history" > | incappendhistory > | % man zshoptions | col -b | grep -A 4 APPEND_HISTORY > | APPEND_HISTORY > | If this is set, zsh sessions will append their history list to > |

[gentoo-user] Re: Hello

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
"A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will the dvd have a ton of stuff? I see the live cd is only 200 meg, that > seems kinda small. Be nice to see xvkbd in it for people who can't use > their hands well. > Just wondering. > Alvin In gentoo the install cds are not a full on

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs-cvs patch failure

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Note this section from this thread post has been resolved: > I don't really want to jack around with emacs. I have it installed > and running fine, and I have in my /etc/portage

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] annotate html pages

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar apps > all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you? Looks like a product called Amaya maybe more directly designed for this. For anyone interested: http://www.w3

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Hi, > In my case (using it a little but think it works) the file is in other dir: > # cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oops, package.provided goes in /etc/portage/profile/

[gentoo-user] Re: cryptsetup and cryptsetup-luks

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But this doesn't really answer why I didn't get better output on the >> test emerge -vuDp world... does it? > > Yes, it does. Thanks for your comments Richard... helpful as always Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > pmount explictly wants lu

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> rsnapshot-1.2.2 >> bacula-1.48.5 >> cvs-emacs-24 > > The example for package.provided syntax in `man portage` shows categories > like this: > > app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2 > app-backup/bacula-1.48.5 > app-editors/emacs-cvs-24 Ok, I'm a little gun sh

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> in package.provided: >> cvs-emacs-24 > > [snip] > >> emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs > > Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this > just a typo

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2 > app-backup/bacula-1.48.5 > app-editors/emacs-cvs-24 Haa there it is Another dopey message was sent before I saw this, and the real sorry part is that I've been caught by this before and not too long ago. I've recently don

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> in package.provided: >> cvs-emacs-24 > > [snip] > >> emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs > > Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this > jus

[gentoo-user] emacs-cvs patch failure

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone else seeing a patch failure in most recent emacs-cvs? Here I get: [...] * Copying emacs from /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src ... * CVS module emacs is now in /var/tmp/portage/emacs-cvs-22.0.50-r1/work * Applying emacs-subdirs-el-gentoo.diff ... * Failed Patch: emacs-subdirs-el-gentoo.di

[gentoo-user] [OT] annotate html pages

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry for the OT but as many here know this is the place to get quick pointers to other related or semi-related material since there are many experts and near experts here. Ok, enough smoke blown... now: I have some text books on CD that are in html. I'd like to annotate as I read, much like wri

[gentoo-user] Re: cryptsetup and cryptsetup-luks

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, before that, try and examine each module that is to be emerged and > see which ones want luks. Perhaps there is a broken ebuild which is > causing the problem. Normally, there are checks that prevent this kind of > circular error. > > Do emerge -puNDvt wo

[gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm currently trying to get thru an emerge -vuD world but having various things crop up. Some I thought were handled long ago like this overlooking what is in package.provided: rsnapshot-1.2.2 bacula-1.48.5 cvs-emacs-24 The last two are fake versions so they would stay ahead of what ever c

[gentoo-user] Re: cryptsetup and cryptsetup-luks

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:39:56 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm running an update world. I have cryptsetup in stalled. >> emerge -vpuD world tells me crypsetup is blocking cryptsetup-luks. >> >> [blocks B ] sys-fs/

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ;BIND DUMP V8 > $ORIGIN 10.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA. > 0 3600IN SOA baikal.iproducts.test. > root.baikal.iproducts.test. ( > 20050421 3600 900 360 3600 );Cl=5 > 3600IN NS baikal.iproducts.test.

[gentoo-user] cryptsetup and cryptsetup-luks

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm running an update world. I have cryptsetup in stalled. emerge -vpuD world tells me crypsetup is blocking cryptsetup-luks. [blocks B ] sys-fs/cryptsetup (is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.1-r2) [blocks B ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks (is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-0.1-r3) I don't really wan

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Jo Are Rosland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your entries for 'reader' and 'fwobsd' are probably not > what you really want. By defining several 'IN A' entries > for the same host name, you effectively get bind to serve > these addresses in 'round robin' fashion whenever a client > looks up that

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And please be more careful reading the examples > and take time to learn the exact meaning of the statements. > You need just a few to make it all work > and some reading will save you time in the long run. Point taken and thanks for the manual he

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Jo Are Rosland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And again: it's really no reason why you can't put all of this into one zone > instead. H... that was what I needed. Many thanks for hanging in there. I managed to confuse myself quite a lot on this. I thought to do that (go up one level and use

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make it 2 separate files for each of the reverse zones. > Each with its own SOA record. > Emerge bind with doc flag and read into Adminstrators Reference Manual Do you have any idea where it can be found following: USE=doc emerge -v bind? equery f

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>What's in your named.conf? >>>Should be something like this: >> Just posted a few minutes ago... but I noticed I wasn't really >> following your example thoroughly. Now trying this db.192.168.1 >> Still fails miserably: >> $TTL 1D >> $ORIGIN 168.1

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's in your named.conf? > Should be something like this: Just posted a few minutes ago... but I noticed I wasn't really following your example thoroughly. Now trying this db.192.168.1 Still fails miserably: $TTL 1D $ORIGIN 168.192.IN-ADDR.AR

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Jo Are Rosland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Where names are used -- eg. the 'key' field of an 'IN A' entry, or the > 'value' field of an 'IN PTR' entry -- you may specify the full name by > ending it with a '.'. Names with no '.' at the end have the origin > appended. > > Now, if you loo

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's in your named.conf? > Should be something like this: > > zone "local.lan" IN { > ... > }; > > zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { > ... > }; > > zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { > ... > }; options { directory "/v

[gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So what Peter meant was ] [...] Yeah thats what I suggested it meant. I added some unnecessary confusion by saying `the very nature of module is that it is not built in'... sorry. Just sloppy thinking here thanks for clearing that up very well.

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a reverse zone file for my home network. It's 10.10.0/24 > but you'll figure out how to tailor this to your needs. Yikes I promised to post my reverse file based on your example and then mailed my response without including it. You saw the

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a reverse zone file for my home network. It's 10.10.0/24 > but you'll figure out how to tailor this to your needs. Taking your example I come up with the zone file posted at the end. It loads with no comment from named. But I still see the

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > ;BIND DUMP V8 > $ORIGIN 10.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA. > 0 3600IN SOA baikal.iproducts.test. > root.baikal.iproducts.test. ( Alexander, I meant to ask in my reply what the 3600 is all about? My study of DNS and Bind hasn't discussed

[gentoo-user] Re: bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a reverse zone file for my home network. It's 10.10.0/24 > but you'll figure out how to tailor this to your needs. I think this is not where I'm having the trouble. Just one network for home lan I'm ok with. > # cat pri/0.10.10.zone > > ;B

[gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is correct. Unless you alter bzImage, modprobe newmodule should work > just fine. If your new module is built in, you will need to reload the > kernel (reboot). Ok, this is confusing to me... What do you mean by `built in'. I'm thinking the very nature of

[gentoo-user] bind zone.file won't load

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Running an authoritative name server on a small home lan as training exercise. And using DNS and Bind 4th ed as a guide. A quick sketch of this network(There are more hosts on it but for simplicity): (All have prefix 192.168 and netmask 255.255.255.0) INTERNET

[gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Masood Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Thanks Masood, for the pointers.. I have a question about your sig. > -- > Linux Kernel : 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 > GCC version : 4.0.2 (Gentoo 4.0.2-r3, pie-8.7.8) > Processor : AMD Athlon XP 2600+ > RAM : 1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM > CFLAGS USED

[gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)

2006-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. > > cd /usr/src/linux > make menuconfig or make xconfig > choose the module option you wish to enable > Select whether to build into the kernel or as a module. > exit and save > make > make modules_install > > You should not have to copy bzImage unless you

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