[gentoo-user] Loosing IPtables setings

2003-06-17 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Yesterday i created a new firewall setting, but when i restarted my computer this morning it was gone! I must doing wrong but have no idee what. Even tried iptables-save iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 5190 --dport 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT Again thanks for all your help Patrick --

[gentoo-user] shell colors

2003-06-17 Thread Gëzim
Hello, I want to be able to see different colours for different file types when I type ¨ls¨ in Konsole without having to do ls --colors in order to get that. And is it possible to link a file (e.g. /bin/galeon) to another file with a flag (e.g. /bin/mozilla -n), so then when I type ¨galeon¨

[gentoo-user] modem permissions

2003-06-17 Thread Norberto BENSA
Hello, Sometimes, my modem (/dev/ttyS15) goes from: crw-rw1 root dialout 62, 79 Jun 16 23:27 /dev/ttyS15 to: crw-r-1 root dialout 62, 79 Jun 16 23:27 /dev/ttyS15 or even: crw-r-1 root tty 62, 79 Jun 16 23:27 /dev/ttyS15

Re: [gentoo-user] shell colors

2003-06-17 Thread Pat Kerwan
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:14:07PM -0700, G?zim Hoxha wrote: Hello, I want to be able to see different colours for different file types when I type ?ls? in Konsole without having to do ls --colors in order to get that. One way to do it is create the following alias in your .bashrc file:

Re: [gentoo-user] shell colors

2003-06-17 Thread blade-
Pat Kerwan wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:14:07PM -0700, G?zim Hoxha wrote: Hello, I want to be able to see different colours for different file types when I type ?ls? in Konsole without having to do ls --colors in order to get that. One way to do it is create the

Re: [gentoo-user] Loosing IPtables setings

2003-06-17 Thread Chris K Ellsworth
iptables does not save stuff between boots each boot you would have to either add your line back in or use the /etc/init.d/iptables file which would automate it for you - Original Message - From: Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June

[gentoo-user] emerge DEPEND error on powerpc

2003-06-17 Thread Rev. Jeffrey Paul
kimu, my Powermac 8600/300, gave me this error after i ran these commands: rm -rf /var/cache/edb/* emerge sync regenworld kimu root # emerge -Up world --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world

[gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, My wifes windows XP machine is almost redundant and I have been trying to backup my gentoo box over the network onto a spare disk in the other machine. I am just lost I cannot get windows to see gentoo. I have managed to transfer files the other way i.e. windoes to gentoo. Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread MooktaKiNG
Windows won't read or recognise linux partitions (ext2/3 etc etc). However there is a program called explore2fs, which can allow you to read, only read, linux partitions. Its very basic and takes LOTS of cpu power. I use it all the time when i'm not bothered to reboot to linux to check

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer @ startup

2003-06-17 Thread Gavrila
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 02:16, Meka[ni] wrote: How can I rc-update add default so that command set up volume of all sliders? I know how to do it with aumix but it doesn't control all of the sliders. Tnx ppl. :o) Perhaps ypu didin't install alsa-utils ?It has alsctl program that

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution won't start

2003-06-17 Thread Chris van der Pennen
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:35, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: How do you emerge Evo 1.4? Is it out already? ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~arch emerge evolution signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread James
It would probably be easiest to start up an FTP daemon on the Windows XP machine and through a cronjob on your machine back up relevant data through FTP. Also rsync is able to be run on Windows. There are a lot of systems available for this type of purpose, try looking up backup in freshmeat or

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks for the prompt reply, My gentoo partitions are reiserfs and windows is ntfs. Are you suggesting I make a fat32 partition and save my work to that i.e. /home/work ? If so will windows find it ok or will I have to set it up, if so how? Thanks again Paul On Tue 17 June 2003 10:25,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Gavrila
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:35, Paul Stear wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply, My gentoo partitions are reiserfs and windows is ntfs. Are you suggesting I make a fat32 partition and save my work to that i.e. /home/work ? If so will windows find it ok or will I have to set it up, if so how?

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-17 Thread raptor
I was thinking of yet another way of doing this :), the simplest one : 1. Install and setup keychain 2. Change FETCH command in /etc/make.conf to something like this : FETCHCOMMAND='ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e /usr/bin/wget -c -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI} scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:${DISTDIR}/${FILE}

[gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Wenk
Alright, I messed up last night. I wanted to update mysql to version 4. So I went ahead and did the following command: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p mysql And it said all it needed to do was mysql. So fine, I did the following: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u mysql And it updated a good

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
you should modify /etc/make.conf and put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in there, that is if you want to take the risk of using `unstable` packages. So far, ~x86 is very stable... On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Michael Wenk wrote: Alright, I messed up last night. I wanted to update mysql to version 4. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-17 Thread Saurabh Nanda
I had thought of this too... And it's pretty workable though. Instead of ssh-ing into the central machine and then initiating the download - it would be better to download the file onto your machine. And if the download is successful, you upload it onto the Univ server. People could be given

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Wenk
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:16 am, Andrei Ivanov wrote: you should modify /etc/make.conf and put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in there, that is if you want to take the risk of using `unstable` packages. So far, ~x86 is very stable... On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Michael Wenk wrote: Alright, I messed up last

[gentoo-user] New noip-updater package and dns

2003-06-17 Thread romildo
Hello. Why does the service noip from the new version of the package noip-updater (2.0.12) depends on the dns service? What package provides the dns service? Romildo -- Prof. Jose Romildo Malaquias[EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Computação [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. Federal de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge link error due to i586-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-linux-gnu mismatch

2003-06-17 Thread Janne Johansson
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:56:46 +0200 Jonathan Chocron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'va had the exact same problem. Yeah, me too. OK, you must wonder where it comes from : simply enough, from the stage3 installs which uses a i586 optimized bootstrap for compatibility issues. You can see that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread MooktaKiNG
I usually have a seperate HD, hdb as my backup drive. i save ALL my files there. i have symlinks to my files like this: ls ~/Desktop/ Wallpaper Scripts Work MP3 Themes Movies All those ^ folders are symlinks to the hdb1 partition. hdb1 is a fat32. becuase this is linux, its transparent. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Erik S. Johansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u --nodeps packagename You'd ofcourse have to do emerge -up packagename first, in order to verify that you have all the dependancies of the stable

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread MAL
Erik S. Johansen wrote: When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u --nodeps packagename You'd ofcourse have to do emerge -up packagename first, in order to verify that you have all the dependancies of the stable package installed. Odds are

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread keanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 11:05, Michael Wenk wrote: Alright, I messed up last night. I wanted to update mysql to version 4. So I went ahead and did the following command: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p mysql And it said all it needed to do was

[gentoo-user] Re: updatedb

2003-06-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
On lun, 16 jun 2003, Jason Nielsen wrote: Hi, just to answer your question you are not totaly alone. For some reason, one of my computers (the laptop) reacts the same way whenever I am doing an updatedb or copying a large file from one disk to another. I am then left with 4M of ram out of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:11 +0300 Erik S. Johansen wrote: When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u --nodeps packagename You'd ofcourse have to do emerge -up packagename first, in order to verify that you have all the dependancies

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Erik S. Johansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 14:18, Marius Mauch wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:11 +0300 Erik S. Johansen wrote: When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u --nodeps packagename You'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread brett holcomb
Why not use Samba? Then WinXP can see the drives as shares and you can use Explorer to drag and drop from the Gentoo box to the Windows box. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:35:26 +0100 Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply, My gentoo partitions are reiserfs and windows is

[gentoo-user] emerge problem

2003-06-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, On one of my servers, when I run an ordinary 'emerge -uD world', I recieve the following error message. When I run it without a -D option, everything is OK.Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 1902, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 1.4 compile error

2003-06-17 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Monday 16 June 2003 17:44, Spundun Bhatt wrote: I know its masked but I still tried to install it, perticularly I wanted to get rid of the gnome-pilot version shunting problem. But evolution doesnt compile for me.. (surprisingly it compiles for some other people on this list as I can see :(

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread MAL
Erik S. Johansen wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 14:18, Marius Mauch wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:11 +0300 Erik S. Johansen wrote: When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u --nodeps packagename You'd ofcourse have to do emerge -up

[gentoo-user] /lib/libpthread.so.0: version GLIBC_2.3.2 not found and Install without network

2003-06-17 Thread kent sin
I just download the 1.4_rc4 live cd. I try to install to a Sony PCG-505FX. I have succeed until stage-3. Where I suppose to make a emerge, but python2.2: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required by python2.2) How could I continue from that? Moreover, I have a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks for the response. I have tried samba but could not get windows to see the partitions. - I don't know what I did wrong. I could do with a step by step guide to do this from someone who has this working. Thanks again Paul On Tue 17 June 2003 12:55, brett holcomb wrote: Why not use Samba?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem

2003-06-17 Thread Sebastian Hungerecker
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:56:14 +0300 (IDT) Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On one of my servers, when I run an ordinary 'emerge -uD world', I recieve the following error message. When I run it without a -D option, everything is OK. Same Problem here -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread brett holcomb
Once you install Samba you have to rc-update add samba default (or xdm). The update your etc/samba/smb.conf file. The XP users have to have an account on the Linux box with the same name and password as the windows box. Once you set up a Linux user account for them run smbpasswd and add

[gentoo-user] licq and gtk

2003-06-17 Thread Meka[ni]
I know that it is posible to run gtk plug-in for licq (jones) but I don't know how to emerge it. Is there anyone who made it happen? Tnx!!! Meka[ni] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
Erik S. Johansen wrote: Yes, if you know ahead you dont have the package installed it is. If you just want to upgrade if it can be upgraded -u --nodeps is good for ~x86 packages. Except when/if the upgraded version has a new dependency or requires a later version of some old dependency. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory problems (compiling on a different machine)

2003-06-17 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
John Ross Hunt wrote: You might want to give this a try on the broken machine: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ (BadRAM: Linux kernel support for broken RAM modules) A good idea except that there's nothing wrong with the RAM modules themselves, and thus disabling broken bits (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Sigurd Stordal
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 14:52, Paul Stear wrote: Thanks for the response. I have tried samba but could not get windows to see the partitions. - I don't know what I did wrong. But If I remember earlier in this tread you mentioned that you could connect to a windoz share from the gentoo box. If

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem

2003-06-17 Thread Gavrila
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:56, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:56:14 +0300 (IDT) Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On one of my servers, when I run an ordinary 'emerge -uD world', I recieve the following error message. When I run it without a -D option, everything

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem

2003-06-17 Thread nealbirch
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:56:24 +0200 Sebastian Hungerecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:56:14 +0300 (IDT) Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On one of my servers, when I run an ordinary 'emerge -uD world', I recieve the following error message. When I run it without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, My wifes windows XP machine is almost redundant and I have been trying to backup my gentoo box over the network onto a spare disk in the other machine. Hi, this sounds for me very funny ... it's like to store (make backup) of audio CD's to black vinil

Re: [gentoo-user] Kylix 3 problems

2003-06-17 Thread Robert Young
Have you tried http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 17:53, Simon Mushi wrote: Greetings all, I just wanted to know if anyone has managed to get Kylix 3 running. I downloaded the binaries... ran the installer fine... but when i execute the

Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp and TrueType fonts...

2003-06-17 Thread Erland Nylend
* Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I got the FreeType Filter working. Now I'd like to be able to use the TT fonts in the logo-maker in script-fu, but the font dialog there doesn't show the TT fonts. Any suggestions? Did you 'emerge gimp-freetype' as Ohad Lutzky suggested? -- Erland

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer @ startup

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
the alsasound script stores mixer levels when it stops. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer @ startup Do you actually need to do this? I find

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Next time: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -up mysql Note the u. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Michael Wenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:05 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86 Alright, I messed up last night. I wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Next time: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -up mysql Note the u. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Michael Wenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:05 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge and ~x86 Alright, I messed up last night. I wanted to

[gentoo-user] wine

2003-06-17 Thread Gëzim
Hi, I recently just merged wine, but I don't know how much did it get configured,and do I have to configure anything, or can I just put the M$ Windows Office in the cd-rom and run setup? Thanks, Zim __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!

Re: [gentoo-user] Local ebuilds and new releases in portage

2003-06-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:32:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:41:28PM -0400, Owen Gunden wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:31:17PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When this new version appears in portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Local ebuilds and new releases in portage

2003-06-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:25:58AM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: The Gentoo version of icewm-1.2.8 will override your local version of icewm-1.2.8 when it comes out, unless you touch the local version to make it newer. Thanks for clearing that up! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] User defined xinit

2003-06-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
Hi everyone, Can someone tell me how to use a user defined .xinit/.xsession when using gdm? I'm trying fluxbox at the moment, and it depends on xinit/xsession to start additional programs. So how can I persuade gdm to include scripts from the homedir while starting up fluxbox? CU all, Jens --

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup to windowsXP

2003-06-17 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Paul Stear wrote: Hi, Thanks for the advice, the windows box is used for DV editing and I have loads of space to use as backup. I wish I could replace windows but nothing comes close to adobe premiere. regards Paul I am not experienced with DV editing, but heard, cinelerra is super ... did

Re: [gentoo-user] shell colors

2003-06-17 Thread xcentric
Hey Zim, Check out the file /etc/DIR_COLORS I think that is what you are looking for. As far as the link goes you should be able to. However seeing you want an argument you'll probably need to write a short shell script for it. Pehaps something like this: #!/bin/bash # contents of file

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2003-06-17 Thread Simon Mushi
Zim, A useful package you might want to emerge is winesetuptk. It provides a nice way to configure wine. Good luck, Simon On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, [UNKNOWN] Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Hi, I recently just merged wine, but I don't know how much did it get configured,and do I have to configure anything,

Re: [gentoo-user] modem permissions

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Brauer
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 23:14, Norberto BENSA wrote: Hello, Sometimes, my modem (/dev/ttyS15) goes from: crw-rw1 root dialout 62, 79 Jun 16 23:27 /dev/ttyS15 to: crw-r-1 root dialout 62, 79 Jun 16 23:27 /dev/ttyS15 or even: crw-r-1

Re: [gentoo-user] User defined xinit

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Brauer
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 08:24, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: Hi everyone, Can someone tell me how to use a user defined .xinit/.xsession when using gdm? I'm trying fluxbox at the moment, and it depends on xinit/xsession to start additional programs. So how can I persuade gdm to include scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] shell colors

2003-06-17 Thread daniel
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Gëzim Hoxha wrote: Hello, I want to be able to see different colours for different file types when I type ¨ls¨ in Konsole without having to do ls --colors in order to get that. And is it possible to link a file (e.g. /bin/galeon) to another file with a flag (e.g.

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail for deleting mails

2003-06-17 Thread Chris I
On 2003.06.17 04:58, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I want to delete some mail before reetching my mailbox is this a good way ? in .procmailrc :0: * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0 * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null you forgot the * after the . , which helps. Other than that, its fine. I

[gentoo-user] X11 crash overwriting files.

2003-06-17 Thread Henti Smith
Hi all Been busy playing with my nvidia card on one machine and it's solidly crashing it every time using the nvidia driver (nv driver works fine) IT crashes with a terminal screen full of ascii. This is not really a problem, since I'm playing with stuff in general, what does oncurn me tho is

[gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can anyone point me towards some good instructions on how to build an initrd file? Something Gentoo specific would be most welcome. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] User defined xinit

2003-06-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:24:56PM +, Michael Rasile wrote: Can someone tell me how to use a user defined .xinit/.xsession when using gdm? I'm trying fluxbox at the moment, and it depends on xinit/xsession to start additional programs. So how can I persuade gdm to include

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2003-06-17 Thread Gëzim
So it sounds like doing emerge wine doesn't configure it, thus my question is what did emerge wine do? Where do I pick it up in http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-user/ what step do I start to do next? --- Simon Mushi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zim, A useful package you might want to emerge is

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2003-06-17 Thread Simon Mushi
Zim, Configuring wine manually is not impossible but it is pretty tricky, as I found out myself. So once I emerged winesetuptk I was good to go in no time.,..just try it out. Best Simon, On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, [UNKNOWN] Gëzim Hoxha wrote: So it sounds like doing emerge wine doesn't configure

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread brett holcomb
Is there a man mkinitrd? I've seen that on other distros. It makes an initrd for the kernel you give it. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:32:20 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me towards some good instructions on how to build an initrd file? Something Gentoo specific

RE: [gentoo-user] wine

2003-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: GXzim Hoxha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine So it sounds like doing emerge wine doesn't configure it, thus my question is what did emerge wine do? Where do I pick it up

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread keanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 18:32, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me towards some good instructions on how to build an initrd file? Something Gentoo specific would be most welcome. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 its in

RE: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build? Is there a man mkinitrd? I've seen that on other distros. It makes an initrd for the kernel you give

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2003-06-17 Thread brett holcomb
Emerge wine simply adds wine to the system so you can use it. Check man wine and man wine.conf for details on setting up the wine.conf file in your wine directory. Winesetuptk is a GUI interface to set up wine but I don't belive it handles all the options. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:50:10 -0700

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread brett holcomb
I don't know where it is either G. I used that on RH 7.3. If it's in portage it's probably in a package with other tools. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:56:59 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17,

RE: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: keanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Knecht Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 18:32, Mark Knecht wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread nmeyers
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:04:36AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: -Original Message- From: keanu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Knecht Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread keanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's what I want to do. I was told I need an initrd file. My small home recording studio is booting from an internal EIDE drive, but doing most everything else with 1394. All the apps are on the 1394 drive, and the audio goes on and off of the

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl_help

2003-06-17 Thread daniel
On June 17, 2003 01:59 pm, Karshi wrote: I switched from the cable to DSL connection. How I setup adsl , or pppoe ? I run Gentoo 1.4_rc3, and want to update. the whole move to dsl threw me a curve too (cable is just so easy). anyway, in my searching, i found the attached text file to be of

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-dev] broken portage ;P and yes .. it's my fault .. sortoff

2003-06-17 Thread Heschi Kreinick
What file system are you using? I'm guessing XFS? From the install guide: XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on

Re: [gentoo-user] Curiosity - DirectFB

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 15:03, Nathan Middleton wrote: Peter, Just simply meant that it works and does what you need it to do. I know after setting up the X fb server mine would startup to a blank desktop. BTW, a great thread in the forums is;

[gentoo-user] adsl_help

2003-06-17 Thread Karshi
Hi all, I switched from the cable to DSL connection. How I setup adsl , or pppoe ? I run Gentoo 1.4_rc3, and want to update. Can I use the LiveCD to fix the problem? I don't want to loose files in my current installation. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-dev] broken portage ;P and yes .. it's my fault .. sortoff

2003-06-17 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:13:43PM +0200, Henti Smith wrote: hi all Been trying to get nvidia working .. and been crashing horribly on my system, corrupting files left right and center. problem is .. seems to have take something in portage with. here is what happens. fmg app-games #

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl_help

2003-06-17 Thread Karshi
Hi Rex, How do I emerge if there is no connection? Rex Young wrote: emerge adsl-setup adsl-setup (I'm not sure if I have the name right, but it's something like that.) I set up a connection at home a couple of weeks ago. I seem to recall that man pages were helpful. If you have a firewall in

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-dev] broken portage ;P and yes .. it's myfault .. sortoff

2003-06-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:13:43 +0200 Henti Smith wrote: hi all Been trying to get nvidia working .. and been crashing horribly on my system, corrupting files left right and center. problem is .. seems to have take something in portage with. here is what happens. fmg app-games # emerge

RE: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
goes on and off of the 1394 drive. This page looks useful: http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/initrd$.txt Basically, an initrd is good for loading the drivers you need to complete the boot process. I don't know if it'll work for your situation, but another solution that often works is just

Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Gruenberger
Hi Arnold, you can run bin files with mplayer, e.g. mplayer matrix2.bin Worked for me... Michael. On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:35, Arnold Krille wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 18:33, Tom Wesley wrote: And for this there is * app-cdr/virtualcd-0.4 I have a cue/bin loaded with virtualcd but

Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images

2003-06-17 Thread Arnold Krille
On Sunday 15 June 2003 18:33, Tom Wesley wrote: And for this there is * app-cdr/virtualcd-0.4 I have a cue/bin loaded with virtualcd but how can I access the files ??? Do I have to rip them? or can I than mount it somehow? Arnold, trying to get a downloaded matrix2 to play;-) -- Get my

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -p world broken today?

2003-06-17 Thread Simon Arlott
This is a copy of my post to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=61153 I've found a good fix: open [b]/usr/portage/eclass/php.eclass[/b] [code] Change: IUSE=${IUSE} X cjk crypt curl firebird flash freetds gd gd-bundled gdbm imap informix java jpeg ldap mcal mysql nls oci8 odbc pam pdflib

RE: [gentoo-user] adsl_help

2003-06-17 Thread Rex Young
Hi Rex, How do I emerge if there is no connection? Rex Young wrote: emerge adsl-setup adsl-setup ok, I was wrong. it's: emerge rp-pppoe adsl-setup Check. It may already be installed. If not, there are a couple of ways around it. 1. You could simply download the necessary file(s) from

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl_help

2003-06-17 Thread Karshi
Thanks Rex, Rex Young wrote: Hi Rex, How do I emerge if there is no connection? Rex Young wrote: emerge adsl-setup adsl-setup ok, I was wrong. it's: emerge rp-pppoe adsl-setup Check. It may already be installed. If not, there are a couple of ways around it. 1. You could

Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images

2003-06-17 Thread Arnold Krille
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 21:33, Michael Gruenberger wrote: you can run bin files with mplayer, e.g. mplayer matrix2.bin But I want to burn them to cd and watch the movies from it. creating iso's with bchunk created bad isos hwere I had sound and picture crippled :-( Arnold -- Get my

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd - how to build?

2003-06-17 Thread bryn
brett holcomb wrote: I don't know where it is either G. I used that on RH 7.3. If it's in portage it's probably in a package with other tools. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:56:59 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Permissions

2003-06-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hello all, Some questions about permissions: 1/ How come that when I want to see the content of a cdrom I get the message: -Only root may mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (my translation from french)? I have to mount cd's as root and then I can open them as a user. I tried to change permissions on

Re: [gentoo-user] CD Images

2003-06-17 Thread Arnold Krille
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 20:56, Arnold Krille wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 21:33, Michael Gruenberger wrote: you can run bin files with mplayer, e.g. mplayer matrix2.bin But I want to burn them to cd and watch the movies from it. creating iso's with bchunk created bad isos hwere I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions

2003-06-17 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:04:53PM +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hello all, Some questions about permissions: 1/ How come that when I want to see the content of a cdrom I get the message: -Only root may mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (my translation from french)? I have to mount cd's as root

RE: [gentoo-user] Permissions

2003-06-17 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hello all, Some questions about permissions: 1/ How come that when I want to see the content of a cdrom I get the message: -Only root may mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (my translation from french)? I have to mount cd's as root and then I can open them as a user. I

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl_help

2003-06-17 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 19:29, Karshi wrote: Hi Rex, How do I emerge if there is no connection? First try 'emerge -p kpnadsl4linux'. That gives you all the packages you need to install. Then look into the ebuilds (in /usr/portage/... ) to get the filenames you have to download. For

[gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Adams
Hello, I have an installation just the way I like it. Now I need to replicate it onto 4 other identical machines. I'd appreciate input on how best to accomplish this. My perfect world scenario would be to be able to create a bootable installation CD that would do the trick for me. Thanks in

[gentoo-user] stunnel-4.04

2003-06-17 Thread Simon Matthews
I seem to have a problem with stunnel-4.04 -- it is complaining about a missing file: perdition: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libstunnel.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory closed Note that I get this error message when

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Meadors
For me, I found it was not worth the time to make it an automated procedure and just used tar and cfdisk to do it. - Boot the good machine using the install CD - Create a tar of each partition - Burn the tar files to a CD - Boot the next machine using the install CD - Create the partions

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread Lars Juel Nielsen
you could also use dd and make an image of each drive, thus eliminating the need to do more than issue more than the dd command to write it all to the drive. Of course this is only guaranteed to work because they are identical. On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:48, Larry Meadors wrote: For me, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions

2003-06-17 Thread Pat Kerwan
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:04:53PM +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: [snip] 2/ Also I tried crontab -e, and it was a root permission (I did not investigate more), but cannot users have their own crontab (I used to have that with debian btw)? If you're using Vixie Cron, there's a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread John
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote: you could also use dd and make an image of each drive, thus eliminating I have had good luck with dump/restore (ext2 root). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread raptor
]- Haven't tested it yet, but I should do something similar soon... look at this : MkCdrec http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html |Hello, | |I have an installation just the way I like it. Now I need to replicate it |onto 4 other identical machines. | |I'd appreciate input on how best to

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