Re: [gentoo-user] IDS

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Boman
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 02:48, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone, Just wondering what Network intrusion detection software is the best. I've heard the main two programs to use would be Snort or Prelude and am wondering which of the two gives you more flexibility(configuration) and better

[gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?

2003-11-11 Thread Alan
I'm trying to get daap going to share the mp3s and oggs on my fileserver via itunes sharing, with little success. I'm following the directions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030711140157143 I have the files downloaded, but whenever I try to compile libhttpd-persistant I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems

2003-11-11 Thread gabor
Spider wrote: Because disk images can be replaced and created on the fly without physical access to the hardware. The old adage is that if I have physical access to your machine, its cracked. if you however allow me to mount /tmp/my.iso /mnt/loop iso9660 loop,user 0 0 and then allow me to

[gentoo-user] cross gcc

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
Where can I get cross compiler ? I want build gentoo system for x86_64 (opteron). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems

2003-11-11 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Andrew Farmer wrote: - snip - So, is it a problem on your linux (where you are root) Farmer, farmer, u really can't read !!! Translation just for u: Previous sencence is CLEARLY saying, you are ROOT on your system ! to copy some program (e.g. /bin/cat, but the best your own statically linked prog

[gentoo-user] upgrading vid card

2003-11-11 Thread Aaron Walker
I just bought a new video card for my 2nd machine (my windows gaming box), and so I thought I would replace the ATI Rage128 I have in this box (Gentoo 1.4) with the GF4 Ti4200 that I am taking out of the windows box. I was just wondering which installation method would be better, or if it

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading vid card

2003-11-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:35, Aaron Walker wrote: I just bought a new video card for my 2nd machine (my windows gaming box), and so I thought I would replace the ATI Rage128 I have in this box (Gentoo 1.4) with the GF4 Ti4200 that I am taking out of the windows box. I was just wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread Kev
Ah...sorry good point. I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while since I played with it...can't you just remove / rename the key files from their home dir? Kev Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: This works in the case the user uses password authentication, but what about

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-11 Thread Stefan Vunckx
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:24, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I have a Gentoo box and a RH9 box. They can connect to X-server of another box. Copy and Paste commands also work i.e. copying the content of a document of RH9 and pasting to another document of Gentoo and vise versa. Is

[gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH and or shfs (another question)

2003-11-11 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have followed the 'File transfer with SSH' tread and have a question about it. If you want to mount volumes with shfs I suppose that both server and client have to run shfs, and that SSH only will not be enough? If so, are there server versions of it for Solaris? (my server OS) Patrick --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread mathieu
Maybe changing her shell to /bin/false ? I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while since I played with it...can't you just remove / rename the key files from their home dir? Kev Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: This works in the case the user uses password authentication,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Kev, Yes, I guess I can do it, but I thought there would be a cleaner way to do it. Thanks, regards Kev wrote: Ah...sorry good point. I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while since I played with it...can't you just remove / rename the key files from their home

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question (AGAIN)

2003-11-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi MAL and folks, Because of SSH being unstable in operation I upgraded it to the latest packages on RH9 box as follows; openssh-3.7.1p2-1.i386.rpm openssh-clients-3.7.1p2-1.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-3.7.1p2-1.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-gnome-3.7.1p2-1.i386.rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
This works in both cases, thanks a lot Regards Jose mathieu wrote: Maybe changing her shell to /bin/false ? I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while since I played with it...can't you just remove / rename the key files from their home dir? Kev Jose

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread Marshal Newrock
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/bash I would tar up and remove (or simply rename) the homedir so the keys are no longer accessible, in addition to usermod -L. On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, mathieu wrote: Maybe changing her shell to /bin/false ? I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while

[gentoo-user] emerge hosed .. vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry'

2003-11-11 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi all Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here? blommie todos # emerge --pretend ncftp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/net-ftp/ncftpTraceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line

[gentoo-user] Trouble installing Python 2.3

2003-11-11 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi all I'm a bit lost with Python 2.3. I tried emerging it, and stuff (e.g. emerge) broke (see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33147 ) While trying to resolve this, I found a bug called python-updater buggered http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32374 which includes a comment if you

[gentoo-user] Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-11 Thread Roberto Padovani
From my post in the thread: SSH permission question cheers, R# on the X-serving host: #xhost + 192.168.0.? being the remote host IP and also # echo '192.168.0.?:0.0' $DISPLAY being the X-serving host -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-11 Thread Paul Kimberley
OpenSSH includes sftp which is a secure file transfer protocol I think thats what your looking for. On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:06, Stefan Vunckx wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 12:24, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I have a Gentoo box and a RH9 box. They can connect to X-server of

Re: [gentoo-user] I broke my emerge somehow

2003-11-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 10, 2003, at 9:50 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 10, 2003, at 2:16 AM, Andrej Kacian wrote: \bash-2.05b# wget -d http://www.shire.net DEBUG output created by Wget 1.8.2 on linux-gnu. --21:01:49-- http://www.shire.net/ = `index.html' Resolving www.shire.net...

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-11 Thread Tenório Cavalcante
...and includes scp which secure copy program. []'s tenorio On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:29:56 -0500 Paul Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenSSH includes sftp which is a secure file transfer protocol I think thats what your looking for. On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:06, Stefan Vunckx wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] problem during installation - entering the chroot ( step 8)

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Schmitzer
hello daniel , then i typed : cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf then the messages appears: cann´t create regular file. no such file or directory but why ? in /etc and in /mnt/gentoo/etc the file resolv.conf exists. /etc/resolv.conf exists? Are the files different? If

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question (AGAIN)

2003-11-11 Thread MAL
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi MAL and folks, snip On Gentoo box === As USER *** $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: -bash-2.05b$ konqueror konqueror: cannot connect to X server Firstly, something you should understand. There are two ways to do what you are attempting, and

[gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Kamil Wokitajtis
Hallo, I've got problem with starting X server, i am getting this error Fatal server error no screens found Using vt7 (EE) No devices detected After emerging kde i also did : emerge nvidia-kernel but i am still getting this error. My graphic card is Gainward GeForce4 Ti4800-SE Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-11 Thread waltersa
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:24, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I have a Gentoo box and a RH9 box. They can connect to X-server of another box. Copy and Paste commands also work i.e. copying the content of a document of RH9 and pasting to another document of Gentoo and vise versa. Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:57 AM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Hallo, I've got problem with starting X server, i am getting this error Fatal server error no screens found Using vt7 (EE) No devices detected You need to configure XFree. Try running 'xf86config' as root or look in /etc/X11 for a file called

RE: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I'm trying to get daap going to share the mp3s and oggs on my fileserver via itunes sharing, with little success. I'm following the directions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030711140157143 I have the files downloaded, but whenever I try to compile

RE: [gentoo-user] cross gcc

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Might want to gander at this before you go cross compiling.. http://dev.gentoo.org/~brad_mssw/amd64-tech-notes.html Where can I get cross compiler ? I want build gentoo system for x86_64 (opteron). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?

2003-11-11 Thread Ric Messier
Used to be the recommended way of removing a user from your system was to change the username (user becomes _user for example). That way you can retain all the privs, etc in case you want to grant the account to someone else later (like the person's replacement in a work environment). Ric On

RE: [gentoo-user] Boot logo

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Coulson
I have a similar but different question :) How can I *disable* the boot logo but still maintain framebuffer startup? I have a problem at the moment (actually not right at this point as the machine is in bits, but prior to yesterday I had it), whereby: A) framebuffer would start, in 16bit

RE: [gentoo-user] First time Install/Bootloader with Windows Query

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
SNIP this: /dev/hda1 (The first partition): Windows 2000 Professional/MBR /dev/hda2: Windows apps /dev/hda3: Doc storage And I wanted to add: /dev/hda4: /boot partition for Linux (Grub: 0, 3) /dev/hda5: Linux SWAP (Grub: 0, 4) /dev/hda6: Linux root (/) (Grub: 0, 5) 0=a1 1=a2 2=a3 3=a4

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I get gcc-config to do anything?

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
hmm.. What version of gcc you running?? You MUST be running 2.95-3 (I think) or later to use this.. The env its talking about is /etc/env.d/gcc.. If you don't have that.. I would suspect your copy of gcc is older... If not, let me know and I will try it from another angle. I've just emerged

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but since I already have the latest (unstable) versions of Tcl/Tk, upgrading/updating them doesn't change anything. My problem is that emerge is returning errors when I try to update world with the upgradeonly flag. Well, as a temporary hack,

Re: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread downtime null
first of all, please use text only. many of us use MUAs that don't support HTML formatted emails. i've been having the same problem. i don't remember when exactly it started happening tho. i just remember rebooting one time and not being able to get back into X. my temporary fix was to add a

RE: [gentoo-user] cross gcc

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
, 11.11.2003, 18:18, Jeffrey Smelser : Might want to gander at this before you go cross compiling.. http://dev.gentoo.org/~brad_mssw/amd64-tech-notes.html Thanks for link. The problem, in essence, is this: I have Tiger K8W (S2875) motherboard, two Opterons and two SATA disks, so promise

RE: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Hall was assuming the Kamil hadn't run xf86config at all. Which is what I thought from Kamil's email as well. -Nathan -Original Message- From: downtime null first of all, please use text only. many of us use MUAs that don't support HTML formatted emails. i've been having the same

[gentoo-user] can't locate module...

2003-11-11 Thread David
Hey Everybody, I am having a strange problem. I just finished a stage 3 install and now when I login I get something like 25 error messages saying modprobe: Can't locate module video* which is needed for /dev/video modprobe: Can't locate module radio* which is needed for /dev/radio modprobe:

RE: [gentoo-user] cross gcc

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Here is what I found: 2.6 kernel LiveCDs available for x86 and amd64? Thanks to Bob Johnson's hard work, we now have LiveCDs available for x86 and amd64 that use the 2.6 kernel. The x86 LiveCDs can be downloaded here, and the amd64 ones are here. The 2.6 LiveCD for amd64 should be preferred

RE: [gentoo-user] cross gcc

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
, 11.11.2003, 19:33, Jeffrey Smelser : http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/experimental/amd64/livecd/ There are 2.4 kernels in there.. (obviously the ones that don't say 2.6..) So maybe that will work for you. gentoo-amd64-basic-20030822.iso with 2.4.x kernel ? It is good! But

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?

2003-11-11 Thread Alan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:16:35AM -0600, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I'm trying to get daap going to share the mp3s and oggs on my fileserver via itunes sharing, with little success. I'm following the directions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030711140157143 I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH permission question (AGAIN)

2003-11-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi MAL, Thanks for your advice. Your method 'One' worked. But method 'Two' did not work, running 'xterm' displaying it on machineB only NOT on machineA disregard whether firewall on machineA was up or down. Sorry, I have to explain what I was trying to achieve in this few days. I need from

[gentoo-user] terminal server

2003-11-11 Thread Redeeman
hi, i am going to make a gentoo terminal server. i see ltsp project, but it dont descripe good IMO :( i know about xdmcp and vnc, but i wonder ltsp seems to have kernel patches and stuff, what does it help? and vnc seems pretty slow, and i was told xdmcp is slower. how come? i hate to face this,

RE: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I did run the configure program and it seemed to go fine. When I adjust the gcc line to this: gcc -I../src -g -I../ -I/usr/local/include \ -I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/g++-v3/ -D_OS_UNIX \ -c protocol.c which includes the proper location of the iostream

RE: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:30 AM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Hall, is this how you solved this problem? simply running the config again? i don't understand how this would fix the problem since you'd want to change to the 'nvidia' driver after running it. Running xf86config should get a *working* X-Windows. Maybe not

RE: [gentoo-user] virtual mailhosting - controlling it?

2003-11-11 Thread Ricardo Nuno
Hi, Well i used the virtual-mailhosting guide to start with but i ended up doing some changes For instance i added quota support with the VDA patch * How are you controlling it? custom PHP frontend? Postfix Admin? I'm using Postfix Admin, but i altered to to work with my configuration i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual mailhosting - controlling it?

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is mainly directed at those of you that have used the virtual-mailhosting guide. Have you searched any mailing list archives? I know there has been some discussion on your questions in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. There's also more documentation and information

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?

2003-11-11 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:24 am, Alan wrote: I have the files downloaded, but whenever I try to compile libhttpd-persistant I get tons of g++ errors, and I'm not sure why :( make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get gcc-config to do anything?

2003-11-11 Thread Matt Chorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 03:28 am, Jean Jordaan wrote: I've just emerged gcc-config. I can't get beyond this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] todos $ gcc-config --list-profiles * /usr/bin/gcc-config: No default profile setup! How do I set a profile? How

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:24:18 -0800, Alan muttered: I'm trying to get daap going to share the mp3s and oggs on my fileserver via itunes sharing, with little success. I'm following the directions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030711140157143 I have the files downloaded,

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)? (SOLVED, gcc != g++)

2003-11-11 Thread Alan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:48:47AM -0800, Andrew Farmer wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:24:18 -0800, Alan muttered: I'm trying to get daap going to share the mp3s and oggs on my fileserver via itunes sharing, with little success. I'm following the directions at

Re: [gentoo-user] X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread downtime null
ah. i assumed incorrectly! ha! i've been having trouble getting the drivers from nvidia to work, so i thought his problem was specific to the driver not working correctly. oh well. so, i've been having trouble getting the 'nvidia' driver to work. X returns '(EE) No screens found' (or something

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mike Williams wrote: Hihi, I am wanting to take an ~x86 box back to x86 (without waiting weeks, or months). 99.99% of things I'm not worried about downgrading. But then there is glibc (and possible binutils and gcc). At the moment glibc is 2.3.2-r8 with stable at 2.3.2-r1, a minor revision that

[gentoo-user] Re: X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread Eamon Caddigan
downtime null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah. i assumed incorrectly! ha! i've been having trouble getting the drivers from nvidia to work, so i thought his problem was specific to the driver not working correctly. oh well. so, i've been having trouble getting the 'nvidia' driver to work.

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 01:33 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Mike Williams wrote: Hihi, I am wanting to take an ~x86 box back to x86 (without waiting weeks, or months). 99.99% of things I'm not worried about downgrading. But then there is glibc (and possible binutils and gcc). At the moment glibc is 2.3.2-r8 with stable

[gentoo-user] Meta ports/ebuild/packages

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Hogsett
Are there any meta-{ebuilds,ports,packages}[*] that will install a large number of packages for quicker preparation of a workstation? I would like such a thing which would install items such as : ghostscript, ghostview, xpdf, xntpd, xinetd, gnome, kde, fvwm2, lprng, am-utils, dump/restore,

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Hall Stevenson wrote: At 01:33 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: Mike Williams wrote: Hihi, I am wanting to take an ~x86 box back to x86 (without waiting weeks, or months). 99.99% of things I'm not worried about downgrading. But then there is glibc (and possible binutils and gcc). At the moment glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge hosed .. vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry'

2003-11-11 Thread Pat Kerwan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:34:24PM +0200, Jean Jordaan wrote: Hi all Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here? blommie todos # emerge --pretend ncftp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Invalid db entry:

[gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath
Hi list, First of all, let me thank you for a great distribution that appears to run atleast at twice the speed of RH 9.1 I struggled to get cd-writing working. I gave up on using the ide-scsi driver, browsed some old posts and arrived at this monster command: 1)CD-WRITING # nice --19 mkisofs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread DB Wong
--- Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: downtime null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been having trouble getting the drivers from nvidia to work, so i thought his problem was specific to the driver not working correctly. oh well. so, i've been having trouble getting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Meta ports/ebuild/packages

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Hogsett
create an ebuild that looks something like this: DESCRIPTION=Meta package for all the packages I want installed. LICENSE=as-is KEYWORDS=~x86 ~ppc ~alpha ~sparc ~hppa RDEPEND=app-text/ghostscript app-text/ghostview app-text/xpdf sys-apps/xinetd gnome-base/gnome

[gentoo-user] openoffice ebuild problem

2003-11-11 Thread Glenn Johnson
I am getting the following when emerging openoffice: Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 to / /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 33: add-flags: command not found Line 33 of the ebuild is: add-flags -fno-strict-aliasing Is anyone else seeing this or do I have

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice ebuild problem

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Glenn Johnson wrote: I am getting the following when emerging openoffice: Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 to / /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 33: add-flags: command not found Line 33 of the ebuild is: add-flags -fno-strict-aliasing Is anyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble installing Python 2.3

2003-11-11 Thread Marius Mauch
On 11/11/03 Jean Jordaan wrote: However, in 'package-mask', I see: # carpaski@@gentoo.org (8 Oct 2003) # python-2.2 python-2.3 integration ebuild =sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r16 =sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r14 i.e. it looks like r16 is masked specifically because of some python-2.3 issue.

[gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I used to have simgear and flightgear installed for some time but last week I unemerged them. However when I make emerge -up --deep world now I get [ebuild N] dev-games/simgear-0.3.4 [ebuild N] games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.3 as the last lines of the list! I don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Dennis Freise
I used to have simgear and flightgear installed for some time but last week I unemerged them. However when I make emerge -up --deep world now I get [ebuild N] dev-games/simgear-0.3.4 [ebuild N] games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.3 as the last lines of the list! I don't want them.

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: 3)Right-clicking on the date-time panel in Gnome and clicking Adjust.. throws the error message: Failed to locate a program for configuring date and time Bah ! Do it by hand ! Like this:

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:33, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Normally I'm a gung-ho kind of guy, but I can't be doing with install/fixing this box *again* (selinux is too much like hard work). Should I be worried about downgrading? You might be

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:33, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Normally I'm a gung-ho kind of guy, but I can't be doing with install/fixing this box *again* (selinux is too much like hard work). Should I be worried about downgrading? You might be able to do this. (Note: Insert

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 20:27, Andrew Gaffney wrote: The reason for doing it this way is that downgrading glibc and/or gcc is a sure way to fsck up your system. With this method, you can move everything except those 2 back to x86 from ~x86 and

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath
Just guessing, but you may need to add -fix to cdrecord's options. This closes or finalizes (the term Nero uses) the disc. Thanks for this. But it looks like it was a random CD problem. I monster command again on a new blank CD and it worked. Any idea how to get nautilus to do this ? [I am

[gentoo-user] firewire problems under 2.6-test9 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread ivan georgiev
Dear Gentooers, My firewire external Iomega hard drive works perfectly with the gentoo-2.4.20 kernels. I tried 2.6-test9 and it cannot be recognized after modprobe sbp2. The sda device is created but none of the partitions (actually I have only one partition on it) are created. Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:13 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: 3)Right-clicking on the date-time panel in Gnome and clicking Adjust.. throws the error message: Failed to locate a program for configuring date and time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X server - no screens found

2003-11-11 Thread downtime null
still doesn't work. i made sure the modules was loaded, but it shows '(unused)'. then i set XF86Config to use 'nvidia' and made sure that the default depth was 16. ran 'kdm' and it didn't load X. the error i got was : (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-11 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:03:56 - (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use fish as well - in konqueror, put fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] into the location box, where the server is the machine running the ssh server in Nautilus (if you have key's setup properly) ssh://devbox/ is a

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:57:47 + Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hihi, I am wanting to take an ~x86 box back to x86 (without waiting weeks, or months). 99.99% of things I'm not worried about downgrading. But then there

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:27:01 +0500 Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bah ! Do it by hand ! Like this: Lol. Yeah, I know that. As, a I said I have some ambitious plans to install and configure gentoo for some non-geek friends of mine who are running

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 03:19 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: I used to have simgear and flightgear installed for some time but last week I unemerged them. However when I make emerge -up --deep world now I get [ebuild N] dev-games/simgear-0.3.4 [ebuild N] games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.3 as the last lines

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:27 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote: It's Mail-SpamAssassin. Doing an emerge --search spamassassin would find it. Something like emerge --search spam or emerge --search assassin likely would also. I tried vanilla Mail-SpamAssassin which didn't give anything. However, on doing a search on 'spam'

[gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install

2003-11-11 Thread Sumeet Singh Parmar
Title: no devfs in basic install Friends, I am emerging 1.4 RC4, I was pained to see that the stage1 uses MAKEDEV in /dev instead of devfs - what's up with that! I'll be sure to rm -rf /dev/* once emerge is complete. Sheesh. -Sumeet -Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Dennis Freise
# nano /var/cache/edb/world Remove the lines containing simgear and flightgear from that file. That's all. :) Is this a bug in emerge/portage or is it too random to track down ?? I had a similar issue last week with /var/cache/edb/world listing the 2.6 kernel package that I emerged to

Re: [gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install

2003-11-11 Thread Dennis Freise
no devfs in basic install Friends, I am emerging 1.4 RC4, I was pained to see that the stage1 uses MAKEDEV in /dev instead of devfs - what's up with that! I'll be sure to rm -rf /dev/* once emerge is complete. Sheesh. Maybe you should install a more recent version - like 1.4 final :)

Re: [gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install

2003-11-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Sumeet, Sumeet Singh Parmar said the following on 11/11/2003 4:24 PM Friends, I am emerging 1.4 RC4, I was pained to see that the stage1 uses MAKEDEV in /dev instead of devfs - what's up with that! I'll be sure to rm -rf /dev/* once emerge is complete. Sheesh. -Sumeet Even though I have

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
# nano /var/cache/edb/world Remove the lines containing simgear and flightgear from that file. That's all. :) Is this a bug in emerge/portage or is it too random to track down ?? I had a similar issue last week with /var/cache/edb/world listing the 2.6 kernel package that I

RE: [gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install

2003-11-11 Thread Sumeet Singh Parmar
Title: RE: [gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install I am so very sorry about the HTML. This Redmond OS' Outlook Express has a mind of its own about my e-mail formatting. I did download the basic ISO y'day night and dl'ed the stage1 from oregon state. Do I have to do this again? Shucks!

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe SVG

2003-11-11 Thread Burton Samograd
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adobe SVG! SVG is a W3C standard. Anyway, I believe mozilla will view SVG. I'm not sure which version supports or if you will need a plugin. You will have to check out mozilla.org. Or await a more knowledgable person to reply. I did

[gentoo-user] Emerge Binary Packages - Help?

2003-11-11 Thread rd
I am supporting 5 gentoo boxes. Presently I emerge to each box independently. Very time consuming -- even though I am using DISTCC for distributed compiles. Is anyone successfully compiling/emerge'ing to one box and then creating binary packages for installation on other boxes? I need help,

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath
Fraid not, Will have to look at this though. thanks. //Spider I just hit upon the gnome system tools home page at: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/index.html which if installed would help I guess would go a long way to help newbies. I am not sure whether this is available as a package for

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath
Just Mail-SpamAssassin *should* have worked. You don't have to append the package directory that it's in, though doing so is harmless. Yeah I just tried it now and it worked. Looked into my bash history and realized I had made a stupid typo (3:30 am in the morning here) Thank's for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Binary Packages - Help?

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 21:50, rd wrote: I am supporting 5 gentoo boxes. Presently I emerge to each box independently. Very time consuming -- even though I am using DISTCC for distributed compiles. Is anyone successfully

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Binary Packages - Help?

2003-11-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi, rd said the following on 11/11/2003 4:50 PM I am supporting 5 gentoo boxes. Presently I emerge to each box independently. Very time consuming -- even though I am using DISTCC for distributed compiles. Is anyone successfully compiling/emerge'ing to one box and then creating binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Binary Packages - Help?

2003-11-11 Thread Redeeman
very easy, emerge with --buildpkg, and place the binary packages in /usr/portage/packages/something, and emerge -k package on the others, you might want to have /usr/portage/packages as some nfs share On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:50, rd wrote: I am supporting 5 gentoo boxes. Presently I emerge to

Re: [gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install

2003-11-11 Thread Dennis Freise
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:37:23 -0800 Sumeet Singh Parmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am so very sorry about the HTML. This Redmond OS' Outlook Express has a mind of its own about my e-mail formatting. I feel with you. I too am forced to use OE @ work... :) I did download the basic ISO y'day

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:37:00 +0500 Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fraid not, Will have to look at this though. thanks. //Spider I just hit upon the gnome system tools home page at: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/index.html which if installed would

Re: [gentoo-user] libssl: error [fixed]

2003-11-11 Thread Gëzim
Ok guys, The libssl.so.0.9.7 probelm I fixed it ( the one that says error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) First link libssl.so.0.9.7 to libssl.so.0.9.6 then do libcrypto: cd /usr/lib/ ln -s libssl.so.0.9.7 libssl.so.0.9.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage seems to be against my will

2003-11-11 Thread Dennis Freise
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:34:49 -0600 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to which kernel the symbolic link '/usr/src/linux' points. That's certainly what you mean by primary kernel - I think... Edit /var/cache/edb/virtuals and make sure you delete all entries from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-11 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:37, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Well, as a temporary hack, I went ahead and 'injected' the latest unmasked versions of Tcl/Tk (dev-lang/tcl-8.3.4 and dev-lang/tk-8.3.4-r1). Now, `emerge -pvuD world' doesn't try to downgrade Tcl/Tk, but `emerge -pvUD world' is still

Re: [gentoo-user] libssl: error [fixed]

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:06, Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Ok guys, The libssl.so.0.9.7 probelm I fixed it ( the one that says error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) First link libssl.so.0.9.7 to libssl.so.0.9.6 then do

RE: [gentoo-user] libssl: error [fixed]

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Well, lets think about this for a minute.. You create a library for others to use. When you deem a change necessary enough to bump versions, this normally means you have changed the library in such a way, that calls to it should change... Wouldn't you think?? So are you really fixing the

[gentoo-user] strange problems with wget

2003-11-11 Thread Marcin DrStorm liwiski
Hi I've upgraded wget from 1.8.2 to 1.9 and when I tried to download something I got: bash-2.05b$ wget http://www.frazpc.pl/index.html --23:32:04-- http://www.frazpc.pl/index.html = `index.html' Resolving www.frazpc.pl... 213.199.202.10 Connecting to

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge and etc-update oddity

2003-11-11 Thread Glen Trudgett
Hi all, I can't locate the origin of the following message which occurs on start-up and when I emerge packages. If I could be given some direction, I would most certainly appreciate. Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... Usage: server -n rsa_nickname -p port

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