Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 19 September 2005 13:16, gentuxx wrote: If I update firefox with the --oneshot option, I know that it won't update the world tree, but why? Why is that the recommended procedure? Does that give me any benefit? Also, why would a package be available as a --oneshot and NOT through a normal emerge -Dupv world? The package would be available through -Dupv as well, but not everybody likes to update all packages (especially on servers). Granted. And while I run a server (a few actually), it's a home system, not a production one. And, since I run production gentoo systems, I understand the difference. For this, I'm asking from the perspective of a home user. So, that being said, does updating a package for a security fix using the --oneshot option update the same package that is housed in the world tree? If so, can I assume that the same package will be updated next time I update world? Meaning, if I run --oneshot for mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r7 and mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r1 comes out, will 1.0.6-r7 be upgraded to 1.0.7-r1? I love how portage unifies the packaging system, and I feel like if I run all of these --oneshot updates for security fixes, that I'll have all of these stray programs running around on my system, that won't get updated next time I emerge world. --oneshot won't remove the package from world. It just prevents it from being added. If the package is installed but not in world, it is presumably there as a dependency from another package. Hence, updating world will still grab the package. Using --oneshot just keeps the world file clean. So what exactly does that mean if the package is already in world? If every security fix comes out with --oneshot being recommended, how do I know if it's a dependency of a package in world, or an entity in world? (This seems like an extension of the questioning above.) I'm just trying to set all this straight mentally, so I know what's going on with my system when I update it. I typically run the following to update my system 2 or 3 times a week (sometimes only once): emerge -Du(p)v world emerge -(p)v depclean revdep-rebuild -(p)v dispatch-conf I put the p for --pretend in parentheses because depending on the output of that step, I may skip it if there is nothing to do. Also, for the most recent firefox update, I would run the command as recommended with the -p flag, and it would see the package. If I run emerge -Dupv mozilla-firefox I only get a few of the (supposed) dependencies, and not the package itself, while the package installed (when I do emerge search mozilla-firefox) is 1.0.6-r5. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLlQLLYGSSmmWCZMRAiBYAJ9m6Pl/IkG/mXFX6iZ90epVCTkuWQCfcVH+ 25V6IF0g1dFHWCyLv1xlLIE= =tOYB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees
On Monday 19 September 2005 15:00, gentuxx wrote: does updating a package for a security fix using the --oneshot option update the same package that is housed in the world tree? There is no world tree. There is only a list. --oneshot has no affect on this list. If so, can I assume that the same package will be updated next time I update world? Meaning, if I run --oneshot for mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r7 and mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r1 comes out, will 1.0.6-r7 be upgraded to 1.0.7-r1? If it was in the world list prior to you running --oneshot, it'll still be in the world list afterward. Hence, it will be updated with world. If every security fix comes out with --oneshot being recommended, how do I know if it's a dependency of a package in world, or an entity in world? (This seems like an extension of the questioning above.) What does it matter in the context of a security update? Also, for the most recent firefox update, I would run the command as recommended with the -p flag, and it would see the package. If I run emerge -Dupv mozilla-firefox I only get a few of the (supposed) dependencies, and not the package itself, while the package installed (when I do emerge search mozilla-firefox) is 1.0.6-r5. If that is the case then 1.0.6-r5 is the latest version available for you with respect to your current snapshot of the tree. -- Jason Stubbs pgpgOHJHMeSrI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] scp or sftp from another local machine in GENTOO_MIRRORS?
Nagatoro wrote: Try and search the wiki (gentoo-wiki) for http-mirror. It does a great Guess I got a brain fart... As Mark wrote it should be http-replicator and nothing else. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter
Thanks for the suggestion, Walter. Yes, I did have the jumper set to master, as appropriate. But see my next post. Michael On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this computer pretty solidly with no indication, but that's not to say it can't happen. Your suggestion made me look at the BIOS boot stage and I notice that my hard drive is not reported during the BIOS boot. I have no problems running fdisk or mounting, but when booting the BIOS does not report it. What could cause this? Perhaps as you suggest? Can you check the jumpers on the drive? In the old days, there were just master and slave. Now there's a 3rd option cable select, which may be abbreviated as CS. It works automagically with Windows but it does *NOT* work with linux. If the jumper is set CS, set it to master and try booting from it again. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter
Thanks John. None of your suggestions turned up the problem directly, but they did get me thinking and I tried the same disk on different connectors and at different settings. I found that I can boot from the primary slave device and the secondary master device. I didn't try the secondary slave device. The only one that reliable fails is the primary master device. I did try resetting my BIOS settings to the default. Weird, huh? Some day I'll come back and try to figure out why this is the case. Meanwhile, though, I just reconfigured my grub settings and moved on. Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Michael On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, John Myers wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:47, Walter Dnes wrote: Can you check the jumpers on the drive? In the old days, there were just master and slave. Now there's a 3rd option cable select, which may be abbreviated as CS. It works automagically with Windows but it does *NOT* work with linux. If the jumper is set CS, set it to master and try booting from it again. Good thinking, except that it's failing in the BIOS. Linux has nothing to do with it. I would suggest checking the jumpers (if it's a PATA disk), unplugging and replugging the signal cable (at both ends), and unplugging and replugging the power cable. If you have access to one, try with a different signal cable, and try with a different lead from your PSU Also might check for bad a bad CMOS battery, and check the BIOS settings, ensuring all your controller hasn't accidentally been turned off. You might also try wiggling the block of connectors on the drive. I happen to have a funky SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 which stops my system booting if the connector block is jostled the wrong way. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge sync question
Hello, i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never install and use on this server. This will make faster syncing and rebuilding portage cache. Thanks in advance for any answer. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] weird behaviour of x11-terms/aterm
When i start aterm i got below error on my console: $ aterm aterm has encountered a problem interacting with X Windows : Request: 2,Error: 3(BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)) in resource: 0x0 Other weird behaviour is that Midnight Commander on aterm won't respect F1 - F4 keys and it returns such signs not do what i want him. for example i want to view the file so i do F3 and i got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 13~ F1 gives 11~ F2: 12~ F4 14~ I've checked other terms and Xterm and Eterm work ok and i dont have such a problems on them. Thanks in advance for any suggestions what could cause that. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo 2005.1 and FTDI USB/serial adapter: device not created
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:23:30 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer my own question, I just had to make the device using mknod. Now my FTDI device works! Which device are you using? I may need one of these and it would be nice to be able to buy one I know works. -- Neil Bothwick The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant. pgpJXSBei7I0Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] dev-lang/python vulnerability
I've done glsa-check -t new and i got that my python is vulnerable i got in world only dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 but it says that vulnerable is 2.3.5-r2 so i've searched for any vulnerable version on my system and i've found python-2.3.5 My question is: Could I unmerge 2.3.5 version which is not in my world tree and use only 2.4.1 or is it some dependency which have to be on system and i should only update that port to unvulnerable version? Thanks in advance for answers Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question
I'm not sure about the games, but avoiding installing X is quite simple! This is what I use on my gentoo server: USE=-gpm ipv6 imap gd gd-external jpeg png -svga -X -gnome -kde -qt -gtk -gtk2 xml xml2 apache2 tiff mysql offensive -samba I think there is a way to choose what categories you want to sync in gentoo (or was that freebsd?)... Good luck! Oscar Hello, i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never install and use on this server. This will make faster syncing and rebuilding portage cache. Thanks in advance for any answer. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question
Oscar wrote: I'm not sure about the games, but avoiding installing X is quite simple! This is what I use on my gentoo server: USE=-gpm ipv6 imap gd gd-external jpeg png -svga -X -gnome -kde -qt -gtk -gtk2 xml xml2 apache2 tiff mysql offensive -samba I think there is a way to choose what categories you want to sync in gentoo (or was that freebsd?)... Good luck! Oscar USE -xxx flags prevents only before compiling such deps but i look for solution like in FreeBSD as you said where you choose which ports categories you want to resync. Greets Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/python vulnerability
On Monday 19 September 2005 18:35, Paweł Madej wrote: I've done glsa-check -t new and i got that my python is vulnerable i got in world only dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 but it says that vulnerable is 2.3.5-r2 so i've searched for any vulnerable version on my system and i've found python-2.3.5 My question is: Could I unmerge 2.3.5 version which is not in my world tree and use only 2.4.1 or is it some dependency which have to be on system and i should only update that port to unvulnerable version? If you've run python-updater, it should be safe to unmerge python-2.3.x. -- Jason Stubbs pgpa36Z4aVCrM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question
On Monday 19 September 2005 09:54, Paweł Madej wrote: i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never install and use on this server. This will make faster syncing and rebuilding portage cache. Thanks in advance for any answer. gimli ~ # grep RSYNC_EXCLUDE /etc/make.conf # RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM is a file that portage will pass to rsync when it updates #RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync question
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Paweł Madej wrote: Hello, i'm going to setup server machine on Gentoo Linux and my question is if it is possible to mask portage categories which i won't to update such as whole X apps games desktop utils and so on ... which I'll never install and use on this server. This will make faster syncing and rebuilding portage cache. Thanks in advance for any answer. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
Hi all Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far, have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try fixes them. I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) which seems to be detected correctly but the wheel will not work under KDE. Under KDE Control center peripherals mouse I get the option to adjust the scroll rate, but this has no effect. The wheel seems to be working as a left button, if I click the wheel over an icon or file that item is selected. I've tried all the fixes I've found on the web (not many, most seem to relate to cordless mice) without success. I'll post the other problem as a separate posting. TIA Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge
Hi, I am now getting: Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process. when I try to boot any guest OS. I have added myself to the vmware group, executed the vmware-config.pl script and even logged out and in again. Any ideas? Thanks, jules VMware version: vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 VMware entries in /dev: omc-2 dev # ll | grep vm crw-rw 1 root vmware 10, 165 Sep 19 12:34 vmmon crw--- 1 root root119, 0 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet0 crw--- 1 root root119, 1 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet1 crw--- 1 root root119, 2 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet2 crw--- 1 root root119, 3 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet3 crw--- 1 root root119, 4 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet4 crw--- 1 root root119, 5 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet5 crw--- 1 root root119, 6 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet6 crw--- 1 root root119, 7 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet7 crw--- 1 root root119, 8 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet8 crw--- 1 root root119, 9 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet9 emerge --info: omc-2 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64) = System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo; PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=amd64 X aac aalib alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE
Hi All I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the size. this affects KDE apps and non KDE apps the same. Firefox text on menus and the like is so small that it is unusable. On one of my own programs the 14 point text displays as if it were 8-9 point. I have a Matrox Millennium G400 graphics card. I've tried all the settings i can find and have tried different kernel modules settings without success. The info I found on the web left me confused as it seems that this card may have different names in the UK and US. I'm in the UK. TIA Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
Stewart Taylor wrote: I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) which seems to be detected correctly but the wheel will not work under KDE. Under KDE Control center peripherals mouse I get the option to adjust the scroll rate, but this has no effect. The wheel seems to be working as a left button, if I click the wheel over an icon or file that item is selected. I've tried all the fixes I've found on the web (not many, most seem to relate to cordless mice) without success. Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf For a wheel mouse you need the following options in section InputDevice: OptionProtocol IMPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:53 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am now getting: Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process. I found the fix here: http://software.groupbrowser.com/nextthread51611.html It seems that /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware-vmx must be setuid root and someone filed this in bugzilla (#106291) already. -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:46 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote: I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) which seems to be detected correctly but the wheel will not work under KDE. When you edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf you should have the something similar to the following under the Input Device Section. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Corepointer Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 EndSection Hope this helps Regards, ScottyB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
Stewart Taylor schreef: Hi all Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far, have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try fixes them. I've got a Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2) which seems to be detected correctly but the wheel will not work under KDE. Under KDE Control center peripherals mouse I get the option to adjust the scroll rate, but this has no effect. The wheel seems to be working as a left button, if I click the wheel over an icon or file that item is selected. I've tried all the fixes I've found on the web (not many, most seem to relate to cordless mice) without success. I'll post the other problem as a separate posting. I suspect your problem is twofold: 1) you may or may not have your mouse set up properly for multiple buttons; 2) you may have the wrong buttons defined as the scroll wheel. Let me explain: I have a Typhoon Optical Wireless mouse which has 7 buttons (left, right, wheel up, wheel down, wheel press-as-a-button, and two thumb-operated buttons on the left side). When I got it, I just used the 'traditonal' wheelmouse settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol Auto Option Buttons7 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Device /dev/input/mice But this did not work properly-- what happened was that the wheel didn't work, and the side buttons were being used as the wheel (which also didn't work, because they aren't a wheel). This was because the mouse itself lists the side buttons as 4 and 5, and the wheel as buttons 6 and 7. So I had to tell X this: Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol Auto Option Buttons7 Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 Option Device /dev/input/mice And it works fine (previously used imwheel, but that's no longer necessary, at least in my case). You can run xev in a term and activate your various buttons to see which one is which. That should help you set up the Mouse section of your X config file correctly. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] alias
Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE
Stewart Taylor schreef: Hi All I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the size. this affects KDE apps and non KDE apps the same. Firefox text on menus and the like is so small that it is unusable. On one of my own programs the 14 point text displays as if it were 8-9 point. I have a Matrox Millennium G400 graphics card. I've tried all the settings i can find and have tried different kernel modules settings without success. The info I found on the web left me confused as it seems that this card may have different names in the UK and US. I'm in the UK. TIA Stewart I find this situation a constant annoyance as well. You have, unfortunately, several issues involved, none of which is completely resolveable until everybody is on board with the freedesktop.org standard, but you can get everything to a reasonably stable state that you can deal with. The problem (and I must regretfully point out that most of the problem seems to be KDE, but we'll get to that): You run KDE. Fine; KDE controls its fonts, you set your fonts to whatever you like and they look OK (all right, yours don't, quite, but you can obviously hack them into shape by running them at some ridiculously high point size. I've also noticed that KDE seems to make fonts look smaller than I would imagine they should, and I don't know why, so I just hack them into useability). Then you open Firefox. Which is a GTK program and whose font size (for menus and the like, not page display which is controlled by the program) is controlled by the GNOME control panel (or gtk2rc, but in any case GNOME/GTK, and not KDE). So GTK apps are now running essentially unconfigured fonts and font sizes, so they look like sh*t. Plus KDE is (naturally) trying to control this window (because it's a window on the KDE desktop), and is unable to really do so, so that just makes things a bit worse (more on this later as well). Furthermore you also have X trying to control the font size for one or more reasons (maybe you have a font server running, maybe you're running 'uncontrolled' programs which start with an 'X' rather than a 'K' or a 'G', and of course X is ultimately responsible for displaying all display elements anyway). So the situation is that basically too many cooks spoil the soup. At least, that's the *first* problem, which we'd have to clear away before we could be sure that your video card is doing what it should (which I think it probably is; I have a G400 Max which I used till about a year or so ago under Linux, and it was really the most trouble-free card I've used). Here's what you want to do: 1. emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt. This little GTK engine will add a couple of entries to the KDE control center which will allow KDE to control not only the color of GTK apps (which kcontrol already does before the installation of this engine, check the Appearance and Themes= Colors section for the checkbox), but the theme and the fonts as well, so they can be conformed. Be aware, the themes will only be conformed for GTK2 applications, and only those which do not theme themselves (as Firefox does, for example). So any GTK1 apps you might run will not look so much better (except that the colors will be right), unless you do what I do, which is run a theme which is designed for all three engines, GTK1, GTK2 and QT. A few can be found on KDE-look.org. 1a. emerge =x11-themes/gtk-theme-switch-1.0.1-r2 (specifically the 1.0 version which controls GTK1 themes, rather than the 2.0 version, which controls GTK2 themes, which you don't need, as you're already doing this with Kcontrol). If you use any GTK1 apps (sylpheed, gnotepad +, multi-gnome-terminal, etc), this program can be useful for setting their theme and fonts. 2. Try to stick to programs for one desktop environment wherever possible. Yes, this sucks, but until KDE and GNOME (GTK) are a lot more interoperable in this respect than they are now, the easiest way to avoid them conflicting is to not bring them into conflict by using programs from multiple DEs if it can be avoided. This is, btw, why I complain that KDE is the problem; I don't run GNOME or KDE, but Openbox and FVWM. I run mostly GNOME (GTK) apps, but there are a couple of KDE apps I like that I use (k3b, krusader). It's hard not to notice that when I open one of the KDE programs on my desktop which is already running a bunch of GTK apps, *the font size changes for everything*. Just a little, but I can see it. This may have been my mistake though-- I had set kcontrol to 'use my KDE fonts for GTK apps' (using gtk-engines-qt). It's quite possible that, since kcontrol is not running until I open Krusader or K3b, and because my KDE font size setting is not quite the same as my GNOME font size setting (because I just
Re: [gentoo-user] alias
Matthias Langer schreef: Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer ~/.bashrc Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alias
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 I modify what's in /etc/skel. I used /etc/bash.rc because it was on a distro I was familiar with at the time. From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/19 Mon AM 08:24:45 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] alias Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] applets on gnome-2.12.0
On 9/19/05, Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't remember the bug number but the solution is in bugzilla (searchfor gnome 2.12 applet). If I recall correctly you need to reemerge acertain package. (btw Gnome 2.12 looks good! :) ) I did file a bug, and was marked as a duplicate of this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104820 Quoting the bug: --- Additional Comment #3 From Simon Stelling 2005-09-05 09:47 PDT [reply] --- looks like upgrading gtk+ to 2.8.3-r1 solved this issue too... I'll upgrade gtk+ when I am at home, and will return in case it still doesn't work. I don't know why, but I never make to find a bug on bugzilla based on some keywords. For example, if I search now for 'gnome applet', this bug doesn't appear in search results. However, numerous unrelated bugs happen to be in the results. Very strange. And yes, gnome-2.12 does look good! -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro - Brazil|
Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE
Holly Bostick wrote: Stewart Taylor schreef: Hi All I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the size. this affects KDE apps and non KDE apps the same. Firefox text on menus and the like is so small that it is unusable. On one of my own programs the 14 point text displays as if it were 8-9 point. I have a Matrox Millennium G400 graphics card. I've tried all the settings i can find and have tried different kernel modules settings without success. The info I found on the web left me confused as it seems that this card may have different names in the UK and US. I'm in the UK. TIA Stewart So the situation is that basically too many cooks spoil the soup. At least, that's the *first* problem, which we'd have to clear away before we could be sure that your video card is doing what it should (which I think it probably is; I have a G400 Max which I used till about a year or so ago under Linux, and it was really the most trouble-free card I've used). Hope this helps. Holly Hi Stewart, If you are running KDE and Gnome together, I sometimes run into the same troubles as you. Generally, as Holly says, the problem is with Gnome/KDE not playing well together (assuming you have them both installed). However, the way I get around it is to: a) start up gnome-font-properties and choose the fonts which look best. b) edit your ~/.xprofile to contain: #!/bin/sh /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon c) make sure the ~/.xprofile script is executable chmod u+x ~/.xprofile d) now log back into X, fire up kcontrol and adjust the KDE fonts in Appearance Themes-Fonts Hopefully this will be of some help. It seems to work for me, so good luck! Dave. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] alias [RESOLVED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 I modify what's in /etc/skel. I used /etc/bash.rc because it was on a distro I was familiar with at the time. From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/19 Mon AM 08:24:45 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] alias Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thank you all for your tipps - in fact the file ~/.bashrc was the first one i was looking for; however, i must have been blind because it appeard to me that there is no such file Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
Eric S. Johansson schreef: trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome thanks in advance --- eric I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning unable to open an initial console, the screen freezes until x is started. This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix it -- any ideas thanks for all who helped Paul On Friday 16 Sep 2005 16:33, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 September 2005 15:23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Hi all, My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and causing the computer to freeze. I have another spare disk and I wondered if somebody would list out the procedure I need to follow to create and format the partitions and to copy all of the faulty disk contents. Then how to boot from the new disk. The new disk will need the following partitions:- /boot ext2 /swap / reiserfs 1. Using the dd command or a cloning software derivative: If the new disk is *exactly* the same size like the old one, then using the dd command you can basically clone your failing disk, including MBR and all partitions, including swap!, bit by bit: = dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb = On the other hand, if the new drive is larger then you will need to partition it, exactly like the old one. On the new drive, create the same entries you find with fdisk for your old drive: # fdisk -l /dev/hda Also, don't forget to clone the MBR: = dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=446 count=1 = If you also want to clone the partition table (as opposed to writing one afresh with fdisk) then increase the bs=446 to 512. 2. Using tar If at the same time you want to alter the partition sizes on the new drive then you can use the tar command, for each partition except for swap. Besides creating partitions of a preferred size on the new drive, you will also need to mkfs for each partition. Still have to use dd to clone the MBR. = # mkdir -p /mnt/new_boot # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new_boot # cd /boot # tar lcpf - .|(cd /mnt/new_boot; tar xpvf -) = Repeat for / and also use tar -d (check $ man tar) to verify that the directories were copied over without any mishaps. Personally I prefer tar because it is faster, it defragments the drive's contents and can verify that the new directory was not corrupted in the tarring/untarring process. 3. There's a number of backup apps out there which can do more or less the same using a different front end; e.g. partimage. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Analog acquisition
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Luigi Pinna wrote: Hello! I have a lot of problems with my TV card I can see TV (but only with tvtime and not with xawtv or kdetv), but I can't use teletext (for example with alevt) or to select a external source like S-Video. How can I find the problem? Without xawtv I don't know other system from S-Video to record... (cinelerra find nothing and kino works only with digital cameras) I can't configure mplayer to use s-video because it doesn't see a tuner... Any suggestion? Thanks a lot, Luigi Hi, I realized it too, but in the past I was able to record with xawtv. I haven't done it for a time, yesterday I tried to record, but I didn't see anything in xawtv. I emerged kdetv, it found the channels with the wizard, but didn't show anything after. Tvtime works well. I tought it is my fault at some point, but if you has this problem also, then maybe it isn't. How could we discover it? I searched forums, but can't find anything related. Cheers, Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás -- Make the world confused!Zavard össze a világot! Smile on monday morning!Mosolyogj hétfő reggel! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
Holly Bostick wrote: Eric S. Johansson schreef: trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome thanks in advance --- eric I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it. weird. I sync at 2-3 am every night to refresh my cache. I'm trying the sync now and will let you know what happens --- eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails
hi! friends, i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this. -- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? ---\^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||--w||| ||Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-AIT-v3.3#
Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
Eric S. Johansson schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Eric S. Johansson schreef: trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it. weird. I sync at 2-3 am every night to refresh my cache. I'm trying the sync now and will let you know what happens Well, this was a weird situation for me as well; I had just started an emerge -uaDtv world at around 2am, despite the fact that I have the cronjob updating Portage at 3am. When I got up, the emerge had stopped at package 4 of 10 (howl), with the error you note. Fortunately, the reason I had started the emerge so late-- the upgrade to xorg-- had at least completed. And since the emerge had stopped, the cron job had run. I then ran emerge --resume (in the hopes that the sync had fixed the error), and sure enough, howl emerged without problems (as did the rest of the sync, except mc, which seems to dislike the samba use flag all of a sudden. But that's a different issue, and documented on b.g.o, so easily solved). So I could only think that the sync fixed it-- maybe your mirrors take a little longer to update than mine did. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. Which of the different procedures did you try. Did you run fsck.reiserfs from a LiveCD or your old disk to see if some corruption occurred during the data transfer? (I guess it's too late now). The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning unable to open an initial console, the screen freezes until x is started. This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix it -- any ideas Not entirely sure - others may want to advise better - but are you running devfs? It seems that this is an error thrown up when devices are not recognised. This would make some sense, after all this is a new device. With udev all you should do is restart udev and the new device parameters would be recognised. That should happen during a reboot unless you have configured your machine to cache the device db? Can you find your /dev/console and does it have the same sylinks and access rights as your old disk installation? I'm not at my Linux machine now so I can't check myself. Finally, reset your BIOS before a reboot if you have disconnected/reconnected drives, to recognise the new devices and their boot order. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:02, Gentoo Shadow wrote: hi! friends, i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this. tar up the Mail folder in your /home directorie and burn it onto a cd or tar it onto a tape. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails
i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them correctly... Thank You with AdvanceOn 9/19/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Monday 19 September 2005 16:02, Gentoo Shadow wrote: hi! friends, i want to get backup of my KMail saved mails. so pls help me to do this.tar up the Mail folder in your /home directorie and burn it onto a cd or tarit onto a tape.-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? ---\^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||--w||| ||Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-AIT-v3.3#
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Thanks for the response, I do have an entry /dev/console, user root, group tty. It has no symlinks. I would have to reconnect the suspect disk to check if it is the same. Thanks Paul On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:23, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. Which of the different procedures did you try. Did you run fsck.reiserfs from a LiveCD or your old disk to see if some corruption occurred during the data transfer? (I guess it's too late now). The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning unable to open an initial console, the screen freezes until x is started. This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix it -- any ideas Not entirely sure - others may want to advise better - but are you running devfs? It seems that this is an error thrown up when devices are not recognised. This would make some sense, after all this is a new device. With udev all you should do is restart udev and the new device parameters would be recognised. That should happen during a reboot unless you have configured your machine to cache the device db? Can you find your /dev/console and does it have the same sylinks and access rights as your old disk installation? I'm not at my Linux machine now so I can't check myself. Finally, reset your BIOS before a reboot if you have disconnected/reconnected drives, to recognise the new devices and their boot order. -- Regards, Mick -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cdrdao woes
Hello, I am not sure if you have already tried the following: replace --device ATA:1,0,0 with: --device /dev/your cd device node For some reason that I do not understand, when I try --device ATA: etc. cdrdao does not work for me, but when I use --device /dev/hdc it does work. Maybe it will work for you too... Good luck, - AROn 9/11/05, David Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Nebinger wrote: My kernel was booted with this setting: hdc=ide-scsi, I read to do set Sure, remove the hdc=ide-scsi option, reboot, then use the device path directly for IDE burning. In your case it's probably something like:dev=/dev/hdc I do all of my burning using IDE directly, even though Schily's tools whine about it.Ok, so I removed that foolishness from my kernel bootline and rebooted. When I run cdrdao with scanbus I get this:carbon ~ # cdrdao scanbusCdrdao version 1.2.0 - (C) Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) MontyCheck http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.Using libscg version 'schily-0.8 'ATA:1,0,0MATSHITA, DVD-RAM SW-9585 , B100But this:carbon ~ # cdrdao write --device ATA:1,0,0 --reload --force cp_csp.cdtocCdrdao version 1.2.0 - (C) Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) MontyCheck http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.Still simply exits with a status of 1, what is going on?I've looked in the logs and don't see anything and I'm stillstuck :(/djb-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- The absence of war does not mean peace.
Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name
Joseph wrote: The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match localhost I assume your apache is configured with hostname localhost. What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of course) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: You can make a precise copy of your disk with dd command using dd if=/dev/hdaX of=backupfile.iso and then on the disk you want to write the data with dd if=backupfile.iso of=/dev/hdXX; if bouth disk are in the same machine you can copy it directtly using dd if=/dev/originpartition of=/dev/destinationpartition holpe that helps, Allan On 9/16/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and causing the computer to freeze. I have another spare disk and I wondered if somebody would list out the procedure I need to follow to create and format the partitions and to copy all of the faulty disk contents. Then how to boot from the new disk. The new disk will need the following partitions:- /boot ext2 /swap / reiserfs Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:49, Gentoo Shadow wrote: i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them correctly... hm, I don't know, what you did, but when I pack my backups (tar -cf /dev/st0 /home/), and restore it (tar -xf /dev/st0 --preserve-permissions) my mails are all there - are you sure, that you packed everything? Or are you using /var/spool as mail directory? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Analog acquisition
Alle 15:41, lunedì 19 settembre 2005, Tamas Sarga ha scritto: Hi, I realized it too, but in the past I was able to record with xawtv. I haven't done it for a time, yesterday I tried to record, but I didn't see anything in xawtv. I emerged kdetv, it found the channels with the wizard, but didn't show anything after. Tvtime works well. I tought it is my fault at some point, but if you has this problem also, then maybe it isn't. How could we discover it? I searched forums, but can't find anything related. This is a good question! I recorded a video from S-Video using xawtv, but it works only with capture off ( and only sometimes! Sometimes I can't see the video) but it records fine... If I try to use the tuner I have no results, but scantv (the program to populate channels in xawtv) works fine! Kdetv has the same tuner program (but it display the current channel in tuner) This is mysterious Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpVnuurYKZNB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions[ANSWERED]
gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Emerge_MPlayer has the best explanation so far. BTW, Mark, look at the gentoo doc Upgrading re symlink to make.profile --- Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about all those others? Look at gcc-home page, think there's plenty of info, also this theme is regularly discussed here (ML), search the archives. Shortly said, use -O2 -march.../-mtune... -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer is a safe choice. It (-O2) includes many of the other flags by default. phew! That's what I've already got! -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye snip Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. If I do a dd_rescue what would I do to get the initial console working? Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye snip Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. If I do a dd_rescue what would I do to get the initial console working? Thanks Paul I think he is talking about this: http://www.sysresccd.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name xorg.conf' and only came up with files for vmware-tools (/usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools/files/5.0.0/xorg.conf). So, 4 questions 1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed? 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one (xorg.conf)? 4) Would it be used, if I'm not using one now? Thanks. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLxBFLYGSSmmWCZMRAi5wAKCf6d0rkrFrkfqqIN09z2GVB8jEWwCgl07G gAMtKbhNri+9Aj1ZqaKFz3w= =dFto -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed? Xorg.conf contains detailed info about your installation, a default one doesn't do you much good except for to use a vanilla x config. 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? I'm sure it defaults to a simple config that would work across most installations but, as you've noticed things like the wheel are not part of the vanilla config. 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one (xorg.conf)? Probably not as it would not be part of the normal path. 4) Would it be used, if I'm not using one now? Nope. See the gentoo wiki for how to build an initial xorg.conf file and extend it for your wheel mouse support. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
gentuxx schreef: Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name xorg.conf' and only came up with files for vmware-tools (/usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools/files/5.0.0/xorg.conf). So, 4 questions 1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed? Because you upgraded from XFree86 (which uses a differently-named, but exactly similarly-configured file)? 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? XF86Config (or XF86Config-4)? Xorg will use this if it finds it. 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one (xorg.conf)? Why would you bother? There is a configuration utility, you know. I don't know what it's called though, as I've never used it (just renamed my XF86Config to xorg.cfg and went on from there). Oh, scratch that, it's called xorgcfg. Very logically found with a guess and a 'which'. 4) Would it be used, if I'm not using one now? Are you running Linux under VMWare in Windows or some such? I know nothing about that (but Dave says not, so I believe him :-) ). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
Holly Bostick: 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one (xorg.conf)? Why would you bother? There is a configuration utility, you know. I don't know what it's called though, as I've never used it (just renamed my XF86Config to xorg.cfg and went on from there). Oh, scratch that, it's called xorgcfg. Very logically found with a guess and a 'which'. You could also try Xorg -configure. From man Xorg: -configure When this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video driver modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial xorg.conf(5x) file based on what was detected. This option currently has some problems on some platforms, but in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the configuration process. This option is only available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid 0). HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:23:50 -0700, gentuxx wrote: 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? Do you have a /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config. Xorg uses them if it can't find its own config. -- Neil Bothwick DOOM , said Pooh, and Slaughtered Christopher Robin with a chainsaw pgpSNit5UzqaR.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] New apache layout
Just went through the apache update on three servers. I duly removed /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and restarted apache successfully. Question: can I safely remove /etc/apache/conf/* (after migrating any settings to the new conf files of course). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec
Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF? When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on the speakers but when I try to record using KDE KRec nothing is captured. I suppose the KRec is not configured correctly. Anybody has good link how to do it. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec
Does anybody have a good link how to capture audio from SPDIF? When I connect the audio to my SPDIF-IN I can hear the the voice on the speakers but when I try to record using KDE KRec nothing is captured. I suppose the KRec is not configured correctly. Anybody has good link how to do it. if your SPDIF input is supported by ALSA, the following steps are necessary: * Even if you hear the noise thru the speakers, this does *not* mean that the audio signal has left the card and went into RAM. This is called monitoring: incoming signal being routed back to the outputs immediately * If your SPDIF input is supported, you have to select the SPDIF input of your card as capture source (use a mixer to do so, maybe alsamixer in console mode) * If you have done so ensure the gain level for this source isn't muted and it is opened * NOw signal should arrive at ALSA. Krec uses artsd, the KDE soundserver. So you should go to the control center and set up artsd to use the right device Recommendation: Use qarecord in ALSA mode. It has a nice levelmeter so you immediately can see if there's audio coming in or not. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec
Thank you for the pointers. Do I have to have SPDIF enable in kernel? I don't see any PCM IN supports in arts or alsamiser. I use a cheap USB soundcard with the snd_usb_audio module and didn't need to add any additional kernel option. In my alsamixer the SPDIF input appears as »Input 2«, not as SPDIF, in the section »PCM Capt«. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:11 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Thank you for the pointers. Do I have to have SPDIF enable in kernel? I don't see any PCM IN supports in arts or alsamiser. I use a cheap USB soundcard with the snd_usb_audio module and didn't need to add any additional kernel option. In my alsamixer the SPDIF input appears as »Input 2«, not as SPDIF, in the section »PCM Capt«. Is alsamixer call KMix in KDE? That is all I see under Multimedia menu. I have Alsa build into the kernel, so it starts at boot, my sound card is some kind of Via-chipset on the motherboard. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec
Is alsamixer call KMix in KDE? That is all I see under Multimedia menu. I have Alsa build into the kernel, so it starts at boot, my sound card is some kind of Via-chipset on the motherboard. If this is the only card on your system, I guess that kmix will show you the same controls as alsamixer would. But still alsamixer is the reference mixer. The central problem is that ALSA tries to give you a generic frontend for any card. Great idea because we do not get mixer frontends contributed by the manufacturers and optimized for particular cards. Disadvantage: Mixers are usually difficult to understand (even the OEM mixers on windows are difficult to understand because soundcard routings aren't the easiest thing on earth). Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info
Dave, Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one. It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is under more stress; ie: tracking excessive amounts of kernel complaints, etc. I've also noticed difficulties with the sound system and have had the computer crash a number of times when playing music (could be the media player or the sound system itself, but I still think that the problem is bigger yet). Ideas for a next step? Is there more information that I can submit to hopefully throw out the possibility of a hardware problem, or to determine which piece of hardware is at fault? Thanks again for all of your help. Kris On Sunday 18 September 2005 21:09, Dave Nebinger wrote: Before the crash, the following three lines appeared (in this order) nearly 53,000 times for a total of 16MB of text: Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] ip_local_deliver: bad skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN LOCAL_OUT POST_ROUTING Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=60 Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] PROTO=6 127.0.0.1:34134 127.0.0.1:111 L=60 S=0x00 I=15872 F=0x4000 T=64 Don't assume this is your answer, Kris. This was a known problem on one of the 2.6.12 kernels (2.6.12.4, I believe, but don't hold me to it). I had many of these in my logs also. It was a partial network patch applied to the networking layer but missed some components. It was fixed by the 2.6.13 kernel series. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter
Hi gentuxx, As you may have seen in my reply to another helpful person, same disk worked on a different setting (primary slave instead of primary master). perhaps the disk is going bad, although it's only a couple years old. Thanks for your suggestion, Michael On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to install from scratch. I follow the quickinstall howto and reference the installation manual for 2005.1 and my own notes, as I've installed perhaps 8 or so gentoo systems. I'm using the Universal 2005.1 live CDROM. Everything proceeds well, including installing grub, setting up grub.conf and running grub-install, and when I'm finished I exit the chroot environment, umount my root and boot partitions, and reboot. It fails, with the dreaded message Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter. I boot the live CD again, double check my grub.conf file, run grub-install again, check with fdisk that my boot partition is bootable, and try again. Same result. I'm mystified. I've been using this computer for developing systems over the past few months and have rebooted it many, many times, with no difficulty. I figure it's failing very early if I'm not even getting into grub. Any ideas? Any suggestions for what to test, inspect, try? Thanks, Michael - From my experience, this is typical of a bad disk. I have a system that gives the exact same error. Usually, for me, a reboot solves it, and it loads the OS. But I happen to know that my disk is on it's last legs. ;-) If you have another disk lying around, or could get another one, I would try the install, using the same method you used, and see if you have the same problem. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDK8f4LYGSSmmWCZMRAuY9AKDoJAUp7VBtD+W4mYA6FdVP3uHLvQCgmmXS X8hFXo6X3RLuFvsIeuFwysQ= =B2/n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 00:56, Kris Kerwin wrote: Dave, Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one. It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is under more stress; ie: tracking excessive amounts of kernel complaints, etc. I've also noticed difficulties with the sound system and have had the computer crash a number of times when playing music (could be the media player or the sound system itself, but I still think that the problem is bigger yet). Ideas for a next step? Is there more information that I can submit to hopefully throw out the possibility of a hardware problem, or to determine which piece of hardware is at fault? well, at first, let memtest86(+) run for some hours. second, check that your box does not get too hot. Crashes on stress are mostly overheating or PSU going bad. third, try a different PSU - the manufacturers like to use the cheapest components for this almost most important part of a computer, if possible try another one. fourth, check your board and cards for 'funny looking' condensators - like deformation, round tops, or even some brown 'dirt' at their base. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:14 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: Joseph wrote: The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match localhost I assume your apache is configured with hostname localhost. What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of course) Christoph In my /etc/conf.d/hostname I've: HOSTNAME=syscon2 I would understand if it complain about host name syscon2 but it is complaining about localhost . Would it be taking it from file: /etc/hosts ? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
/var/log/Xorg.log.0 (I think thats what it is named, its pretty easy to find in /var/log) will tell you what config file X is using. X _may_ work without a config file _if_ everything is auto detected, but I have never struck it (then again all my hardware is oldish). More likely it is working with an XFree config file in the same directory. Anyway, the log file will tell you. On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:23:50 -0700 gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -name xorg.conf' and only came up with files for vmware-tools (/usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools/files/5.0.0/xorg.conf). So, 4 questions 1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed? 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one (xorg.conf)? 4) Would it be used, if I'm not using one now? Thanks. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLxBFLYGSSmmWCZMRAi5wAKCf6d0rkrFrkfqqIN09z2GVB8jEWwCgl07G gAMtKbhNri+9Aj1ZqaKFz3w= =dFto -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem
Hi all, Yesterday, I posted asking for a Gentoo equivalent of something I was able to do in Fedora, I got some answers which were of assistance, one being to check my logwatch.conf file to see what the frequency was set at. This helped because it was set weekly and since I had just installed logwatch the day before, I would have had to wait a week to see if it was working, so I changed the frequency to daily. As it turns out, logwatch is working. However, what I want to be able to do is to fire up Pine and be able to view the emails sent by logwatch to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and this isn't working - I have a dead.letter file in my /root directory. I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 My computer is stand alone except that it has a router which is connected to my cable modem because my son connects wirelessly to the internet through that. However, his laptop and my PC have no network attachment. My resolve.conf file has proper ip information. In my hosts file, localhost is set to 127.0.0.1 My /etc/conf.d/domainname does not have a FQDN set because when I installed Gentoo, I was under the impression that I didn't need one because the computer is not networked and I obtain my ip address using dhcp Sorry, I know I'm a bit verbose here, but I have no idea where I'm going wrong, so I figure that the more details that I can provide might better enable someone to guide me in the right direction. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and as far as I can tell, my /etc/mail/aliases file looks okay. Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk
050919 Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: use dd_rescue I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. I got it from www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ installed it in /usr/local , but it appears to be in Portage : sys-fs/dd-rescue I haven't had need to use it, but it seemed a useful emergency aid. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec
Nice looking sound tools there (http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/) - is there an ebuild? On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:09:49 +0200 Christoph Eckert wrote: Recommendation: Use qarecord in ALSA mode. It has a nice levelmeter so you immediately can see if there's audio coming in or not. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees
One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by the system? BillK On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:07 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:12, gentuxx wrote: If every security fix comes out with --oneshot being recommended, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 W.Kenworthy wrote: One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by the system? BillK I guess maybe that's part of what I'm getting at. ;-) On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:07 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:12, gentuxx wrote: If every security fix comes out with --oneshot being recommended, - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDL2RwLYGSSmmWCZMRAuIrAJ47hkkiSoWVraFAkY/9tP0VdtcLcwCgomXn zI3pF31mlC0aUAlwC/2oaE0= =PnvW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:36 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:11, A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't
really progressed anywhere hehe).
But.. when push comes to shove
Im assuming there is probably a CPAN module that does most of this for you
- this is why I think Perl might be a better way to go.
--
there is...MIME::Entity...used thusly (from a perl program I use to email pdf
files, but you pass the mim-type on the command line, so it can send any mime
type):
my $top = MIME::Entity-build(Type = multipart/mixed,
From = [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bcc = $address,
Subject = Mills Messenger by
e-Mail);
$top-attach( Path = $file_to_send,
Type = $mime_type,
Encoding = base64);
my $message = Attached is your Mills Messenger for this week. Enjoy!;
$top-attach(Data=$message);
open MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -oi -oem or die Error on
mail
o
pen is: $!\n;
$top-print(\*MAIL);
close MAIL;
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
mail_header()
{
echo MIME-Version:1.0
echo From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
echo To:$RECIPIENT
echo Subject:Quotes $DATE
echo Content-Type: text/html
echo
}
and then I added a script for cron
#!/bin/sh
#
TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$
PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE
Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile.
perhaps a EOF
--
Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer 09:46:43 up 1 day, 4 min, 7 users, load average: 2.75, 2.30,
2.24
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Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info
well, at first, let memtest86(+) run for some hours. Volker's got a good point here... second, check that your box does not get too hot. Crashes on stress are mostly overheating or PSU going bad. Mentioned that to him about the heat... Kris, were you able to get lm_sensors running on the box? third, try a different PSU - the manufacturers like to use the cheapest components for this almost most important part of a computer, if possible try another one. fourth, check your board and cards for 'funny looking' condensators - like deformation, round tops, or even some brown 'dirt' at their base. This I think will be hard for him, Volker, as I believe he's running a laptop. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be the first step to helping you to configure to allow deliveries to localhost. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 04:14, Dave Nebinger wrote: fourth, check your board and cards for 'funny looking' condensators - like deformation, round tops, or even some brown 'dirt' at their base. This I think will be hard for him, Volker, as I believe he's running a laptop. In that case, just open, what can be opened and see if there is any suspicious capacitor. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GNU Time
The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, allowing the output to be put in a file. Is there a way to get this? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem
Dave Nebinger wrote: I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be the first step to helping you to configure to allow deliveries to localhost. I'm using the Gentoo default, ssmtp. I tried to emerge sendmail, but it is blocked by ssmtp. I didn't know if I should go ahead and unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail or not. I only really need it for this one function. Take care, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time
On 9/19/05, Justin Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch,allowing the output to be put in a file.Is there a way to get this? Not sure how `time -o` worked but perhaps `time filename` -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: Dave Nebinger wrote: I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be the first step to helping you to configure to allow deliveries to localhost. I'm using the Gentoo default, ssmtp. I tried to emerge sendmail, but it is blocked by ssmtp. I didn't know if I should go ahead and unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail or not. I only really need it for this one function. Take care, Colleen You could stay with ssmtp, just edit the config file (i think it's /etc/ssmtp.conf or something). It doesn't do aliases, but you can set ONE alias for all destination uids under 1000. Alternatively, you can unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail (or better yet, in my opionion, postfix). ssmtp is just a real simple and basic mta for forwarding to a mail relay host. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem
John Jolet wrote: You could stay with ssmtp, just edit the config file (i think it's /etc/ssmtp.conf or something). It doesn't do aliases, but you can set ONE alias for all destination uids under 1000. Alternatively, you can unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail (or better yet, in my opionion, postfix). ssmtp is just a real simple and basic mta for forwarding to a mail relay host. Actually you can't use ssmtp as it can not deliver mail locally and is not an MTA. It can only relay mail off the local box to a real mail server. Remove ssmtp and install your favorite MTA. I'll recommend Postfix and also recommend aliasing root mail to an unprivileged account and reading the mail there. Or you'll have to use mbox format. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:49:12PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote --- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow SNIP So Walter's point would be that you could add mmx mmxext sse sse2 3dnow 3dnowext to your use flags, either globally in your make.conf what about all those others? Only flags that are supported by the compiler are useful. So you have to do the following... 1) find which compiler you're running [m3000][root][~] gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) 2) Today, I'm running gcc 3.3.6. Go to http://gcc.gnome.org and select version 3.3.6 and dive into the X86+AMD cpu-specific options, which is... http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.6/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html#i386-and-x86_002d64-Options The Sempron is basically an Athlon with less cache. The thing I hate is that it doesn't say *WHICH* Athlon. Use the generic athlon cpu type (you might be able to get away with Athlon-XP). Compare your flags line with the supported options. 3dnow, mmx, sse, and sse2 show up in both lists, so you can use them in CFLAGS. Your line will probably be identical to mine (assuming you're running 32-bit mode)... CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon -m3dnow -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse 3) Go to http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml for a list of global USE flags. Compare that with your flags line. 3dnow, mmx, and sse show up both in that list and in the flags line of your /proc/cpuinfo output so you can add them to USE in /etc/make.conf. 4) Check /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc for any mplayer-specific USE flags. You could go through the file manually looking for mplayer flags. A quickie way to do that is to issue the command... grep /mplayer /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc 3dnowext, mmxext, and sse2 show up in that list, so you can USE them. I would recommend entering them in /etc/portage/package.use. Depending on your video card, etc, you may want some of the other mplayer flags. 5) You asked about the other flags in the flags line. While they don't go into CFLAGS, they're nice to know about when you're building your kernel. E.g. it indicates support for apic and mtrr. It also indicates support for ancient MCA cards, but you most likely don't have them, so you won't want to turn on MCA support in your kernel. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Dependency determination
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way with emerge or equery to determine what other package a given package is a dependency for? As a clarification, I have the net-dialup/ subtree excluded from portage as described by another thread on this list (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run emerge --ask --verbose - --update --newuse --deep world, I get the net-dialup/ppp package as one that is queued to be installed. I can only guess that this means that it's a dependency of another package that is already installed. So, how would I found out what the root package is that is requiring net-dialup/ppp as a dependency? Thanks. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDL4mtLYGSSmmWCZMRAuX2AKCRQorgGh5aXf/p4sxyKC/lTlH/iwCfVaVX pyOse+3PNa9AILWnsUCrGNg= =6PSN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time
Michael Crute schrieb: Not sure how `time -o` worked but perhaps `time filename` And the latter does what? Alexander Skwar -- College: The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to backup kmail saved mails
Gentoo Shadow wrote: i have done this... but during restoration all other desktop files are i getting restored except the mails on KMail. pls advice to restore them correctly... you need to restore .kde/share/apps/kmail/ AND .kde/share/config/kmailrc -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time
You want sys-process/time Justin Hart wrote: The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, allowing the output to be put in a file. Is there a way to get this? -- Justin W. Hart -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002
I would like to run mldonkey with umask 0002. However I cannot work out how to do this. The Gentoo version of /etc/init.d/mldonkey calls start-stop-daemon, but start-stop-daemon doesn't have a umask option. As mldonkey is the only program that runs as user p2p, I would be happy if I could get all programs launched by p2p to run with umask 0002, but I can't work out how to do that either. Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] apache upgrade to -r31
Hi, I am looking the current apache upgrade to -r31. There are a number of MPM (Multi-Processing Module implementing a hybrid multi-threaded multi-process web server) related use flags. I have not seen any discussions on these so is there anyone willing to comment on their desirability - is this something that most apache servers (in my case low load, static html) would benefit from/be harmed by? Also, have there been any glitches with the apache -r31 major changes, or has that gone off problem free, or is everyone being like me and still waiting and for the first person to jump just in case! BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: As a clarification, I have the net-dialup/ subtree excluded from portage as described by another thread on this list (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run emerge --ask --verbose - --update --newuse --deep world, I get the net-dialup/ppp package as one that is queued to be installed. I can only guess that this means that it's a dependency of another package that is already installed. So, how would I found out what the root package is that is requiring net-dialup/ppp as a dependency? If you add the --tree (or -t) flag to the emerge command it will show what package (and/or USE flag) is pulling it in. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
mail_header()
{
echo MIME-Version:1.0
echo From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
echo To:$RECIPIENT
echo Subject:Quotes $DATE
echo Content-Type: text/html
echo
}
and then I added a script for cron
#!/bin/sh
#
TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$
PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE
Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile.
perhaps a EOF
You could probably use a HERE document.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:23 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to my script. #!/bin/sh # TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$ PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1 /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile. perhaps a EOF You could probably use a HERE document. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html Not sure what that is. No I-Net access currently. Anyway, on the gentoo box, a simple $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html 2/dev/null1 | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t works. In Fedora, the system which will be sending it out, well, I remember doing just that but it didn't work. Will try again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
