Re: [gentoo-user] print to PDF within Firefox

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:54:42 -0300 Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't remember wich, but an old version of firefox allowed me to print to PDF. how do I do this in this new one (1.5)? Firefox was probably compiled with XPrint support. The USE flag xprint should do this. At

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:49:04 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I post only the end of log file of valgrind (the entire file is very big ~22500 lines). This is the result of execute the source code : ==13767== LEAK SUMMARY: ==13767==definitely lost: 36 bytes in 1 blocks.

Re: [gentoo-user] memory leak with gtk+-2.8.20-r1

2006-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:14:02 +0200 gwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, I wasn't aware that there was a function for this. You should definitely use this in place of the delete statement because it will do deeper cleaning. the GTK Api said gtk_exit is deprecated and should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

2006-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:40:03 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am trying to work out if if it's just me having an issue with gmail (which I will confront the gmail team there about), or if the gentoo-user mailing server is skipping addresses or having issues sending.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bugzilla as support system w/ maillist integration

2006-07-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:09:36 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think about this idea ? If you're really talking about gentoo-user, then I think your idea is way, way, way too complex. Basically, I think, this ML just works. Heck, it hasn't even a FAQ posted

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:42:46 +0200 Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my question is: does apache/php support chrooting too? And are there some other services, which can be chrooted like bind? should work without any problems, like the most of the other standard internet services.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Storage using SVN

2006-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:42:43 -0600 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I proposed this awhile back, and got shot down. At the time, the arguments for using SVN for portage storage were pretty shallow, and someone was able to easily shoot them down. I believe I have come up with

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not starting

2006-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:02:49 +0300 Adrian Vraciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ifconfig -a No usable address families found. socket: No such file or directory You seem to have no IP protocol support compiled into your kernel. Or is there a module reg. IP support that you need to modprobe

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

2006-07-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was

Re: [gentoo-user] changing user id

2006-07-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:02:49 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to change cyrus id from currently to 120. Why's that? You will at least bork the existing files to a degree that they can't be automatically uninstalled by emerge anymore. I tried usermod, but cyrus files

Re: [gentoo-user] remote login help

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:21:56 +0100 krgn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using ddclient to get to my router (which works) but can login to my machine behind the router (ssh for now, ftp and http later). Is that router a machine running linux or is it one of those little consumer appliances?

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:25:09 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not great. What are you missing (except the ebuild)? What functionality are you

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:20:10 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically looking for text readers, although PDF, HTML and others would be nice. Need for it to be able to automatically save position, change fonts, fg/bg colors, etc. OK, I don't know of such multi-purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:40:39 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but binary packages are BINARY (-k), so, you can't change their USE, because they're already compiled, they'll use the flags that were used by the time the package was created. If you install it

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix + Auth with SASL

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:07:33 -0300 Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm trying to setup postfix with authentication. I have PAM/NSSwitch configured to use LDAP backend. I also installed cyrus-sasl, but when I test authentication I got some errors. What I'm doing wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chkrootkit LKM trojan ?

2006-07-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:36:30 +0100 Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How accurate is chkproc? If you run chkproc on a server that runs lots of short time processes it could report some false positives. chkproc compares the ps output with the /proc contents. If processes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Lirc problems

2006-07-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:14:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a serial reciever I found at Lirc.org a very few components. I emerge lirc with LIRC_OPT=serial. When it goes and compiles the lirc_serial module it fails. Can any one help kernel Gentoo-2.6.12-R9 lirc 0.8 What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:07:44 -0500 Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beagle is a mono application. Mono is the open source implementation of C# which is a derivative of java aimed specifically at windoze by M $. wrong. C# is a dialect one can use to create .NET programs. .NET is a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:07:42 +0200 Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show me what is added or removed. And since it can only do that by comparing the new file to a clean, untouched, original file I innocently suggested to have such a file, make changes there and leave it up to

Re: [gentoo-user] What does perl USE flag do?

2006-07-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:38:39 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The perl USE flag is new. What does it do? I just replied on the german ML to this question, but since it was re-asked here: The perl USE flag pulls in dev-lang/perl as a dependency. It is now a default USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] tun/tap - ifconfig tun0 - device not found

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:04:41 -0300 Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use tun/tap to assign some ip to my server (since I'll need it to my LVS solution) and I think it's a trivial task to put tun to work, but I'm trying in 3 different machines (with 2 different

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:48:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:47:53 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I would like to mux them again...which application can do that job for me (formats: *.m2c/*.ac3 ) ??? mplex should do this, it's part

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:51 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:50:12 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pivot_root is specifically *not* allowed from an initramfs environment. What you want to do is simply mount the new root filesystem, chroot into it, and execute init. Something like: cd /new_root ; exec

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs, network diskless boot, init process, problems with switchroot (pivot_root)

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:51:51 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My final comments on that bug are based on the attached email that I received from Andrew Morton that made it clear that Al Viro was opposed to pivot_root being used from an initramfs. (BTW, viro's comments are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:20:53 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:09:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. But what if mail-server uses secure connection (SSL) and secure authentication? Could I use ssh-client in such a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no suEXEC logging on errors

2006-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:37:01 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:51:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few people have mentioned not having used Suexec making me wonder if there is some other way to allow myuser to

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1

2006-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 05:34:49 -0700 Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, sorry that's just wrong. gcc is slotted, if the above were true there would be no need for gcc-config in order to select a default compiler. Did you follow the documentation pointer given in the mail you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no suEXEC logging on errors

2006-06-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:32:17 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you're experiencing seems to be just a missing ScriptAlias. RTFM about calling CGIs... What I've found is that if I set ScriptAlias to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:49 -0400 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP stuff as BASE requires it. What makes you think there's a) a slash-notation in USE flags b) this specific USE flag? dev-lang/php really looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 1 June 2006 0:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] xrdb woes

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, first: I saw your answer to your own question, but I rather answer this :-) (Besides: 2 hours is not quite the amount of time I would expect a competent answer to a very individual problem...) On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:01:58 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the 'peripherals'

Re: [gentoo-user] how to trigger complete rebuild after changing CFLAGS oder USEFLAGS

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:57:10 -0600 Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What does emerge system exactly do ? system is an alias for a bunch of core packages. I forgot where it's defined. That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64

2006-05-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006 18:38:05 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:29, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:51:47 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it was harmless and beneficial it'd already be included

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHD running under Linux, SSH running under Windoz

2006-05-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:19:30 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monday 29 May 2006 11:08 skrev Norman Rieß: With Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), you can install a X11-Server on you Windowsmachine. Then switch on the X11 forwarding of your ssh client. Be aware that

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:01:14 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course. You don't need to have gcc installed to be able to run a *compiled* program. but one might want to have the libstdc++ and libgcj installed that came with the compiler for the case that C++/Java programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNSDOMAIN in /etc/conf.d/domainname has no effect?

2006-05-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 26 May 2006 19:40:02 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zac Slade wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 08:25, Alexander Skwar wrote: But I wonder what this DNSDOMAIN setting in /etc/conf.d/domainname is supposed to do. Because of It sets the domain in /etc/resolv.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 02:05:28 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo system. The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video card in the machine is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 21:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't be of much further help, but my immediate question after reading this was: what does /proc/mounts contain after doing this? something different then mount shows: # mount | grep home /dev/hda3

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

2006-05-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's sulogin. Did you mess up your /etc/inittab (like uncommenting that line

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 05 May 2006 08:22:29 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outlook and Outlook Express are the two worst mail clients in the universe. They are not. Lotus

[gentoo-user] OOM-Killer upon compilation/emerge on AMD64 (was: Re: why firefox is so slow?)

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 May 2006 17:28:06 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an example: [ 1151.984763] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2, order=0 Huh? If I understand Linux' memory management correctly that says that the OOM condition was triggered by trying to reserve 1 page

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:55:28 +0300 Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any after (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I didn't find any sleep process. Maybe it was from some different

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 May 2006 20:38:49 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Putting something in the background doesn't change what it's std(in|out| err) are attached to. They will still go to the [pt]ty like normal. If Right,

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:59:23 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about event-driven programming (I wrote in VB for years before I achieved the enlightenment of Linux), but I didn't know that it was possible with PHP. I use event-driven techniques in Gambas and qt. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 17:42:26 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! The child is not backgrounded! So something like: subprocess $pid=$! Using

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:09:44 +0200 Leopold Gouverneur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Something will always try to pull it in. But you can tell portage that it's there:

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:24:19 -0300 Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. positive testing of a hypothesis is not a proof of correctness. Negative testing is a proof of its falseness. That said, you can only validate the hypothesis of not

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:43:09 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although FF seems to work now if compiled --without-iconv, I would like to know why this conversion is not working on my system. Here is what happens if I type: [...] Hm. Works for me. And this

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:42:09 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you say that those conversions work for you on amd64? Ah, I'm seeing it now in the subject. No, I was quietly assuming you're talking about x86. I don't have an amd64 machine at hand, so I can't help

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-04-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:09:18 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the strace output: http://plouj.sh.nu/straceiconv from that output: ---snip open(/usr/lib32/gconv/UNICODE.so, O_RDONLY) = 4 read(4, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \5\0\000...,

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs question

2006-04-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, short note at the start: Don't hijack other threads (like you did here), don't answer a mailing list mail but write a new one to the list, when you want to start a new thread. On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:32:52 -0400 K. Mike Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me why the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:47:24 +0200 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've tried passing all sort of different parameters to the module but it comes back with errors: [...] Well, there are two things left I would try: #1: I remember some kind of findchip utility (try that name) that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi again, On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:09:43 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got partial success! I can modprobe smsc-ircc2 which seems to successfully install the module: = # modprobe -v smsc-ircc2 ircc_sir=0x3e8 ircc_irq=3 insmod

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:50:37 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, no error. The module is installed fine as long as I have run setserial first. Hm, that's how it should be with fast infrared drivers. All OK, then, I guess. You might want to try to have the default serial driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi Alexander, On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:15:31 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make emerge/Portage pretend that mail-client/evolution is already installed WITHOUT actually installing it? I do NOT want to deinstall gnome-base/gnome and I also don't really want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:17:20 +0200 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apr 23 01:01:01 lappy smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8 Try checking and changing BIOS settings for IRDA IO port, IRQ settings and DMA and - maybe - PlugPlay. Then you might want to use the IO/IRQ/DMA parameters

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for best tutorial on creating initramfs

2006-04-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:05:50 -0500 Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need to find a better tutorial on initramfs. One that doesn't rely on tools that automate the process. In fact, an initramfs doesn't differ much from other root fs'es. Physically, it is a gzipped

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tv tunner

2006-04-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:37:37 +0300 Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a TV Tunner installed on my gentoo linux box. Could you please share some of your experience with setting up a TV Tunner and which cards/software you used. I'm currently running a DVB

Re: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:44:09 -0500 Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We rescently upgraded to the 2.6.15-r1 kernel and life is great on the systems that use the adaptec scsi controllers. However, LSI Logic does not appear to be seen by udev or, more likely,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:25:52 -0500 Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # genkernel -- menuconfig --install all Hm, I don't really know genkernel. Does it create the initramfs? When in the ash shell environment, I notice that there are few static nodes in /dev. (

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:03:39 +0800 (CST) wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: config_eth0=( 222.20.45.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 222.20.45 255 ) There's a dot missing right before the last 255. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:55:46 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to configure gpm so, that if usb-mouse is attached, then only mouse can be used as pointing device? You may try to use udev for that. It can call scripts when devices are plugged in and out or just present at

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

2006-04-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:22:11 -0700 (PDT) go moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moreover, why 'emerge package digest' try to download the file instead of creating the corresponding digest file? The command you wanted was 'ebuild'... Or 'emerge --digest package' if you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh2 and xover LAN

2006-04-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:44:02 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason scp concatenates the source with the destination into one non-existing path. Then why on earth don't you quote actually _useful_ data for us to help you, i.e. the command you issued when you get

Re: [gentoo-user] another iptables question...

2006-03-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:44:07 +0530 Hiren Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did this: [...] #iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 0 -j ACCEPT #iptables -A OUTPUT -j DROP [...] Still other users including root can ping other PCs. Why is this not working? please post the output of

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:29:54 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Set up a bridge device on the laptop between the wifi interface and the iMac interface; assuming your setup is as simple as I think, that should be all you need to do. Most likely it wouldn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:23:24 +0200 Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 13:36:38, you wrote: Most likely it wouldn't work because of the wlan link layer. Most WiFi cards don't go well with bridging... So routing is the option which is left. The 802.11

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:34:22 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? awk '{print $2???}' I'd do the following: awk '{$1=;print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This still

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: awk '{$1=;print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This still leaves you with one OFS starting the line (between $1 and $2), you can get rid

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:22 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting': I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? I

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:03:08 -0500 JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Linux for a number of years and the one trick I have never read how to do is something like: sudo echo app-portage/porthole ~* /etc/portage/package.keywords That's because your _current_ shell

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

2006-03-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:49:23 -0500 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the driver: 8139too 28992 0 Now then... as of 2 days ago, I've been noticing that my ethernet has been acting really whacky, with random ping times and flaky web surfing. Did you try playing with 8139too's kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed

2006-03-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Passing env variable to ssh?

2006-03-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:14:33 + (WET) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want something like this: myvar=whatever ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./bin/mycommand $myvar [...] This does not work, because remotebox doesn't know about $myvar. Of course, if I could pass a variable to

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:20:38 -0500 Tito Valentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why when I go to my website and click on the links within my site the url still stays the same? For example: if I go to www.my_web_site.com and click on the link messages within my site, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:01:04 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you do about Mesa? Just leave it out. I see the Mesa libs are masked even though I'm running ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf Oooh, yeah, i actually left out that part. First, I emerged wxGTK with opengl

Re: [gentoo-user] how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:49:28 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya The tail end of emerge shows: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:49:49 +0100 Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that prints colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored output as a mail. In order to get colors in a mail a have to use html. If there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to a 256MB Rom

2006-03-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:16:33 -0500 Ryan Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any difference between ROM and NVRam? Yes, of course. RAM is random-access-memory and in the case of DRAMs pretty volatile when not powered :-) If you have 256MB of NVRam to install an OS on it, the relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] XFig Export

2006-02-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:25:25 -0500 Justin Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using xfig for figures for a paper that I am writing. When I hit the export menu option, it crashes. Inconvenient, since I need to get this into a format acceptable to latex (is there a package for .fig files?)

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:05:39 +0100 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should prozilla or some other tool make the download be faster? When I download something with wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always maxing out the saturation of the line. On my 1Gig line on my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

2006-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:16:35 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It happens as soon as I enter any one of the following lines: tc filter add dev eth2 parent 1: prio 2 handle 1 fw flowid 1:20 [...] I then get the error message: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:51:21 +0100 Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to the thread... I started wondering about something. I thought a 100% full root filesystem was deadly, but never thought about /tmp. So I'd like to ask, what is more deadly for a system, a full root FS, a full /tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?

2006-02-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have currently syslog-ng running, but I think I remember that similar configuration was in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (maybe commented out?) Yes, it was commented out as the default setting is to send

Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

2006-02-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:43:33 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 03:31, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge': [...] If you /do/ want to do packet filtering on br0, I belive you can

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:24:25 - Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized Console Log window icon. [...] What's the purpose of

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:23:20 - Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends. It usually just outputs what is piped into /dev/xconsole. [...] Would you mind showing a default/typical/custom (whatever) config file so that I can compare with mine? No problem. But it's

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized Console Log window icon. [...] I could not find the script ou option which starts this window. Where can I disable it? I don't even know what's the name

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:48:49 +0700 Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. That's pretty normal. I think the application using the

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:40:39 -0500 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP or dual core system. I have an SMP system. It's just more lightweight by

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:08:38 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged SpamAssasin on a mailserver the other day, added the appropriate line to /etc/postfix/master.cf and it all seems to be working ok. But it doesn't seem to be very accurate in the default configuration -

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:07:51 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, at 12:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'd strongly suggest using the Bayesian filters, per-user, that is... [...] What improvement rate are you seeing for this, please? About 99% of _Spam_ mails

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

2005-12-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:50:05 +0200 Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - * Adding routes - * default ... - * via ... - gw: Unknown host - * 192.168.4.1 ... Your /etc/conf.d/net is broken in this regard. Read the example (net.example) for correct

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:45:19 +0100 capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenBase is part of OpenOffice... and is really slow on my laptop. OK, please don't try to enforce your own name... it's OpenOffice Base, not OpenBase, as you've been told... Do you know any replacement of OpenOffice for

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I run fetchmail to poll 3 servers every minute... and while this has worked fine for weeks, last night it froze at 2am and stopped polling. When I killed the fetchmail process and ran fetchmail again this afternoon, things jumped to life again and appear back to normal... but I wished I

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