Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:40:21 + "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that allows outdated > m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will > > not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The > > /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: > [...] > Anyone? Anything I could l

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:18:20 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if there is some driver+tools that could present an > x11 display as a v4l device? Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy driver in the kernel. Probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:46:36 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks HW, this is what logrotate -d shows re. portage logs: > > # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf > [snip...] > rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log > weekly (1 rotations) > [snip...]

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

Hi, On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:17:58 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, I copied data from 160GB partition on DiskA to > > > temporary space on DiskB, then I deleted remaining NTFS partition on > > > DiskA and created one 200GB ext3 partition (I think so. In cfdsik I > > > chose partition

Re: [gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

Hi again, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:38:47 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy > > driver in the kernel. Probably the easiest way to

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

Hi, On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:37:16 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Everything was fine" mean; I created partition and then formatted it > without any errors or warnings. There are messages from syslog: > --- > Jan 22 23:43:

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :(

Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:25:20 +0100 jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used cfdisk and I'm sure that I allocated whole disk (I just deleted > remaining partition and created new one and just confirm size, because > it should take whole disk, and even if not, it souldn't create new > partition

Re: [gentoo-user] did anything major change in acpi?

Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:34:51 + Gabriel Rossetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I reinstalled and there for upgraded my kernel form 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, > and also upgraded all the acpi related stuff like acpid. My laptop > overheats a lot now, it is around 90-96 degrees celcius when > compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

Hi, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:08:38 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I emerged SpamAssasin on a mailserver the other day, added the > appropriate line to /etc/postfix/master.cf and it all seems to be > working ok. But it doesn't seem to be very accurate in the default > configurati

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

Hi, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:07:51 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Jan 2006, at 12:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > > I'd strongly suggest using the Bayesian filters, per-user, that is... > > [...] > > What improvement rate are you seeing

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

Hi, On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:40:39 -0500 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is > supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP > or dual core system. I have an SMP system. It's just more lightweight by

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

Hi, On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:48:49 +0700 Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the > kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a > reboot. That's pretty normal. I think the application using th

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

Hi, On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 Urs Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized > "Console Log" window icon. > [...] > I could not find the script ou option which starts this window. > Where can I disable it? I don't even know what's t

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:24:25 - "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 > > > Urs Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized > > > > "Console Log" window icon. > > > > [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:23:20 - "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That depends. It usually just outputs what is piped into > > /dev/xconsole. > > [...] > > Would you mind showing a default/typical/custom (whatever) config file > so that I can compare with mine? No proble

Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

Hi, On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:43:33 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 03:31, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge': > > [...] > > If you /do/ want to do packet filtering on br0, I belive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?

Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have currently syslog-ng running, but I think I remember that > > similar configuration was in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (maybe > > commented out?) > > Yes, it was commented out as the default setting is to se

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

Hi, On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:51:21 +0100 Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back to the thread... I started wondering about something. I thought a > 100% full root filesystem was deadly, but never thought about /tmp. > So I'd like to ask, what is more deadly for a system, a full root FS, a > full

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

Hi, On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:16:35 +0200 Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It happens as soon as I enter any one of the following lines: > > tc filter add dev eth2 parent 1: prio 2 handle 1 fw flowid 1:20 > [...] > I then get the error message: > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > We have

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

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

Re: [gentoo-user] XFig Export

Hi, On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:25:25 -0500 "Justin Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using xfig for figures for a paper that I am writing. When I hit > the export menu option, it crashes. Inconvenient, since I need to get > this into a format acceptable to latex (is there a package for .fig >

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to a 256MB Rom

Hi, On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:16:33 -0500 "Ryan Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any difference between ROM and NVRam? Yes, of course. RAM is random-access-memory and in the case of DRAMs pretty volatile when not powered :-) If you have 256MB of NVRam to install an OS on it, the relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:49:49 +0100 Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that > prints colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored > output as a mail. In order to get colors in a mail a have to use > html. If t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: > > > snip > > > > > > > Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working,

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

Hi, On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:49:28 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]: Leavin

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

Hi, On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:01:04 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What did you do about Mesa? Just leave it out. I see the Mesa libs > are masked even though I'm running ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf Oooh, yeah, i actually left out that part. First, I emerged "wxGTK" with opengl

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

Hi, On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:20:38 -0500 Tito Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why when I go to my website and click on the links > within my site the url still stays the same? For example: if I go to > www.my_web_site.com and click on the link "messages" within my site, t

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > down

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want something like this: > myvar="whatever" ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar > [...] > This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar. Of > course, if I could pass a variable to

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed

Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the > physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy > nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB > disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one > is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G > disk. Pr

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

Hi, On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:49:23 -0500 Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the driver: > > 8139too 28992 0 > > Now then... as of 2 days ago, I've been noticing that my ethernet has > been acting really whacky, with random ping times and flaky web surfing. Did you try playing with 8139too's k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: intercept browser traffic

Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:58 +0200 Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw, it is in https, but seeing as it is my browser I want to spy on, > isn't that OK? technically, it is not. You could intercept network traffic at the link level and even simulate the remote host and its correct addre

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mail > server attempts to deliver the outgoing email, but > returns the mail to the user who sent it with an error > message. The interesting thing is that I can ping the > address of the recipient mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The error message is "Warning: Could Not Send Message > For Past Four Hours". It says that it could not > connect to the server it's trying to deliver the mail > to and that it will keep trying for the ne

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

Hi, On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:25 +0600 "askar ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 11) # iptables -F > # iptables -t nat -F > # iptables -I INPUT 1 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT > # iptables -I INPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT > # iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --dport bootps -i ! eth0 -j REJECT > # iptabl

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

Hi, On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400 Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as > external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this > is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

Hi, On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something > like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA > card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] An iptables like setup on windowsxp

Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 23:51:53 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it is possible to run iptable from cygwin then I'd prefer that > > approach. Anyone have pointers/urls? > > Even if you could do it, running iptables under cygwin is *NOT* what > you want. Cygwin is a *PROGR

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:28:46 + Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? > I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters > (between 2 rooms) is enough. > I have to check if the driver I us

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

Hi, On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 18:22:31 + Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm... > not nice... > There's no other way to work with my card unless with ndiswrapper... at > least from what I read. Yep, that's what I read, too. > What about Ad-Hoc? Would it be possible to provide internet

Re: [gentoo-user] How does cisco vpnclient find its .pcf file?

Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:26:57 +0800 "W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed the cisco vpn client and cant figure how it > accesses the .pcf configs under gentoo. Can someone in the know tell me > how to specify a .pcf when issuing a /etc/init.d/vpnclient start ? Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:34:58 -0300 Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an customer that has a website hosted in a chrooted environment > and want a stats page (hits, origin, etc...) I have access to the apache > logs but I don't have a shell access, so I was thinking if there i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

Hi, On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:53:54 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've attached the output of e2fsck -n. Could you please tell me how bad it > looks? Are there questions to which answering yes is dangerous? > > e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Warning! /dev/hda2 is mounted. That is done in a mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:52:10 -0400 "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it > certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. > Just a bad mark on Mozilla. This is to be separated: #1: Google is im

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was written in the > '90s like minicom or programs that have limited capabilities. > ... > I'm looking for a GUI program with a scrollback buffer, scripting, > multi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:28:18 +0100 "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do the cookie settings under preferences override FF/Google's preset > cookie flow? Yep, the FF/Google cookie flow, yes. But I think you mean the cookie flow from Google's search result pages' links? No, proba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth the only command listed above that > shows my external drive is this: > > baby ~ # cdrecord -scanbus > [...] > scsibus2: > 2,0,0 200) 'TOSHIBA ' 'CD/DVDW SD-R5372' 'TU53' Remo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in dummy TAO mode > for single session. > ... > Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - > incompatible format) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

Hi, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:30:31 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd vote for a preference setting for prefetching: > > - disable / enable / enable for the same host only > > a little bit like cookie handling. > > from http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox "Fortunately, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :) http: //www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/ http: //www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html Nah, don't do that. It will introduce major issues reg. connection stabi

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my router/gateway which is dyndns enabled, how do I get to my ip on the server, set up port forwarding on the router. Most router-in-a-box appliances will let you configu

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from reiser4 to reiserfs

Hi, On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Justin Patrin wrote: Is there an easy way switch back my reiser4 partition to reiserfs without reinstalling everything. I suggest booting from a Gentoo CD. Make a tarball of the entire FS you want to convert and either pipe it across the network or onto another H

Re: [gentoo-user] Closing message of emerge sync confusing

Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: After running an emerge sync, I see a message at the conclusion that says: * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. * Please do so and then update ALL of yo

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

Hi, On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT) "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this > output: > [...] Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual task): partition table of a floppy disk? well,

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

Hi, On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:54:47 -0400 "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yep. it's a bug. As soon as I remove iptables from the kernel config, > ipw2100,ieee80211_crypt_tkip, ieee80211_crypt_ccmp, ieee80211_crypt_wep, > ieee80211 all show up fine in lsmod. no dmesg errors, and eth1 (w

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted NFS via ssh tunelling

Hi, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:29:18 +0200 (CEST) "Patrick Marquetecken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always get this error: > mount: localhost:/usr/portage failed, reason given by server: Permission > denied > Attach NFS port of Server (2049) to local port 2818 > ssh -f -L 2818:10.32.3.172:2049 -l

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

Hi, On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:09:29 +0200 Frank Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge > --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 > > python-fcksum-1.7.1 > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla > ^ > | > +- !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed

Hi, On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:14:59 +0300 Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop > (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are > only 20. > [...] Hm. And you're sure that the fan *isn't* alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

Hi, On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:13 +0200 Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. > The prompt string I want to use is > > PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ " > > [...] > I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was > obviously w

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

Hi, On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:52:17 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can > make a big difference. True. See below... > Try a clean /usr/portage on an ext2/3 filesystem vs. a /usr/portage on > reiserfs and you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - > leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this > message ... Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wr

Re: [gentoo-user] what is x11,and what is XFree86 and XORG

Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:40:44 +0800 libertine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't know what is x11,and XFree86 and XORG's different > who can tell me X11 is commonly referring to the protocol suite. X11R6 is the current version, AFAIK. XFree86 and Xorg are Implementations of this protocol c

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:54:12 +0200 Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I've liked the fetchmail->procmail setup as I can have procmail process > | the mail in many ways and even though Opera can do much of that I'ld like > | to keep this process. > > OK, sorry, I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

Hi, On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:54:34 -0700 Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module > cannot be found. Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found. It's not compil

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

Hi, On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:37:25 +0100 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2 > > I read that as "your friend can download it for non-commercial use & > then distribute it to you for free under the GPL for you to use for > commercial purposes". I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod

Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:02:34 +0200 Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The eject doenst work unfortunately, the IPod is detected as /dev/uba. Revisit your kernel's configuration and disable the Slow USB Block Device support (under Device Drivers/Block Devices, AFAIK). Instead, enable u

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:57:02 -0200 Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just had a look at 'top' here, and was astonished by its output: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 19328 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:02.47 firefox-bin > [x4] > 22668 lustosa 1

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 has long pauses

Hi, On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:24:07 -0600 Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using OpenOffice 2.0 since the 1.9.xx beta era. For a while, > I've had issues with the responsiveness when I click a menu or use the > scroll bar with my mouse. Clicking a menu or scrolling with the mouse > ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Stealth Ethernet testing

Hi, On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:19:15 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, after much ado, it seems quite easy (trivial) to hide an ethernet > interface, while being able to collect reems of local ethernet traffic > based data, from both snort and ethereal. No, it's not that easy - d

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

Hi, On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:08:47 -0700 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On October 22, 2005 04:38 pm Dave Nebinger was like: > > I think at this point you'll have to post some of the output generated when > > the ebuild fails before we'll be able to help you any further... > > Well he

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

Hi, Sorry for another tree of answers, but the others seemed a bit "fuzzy" to me... On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:08:50 +0800 (CST) Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because I always save two copies of every of my document, one in original > format (eg. odt) and another in printable format for m

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot otherwise... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone

Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:38:34 +0200 Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? > i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to > be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... What phone brand? Most phones support

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:57:28 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed Gentoo on a Pentium II 400 Vaio "Picturebook", the Sony > > with a 6" widescreen (1024 x 480??) but never had one of these CD-Roms > > available, only the floppy drive. In fact I cheated & resorted

Sony Picturebook Widescreen framebuffer patch, was: Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:48:24 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:18 am, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > > I'm running Gentoo on my picturebook happily since about 2 or 3 years > > now. Just ask if there are more problems. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

Hi, On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:24:26 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, my system is running "fine" (no overt problems), but about > every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait > for 5-10 seconds while it does it before I can go further. Or the > d

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug info when umount fails

Hi, On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:36:56 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I want to know what is happening there. A restart of samba has no > noticable effect. It can't, it only manages server side. Client side is done by the kernel. > What can I do to hasten the remountability

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:21:23 +0100 Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really > > need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that > > command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm > > le

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:48 + karlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to ask whether someone on the List has experiences with the > Realtime Preemption patches by Ingo Molnar > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > applied to the gentoo-kernel. I have just tri

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:01:40 + karlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could you point me to a list where all the patches are listed, as I really > don't know what patches are applied to gentoo-sources.#? See http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches HTH, -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto > ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:47:10 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does the kernel need xmlto? It seems to work without it. in order to build documentation. Remove the doc USE flag if you don't want it to. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:53:11 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > /etc/locales.build > > which says > > # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. > # The format is /, where is a locale from the > # /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:16:49 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I kinda get that and dmesg says during boot that the terminal > (agetty) is being configured to use UTF-8 (which is what I told it to do > when I built the kernel, so that's OK). The kernel is configured by

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

Hi, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:54:06 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:53:11 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > > > You can also poll the ip by doing an ifconfig and parsing its output > > inside your application. I think the overhead on the system would be > > barely r

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

Hi, On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:11:41 -0800 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: > > tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_dev > FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev > (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in > mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

Hi, On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:31:55 -0800 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: > >>[...] > > > >well, and what does dmesg say? Do you have i2c support in the kernel? > >What kind of IR receiver are you using? Do you need ce

Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites

Hi, On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:40:02 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy. > > OK, but that's like using the word in the definition to a guy who's > never used a proxy. ;-) > > I'm still unclear though, and I'm sure I'll find this out either > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Convert windows-1250 database to UTF-8

Hi, On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:25:22 +0100 Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > On 11/7/05, *Khan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > I'm trying to convert my windows-1250 database to Unicode, UTF-8. Is > > there any script that can do the job

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

Hi, On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone > mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to > microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it. That won't help.

Re: [gentoo-user] building a server cluster?

Hi, On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:23:28 +0600 El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please guide me to deploy a gentoo linux server cluster. currently i > have 7 piii 800Mhz machines & want to test a cluster server. if > somebody can point me step by step or a good guide, it will very > appreciable. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Authentication Gateway??

Hi, On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:32:49 +0600 El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have to replace our existing wired network to wireless network. so > please help me to deploy a wireless authentication gateway using linux > based open source application which provides a total security solution > for

Re: [gentoo-user] high volume IMAP/smtp server

Hi, On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:13:19 +0100 (CET) "Peter van Eck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need to migrate from netscape mail server running 7000 users to a > preferrable open source solution(ncluding failover cluster). > > Anyone got recommendations/suggestions , or actually running with this >

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

Hi, On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 01:29:23 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to be able to stream video from the webcam. I don't need full > tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, > all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy > libraries. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetchmail

Hi, > I run fetchmail to poll 3 servers every minute... and while this has > worked fine for weeks, last night it froze at 2am and stopped polling. > When I killed the fetchmail process and ran fetchmail again this > afternoon, things jumped to life again and appear back to normal... but > I wishe

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

Hi, > That's the problem I'm getting at the moment - the user authenticates > ok (using Samba's winbind & PAM) but the IMAP server exits because it > can't "chdir" into the user's home directory (which doesn't exist). I'm > told I can use `pam_mkhomedir` to solve this, but I'm beginning to > wonde

Re: [gentoo-user] Berkeley DB patch required (I think)

Hi, On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:04:56 +0200 Mike Kenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dec 13 15:56:00 getafix slapd[7156]: bdb(dc=inzanix,dc=com): illegal > flag specified to txn_begin > Dec 13 15:56:00 getafix slapd[7156]: bdb_txn_get: BerkeleyDB 4.2.52 > library needs TXN patch! > Dec 13 15:56:00 ge

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

Hi, On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:45:19 +0100 capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenBase is part of OpenOffice... and is really slow on my laptop. OK, please don't try to enforce your own name... it's OpenOffice Base, not OpenBase, as you've been told... > Do you know any replacement of OpenOffice f

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

Hi, On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:50:05 +0200 Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - * Adding routes > - * default ... > - * via ... > - gw: Unknown host > - * 192.168.4.1 ... Your /etc/conf.d/net is broken in this regard. Read the example (net.example) for co

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