Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent Quick CFLAGS Question!

2003-10-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:37, Thomas Eastman wrote: I need to know if it's safe to use -march=pentium4 in the CFLAGS, or if there's still potential problems with sse2 or segfaulting after compiling or whatever. Will the version of gcc that the current livecd has on it be safe with a

AW: [gentoo-user] accessing windows partition

2003-10-02 Thread Flückiger Christian (RZB)
how do i set this thing up so i can access the windows partition from gentoo Be sure you have the vfat and (if required) ntfs modules loaded. After that you will be able to mount the partitions mount /dev/hdxN /some/mountpoint -t vfat (for FAT) or -t ntfs (for NTFS) the -t specifies the file

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS for p3?

2003-10-02 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Norberto Bensa wrote: I'm rebuilding the whole system (including kernel) with -Os What is the recommended way to set CFLAGS for the kernel? -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5:

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing windows partition

2003-10-02 Thread Massi
if fat32 mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /mnt/whereyouwantmount if ntfs mount -t ntfs /dev/hdX /mnt/whereyouwantmount But ntfs read-only hdX is the windows partition With cat /proc/partition you view All partition Il gio, 2003-10-02 alle 06:33, Chris ha scritto: how do i set this thing up so i can

[gentoo-user] Gnome Shutdown Doesn't Work

2003-10-02 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Hey All, Could anyone shed some light on why my non-root users can't use the Shutdown option in the Log Out item in the Actions menu? All it does it log them out. If the root user does it then it actually shuts down the machine. Thanks! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent Quick CFLAGS Question!

2003-10-02 Thread Karl Huysmans
This is still quite confusing, even in the latest portage updates, the new template make.conf says: # # CRITICAL WARNINGS: ** # # ATHLON-4 will generate invalid SSE instructions; use 'athlon' instead. # # PENTIUM4 will generate invalid SSE2

Re: [gentoo-user] Firewall Problems

2003-10-02 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Kevin Miller, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not checked yet but does shorewall list which Netfilter options I will need? Yup, I emailed this to you earlier. Here it is again. These are screen shots of his menuconfig and the settings that he has set in his kernel. I followed his

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent Quick CFLAGS Question!

2003-10-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:50, Karl Huysmans wrote: This is still quite confusing, even in the latest portage updates, the new template make.conf says: # # CRITICAL WARNINGS: ** # # ATHLON-4 will generate invalid SSE instructions; use

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent Quick CFLAGS Question!

2003-10-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Thomas Eastman wrote: The sooner I know the sooner I can start installing and play with my new computer. you could always build everthing with p3, then give p4 a whirl on a few bits and pieces - if all goes well rebuild everything overnight (hey, you have a p4!) Rick Kitty5 NewMedia

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS for i686?

2003-10-02 Thread Gour
Hi! Recently I switched to Gentoo and now I'd like to know what are recommended flags for my i686 Celeron (besides those on the freehacker's site)? bash-2.05b# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron

[gentoo-user] powershell does not install. portage problem ?

2003-10-02 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi all, i tried installing powershell and i get this error : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 USE=gtk2 emerge powershell Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy powershell have been masked.

[gentoo-user] gentoo portage updates

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Turner
hey currious, how does portage update the apps? does it dl the whole program source for the new or does it get a update patch and patch it like suse? and if it doesnt dl the patch why not go that route? just currious (secretly conspiring to start a flame war) = ** computers are a lot like

[gentoo-user] where to find sysfs?

2003-10-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I am at a new setup with a linux-2.6.0-test6-mm1 kernel. Everything is ok with it after compile, but during boot (after INIT got started), I get the error that I have to enable /sys (sysfs) in all 2.5+ kernels. But I can't find this sysfs anywhere in make menuconfig, and a search for

Re: [gentoo-user] powershell does not install. portage problem ?

2003-10-02 Thread Patrick Börjesson
any ideas on what i might be doing wrong ? Actually, you're not doing anything wrong. It's just that the package in question is hard-masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask so you'll have to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask to use it. But take notice of the comment in the mask-file

[gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird loses configuration?

2003-10-02 Thread Paul Fraser
I came back to my PC tonight and logged on, checked emails etc, all good. A few minutes later I opened Firebird and behold, all my bookmarks and settings have been lost. It's defaulting to a blank bookmarks file and the mozilla.org site. As one would imagine, I'm somewhat peeved. Is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] where to find sysfs?

2003-10-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- But I can't find this sysfs anywhere in make menuconfig, and a search for SYS in .config only brings SYSV (System V FS). Where can I enable sysfs in this 2.6 kernel? Ok, found the solution for myself. You have to mkdir /sys and add this

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird loses configuration?

2003-10-02 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 12:35, Paul Fraser wrote: I came back to my PC tonight and logged on, checked emails etc, all good. A few minutes later I opened Firebird and behold, all my bookmarks and settings have been lost. It's defaulting to a blank bookmarks file and the mozilla.org site. As

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird loses configuration?

2003-10-02 Thread Paul Fraser
Thanks for that. I'm certainly not impressed. I've had no issues with my system at all for the past three months, now it goes and wipes itself. I'll see if I can find a way to undelete files on a ReiserFS partition. On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 21:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 02 Oct 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo portage updates

2003-10-02 Thread Ulrich Plate
Stephen Turner wrote: hey currious, how does portage update the apps? does it dl the whole program source for the new or does it get a update patch and patch it like suse? and if it doesnt dl the patch why not go that route? just currious(secretly conspiring to start a flame war) emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing windows partition

2003-10-02 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 06:33, Chris wrote: how do i set this thing up so i can access the windows partition from gentoo First of all you need to activate support for vfat and ntfs in the kernel. Filesystem - DOS FAT fs support MSDOS fs support VFAT (Windows-94)

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting a module loaded after a kernel recompile.

2003-10-02 Thread Arturo di Gioia
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 00:40, Steve wrote: I recently updated my kernel and when I try to load my Aureal Vortex module I get this error: The Module you are trying to load is compiled with a gcc 2 compiler, while the kernel was compiled with a gcc 3 compiler. This is not known to work. Any

[gentoo-user] Switching from WM

2003-10-02 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm installing at this moment xfce4, but my question is how do I switch from gnome to xfce ? Patrick -- Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here. You admit that? To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor. Spock and McCoy, A Piece of the Action, stardate unknown.. PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS for p3?

2003-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:38, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: I'm rebuilding the whole system (including kernel) with -Os What is the recommended way to set CFLAGS for the kernel? there is no recommended way to set kernel CFLAGS. Setting CFLAGS for kernel is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from WM

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Watson
Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm installing at this moment xfce4, but my question is how do I switch from gnome to xfce ? I just put this in my .xinitrc: xfdesktop xfce4-iconbox xfwm4 xfce4-panel HTH -- Richard Watson http://www.opencolo.com/ High Quality, Value for money

RE: [gentoo-user] Switching from WM

2003-10-02 Thread Wayne Oliver
-Original Message- From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2003 14:09 PM Hi, I'm installing at this moment xfce4, but my question is how do I switch from gnome to xfce ? Patrick edit the /etc/rc.conf file and change the Xsession variable to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firewall Problems

2003-10-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kevin Miller, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not checked yet but does shorewall list which Netfilter options I will need? Yup, I emailed this to you earlier. Here it is again. These are screen

Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug

2003-10-02 Thread SMS WebMaster
Right now I am searching the linux usb users mail list at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=linux-usb-users please seach with me and if you find anything then send it to gentoo list Azhdeen wrote: same here, but that's all I came up with. that's why I said 'if anyone has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Old Kernels

2003-10-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:09, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:36:03 -0400 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simply go to /boot and rm them. Make sure you update LILO or Grub to remove them also. On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:14, you wrote: How can I remove

Re: [gentoo-user] powershell does not install. portage problem ?

2003-10-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:33:00 +0200 Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any ideas on what i might be doing wrong ? Actually, you're not doing anything wrong. It's just that the package in question is hard-masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask so you'll have to unmask it in

[gentoo-user] python with no threads

2003-10-02 Thread james.casbon
Hi, is there a way (short of running ./configure myself) to get portage to compile python with the --without-threads option? thanks, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] kdm scripts

2003-10-02 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Gentooers... Where are the scripts that are run by KDM acording to the option you choose (Xsessions, KDE-3.1.4, etc) on Gentoo ? Thanks. - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm scripts

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 October 2003 14:10, Pupeno wrote: Hello Gentooers... Where are the scripts that are run by KDM acording to the option you choose (Xsessions, KDE-3.1.4, etc) on Gentoo ? Thanks. /etc/X11/Sessions - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP

[Fwd: [gentoo-user] kdm scripts]

2003-10-02 Thread Massi
change /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | elogin | entrance ] DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm # NOTE: 1) this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc exists, and startx # is called. # 2) even if a ~/.xsession

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird loses configuration?

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:47 am, Paul Fraser wrote: Thanks for that. I'm certainly not impressed. I've had no issues with my system at all for the past three months, now it goes and wipes itself. I'll see if I can find a way to undelete files on a ReiserFS partition. On Thu,

[gentoo-user] modules vs. compiled in

2003-10-02 Thread gabriel
on a recent thread, someone explained how to get your linux box to read a windows partition by compiling your kernel for vfat/ntfs support. they then went on to explain how to set it up so that your kernel can either (a) compile this stuff in, or (b) compile them as modules and load them

[gentoo-user] USB mass storage ?

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
I have USB mass storage set up and working pretty much as expected other than one rather perplexing problem. If I unmount either my digital camera or my smart card reader, remove the media and then replace it I cannot remount the device.If, and only after, I unplug and replug the camera or

Re: [gentoo-user] modules vs. compiled in

2003-10-02 Thread Christian Herzyk
gabriel wrote: on a recent thread, someone explained how to get your linux box to read a windows partition by compiling your kernel for vfat/ntfs support. they then went on to explain how to set it up so that your kernel can either (a) compile this stuff in, or (b) compile them as modules and

RE: [gentoo-user] python with no threads

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Look at the ebuild itself.. You can change the ebuild to add that option. There needs to be an variable that can be set to add stuff like that, but I haven't found it.. (really haven't looked to hard either.) -Original Message- From: james.casbon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [gentoo-user] python with no threads

2003-10-02 Thread Sigurd Stordal
There needs to be an variable that can be set to add stuff like that, but I haven't found it.. (really haven't looked to hard either.) compile python with the --without-threads option? couldn't : myconf=$(myconf) --without-threads emerge python. the ( and ) should be the clause type, but it

RE: [gentoo-user] python with no threads

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Don't know, might have to try this option next time I get a chance.. I have honestly never needed to add configure options.. I have always done it via use flags.. -Original Message- From: Sigurd Stordal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage ?

2003-10-02 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
I had also no problem with my digital camera (USB2) until i used gentoo-sources-r7, from then i can mount, but if i go into any dirs my machine compleetly hangs. But with USB-mass drives no problems. it seems only with vfat. Patrick Op do 02-10-2003, om 15:53 schreef Ernie Schroder: I have USB

[gentoo-user] lynx porn shocker

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Watson
Hi all, Is anyone else getting this weird problem with lynx. If I hit '?' while viewing a site, instead of giving me the usual help page it gives me a 404 on some site which eventually redirects to the source of a page like so: !-- 'NorthSky' -- !-- Auto Banner Insertion Begin -- HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Old Kernels

2003-10-02 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:02:04 -0400 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerge gentools. On Wednesday 01 October 2003 12:45, you wrote: When I input: # qpkg -I -v gentoo-sources I get: -bash: qpkg: command not found Kvin You mean 'gentoolkit'. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: 1. I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 to switch from X to a console. Is this set in a

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx porn shocker

2003-10-02 Thread Jim Bailey
On Oct 02, 04:20, Richard Watson wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else getting this weird problem with lynx. If I hit '?' while viewing a site, instead of giving me the usual help page it gives me a 404 on some site which eventually redirects to the source of a page like so: !-- 'NorthSky'

Re: [gentoo-user] powershell does not install. portage problem ?

2003-10-02 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: any ideas on what i might be doing wrong ? Actually, you're not doing anything wrong. It's just that the package in question is hard-masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask so you'll have to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask to use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS for p3?

2003-10-02 Thread Arnaud BARRE
Just a script for CFLAGS to hardware configuration, if you want other CFLAGS, = man GCC :) Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:38, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: I'm rebuilding the whole system (including kernel) with -Os What is the recommended way to

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx porn shocker

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Watson
Jim Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Oct 02, 04:20, Richard Watson wrote: HTML head titleAmateurs Sex Cams - Free Sex Cams/title Any ideas what's doing on there? Use the source Luke.. ;) Indeedie :-) Since we are a Red Hat house at work I can not check myself but I remember doing

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx porn shocker

2003-10-02 Thread ihatemilk
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:20:01PM +0100, Richard Watson wrote: Any ideas what's doing on there? HELPFILE is set in /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg Brent -- argumentator authorization -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx porn shocker

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:20:01PM +0100, Richard Watson wrote: Any ideas what's doing on there? HELPFILE is set in /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg OK, here it's set to: http://www.trill-home.com/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html which gives me: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved

Re: [gentoo-user] modules vs. compiled in

2003-10-02 Thread brett holcomb
Because you might now want to load it at boot so you leave it as a module. When it's needed it is loaded - in some cases automatically if I remember correctly. On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:48:09 -0400 gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a recent thread, someone explained how to get your linux box

[gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Walther The Writer
Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks. Walther. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jan Meier
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 14G 4.3G 8.9G33% / /dev/hdb1 115G 57G 59G 50% /home /dev/hda4 38G 33M 36G1% /mnt/space On Friday 03 October 2003 06:01, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, I have an about

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Hmm... This is highly debatable... Mine depend highly on what I am doing. My servers have AT LEAST 5 partitions.. But Desktops can get away with less.. (I think) Server: /var- about 500meg / - about 1gig /usr- about 3.5gig /home - about 2gig /boot - about 250 meg Desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jim Bailey
On Oct 02, 08:01, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks. LVM or EVMS are your friends here keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Steve
At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: 1. I can't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 October 2003 17:13, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: Hmm... This is highly debatable... Mine depend highly on what I am doing. My servers have AT LEAST 5 partitions.. But Desktops can get away with less.. (I think) Server: [snip] /boot -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Shutdown Doesn't Work

2003-10-02 Thread Joel Wright
This is bugging me too, not sure how to fix it yet though :( If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them, Joel. On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:47, Matt Neimeyer wrote: Hey All, Could anyone shed some light on why my non-root users can't use the Shutdown option in the Log Out item in the

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I normally have anywhere between 4-10 kernels in there at any given time.. I still have the latest 2.2 kernel sitting there... I need more room then most.. :) -Original Message- From: Mike Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:28 AM To: gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS for p3?

2003-10-02 Thread Norberto Bensa
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: I'm rebuilding the whole system (including kernel) with -Os What is the recommended way to set CFLAGS for the kernel? nano /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile look for CFLAGS ;-) Regards. Norberto -- 13:07:23 up 1 day, 31 min, 1 user,

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:20:53 +0200 Jan Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks. Filesystem

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and whatdirectories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Problem with your partitions is that your assuming someone has a big drive to dedicate.. He only has 7gig and this would be a huge problem if he did it this way.. -Original Message- From: Ian Truelsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] SuSE Kernel Sources

2003-10-02 Thread Prabhat Gupta
Great job! I will try that sometime. Prabhat Paul Varner wrote: All: Being a big fan of SuSE before coming to Gentoo, I was interested to note that gentoo had RedHat kernel sources, but not SuSE sources. Since I have always preferred the stability of the SuSE kernel over RedHat's [I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Walther The Writer
On Oct 02, 08:01, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks. LVM or EVMS are your friends here keep

Re: [gentoo-user] SuSE Kernel Sources

2003-10-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thursday 02 October 2003 18:18, Paul Varner wrote: All: Being a big fan of SuSE before coming to Gentoo, I was interested to note that gentoo had RedHat kernel sources, but not SuSE sources. Since I have always preferred the stability of the SuSE kernel over RedHat's [I know it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Gour
Jim Bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: LVM or EVMS are your friends here keep them all small to start off with then grow them as you need to ext2/3 can be shrunk and expanded but require the partition to be unmounted, XFS on the other hand can be grown while still mounted, very cool but you

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Try this: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: Walther The Writer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount? On Oct 02,

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and whatdirectories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:43:12 -0500 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem with your partitions is that your assuming someone has a big drive to dedicate.. He only has 7gig and this would be a huge problem if he did it this way.. Actually, my point was more about the setup of the

RE: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes andwhatdirectories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I was just stating my opinion.. I actually like your partition choices.. Thats just a hard thing to fit in small drive.. -Original Message- From: Ian Truelsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Shutdown Doesn't Work

2003-10-02 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 00:47, Matt Neimeyer wrote: Could anyone shed some light on why my non-root users can't use the Shutdown option in the Log Out item in the Actions menu? All it does it log them out. If the root user does it then it actually shuts down the machine. The only way that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Jim Bailey
On Oct 02, 08:54, Walther The Writer wrote: On Oct 02, 08:01, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size.

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome Shutdown Doesn't Work

2003-10-02 Thread Rex Young
The only way that I have found to make this work is to chmod +s /sbin/shutdown. I know that this isn't very secure and if there is a better way, please correct me. sudo. Sudo is good because it is persistent across upgrades. It's also fine-grained in permissions granted. -rex -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] stuck at install

2003-10-02 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started building a new gentoo system. I'm almost done, but I can't emerge a bootloader for some reason. emerge grub results in: # emerge grub Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in sys-apps/grub dependencies !!! 'str' object has no attribute 'has_key' I've tried

[gentoo-user] Question about ATA RAID controllers...

2003-10-02 Thread Walther The Writer
I beleive I have hardware ATA RAID controller, becuase when I'm booting up with gentoo doataraid kernel option the setup says it is detected and when I do modprobe ataraid, no errors appear. When I do modprobe pdcriad or hptraid. modules can't be loaded with a bunch of errors, so I assume that I

[gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Frank R Callaghan
Hi All, I've just installed Gentoo on my work system (replacing RH) it work really well - fast but I have two problems I need help with, 1) my usb CF card reader does not work, I complied my kernel with genkernel defaults, lsmod gives:- Module Size Used by

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about ATA RAID controllers...

2003-10-02 Thread Prabhat Gupta
If you do a RAID 0 setup you will get a performance boost. It's a good idea. Walther The Writer wrote: I beleive I have hardware ATA RAID controller, becuase when I'm booting up with gentoo doataraid kernel option the setup says it is detected and when I do modprobe ataraid, no errors appear.

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 02:45 pm, Frank R Callaghan wrote: Hi All, I've just installed Gentoo on my work system (replacing RH) it work really well - fast but I have two problems I need help with, 1) my usb CF card reader does not work, I complied my kernel with genkernel defaults,

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:33 pm, Steve wrote: At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday

[gentoo-user] problem starting distccd

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Truelsen
I have installed distcc on my machines, but on one of them, while it will send out distcc jobs to other machines, when I try to run distccd so that it can receive requests, all I get is the red exclamation marks. I have re-emerged distcc, but that has not helped the situation. Given that there is

[gentoo-user] Juk 2

2003-10-02 Thread Dave Naylor
Hi Anyone using Juk 2? Try as I may I cannot get it to see *.ogg files. The blurb reckons it will support/play them but it simply won't here. Anyone any ideas? -- 0 Dave Naylor | Linux User #182470 [---] http://caramboo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Frank R Callaghan
On Thursday 02 October 2003 03:12 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 02:45 pm, Frank R Callaghan wrote: Hi All, I've just installed Gentoo on my work system (replacing RH) it work really well - fast but I have two problems I need help with, 1) my usb CF card reader

Re: [gentoo-user] Juk 2

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 03:52 pm, Dave Naylor wrote: Hi Anyone using Juk 2? Try as I may I cannot get it to see *.ogg files. The blurb reckons it will support/play them but it simply won't here. Anyone any ideas? just a guess, but do you have oggvorbis in your USE variables? --

Re: [gentoo-user] modules vs. compiled in

2003-10-02 Thread Bob Phan
* [Oct 02, 2003] gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] so my question then is: why compile something as a module if you're going to load it into the kernel at boot anyway? what are the (dis)advantages? I personally try to compile almost everything as a module for the simple fact that it's faster

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:00 pm, Frank R Callaghan wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 03:12 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 02:45 pm, Frank R Callaghan wrote: Hi All, I've just installed Gentoo on my work system (replacing RH) it work really well - fast

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Frank R Callaghan
1) my usb CF card reader does not work, I complied my kernel with genkernel defaults, lsmod gives:- Module Size Used byTainted: PF msdos 5100 0 (autoclean) fat29752 0 (autoclean) [msdos]

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:18, Frank R Callaghan wrote: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Any other suggestions please ;) cdrecord will list the devices in the SCSI chain (even emulated ones). Do a ... cdrecord -scanbus If it doesn't show the device in the list, when all of

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Frank R Callaghan
On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:40 pm, Jayson Garrell wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:18, Frank R Callaghan wrote: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Any other suggestions please ;) cdrecord will list the devices in the SCSI chain (even emulated ones). Do a ... cdrecord

[gentoo-user] Re: wireless configuration howto?

2003-10-02 Thread Martin Gramatke
Chris Bare wrote: start eth1, but I don't know where to set the ESSID and any other wireless parameters I might need. I added # quickhack, don't know where else to do this iwconfig ${IFACE} essid skylab iwconfig ${IFACE} mode Managed iwconfig ${IFACE} key

[gentoo-user] bash_profile

2003-10-02 Thread Tom Hosiawa
After updating PATH in .bash_profile of my home directory and rebooting, the new settings don't take affect. I have to run 'source .bash_profile' in a terminal for it to update, whats causing this? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_profile

2003-10-02 Thread Lewis Powell
Are you sure that .bash_profile is being sourced somewhere, I know that bash defaults to checking .bashrc. Make sure that bash is even checking that file. Lewis Powell On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:24, Tom Hosiawa wrote: After updating PATH in .bash_profile of my home directory and rebooting, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:01:41 -0800 Walther The Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Shutdown Doesn't Work

2003-10-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:32:44 -0700 Jon Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 00:47, Matt Neimeyer wrote: Could anyone shed some light on why my non-root users can't use the Shutdown option in the Log Out item in the Actions menu? All it does it log them out.

[gentoo-user] documentation for ssmtp

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Truelsen
I am trying to find some documentation for ssmtp. I want to write a script that would send mail to root in the event of a password failure and, eventually, other things too. However, when I use the ssmtp root command, it allows me to type in, what I would imagine is the text of the message, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread David Friggens
* Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-10-02 19:03]: I recently switched to Gentoo and put all my partitions on EVMS2 volumes (included root) and there is no more problem guessing correct sizes. On my iBook I have: # mac-fdisk /dev/hda #type name length

Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb

2003-10-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Oct 2003, at 10:00 pm, Frank R Callaghan wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:40 pm, Jayson Garrell wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:18, Frank R Callaghan wrote: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Any other suggestions please ;) cdrecord will list the devices in the SCSI chain

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting distccd

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Arrison
Ian, par usual... after attempting to start the daemon, check the last few lines of /var/log/messages. That should give you some clue as to what is going on. -Mike Arrison On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:44:39PM -0700, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have installed distcc on my machines,

Re: [gentoo-user] modules vs. compiled in

2003-10-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 02 October 2003 09:48 am, gabriel wrote: on a recent thread, someone explained how to get your linux box to read a windows partition by compiling your kernel for vfat/ntfs support. they then went on to explain how to set it up so that your kernel can either (a) compile this stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] documentation for ssmtp

2003-10-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Oct 2003, at 10:34 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: I am trying to find some documentation for ssmtp. I want to write a script that would send mail to root in the event of a password failure and, eventually, other things too. However, when I use the ssmtp root command, it allows me to type in, what I

[gentoo-user] why does gentoo insist on emerging ck-sources ?

2003-10-02 Thread oom
greets to all who are wise and curious! something strange is going on, I can't see why gentoo wants to emerge the ck-sources, I am not using them (at least not now and ummerged them) but still: # emerge world -up | grep source [ebuild N] sys-kernel/ck-sources-2.4.22-r2 # grep source

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_profile

2003-10-02 Thread Tom Hosiawa
Are you sure that .bash_profile is being sourced somewhere, I know that bash defaults to checking .bashrc. Make sure that bash is even checking that file. Lewis Powell How do I check which files its checking? Coming from redhat this worked fine for me, now it doesn't seem to on gentoo Tom

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