Re: [gentoo-user] XFree won't merge

2003-10-16 Thread Juha-Mikko Ahonen
On to, 2003-10-16 at 06:01, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: I'm doing an upgrade to XFree after an emerge synch. It goes for a long time then gives this error: !!! copy /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-43/image/usr/X11R6/man/man3/xXdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz - /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem

2003-10-16 Thread paul cooke
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 5:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 12:42 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: When you boot up CD1 of the 2 CD set it shows right there on the welcome screen after completely booting up, instructions for loading in the installation document into the text based browser. Those

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple instances of emerge and package naming

2003-10-16 Thread Christian Herzyk
Matt Garman wrote: Can I run two (or more) simultaneous instances of emerge? Would this create any consistency problems or is the Portage system smart enough to synchronize its accounting? This has been discussed loads of times (last time 2 days ago) please check the archives for lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox

2003-10-16 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:07, Jason Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jacob Smullyan wrote: I've recently gotten errors of this kind (sandbox violations) when emerging with sudo rather than as root, but I don't know exactly where the bug is. Jacob Smullyan Yup, the solution is: $ su

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM

2003-10-16 Thread Stroller
On Oct 16, 2003, at 4:15 am, Bruce Kingsland wrote: In a similar vein I desire the gentoo CD, but do not want to buy it; rather I want to download ISOs and burn them. And I just found the url to do just that. The why is that I have a s.l.o.o.o.o.w 28.8 connection for my home network (linux

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user

2003-10-16 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 20:20, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Thanks Øyvind!! At least I'm not the only person that has had this problem!!! Just a note: I have never been able to compile/emerge iptables when using gentoo-sources, but it works fine with vanilla-sources. (Which is OK, I use Well,

[gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem

2003-10-16 Thread David Gethings
OK, tell me to RTFM if you like, however I have read the doc on the gentto website regarding emerge and have not found an answer. I know that a 'emerge -uDp world' will list all the packages I need to install/update. Does 'world' include 'system' or do I need to do that seperately? Secondly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM

2003-10-16 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote: Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u? If not running ~x86 (and most users shouldn't be) the only time that a package might be downgraded is if breakage is discovered.

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem

2003-10-16 Thread Sigurd Stordal
install/update. Does 'world' include 'system' or do I need to do that seperately? system is included in world. 'emerge -uDp world' onto my Debian box at work. Well one way to do it is to install portage at you Debian box, then at you home box do a emerge -uDp package_list, take the

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem

2003-10-16 Thread Scharf Yuval
emerge -uDpf will give you the list of files needed by emerge -uDp Yuval Scharf On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, David Gethings wrote: OK, tell me to RTFM if you like, however I have read the doc on the gentto website regarding emerge and have not found an answer. I know that a 'emerge -uDp world'

Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds

2003-10-16 Thread Sigurd Stordal
Along the same line, I've been wondering if 3rd party ebuilds for gentoo for stuff not already in gentoo are common on places like freshmeat, as are packages for other distributions for open source work not already available through the distribution's regular channels. The answer to the above

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 06:56, Fred Wade wrote: Somehow something got broken. kdm seems to run ok, but all selections for the session selection result in a single console window at login. Typing startkde in the window starts kde, after which kde appears as before, except for the extra

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem

2003-10-16 Thread Robo Cernansky
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:39:39 +0200 (IST) Scharf Yuval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SY emerge -uDpf will give you the list of files needed by emerge -uDp You can filter output of this command through this script (http://www.py.cz/Members/HS/Scripts/elist.py), which give you nicer results. Short

Re[3]: [gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem

2003-10-16 Thread Robo Cernansky
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:23:29 +0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time) Robo Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RC Copy downloaded files into /usr/portage/distfiles and run 'emerge -uDp world'. Oops! Run 'emerge -uD world' (without -p). Robo. -- Robo Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber:

[gentoo-user] Masking gnome-2.4

2003-10-16 Thread Ming-Che Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I have gnome-2.2.2 installed and I don't want gnome-2.4. Every emerge -p -u world gives me a long list of upgradeable gnome-2.4 packages. It's tiresome to sift through the long list in order to find non-gnome-2.4 upgradeable packages. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking gnome-2.4

2003-10-16 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:38:27 +0200 Ming-Che Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I have gnome-2.2.2 installed and I don't want gnome-2.4. Every emerge -p -u world gives me a long list of upgradeable gnome-2.4 packages. It's

RE: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 01:14, Mark Knecht wrote: OK, so no one here in Gentooland is using SATA. Do you know if this 'Compatibility Mode' for the SATA drive controller exists in your machine's BIOS? If this is a machine that you reboot once in a while, would that be something you'd mind

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on RAID1 and Grub

2003-10-16 Thread Thomas Robers
Hello, I've installed Gentoo on a RAID1 System with 2 x 40GB Harddisks and I use Grub as bootloader. My 'grub.conf' looks like this: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo-Platte1 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1

[gentoo-user] bootsplash

2003-10-16 Thread Nicholas Potter
I have seen in the forums a ton of info on installing bootsplash for a 2.4 kernel, but what about for the 2.6 kernels? I don't think they need to be patched, but can I just install bootsplash and the rest? If anyone has experience or can help that would be great. Thanks Nick -- [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] Install stage-1 from the disk

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Depends how your doing it.. here is what I do.. 1. I boot up some linux, normally a disk utils linux. 2. Load only the modules I need for any HD's, networks and so forth. Just the stuff you need for an install. 3. Then start in the creating disk partition section on the gentoo site.. (it

RE: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I Think I opened a can of worms here.. :) If you have mysql, you can add portagesql.. I wouldn't advise using it for everyday use, however, I searching is awesome.. emergesql -s kde - takes about 2 seconds to come back.. :) Just to bad the portage guys don't see the value in a sql

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking gnome-2.4

2003-10-16 Thread Ming-Che Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! On Thursday, 16. October 2003 15:18 Spider wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:38:27 +0200 Ming-Che Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I have gnome-2.2.2 installed and I don't want gnome-2.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] COUNTER file

2003-10-16 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 16 October 2003 06:22, SMS WebMaster wrote: I fixed the problem its becuase emerge -U world didn't remove the directory /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2 Interesting. I wonder if that was my problem with baselayout? I use the upgradeonly option as well. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM

2003-10-16 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:42:32 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote: Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u? If not running ~x86 (and most users shouldn't be)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo CD-ROM

2003-10-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:34:41 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I disagree. Gentoo does not have a perfect system of classifying | packages. I cannot speak to masked packages, but many totally | harmless, totally useful packages are marked ~x86. If you find any like that, it's

[gentoo-user] sshd on startup

2003-10-16 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I read somewhere you need to create a link in a directory to sshd, but I forgot where. Thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
rc-update add sshd default man rc-update to check out what it is. -Original Message- From: Monah Baki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I

RE: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup

2003-10-16 Thread Vermeersch Ruben
rc-update add sshd default Does the job in gentoo :) Greetz -Original Message- From: Monah Baki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 16 oktober 2003 19:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I read somewhere you

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
Run: rc-update add sshd default. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:04:24 -0400 Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I read somewhere you need to create a link in a directory to sshd, but I forgot where. Thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup

2003-10-16 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Monah, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003, 19:04:24: Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I read somewhere you need to create a link in a directory to sshd, but I forgot where. run rc-update add sshd default Thank you Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on RAID1 and Grub

2003-10-16 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Thomas, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003, 16:21:29: Hello, I've installed Gentoo on a RAID1 System with 2 x 40GB Harddisks and I use Grub as bootloader. My 'grub.conf' looks like this: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo-Platte1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-16 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Spider, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 20:49:33: I'd actually suggest having : USE=-* ncuses nls libwww cups crypt xml2 readline slang berkdb gpm ssl perl python ldap firebird mmx nocardbus foomaticdb the -* will disable just about anytning , and then you set only positive

[gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-16 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I need a mailsystem for around 2.000 POP3 accounts (and SMTP for them of course) and and I want to implement that in a safe way. So I thougt I setup some kind of backup server with the same config and then make a new, but higher MX record for this domain to that backup mailserver,

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Fred Wade
On Thursday 16 October 2003 04:50 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 06:56, Fred Wade wrote: Somehow something got broken. kdm seems to run ok, but all selections for the session selection result in a single console window at login. Typing startkde in the window starts

Re: [gentoo-user] cdbakeoven

2003-10-16 Thread Roger Miliker
On Thursday 16 October 2003 15:52, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Anyone using cdbakeoven. Data CD's are working fine, but for Audio I always get this. Mike I had problems too long ago, then I tried k3b. I found k3b to be the best burning app for linux. emerge k3b www.k3b.org worth a try.

[gentoo-user] Network driver problem

2003-10-16 Thread Jure Turk
Hello, I installed gentoo linux from stage1 and everything was successful. The network was working then (I use e100 driver). Now...I compiled my own kernel from gentoo sources and included the driver as a module but when I try to install it on my machine it gives me errors. I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Network driver problem

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
What errors did you get? On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:19:55 +0200 Jure Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed gentoo linux from stage1 and everything was successful. The network was working then (I use e100 driver). Now...I compiled my own kernel from gentoo sources and included the

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 18:10, Fred Wade wrote: Mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm and mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm (no quotes) Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD

[gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Ian Truelsen
I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI. Given the choice between the two, which would you choose for

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
I'm a long time Nvidia user both in Windows and Linux and I'd go with them. I used ATI many years ago (Mach 64 days G) but from what I've seen Nvidia keeps their drivers updated and Linux support is available for even the new cards. My observation and comments by others indicate that ATI

[gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for email etc. Is there a simple way I can: a) Mark all messages in a folder as read b) Jump to the next unread message in a folder c) Collapse all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Curious, what did you move from ? Jeff. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 14:37, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for email etc. Is there a simple way I can: a) Mark all

Re: [gentoo-user] Network driver problem

2003-10-16 Thread Jure Turk
Hello, hehe...I can't even boot into my linux now...some problems with LILO...ah...I'll try again tommorow and I'll see if the problem occurs again. - Original Message - From: brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:24 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread John Ziniti
Tom Wesley wrote: b) Jump to the next unread message in a folder ] key. Not sure about the others. JZ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [Fwd: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?]

2003-10-16 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
I need a mailsystem for around 2.000 POP3 accounts (and SMTP for them of course) and and I want to implement that in a safe way. So I thougt I setup some kind of backup server with the same config and then make a new, but higher MX record for this domain to that backup mailserver, right?

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:44, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Curious, what did you move from ? Jeff. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 14:37, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Alan
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:30:24AM -0700, Ian Truelsen wrote: I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI.

RE: [gentoo-user] Network driver problem

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Lilo?? That should have nothing to do with any network driver.. Where is lilo quitting?? -Original Message- From: Jure Turk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network driver problem Hello,

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-16 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Well if you want two servers to access the same data, you need to store that data on external disks. Install cluster software so that if server one goes down server two can access that data. This is all theorie. I have no idee how to do it in real life for linux. There are people on this list who

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Kurt Bechstein
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:37, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for email etc. Is there a simple way I can: a) Mark all messages in a folder as read ctrl+a then

[gentoo-user] krecord nforce2

2003-10-16 Thread Ernie Schroder
Has anyone managed to get krecord working with the onboard nforce2 audio Pointers? resources? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Barry Marler
Right clicking the header area will give you a Reply to List option. I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for email etc. Is there a simple way I can: -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:30:24AM -0700, Ian Truelsen wrote: I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI.

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Fred Wade
On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:28 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 18:10, Fred Wade wrote: Mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm and mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Tried it, didn't help. Let's not give up. It's a pain to keep typing startkde when I know I shouldn't have to. I really

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:52, Kurt Bechstein wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:37, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for email etc. Is there a simple way I can: a)

[gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Garman
Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted filesystem. This should make the filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:00 pm, Fred Wade wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:28 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 18:10, Fred Wade wrote: Mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm and mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Tried it, didn't help. Let's not give up. It's a pain to

RE: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Well, I see about once a week someone asking about Reiserfs and problems.. I use ext3.. But I just can't figure out if these are user things or if reiserfs just that flaky.. I don't see to much ext2/3 or xfs questions.. But I don't know just how many people actually use XFS.. Purusing the

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Ian Truelsen wrote: I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI. Given the choice between the two, which

RE: [gentoo-user] Network driver problem

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Well, reinstalling it may not be your problem.. Thats why I asked where its failing.. Linux should never have a problem booting due to network card. Unless your booting on NFS or something like that.. -Original Message- From: Jure Turk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-16 Thread Aaron Matteson
I would recommend setting up an SQL database for vmail hosting. There is a lot of info on setting such a solution up here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml Hope this helps /aaron -- Aaron Matteson - http://www.loreland.com - JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
Can't speak for reiserfs but XFS has been solid here for over a year and I know people who are running a large number of business systems (servers, etc.) on XFS. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:23:38 -0500 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I see about once a week someone asking about

[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge sync

2003-10-16 Thread Sami Salonen
Hi, emerge sync does not work for me anymore for some reason. The only thing it says is: starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... and that's it (there's no more help in the log file either). Everything else seems to work (at least emerging a package) but syncing does

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin marks almost everything as spam

2003-10-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I've emerged spam-assassin and I've added a filter in evolution using spamc -c. Now, spamassassin marks almost my all non-personal emails as spam (amazon orders, mailing lists and spam... :)) Any ideas on how can I solve this situation?

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Fred Wade wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:28 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 18:10, Fred Wade wrote: Mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm and mine has: DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Tried it, didn't help. Let's not give up. It's a pain to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I really hope this doesn't turn into another one of those xxx FS is better then ext2/3 and vice versa threads. brett holcomb wrote: Can't speak for reiserfs but XFS has been solid here for over a year and I know people who are running a large number of business systems (servers, etc.) on XFS.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-16 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Aaron Matteson -- I would recommend setting up an SQL database for vmail hosting. There is a lot of info on setting such a solution up here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml I know this configuration, but the problem here is, that all mails are

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Fred Wade
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:19 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: Fred, Do you have this line at the end of /etc/rc.conf? XSESSION=kde-3.1 It was kde. changing to kde-3.1 made no difference. I'm leaving the net for a few days, but will check into this when I get back. I'll rebuild kde if no more

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge sync

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Thinking off hand. My first guess would be something firewall related is blocking it.. However, I did not do a emerge sync to see if it worked here. (I am at work so its kind of hard) Or, you changes your make.conf in such a way that it doesn't work.. Proxy settings, something along that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge sync

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
Try selecting another mirror. Do you get a time out message or any other message after a while? On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:07:52 +0300 Sami Salonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, emerge sync does not work for me anymore for some reason. The only thing it says is: starting rsync with

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread D.Wilkening
Hi Ian, it's quite the same situation for me. Looking for a new gra-ca i remembered having an old voodoo3 somewhere in my flat. I thougt of (searching and) installing it because my old ati rage IIc is'n good for xine/zapping/desktop. My question is: why is the voodoo not good enough anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
That is not my intention and I assume is not the intention of others. Someone asked about reiserfs, got an answer in additon to a question about XFS stability . My intent is to give my experience. I run ext2 and XFS on different systems - a user needs to pick what's best for him or what he

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Fred Wade
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:31 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: Then lets try something else. You can get into kde, right? Then log in as root and start kde. Go to Control Centre - System Administration - Login Manager - Sessions. I have the two there that live in /etc/ X11/Sessions/, i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge sync

2003-10-16 Thread Sami Salonen
On Thursday 16 October 2003 21:45, Brett Holcomb wrote: Try selecting another mirror. Do you get a time out message or any other message after a while? I did not get a timeout or any other message during the 10 first minutes that I waited for something to happen - isn't the default timeout

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Eric Marchionni
Ian Truelsen wrote: I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI. Given the choice between the two, which would

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread jsmith
Quoting Fred Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:19 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: Fred, Do you have this line at the end of /etc/rc.conf? XSESSION=kde-3.1 It was kde. changing to kde-3.1 made no difference. I'm leaving the net for a few days, but will check into

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:46:53 +0200 D.Wilkening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ian, it's quite the same situation for me. Looking for a new gra-ca i remembered having an old voodoo3 somewhere in my flat. I thougt of (searching and) installing it because my old ati rage IIc is'n good for

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
I never lost any data and have been using reiserfs for 3 years now. Using with -notail option and for all drives (also /boot/) Torsdag den 16. oktober 2003 18:18 skrev Matt Garman: Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 19:50, Fred Wade wrote: Then lets try something else.  You can get into kde, right?  Then log in as root and start kde.  Go to Control Centre - System Administration - Login Manager - Sessions.  I have the two there that live in /etc/ X11/Sessions/, i.e. kde-3.1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Alan
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:18:57AM -0700, Matt Garman wrote: Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux boot CD and run reiserfsck

[gentoo-user] Patch-2.5.9 is NOT on internet

2003-10-16 Thread wolface
is anyone having this problem? im trying to build the bootstrap (stage 1) and emerge can't find patch-2.5.9 I did a search (manualy) in almost 40 gnu's mirrors and there is no patch-2.5.9 package anywhere. mandrake has an rpm for it but that's all. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Patch-2.5.9 is NOT on internet

2003-10-16 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:42:31PM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im trying to build the bootstrap (stage 1) and emerge can't find patch-2.5.9 You mean *this* patch-2.5.9? http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/patch-2.5.9.tar.gz

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
The Voodoo just got behind for things like gaming. It just won't handle the requirements of games today (or a few years back either) in 2 or 3D. However, for many purposes it's just fine. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:46:53 +0200 D.Wilkening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ian, it's quite the same

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server

2003-10-16 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:32:08 +0200 Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a look at the docs on www.gentoo.org and didn't found the possibility to use -* documented... Did I look at the wrong place or is that *really* undocumented? If so, it would be cool to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:46:46 +0100 Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list To add a question, is there a way to change the default key-mapping in Evolution, especially adding one for the Reply to List option! in all Gnome programs this is actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:57, Spider wrote: begin quote On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:46:46 +0100 Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list To add a question, is there a way to change the default key-mapping in Evolution, especially adding one for the Reply to

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to try it out on a brand new Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago. Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair with the reiserfs tools. I don't shut it off improperly or anything like that, and have been doing admin work for

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:02, Nate Duehr wrote: My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to try it out on a brand new Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago. Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair with the reiserfs tools. I don't shut it off improperly or

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I need a mailsystem for around 2.000 POP3 accounts (and SMTP for them of course) and and I want to implement that in a safe way. So I thougt I setup some kind of backup server with the same config and then make a new, but higher MX record

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread MadMax
I've been using it on everything but /boot for a while now, and it's completely fine. I have decent hardware and an up-to-date kernel, and it works great. My friends also use it, and they, too, have never had a problem. The only time it has ever failed on me (or anyone I personally know) was a

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash

2003-10-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
quote who=Nicholas Potter I have seen in the forums a ton of info on installing bootsplash for a 2.4 kernel, but what about for the 2.6 kernels? I don't think they need to be patched, but can I just install bootsplash and the rest? If anyone has experience or can help that would be great.

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie New Install Problems

2003-10-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:54:30 +0100 A. S. Budden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You passed an undefined mode number. Press RETURN to see video modes available, SPACE to continue or wait 30 secs I too have this problem, when 'vga=XXX' line is in my lilo.conf. I had this problem even during gentoo

[gentoo-user] transcode won't compile

2003-10-16 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While compiling transcode I've got the following error: gcc -D_REENTRANT -funroll-loops -ffast-math -Wall - -DMOD_PATH=\/usr/lib/transcode\ -mcpu=i686 -pipe -DDCT_YUV_PRECISION=1 -O3 - -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie New Install Problems

2003-10-16 Thread brett holcomb
Did you enable framebuffer in menuconfig? On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:23:41 +0200 Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:54:30 +0100 A. S. Budden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You passed an undefined mode number. Press RETURN to see video modes available, SPACE to continue or wait

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:54:18 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Broadband connected # emerge search kde /tmp/kde-search You don't need to be connected to internet when doing emerge search. It searches your local copy of the portage tree. You should update the tree by issuing 'emerge

RE: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:34, Mark Knecht wrote: Great thread. I'm doing a new box and have been an ATI user. However, I need an adapter with no fan and do not require leading edge 3D support. The ATI Radeon 9000 model I was using seems to have disappeared, so I didn't know what to do. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to try it out on a brand new Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago. Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair with the reiserfs tools. I don't shut it off improperly or anything like that, and have been doing admin work for

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:51:47 -0400 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Openoffice-bin will definately install faster (26 minutes on my box) but at the expense of some speed running the app later. Openoffice will take a long time to compile. (according to my logs 37 hrs

RE: [gentoo-user] transcode won't compile

2003-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Make sure mmx is in your use flags and try again.. Or is it -mmx.. Damn, I saw someone say it recently.. do emerge info | grep Use and do the opposite of what it is now. that should work.. While compiling transcode I've got the following error: gcc -D_REENTRANT -funroll-loops -ffast-math

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-16 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:54:31 +0100 A. S. Budden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, there isn't a web based search. There IS one, atleast I have overheard a conversation on #gentoo at either ircnet or efnet about someone making such project. I think it was even in Gentoo weekly newsletter.

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