Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive
On 09/06/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also related, is there an easy way to make this stick auto un/mount upon removal/insertion respectively? Try looking into autofs .. simple to setup and works really well for me with my USB/CD-ROM devices. Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive
On 6/9/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks everybody that was the trick. I settled upon this:
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?1, SYSFS{idVendor}==0ef5,
SYSFS{idProduct}==2202, SYMLINK=istick%n, MODE=0666
One problem with this. Udev will apply all matching rules until it
finds one with a NAME entry. So you probably want MODE:=0666 to
prevent any later rules from overwriting your mode.
-Richard
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RE: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive
-Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: RE: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive Date: Fri 9 Jun 2006 20:32 Size: 848 bytes To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Now the second part of this. SOMETIMES, when I plug the stick in (I assume that's when it happens), KDE gives me a nice little window to view the files or take no action. But it's not consistent?! What triggers that 'event', and how can I make it happen all the time? KDE uses HAL for this, but it can take a few seconds to see the device. You don't need an fstab entry for this, it may even confuse things. Also related, is there an easy way to make this stick auto un/mount upon removal/insertion respectively? KDE will do that, and open a window too if you want it. It is set in the Control Centre. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive
Richard Fish wrote: One problem with this. Udev will apply all matching rules until it finds one with a NAME entry. So you probably want MODE:=0666 to prevent any later rules from overwriting your mode. This isn't entirely true, udev doesn't stop at NAME any more. It stops at the end of the rules files, or when it sees OPTIONS=last_rule. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive
On 6/9/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: One problem with this. Udev will apply all matching rules until it finds one with a NAME entry. So you probably want MODE:=0666 to prevent any later rules from overwriting your mode. This isn't entirely true, udev doesn't stop at NAME any more. It stops at the end of the rules files, or when it sees OPTIONS=last_rule. Ah, thanks. Sadly, this change is not noted in /usr/share/doc/udev-*/RELEASE-NOTES.gz file. The 057 notes specify the stop-on-NAME behavior, and nothing newer (at least through 090) retracts that statement. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help on gentoo 2.6
Hi guys. I installed 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 on a x86 desk top computer. After reboot, I fond two problems. The net work connection lost. I run the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, get a eth0 does not exist error message. Is there any one can help me fix it. I need to download more tools for the basic operating system. Another problem is when I run "rc -update" there is an error message " runlevel update is not existed" . Thanks. Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Help on gentoo 2.6
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:30:12PM -0500, Bob Bao wrote: Hi guys. I installed 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 on a x86 desk top computer. After reboot, I fond two problems. The net work connection lost. I run the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, get a eth0 does not exist error message. Is there any one can help me fix it. I need to download more tools for the basic operating system. You don't have the driver for your network card loaded. You need to find out what it is and then put the name of the module in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and reboot (or you can run 'insmod modulename' as root and then /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start). Another problem is when I run rc -update there is an error message runlevel update is not existed . You have an extra space, you just need rc-update. Alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net Backups are for people who don't pray. -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help on gentoo 2.6
Hi Bob, type lspci and see what is your network card. After this, choose a proper driver on kernel menuconfig and make the proper adjusts. If you put the driver as module, edit /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file and put the name of the module there ( follow the example given ). If you compile the driver *built in* you don't need to add the module name in kernel-2.6 file. Let us know the result. Leandro. 2006/6/1, Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi guys. I installed 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 on a x86 desk top computer. After reboot, I fond two problems. The net work connection lost. I run the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, get a eth0 does not exist error message. Is there any one can help me fix it. I need to download more tools for the basic operating system. Another problem is when I run rc -update there is an error message runlevel update is not existed . Thanks. Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Leandro Melo de Sales. Computer Science Student Laboratório de Sistemas Distribuídos - www.lsd.ufcg.edu.br Laboratório de Sistemas Embarcados e Computação Pervasiva - www.embeddedacademy.org Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG Campina Grande - PB - Brasil Sometimes people fall in love, but a little bit of them really love or find a truth love. Or sometimes they find it but for some reason they let love pass without live it intensely. This is the free-well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off
Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video signal to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5 minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or anything set. -- Chow, Geoff. REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are the ones who show up to get it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off
Geoff wrote: Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video signal to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5 minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or anything set. If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf file. If it is a server and you are in text or command line, try man setterm and look for powersave. That should help. In the past, I added mine to ~/.bash_login to make sure it would take effect like I wanted. It should stay set though. You can also by using .bash_login and .bash_logout make it cut off when you are not logged in but stay on when you are. That will help with messing up your screen, if it still will. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 02:55, Teresa and Dale wrote: Geoff wrote: Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video signal to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5 minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or anything set. If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf file. If it is a server and you are in text or command line, try man setterm and look for powersave. That should help. In the past, I added mine to ~/.bash_login to make sure it would take effect like I wanted. It should stay set though. You can also by using .bash_login and .bash_logout make it cut off when you are not logged in but stay on when you are. That will help with messing up your screen, if it still will. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) setterm -blank 0 -- [While eating a pancake] Stewie Griffin: OH. mmm yes oh god this is better than SEX. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 03:45, Geoff wrote: Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video signal to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5 minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or anything set. xset --help xset --help xset: unknown option --help usage: xset [-display host:dpy] option ... To turn bell off: -bb off b 0 To set bell volume, pitch and duration: b [vol [pitch [dur]]] b on To disable bug compatibility mode: -bc To enable bug compatibility mode: bc To turn keyclick off: -cc off c 0 To set keyclick volume: c [0-100]c on To control Energy Star (DPMS) features: -dpms Energy Star features off +dpms Energy Star features on dpms [standby [suspend [off]]] force standby force suspend force off force on (also implicitly enables DPMS features) a timeout value of zero disables the mode -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with screen turning off
Simon Prosser wrote: setterm -blank 0 That too should work. I think if you do a setterm powersave off it will do the same thing. I think that disables all the other power save, standby and such. Note the I think. It's been a while since my servers are headless anyway. I also made sure to point him/her to the man page. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!
Sorry if your geting this two times as I posted it also to amd64 list hello All, I have been for the last couple of days (4) days trying to get this system up and running and I am having a number of probs and below is a list of them I get all these errors when booting up: !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected at the prompte I can type in /dev/sda6 and it will boot then the following comes after this mkdir: Cannot creat directory '/newroot/tmp/.initrd': Failed to load pcspkr [!!] Failed to load skge Failed to load ati_remote Failed to load dm_mirror Failed to load dm_mod Failed to load pdc_adma Failed to load sata_mv Failed to load ahci Failed to load sata_qstor Failed to load sata_uli Failed to load sata_sil24 Failed to load lidata Failed to load sl811_hcd Failed to load usbcore Sincerely, christopher PS: this help is NOT for personal or commaul gain its for a non-profit org project -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help : need grub,conf file : kernel wouldn't boot
Hi all, I have built my kernel 2.6.15-r5 [not the latest I know but should support all that I have]. I am unable to boot it. It stops looking for root device when booting. Corresponding line from my grub,conf is title Linux-latest kernel (hd0,2)/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda2 init=/linuxrc vga=7 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 initrd (hd0,2)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 and from ls -tlr /boot/*2.6.15* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1563446 Mar 27 23:07 /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 597790 Mar 27 23:07 /boot/System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1016367 Mar 27 23:10 /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 So I am quite sure I have the files that I need. Not sure what I might be missing, so request you to please send me files at [EMAIL PROTECTED] [don't worry about multiples please - shall really be thankful to see what you guys have and to may be learn from it]. I have the same problem with my existing kernel also. It loads initially a lot of module, but when it comes to booting my root partition, /dev/hda2 it just sits and waits after an error saying that couldn't find a bootable device. Then I type /dev/hda2 manually on the same [grub] prompt and the machine boots fine, this is where I am writing to you from. Regards, Rohit PS - If someone wishes, I could send you my own .config to look at. Didn't want to send that to the list. Thanks for asking. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
Dear all, Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before. A conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my system - I would assume. God knows what may have already broken down there. I am very tempted to do the following: 1. reiserfs --rebuildtree for all of my partitions, especially for / and /usr [by booting off a gentoo install CD] 2. Rebuild it from scratch with the latest Gentoo ISO [but it is a HELL of work, getting USB internet modem and nVIDIA module rebuild.. working again etc etc] If anyone has a better idea, kindly let me know. Rohit Rohit Sharma wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: Rohit replies -- Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just in case. Done. The commands are below - and in summary here is what happens. - PATH is shown. My own .bin directory has two mp3 ripping scripts. That is all. /usr/bin comes before /bin in PATH - /bin/ln is a proper executable. /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc are both symlinks to /bin/ln [Not good] - Removed mc from /usr/bin and /usr/bin/ln disappears as well [Not good] Then which ln shoes /bin/ln and which mc shows no mc. - Creation of symlink /usr/bin/ln automatically creates symlink /usr/bin/mc - pointing to /bin/ln [thus affecting my midnight commander]. Both symlinks have same inode number on my filesystem. Also note that I do not have another definition of ln as an alias. This may be a filesystem inconsistency. I would consider an fsck for reiserfs and may be a rebuiltree. What do you say? Please help. Thanks, Rohit Ps - Commands follow. Please look at the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $PATH /home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/limewire:/home/oracle/product/10.1.0.3/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd /bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ md5sum ln 95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75 ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ ls -l ln -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27756 Apr 14 12:39 ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ cd /usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ md5sum ln 95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75 ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l ln lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:39 ln - /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ md5sum mc 95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75 mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l mc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:39 mc - /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ file mc mc: symbolic link to `/bin/ln' [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ rm mc rm: remove symbolic link `mc'? y rm: cannot remove `mc': Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ sudo rm mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ls -l mc ls: mc: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l ln ls: ln: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which ln /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which mc which: no mc in (/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/limewire:/home/oracle/product/10.1.0.3/bin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ sudo /bin/ln -s /bin/ln ./ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ sudo /bin/ln -s /bin/ln ./ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which mc /usr/bin/mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which ln /usr/bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -i ln mc 300 ln 300 mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -li ln mc 300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:48 ln - /bin/ln 300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:48 mc - /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -li /bin/ln 34560 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27756 Apr 14 12:39 /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ alias ln bash: alias: ln: not found -- Best regards, Rohit Sharma Senior Technical Associate with Mahindra British Telecom Onsite co-ordinator with British Telecom, United Kingdom Certified Linux, networking professional, UNIX systems consultant EAI Specialist Contacts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Mobile +44 777 0917 951 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
On 4/15/06, Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before. A conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my system - I would assume. God knows what may have already broken down there. I am very tempted to do the following: 1. reiserfs --rebuildtree for all of my partitions, especially for / and /usr [by booting off a gentoo install CD] 2. Rebuild it from scratch with the latest Gentoo ISO [but it is a HELL of work, getting USB internet modem and nVIDIA module rebuild.. working again etc etc] If anyone has a better idea, kindly let me know. You can use equery to figure out packages are messed up and how. You need gentoolkit if you don't already have it: cd /var/db/pkg for x in */* ; do equery check $x ; done -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
On Saturday 15 April 2006 14:57, Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup': 1. reiserfs --rebuildtree for all of my partitions, especially for / and /usr [by booting off a gentoo install CD] Do a reiserfs --check, first. It is usually pretty good at telling you which fix option to use. If it doesn't think there's a problem at all, then yes, do a rebuild tree. 2. Rebuild it from scratch with the latest Gentoo ISO [but it is a HELL of work, getting USB internet modem and nVIDIA module rebuild.. working again etc etc] After you get your filesystem in order, and doubly verify that you hw isn't going south, just repair the packages that are broken, using Richard Fish's technique. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpUVnC5X6myu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: After you get your filesystem in order, and doubly verify that you hw isn't going south, just repair the packages that are broken, using Richard Fish's technique. Thanks - but I am frustrated now. Did --check, then --fix-fixable, and ultimately a --rebuild-tree as well. Still the same problem. When I emerge mc [only], /usr/bin/ln appears in /usr/bin and has the same inode number as /usr/bin/mc and both are symlinks. Weird. So did what Richard F suggested .. Loads of notifications about and etc. - looks like it shall take time. Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
Bo Andresen wrote: Rohit replies -- Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just in case. Done. The commands are below - and in summary here is what happens. - PATH is shown. My own .bin directory has two mp3 ripping scripts. That is all. /usr/bin comes before /bin in PATH - /bin/ln is a proper executable. /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc are both symlinks to /bin/ln [Not good] - Removed mc from /usr/bin and /usr/bin/ln disappears as well [Not good] Then which ln shoes /bin/ln and which mc shows no mc. - Creation of symlink /usr/bin/ln automatically creates symlink /usr/bin/mc - pointing to /bin/ln [thus affecting my midnight commander]. Both symlinks have same inode number on my filesystem. Also note that I do not have another definition of ln as an alias. This may be a filesystem inconsistency. I would consider an fsck for reiserfs and may be a rebuiltree. What do you say? Please help. Thanks, Rohit Ps - Commands follow. Please look at the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $PATH /home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/limewire:/home/oracle/product/10.1.0.3/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd /bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ md5sum ln 95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75 ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ ls -l ln -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27756 Apr 14 12:39 ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ cd /usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ md5sum ln 95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75 ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l ln lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:39 ln - /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ md5sum mc 95d3db99e446dfe4cf95abbd04b60c75 mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l mc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:39 mc - /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ file mc mc: symbolic link to `/bin/ln' [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ rm mc rm: remove symbolic link `mc'? y rm: cannot remove `mc': Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ sudo rm mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ls -l mc ls: mc: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l ln ls: ln: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which ln /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which mc which: no mc in (/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/home/rohit/.bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin:/opt/limewire:/home/oracle/product/10.1.0.3/bin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ sudo /bin/ln -s /bin/ln ./ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ sudo /bin/ln -s /bin/ln ./ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which mc /usr/bin/mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ which ln /usr/bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -i ln mc 300 ln 300 mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -li ln mc 300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:48 ln - /bin/ln 300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 12:48 mc - /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -li /bin/ln 34560 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27756 Apr 14 12:39 /bin/ln [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ alias ln bash: alias: ln: not found -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
Hi there, Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system seem to launch mc. if I delete one, the other disappears as well. if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln returns /usr/bin/ln What is happening. I am completely baffled. -- Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:06:57AM +0100, Penguin Lover Rohit Sharma squawked: Hi there, Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system seem to launch mc. if I delete one, the other disappears as well. if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln returns /usr/bin/ln What is happening. I am completely baffled. Is it a bad symlink? On my box /usr/bin/ln is a symlink to /bin/ln [09:31 PM]wwong man $ ls -l `which ln` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 13 16:55 /usr/bin/ln - /bin/ln W -- Smart man + Smart woman = romance Smart man + Dumb woman = affair Dumb man + Smart woman = marriage Dumb man + Dumb woman = pregnancy Sortir en Pantoufles: up 152 days, 17:57 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup
On Friday 14 April 2006 02:06, Rohit Sharma wrote: Hi there, Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system seem to launch mc. if I delete one, the other disappears as well. if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears. Even if /usr/bin/ln is deleted, which ln returns /usr/bin/ln What is happening. I am completely baffled. Sounds weird.. # cd /usr/bin/ # which ln /usr/bin/ln # mv ln .. # which ln /bin/ln # mv ../ln . # which ln /usr/bin/ln If you run # echo $PATH you will see that /usr/bin is listed before /bin. which searches the directories in $PATH and stops at the first match so since /usr/bin comes before /bin it returns /usr/bin/ln. If you delete /usr/bin/ln it should return /bin/ln which should be unaffected. If you delete /bin/ln then /usr/bin/ln will become a dangling symbolic link pointing at a file which doesn't exist.. Which version of coreutils do you have? # equery b ln [ Searching for file(s) ln in *... ] [...] sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/bin/ln) sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/ln - /bin/ln) If you are still having problems with this then show us the commands that you are running and the output that leads you to your conclusions.. HtH -- Bo Andresen pgpXwqrbekMu4.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] help with a simple file share with samba
Hi all in the list, I was wondering if some one can help me with that, I am try to put to work a simple file share with samba where I will share a folder to any one, and one folder have to autenticate users at pam I try it like that: [global] workgroup = COMMODITY netbios name = thewho log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 [mp3] comment = Shared Musics path = /home/mp3 security = share writeable = no browseable = yes guest ok = yes printable = no guest only = yes [sandbox] comment = Sand Box to genrate releases path = /home/sandbox security = user user = allan longhin writeable = yes public = no printable = no create mask = 0765 what did I do wrong ? or how can I make this ? thanks for attention, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with a simple file share with samba
On 4/7/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all in the list, I was wondering if some one can help me with that, I am try to put to work a simple file share with samba where I will share a folder to any one, and one folder have to autenticate users at pam I try it like that: [global] workgroup = COMMODITY netbios name = thewho log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 [mp3] comment = Shared Musics path = /home/mp3 security = share writeable = no browseable = yes guest ok = yes printable = no guest only = yes [sandbox] comment = Sand Box to genrate releases path = /home/sandbox security = user user = allan longhin writeable = yes public = no printable = no create mask = 0765 what did I do wrong ? or how can I make this ? You may just be overthinking this. Here is a snip of my config file (only relevant portions). You may want to add the user guest to your smbpasswd file you can even use no password, then have your guest users authenticate with that. Maybe there is a better way but that works for me. [global] workgroup = akron netbios name = snoopy server string = Gentoo File Server ... map to guest = nobody security = user ... ... [public] comment = Public folder for all users. path = /home/pub public = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no [webroot] comment = Storage for public web files. path=/home/www public = no writable = yes valid users = cruteme -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with a simple file share with samba
autentication on sandbox have worked, but, mp3 folder still block the users . have a clue ? On 4/7/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/7/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all in the list, I was wondering if some one can help me with that, I am try to put to work a simple file share with samba where I will share a folder to any one, and one folder have to autenticate users at pam I try it like that: [global] workgroup = COMMODITY netbios name = thewho log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 [mp3] comment = Shared Musics path = /home/mp3 security = share writeable = no browseable = yes guest ok = yes printable = no guest only = yes [sandbox] comment = Sand Box to genrate releases path = /home/sandbox security = user user = allan longhin writeable = yes public = no printable = no create mask = 0765 what did I do wrong ? or how can I make this ? You may just be overthinking this. Here is a snip of my config file (only relevant portions). You may want to add the user guest to your smbpasswd file you can even use no password, then have your guest users authenticate with that. Maybe there is a better way but that works for me. [global] workgroup = akron netbios name = snoopy server string = Gentoo File Server ... map to guest = nobody security = user ... ... [public] comment = Public folder for all users. path = /home/pub public = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no [webroot] comment = Storage for public web files. path=/home/www public = no writable = yes valid users = cruteme -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With vhost.conf apache2
Haim, Thanks for the help. That is now working :-D Haim Ashkenazi wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:33 +, Tito Valentin wrote: Hello All, I am trying to get apache to work with a few vhost. The problem is that when I hit www.domain.com it shows the apache page rather than the actual site. In order for me to be able to view the site I have to type www.domain.dom/folder and then the site comes up. Here is what I have done so far with the vhost.conf files: Apache2 on Gentoo /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Include vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf Include vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf /etc/conf.d/apache2 -D DEFAULT_VHOST (plus ssl and other) /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf Default file with new domain information. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf VirtualHost www.my_domain.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/parknorthcondos DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ServerName www.my_domain.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_access_log common /VirtualHost HI you have to have NameVirtualHost *:80 before the first virtual host. then the VirtualHost directive should be as follow: VirtualHost *:80 ServerName www.mydomain.com ... /VirtualHost you have to do the same with ':443' if you want SSL virtual hosts. the above instructions are for VirtualHosts running on the same IP. if you want to run each virtual host on a separate IP you have to discard the 'NameVirtualHost' directive and replace the '*' with ipaddress in the 'VirtualHost' directive. Bye I just want to be able to hit www.my_domain.com and able to see my site instead of the apache splash page. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tito -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help With vhost.conf apache2
Hello All, I am trying to get apache to work with a few vhost. The problem is that when I hit www.domain.com it shows the apache page rather than the actual site. In order for me to be able to view the site I have to type www.domain.dom/folder and then the site comes up. Here is what I have done so far with the vhost.conf files: Apache2 on Gentoo /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Include vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf Include vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf /etc/conf.d/apache2 -D DEFAULT_VHOST (plus ssl and other) /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf Default file with new domain information. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf VirtualHost www.my_domain.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/parknorthcondos DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ServerName www.my_domain.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_access_log common /VirtualHost I just want to be able to hit www.my_domain.com and able to see my site instead of the apache splash page. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tito -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With vhost.conf apache2
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:33 +, Tito Valentin wrote: Hello All, I am trying to get apache to work with a few vhost. The problem is that when I hit www.domain.com it shows the apache page rather than the actual site. In order for me to be able to view the site I have to type www.domain.dom/folder and then the site comes up. Here is what I have done so far with the vhost.conf files: Apache2 on Gentoo /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Include vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf Include vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf /etc/conf.d/apache2 -D DEFAULT_VHOST (plus ssl and other) /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf Default file with new domain information. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf VirtualHost www.my_domain.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/parknorthcondos DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ServerName www.my_domain.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_access_log common /VirtualHost HI you have to have NameVirtualHost *:80 before the first virtual host. then the VirtualHost directive should be as follow: VirtualHost *:80 ServerName www.mydomain.com ... /VirtualHost you have to do the same with ':443' if you want SSL virtual hosts. the above instructions are for VirtualHosts running on the same IP. if you want to run each virtual host on a separate IP you have to discard the 'NameVirtualHost' directive and replace the '*' with ipaddress in the 'VirtualHost' directive. Bye I just want to be able to hit www.my_domain.com and able to see my site instead of the apache splash page. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tito -- Haim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Help emerging PEAR-DB
Hello list: I am experiencing the error below while attempting to install PEAR-DB on my Gentoo system. # php -v PHP 5.1.1-gentoo with Hardening-Patch 0.4.8 (cli) (built: Mar 2 2006 21:40:36) (DEBUG) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Zend Technologies # emerge PEAR-DB Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 to / md5 files ;-) PEAR-DB-1.6.8.ebuild md5 files ;-) PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) PEAR-DB-1.7.6.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-DB-1.6.8 md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-DB-1.7.6 md5 src_uri ;-) DB-1.7.6.tgz Unpacking source... Unpacking DB-1.7.6.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1/work tar: A lone zero block at 1436 Source unpacked. Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 Install PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1/image/ category dev-php ACCESS DENIED access_wr: /usr/share/php/.depdb man: prepallstrip: Completed installing PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1/image/ --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-dev-php_-_PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1-15768.log access_wr: /usr/share/php/.depdb # emerge PEAR-DB Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 to / I am attempting to create an overlay but I get the following error after I edit the ebuild file to add the needed option (addpredict /usr/share/php/.depdb): !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/local/portage/dev-php/PEAR-DB/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Please ensure you have sync'd properly. Please try 'emerge sync' and optionally examine the file(s) for corruption. A sync will fix most cases. How do I fix the Filesize does not match recorded size problem? Thanks in advance, Ronald Vazquez -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help With vhost.conf apache2
Tito Valentin wrote: Hello All, I am trying to get apache to work with a few vhost. The problem is that when I hit www.domain.com it shows the apache page rather than the actual site. In order for me to be able to view the site I have to type www.domain.dom/folder and then the site comes up. Here is what I have done so far with the vhost.conf files: A quick guess without looking in detail at your config... if parts of the virtual host are working, but the root isn't, then it makes me think it's a cache issue. Clear your browser's cache and try the page again. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/01_my_domain_vhost.conf VirtualHost www.my_domain.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/parknorthcondos DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ServerName www.my_domain.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/my_domain_access_log common /VirtualHost You need to use VirtualHost *:80. The argument to a VirtualHost is the NameVirtualHost that it matches to (NameVirtualHost *:80 should be in the default config) I would also suggest, using /var/www/my_domain/htdocs instead of /var/www/localhost/htdocs/my_domain -- Michael Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developerhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar GnuPG Key ID 0x08614788 available on http://pgp.mit.edu -- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help emerging PEAR-DB
On 3/11/06, Ronald Vincent Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list: I am experiencing the error below while attempting to install PEAR-DB on my Gentoo system. # php -v PHP 5.1.1-gentoo with Hardening-Patch 0.4.8 (cli) (built: Mar 2 2006 21:40:36) (DEBUG) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Zend Technologies # emerge PEAR-DB Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 to / md5 files ;-) PEAR-DB-1.6.8.ebuild md5 files ;-) PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) PEAR-DB-1.7.6.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-DB-1.6.8 md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-DB-1.7.6 md5 src_uri ;-) DB-1.7.6.tgz Unpacking source... Unpacking DB-1.7.6.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1/work tar: A lone zero block at 1436 Source unpacked. Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 Install PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1/image/ category dev-php ACCESS DENIED access_wr: /usr/share/php/.depdb man: prepallstrip: Completed installing PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1/image/ --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-dev-php_-_PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1-15768.log access_wr: /usr/share/php/.depdb # emerge PEAR-DB Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1 to / I am attempting to create an overlay but I get the following error after I edit the ebuild file to add the needed option (addpredict /usr/share/php/.depdb): !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/local/portage/dev-php/PEAR-DB/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Please ensure you have sync'd properly. Please try 'emerge sync' and optionally examine the file(s) for corruption. A sync will fix most cases. How do I fix the Filesize does not match recorded size problem? ebuild /usr/local/portage/dev-php/PEAR-DB/PEAR-DB-1.7.6-r1.ebuild digest -James Thanks in advance, Ronald Vazquez -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with backup script
Hi, I am probably missing the obvious here but how do I get a script to recognise a network usb2 disk? I konqueror I can read and write using smb:// xxx.yyy.com but if I define the backup disk the same I get the error message that there is no such file or directory. Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with ALSA bug report
Hi all-- For some days now, I've been having a problem with almost all media players and one emulator. Xine 1.1.1-r4 opened, but crashed when closing the splash screen. Totem 1.3.91 (bmg, gstreamer backend) opened, and then crashed immediately. mplayer was OK (but I prefer xine, and naturally was concerned about the other two crashing like that). FakeNES 0.3.1 with Allegro 4.1 (yes, I tried all three versions) crashed with a signal #6 in Allegro (but 0.1.5 with Allegro 4.0.3 worked fine, so I just masked everything above that combination). I ultimately found that the error was the same for all three programs: totem: conf.c:3144: snd_config_iterator_first: Bewering `node-type == SND_CONFIG_TYPE_COMPOUND' mislukt. The same line number, even, but in what program or library's conf.c, was the question. Goolgling revealed that the problem was ALSA, but the only solution I found was to downgrade ALSA. So I did that, masking =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11_rc3 =media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.11_rc3 =media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.11_rc3 =media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11_rc3 and then doing an emerge -uaDNtv world to downgrade those packages (to 1.0.10, for the most part). Lo and behold, Totem and Xine suddenly worked again. I unmasked Allegro and FakeNES-0.3.1, and that works too (got FakeNES 0.3.1 open right now). Hurrah!! The problem is, this seems very much to be a bug in some ALSA ebuild (the person whose advice I followed on the ALSA-user's list was also a Gentoo user, also using 1.0.11_rc3), but I don't know which part of ALSA (which package of the four I downgraded I should file the bug against), nor what precisely to file as a bug; can I get away with Alsa-* fails with multiple applications? I mean, basically, all I know is that downgrading some part of ALSA allowed these programs to run when they stopped before-- which is weird enough in itself, since I upgraded ALSA on the 5th of February, and this issue just manifested itself, afaik... I *think* xine and Totem were running up to a couple of days ago. So it could be something else I upgraded that broke ALSA, but that takes me completely out of my depth in terms of bug-testing. I seem to have found a bug, and it seems to be related to ALSA, but may be triggered by something else. Is anybody else seeing this kind of issue, first of all, and second of all, does anybody know how I can determine where the bug actually is so I can submit it? Thanks for any help, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On 2/8/06, vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that your keyboard is broken. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:25, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 2/8/06, vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that your keyboard is broken. -Richard Gotta love empty posts especially in HTML -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help on install Gentoo on SATA disks
I just tried to download the Gentoo Universal Code, burn CD, and then to install it. But i found my SATA disk sda hasn't been recognized. I tried load gentoo doscsi, still didn't work, can somebody help me out? Thanks in advance! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help on install Gentoo on SATA disks
You might make sure that the modules for your SATA card are loaded. I have a SYBA card and it recognized it. On Tuesday February 7 2006 14:44, Ann wrote: I just tried to download the Gentoo Universal Code, burn CD, and then to install it. But i found my SATA disk sda hasn't been recognized. I tried load gentoo doscsi, still didn't work, can somebody help me out? Thanks in advance! -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help for ebuild needed: kpilot
Hello, I am using a Palm Tungsten T5 and due to major problems syncen the device I changed to pilot-link-0.12pre4 (and ebuild is in the bug database). Now I would like to emerge or compile the CVS Version of kpilot. I downloaded it from SVN but when I do not understand the ebuild of kpilot-3.5.0. Can someone give me an helping how HOW I can emerge an given bz2 file to compile the CVS Version of kpilot ? Thanks Stonki -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation www.krename.net: Der Batch Renamer für KDE www.kbarcode.net: Die Barcode Solution für KDE -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with ebuild
--- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:22 -0800, maxim wexler
wrote:
Hello everybody,
I'd like to write an ebuild for words-1.97, a
nifty
latin - english translator.
In skel.ebuild for LICENSE= what do I put? Are
the
listings in /usr/portage/licenses all
possibilities?
Which one do I pick? There doesn't seem to be any
direction in the docs for the words program
itself.
-mw
In LICENCE you put the licence that words-1.97 is
resleased under.
Post your ebuild somewhere online and we'll take a
look.
This is all I got so far. The guy who wrote it is
here,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
but he hasn't replied to me yet.
# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License v2
# $Header: $
# NOTE: The comments in this file are for instruction
and documentation.
# They're not meant to appear with your final,
production ebuild. Please
# remember to remove them before submitting or
committing your ebuild. That
# doesn't mean you can't add your own comments though.
# The 'Header' on the third line should just be left
alone. When your ebuild
# will be committed to cvs, the details on that line
will be automatically
# generated to contain the correct data.
# inherit lists eclasses to inherit functions from.
Almost all ebuilds should
# inherit eutils, as a large amount of important
functionality has been
# moved there. For example, the $(get_libdir)
mentioned below wont work
# without the following line:
inherit eutils
# A well-used example of an eclass function that needs
eutils is epatch. If
# your source needs patches applied, it's suggested to
put your patch in the
# 'files' directory and use:
#
# epatch ${FILESDIR}/patch-name-here
#
# eclasses tend to list descriptions of how to use
their functions properly.
# take a look at /usr/portage/eclasses/ for more
examples.
# Short one-line description of this package.
DESCRIPTION=This is a Latin to English translator
# Homepage, not used by Portage directly but handy for
developer reference
HOMEPAGE=http://users.erols.com/whitaker/wordslux.htm;
# Point to any required sources; these will be
automatically downloaded by
# Portage.
SRC_URI=ftp://petrus.thomasaquinas.edu/pub/linux/words/words-1.97-linux.tar.gz;
# License of the package. This must match the name of
file(s) in
# /usr/portage/licenses/. For complex license
combination see the developer
# docs on gentoo.org for details.
LICENSE=
# The SLOT variable is used to tell Portage if it's OK
to keep multiple
# versions of the same package installed at the same
time. For example,
# if we have a libfoo-1.2.2 and libfoo-1.3.2 (which is
not compatible
# with 1.2.2), it would be optimal to instruct Portage
to not remove
# libfoo-1.2.2 if we decide to upgrade to
libfoo-1.3.2. To do this,
# we specify SLOT=1.2 in libfoo-1.2.2 and SLOT=1.3
in libfoo-1.3.2.
# emerge clean understands SLOTs, and will keep the
most recent version
# of each SLOT and remove everything else.
# Note that normal applications should use SLOT=0 if
possible, since
# there should only be exactly one version installed
at a time.
# DO NOT USE SLOT=! This tells Portage to disable
SLOTs for this package.
SLOT=0
# Using KEYWORDS, we can record masking information
*inside* an ebuild
# instead of relying on an external package.mask file.
Right now, you should
# set the KEYWORDS variable for every ebuild so that
it contains the names of
# all the architectures with which the ebuild works.
All of the official
# architectures can be found in the keywords.desc file
which is in
# /usr/portage/profiles/. Usually you should just set
this to ~x86. The ~
# in front of the architecture indicates that the
package is new and should be
# considered unstable until testing proves its
stability. So, if you've
# confirmed that your ebuild works on x86 and ppc,
you'd specify:
# KEYWORDS=~x86 ~ppc
# Once packages go stable, the ~ prefix is removed.
# For binary packages, use -* and then list the archs
the bin package
# exists for. If the package was for an x86 binary
package, then
# KEYWORDS would be set like this: KEYWORDS=-* x86
# DO NOT USE KEYWORDS=*. This is deprecated and
only for backward
# compatibility reasons.
KEYWORDS=~x86
# Comprehensive list of any and all USE flags
leveraged in the ebuild,
# with the exception of any ARCH specific flags, i.e.
ppc, sparc,
# x86 and alpha. This is a required variable. If
the ebuild doesn't
# use any USE flags, set to .
IUSE=X gnome
# A space delimited list of portage features to
restrict. man 5 ebuild
# for details. Usually not needed.
#RESTRICT=nostrip
# Build-time dependencies, such as
#ssl? ( =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6b )
#=dev-lang/perl-5.6.1-r1
# It is advisable to use the = syntax show above, to
reflect what you
# had installed on your system when you tested the
package. Then
# other users hopefully won't be caught without the
right version of
# a dependency.
DEPEND=
#
[gentoo-user] help with ebuild
Hello everybody, I'd like to write an ebuild for words-1.97, a nifty latin - english translator. In skel.ebuild for LICENSE= what do I put? Are the listings in /usr/portage/licenses all possibilities? Which one do I pick? There doesn't seem to be any direction in the docs for the words program itself. -mw __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:41 +0800 gentoo user mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Cut the blue wire first, then the green wire within the next five seconds. Whatever you do, don't touch the red wire! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:36, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:41 +0800 gentoo user mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cut the blue wire first, then the green wire within the next five seconds. Whatever you do, don't touch the red wire! sometimes they fool with colors, better RUN NOW mr.holywood -- Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 18:10:01 up 1 day, 4:34, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.10 pgpMaGmbNlf0v.pgp Description: PGP signature
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On 29 December 2005 17:15, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) Reminds me on something Matthias Ettrich once said when kwm was still KDE's window manager: Alright, folks, next I will implement focus follows mind. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote: I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help. When I was younger so much younger then today... -- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote: I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help. When I was younger so much younger then today... I never needed anybody's help in any way... pgp1k89Olw7ex.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] help me choose a sound recorder
Hello. I am looking forward to use a sound recorder to record my telephone calls. These telephone calls are business phone calls that used for business purpose and all phone calls on my line should be recorded. I am looking forward to have a sound recorder that is: 1 record sound and save as speex format; 2 better be able to auto-start and auto-stop. E.g. when people are talking on the phone, start a track and save a speex file; when people stop talking (silence), stop recording and be ready to start recording the next track. Better one tracker per file; 3 we don't need gui, but I don't mind if it's console app or gui app; 4 I am using alsa in the kernel, if supporting alsa makes sense I perfer to have alsa recorders; 5 better allow scripting and meta info for saved sound tracks. But it's fine if it doesn't do so; 6 better also available in SuSE so I can run the same software at home or in my office; 7 I only need to record one line and not a full-power PBX software. Any suggestions? Looks audacity is a good option, last year I used it a while, but I think it is not perfect (for lack of requirement 2), but don't know its current status. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help me choose a sound recorder
Zhang Weiwu wrote: 2 better be able to auto-start and auto-stop. E.g. when people are talking on the phone, start a track and save a speex file; when people stop talking (silence), stop recording and be ready to start recording the next track. Better one tracker per file; Any suggestions? Looks audacity is a good option, last year I used it a while, but I think it is not perfect (for lack of requirement 2), but don't know its current status. I would recomend audacity as a start. I know it doesn't do auto-star auto-stop. I'm not sure you'll find that. You can setup a old fashioned line tap to do just that, but it sounds like you'd rather record digitally. My sugestion is that if you can find a setting in audacity that can record your work day, you can then export multi and get one file per conversation. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
On 01:55 Wed 07 Dec , Holly Bostick wrote: Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Great idea, Rafael, but that may break other updates, if any of them (like xmms, mplayer, xine, etc) use the real USE flag which is probably what's dragging in realplayer in the first place. As you later suggested, using the --verbose option is /always/ wise when doing an emerge -uD world (myself, I use emerge -uaDtv world), in order to get an idea of what USE flags are being enabled (or not), so that you have the opportunity to make changes and keep unwanted packages from being emerged as optional dependencies (or make sure that wanted packages are emerged as optional dependencies). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I'm having exactly the same problem. The USE flag real is what is bringing realplayer in. In my case, I set it to add functionality to mplayer. When I remove it, no attempt is made to download realplayer. There are two issues: first, I've seen some discussion indicating that the real flag shouldn't bring in realplayer, just the libraries necessary to allow mplayer to play real media; second, the download of realplayer is blocked by failure of ssl to recognize a certificate. Curiously, I can go to the site, download the files manually, and no certificate issue appears. Downloading the files didn't solve the problem for me, the ebuild didn't seem to recognize the downloaded files. Maybe I put them in the wrong place. I was hoping waiting a few days would get the problem solved, but I see it's still there. Bill Roberts pgpfqk1LJwi6g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 07:00:35 -0500, Bill Roberts wrote: Downloading the files didn't solve the problem for me, the ebuild didn't seem to recognize the downloaded files. Maybe I put them in the wrong place. Downloaded files go in $DISTDIR, which defaults to /usr/portage/distfiles. -- Neil Bothwick KPLA Klingon Radio : All glory, all the time! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
Bill Roberts schreef: On 01:55 Wed 07 Dec, Holly Bostick wrote: Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Great idea, Rafael, but that may break other updates, if any of them (like xmms, mplayer, xine, etc) use the real USE flag which is probably what's dragging in realplayer in the first place. I'm having exactly the same problem. The USE flag real is what is bringing realplayer in. In my case, I set it to add functionality to mplayer. When I remove it, no attempt is made to download realplayer. There are two issues: first, I've seen some discussion indicating that the real flag shouldn't bring in realplayer, just the libraries necessary to allow mplayer to play real media; Realplayer is proprietary software (just as *.rm* files are a proprietary media format). They are not open source, so the libraries cannot be brought in separately; they are attached to Realplayer itself. After realplayer is installed, then mPlayer can find the libraries and use them. That's why using the real USE flag brings in Realplayer. second, the download of realplayer is blocked by failure of ssl to recognize a certificate. Curiously, I can go to the site, download the files manually, and no certificate issue appears. Downloading the files didn't solve the problem for me, the ebuild didn't seem to recognize the downloaded files. Maybe I put them in the wrong place. The downloaded file should be placed in /usr/portage/distfiles. Perhaps you've downloaded the wrong file? I have Realplayer 10.0.6 installed, and the file in my /distfiles folder is RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm I was hoping waiting a few days would get the problem solved, but I see it's still there. I don't remember having any problems with the certificate, but simply downloading the file and placing it in /usr/portage/distfiles should allow the emerge to continue. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
On 13:35 Wed 07 Dec , Holly Bostick wrote: Bill Roberts schreef: On 01:55 Wed 07 Dec, Holly Bostick wrote: Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Great idea, Rafael, but that may break other updates, if any of them (like xmms, mplayer, xine, etc) use the real USE flag which is probably what's dragging in realplayer in the first place. I'm having exactly the same problem. The USE flag real is what is bringing realplayer in. In my case, I set it to add functionality to mplayer. When I remove it, no attempt is made to download realplayer. There are two issues: first, I've seen some discussion indicating that the real flag shouldn't bring in realplayer, just the libraries necessary to allow mplayer to play real media; Realplayer is proprietary software (just as *.rm* files are a proprietary media format). They are not open source, so the libraries cannot be brought in separately; they are attached to Realplayer itself. After realplayer is installed, then mPlayer can find the libraries and use them. That's why using the real USE flag brings in Realplayer. second, the download of realplayer is blocked by failure of ssl to recognize a certificate. Curiously, I can go to the site, download the files manually, and no certificate issue appears. Downloading the files didn't solve the problem for me, the ebuild didn't seem to recognize the downloaded files. Maybe I put them in the wrong place. The downloaded file should be placed in /usr/portage/distfiles. Perhaps you've downloaded the wrong file? I have Realplayer 10.0.6 installed, and the file in my /distfiles folder is RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm I was hoping waiting a few days would get the problem solved, but I see it's still there. I don't remember having any problems with the certificate, but simply downloading the file and placing it in /usr/portage/distfiles should allow the emerge to continue. Downloading the file manually to /usr/portagedistfiles solved the problem. Tx, Holly Bill Roberts pgpD6xQjThbtv.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Help with world update
Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. I'm presuming that there was an error during the unmerging such that portage still thinks the package is installed, what can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
Something thinks it needs it. Check out the depends with equery and see what it tells you. From: Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/06 Tue PM 06:32:56 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help with world update Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. I'm presuming that there was an error during the unmerging such that portage still thinks the package is installed, what can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Well, give realplayer a try, and see if it is installed in any way: # equery list -p realplayer You'll see in a list if any version is installed. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. Just edit /etc/portage/package.mask (as root) and add this line: media-video/realplayer Save the changes and that's it. Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -- A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes - Linus Torvalds pgpCB8YO1iIe8.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Ouch !! Another thing... I suggest you to use emerge -vuD world or emerge -uD world instead of emerge -u world. If you only use -u as parameter, and not tell portage DEEP... it will bring you troubles someday. Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -- A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes - Linus Torvalds pgpTFjtFYfcrQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:32:56 +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. You have to download a file manually and put it in $DISTDIR. The error message will tell you how to do this. This is usually because you have to agree to some licence conditions v=before you can download the file. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. What does emerge -tuv world tell you? -t will show what package is pulling it in? It is probably a dependency of something else you have installed, in which case you have three possible choices Install realplayer. Uninstall the dependent packages. Reinstall the dependent package with different USE flags, so that it no longer depends on realplayer. emerge -tuv world will help you decide the best solution. -- Neil Bothwick Honk if you love peace and quiet. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. Well, give realplayer a try, and see if it is installed in any way: # equery list -p realplayer You'll see in a list if any version is installed. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. Just edit /etc/portage/package.mask (as root) and add this line: media-video/realplayer Save the changes and that's it. Great idea, Rafael, but that may break other updates, if any of them (like xmms, mplayer, xine, etc) use the real USE flag which is probably what's dragging in realplayer in the first place. As you later suggested, using the --verbose option is /always/ wise when doing an emerge -uD world (myself, I use emerge -uaDtv world), in order to get an idea of what USE flags are being enabled (or not), so that you have the opportunity to make changes and keep unwanted packages from being emerged as optional dependencies (or make sure that wanted packages are emerged as optional dependencies). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:32 +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. I'm presuming that there was an error during the unmerging such that portage still thinks the package is installed, what can I do to fix this? Thanks. As explained at the end of the migration guide (did not see it myself the first time) use: # emerge --resume --skipfirst This will continue your last emerge but skip the first package in the list (which is the one that failed). realplayer is most likley pulled in as dependecy by another package, maybe because of a specific use flag. If you have gentoolkit installed, try # equery depends realplayer HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help, Marvell patched sk98lin for livecd 2005.1
I am installing gentoo on a new machine with an onboard Marvel 8E8053 Gigabit LAN controller. However, LiveCD 2005.1 can not detect this controller, both sk98lin and skge don't work. After googling, I find this artical http://pavuk.7gods.org/notebook.html#network and know that I must patch the kernel and recompile it. But the LiveCD minimal has no gcc built in. I tried patch and compile in my working laptop, and insmod sk98lin.ko in the livecd environment, it tells me the kernel versions don't match: 2.6.12-suspend-r6 preempt PENTIUMM gcc-3.4 versus 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 SMP perempt 586 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 It seems gentoo-sources-r6 has been removed from portage currently. How can I do? Or, could anyone send me a patched sk98lin.ko which is insmod-able in LiveCD 2005.1 environment in private mail? Thanks a lot! -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1 Thunderbird! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=183 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help, Marvell patched sk98lin for livecd 2005.1
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 23:49 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I am installing gentoo on a new machine with an onboard Marvel 8E8053 Gigabit LAN controller. However, LiveCD 2005.1 can not detect this controller, both sk98lin and skge don't work. After googling, I find this artical http://pavuk.7gods.org/notebook.html#network and know that I must patch the kernel and recompile it. But the LiveCD minimal has no gcc built in. I tried patch and compile in my working laptop, and insmod sk98lin.ko in the livecd environment, it tells me the kernel versions don't match: 2.6.12-suspend-r6 preempt PENTIUMM gcc-3.4 versus 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 SMP perempt 586 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 It seems gentoo-sources-r6 has been removed from portage currently. How can I do? Or, could anyone send me a patched sk98lin.ko which is insmod-able in LiveCD 2005.1 environment in private mail? Thanks a lot! -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1 Thunderbird! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=183 Hi, Could try the *universal* install-2005.1 CD, it includes all the sources ebuilds. Or the Beta-LiveCD-2005.1 with a graphical installer (don't know if it also has the sourcesebuilds - check). HTH.Rumen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] help
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Michael Crute wrote: On 10/26/05, *Tamer Higazi* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With what? Probably he vanished before having time to tell us what was putting him in danger. Poor Mr.Higazi. We will miss him. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help with new install
I am fairly new to linux, and have decided to 'give it a shot'. I have read the manual for gentoo... but I have run into problems. My system is an AMD64 3000, with abit AX8 mobo. I downloaded Gentoo 2005.1 Universal install CD and it boots fine, but does not detect the network card, which is an on-board device controlled by a 'c plus' gigabit ethernet chip. I managed to get drivers from the manufacturer, in source code, but I can't work out how to compile it. According to the stuff I read in the manual and on the internet, I need to turn the driver source code into a .ko file for this to work, then use the 'insmod'command. The 'make' command that I have read about on the internet doesn't work. Some documentation talked about ensuring links point to the right place, and then recompile the kernel, but obviously this is not an option on a bootable cd. There doesn't seem to be a c compiler either - I tried 'gcc'. It says in the manual that if I have a universal cd then I don't actually need an internet connection at this point of the install, but firstly I want to start at stage 1, because from what I understand gentoo will be configered more acurately to my system (hence *better*, I think), and secondly I think I need to have the network connection set up at this point in order for portage to work right. So, what do I do now? Thanks, Damian. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help setting up my HP USB CD-Writer
Hi list, I'm trying to set up my HP USB drive, but confused what options have to be inabled in the kernel. Live CD configures just fine. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help setting up my HP USB CD-Writer
Thanks, that seemed to work: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: HPModel: CD-Writer+ 8200e Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete Are you sure that /dev is indeed sr0? not sg0? I am confused here. Since X-CD-Roast failed to recognize my drive, don;t you know btc how to burn .iso with cdrecord? cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HP' 'CD-Writer+ 8200e' '0001' Removable Disk 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * THanks again. On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:00:45 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey Asprov wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to set up my HP USB drive, but confused what options have to be inabled in the kernel. Live CD configures just fine. Thanks in advance. Try: Device Drivers - SCSI device support - [*] SCSI CDROM support USB support - [*] EHCI HCD [*] USB Mass Storage support [*] Freecom USB/ATAPI Bridge support [*] ISD-200 USB/ATA Bridge support [*] USBAT/USBAT02-based storage support With the above, the reader should appear at /dev/sr0, with the normal cdrom cdrw symlinks. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:59:16 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: For example, sys-portage/portage is not depended on by something else, but it would be very bad to remove it from world!! Why? I have neither portage nor glibc in world. portage is part of system and glibc is a dependency of just about everything. -- Neil Bothwick A computer scientist is someone who, when told to Go to Hell, sees the go to, rather than the destination, as harmful. pgpTN9KwKUt7H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] help
Wes Gray wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:17:20PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Delete all the other kde files from /etc/env.d/, keeping only the 3.4 one. The older ones are not needed any more since you've uninstalled those versions, no? This may solve some of your problems by removing that KDEDIR env var. That solved everything! I didn't have to emerge or anything. You are wonderful! :) Thanks. I'm still going to go through and do the other things you suggest here to get my system cleaned up. Take care with the depcleaning, it can cripple your system completely. Most of the things in your depclean list look harmless, except for acl and attr -- they tripped me up several moons ago. To play it safe, first tar up /lib and /usr/lib, and if after the cleaning anything starts to fail, re-extract the missing lib. If even tar should fail, use 'busybox tar' instead. After you're done with that, you may want to clean up your world file, as suggested by Richard. And after that, another round of depcleaning. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 21:18 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:46:55PM -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: At the login screen, what have your chosen as the session type. Perhaps its still selecting your old KDE. Check that and select KDE-3.4 and see what happens. Yes, of course I am selecting 3.4. That is the only choice. I've tried the obvious stuff, trust me. Try this then : Add a brand new sparkling user. Log in to X and KDE. Is the problem persisting then, or not? //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:46, Wes Gray wrote: My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. The kde taskbar apps wouldn't start. I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta to see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help. I got the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmerging everything on my system which was kde related, including some old packages which are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything. THis was a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps like k3b now don't even work. I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment, but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps. Lots of people have given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse. It seems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go away, which I don't understand at all. It seems like if you reemerge something it should move to the newest versions. I really could use some help because I have no idea what to do next. -Wes One thing you could try (while not running kde) is: mv ~/.kde ~/myold.kde Kde will regenerate ,kde on next start and if that works fine you can merge back the configs from the old ~/myold.kde Hope this helps Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Wes Gray wrote: My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. Upgrading from which version precisely? What is the full output of 'ls -l ~/.kde*' ? And of 'grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort' ? And of 'grep kde /etc/env.d/*' ? The kde taskbar apps wouldn't start. Does Konqueror work? KMail? KWrite? Konsole? The Control Center? The Menu Editor? Do most things work? Looking back at your other emails... Are you keeping the rest of your system up-to-date? What does 'emerge -Dup world' say (after a sync)? Do you still have an old python-2.2* installed? What says 'eix -e python'? (If you don't have eix installed, first do 'emerge eix; update-eix'.) What says 'emerge -p --depclean'? Does revdep-rebuild now run without problems? (And please don't tell us to trust you, we're just asking questions, as you're not being very specific.) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On 10/5/05, Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge -p kde-metaThese are the packages that I would merge, in order:Calculating dependencies ...done![ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.1I tried emerging kde-meta.I then tried unmerging all the blockers it created and then emerging back kde, to get rid of kde-meta.When thatdidn't help I reversed the process and reemerged kde-meta, which iswhere I am now.I've rebuilt all of kde a couple of times now withthe situation getting worse, not better. Try `emerge -eDav kde-meta` to rebuild all of KDEs dependencies. -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] help
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:57:09PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Here is the rest of the requested info: What does 'emerge -Dup world' say (after a sync)? # emerge -Dup world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-libs/giflib (is blocking media-libs/libungif-4.1.3) [blocks B ] media-libs/libquicktime (is blocking media-libs/openquicktime-1. 0-r1) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r1 [4.8] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r5 [1.8-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 [2.3.5-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r4 [4.0.7-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r [2.12q-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.6 [0.5.5.5-r1] [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-204 [196] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.6 [0.8.5] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 [2.12.2] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1 [2.10.0] [ebuild U ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r1 [0.2.34] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2 [2.10.1-r1] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1 [2.10.0] [ebuild U ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.5 [2.6.4-r2] [ebuild U ] app-text/gtkspell-2.0.11 [2.0.4-r1] [ebuild N] media-libs/giflib-4.1.3 [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1-r3 [4.1-r1] [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0-r3 [4.0-r1] [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0-r3 [3.0-r1] [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r3 [3.1-r1] [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd-4.1.2.4-r2 [4.1.2.4] [ebuild NS ] app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd-1.0-r1 [ebuild U ] media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r5 [0.7.4-r4] [ebuild U ] www-client/links-2.1_pre18 [2.1_pre17-r1] [ebuild NS ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4 [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 [0.6.11-r2] [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r5 [4.1.2-r4] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Compress-Zlib-1.35 [1.33] [ebuild U ] perl-core/digest-base-1.10 [1.05] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.10 [2.07] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.49 [0.48] [ebuild U ] perl-core/DB_File-1.811-r1 [1.811] [ebuild U ] app-text/enscript-1.6.3-r3 [1.6.3-r1] [ebuild NS ] sys-apps/i2c-2.9.1 [ebuild NS ] sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.9.1-r1 [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/gcalctool-5.5.42-r2 [5.5.42-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r2 [1.85-r1] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 [0.35-r3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 [4] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gconf-1.0.9 [1.0.8-r3] [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-common-2.8.0 [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 [1.0.5-r2] [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/guppi-0.40.3-r2 [0.40.3-r1] [ebuild U ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 [1.3.10-r2] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/g-wrap-1.3.4-r1 [1.3.4] [ebuild U ] app-arch/sharutils-4.2.1-r11 [4.2.1-r10] [ebuild U ] sci-libs/fftw-3.0.1-r2 [3.0.1] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtkglext-1.0.6-r2 [1.0.5] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/libintl-perl-1.11 [1.10] [ebuild U ] media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r4 [1.3.1-r3] [ebuild N] games-util/loki_setupdb-20050109 [ebuild N] dev-util/xdelta-1.1.3 [ebuild N] games-util/loki_patch-20050324 [ebuild NS ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.1 [ebuild U ] games-emulation/xmame-0.100 [0.97] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.3 [2.8.0.1-r1] [ebuild U ] media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r11 [3.10a-r3] [ebuild U ] net-im/centericq-4.21.0 [4.20.0-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r10 [3.2.9-r7] [ebuild U ] x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds-2.10.2 [2.10.1] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-2.10.2 [2.10-r1] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Filter-1.30 [1.29] [ebuild U ] app-emulation/wine-20050725-r1 [20050524] # Oddly I tried unmerging giflib and it unmerged ok, but I still get the blocker. What says 'eix -e python'? # eix -e python * dev-lang/python Available versions: 2.1.3-r1 2.2.3-r6 2.3.4-r1 2.3.5 ~2.3.5-r1 2.3.5-r2 ~ 2.4-r3 ~2.4.1 ~2.4.1-r1 ~2.4.2 Installed: 2.2.3-r6 2.3.5-r2 Homepage:http://www.python.org/ Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-orienta ted programming language. Found 1 matches # Does revdep-rebuild now run without problems? yes, just reran it. What says 'emerge -p --depclean'? # emerge -p --depclean *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : emerge --update --deep --newuse world TO VERIFY *** WARNING *** : SANITY IN THIS REGARD. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : Packages in the list that are desired may be added *** WARNING
Re: [gentoo-user] help
Wes Gray wrote: # grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort kde-base/arts kde-base/kde-env kde-base/kde-meta kde-base/kdebase-meta kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/konqueror Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, if you've emerged kde-meta, none of the other kde things should be in your world file. You've probably done a few emerges without using the --oneshot option. When all the things below don't help, or have heleped, you may want to delete the superfluous lines and do a fresh 'emerge -Du world', just to be sure all is okay. # grep kde /etc/env.d/* /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4:PATH=/usr/kde/3.4/bin /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4:ROOTPATH=/usr/kde/3.4/sbin:/usr/kde/3.4 /bin /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4:LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.4/lib /etc/env.d/46kdepaths-3.4:CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/kde/3.4/share/conf ig /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown Delete all the other kde files from /etc/env.d/, keeping only the 3.4 one. The older ones are not needed any more since you've uninstalled those versions, no? This may solve some of your problems by removing that KDEDIR env var. I suspect that if I could figure out why konqueror (and other apps) seem to still want to point to 3.1 libraries I could get to the bottom of my problems. Maybe because of that KDEDIR var. When you've deleted the obsolete env files, do 'env-update' and restart KDE. # emerge -Dup world [...] Okay, your system looks pretty much up-to-date. But: [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 [4] Try updating this one, with 'emerge --oneshot kdebase-pam'. It may solve some access problems, maybe those of kicker. After emerging, log out and back in. # eix -e python [...] Installed: 2.2.3-r6 2.3.5-r2 The ancient version is still installed, no harm in it probably, but no need for it either. If you wish, unmerge it with 'emerge -C =python-2.2.3-r6', ignoring the warning. # emerge -p --depclean [...] !!! There appears to be a problem with the following package: !!! media-libs/libquicktime Use 'eix -e ...' to see which of these packages, libquicktime, openquicktime, giflib, libungif, you've got installed, uninstall each of them with 'emerge -C =...', and later let a fresh 'emerge -Du world' install the one's that are really needed. That's a long list... So first resolve the blocking issues (if it gives you trouble, search bugs.gentoo.org or the forums or the archives of this list), then run 'emerge --depclean' in earnest to get rid of all the obsoletes, after that do a 'revdep-rebuild', and conclude with 'emerge -Du world'. Perseverance, Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:17:20PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Delete all the other kde files from /etc/env.d/, keeping only the 3.4 one. The older ones are not needed any more since you've uninstalled those versions, no? This may solve some of your problems by removing that KDEDIR env var. That solved everything! I didn't have to emerge or anything. You are wonderful! I'm still going to go through and do the other things you suggest here to get my system cleaned up. Thank you so much for the help. -Wes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
kde-base/kdeaccessibility selected: 3.3.2 protected: none omitted: none This one tells me that you've got old versions of KDE merged alongside the current version. I suspect path and library problems are the result... My suggestion is to: ls -ld /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*-3[0-3]* This will give you a list of all old kde packages that are merged. You can then unmerge those, then do a revdep-rebuild. Packages in world:457 This is a huge number of packages. As Benno suggested, this probably means you have [re]merged packages without the --oneshot flag, so they got added to your world file, and portage now things you require those packages regardless of any dependancies. The following script will show you all packages in world that are not depended on by something else. Most (but not ALL!!) can be safely removed from world. For example, sys-portage/portage is not depended on by something else, but it would be very bad to remove it from world!! cat /var/lib/portage/world | while read pkg; do count=`equery depends $pkg | wc -l` test $count -eq 0 echo pkg done This may or may not have an effect on your KDE installation. Mostly, this just a case of portage cleanup. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
Richard Fish wrote: cat /var/lib/portage/world | while read pkg; do count=`equery depends $pkg | wc -l` test $count -eq 0 echo pkg done Um, sorry, I'm a complete idiot sometimes. You want to remove from world packages that are included as a dependancy of something else. So that -eq 0 above should be -gt 0. But again, some results are not going to be safe to remove from world, like sys-libs/glibc. Again, my apologies... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help
My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. The kde taskbar apps wouldn't start. I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta to see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help. I got the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmerging everything on my system which was kde related, including some old packages which are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything. THis was a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps like k3b now don't even work. I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment, but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps. Lots of people have given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse. It seems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go away, which I don't understand at all. It seems like if you reemerge something it should move to the newest versions. I really could use some help because I have no idea what to do next. -Wes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On 10/5/05, Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache.Mytroubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4.The kde taskbar appswouldn't start.I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-metato see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help.I got the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmergingeverything on my system which was kde related, including some old packageswhich are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything.THis was a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps likek3b now don't even work.I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment,but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps.Lots of people have given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse.Itseems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go away,which I don't understand at all.It seems like if you reemerge something it should move to the newest versions.I really could use some help becauseI have no idea what to do next.-Wes--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list KDE should separate its releases by minor version. KDE 3.2 or 3.3 shouldn't interfere with KDE 3.4, which makes me wonder why and older version is blocking things. emerge kde-meta and see what kind of trouble it gives you.
Re: [gentoo-user] help
Wes Gray wrote: # emerge -p kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.1 I tried emerging kde-meta. I then tried unmerging all the blockers it created and then emerging back kde, to get rid of kde-meta. When that didn't help I reversed the process and reemerged kde-meta, which is where I am now. I've rebuilt all of kde a couple of times now with the situation getting worse, not better. At the login screen, what have your chosen as the session type. Perhaps its still selecting your old KDE. Check that and select KDE-3.4 and see what happens. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:46:55PM -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: At the login screen, what have your chosen as the session type. Perhaps its still selecting your old KDE. Check that and select KDE-3.4 and see what happens. Yes, of course I am selecting 3.4. That is the only choice. I've tried the obvious stuff, trust me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with an IBM 3791 modem
Hi all I am having trouble with one isa pnp modem; I installed isapnp, the tcpdump program has generated the isapnp.conf, I remove the comment mark from the lines that are related with the modem, when I run isapnp isapnp.conf It loads and enable the modem at address 0x110 and IRQ 7, then I tried to run wvdialconf and it didn´t find anything :( what have I miss PS my modem is an IBM 3791 isa modem. thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 08:56 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? All I can say is that there are various packages that all supply /bin/mail. In gentoo the package commonly used is mail-client/mailx which hails from debian.org (according to portage $HOMEPAGE) but the source looks for like BSD, and the copyright is to the Regents of the University of California, and the license is BSD. mail-client/nail (nail.sf.net) will do the same job, and is described as enhanced. It looks like it handles mime: Supports the MIME specifications. Nail can send and receive attachments and code and decode international character strings. If the system libraries provide appropriate support, conversion between different character encodings is performed. In combination with a UTF-8 terminal, nearly all international languages are supported. External converter programs can be automatically invoked e. g. to view messages in HTML format. I would look for a nail package for FC. -- 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.$$
PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html $TEMPFILE 2/dev/null1
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE
Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile.
perhaps a EOF
--
Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
Neuromancer 09:46:43 up 1 day, 4 min, 7 users, load average: 2.75, 2.30,
2.24
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
my script.
mail_header()
{
echo MIME-Version:1.0
echo From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
echo To:$RECIPIENT
echo Subject:Quotes $DATE
echo Content-Type: text/html
echo
}
and then I added a script for cron
#!/bin/sh
#
TEMPFILE=/tmp/file.$$
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
--
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 01:15 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? Unless you're prepared to use raw sendmail and generate all the headers yourself, you might be better off using perl and a module specifically designed to encode mail attachments correctly. Sigh.. Yeah.. I can do this. It just involves using the -t to sendmail. Speaking as a programmer, perl is a lot easier to deal with than bash for textual operations such as this. 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 -- -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:28:00 up 45 min, 6 users, load average: 0.21, 0.50, 0.78 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
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. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
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; -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 08:56:21 up 12:56, 7 users, load average: 0.27, 0.37, 0.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else has any more suggestions? Unless you're prepared to use raw sendmail and generate all the headers yourself, you might be better off using perl and a module specifically designed to encode mail attachments correctly. Speaking as a programmer, perl is a lot easier to deal with than bash for textual operations such as this. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
Hi,
I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I
want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script
working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as
HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted).
I'm using cron to send the email out.
I've even put the echo statement :
html_header()
{
echo Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
echo HTMLHEADTITLEStock Quotes : $DATE /TITLE/HEAD
echo 'STYLE TYPE=TEXT/CSS'
echo h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
echo h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
echo /STYLE/HEAD
echo BODY
echo H1Stock Quotes : $DATE /H1
echo BRBR
}
but all I get is :
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
HTMLHEADTITLEStock Quotes : Fri Sep 16 06:52:02 2005
/TITLE/HEAD
STYLE TYPE=TEXT/CSS
h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
/STYLE/HEAD
BODY
H1Stock Quotes : Fri Sep 16 06:52:02 2005 /H1
BRBR
What sort of content-type do I need to put into it? or do I have to
format the message and use sendmail -t quote
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Friday 16 September 2005 00:07, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. I don't think it'll ever work. The problem is you need to add the content type to the headers. Mutt has an option to specify a draft file to read header and body from, but seems to lose/re-write the content-type. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
It seems to me that you need a couple of other things:
1. a look at a couple of the html emails in my inbox show a mail
header (ie part of the email where stuff like from, to and subject go) like
this:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0
you can add extra headers using the mail command with the -a parameter
(according to man mail)
-a Specify additional header fields on the command line such as X-Loop:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. You have to use
quotes if the string contains spaces. This argument may be
specified more than once, the headers
will then be concatenated.
2. The body of the message must be in mime format using the same boundary as
is specified in the header like this:
--_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0
Content-Type: text/plain
(here is the text part of the message)
--_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN
HTML (all the html bits)
/HTML
below that the boundary is specified again:
--_=_NextPart_001_01C5B8D9.821B04F0--
(thats the very last line in the file)
3. i tried using mpack to make an html message from the command line,
but it didn't work - I might be doing something wrong.
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:07:23 +0800
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I
want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script
working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as
HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted).
I'm using cron to send the email out.
I've even put the echo statement :
html_header()
{
echo Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
echo HTMLHEADTITLEStock Quotes : $DATE /TITLE/HEAD
echo 'STYLE TYPE=TEXT/CSS'
echo h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
echo h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
echo /STYLE/HEAD
echo BODY
echo H1Stock Quotes : $DATE /H1
echo BRBR
}
but all I get is :
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
HTMLHEADTITLEStock Quotes : Fri Sep 16 06:52:02 2005
/TITLE/HEAD
STYLE TYPE=TEXT/CSS
h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
/STYLE/HEAD
BODY
H1Stock Quotes : Fri Sep 16 06:52:02 2005 /H1
BRBR
What sort of content-type do I need to put into it? or do I have to
format the message and use sendmail -t quote
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html HTH W -- I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that. -- Tom Lehrer Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: I did, but obviously searching for bash script + email + HTML + format doesn't yield anything since it can't be done(?) http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I tried that. It worked perfectly. Only thing now, I'll have to hack the script to put the output into a file and send our the file instead of using cron. Should be a simple thing. Thanks. HTH W -- I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that. -- Tom Lehrer Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:14:16 up 2 days, 21:48, 7 users, load average: 1.55, 1.10, 2.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails [SOLVED]
On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:47 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:07:23AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks prices and I want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script working already. The only problem is the HTML is well, not displayed as HTML, it's displayed RAW(and not formatted). I'm using cron to send the email out. Try using the mail command behold the power of google: I did, but obviously searching for bash script + email + HTML + format doesn't yield anything since it can't be done(?) http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/171 to put it simply: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I tried that. It worked perfectly. Only thing now, I'll have to hack the script to put the output into a file and send our the file instead of using cron. Should be a simple thing. Thanks. HTH W -- I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that. -- Tom Lehrer Sortir en Pantoufles: up 35 days, 3:49 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:14:16 up 2 days, 21:48, 7 users, load average: 1.55, 1.10, 2.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list you could also write a small perl script to actually send the emailI send out a newsletter that way every week. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
