Re: [gentoo-user] emerge...

2005-02-25 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, John Dangler wrote: can someone tell if the output from config and compile during emerge are captured somewhere? I emerged gd and then re-compiled php but still have no access to the image functions. Have you run 'emerge -pv' to check the use flags for php? If the gd (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ups recommendations

2005-02-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: Software is something that I was actually wondering...what UPS manufacturers have better support in linux? A while back, I was working with a system that had an APC SmartUPS with a network management module that provided SNMP and telnet. This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to PermitRootLogin yes

2005-02-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: i've disabled PermitRootLogin in sshd_config and now i find that i miss it a great deal when it comes to server administration. i need to copy some files from a directory on the master machine to a directory owned by root on a series of cluster machines.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations for consolefont

2005-02-04 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Nick Smith wrote: Alternatively, you can use svgatextmode, but this doesn't take effect until the appropriate init script is run. well thats fine with me as long as my working area is a higher resolution, how do you get svgatextmode to work? It's been quite a while since I've

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations for consolefont

2005-02-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Nick Smith wrote: i cant seem to get anything smaller on my console than the 'default8x16 that is in rc.conf, how do i get a higher resolution at the command prompt, like when the machine is booting up? the other fonts ive tried either dont work and give some putfont error or

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-02 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, George Bingham wrote: Hey all, I've just installed 2.4.26. I have two graphics cards, each has a monitor, my primary display is an old ATI (Rage 128), and the other one is an NVidia GEforce 2. I have X installed and working with the KDE desktop using the ATI card it's monitor.

[gentoo-user] problem changing mta

2005-02-02 Thread Marshal Newrock
On a new system, I uninstalled ssmtp, and then ran the following emerge: # emerge --ask --verbose postfix spampd clamav amavisd-new All went well, until I tested the mail system, and discovered that /usr/sbin/sendmail was a symlink to /usr/sbin/ssmtp, which I thought I had removed. Checking the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: little crusade for Gentoo to compile with InnoDB

2005-01-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: FWIW - I went to www.mysql.com during this and the only place that innodb is mentioned, is in the forums. In that forum, there is no sticky concerning installing it or what it does. I just went there myself and checked the docs, starting with the page for

[gentoo-user] kphone in ltsp

2005-01-11 Thread Marshal Newrock
I am working with a co-worker in trying to set up a terminal server with kphone, and he's having problems. All advice appreciated. Basically I have an up-to-date gentoo system with ltsp installed. I have done all the things necessary to execute apps on the terminal system rather than the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What doesnt work with 2.6 ?

2004-02-10 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Bluesman wrote: Took me days to figure out lm-sensors. Select the options as modules, then mess with the modprobe order. I found out that with the right order gkrellm2 is able to read the data from /sys. Been a while though and I never really tried to figure out why, but

[gentoo-user] 'cannot open shared object file' after emerge gcc

2004-02-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
Today I did a sync and upgrade, which I haven't done for several days. There's quite a few packages to upgrade, but I started with portage. Then I upgraded gentoolkit (as indicated by the portage post-install messages). Then I proceeded to upgrade gcc. After that, I got the dreaded:

Re: [gentoo-user] grep rotated-log ?

2004-02-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, raptor wrote: is there a easy way to grep rotated logs... when they are gziped... I mean a quick way.. i.e. ready console tool.. zgrep. or 'zcat | grep' if zgrep should be missing. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.1 development-sources iptables

2004-02-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Claudinei Matos wrote: So genkernel had marked that's options and I tried to compile the kernel without any other changes, but the module iptables had not compiled Device Drivers - Networking support - Networking Options - [*] Network packet filtering

RE: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?

2004-02-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: How about just unmounting the disk and trying: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso perhaps? That'll give you an exact (and burnable) copy of the disk. Not a happy dd process... Gentoo2 root # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso dd: reading

Re: [gentoo-user] disc free space

2004-01-30 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Paul Stear wrote: Can anybody help with my backup script? I need to calculate the free space on a disc. I can get the disc size so all I need is to calculate the used size and then subtract. Or is there an easier way? df -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating

Re: [gentoo-user] Command Line Mail Clients?

2004-01-28 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody recommend a command line mail client for UNIX (shells)? One requirement is that it is fully compatible with GnuPGP and Maildir format mail storage. I have been trying to use Mutt but I have found it tedious and ugly when it comes

Re: [gentoo-user] Openssh, public key and passwords.

2004-01-26 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Olli wrote: How I can disable password authentication to single user (with ssh)? User needs password to local login, but I want to deny ssh -logins with password. If you have ssh using pam, I would use pam_listfile in /etc/pam.d/sshd, to let you specify a list of users

Re: [gentoo-user] best way to backup

2004-01-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Aaron Walker wrote: I was considering the following: - a seperate machine to handle all backup's of the various machines on my home LAN - buy another 80G and a RAID card and run it in RAID 1 any recommendations? What I will soon be doing will be hooking up a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Searching OpenOffice documents

2004-01-23 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Is it possible to search through openoffice documents in a given directory (or subdirectories) for a text string? And if so, how can it be done? The OpenOffice file format is zipped xml. So you should just be able to use zgrep, although it will miss

Re: [gentoo-user] using keyboard for middle mouse button

2004-01-23 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Andrey Kartashov wrote: 'Shift+Insert' works for me in most X terminals (xterm, aterm, etc), no configuration required. 'screen' is another very useful package you may want to consider. I do a lot without event touching the mouse. shift+insert works great. I should

Re: [gentoo-user] Searching OpenOffice documents

2004-01-23 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: The OpenOffice file format is zipped xml. So you should just be able to use zgrep, although it will miss any phrases that have extra formatting in them, such as a phrase in which part of it is underlined. Also, I'm not sure how that will

Re: [gentoo-user] possible to mount home directory on login?

2004-01-23 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Ian Truelsen wrote: Is it possible, assuming that each user's home directory is on a separate partition, to have the user's home directory mount only when they login and then umount on logout? http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/ -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after

[gentoo-user] using keyboard for middle mouse button

2004-01-22 Thread Marshal Newrock
Does anyone know a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to emulate the middle mouse button? (useful for copy once, paste many). I am using fluxbox. Thanks. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Untarring does not work.

2004-01-22 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Am I getting old??? Since when can tar extract a bz2 file directly?? At some point, they added the -y flag to tar to uncompress using bzip2. Then they changed it to -I. But now it's a nice and simple -j. I could have that wrong. I found that

Re: [gentoo-user] using keyboard for middle mouse button

2004-01-22 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Roy Kidder wrote: Not sure about that, but in case you weren't aware of it, X can fake the presence of a three-button mouse (where the two standard buttons are pressed simultaneously to emulate the third button). No, the mouse is a 3-button, but I'd rather not have to

Re: [gentoo-user] using keyboard for middle mouse button

2004-01-22 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Not sure about that, but in case you weren't aware of it, X can fake the presence of a three-button mouse (where the two standard buttons are pressed simultaneously to emulate the third button). No, the mouse is a 3-button, but I'd rather

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox keys

2004-01-14 Thread Marshal Newrock
I found the solution. In the default 'keys' file, it has: Mod1 F1: Workspace1 Looking at the docs, I noticed the command is 'Window', so the line should be: Mod1 F1: Workspace 1 Making that change allows me to switch desktops. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] fluxbox keys

2004-01-13 Thread Marshal Newrock
I've recently switched from KDE to fluxbox. It works great, except that the alt key does not work. Using xev and xmodmap, it looks like the keymap is set up correctly, but alt-[anything] does not do anything, and in fact, in an aterm, alt-f1 will display something like '~[[1' (I'm not at my

Re: [gentoo-user] No devices created for second sound card

2004-01-11 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: I have two sound cards (emu10k1 and via82xx) using Alsa. Both modules load, however only the em10k1 has a /dev/sound/dsp device created for it. Do I need to create the devices manually? If so, where can I find out how to create them

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations for syslog (var/log/messages) parser to email error messages

2004-01-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Jeff Adams wrote: Any recommendations for something that could look for error or warning messages in logs produced by syslog-ng and then mail them to me? grep | mail Or a small perl script, if you want to get fancy. A little more exotic would be to have syslog-ng put all

Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient behind di-604

2004-01-06 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: I thought those D-Link routers have an interface to setup dynamic ip updates They do. And every 30 days, I got an email saying my hostname was about to expire. Since there's no renew now, I just went to the webpage to renew. -- CAUTION: Product

Re: [gentoo-user] usermod hangs

2003-12-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usermod takes an extemely long time to run the following command: usermod -g users -G wheel,audio,games,users,slocate,portage,apache doug Is there something wrong with this command? I don't understand why this would take any amount of time.

Re: [gentoo-user] logfile size

2003-12-12 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Helgi [iso-8859-1] Örn Helgason wrote: I got syslogd installed but I've never tweaked anything having to do with logfiles so I haven't got a clue where to start. Guess I'll have to RTFM...:-) I think syslogd has its own log rotation program (for syslog log files). For

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Glenn English wrote: OK, this is a fun thread. So what plays the .ogg abcde just made for me? Ah. xmms. Or on command line, ogg123 is the basic player. mp3blaster will also play oggs. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Jeff Smelser wrote: This handles different versions and where each one is progressing, I just hope they start realizing they can't delete and ebuild just because they are 2-3 versions past it or the like. I got caught on that with wget. I upgraded, later that week, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

2003-12-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Tom Hosiawa wrote: One of the biggest differences I can think of between a source-based distro (such as Gentoo) and a binary-package based one is that you rarely have library dependency issues. If you compile a newer package against an older library, it will usually

Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3

2003-12-07 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Tom Hosiawa wrote: After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some better way to ripping music cd's? I like command line,

Re: [gentoo-user] gaining on my odd crashes

2003-12-06 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: H, I might be making progress on my random crashes. I asked earlier about doing emerge -e kde and was thinking about going a head with that but kdelibs was blocking glibc. I was still in the mood to give it a go so I did # emerge -C

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Guide to OpenLDAP Authentication

2003-12-05 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Thomas Smith wrote: I've followed this guide to a tee and things aren't working like I thought they would. To sum it up, I figured that using this guide would allow me to replace /etc/passwd and associated files and authenticate against the LDAP directory (via pam_ldap and

Re: [gentoo-user] The date of most file in the system is 2017, what can I do?

2003-12-02 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 3 Dec 2003, Zarick Lau wrote: When I type date to check the time (just want to see whether I shall sleep or not!) I find that, the system time is 12-03-2017. And a quick look in the system reveal the fact that, near half of the system file has the wrong date and the other half is

Re: [gentoo-user] A good PCI modem that will work with Gentoo or Linux

2003-12-01 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Christopher Lyon wrote: Can anybody recommend a good PCI internal modem that will work with Gentoo? I have found a couple of links out, idir.net/~. and they all seem to have outdated information. Any help would be appreciated. Just make sure it says hardware modem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea of how else I can track this down? In a word, memtest86. -- CAUTION: Product will be hot after heating --

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

2003-11-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: Memtest86 passes without error or crash, for that matter. But, good point. I tried that yesterday. Hmmm. it's been up 4 1/2 hrs now. That's the best so far today. I actually had bad RAM that passed a memtest86. Of course, I only had it on normal

Re: [gentoo-user] OOPS! Console mode destroyed!

2003-11-21 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote: Eerh! ... ... This is embarrassing. I wanted to kow what is in the /etc/localtime file, so I did: cat /etc/localtime And now my gentoo install procedure console character set has gone crazy. Only the character colours are right. The rest is a

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card

2003-11-18 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Alan wrote: Based on what I have heard, mac and pc video cards aren't interchangable because the bios is mac or pc :( You have to flash the bios somehow. I'm sure there are tools out there, but like the other poster said, it's dangerous (or so I heard). Gotta love

Re: [gentoo-user] how hot is too hot

2003-11-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I have a server that has dual Athlon MP 2200+'s. Each processor has the HSF that came in the package with the processor. I have 2 case fans: one at the front pulling in air and one at the back pulling the air out. The box has been up for 45 days

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba encrypted passwords will not work with Gentoo

2003-11-02 Thread Marshal Newrock
I see two things: First, you're not binding to the LDAP server to set the passwords. You don't have a bindpw set (no secret retrieved). Second, you're mixing local files with ldap. You've created /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd, but the smbpasswd program wants to set passwords in LDAP. If you

[gentoo-user] OT: online payment gateway

2003-10-28 Thread Marshal Newrock
Does anyone here use any online payment gateways, and can you tell me how good or bad they are? This is for real-time transactions (ie, X dollars for Y minutes), on a FreeBSD/apache server, preferably with no credit card info stored locally. All I know is there's a ton of different companies out

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree wants to install...

2003-10-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Dennis Freise wrote: earthdawn portage # qpkg -q xfree x11-base/xfree-4.1.0-r6 DEPENDED ON BY: net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.8a x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 [snip] Sooo, nessus-core is it. Let's have a look at the ebuild: DEPEND==net-analyzer/libnasl-${PV}

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 400SC lm-sensors

2003-10-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Ryan Dlugosz wrote: What motherboard does it have ?? It's likely an Intel, I believe. The Motherboard Monitor page only has (4) Dells listed, but lots more Intel. Thanks for the reply, Hall. I'm not sure specifically what board it is, but I'm fairly certain that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop should I get?

2003-10-23 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Williams wrote: The work one is a Thinkpad R40e, and it's horrendous, truly awful. A P4m 1.8, so it's speedyish, but not what it should (it feels slower than my laptop). The Radeon chip and ATI agp work nicely with development X (4.3.99-13). What makes it truly awful

Re: [gentoo-user] how to autostart apps on a multiheaded box?

2003-10-20 Thread Marshal Newrock
at which to place the screens. You then put these commands in your .xinitrc. It may also be possible, depending on your desktop manager, to set up everything and save it as a profile which gets automatically loaded (perhaps by logging out when everything is set). -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Embedded Systems

2003-10-18 Thread Marshal Newrock
that as computers become faster and faster (and hotter and louder), the trend will be towards small, quiet, and cool-running, with speed becoming less important. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-10-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
with postfix in the postfix-user list archives. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-10-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/), a replicating network filesystem. I've never used it or looked at it in detail, other than seeing it in the network filesystem options in the kernel, so you'll have to see if it's what you want. Though if it's as good as it sounds, it's undoubtedly safer than raid1 over NFS. -- Marshal

Re: [gentoo-user] Embedded Systems

2003-10-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
, they can do one with a Nehemiah board, which should have better video performance. I don't know how the Nehemiah boards (or any Via boards) rank in video output, though. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2003-10-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie New Install Problems

2003-10-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
though it worked just fine from same CD on other boxes (nice console background, framebuffer). What can be wrong? The modes are video card specific. Type 'scan' at that prompt and wait a few minutes to see what's available to you, and then use one of those numbers. -- Marshal Newrock

Re: [gentoo-user] checksum scanning

2003-10-11 Thread Marshal Newrock
the very beginning of the file. md5sum needs to read the entire file in order to be able to add up the contents and come up with a checksum. Use file and md5sum on an iso and it's very clear which is faster. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo killed my pc

2003-10-09 Thread Marshal Newrock
beep, three short beeps - no vga code, and no video.) Video problem. Try reseating your video card. http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/ -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new CPU march=athlon-xp

2003-10-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
the motherboard itself was bad. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new CPU march=athlon-xp

2003-10-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
, or another high quality grease. All your symtoms are classic overheating problems. I like Arctic Alumina (available from Arctic Silver), which is nicely non-conductive. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] .ogg to .cdr

2003-10-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Bobby R. Cox wrote: Is there a command line utility such as mpg123 that can convert .ogg to .cdr? sox infile.ogg outfile.cdr -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Login Problem

2003-10-08 Thread Marshal Newrock
having a cool set of options, will sort files by date, earliest first, so right at the bottom of the screen will be the most recently used files. Doing that in /etc might help you pinpoint the problem. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after

Re: [gentoo-user] hds hecatomb

2003-10-06 Thread Marshal Newrock
Linux can read a working hfsplus partition, it can't fix it. Why does it happen? I don't know. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get postfix to email another local machine?

2003-10-05 Thread Marshal Newrock
to look at the stuff on http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html, in particular 'append_at_myorigin' and 'append_dot_mydomain'. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with Kernel 2.6.0-test6

2003-10-04 Thread Marshal Newrock
help with a solution tho... I also have an rtl8139. I use APM instead of ACPI due to incompatibilities. I could boot up with noacpi, but what's the point. USB also does not work with ACPI. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] force root nameserver update?

2003-10-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
for ufies.org. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeze on Emerge Compile

2003-10-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
regularly - makes it much easier to fix. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bashrc/profile and scp

2003-10-03 Thread Marshal Newrock
on startup, whether interactive # or not. This file *should generate no output* or it will break the # scp and rcp commands. From the top of .bash_profile: #This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively. So, you should have your fortune command in .bash_profile. -- Marshal Newrock

[gentoo-user] infinite loop when emerging gnomba-0.6.2

2003-09-30 Thread Marshal Newrock
: src_compile aborted; exiting. I attempted to file a bug, but hit a (known) javascript bug in bugzilla. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mke2fs on smp freezes

2003-09-29 Thread Marshal Newrock
/sda as the device. If it's a destructive test, this will wipe out everything including the partition table. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh timeout?

2003-09-28 Thread Marshal Newrock
doesn't show anything of use. Is there a config somewhere where I can set time out? If you use screen, then processes won't get interrupted by timeouts. You'll be able to log back in and reconnect to the screen session, which will still be going. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash

2003-09-28 Thread Marshal Newrock
removed the wrong one, leaving the defective one in.) -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test5 input/net troubles

2003-09-28 Thread Marshal Newrock
card uses an RTL8139 chip. Don't use ACPI. There are known issues with both RTL8139 and USB. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage in SQL

2003-09-26 Thread Marshal Newrock
program which uses the database as a backend, including depends based on current use flags. It does, of course, take a while to run this program. Anyone interested can look at http://www.simons-rock.edu/~marshal/projects/portage2sql/ -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution

Re: [gentoo-user] portage in SQL

2003-09-26 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Check out portagesql.breakmygentoo.net Ah, I wasn't aware of this. It's probably a bit more sophisticated than my simple attempt. It was a good exercise anyway. :) -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product

Re: [gentoo-user] SMTP Advice

2003-09-25 Thread Marshal Newrock
, witch you recomend for this kind of task ? Use a mailing list manager, which tends to self-throttle. With qmail, it would be ezmlm. With a different mail server (postfix, exim, sendmail), it would be one like mailman. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter a message on log of system.

2003-09-25 Thread Marshal Newrock
.html has all you need to know. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS

2003-09-25 Thread Marshal Newrock
support proposals to make it 'Windows' like. Don't worry, this guy has all the earmarks of a troll. From what I managed to read of his posts anyway lol. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
have a list of available modes and numbers for them. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
for 2.6, and OSS being phased out. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
), the init script is moved from alsa-driver to alsa-utils. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2003-09-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
or other, sound is no longer in drivers. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nothing to do with gentoo, but a problem for me

2003-09-22 Thread Marshal Newrock
, of course). So, given a blocksize of 1024 bytes, an 800 byte file takes up 1024 bytes. A 5 byte file takes up 1024 bytes. Some of the newer filesystems such as Reiserfs try to fix this by putting all the little tails in a single block. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. samba

2003-09-21 Thread Marshal Newrock
. It seems to me that a speedup would be to first attempt to ping the host, and if that succeeds, then try to mount the NFS share. This would have to be optional, of course, since some hosts may be configured not to reply to pings. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution

Re: [gentoo-user] Microsoft *.wav files

2003-09-20 Thread Marshal Newrock
lossless), so you can do whatever you want with them. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HOWTO for ClamAntivirus?

2003-09-19 Thread Marshal Newrock
those. If you're still having problems, post the mail log entries you get when you try to send mail. Postfix does work without the content filter set, right? -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HOWTO for ClamAntivirus?

2003-09-19 Thread Marshal Newrock
procmail, since it has spamd which is always running and spamassassin as a client program to that. And then you get the ability to only send small emails through it. If it's possible to run antivirus from within procmail, then you get the advantage of a very portable setup. -- Marshal Newrock

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail Server error...

2003-09-18 Thread Marshal Newrock
of yesterdays postings? Is it possible? Don't worry, most of it was Barry MacMahon saying he's out of the office until the 22nd, and he'll answer your email when he gets back on the 18th. I'd write an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] complaining he overloaded your mail server. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed

Re: [gentoo-user] Console Shut down monitor

2003-09-18 Thread Marshal Newrock
monitor must support this. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with webservers.

2003-09-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
looking for: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Barry MacMahon/Chiltern is out of the office.

2003-09-17 Thread Marshal Newrock
PROTECTED] Sending mail to the other listed contact, [EMAIL PROTECTED], gives the same type of message, indicating they use a broken vacation program. Chiltern, in true RFC ignorance, has not deigned to set up abuse or postmaster accounts. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI

Re: [gentoo-user] mail server migration?

2003-09-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
server migration (qmail to postfix w/maildir, local users) without any problem. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1

2003-09-16 Thread Marshal Newrock
not work. What error are you getting in /var/log/auth.log from sshd? -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors

2003-09-12 Thread Marshal Newrock
the following: You must use 'echo -e' or echo won't interpret it. The code just needs to start with \0... (the \[ before that in the examples is just for putting a [ at the beginning of the prompt). Happy coloring. :) -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot

Re: [gentoo-user] HDs dying. please save me

2003-09-12 Thread Marshal Newrock
on CD distro will include it. I highly recommend that everyone use this program. As a side note, the man page was clearly written for Redhat. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what device is my sound card using?

2003-09-12 Thread Marshal Newrock
. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] joystick

2003-09-10 Thread Marshal Newrock
support for the game port enabled? I also assume you don't have the option to use USB with this joystick. Try also to see if it shows up in /proc/bus/input/devices (if you're using 2.6 - it might be the same in 2.4, or it might not). -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution

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