RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-11-01 Thread John Dangler
ally resolved for me regardless of the kernel generation method chosen. JD -Original Message- From: Roy Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: >Roy~ >Thanks for t

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-31 Thread John Dangler
Yes, it is. JD -Original Message- From: Qian Qiao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates On 10/30/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy~ > Thanks for the reply. I a

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
Original Message- From: Roy Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: >hrmm... >I recompile the new kernel, before rebooting, I run module-rebuild list... >and get

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
day, October 30, 2005 3:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: >Holly~ > >Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this, >I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task. &g

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
riginal Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler schreef: > >> John Dangler schreef: > Holly Bostick schreef: > >> I'm trying to

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
JD -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 1:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler schreef: > I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new >

[gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new kernel, I know that there are certain packages that will not come back, and need to be re-emerged on the new kernel. Is there a way to setup a list of these based on what I have installed on my current Gentoo kernel to ma

[gentoo-user] other packages

2005-09-09 Thread John Dangler
I have found an add-in for gimp called GAP (animation). It is a zipped tar file. How can I add this to my gentoo install? (I'm not sure why it wasn't on portage, but, being fairly new to gentoo, I can't imagine what has to be done to a package to declare it 'portage-able'). Thanks for any input

RE: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread John Dangler
t On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 19:06 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > Anyone know why the xcdroast was taken off the mirrors? > There is a bug entered regarding xcdroast not being able to be downloaded > (which I got when I did emerge xcdroast). > It seems that the only reason for it not bein

[gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-05 Thread John Dangler
Anyone know why the xcdroast was taken off the mirrors? There is a bug entered regarding xcdroast not being able to be downloaded (which I got when I did emerge xcdroast). It seems that the only reason for it not being there is either because there's something _really_ wrong with it. Or, does any

RESOLVED [gentoo-user] Apache vhosts revisited

2005-09-05 Thread John Dangler
. Thanks to sub on the IRC channels for the input! John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:05 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Apache vhosts revisited Importance: High After going back through

[gentoo-user] Apache vhosts revisited

2005-09-05 Thread John Dangler
After going back through the entire thread dealing with the vhosts problem that was running here recently, I tried to setup my local fileserver with the ‘default’ apache server, and adding 1 virtual host.   my apache2.conf file is basically a default (out of the box) setup, with the line

RE: [gentoo-user] connections

2005-09-03 Thread John Dangler
o your servers IP or domainname and you should be good to go. //Mattias Granlund On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:14:58 +0200, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/2/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Mike~ >> Thanks for the reply. I did check t

RE: [gentoo-user] connections

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 5:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] connections On 9/2/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how can I setup my laptop to connect to apps like phpmyadmin on the local fileserver? both are running gentoo

[gentoo-user] connections

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
how can I setup my laptop to connect to apps like phpmyadmin on the local fileserver? both are running gentoo 2.6.12-r9 . vfs is setup and running, but when I try to connect from the laptop to the fileserver on other apps like phpmyadmin, I get "The connection was refused when attempting to contact

RESOLVED RE: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
That was it. Portmap was running, nfs was not. I had a note to myself to uncomment the auto start of nfs, but didn't uncomment it out... DOH! (I also had the fstab line ready to go in the laptop and uncommented that as well) Thanks for the help, Martin John -Original Message- From: Mar

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
2005 19:31, John Dangler wrote: > I setup nfs on a file server and my laptop and the first couple of days > everything was running fine. > I had to reboot the file server, and now all commands on the laptop to the > /mnt directory lock up. > e.g. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ls /mnt >

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
I was able to get it to unmount using umount -l (lazy), but trying to mount it again produces: mount 192.168.1.36:/usr2/public mount: RPC: Program not registered John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:31 PM To: gentoo

[gentoo-user] nfs behavior

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
I setup nfs on a file server and my laptop and the first couple of days everything was running fine. I had to reboot the file server, and now all commands on the laptop to the /mnt directory lock up. e.g. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ls /mnt just sits. I have to kill the terminal window, since there is

RE: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to emerge something to get it...) Thanks John D -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-use

RE: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
do you mean by "workspace"??? - multiple desktops via the pager? BillK On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:32 -0400, John Dangler wrote: ... > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups > > T -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
Rats (I forgot to turn off mail on the win box) Sorry - I'm using gnome atm John D -Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:25 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups Those workspaces are

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
rg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nfs setup On 8/31/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to get nfs setup between my gentoo boxes (both local) on the server, grep NFS /usr/src/linux/.config (on the server) returns: CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set C

[gentoo-user] nfs setup

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
I'm trying to get nfs setup between my gentoo boxes (both local) on the server, grep NFS /usr/src/linux/.config (on the server) returns: CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y Are these setti

RE: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
ginal Message- From: Nick Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I looked around a little more a

RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
o you and Holly for the patient replies on this. John D -Original Message- From: Renat Golubchyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:19 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:46 -040

[gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread John Dangler
How do I tell whether my laptop supports acpi or apm? I'm sorry to keep throwing this up right now, but lack of experience begs more questions. I've found a lot of information about this box (dell inspiron 8600) from googling, forums, etc., but they seem to be split on whether this box uses acpi

[gentoo-user] acpid

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
I got acpid emerged, started, and added to run level, but when I go into gnome and mouse over the battery (the default applet) it says: System is running on battery power 0 minutes (0%) remain the laptop is plugged into the AC. John D emerged with +acpi -apm ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

RE: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
ime on the user list (?) or is it a simple fix? John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:47 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI John Dangler schreef: > weird - rc-update show doesn't sho

RE: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
30, 2005 6:45 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI John Dangler schreef: > Make sure > the acpid daemon is running. > rc-update show => acpid | default alsasound | default alsasound~ | a

[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] 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] 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

[gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
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  

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
ssage- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] iptables ok. I got a clean kernel and removed iptables and firestarter. I then went into the kernel config and _only_ turned on iptable support

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
ery symbol in the ieee80211_crypt_wep module)... It appears that the version of ipw2100 and/or ieee80211 in portage (stable) clashes with the version of iptables in portage (stable). So, either I can have wireless or security... John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
hat it's not me just getting in a hurry to install a package... John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) 866-273-0408 (Fax) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:3

[gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as the doc I found suggests) all of the options as modules under iptables. (The doc also says that if they are compiled as modules, I didn't need to reboo

[gentoo-user] firestarter [Personal Linux Firewall]

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
I read through a few firewall products for my workstation and settled on firestarter. In reading through their docs, they say to enable 'every option under iptables'. there are 36 possible choices here! (counting the sub-choices under Full NAT Packet Filtering). Is it necessary to build all of th

[gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
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. Is there a way to have mozilla available when I login

RE: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
Maybe it's me - I don't get it. www.gentoo-portage.com front page ... 19884 ebuilds, 9986 Packages, Last Updated At 18:07:35 GMT John D esearch | grep for the particular arch seems to retrieve an accurate number of packages for that arch, as the OP said previously... -Original Message-

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
ibraries LINKFLAGSSHLGUI= -shared you'll have to work out for yourself what this actually does. the Changelog file might have a clue, or bugs.gentoo.org On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 02:42 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > Wilie~ > Thanks for the reply. I did leave it out. I kept reading and cou

RE: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
I had that same problem with a stage 1 build on my laptop. My laptop also has 2 mouse inputs (glidepoint and the ibm button). I noticed the same behavior, and modprobing evdev did solve it – sort of. The random jumping only showed up once in a great while and was only a minor annoyance at that po

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
defaults that are already there... John D -Original Message- From: Willie Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:07:52PM -0400, John Dangler wrot

[gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
Anyone know why Open Office would require USE=”hardened” ? Or is this here to show that it can be installed in a hardened Gentoo environment? I noticed some postings based on people installing it with -hardened (and having problems), but I don't have a hardened Gentoo install and don't want this

RE: [gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
-user] ftp I like gftp...works in kde, too. On Saturday 27 August 2005 21:05, John Dangler wrote: > Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome? > > Thanks. > > John D -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTEC

[gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome? Thanks. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] gpg

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
agent for passphrase management", but that borks. Anyone tried this successfully? As an OT question, I saw where you can upload your keys to a keyserver. Is that the preferred method of validating/trusting others ? John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] gpg

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I setup gpg and also set up enigmail to use my key and signature. when I send an email message I get the following: Error - bad passphrase /usr/bin/gpg -charset utf8 -batch -no-tty -status-fd 2 -clearsign -digest-algo sha1 -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] -passphrase-fd 0 -no-use-agent gpg: skipped "<[EMAIL P

[gentoo-user] openofficeq

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a moment. Open Office or the "Ximianized" Open Office. I read that Ximian was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these two portage packages

[gentoo-user] gaim emerge error

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I just tried emerging gaim and got this error: configure: WARNING: Could not find Tcl which is needed for the kadm5 tests configure: error: Could not find Tcl !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.1-r2/work/krb5-1.4.1/src/config.log !!! ERROR: app-

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
on Gentoo? Thanks for the input John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 4:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail Ouch! I just came across this in the release notes for enigmail...

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
a and Netscape. If you use a nightly, third-party or own build Enigmail may not always work and may even crash the application!" maybe sticking with Mozilla suite until this gets figured out isn't so bad... John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
ce. For now, you can download enigmail from" ewarn "http://enigmail.mozdev.org"; --myk John Dangler wrote: > Brett~ > Thanks for the reply. I did find some additional information about these > that tells me I should be using Firefox and Thunderbird... > The USE fl

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
45 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail John Dangler schreef: > I just found some docs on this that say "Large organizations that require an > integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving > towards Mozilla 1.7. A

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
me it depends on what you want/need/like. I don't like Mozilla because it has everything in one package. I like to be able to use Firefox as the browser and other programs for news and mail. On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > I've just completed setting up x server and gnome

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
ge Mozilla and emerge Firefox and Thunderbird? Or do they need to see Mozilla libs somewhere, since they're offered by the same org? Thanks for the input. John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:33 PM To: gentoo-user@l

[gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I've just completed setting up x server and gnome (why gnome - I'm a relic of *nix and Motif and gnome sort of reminds me of the older look and feel). gnome installs mozilla by default, which has browsing, news, and mail. How does this stack up against Firefox? I've seen a lot of press about usin

[gentoo-user] xserver

2005-08-26 Thread John Dangler
I emerged xorg-x11 and got the xorg.conf.new file copied over. twm (I think) is what's showing up. When I exit the server, there is a message that I think relates to the video. "Symbol drmGetClient from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!" I've been told that a lot of these

RESOLVED: [gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-26 Thread John Dangler
Neil, Mariusz~ Thanks for the input. Just setting up PORT_LOGDIR has gone a long way to providing exactly what I'm looking for. It's a shame that this isn't setup by default, but I can think of a few reasons why it isn't. John D -Original Message- From: Mariusz Pêkala [mailto:[EMAIL P

[gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section there that sets up a file called firewall.sh i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system, and it seems that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" writes this file as /var/lib/iptables/rules-save

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
t Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 7:26 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo On 8/25/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find out exactly what this means, since it's a recommended piece from t

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
to get it setup... Thanks for the reply. John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 6:14 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo C.Beamer schreef: > John Dangler wrote: > > >>I

[gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
way to view that output after the fact? I didn’t see it in either dmesg or any of the /var/log files…   Thanks for the input.   Regards,   John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) 866-273-0408 (Fax) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Hmm - Maybe I need to look into a different service ? John -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Wow! That was decent of t

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:11 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo John Dangler wrote: > The connecting page is a Solaris page that doesn't exist. I'm trying to > find out exactly what this means, since it's a recommended piece from > the Ge

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? John D -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:57 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system > Grant~ > I

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may have been steps we could/should have taken to prevent it, but this was setup

[gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other users”.  The latest stable shows 1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is it unstable, and the one before that is stable) hmm… Anyway, the

[gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
ohn D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:57 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] network driver I didn't want to just 'try it', since, as I said, I've been wrong before. I'm not r

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Grant~ I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' into the machine to get it back. If there's another way, I'd also

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
rsday, August 25, 2005 11:45 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver John Dangler wrote: >With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running >old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just >went with

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:26 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running

[gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure th

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread John Dangler
Just my .02 worth - anything for *nix with the word basic in it makes me shudder... the only other package I know of that used .pb extensions was powerbuilder. at one time, it had a lot of promising features, but after being bought twice and totally commercialized, it turned into another Symantec a

[gentoo-user] security issues

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
With the basic install of gentoo 2.6.12-r9 behind me (forget splash - it's not worth the headaches right now, and I need more research to find a good backup solution), I read through the gentoo security doc. There's a world of stuff here! I have a laptop that I'm intending to use for web developme

RE: WARNING - reiser and PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
system - it was unrecoverable. be warned. On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > Thanks for the reply. I was reading the information on the system rescue > site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine. I'm reading > through the rest of the documen

[gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with genkernel. I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all (I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is deprecated since it is the default behavior) At the end of the process, I checked /var/log

RE: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
s: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next) On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote: > I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but > SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. > a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? > b) Have you

PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's next)

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
verse dependency problems) Thanks for the input, I appreciate it! John D -Original Message- From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's next On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote: &g

[gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
So far, I have a stage 2 install with 2.6.12-r9, wireless (ipw2100), intel modem (compiled in) and alsa (compiled in) on a dell inspiron 8600. All is functioning well. I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop. Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well. I'

[gentoo-user] RESOLVED alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
Uereka! it's okay. I unmerged the alsa-driver, re-compiled the kernel, reset the sound emulation, and all is well. Thanks for all the help!!! Now, maybe I can attack the splash hiccup... John D -Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 200

RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
6:59 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > My .config has - > CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m > > John D but does the modules exist? search under /lib/modules`uname-r` or zgrep /proc/config.gz > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Satu

RE: RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > From:: "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:59:46 -0400 > My .config has

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) Just peeked at my config, looks like alsa also has to be modular, as well. # Advanced Linux Sound A

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
Joe~ That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 5:40 PM To: gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
o.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help On Saturday August 20 2005 2:42 pm, John Dangler wrote: > my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf) > alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: > > I chan

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config John Dangler wrote: > I've tried modifying the conf file for this by putting in snd-intel8x0, but > the system isn't reading it for some reason. do I need to unmerge > alsa-driver and start again ? [...] > -Original Mes

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
So, is the solution to unmerge the alsa-driver ? Thanks for the response John D -Original Message- From: Christoph Eckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config > As I've understood it y

RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
My .config has - CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m John D -Original Message- From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > From:: "John Dangler" <[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf) alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]: I changed it to alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 I saved the file and ran /etc/init.d/alsasound restart an

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 7:46 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? John Dangler schreef: > Holly~ > Maybe you can get this to work with this page... &g

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
I've tried modifying the conf file for this by putting in snd-intel8x0, but the system isn't reading it for some reason. do I need to unmerge alsa-driver and start again ? Thanks for the assistance. John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

[gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
I have alsa configured into the kernel, but I think I goofed reading through the alsa configuration. when I run alsaconf, it recognizes the card in the system (intel8x0), but after I select it, I get a dialog that says: Configuring snd-*** Do you want to modify err? Configuring [lib/liblow.c(329)]:

[gentoo-user] use flags (once more)

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
If I add a USE="whatever" to my make.conf file, does that get added to the flags already in the default profile, or does make.conf override what's in the defaults file? Thanks as always for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] wireless update [was update with B]

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
running emerge -uDvp world, I got a block between ipw2100 and ieee-80211. I ran emerge -C ipw2100, and the block cleared, although ieee80211 was no longer in the update list either. Since it was recommended to have both of these on the system in order for the wireless to work correctly, is that a b

[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
And how I hate to miss out on anything! :) Thanks, again Marco. John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: > The list

RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
Would John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:31 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? Uwe Thiem schreef: > On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: > >>Uwe~ >>Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how t

RE: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:46 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs John Dangler wrote: > I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to > work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file. > I'd

  1   2   >