Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.11.2011 02:02, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:45:23 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: What happens when there is that one thing they need to do that needs root privileges? Do you give them the root password and let them do what they want, or do you make that one operation

Re: [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread john
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:51:29 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: It's time for a new desktop, I'd rather the the money to Amazon or Ebuyer than the Inland Revenue. I'm currently running a Core2Duo system, but use AMD before that, so I have no real allegiances. I was thinking of

[gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo? I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI / PHP / whathaveyouscripting support is needed. Preferably, with logging so I can see which packages I missed, but not necessary. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • LOPSA

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 12 Nov 2011 01:54:10 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo? I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI / PHP / whathaveyouscripting support is needed. Preferably, with logging so I can see which packages I missed, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 15:46, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sat 12 Nov 2011 01:54:10 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo? I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI / PHP / whathaveyouscripting support is needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.11.2011 10:01, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 15:46, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sat 12 Nov 2011 01:54:10 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo? I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI /

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 00:42:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:47:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If my ftp server stats are anything to go by, Linux Mint is the one power users are targeting right now. Number of downloads is a significant % of number of Ubuntu downloads.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:05:39 -0600, Dale wrote: Is there a way after the install to add a Windoze OS to grub and all? I unplugged the windoze drive to make sure it didn't mess that up OR I mess up something. So, grub, or some bootloader, is installed on the wrong drive in this case.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:06:49 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm not a gamer, but I want a system with plenty of grunt. Video performance is not critical, on board would suffice, except I need something with dual output to drive two monitors. Do any of the onboard jobbies do this or is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 12, 2011 5:42 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:06:49 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm not a gamer, but I want a system with plenty of grunt. Video performance is not critical, on board would suffice, except I need something with dual output to

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I disable renaming of root fs to /dev/root?

2011-11-12 Thread victor romanchuk
Jarry wrote, at 11/11/2011 09:37 PM: Hi, this is actually not problem but rather a matter of customs: My new fresh installed system shows root-fs in df as /dev/root, not actuall device (in my case /dev/md2). I think I coud get used to it, but some software still needs /dev/md2 (i.e. lilo),

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 09:14:27 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 12.11.2011 10:01, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 15:46, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sat 12 Nov 2011 01:54:10 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules. I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the old device is gone. Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 02:37:53 Lavender wrote: The problem is that X is not installed. to install X, edit /etc/make.conf and add VIDEO_CARDS=your video card here and emerge xorg-server or emerge xorg-x11 to get X How can it not be installed? Wouldn't KDE pull in Xorg packages as

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Samstag, 12. November 2011, 12:09:23 schrieb Mick: On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 02:37:53 Lavender wrote: The problem is that X is not installed. to install X, edit /etc/make.conf and add VIDEO_CARDS=your video card here and emerge xorg-server or emerge xorg-x11 to get X How can it not be

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions: ~ 0.94.14_rc21 ~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64 [doc] Homepage:http://www.boa.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:40:08 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions: ~ 0.94.14_rc21 ~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64 [doc]

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread YoYo Siska
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions: ~ 0.94.14_rc21 ~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Saturday 12 November 2011 14:01:54 Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:40:08 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.11.2011 13:40, schrieb Pandu Poluan: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of NFS-sharing vs HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the office,

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 12, 2011 8:05 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:40:08 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 12, 2011 8:16 PM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 12, 2011 8:20 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 12.11.2011 13:40, schrieb Pandu Poluan: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:24, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: What is the *LIGHTEST* web server package you know for gentoo? I just want to serve the distfiles, so no CGI / PHP / whathaveyouscripting support is needed. Preferably, with logging so I can see which packages I missed, but

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules. I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the old device is gone. Removing it does the same thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:44:16 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0. It's just that most people prefer to just remove it because it's less typing and less prone to errors.

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails

2011-11-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:44:16 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0. It's just that most people prefer to just remove it because

[gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for reason unknown to me the regular eix-sync; emerge-dance presents XEmacs-base and XEmacs as New to install packages since two days. I am not using this editor nor is it in my world file. What needs this...especially because it is an interactive application. My $EDITOR show vim. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.11.2011 15:41, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, for reason unknown to me the regular eix-sync; emerge-dance presents XEmacs-base and XEmacs as New to install packages since two days. I am not using this editor nor is it in my world file. What needs this...especially because it is an

Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-12 Thread meino . cramer
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [11-11-12 16:16]: Am 12.11.2011 15:41, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, for reason unknown to me the regular eix-sync; emerge-dance presents XEmacs-base and XEmacs as New to install packages since two days. I am not using this editor nor is it in

[gentoo-user] Re: how can I disable renaming of root fs to /dev/root?

2011-11-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
victor romanchuk: try that patch (attached): Thanks for that. Here is a comparison: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 151187140 92949648 50557624 65% / /dev/root151187140 92949648 50557624 65% / rc-svcdir

Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-12 Thread Fredric Johansson
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ...snip... Try `emerge --tree -pvuD @world` to see what is pulling it in. Gives me that: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge       ] app-xemacs/emerge-1.11 [nomerge       ]  app-editors/xemacs-21.4.22-r2  USE=X berkdb gdbm

Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-12 Thread meino . cramer
Fredric Johansson fredric.miscm...@gmail.com [11-11-12 17:32]: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ...snip... Try `emerge --tree -pvuD @world` to see what is pulling it in. Gives me that: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge       ]

[gentoo-user] Re: The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:14:33 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Disadvantages? I'm unsure how portage will handle cases when two machines fetch the same file at the same time. In my experience concurrent/overlapping fetches work just fine, thanks to portage's lock file. The second potential

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:30:13 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Samstag, 12. November 2011, 12:09:23 schrieb Mick: On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 02:37:53 Lavender wrote: The problem is that X is not installed. to install X, edit /etc/make.conf and add VIDEO_CARDS=your video card here and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:42:31 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:47:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If my ftp server stats are anything to go by, Linux Mint is the one power users are targeting right now. Number of downloads is a significant % of number of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:44:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The common thread lately is that people using Mint do not want to change just because for no good reason. Can't argue with that - gnome2 ain't broke so gnome3 isn't the fix. The solution is a fork. Deja Vu, or should that be Keja Vu?

[gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread masterprometheus
Neil Bothwick wrote: It's time for a new desktop, I'd rather the the money to Amazon or Ebuyer than the Inland Revenue. I'm currently running a Core2Duo system, but use AMD before that, so I have no real allegiances. I was thinking of something like an AMD 1100T 6 core CPU, the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:00:15 +0200, masterprometheus wrote: For AMD I'd recommend to go for a 960T : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103995 It's a 95W and as a Zosma it's actually a 6-core. Most of those (not all unfortunately) can be unlocked to a 6-core. Has Turbo

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:40:08 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? No reason at all, I've been doing it for years without a single problem. So, the question now becomes: what's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules and kernel sources

2011-11-12 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Am Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:13:04 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2011-11-10, Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net wrote: Hello everyone! virtualbox modules fails with the following * Messages for package app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.1.4: * Could

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread William Kenworthy
Its been solved in the past ... designed for just this purpose: moriah ~ # esearch http-replicator [ Results for search key : http-replicator ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-proxy/http-replicator Latest version available: 3.0-r2 Latest version installed: 3.0-r2 Size of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux on my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig with a slow CPU and not a lot of ram either. So, what is a easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Dale
masterprometheus wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm thinking Gigabyte for motherboard, based on comments made here in similar threads (like the one Dale started a while ago). I highly recommend Gigabyte. My mobo has been great. Everything runs cool and stable but I don't overclock

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Érico Porto
I have a asus board that does some pretty fair work on overclocking, but it had a feature called Everyready, an feature to boot and load a webbrowser or some games in 6 seconds.. But it crashed after the first bios update.. Érico V. Porto On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Érico Porto
What kind of computer are you looking for? If you are not a gamer but do like to watch high res videos, go for a fanless video board. If you like to do image processing, nvidia boards are also a good idea because of CUDA capabilities.. Érico V. Porto On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Érico

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Érico Porto
Install Ubuntu. It's easy to use, and doesn't need to be configured so much. It's also friendly for beginners and has lots of references on the web if something break. Also, it's normal look is prettier then Debian. Érico V. Porto On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Dale
Érico Porto wrote: Install Ubuntu. It's easy to use, and doesn't need to be configured so much. It's also friendly for beginners and has lots of references on the web if something break. Also, it's normal look is prettier then Debian. Érico V. Porto Then I guess I did OK then. I got

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-12 Thread Lavender
I have recompiled the kernel as The X server configuration howto says.But when I emerge xorg-server it had errors:!!!Error: The xorg-x11 OpenGL implementation doesn't seem to provide!!!Error: libGL.so file. This might be an effect of breakage introducedby a prioprietary driver installer.

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-12 Thread Mark Knecht
2011/11/12 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com: I have recompiled the kernel as The X server configuration howto says. But when I emerge xorg-server it had errors: !!!Error: The xorg-x11 OpenGL implementation doesn't seem to provide !!!Error: libGL.so file. This might be an effect of breakage

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 12.11.2011 00:36, schrieb Dale: [...] Now to figure out why the windows in Kubuntu have no borders and no little X to close the window. sighs I hate the little details. Dale :-) :-) That is a typical symptom that the window manager is not running (probably

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules for an iPod Touch?

2011-11-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: As for native support, it looks as though Apple have updated their protocol, so if you've a new i*, or have updated recently, then the in-portage versions of ifuse and libimobiledevice won't work - I've just gotten

[gentoo-user] net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 fails to compile

2011-11-12 Thread Justin Findlay
I can't get the package net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 to emerge because of a c++ linker error. What can I do to fix this? # MAKEOPTS=-j1 FEATURES=-ccache ebuild $(equery which net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5) merge ... make[4]: Entering directory

[gentoo-user] pg_upgrade from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1

2011-11-12 Thread Michael George
I am trying to upgrade my postgresql server from 9.0 to 9.1. I've installed 9.1.1 and used eselect to make it the slot to run for the system. When I run: pg_upgrade -v --check -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \ /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data -b /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin -B \

Re: [gentoo-user] pg_upgrade from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 13, 2011 12:35 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.com wrote: I am trying to upgrade my postgresql server from 9.0 to 9.1. I've installed 9.1.1 and used eselect to make it the slot to run for the system. When I run: pg_upgrade -v --check -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \

Re: [gentoo-user] pg_upgrade from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1

2011-11-12 Thread Michael George
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:31:58AM -0500, Michael George wrote: I am trying to upgrade my postgresql server from 9.0 to 9.1. I've installed 9.1.1 and used eselect to make it the slot to run for the system. When I run: pg_upgrade -v --check -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \