Re: [gentoo-user] SMTP mail client opinions/preferences

2003-10-22 Thread Norm
Fabien Fivaz wrote: I'm using Mozilla mailer. The junk mail detector is one of the most usefull things integrated in Mozilla. You have to learn Mozilla to discriminate between good and junk mail at the beggining but then, it realy works... I second Mozilla, I've tried a few others on Linux and

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Norm
Hall Stevenson wrote: Have you edited any files in /etc ?? The ones that will possibly get updated you probably haven't touched. It won't overwrite files like /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hostname. It will often want to replace /etc/make.conf, for example. Again, when you run etc-update, it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread norm
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted to replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing where Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always backs up your current file(s) and appends a meaningful name to it. I agree, If I had been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Webmin

2003-09-30 Thread norm
Andrew Gaffney wrote: snip Try 'USE=-ssl emerge -k webmin' or even just drop the '-k'. Nothing is compiled for Webmin anyway. Its all Perl. Thanks Andrew worked a treat. Norm. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Driven to distraction with really simple problem.

2003-09-29 Thread norm
Hi, I have a dual boot system and I have a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda3) that I have mounted on /mnt/shared_fat32. Here is my /etc/fstab :- # fs mountpointtype opts dump/pass # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda5

Re: [gentoo-user] Driven to distraction with really simple problem.

2003-09-29 Thread norm
wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 16:28, norm wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system and I have a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda3) that I have mounted on /mnt/shared_fat32. Here is my /etc/fstab :- /dev/hda3 /mnt/shared_fat32 vfat user,rw,exec,uid=5000 0 As root I have

[gentoo-user] Installing Webmin

2003-09-29 Thread norm
Hi, I'm trying to install Webmin by :- emerge -k webmin This is the error I get:- Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6g or newer... I could not find your OpenSSL in `INSTALLDIRS=vendor' Please provide OpenSSL-0.9.6g installation directory (get from http://www.openssl.org/ if you don't have it; please