Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Hatfield
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card (networking is set up for NAT). I had lots of problems initially with running the perl script which configures the network, but eventually

[gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?

2006-03-15 Thread Jim Hatfield
They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?

2006-03-15 Thread Jim Hatfield
kashani wrote: Jim Hatfield wrote: They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. I've got three of them running Gentoo in our dev environment. 2005.1 and 2006.0 disks worked just

[gentoo-user] Does the automounter support direct maps?

2005-11-29 Thread Jim Hatfield
The man page for auto.master(5) refers to direct maps, ie The mount-point for the direct map is always specified as /- in the auto.master map. My auto.master map looks like this: speyburn ~ # ypcat -k auto.master /home auto.home /mp auto.mp /- auto.direct and my auto.direct map looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb

2005-08-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:45:23 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for PHP but didn't see anything obvious. Is there

[gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb

2005-08-22 Thread Jim Hatfield
I just bought a Pinnacle ShowCenter and am using it with some Apache/PHP/MySQL code to play mpeg movie files to a TV. It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for

[gentoo-user] Where to find smbmount?

2005-07-26 Thread Jim Hatfield
A system I have which is a year or so old has a /usr/sbin/smbmount, but if I use qpkg -f to find out which package owns it I get nothing. A recently-installed system doesn't have this file and I can't find any obvious package which would have it (except maybe Samba). Do I need to install Samba

[gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server

2005-07-19 Thread Jim Hatfield
We have a Solaris based YP server. On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to: domain insignia broadcast and set NISDOMAIN to insignia in /etc/conf.d/domainname. If I run ypbind -debug I get: speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug parsing config file Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast parsed domain

[gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

2005-07-14 Thread Jim Hatfield
The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead. It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A. Ah well. So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a

[gentoo-user] Finally got mplayer updated

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Hatfield
I posted ages ago about failing to update mplayer due to compile errors which seemed to be caused by it using header files under /usr/src/linux. So after a while of headscratching I did the obvious: renamed /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.NIU and re-emerged. No problem. Still don't know why

[gentoo-user] Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
I'm trying to move from a Unix-based DNS to an AD setup, changing DNS domain name (but not NIS domain name) in the process. I'm testing by switching DHCP servers on and off. I had a problem with NIS and while investigating noticed that some key files seem to have changed since the last time I

[gentoo-user] ypbind man page incomplete?

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
The man page for ypbind does not specify if domainname needs to be set (it is only mentioned in the SEE ONLY section). The man page implies that all settings are in /etc/yp.conf. However if I have /etc/yp.conf set to: terminator ~ # cat /etc/yp.conf domain insignia broadcast but domainname not

Re: [gentoo-user] Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:35:46 +0100, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that the DHCP server gives out the hostname and DNS and NIS domain names, should these files be left empty? Answering my own mail. If /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname are both blank, we get: (none

[gentoo-user] Build failure when updating mplayer - header version problem?

2005-05-18 Thread Jim Hatfield
I did a 'emerge --update world' and the mplayer compile ended like this: cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -frename-registers -fno-pie -fno-pie -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with F irefox

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:28:24 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: 1) if you're specifically talking about vtun, it's in Portage, so you don't even necessarily have to download it separately. I'm building a statically linked version for a remote Redhat box to which I only have ssh access and

[gentoo-user] Setting up a route through a point-to-point interface

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hatfield
Scenario: using vtun to build a Lan-to-Lan VPN. One end FreeBSD, one end Linux. On the BSD box I can set up a route directly through the tun0 device without having to assign it an IP address, like this: ifconfig tun0 up mtu 1450 -arp route add 192.168.10.0/24 -interface tun0 and it works just

[gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with Firefox

2005-05-11 Thread Jim Hatfield
I think this may have started happening since a recent Firefox upgrade. If I try to download (say) vtun from vtun.sourceforge.net, it points me at the mirror list and I pick one, say Heanet. I get the what should firefox do with this file dialog and select Save To Disk and when I hit OK I then