Re: setting up firewall

2005-08-14 Thread Richard A Downing
DJ Lucas wrote: Do what the book tells you and execute '/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables start' else you are calling the iptables binary in /sbin, and start is an invalid argument. Once-apon-a-time the firewall script was called 'firewall' and IMO this was a better name for it. Iptables (the

Re: Firefox error to install

2005-08-15 Thread Richard A Downing
mlij wrote: Hi everyone! There was not any error to install it. When the BLFS 6.0 asks to run firefox in the /usr/bin, there is a failure: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# firefox *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close

Re: Summer Time Winter time adjustments

2005-08-17 Thread Richard A Downing
Declan Moriarty wrote: Right now the time is close to 20:00, the BIOS says 20:00 but the lfs installations say 21:00. I'm on GMT about half of the year (to be precise, 2/5ths to 3/5ths). The time command is for somebody else - somebody who can dial up on pppd directly - that sort of guy.

Re: GCC4 build with OpenSSH-4.1p1 missing -ldl

2005-08-21 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: [cc'd to BLFS-Support as it appears it should be directed there] William Harrington wrote these words on 08/21/05 11:28 CST: Has anyone experienced the problem where the dynamic loader library is not included in the list of LIBS? I am not seeing this

Re: gcc 2.95.x

2005-08-26 Thread Richard A Downing
Andrew Benton wrote: Dan Osterrath wrote: Hi, I need to install libstdc++.so.5 on my LFS system Isn't libstdc++.so.5 installed by gcc-3.3? Yes, gcc-3.3.6 in the BLFS svn. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: Сочи - осенние скидки

2005-08-30 Thread Richard A Downing
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Richard Snow wrote: Санаторий «Морска звезда» wrote: [...] Can someone translate this? It's spam. Set your filters to reject character sets you can't read, then you won't see it. Ken A hint on message filtering would be good, one day :-)

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe...

Re: A question about house keeping

2005-09-15 Thread Richard A Downing
Archaic wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: On the line xterm -g 80x40+0+0 , what is -g for? TIA This question troubles me. In your massive bombardment of the lfs and blfs support lists for several weeks, has no one mentioned the use of man for reading

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Richard A Downing
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alternatively, you may want to use the stock Adobe PostScript driver (although I don't know any reason for such preference). In such case, ... Hey, now that (all your post) MUST become a hint, at the very least! Ideally a page in the

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Richard A Downing
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Richard A Downing wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Hey, now that (all your post) MUST become a hint, at the very least! Ideally a page in the BLFS book - it's vital information. I thought I understood it, but clearly I didn't, since I didn't know

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Richard A Downing
Matthew Burgess wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: True, but strangely the linux-2.6.14-rc4/README says COMPILING the kernel: - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. Serves me right for looking. I haven't installed gcc-2.95 for a long time Andrew, you do realise that us LFSers know

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/11/05 15:52 CST: Take tongue out of cheek. We are FAR better at keeping our documentation up to date than the Kernel Developers who would rather introduce a 'really neat bit of new code' than document the bloody important stuff

Re: about the nfs-server script

2005-10-28 Thread Richard A Downing
David Fix wrote: You know, I know this is late for a comment... But I just thought of something... Could it be as simple as doing something like this: kill `pgrep nfsd` That's just an inelegant equivalent of: rpc.nfsd -- 0 I think Tor Olav is trying to confirm that the kernel threads

Re: From Where to start BLFS

2005-12-19 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:24:06 - IraqiGeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have to start BLFS now ... We are in confusion from whr we have to start .. Where to start with BLFS is totally up to. It depends on what extra features you want to have on your LFS box. Whether we have to do

Re: can i use root user to build blfs

2005-12-22 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:58:04 -0800 Craig Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, I must've missed that one too. I guess I will be unprivileged as much as I can from now on. I never read the BLFS book straight through like I did with LFS. Does this have to do with security or does it actually

Re: hotplug

2006-01-05 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:34:37 -0200 Rebelde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to understand the Hotplug System, but I can not see where are the files that run when I plug a usb device for example. Can anyone help me? I recollect a fairly good explanation of advanced udev in an email by

Re: Compiling OpenOffice 2.0.1

2006-01-20 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:47:39 -0600 Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 01/19/06 11:40 CST: On 1/19/06, Tor Olav Stava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans to upgrade the SVN book to include this version? It supposedly contains a few

Re: Compiling OpenOffice 2.0.1

2006-01-21 Thread Richard A Downing
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:36:44 -0600 DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard A Downing wrote: An editor, probably DJ Lucas, will assign this bug to himself Thanks for putting me on the spot Richard! :-) I had the opposite intention. I would say, 'take your time and make it good

Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling

2006-02-08 Thread Richard A Downing
I built Tbird-1.5 according to the book, on a recent LFS-by-jhalfs-svn system. The spellchecker underlines EVERY word as I type. I installed the English(British) dictiionary, no change. If I 'ignore' a word that doesn't take the underline off. If I 'ignore-all' a word it doesn't change the

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: Richard A Downing wrote these words on 02/09/06 01:34 CST: The spellchecker underlines EVERY word as I type. I installed the English(British) dictiionary, no change. If I 'ignore' a word that doesn't take the underline off. If I 'ignore-all' a word it doesn't change

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: Richard A Downing wrote these words on 02/09/06 11:19 CST: chmod 666 /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell/* I'd appreciate knowing what perms you have on those files, Randy? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/build ls -l /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell total

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Richard A Downing
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/9/06, Richard A Downing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, for the record: chmod 644 /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell/* somehow this fixes it. The perms were apparently screwed by installing the extension: spell-en-GB.xpi. This makes sense to me. If you

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/09/06 15:20 CST: Randy, what do you think about adding info about spellcheck dictionaries to Thunderbird/Mozilla? FYI, I don't know if the spellcheck is implemented the same way in Mozilla-1.7.x. I'm not sure that doing anything

Re: Digital Camera with a pure UDEV (no Hotplug) setup.

2006-03-03 Thread Richard A Downing
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Richard A Downing wrote: Does anyone know how to set up such a system for gphoto2 (not usb-storage)? Any hints would be very welcome. Udevmonitor output below. I have no digital camera, and thus can't provide the information you need immediately. Please

Re: Feauturerequest: IPSec-tools, Squid, Privoxy

2006-03-25 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matthias Berndt wrote these words on 03/25/06 05:14 CST: is there anyone interested in adding IPsec-tools, Squid and/or Privoxy to the book? I believe standard protocol is to first submit a hint (one for each package), and then request that the hint(s) be

Re: Kdebase Please Fix

2006-03-29 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
tom wrote: I think the book should mention you need to add this --with-kio-smtp to kdebase in order for kmail to authenticate otherwise smtp wont work. I suggest you offer to pay the editors to put your bug on the front of the queue. About $1000 should do it, and I'll happily collect it for

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-30 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote: Henry, You are a dirty Top Poster :-) Please use our netiquet when contributing on the LFS list. See FAQ. Gmail can be so configured. Sorry about that, I see you are already a reformed character. Blessed are the sinners come to repentance. :-) R

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-30 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 3/30/06, Richard A Downing FBCS CITP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gmail can be so configured. Really? I completely missed that. Please enlighten me how to get bottom-posting.by default. -- Dan My mistake, it can't. I am absolutely damn sure it could when I last

Re: To Indiana LFS'ers

2006-04-02 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Archaic wrote: As fellow Hoosiers probably know, our fine government has again decided to change timezone laws. With a glorious history of changes being made not just at the state level, but on a county-by-county level, and with the addition of several changes that were implemented, reverted,

Re: To Indiana LFS'ers

2006-04-02 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
John Gay wrote: On Sunday 02 April 2006 08:12, Eric Stout wrote: As fellow Hoosiers probably know, our fine government has again decided SNIP I think we should all go back to the good old days before Railroad Timetables (the original excuse), when every village had it's own time zone. The

Re: statically relinking

2006-05-01 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Alberto Hernando wrote: As a part of my transition to LFS, I want to use it too, but there are no suitable packages for me, and they refuse to provide more packages. It isn't possible to relink a dynamically linked executable as a static. And if it were a static you would not have a problem.