Re: [gentoo-user] the problem with ping

2003-11-12 Thread jkw
On Nov 11, 2003, at 5:52 PM, Stephen Boulet wrote: is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the kill command to stop it. I'm using net-misc/iputils-020927. Is something wrong with my setup? yes :) ...ah, you were expecting that answer, weren't you... is it just ping or

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal server

2003-11-12 Thread jkw
On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:55 AM, Redeeman wrote: hi, i am going to make a gentoo terminal server. i see ltsp project, but it dont descripe good IMO :( i know about xdmcp and vnc, but i wonder ltsp seems to have kernel patches and stuff, what does it help? and vnc seems pretty slow, and i was told

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel gs-sources

2003-11-12 Thread Anders Hasselqvist
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Mike Hogsett wrote: Today I emerge'd gs-sources and used genkernel to build a kernel. It built the kernel and modules but didn't install either. Why is this? I suggest that you check /var/log/genkernel.log for errors. Two weeks ago I used genkernel to compile

[gentoo-user] Mailman and sendmail integration...

2003-11-12 Thread Benoit Joseph
Hello all, I've configured mailman on my gentoo mail server. I followed the mailman tutorial from the gentoo docs but it uses postfix and I run sendmail :-/ So my question is how to integrate mailman and sendmail on an alias-based system? I mean how to generate the sendmail aliases for a

Re: [gentoo-user] wine warcraft 3

2003-11-12 Thread Robert Jewell
On Thursday 06 November 2003 18:08, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: Has anyone gotten warcraft 3 to run under wine? I'm going to devote the today to getting a few things running in wine.. I've got warcraft III and haven't played it yet, so I'll add that to the list. :) -bob -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman and sendmail integration...

2003-11-12 Thread Dennis Freise
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:11:32 +0100 Benoit Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've configured mailman on my gentoo mail server. I followed the mailman tutorial from the gentoo docs but it uses postfix and I run sendmail :-/ So my question is how to integrate mailman and sendmail on an

[gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread David
Hey Gentooers, 2 quickies: 1. Anyone had any luck with linksys 802.11b wireless pcmcia cards and gentoo on a laptop? I have found some documentation, but I want to check with the more experienced users to see if it is going to be worth my time to try out. Also (sorry to post again but this

Re: [gentoo-user] the problem with ping

2003-11-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:29 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote: is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the kill command to stop it. I'm using net-misc/iputils-020927. Is something wrong with my setup? Nope, unless you think the method that 'ping' on Windows works is correct. On Windows, it pings (4)

Re: [gentoo-user] the problem with ping

2003-11-12 Thread Stephen Boulet
Hmm. Works now after a reboot. I'm running kde 3.2 beta 1, so it might have been something with that. Thanks for the response. On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:29 am, jkw wrote: is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the kill command to stop it. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] the problem with ping

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hello, Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2003 15:13 schrieb Hall Stevenson: At 02:29 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote: is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the kill command to stop it. I'm using net-misc/iputils-020927. Is something wrong with my setup? Nope, unless you think

RE: [gentoo-user] booting gentoo on alpha machine

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-alpha-install.xml A friend of mine just got an old alpha machine from work, and he wanted to try running linux on it so I told him to try gentoo. But we're having trouble getting started, I see no boot iso for stage 1, only the tar file. So how do we

[gentoo-user] Rsync mirrors to use WAS Re: [gentoo-user] emerge SUNK!!!

2003-11-12 Thread Sigurd Stordal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:06, Steve Withers wrote: My usual rsync mirror (gazza.citylink.co.nz) is out of action, so I thought I would point at another rsync mirror: Isn't you suppose to use the upper level round robin rsync servers. For

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: libssl: error [fixed]

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, lets think about this for a minute.. You create a library for others to use. When you deem a change necessary enough to bump versions, this normally means you have changed the library in such a way, that calls to it should change...

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:55, Eamon Caddigan wrote: rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If emerge -u world is trying to downgrade packages, you can use /etc/portage.mask and /etc/portage.umask to set your own permanent masks -- not trashed by an rsync.

RE: [gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread Brent L Johnson
1. Anyone had any luck with linksys 802.11b wireless pcmcia cards and gentoo on a laptop? I have found some documentation, but I want to check with the more experienced users to see if it is going to be worth my time to try out. Which one? I have the WPC11 version 4 and it works fine

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Sim 0.9.1: error in ebuild

2003-11-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
The -U did it, thanks! On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:53, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:27:26 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from Sim 0.9.0 to 0.9.1 (0.9.0 was broken on ICQ). The ebuild fails on automake with the message below. I tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 13 November 2003 00:17, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to hear that you got your problem fixed the correct way. For future reference, the file /etc/portage/package.{mask,unmask} are only for adding/ removing from/to /usr/portage/package.mask. If

[gentoo-user] Installing openoffice-bin-1.1.0

2003-11-12 Thread Larry Meadors
I got this error installing openoffice-bin-1.1.0: === ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/lib/fonts/fonts.dir === I was running as root, so ACCESS DENIED seemed sorta unlikely. :-/ I renamed fonts.dir to fonts.dir.old and created a directory named fonts.dir and it appears to

[gentoo-user] Updating

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Carson
Hi all.. I just want to know if the following command is the right one to use to see if I need to update any packages. emerge -up world It comes up empty.. so does this mean I am fully up to date, or am I doing something wroing. Thanks -Jay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Updating

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Add --deep or -D.. Actually.. Your best bet is emerge -Dupvl world.. This will give you a wealth of information so you can determine the best way to upgrade your packages. Hi all.. I just want to know if the following command is the right one to use to see if I need to update any packages.

[gentoo-user] Un-emerge error...

2003-11-12 Thread Nathaniel
How come everytime I emerge -C x I get the following type of error? /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1196: /var/tmp/portage-pkg/wget-1.8.2-r2/inf/wget-1.8.2-r2.ebuild: No such file or directory !!! ERROR: wget-1.8.2-r2/wget-1.8.2-r2 failed. !!! Function , Line 1196, Exitcode 1 !!! error sourcing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread rd
Jason -- Thanks for clearing up my confusion regarding the /etc/portage/package.(mask,unmask) function. I use it to mask out apache2, but did not understand the fact that it was limited to the contents of /usr/portage/package... Sorry if I lead anyone astray. ;-( -rdg --- Jason Stubbs [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating

2003-11-12 Thread Anders Hasselqvist
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Jason Carson wrote: Hi all.. I just want to know if the following command is the right one to use to see if I need to update any packages. emerge -up world It comes up empty.. so does this mean I am fully up to date, or am I doing something wroing. Hi Jay, Make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread rd
David -- Regarding question #2, I get 3 similar messages during system boot. I can not remember when this started or what I did that caused it. Modprobe is looking for things that do not exist on my system or in my custom kernel. There does not seem to be any impact other than the annoyance

Re: [gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread brett holcomb
If it's the rtc module you need to go to menuconfig and add rtc so it will be built in as a module. On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:55:56 -0800 (PST) rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David -- Regarding question #2, I get 3 similar messages during system boot. I can not remember when this started or what I

[gentoo-user] svg viewer

2003-11-12 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
I ran across this page, so I thought I'd post it for the person who wanted a svg viewer. http://xsvg.org/ It isn't completed, but the status page lists what works. -Nathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 13 November 2003 01:42, rd wrote: Thanks for clearing up my confusion regarding the /etc/portage/package.(mask,unmask) function. I use it to mask out apache2, but did not understand the fact that it was limited to the contents of /usr/portage/package... No, that sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating

2003-11-12 Thread Jeff Blair
Do an emerge sync first. Then do emerge -udp world. That will show you what will be updated. Jeff Jason Carson wrote: Hi all.. I just want to know if the following command is the right one to use to see if I need to update any packages. emerge -up world It comes up empty.. so does this

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Carson
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Jason Carson wrote: Hi all.. I just want to know if the following command is the right one to use to see if I need to update any packages. emerge -up world It comes up empty.. so does this mean I am fully up to date, or am I doing something wroing. Hi Jay, Make

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Carson
Do an emerge sync first. Then do emerge -udp world. That will show you what will be updated. Jeff I installed gentoo1 1.4 a week or two after it came out and for some reason there are still no updates...so did emerge sync and to my surprise there are a whole bunch :-) Thanks for the help

Re: [gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread David
hey rdg, Yeah it is rather annoying, unfortunately I get like 15-20 of those messages every time I login or logout, and it may not even be a problem, but I have no way of knowing if it is or it isn't... I have had a few other problems here and there, and I don't know if they are related in

[gentoo-user] HELP - MySQL - OT

2003-11-12 Thread Bobby R. Cox
Help I have a connect.php that allows for authentication of my database as a user pmt I changed the password and didnot back up the file...Now I can't access at all. What is the command to change the password for user pmt without knowing the correct password. TIA -- Bobby R. Cox

[gentoo-user] AMD64 and xfs-sources

2003-11-12 Thread KamaolaKid
I'm installing from the latest amd64 live cd and I'm using XFS for my root file system. When I emerge -k sys-kernel/xfs-sources it complains about the package being masked. It appears that all the kernel sources are masked, and they are all 2.4 kernels. I was under the impression that the live

RE: [gentoo-user] HELP - MySQL - OT

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Passwords.html Help I have a connect.php that allows for authentication of my database as a user pmt I changed the password and didnot back up the file...Now I can't access at all. What is the command to change the password for user pmt without knowing the

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP - MySQL - OT

2003-11-12 Thread Barry Marler
Why not mysql -u root -p and edit mysql.user? On 10:35 Wed 12 Nov, Bobby R. Cox wrote: Help I have a connect.php that allows for authentication of my database as a user pmt I changed the password and didnot back up the file...Now I can't access at all. What is the command to change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:40 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 00:17, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to hear that you got your problem fixed the correct way. For future reference, the file /etc/portage/package.{mask,unmask} are only for adding/ removing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge SUNK!!!

2003-11-12 Thread Chris I
On 2003.11.11 19:06, Steve Withers wrote: My usual rsync mirror (gazza.citylink.co.nz) is out of action, so I thought I would point at another rsync mirror: rsync.planetmirror.com.au .as listed on the Gentoo.org download page (sort of - when you try the rsync link on the gentoo.org page,

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 and xfs-sources

2003-11-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:35, KamaolaKid wrote: I'm installing from the latest amd64 live cd and I'm using XFS for my root file system. When I emerge -k sys-kernel/xfs-sources it complains about the package being masked. It appears that all the kernel sources are masked, and they are all 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] two quick questions :-)

2003-11-12 Thread Markus Dittrich
Hotplugging sometimes attempts to load modules that don't exist or are unwanted. This can be prevented by adding the respective modules to /etc/hotplug/blacklist as far as I remember. MARKUS On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, rd wrote: David -- Regarding question #2, I get 3 similar messages during

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP - MySQL - OT

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:35, Bobby R. Cox wrote: Help I have a connect.php that allows for authentication of my database as a user pmt I changed the password and didnot back up the file...Now I can't access at all. What is the command

[gentoo-user] why kdrive?

2003-11-12 Thread spundun
Hi My question is why is there a module called kdrive in gentoo? As far as I know, the xserver Keith Packard is working on is called xserver now and is hosted on freedesktop.org. I just want to know if this is in sync with that or not, and also if there is any chance of a cvs ebuild being

[gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Garman
Does anyone out there happen to use dosemu? If so, did you have to do anything special to get your arrow keys to work? It appears that dosemu is interpreting the arrow keys (right, left, up, down) as an escape key. If I use the edit program, and I invoke the menus at the top of the screen, I

Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:21, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone out there happen to use dosemu? If so, did you have to do anything special to get your arrow keys to work? It appears that dosemu is interpreting the arrow keys (right, left, up, down) as an escape key. If I use the edit program,

[gentoo-user] Kernel Sources

2003-11-12 Thread brett holcomb
I've read through the kernel docs on the Gentoo site. I use xfs-sources now because I use the xfs file system. I assume I can merge any kernel source and then use menuconfig to tell it to include XFS in it's file systems. Is that correct? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-12 Thread SN
No chance, there is no linux player that will work at the moment. - Original Message - From: Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:42 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos I have some family members that want to switch to Gentoo Linux,

Re: [gentoo-user] Way Off Topic - Java

2003-11-12 Thread SN
I downloaded it about 20h ago worked just fine,. - Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Way Off Topic - Java I am hoping that someone from sun java recieves this or some one on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Sources

2003-11-12 Thread Alan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:29:57PM -0500, brett holcomb wrote: I've read through the kernel docs on the Gentoo site. I use xfs-sources now because I use the xfs file system. I assume I can merge any kernel source and then use menuconfig to tell it to include XFS in it's file systems. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] IDS

2003-11-12 Thread SN
Title: Message If it's a single maschine, then I'd suggest snort. But as I followed the thread, you don't seem to have ever worked with either snort or prelude, this is bad, gentoos preconfigured scripts suck, to get some out of it you will have to reconfigure a couple of things.. I have

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge time problem(resolved)/VPN Samba aut omount

2003-11-12 Thread stony . d . yakovac
In case anyone was curious what happened, I finally solved the problem. The short version is that people see what they expect to see. I saw the date listed as the correct time, month, and day, but the year was wrong. After figuring out how to set the date, all further emerge commands have run

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Sources

2003-11-12 Thread brett holcomb
Thank you for the clarification. I guess I'll try some and see if they have XFS. If not I'll ask for it. On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:39:53 -0800 Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:29:57PM -0500, brett holcomb wrote: I've read through the kernel docs on the Gentoo site. I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge time problem(resolved)/VPN Samba aut omount

2003-11-12 Thread Pat Kerwan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:46:07PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case anyone was curious what happened, I finally solved the problem. The short version is that people see what they expect to see. I saw the date listed as the correct time, month, and day, but the year was wrong. After

[gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ?

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre-Franois Gomez
Hello list ! While trying to run Eterm, i get this : Eterm: error while loading shared libraries: libttf.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory My question is not there, though : i know too well the cause of this error ;-) Later in the day i decided to do some

Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Matt writes: Does anyone out there happen to use dosemu? If so, did you have to do anything special to get your arrow keys to work? No problem here - I'm writing this mail in Crosspoint, a DOS mail and news client. I'm using a DRDOS hdimage, but I am pretty sure that I had no keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 and xfs-sources

2003-11-12 Thread KamaolaKid
Thanks! development-sources worked great. -- Kyle S. - Original Message - From: Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 and xfs-sources -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ?

2003-11-12 Thread Patrick Börjesson
So, is there somebody out there who installed Eterm and who could do something like qpkg -f libttf.so.2, please ? # qpkg -nc -f /usr/lib/libttf.so media-libs/freetype Guess that answers your question... Patrick Börjesson -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at

RE: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Matt writes: Does anyone out there happen to use dosemu? If so, did you have to do anything special to get your arrow keys to work? No problem here - I'm writing this mail in Crosspoint, a DOS mail and news client. I'm using a DRDOS hdimage, but I am pretty sure that I had no keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] IDS

2003-11-12 Thread rd
What are you using to modify iptables after snort detects something bad? With ipchains, I used to use 'guardian' (available from link on snort web page), but have not updated it so it will work with iptables yet. Is your work GPL? I am sure many more experienced IDS users would be interested.

Re: [gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ?

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre-Franois Gomez
Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, is there somebody out there who installed Eterm and who could do something like qpkg -f libttf.so.2, please ? # qpkg -nc -f /usr/lib/libttf.so media-libs/freetype Guess that answers your question... As stated earlier, i tried it without

[gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Kathy Wills
I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper spacing in the actual file. I keep getting the message that it is not a block device. Can someone please tell me what I am

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ?

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre-Franois Gomez
Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # qpkg -nc -f /usr/lib/libttf.so media-libs/freetype Guess that answers your question... You were right. I wandered a short time before finding out that xlock was producing the same error. So i re-emerged it and i think it merged the right version

[gentoo-user] Installation woes

2003-11-12 Thread Larry Meadors
After going through the installation, when I reboot nothing happens until I press enter. After that I get screens and screens of garbage. Nothing readable, not even recognizable characters, just dots. :-/ I used gentoo-sources for the kernel, and no xdm or anything, just plain vanilla text-mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread DB Wong
--- Kathy Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper spacing in the actual file. I keep getting the message that it is not a

RE: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ?

2003-11-12 Thread Rex Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ? Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # qpkg -nc

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] from which ebuild is libttf.so.2 ?

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre-Franois Gomez
Rex Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ago). My solution was somewhat simpler. I unmerged the offended application, then re-emerged it, at which point it picked up the missing dependencies. It's simple, but not necessarily fast. I hadn't thought of unmerging eterm ;-) I think i might get

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation woes

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 23:38, Larry Meadors wrote: After going through the installation, when I reboot nothing happens until I press enter. After that I get screens and screens of garbage. Nothing readable, not even recognizable characters,

Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark writes: No problem here - I'm writing this mail in Crosspoint, a DOS mail and news client. I'm using a DRDOS hdimage, but I am pretty sure that I had no keyboard problems with freedos, too. Alex Alex, This is sort of off topic, but are there advantages to running some

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Kathy Wills
DB Wong wrote: --- Kathy Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper spacing in the actual file. I keep getting the message that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-12 Thread Michele Di Trani
They like to watch the videos that on Yahoo. I have not been able to Wich kind of codec is used for these Yahoo Videos? In Linux you can easily watch divx, xvid, mpg, wmv, asf, realmedia, avi, mov.. (have you tried emerging Xine or Mplayer?) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Kathy Wills wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper spacing in the actual file. I keep getting the message that it is not a block device. Can someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread DB Wong
--- Kathy Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DB Wong wrote: --- Kathy Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper spacing

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:18, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: u do not like read manuals, don't u ? In both of lines u have mistakes in flag user :-( That's pretty rude - especially since you are wrong. Both the user option and the users option exists. Both allow any user to mount the device.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Kathy Wills
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Kathy Wills wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper spacing in the actual file. I keep getting the message that it is not a block

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Kathy Wills
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:18, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: u do not like read manuals, don't u ? In both of lines u have mistakes in flag user :-( That's pretty rude - especially since you are wrong. Both the user option and the users option exists. Both allow any

[gentoo-user] gentoo java

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, After installing java, i can't just run 'java' from the console, as java apps fail, like jedit. Is this a forgotten emerge package action or did i miss a warning in the compiler output mess ? I'm still unfamiliar with the Unix/Linux file/dir tree; can i create a link as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:38 pm, Kathy Wills wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Kathy Wills wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course, it has the proper

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice install

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Lange
Hello everyone, After emerging openoffice, how do i start it ? the 'soffice' script invokes an installer... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo java

2003-11-12 Thread Sumeet Singh Parmar
Title: RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo java Does 'java -version' work? -Original Message- From: Oliver Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] gentoo java Hello everyone, After installing

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice install

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Oliver Lange wrote: Hello everyone, After emerging openoffice, how do i start it ? the 'soffice' script invokes an installer... 'ooffice' -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

2003-11-12 Thread Kathy Wills
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:38 pm, Kathy Wills wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Kathy Wills wrote: I have tried the following in my fstab file: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext3users,ro 0 0 and /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy ext3 users,ro 0 0 Of course,

[gentoo-user] mail format test (please ignore)

2003-11-12 Thread Sumeet Singh Parmar
Title: mail format test (please ignore) Friends, I am trying to figure how to get this awfully stupid mail client (Outlook Express) to not send HTML formatted e-mail, even though I have selected 'Plaintext' as formatting option. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo java

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Lange
Sumeet Singh Parmar wrote: Does 'java -version' work? java works if i would install a link named /usr/bin/java, but i doubt that this is a really proper way to fix this.. the point is that java can't be found in any searchpath, so e.g. JEdit can't launch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice install

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Lange
Andrew Gaffney wrote: 'ooffice' Thank you.. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to update time at end of daylight savings time

2003-11-12 Thread purslow
031112 Ernie Schroder wrote: In /etc/rc.conf, I have set CLOCK=local try CLOCK=UTC : it refers to your system clock. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge SUNK!!!

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Why don't you just set make.conf to use the default, so it goes after a valid gentoo rsync server?? You don't need to find a host.. My usual rsync mirror (gazza.citylink.co.nz) is out of action, so I thought I would point at another rsync mirror: rsync.planetmirror.com.au .as listed

RE: [gentoo-user] fcrontab' editor

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
cron always uses the $EDITOR variable first.. So its right. Whats the problem? In fcrontab, I notice that the editor variable is over-ruled by the EDITOR variable. % echo $EDITOR /bin/nano % grep editor /etc/fcron/fcron.conf # Location of the default editor for fcrontab -e editor

[gentoo-user] simple request.....

2003-11-12 Thread FX
1. so can someone send me a link for a howto on installing gentoo from my Built gentoo box to a practice box with only a network connection to my built gentoo box. so Box 1 is done (gentoo install) but box 2 is clean and ready for a install. can i use the packages off my gentoo box?

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-12 Thread Joshua Banks
--- SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No chance, there is no linux player that will work at the moment. You must know something that we don't Stefan. Linux can play every codec that I know of. Atleast the popular ones that everyone else seems to use. Which Yahoo video's are you assuming that

[gentoo-user] eroaster is borked -- how to fix???

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Yasko
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with eroaster? Somewhere along the way my installation of app-cdr/eroaster got borked. Just noticed it today after doing a prelink. I've tried unmerging eroaster and reinstalling it, but no luck. Also tried a prelink -auf. The below errors are displayed when

[gentoo-user] Re: eroaster is borked -- how to fix???

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Yasko
Found out I upgraded to gnome-python-2.0 which is gtk2. What eroaster wants is the gtk1.2 gnome-python-1.4.4. A bit of a mess . . . Greg Yasko wrote: Can anyone tell me what's wrong with eroaster? Somewhere along the way my installation of app-cdr/eroaster got borked. Just noticed it today

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-12 Thread Harlan
My family wants to watch videos found on launch.yahoo.com (www.launch.com - same site). On Wednesday 12 November 2003 09:14 pm, Joshua Banks wrote: --- SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No chance, there is no linux player that will work at the moment. You must know something that we don't Stefan.

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php

2003-11-12 Thread Ted Ozolins
gabriel wrote: I didn't know I was cross compiling! Is there a way arround it?? the forums are great for this sort of thing: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104223 revdep-ebuild? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fcrontab' editor

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 09:58 am, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: | cron always uses the $EDITOR variable first.. So its right. | | Whats the problem? | % grep editor /etc/fcron/fcron.conf | # Location of the default editor for fcrontab -e | editor

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php

2003-11-12 Thread Norberto Bensa
Ted Ozolins wrote: gabriel wrote: I didn't know I was cross compiling! Is there a way arround it?? the forums are great for this sort of thing: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104223 revdep-ebuild? /usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/files/scripts/revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] simple request.....

2003-11-12 Thread Harlan
If I understand what you are asking for, which is to use an existing gentoo computer as an installation server for another, is this correct? If so, this may help: 1. On your new system, put these lines in your /etc/make.conf file: FETCHCOMMAND='rsync -vcrtz --partial --progress --timeout=600

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php

2003-11-12 Thread Ted Ozolins
Norberto Bensa wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: gabriel wrote: I didn't know I was cross compiling! Is there a way arround it?? the forums are great for this sort of thing: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104223 revdep-ebuild?

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-12 Thread Harlan
Here is what I'm getting so far: With netscape 4.79, I get the following before netscape just blows up and aborts: Reading config file for codecs Buffer: # Should it handle embedded movies ? Buffer: noembed=0 Buffer: Buffer: # Set to 'mini' if you want the seek bar Buffer: use-gui=no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X server - no screens found

2003-11-12 Thread DB Wong
The log file doesn't show the usual module loading info. Even though it scans your bus and finds the card, all the basic modules (libbitmap, libpcidata, etc) aren't reported as loaded. Looking closer for the usual message about the ModulePath (which doesn't require an XF86Config entry), I see