[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] VMware legal question

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That might be legal, but why don't you go the absolutely legal way and use vmware-server instead of vmware-workstation? Sorry about butting in here: I hope I'm not just blind but: Alexander, I didn't see

Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop always fails with ERROR: send: Connection reset by peer

2006-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, Mick schrieb: On Thursday 09 November 2006 07:09, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, Sorry for writing the first email in german - it was meant for gentoo-user-de :-/ Now the same question in english... Wolfgang Liebich schrieb: I've got a new PC at work and installed it with gentoo linux. My old

[gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: server: Can create or edit existing configurations. Can leave a virtual machine running in the background if you close the console Is there a catch somewhere with `server'. Not that I can tell. Buy the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Server you can't do snapshots Well, almost correct. You can create 1 snapshot, but not multiple snapshots, that's correct. so you create a VM, save it, copy it, then modify it. Yep. And supposedly, VMware Workstation has some better memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Drew
I was thinking about this at the weekend. Is it a *MUST* that a server understands that %2c is a ,? AFAIK those codes are part of the url spec. Any server/client/program that handles http must know about % codes. And given that ascii was the basis for character-hex mappings back then, one can

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me to setup IRDA

2006-11-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 15:36, Andrey wrote: Hi, guys! my dmesg: SMsC IrDA Controller found IrCC version 2.0, firport 0x100, sirport 0x3e8 dma=2, irq=3 smsc_ircc_set_sir_speed(), Setting speed to: 9600 No transceiver found. Defaulting to Fast pin select IrDA: Registered device irda0

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-13 Thread Mick
On Monday 13 November 2006 05:58, Javier wrote: I'm using this : http://dev.gentoo.org/~agriffis/userpass/ I'm using KeePassX [1] to store my passwords and my private keys. This is a gpl application with a windows version to use at work =) I think keepassx is by far the best

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cf. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150404 As you have probably already seen, I added a small patch to the bug, just in case the Gentoo devs want to keep it around. BTW: That won't work. Suppose a

Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop always fails with ERROR: send: Connection reset by peer

2006-11-13 Thread Mick
On Monday 13 November 2006 07:50, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, Mick schrieb: On Thursday 09 November 2006 07:09, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, Sorry for writing the first email in german - it was meant for gentoo-user-de :-/ Now the same question in english... Wolfgang Liebich schrieb:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] pdf wierdness

2006-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 November 2006 19:03, Matthew R. Lee wrote: For reasons unknown my .pdf files will not open with kpdf or kghostview. Fore example I get the following error message with kghostview: Could not open /home/matt/Work/Pdfs/Not_processed/New/Armsby2006.pdf which has type

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/13/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: That won't work. Suppose a user knows, that mozilla-launcher does a openURL remote command and because of that knowledge, he makes use of it. Ie. he calls firefox http://site/,new-tab; to have http://site/ opened in a new tab. With your

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:56:31AM -0500, Brian Davis wrote: Hey folks, I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot if

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/13/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: That won't work. Suppose a user knows, that mozilla-launcher does a openURL remote command and because of that knowledge, he makes use of it. Ie. he calls firefox http://site/,new-tab; to have

[gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:22:07 +, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example,

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 12 November 2006 20:58, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to remove prelink and put the system to the state it has before the prelink procedure. I've read that a # prelink -ua can do the job but i would have some suggestions from you all. It is enough to behave like

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. The best way to make sure your binaries are not altered by 3rd party tools is this: emerge -euD world This is slightly amusing. Remerging every package while prelink is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external monitor

2006-11-13 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Richard, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/9/06, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to have 1280x800 on the lcd and (simultaneously) 1280 x 1024 on the external monitor/projector? First, make sure you have xinerama in USE. If not, add it, and do an

[gentoo-user] kde-env blocks kdelibs-3.5.5-r5

2006-11-13 Thread Mick
Hi All, I'm running a stable-ish x86. emerge -upDv world showed me this: [blocks B ] kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r5) so I unmerged kde-env, which didn't help, then unmerged kdelibs (and plptools which came up when I ran emerge --tree), which seemed to resolve the

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox + macromedia flash plugin - I can't hear the sound

2006-11-13 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, I have firefox 1.5 and macromedia flash plugin, but flash animation with sound, the sound is not played, any clue? Thank you, Leandro. I had the same problem till i emerged and started esound, hope it helps :D Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:04:51 +0100 Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would suggest an alias for this - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias Aliases werde made for this kind of problem ( data's were not in the documentroot) Yep, but they're not made for *this* exact

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-env blocks kdelibs-3.5.5-r5

2006-11-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 13 November 2006 14:51, Mick wrote: I'm running a stable-ish x86. emerge -upDv world showed me this: [blocks B ] kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r5) so I unmerged kde-env, which didn't help, As you should. then unmerged kdelibs Don't know why you did

[gentoo-user] PAM issues

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Today I updated pam: [ebuild R ] sys-libs/pam-0.99.6.3-r1 USE=nls (-selinux) -vim-syntax 0 kB Since then, I get the following errors in syslog: == ./cron.log == Nov 13 14:56:01 dewup-ww02 cron[5467]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so) Nov 13 14:56:01 dewup-ww02

[gentoo-user] PAM issues

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Today I updated pam: [ebuild R ] sys-libs/pam-0.99.6.3-r1 USE=nls (-selinux) -vim-syntax 0 kB Since then, I get the following errors in syslog: == ./cron.log == Nov 13 14:56:01 dewup-ww02 cron[5467]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so) Nov 13 14:56:01 dewup-ww02

Re: [gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote

Re: [gentoo-user] metalog replacement

2006-11-13 Thread Arnau Bria
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:29:03 +0200 Daniel Iliev wrote: Arnau Bria wrote: [...] 1.-) Does anyone know how to change metalog syntax? I asked it to metalog ML, two weeks ago, but I had no reply... Forums are unmaintened... 2.-) What other log service do u recommend? May I create diff

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-env blocks kdelibs-3.5.5-r5

2006-11-13 Thread Mick
On 13/11/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 November 2006 14:51, Mick wrote: I'm running a stable-ish x86. emerge -upDv world showed me this: [blocks B ] kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r5) so I unmerged kde-env, which didn't help, As you

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 November 2006 14:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. The best way to make sure your binaries are not altered by 3rd party tools is this: emerge -euD world This

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Brian Davis
As they say, security comes at the cost of convenience (and storage in this case), so I think the most secure solution is to just copy over the data I need to publish to the chroot. I've given it thought, and I don't want the potential apache hax0r to get to (and potentially delete) all my

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:51:33 -0500 Brian Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mount --bind thing looked nice, but you can't change the mount permissions from what those directories already have, i.e. if I have /stuff/pics on a filesystem mounted rw, I can't then mount --bind it to ro.

[gentoo-user] AMD64 problem...

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I recently got a system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (dual core). The problem I keep having with both of the Gentoo AMD 64 CDs (Minimal and Full) is that: 1. Unless I disable the frame buffer, it will sit there (forever, I think). 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time

2006-11-13 Thread Jon M
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you can comparte this file to yours and find out whats

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 13 November 2006 14:22, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 13 November 2006 14:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. The best way to make sure your binaries are not altered by

[gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
All - I am trying to emerge sys-fs/device-mapper on an older piece of hardware (AMD Duron 800, with 512Mb of Ram). The package has been compiling for something like 8 hours already. Is this normal? It seems like an awfully long time to me. As a comparison, I was able to compile the kernel in

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread Lorenzo Marussi
Hi I don't think it's normal. Maybe there is a loop in compiling. Please check, if it's still running, if there is some piece of code that repeats continuously. Post your emerge --info output Lorenzo Marussi Il giorno lun, 13/11/2006 alle 10.31 -0500, James Colby ha scritto: All - I

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-13 Thread Cameron Lowe
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi everyone, I've been trying to set up an authentication server for a mixed LAN (Windows and Linux clientes ) and I'm having problems with Samba. The way it is today, the Windows clients can access the Samba server and each user can access it's

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem...

2006-11-13 Thread Erik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walters wrote: I recently got a system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (dual core). The problem I keep having with both of the Gentoo AMD 64 CDs (Minimal and Full) is that: 1. Unless I disable the frame buffer, it will sit there

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 November 2006 17:31, James Colby wrote: All - I am trying to emerge sys-fs/device-mapper on an older piece of hardware (AMD Duron 800, with 512Mb of Ram). The package has been compiling for something like 8 hours already. Is this normal? It seems like an awfully long time to

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
I modified my make.conf file to: CFLAGS=-mtune=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer and the emerge has been running for about 1/2 hour and is still going (..and going, and going) Any other ideas??? The output of emerge --info is below: gentoo portage # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/13/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I see this as an advantage, as users would use the original firefox script as shipped by mozilla.com and might find a lot more documentation. For example, -remote openURL() would work as documented on mozilla.com (or does it already work

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/13/06, James Colby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I modified my make.conf file to: CFLAGS=-mtune=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer and the emerge has been running for about 1/2 hour and is still going (..and going, and going) Any other ideas??? Interrupt it and post the last 100 lines or so of

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Brian Davis wrote: --snip--- The mount --bind thing looked nice, but you can't change the mount permissions from what those directories already have, i.e. if I have /stuff/pics on a filesystem mounted rw, I can't then mount --bind it to ro. At least that's what the man page says. If I could

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
Interrupt it and post the last 100 lines or so of the output. -Richard My apologies, for the top posting. I interrupted the compile and below is some of the output from the emerge: make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/device-mapper-1.02.12/work/device-mapper.1.02.12/lib' make[1]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-13 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:22:25 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 13 November 2006 14:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. The best way to make sure your

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread James Colby
Also, try unpacking the source somewhere and doing a manual compile. Then at least you'll know if it's portage making the difference or not. alan -- Alan, thanks for the suggestion. I tried this and the compile failed with an error related to the system time. I checked the system date and

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:26:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What's the compile doing? I see you don't have PORTAGE_ELOG* set so you won't have full compile session logs in /var/log/portage but you should be able to see on the screen what's happening and make an intelligent summary. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] PAM issues

2006-11-13 Thread Lorenzo Marussi
try to make: revdep-rebuild -p -i and post the output. Lorenzo Marussi Il giorno lun, 13/11/2006 alle 15.12 +0100, Alexander Skwar ha scritto: Hi! Today I updated pam: [ebuild R ] sys-libs/pam-0.99.6.3-r1 USE=nls (-selinux) -vim-syntax 0 kB Since then, I get the following errors

Re: [gentoo-user] PAM issues

2006-11-13 Thread Lorenzo Marussi
I didn't see: I reported this also as a bug. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155014. Sorry Lorenzo Marussi Il giorno lun, 13/11/2006 alle 19.15 +0100, Lorenzo Marussi ha scritto: try to make: revdep-rebuild -p -i and post the output. Lorenzo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-13 Thread brettholcomb
Yes - that's it - just one is all you get G. I just figure I get one shot at it G. From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/13 Mon AM 02:49:07 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup · Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

[gentoo-user] problem during compile ati-drivers

2006-11-13 Thread Roberto Zandonati
when i try to compile ati-drivers (version 2.28.8, the latest driver for my card) for radeon 9200 i've the follor error: cannot stat flgrx.ko: no souch file or directory any hint? -- Roberto Zandonati http://zando.homelinux.org/mywiki http://zando.homelinux.org/NoMary GPG-Fingerprint: 577F

[gentoo-user] Re: PAM issues

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Lorenzo Marussi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try to make: revdep-rebuild -p -i and post the output. Uhm. This might have returned something nice, I suppose ;) Instead, I rebuilt vixie-cron, which helped as well. Alexander Skwar -- Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Kelly
On Sunday 12 November 2006 14:02, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox + macromedia flash plugin - I can't hear the sound

2006-11-13 Thread Régis Décamps
On 11/11/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I have firefox 1.5 and macromedia flash plugin, but flash animationwith sound, the sound is not played, any clue?I have this problem too if I start firefox when another application is already making noise. But if I stop (say) amarok

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/13/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I can't do is /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart If I shut it down, then I need to either reboot or kill the ipw3945d, then start it again. I put the ipw3956d call in /etc/conf.d/local.start, which brings it up fine. Rather than starting

Re: [gentoo-user] problem during compile ati-drivers

2006-11-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/13/06, Roberto Zandonati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i try to compile ati-drivers (version 2.28.8, the latest driver for my card) for radeon 9200 i've the follor error: For the radeon 9200 you do not need ati-drivers. Use the opensource radeon driver from x.org by setting

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] printing protocols

2006-11-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:38 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: My question is really what's the difference? Are some features supported better on some protocols? Are some faster / less resource intensive? One disadvantage: acrobat reader doesn't show the printer in it's print dialog when using

[gentoo-user] OT - MythDVD

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I installed MythDVD this evening. I'm having a problem with it. When I play DVDs, the audio track with spoken dialog is not audible. How can I get it back? Also, is there a way I can get to the menu on the DVD in mythdvd? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

2006-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
I had almost no problems doing a stage 1 Gentoo install, so I can RTFM, providing that TFM is half-decently written. vmware's manual is not very helpful. Right now my main problem is getting started. I've ~x86 keyworded the necessary items for vmware-server and vmware-server-console to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

2006-11-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It is free however, you still need a license number. Go to their site and get one. On Monday November 13 2006 23:00, Walter Dnes wrote: I had almost no problems doing a stage 1 Gentoo install, so I can RTFM, providing that TFM is half-decently written. vmware's manual is not very helpful.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems getting started with vmware

2006-11-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 05:00, Walter Dnes wrote: When I start vmware-server-console in an xterm, I get the following message... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ vmware-server-console /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/bin/vmware-server-console:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] printing protocols

2006-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 05:42, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:38 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: My question is really what's the difference? Are some features supported better on some protocols? Are some faster / less resource intensive? One disadvantage: acrobat reader

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 November 2006 19:35, James Colby wrote: Interrupt it and post the last 100 lines or so of the output. -Richard My apologies, for the top posting. I interrupted the compile and below is some of the output from the emerge: This is becoming a big post, but so be it. I compared

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper

2006-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 November 2006 20:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:26:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What's the compile doing? I see you don't have PORTAGE_ELOG* set so you won't have full compile session logs in /var/log/portage but you should be able to see on the screen what's