[gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and toward udev? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] resierfs blocksize

2003-12-27 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:59:04 +0100, SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bugs: No other blocksizes but 4k available :-) *BLUSH* Oh! Thanks. Then I wonder why they bothered to add this option at all. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast

Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot

2003-12-27 Thread SN
I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM. The one thing they don't have is the tremendously broad availability of standard

Re: [gentoo-user] No internet connection as normal user

2003-12-27 Thread Michael Spohn
If you get internet access as Root then dns resolution _IS_ working. But you said you couldn't ping the dns servers. So dns is working may just filtering ICMP. Hi, back after a day off my problem still causes me headaches... If this ICMP is a firewall issue, I now use the firewall rules for

RE: [gentoo-user] no libstdc++

2003-12-27 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi, I have installed gcc-3.3.2-r4, and now I no longer have libstdc++.so.5 anywhere. It broke many of the programs. When I try to run g++ or c++ I get the message Can't locate/run g++ (I don't know who emits this message; I don't think it is the shell). Anyone knows what's going on?

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-27 Thread John Ross Hunt
I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? Look for a file named -MERGING* in your /var/db/pkg path. I'm going from

Re: [gentoo-user] No internet connection as normal user

2003-12-27 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Michael Spohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you get internet access as Root then dns resolution _IS_ working. But you said you couldn't ping the dns servers. So dns is working may just filtering ICMP. Hi, back after a day off my problem still causes me headaches... If this ICMP

[gentoo-user] Problems with services

2003-12-27 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I've added sometime ago sysklogd and vcron and now I use metalog and vixie-cron (which afaik is a rename for vcron) and I rc-updated del vcron and sysklogd but after an emerge I always get: * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'metalog' already provide 'logger'!; * Not adding

Re: [gentoo-user] missing libXinerama makes KDE crash on startup

2003-12-27 Thread Rob2
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:53, Rob2 wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 00:16, Rob2 wrote: Somehow I have lost, or never installed libXinerama.so.1It is needed for KDE. I am running XFree86 v 4.3.0 Can someone tell me how I can

RE: [gentoo-user] no libstdc++

2003-12-27 Thread Redeeman
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:49, John Ross Hunt wrote: Hi, I have installed gcc-3.3.2-r4, and now I no longer have libstdc++.so.5 anywhere. It broke many of the programs. When I try to run g++ or c++ I get the message Can't locate/run g++ (I don't know who emits this message; I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Friday 26 December 2003 20:00, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yes, it was you who mentioned Gentoo on the sxs newsgroup. I finally got to where I could try it and liked it. It's sure popular. I'm running it on servers and desktops and will probably stay with it. The only reason I'd play with

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Friday 26 December 2003 23:16, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and toward udev? You should read this discussion http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1893. devfs has been

Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Saturday 27 December 2003 00:41, SN wrote: I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM. The one thing they don't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:47, John Ross Hunt wrote: I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? Look for

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 27 December 2003 08:16, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and toward udev? First, obsolete means not, that it will disappear suddenly. There were functions obsolete

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Redeeman
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:17, Collins wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 23:16, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and toward udev? You should read this discussion

[gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Roger
happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message. Protocol dose not support. -- ~~~ China Cell Phone Rental http://www.pandaphone.com Start with Gentoo,Start with Freedom

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote: happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message. Protocol dose not support. anyway, when are you coming here for the evening of drinking disgusting amounts of alcohol

[gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, Just wondering on the general policy for replying to emails from this list. I have a tendency to hit the reply and let the email headers dictate where the mail goes. This does seem to have the disadvantage that replies to emails sent by people who have personally set a reply-to header

[gentoo-user] Error while emerging php

2003-12-27 Thread Aleksandr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm using Gentoo 1.4, I have installed it last week so all ports installed are relatively new. Now I'm trying to compile php and I always get the same error: eagle aleksandr # emerge php Calculating dependencies ...done! | emerge (1 of 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Or use openssh instead of telnet. It does everything telnet does and is more secure. U must know something I do not ... how can u substitutetelnet localhost smtp using ssh to check if mailserver is alive ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:37, Redeeman wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:17, Collins wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 23:16, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Saturday 27 December 2003 07:08, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Just wondering on the general policy for replying to emails from this list. I have a tendency to hit the reply and let the email headers dictate where the mail goes. This does seem to have the disadvantage that replies to emails

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread John Ross Hunt
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote: happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message. Protocol dose not support. anyway, when are you coming here for the evening of drinking disgusting amounts

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:17, John Ross Hunt wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote: happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message. Protocol dose not support. anyway, when are you

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Saturday 27 December 2003 07:28, Tom Wesley wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:15, Collins wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 07:08, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Just wondering on the general policy for replying to emails from this list. I have a tendency to hit the reply and let the

Re: [gentoo-user] three-part: xmms buld not working?? and nvidia/sdl issues... and sound??

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Scott Jackson wrote: 2) nvidia/sdl issues... I've has some minor troubles with my nvidia drivers on my GeForce FX 5700. Apparently, the portage tree needs updating, because nVidia came out with new drivers on the 22nd. I used the official ones instead of the emerge tree (because the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Roger
How can I update Gaim from 0.66 to 0.74? Each time I use emerge gaim , it always install 0.66version. I do not want to download the 0.74 package manually, and unpack it ... I just want to update it through emerge!!! 在2003年12月27日的23:03,Tom Wesley写道: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I would assume ssh localhost smtp and see what you get back. On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:08, you wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Or use openssh instead of telnet. It does everything telnet does and is more secure. U must know something I do not ... how can u substitutetelnet

[gentoo-user] vanilla sources on amd64

2003-12-27 Thread Reno Romanin
I'm trying to use vanilla sources 2.4.23 on my amd64 box. I installed with the 2.6 cd. 2.6 will boot fine, with the exception of my network card won't work. 2.4.23 stops, and says NMI recieved, dazed and confused, will try to go on. You probobly have a problem with your RAM chips. This is very

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:02, Roger wrote: How can I update Gaim from 0.66 to 0.74? Each time I use emerge gaim , it always install 0.66version. I do not want to download the 0.74 package manually, and unpack it ... I just want to update it through emerge!!! 2003122723:03Tom Wesley On

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Aaron Walker
Roger wrote: How can I update Gaim from 0.66 to 0.74? Each time I use emerge gaim , it always install 0.66version. I do not want to download the 0.74 package manually, and unpack it ... I just want to update it through emerge!!! did you do emerge sync first to get the list of currently available

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Redeeman
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:30, Tom Wesley wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:17, John Ross Hunt wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote: happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Please check it before u send it here ... is it meant to be a joke ? noro Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I would assume ssh localhost smtp and see what you get back. On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:08, you wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Or use openssh instead of telnet. It does everything

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Collins wrote: Read up on this in the archives - discussed ad nauseam. Any decent mailer (kmail, evolution, and sylpheed for sure) can reply automatically to the list rather than the original sender. And Mozilla (very common) of course NOT ... so what did u like to say ? -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with services

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I've added sometime ago sysklogd and vcron and now I use metalog and vixie-cron (which afaik is a rename for vcron) and I rc-updated del vcron and sysklogd but after an emerge I always get: * Caching service dependencies... * Service

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
No, it's not meant to be a joke - I'm trying to help you. I don't run smtp so I can't duplicate the exact thing you're trying to do. However, I have used ssh as a substitute for telnet when I had to connect to other services. As a matter of fact I did run ssh localhost smtp before I sent the

[gentoo-user] procmail for virtual users ?

2003-12-27 Thread albert
My setup is the one described in the gentoo virtual mailhosting howto (setup with mysql tables http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml ). I have added SpamAssassin to the mix and I have procmail doing local delivery, i.e. for non-virtual mailboxes (by adding mailbox_command =

Re: [gentoo-user] three-part: xmms buld not working?? and nvidia/sdl issues... and sound??

2003-12-27 Thread Scott Jackson
Hmmm... well I've had bad experiences with the driver nv that's built into XFree86. I've simply always used the official drivers, and the ones on the emerge tree are old and therefore break withthe 5700s. On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:47:08 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott

[gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, At this moment i jump to windows to play StarCraft. I found winex-transgaming in the portage but you have to pay for it. What are the other possibilities ? Patrick signature.asc Description: Dit berichtdeel is digitaal ondertekend

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 17:45, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, At this moment i jump to windows to play StarCraft. I found winex-transgaming in the portage but you have to pay for it. What are the other possibilities ? Patrick I believe that straight Wine will play StarCraft, although

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
I was really thinking u know something I do not, because u said exactly: It (ssh) does everything telnet does. Since it's a long time I last read ssh manual and I use telnet as very helpfull diagnostic tool for checking different net services (pop3,imap, smtp ..., but NOT for running remote shell)

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You can try wine. Or you can use winex-cvs but if you do that give them feedback (see the web site) on any problems (and let them know if it works). There are some commerical alternatives such as VMWare. On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:45, you wrote: Hi, At this moment i jump to windows to

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:08:12 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | U must know something I do not ... | how can u substitutetelnet localhost smtp | using ssh to check if mailserver is alive ? Use nmap. That's what it's there for. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs and udev (kernel 2.6 and beyond)

2003-12-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 02:16:44 -0500 Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The 2.6.0 series kernels and later consider devfs obsolete. | | Does anyone know the gentoo road map for moving away from devfs and | toward udev? The ~arch baselayout supports udev. There's a bug about this

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge into different directory

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: Can I emerge some files into different directories? I would like to install enemy-territory and I have a partition where I put all the games under /games. Can I do this with emerge? just move all stuff from /usr/games to your new dir, remove and replace it by symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:12:17 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:08:12 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | U must know something I do not ... | how can u substitutetelnet localhost smtp | using ssh to check if mailserver is

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
On Saturday 27 December 2003 09:11, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Collins wrote: Read up on this in the archives - discussed ad nauseam. Any decent mailer (kmail, evolution, and sylpheed for sure) can reply automatically to the list rather than the original sender. And Mozilla (very common) of

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Eric Paynter
Brett I. Holcomb said: You can try wine. Or you can use winex-cvs [...] There are some commerical alternatives such as VMWare. vmware is not really an alternative since it still requires that you own and use Windows. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:08:12 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | U must know something I do not ... | how can u substitutetelnet localhost smtp | using ssh to check if mailserver is alive ? Use nmap. That's what it's there for. U are OT, I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
i'l never used wine, but i give it a try. thanks all for the feedback Patrick Op za 27-12-2003, om 19:02 schreef Tom Wesley: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 17:45, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, At this moment i jump to windows to play StarCraft. I found winex-transgaming in the portage but

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install kinks worked out

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Scott Jackson wrote: 2) genkernel is the ONLY working option. do a genkernel --config and enable your options, then follow the installation instructions until you hit the /etc/lilo.conf -- Oh, really ? :-o 1. I didn't find any usable docs for genkernel 2. I run it and it erased my previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install kinks worked out

2003-12-27 Thread Scott Jackson
'tis true, but it has seemed that every time I try a manual kernel installation, it fails. Genkernel seems the only working option for me. (I was tired when I wrote the original letter, 'scuse.) On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:13:45 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Jackson wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Error while emerging php

2003-12-27 Thread Marc Redmann
Hi Aleksandr, checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... no configure: error: libjpeg not found! !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.3-r2 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed But I HAVE installed jpeg library, I've checked it with qpkg -I My USE flags: USE=3dnow

[gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point with

Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot

2003-12-27 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot On Saturday 27 December 2003 00:41, SN wrote: I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like

[gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Stroller
Folks, Happy festive stuff. I hope you have all sated much consumerist avarice and enjoyed gouts of inebriated hedonism at this time of religious spiritual neglect. I'm hoping that someone can advise me about local mail delivery. At present any messages produced by my cron jobs are emailed,

Re: [gentoo-user] vanilla sources on amd64

2003-12-27 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:33:59 -0600, Reno Romanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NMI recieved, dazed and confused, will try to go on. You probobly have a problem with your RAM chips. This is very unlikely that i have any hardware issues, seeing that it all works fine with other OS's (win xp and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas? No, it's not meant to be a joke - I'm trying to help

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
That's right. I don't use it and forgot you need a copy of Windows to install in it. Scratch that one. On Saturday 27 December 2003 13:43, you wrote: Brett I. Holcomb said: You can try wine. Or you can use winex-cvs [...] There are some commerical alternatives such as VMWare.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I don't run smtp. However, I have used it to check a service. I did ssh -p x [EMAIL PROTECTED] For this service I got a connected message indicating the service was listening. Yes, ssh was designed as a secure way to connect and is recommended over telnet. On Saturday 27 December 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:38:10 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a sendmail replacement which does what I require, please..? with the risk of being selfpromoting, might this setup be what you require? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/local-mail-0.3.0/local-email.html

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Redeeman
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:08, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Just wondering on the general policy for replying to emails from this list. I have a tendency to hit the reply and let the email headers dictate where the mail goes. This does seem to have the disadvantage that replies to emails sent

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Aaron Walker
Gavin Henry wrote: Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point with GNU/Linux. I want to get my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread SN
A defacto standard is: Kernighan, Ritchie The C rogramming Language I'd also recommend : O'Reilly Prof C Programming. The second shows you how to actually programm for and in a unix, linux environment. If you want to do system programming , kernel, hardware, drivers ec. then you should

Re: [gentoo-user] vanilla sources on amd64

2003-12-27 Thread SN
- Original Message - From: Reno Romanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] vanilla sources on amd64 I'm trying to use vanilla sources 2.4.23 on my amd64 box. I installed with the 2.6 cd. 2.6 will boot fine, with

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Stroller
On Dec 27, 2003, at 9:51 pm, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:38:10 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a sendmail replacement which does what I require, please..? with the risk of being selfpromoting, might this setup be what you require?

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:03:04 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I read your excellent article some time ago, when I setup Courier-IMAP. However at that time I'd already committed to mailfilter for filtering of incoming mail; it's my understanding that postfix does

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 23:20, Gavin Henry wrote: But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point with GNU/Linux. I want to get my old skills back and write something or help on some projects etc. Good for you :) I need some good books. I used to have one called A Book On C, but

Re: [gentoo-user] List police on replies

2003-12-27 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 21:54, Redeeman wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:08, Tom Wesley wrote: Hi all, Just wondering on the general policy for replying to emails from this list. I have a tendency to hit the reply and let the email headers dictate where the mail goes. This does seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:03:04 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I read your excellent article some time ago, when I setup Courier-IMAP. However at that time I'd already committed to mailfilter for filtering of incoming mail; it's my understanding that postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Starcraft

2003-12-27 Thread Jeff Blair
It has been a while, but I do remember installing, and playing Starcraft via wine. It wasn't that hard to get up and running. And, everything seamed to work ok. Jeff On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 12:55, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: i'l never used wine, but i give it a try. thanks all for the

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, excuse me! I'm sorry I tried to help with what knowledge I had. First, your original message just wanted to merge telnet - that got answered. I also gave you the same (good) advice I've gotten and seen given many times - in fact I'm surprised someone else didn't give it to you too as

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks guys!! I had best get to work reading and coding :-) Gavin. - -- Regards http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://www.suretecsystems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-27 Thread Scott Jackson
you know, if you wanted to get a developer's opinion, there IS a gentoo-devel list :-P this is gentoo-user... On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:43:17 + Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Everyone, I was had this pointed out to me, by Simon

[gentoo-user] kdelibs 3.1.4 refuses to build

2003-12-27 Thread Noah Justin Norris
kde 3.1.4 refuses to build i switched to a 2.6 kernel and enabled nptl and im rebuilding everything no matter what i do i cant get kdelibs to install ? (emerge kdelibs -ev) heres the end snip of the build /usr/qt/3/bin/moc ./kclipboard.h -o kclipboard.moc /usr/qt/3/bin/moc

Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot

2003-12-27 Thread Collins
[ snips ] On Saturday 27 December 2003 13:26, SN wrote: - Original Message - From: Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, this message went to the wrong list, but thanks for the info about Mandrake. My experience with Mandrake Cooker in the past (2 years back) was that nothing was

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Snowy
From: Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming? Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:59:37 + Thanks guys!! I had best get to work reading and coding :-) I think you have to go to the bookstore and check the books, but I like this book.

Re: [gentoo-user] WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-27 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 5:19 pm, Scott Jackson wrote: you know, if you wanted to get a developer's opinion, there IS a gentoo-devel list :-P this is gentoo-user... I will post to that as well then. Thanks. On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:43:17 +

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Guy, it's very nice of u, that u like to help, but u really do not understand telnet, ssh and network services ... at all !!! (This is the third answer by which u confirm it ... like a donkey.) Please stop to write about your feelings and repeat what somebody wrote without understanding it.

[gentoo-user] rc-update hotplug - boot or default?

2003-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've had this question about a number of daemons in the past, and it's come up today with hotplug. Should this daemon be started at boot or default? How would I know? I didn't see anything in the README that was obvious (It's Redhat oriented) and I didn't spot any specific messages when I

[gentoo-user] Help with portage dependencies needed

2003-12-27 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Hi everybody ! I installed a small gentoo based (q)mail only server from stage3 tarball on very old PC with 2GB hdd. (2GB is not much, but should be enough, 'cause no other services nor XFree ... are needed.) I simply booted from Knoppix, and made these steps: fdisk, mkfs, mount fs's, setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Stroller
On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:52 pm, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:03:04 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's my understanding that postfix does many of the same things as mailfilter. Is this correct..? Or am I confusing postfix with procmail..? as a followup to my

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update hotplug - boot or default?

2003-12-27 Thread Ted Ozolins
Mark Knecht wrote: In general, where do I find info on each specific daemon and when it should be started? Thanks! Mark Looking at Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instruction page 13: # emerge -k hotplug # rc-update add hotplug default also from installs of various server etal: mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update hotplug - boot or default?

2003-12-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 00:37, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've had this question about a number of daemons in the past, and it's come up today with hotplug. Should this daemon be started at boot or default? How would I know? I didn't see anything in the README that was obvious (It's Redhat

[gentoo-user] emerge mplayer

2003-12-27 Thread Roger
hey, I have trouble in emerge mplayer. I got following message. Anyone help me? [EMAIL PROTECTED] emerge mplayer Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-video/mplayer-0.92 to / md5 src_uri ;-) MPlayer-0.92.tar.bz2 !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with portage dependencies needed

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:20:26 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody ! I installed a small gentoo based (q)mail only server from stage3 tarball on very old PC with 2GB hdd. (2GB is not much, but should be enough, 'cause no other services nor XFree ...

Re: [gentoo-user] can Gentoo be installed without an internet connection?

2003-12-27 Thread Linux Gentoo
Ok, so I tried installing from stage 1 first, because I wanted to build my system from nothing. I didn't realize I *had* to have internet connection so when I entered scripts/bootstrap.sh I got the error message about not being able to download portage. So then I started with stage two, and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mplayer

2003-12-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On 28 Dec 2003 10:34:25 +0800 Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hey, I have trouble in emerge mplayer. I got following message. Anyone | help me? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] emerge mplayer | Calculating dependencies ...done! | emerge (1 of 1) media-video/mplayer-0.92 to / | md5 src_uri ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Scott Jackson
OKAY. Enough flames already. y'all are flooding my mailbox and you can't even speak correct english. ANSWERS: 1) no, ssh foo.bar smtp won't work, because the point of telnet foo.bar smtp is to nicely fool the mailserver into thinking you're not telnet. (not that we want to prevent that anyway,

[gentoo-user] hdd surface test

2003-12-27 Thread Meka[ni]
Is there a program that can check disk for damages? I need a surface scan similar to windows because I suspect that there is something wrong with one of my discs. If it is important, my hard disk is IDE. Thanx _ Koji ce mi ovo Mandrak U se i u svoje SuSE --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?

2003-12-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:56:46 + Scott Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | now stop flooding my mailbox or I'll force Godman's Law to be incited. Ah dear. Looks like I'll just have to flame you. For screwing up. Three times! In one sentence! -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] ripping DVD to ISO

2003-12-27 Thread Andrew Gaffney
What is the recommended, tried and true procedure for ripping a DVD straight to an ISO? I have a friend who is trying to do this. I recommended to him to use 'dd', but he said that he got weird errors reading from the DVD when he did. Can anyone help? -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] lost networking on NForce2 after turning hotplugging off?

2003-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Short version - Would turning off hotplug using 'rc-update del hotplug default' cause the 3Com network driver which is built into the kernel to no longer load or configure? Long version - I have an NForce2 machine(A7N8X Delxe) at a remote family location. We bought the machine a UPS

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Alex Koval
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:33:48 +, Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:02, Roger wrote: How can I update Gaim from 0.66 to 0.74? Each time I use emerge gaim , it always install 0.66version. I do not want to download the 0.74 package manually, and unpack it ... I just

[gentoo-user] eestock again

2003-12-27 Thread Ted Ozolins
in make.conf: USE=X gtk kde imap maildir oss alsa sdl xml tcltk php java postgresql apxs DSO cups mysql apache I've emerged apache-2, postgresql, php-4 and mod_php-4 in the order listed. I've installed eestock in /var/www/localhost/htdocs then started postgresql with /etc/init.d/postgresql