Re: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread brettholcomb
I think SeaMonkey is the whole Suite now. > > From: Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/29 Wed PM 04:46:42 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans de Hartog wrote: > > > > > Just to stay close to what you're u

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] sshd issues

2006-11-14 Thread brettholcomb
I think that tells you that this is the default setting if you don't change it. > > From: Jon M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/14 Tue PM 09:35:13 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sshd issues > > Hi Daevid, > > I tried playing around with some options in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-13 Thread brettholcomb
Yes - that's it - just one is all you get . I just figure I get one shot at it . > > From: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/13 Mon AM 02:49:07 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup > > ยท Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors

2006-11-02 Thread brettholcomb
Nice tip. > > From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/02 Thu AM 09:17:59 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors > > On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What I did was create folders for each mail lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors

2006-11-02 Thread brettholcomb
What I did was create folders for each mail list and tell Kmail the folder contains a mail list. When you do that you have an option to put the reply to address for the list in the setup. After that I filter the mail list messages to the right folder and when I hit reply I get the right addres

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring UPS for Gentoo

2006-10-11 Thread brettholcomb
Set it to shutdown when you have x minutes of battery left where x is enough to allow you to shutdown the system. There is an application in portage - nuts I think that is supposed to interface to UPSs. > > From: "Suranga Kasthuriarachchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/10/11 Wed AM 01:27:25

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

2006-08-24 Thread brettholcomb
Is your user a member or the games group? > > From: sdoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/08/24 Thu PM 12:48:02 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Can't play games > > Hi again, > > I've added some games to my system anr ran ``gpasswd -a frank games''. > > I get "

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-21 Thread brettholcomb
Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear. I upgraded baselayout then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing up). I then went through the file and found that it appears ipr

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ?

2006-08-08 Thread brettholcomb
LVM let's you add space to volumes without having to create new partitions, move the data over, and then do something with the old one. > > From: Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/08/08 Tue PM 12:27:53 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet

2006-06-27 Thread brettholcomb
Hmm, I'll have to go back and look at it again. I wanted to use it for the same reason you do - to handle all those passwords but maybe my use was flawed. I'll check it out again. Thanks. > > From: Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/06/27 Tue PM 05:29:49 EDT > To: gentoo-user@list

Re: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet

2006-06-27 Thread brettholcomb
My limited experience with wallet is that is was a hassle which is why it was limited experience . If "Never again for this site doesn't work" try opening the wallet configuration - click or right click on the wallet icon if I remember right and see if you any settings there work. Wallet wo

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread brettholcomb
Jim, DON"T let him use Frontpage. I used it once and have had to support a server with it for a class - - it creates junk, hides stuff (in the MS you don't need to know way). Once I inherited a site done in FP to maintain and I moved it to Dreamweaver - very nice. > > From: Etaoin Shrdlu <[

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread brettholcomb
Did you check out sftp? Or programs like secure shell which do ftp also. > > From: JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/06/06 Tue AM 11:38:06 EDT > To: Gentoo-User > Subject: [gentoo-user] FTP Server > > Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for > Gentoo? > > My

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread brettholcomb
Did you try scale=n Where n is the number of digits after the decimal? More in man bc. > > From: "Mike Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? > > Hi, >I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread brettholcomb
Will the hotplug package work on these drives? > > From: "Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/04/21 Fri PM 04:46:38 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question... > > Hmm. > > I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboar

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread brettholcomb
You have to install X and a window manager or app like KDE to get that. > > From: "Bob Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/04/20 Thu PM 03:25:28 EDT > To: > Subject: [gentoo-user] Install help > > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread brettholcomb
You are in the same boat I was - I had to translate the wiki to my needs but between that and the EVMS docs and the EVMS mailing list I put the pieces together. The wiki fillied in some missing pieces or stated them in another way that made sense. I went with EVMS mainly to learn about it as

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread brettholcomb
I used the info on the EVMS site and there is a wiki entry which helped quite a bit. I'm not at home so I don't have the wiki entry but I found it via a search on evms + Gentoo. I like EVMS as it makes managing the disks much easier than trying to all of them separately. > > From: John Jolet

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread brettholcomb
Try the kde game set. I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not near the system) what it's called. > > From: Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/28 Tue AM 02:43:21 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage > > Ted Ozol

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical

2006-03-02 Thread brettholcomb
You may have to use grub or lilo to rewrite the boot record as Windows stomps on it. > > From: Masood Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/02 Thu PM 03:12:58 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different > physical dri

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] tape drives and backups

2006-02-21 Thread brettholcomb
mt is an app that will let you manipulate it. The simples is to tar to the drive. There are many apps such as Amanda and others - check /usr/portage for the backup category. > > From: "Nick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 10:51:46 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you very much. I'll need to go back and reread this and digest it some more. I hadn't thought of doing multiple RAID types on the drives. I have two and did RAID1 for /boot and was going to RAID1 the rest. However, I really want RAID0 for speed and capacity on some file systems. The s

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread brettholcomb
As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. What is better to do with LVM2 after the RAID is created. I am using EVMS also. 1. Make all the RAID freespace a big LVM2 container and then and then create LVM2 volumes on top of this big container. or 2. Par

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread brettholcomb
It could be a power supply problem, too. I seen it when one of the power rails gets flakey the computer will do funny things. If you have another power supply connect it - you don't have to install it but just put it beside the box and then hook it up. If it works you have found the problem.

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread brettholcomb
Most hot swap stuff has the drives in caddys that fit in a mount. The mount contains power connections and drive connections. the caddy has cables for the disk data and power that go to a connector on the caddy. The caddy slides into the mount and the connections are made. Some caddies have a

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser

2006-02-09 Thread brettholcomb
Did you try /etc/init.d/cupsd zap and see what happens. Also, sometimes a reboot (shades of windows ) fixes cups. > > From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 07:27:56 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-08 Thread brettholcomb
Good idea! In this case a commerical program created the tape but fortunately they have good docs so I could find what they do. I needed to get to the archive because for some reason the commercial program had the files I wanted in a backup set listed in the tape contents directory but it coul

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes

2006-02-07 Thread brettholcomb
No problem. I appreciate the response. You are correct, I really don't know the format. I'll try the dd idea and see what happens. I was counting on the file marks being there so I figured I could walk through the marks and see what is there but I didn't realize about asf. Thanks > > From

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts

2006-01-30 Thread brettholcomb
It's happened on several websites so I was wondering if I'd missed some setting or could tell Konq to carry on. > > From: Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/30 Mon PM 07:24:34 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts > > As a rule Firefox

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread brettholcomb
Isn't windows fun . Someone has a sense of humor. In my new assignment I am now the Administrator for Windows servers and SQL Servers! I asked it that was because a) no one else wanted windows (we're AIX/Linux/Netware) and b) I was low man on the totem pole. The answer was jokingly yes - plu

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-20 Thread brettholcomb
Based on your post to my other thread I've been looking at the drives you mentioned. What do you know about the WD Caviar drives? They are cheaper than the Raptors. > > From: Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/20 Fri AM 09:52:01 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject:

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED

2006-01-06 Thread brettholcomb
It would be nice. Let us know if you find it. > > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/04 Wed PM 04:14:09 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:01, a tiny voice compelled > [EMAIL

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED

2006-01-04 Thread brettholcomb
Glad to hear it's fixed! Something must have been messed up in the profiles. > > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/04 Wed PM 02:01:40 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 12:19, a

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-04 Thread brettholcomb
What happens if you do emerge -uD kdepim -p. Have you tried emerge kdemail? > > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 08:57:13 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail > > This is just too wierd! I've done all the main

Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread brettholcomb
You have to set yourself up to be able do shutdown and reboot if desired. Do this in the sudoers file. I don't have my setup where I can reach it at this moment but if you need I can post it later tonight. > > From: Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 08:26:16 EST >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-02 Thread brettholcomb
Ernie, are you doing anything special here? I'm running KDE and simply went into the accounts and set up my pop server (mail.bellsouth.net) and it works. Same for T-bird. BTW, look at Korn for a newsreader . > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2006/01/02 Mon PM 05:22:55 EST > To: gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc

2005-12-20 Thread brettholcomb
There's a file in /proc - a *.gz if I remember. > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/12/20 Tue PM 01:37:46 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc > > I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much > with going

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread brettholcomb
There is a book covering backups that is supposed to be the Bible for backups. Unfortunately, I am not where I can lay hands on it and can't remember the title. > > From: Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/12/15 Thu AM 08:03:34 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-14 Thread brettholcomb
Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is deprecated? > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/12/14 Wed AM 12:35:17 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from > tar.gz > > Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options

2005-12-09 Thread brettholcomb
Did you select framebuffer support - there needs to be a * beside it before you see the rest. If that doesn't work set the see experimental items flag in the general setup. > > From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/12/08 Thu PM 11:07:39 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Su

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-06 Thread brettholcomb
Something thinks it needs it. Check out the depends with equery and see what it tells you. > > From: Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/12/06 Tue PM 06:32:56 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Help with world update > > Hello, I am running a emerge -u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-11-30 Thread brettholcomb
Are you running cups? > > From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/11/30 Wed PM 02:31:16 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing > > Guys, this is ridiculous! Every time I want to print something from my main > Linux machine I have to phy

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Interfaces

2005-11-21 Thread brettholcomb
Thanks. I'll check that one out. > > From: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/11/21 Mon AM 06:05:19 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Interfaces > > On Monday 21 November 2005 04:00, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > I am looking for a GUI interf

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf

2005-10-13 Thread brettholcomb
Hmm, that I can' answer yet as I am still booting to runlevel 3 and then doing start x. I would assume that everthing gets run including local.start and then X gets started after all that. > > From: Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/13 Thu AM 03:53:59 EDT > To: gentoo-user@list

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-12 Thread brettholcomb
On a new system I built I had to recreate the /dev/nv* items. > > From: Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/12 Wed AM 03:11:08 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia > > Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 13:51 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-11 Thread brettholcomb
Reemerge nvidia - it's one of the modules that when you rebuild the kernel you have to redo them. > > From: Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/11 Tue AM 03:29:52 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia > > Hi! > > After upgrading the

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev

2005-10-07 Thread brettholcomb
udev is now default. If you've built your kernel with udev and emerged udev then you should be able to uninstall devfs. I did - but I've been running udev for a long time now. There is a doc on Gentoo about how to move to udev so make sure you've done that first. > > From: gentuxx <[EMAIL

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread brettholcomb
That's good to know. It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant. > > From: John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contr

Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

2005-10-06 Thread brettholcomb
Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds. You can use existing ones as models. > > From: John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT > To: Gentoo User > Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage > > > I frequently need things installed from port

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you for the feedback.. > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu PM 02:26:23 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For RAID I'

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you for the feedback.. > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu PM 02:26:23 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For RAID I'

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
My moterboard (Tyan Tiger) does nto have SATA support so I need a separate card. For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you both for the comments. This helps. > > From: Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 01:42:20 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400

Re: [gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread brettholcomb
You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then source this in the ~/.bash?? and to make sure new users get it

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-15 Thread brettholcomb
I did it with EVMS. I created the raid, then lvm on it. It's been a while so I don't remember the details. If you're not using EVMS you can create the raid, then apply LVM to do what you want. > > From: "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/15 Thu PM 02:30:42 EDT > To: gentoo-user

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-05 Thread brettholcomb
It's been a long time since I did a multi boot Windows install. With Windows and the boot managers for Windows maybe it has to be. However, with Grub or LILO you set them up on the MBR, then tell them where to find Windows and it's all done from there. At initial boot there are no partitions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-05 Thread brettholcomb
Windows doesn't care where it's system files are installed (XP that is) except that I remember it needs a partition on C to put it's boot stuff.like boot.ini. > > From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/05 Mon AM 09:38:39 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-us

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread brettholcomb
I tried 2.6.12-r9 which was released a short time ago. I'm in the process of trying the old driver. > > From: Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/01 Thu AM 02:05:46 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems? > > -- gent

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread brettholcomb
I was afraid of that . There is a bug with rmmod causing crashing in Bugzilla. What puzzles me is these two systems have never had any problem at all - I even did a make oldconfig with the 2.6.11 .config so they would be the same. > > From: Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 200

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-27 Thread brettholcomb
That's good to know. I had missed that part of it. So far it just worked . > > From: George Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/26 Tue PM 11:28:41 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone > > According to the man

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread brettholcomb
Do a ls -ld /etc/make.profile to see what it's linked to. > > From: Benjamin Grauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/25 Mon AM 08:52:50 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6 > > hi - Since some time now i tried to re-emerge a new Version of the

Re: [gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration

2005-07-19 Thread brettholcomb
I used the steps on the Gentoo docs. They also link to some udev site. Essentially 1. Set up kernel not to autostart devfs (when everything is okay you can remove devfs from the kernel) 2. emerge udev 3. I modified /etc/conf.d/rc (I think it was) to have a devfs and a udev version. The udev

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

2005-06-27 Thread brettholcomb
Try the 3c59x driver. If you look in make menuconfig on the help for 3com cards it will tell you. > > From: "askar ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/06/27 Mon AM 11:24:04 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] > > Hel

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-02 Thread brettholcomb
Did you try emerging CUPS again? > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/06/01 Wed PM 10:17:16 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool > > bash-2.05b# cupsd > cupsd: Child exited with status 98! > > I happens after about 5 seconds. What I am doing

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS and the LiveCD 2005.0

2005-05-30 Thread brettholcomb
Yes, it does. After more reading of the docs I think I'll have to recreate them with EVMS instead of cfdisk. Then I'll have to resign myself to booting with an initrd file. x > > From: Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/30 Mon AM 03:45:26 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.or

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-25 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you. I'll look at it. > > From: James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/25 Wed PM 03:27:09 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS > > > I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means > > I'll need a dynamic DNS.

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread brettholcomb
I did the ebuild for Winex after it was removed from portage - and I can't argue with that. At the time TG let you download CVS if you would provide feedback so I joined the mail list and did so. There is a native SOF but I had purchased Windows SOF long before it came out couldn't go get an

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread brettholcomb
Some of us are just lucky . I gave up ATI after the Mach 64! Unfortunately, we all can't just go out and upgrade - I know that for sure! Thank you for the excellent summary - this will be filed away and when I find time I'll go visit these sites. I did use Wine and Winex considerably about

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you for the explanation. That clears it up. I don't play the Doom series either - I have Soldier of Fortune and Half-LIfe along with some others. And I have an Nvidia card . > > From: Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/24 Tue AM 06:28:10 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gent

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread brettholcomb
Thanks. > > From: Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/24 Tue AM 01:32:11 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread brettholcomb
You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. > > From: Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/20 Fri PM 04:01:59 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image > > Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an is

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling

2005-05-20 Thread brettholcomb
When you compile a kernel and move it to /boot you need to run LILO so it will find it. > > From: Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/20 Fri AM 11:53:39 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after > recompiling > ke

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild digest is complaining about no PF

2005-05-17 Thread brettholcomb
man 5 ebuild and the ebuild docs for the naming conventions. If you haven't already create a portage directotry overlay and set up make.conf to define it. This will be where you can create your own ebuilds and not mess with the tree. > > From: Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuild help (mod_perl)

2005-05-13 Thread brettholcomb
Man ebuild Also, check out the Gentoo docs on ebuilds and look at some existing ones as guides. > > From: Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/13 Fri PM 01:55:53 EDT > To: Gentoo mailing list > Subject: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuild help (mod_perl) > > I'm trying to try the mod_perl-2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal Client

2005-05-13 Thread brettholcomb
You might look at rdesktop or tightvnc. > > From: Mike Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/13 Fri AM 11:04:08 EDT > To: Gentoo Users > Subject: [gentoo-user] Terminal Client > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a real need for a terminal client program for gento

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-10 Thread brettholcomb
1. What about Group IDs (GID). At one time we had to make them the same on all machines - but maybe not anymore. 2. Server down implies it can't find the server so it gives up and then gives you the error about not mounting the file or no such file. 3. What about the comment someone had fr

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-10 Thread brettholcomb
One thing I found helpful with NFS was the NFS How-To at linuxdoc. You may have already looked at that but it has a good setup guide to make sure things are running. > > From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/09 Mon PM 11:04:28 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: R

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cdrecord (``cannot allocate ...")

2005-05-09 Thread brettholcomb
Check the mail list for this subject. There was an extensive discussion a few weeks back. > > From: Hareesh Nagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/08 Sun PM 10:10:03 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with cdrecord (``cannot allocate ...") > > Hi All: