Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Neil On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:50:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm wondering a couple of things: I've ben using LVM2 on my AMD64 box since I built it. 1) Should

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:45 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for good measure. $ equery depends vim [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Varner wrote: I believe that you are running into bug #90680 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90680 Maybe not. I tried again while running top and memory usage din't go over 4.8%... Thanks, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] two(related?) sound problems

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/30/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, From the boot console: * Restoring Mixer Levels /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:994: bad control.7.value type No state is present for card UART !!! This says that the /etc/asound.state file is not correct for the

[gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved.

[gentoo-user] How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.) However, the system keeps finding the old vg1 volume group. I went so far as to remove all partitions, put on a new

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt are bound to directories in /usr. I kow I could put / on LVM, but that requires an initrd, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Evans
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 23:39, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt are bound to directories in /usr. I kow I

[gentoo-user] acpid

2005-08-30 Thread John Dangler
I got acpid emerged, started, and added to run level, but when I go into gnome and mouse over the battery (the default applet) it says: System is running on battery power 0 minutes (0%) remain the laptop is plugged into the AC. John D emerged with +acpi -apm ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Answering self: 1) fdisk didn't seem to work 2) cfdisk did - Mark On 8/30/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.)

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-30 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening all, I figured it was about time to start the Guarddog firewall script automatically, instead of always typing /etc/rc.firewall. The obvious thing to do was add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start. Easy enough. But it didn't start. OK, let's put a few logger commands in there and see where

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Sean Higgins
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 01:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to make choices when the system can't

[gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Fernando Canizo
Hi all, I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot erase it. What i would like to know is how can i do this i a 'gentoo way'. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/30/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening all,I figured it was about time to start the Guarddog firewall scriptautomatically, instead of always typing /etc/rc.firewall. The obvious thing to do was add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start. Easy enough. But itdidn't start. OK, let's

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: Hi all, I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot erase it. What i would like to know is how can i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
I don't think LVM2 cares about partitions. AFAIK you only use fdisk (marking partitions as 8e? for lvm2) to be polite to other OSes that don't auto-detect like Linux does. I'm not exactly sure what's happening to you, but try this: vgchange -a y; vgchange -a n vgchange -a y; vgchange -a n

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
From the looks of the script you aren't testing for a regular file, hence -f doesn't work. I tested it on my machine WORKS: ACTION=add DEVICE=/tmp/testfile DOESN'T WORK: ACTION=add DEVICE=/dev/sda1 SCRIPT: #!/bin/bash if [ ${ACTION} == add ] [ -f ${DEVICE} ]; then echo

[gentoo-user] Quicktime for Java

2005-08-30 Thread Justin Hart
Hey, is there an ebuild for Quicktime for Java? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Quicktime for Java

2005-08-30 Thread Justin Hart
Oh, there isn't even one for Linux. Nevermind. Justin On 8/30/05, Justin Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, is there an ebuild for Quicktime for Java? -- Justin W. Hart -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

2005-08-30 Thread Daevid Vincent
Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: make bzImage modules modules_install Copied and renamed the bzImage file over

[gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all goes into it. /etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not getting set on bootup. I can ifconfig and route it into place of course

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:42:38PM +0200, Jarry wrote If you have a problem with users having access to certain email, then don't let them access that email at all. That is the only way. Neil Bothwick wrote: Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their $HOME/.procmailrc

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: make bzImage modules modules_install OK, don't

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

2005-08-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
Antoine wrote: When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Add the following line into prefs.js of your Thunderbird profile: user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, firefox); I believe Thunderbird has changed

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:36:57 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: Fernando Canizo schreef: Hi all, I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an

Re: [gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-30 Thread Roy Wright
Harry Putnam wrote: Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all goes into it. /etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not getting set on bootup. I can ifconfig and route

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

2005-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 04:25, Daevid Vincent wrote: Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: make bzImage

Re: [gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

2005-08-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:26:30 -0500 Roy Wright wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all goes into it. /etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, John J. Foster wrote: The initial Starting local is displayed as the system boots, but that's all that happens. If I do a /etc/init.d/local restart, all is well, and all is logged. Am I once again missing the obvious?

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

2005-08-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:56:50 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: For ages under 2.6, all that's needed is make make modules_install make install or manual copy of the kernel to /boot yep, and if you forget what is what, there is always make help -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels

2005-08-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:28:37 +0200 Christoph Eckert wrote: Recent ALSA versions do softwaremixing using the DMIX plugin per default. Older versions can do it by creating an soundrc file. Unfortunately this does not help with legacy applications which still use OSS or the ALSA OSS

Re: [gentoo-user] acpid

2005-08-30 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried looking at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ ? It might give you some hints with the same (or similar) laptops. To see if you have working acpi support check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state They should tell you

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm surely going to translate to spanish and put it in my blog, maybe i would add

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 31/ago/2005 a las 00:23 -0300, Nick me decía: 2. Fernando might like to note that the way to introduce a patch to a package (rather than an amendment to the ebuild) is to use the epatch command. Commonly the line looks like this: You're saying that i can emerge mutt, run epatch command and

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