Re: [gentoo-user] vim syntax hi-lighting - Added .X68 file extension

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone explain or point out a link that describes the process of adding a file type extension for syntax high-lighting? I would like

[gentoo-user] vim syntax hi-lighting - Added .X68 file extension

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Can anyone explain or point out a link that describes the process of adding a file type extension for syntax high-lighting? I would like to configure vim to automatically recognize the .X68 file type as an assembly language program. TIA, Richard Broersma Jr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Announcement] gentoo-class: 06/14 on command-line

2007-06-11 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lpi-101-fundamentals-p1.xml :-) Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-06 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-06 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Thanks everyone for the pointers! Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. --- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 May 2007, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console? emerge sys-libs/gpm, then read /etc/conf.d/gpm

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
software releases. Next time we see a call for assistance in the weekly news letter, we would do well to spend a few hours each week answering that call. Well that's my two cents anyway. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? - possibly OT, but not really

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
/probably my Gentoo skill set if not up to snuff? Here is the link on the gentoo homepage that calls for support: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/ Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT: NAS] linux based storage solutions

2006-11-03 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
: http://www.xyratex.com/products/storage/index.asp and was recommended on this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-05/msg01564.php Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Oct 26 18:12:09 [kernel] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Oct 26 18:12:09 [kernel] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
On 10/31/06, Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all

[gentoo-user] Need help building pg_dumpfile

2006-10-27 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help building pg_dumpfile

2006-10-27 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
=/home/richard/work/pg_filedump-8.1 However, I am still getting the same error as before: make make: *** No rule to make target `/home/richard/work/pg_filedump-8.1/src/backend/utils/hash/pg_crc.c', needed by `pg_crc.o'. Stop. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help building pg_dumpfile

2006-10-27 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
-version/work/postgresql-version Thanks Richard, This did the trick! pg_filedump was successfull built. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problems making shareable directory shareable

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
$LINE to a file if the return code of whois $LINE | grep 'abuse' returns false (not 0)... Do you need to add if test... or if [ ... ]? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about conditionals and bash scripting

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
not found ./process.sh: line 6: [1: command not found ./process.sh: line 6: [1: command not found Interrupted by signal 2... Check out the section If statements http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/bash-by-example-p1.xml Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring UPS for Gentoo

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
procedure to insure your server issues a UPS power down w/delay command during server halt to protect against intermittent power failures. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Emerge

2006-09-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
3 days ago I just switched back to Gentoo after not using it for about 6 months. However, I've been having issues emerging packages. Frequently, the build will crap out and I'll get something like the following. Any idea why this happens? Are they happening in unreproduceable

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
/dev/hdj1 mdadm: error opening manage: No such file or directory Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
to add a third device (#2), instead of replacing #0 or #1. I am not exact sure on this point. Are you refering to the meta device? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-02 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
hardware. Fortunately I have a back-up of everything on this array. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mdadm fails to add drive to arry

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I recently had a drive failure in with a Raid 1 setup. However, for testing purposes I tried to re-add the drive to the array after I removed it. However I ran into the following error message. ~ # mdadm /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdj1 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hdj1 as 2: Invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 missing g++/c++

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
netpbm-10.34.ebuild, line 97: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Thanks for the help. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 missing g++/c++

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
packages will give up during the sanity check when they discovered there wasn't a g++ compiler for available. Thanks for the reply. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-07-29 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
.tar.gz http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=76000 -- attached ifc-9.0.031.ebuild But I am not sure exact where to put them or what to do with them. :-) Any suggestions or links would greatly be appreciated. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-07-29 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
However, dev-lang/ifc already exists. If you want the latest 9.0.031 version, you'll have to accept the ~arch keyword, but this is certainly a lot easier than trying to maintain your own overlay. Yes, messing with making a package overlay doesn't should like I really want to get into.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-07-29 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Any reason you can't use gcc's Fortran compiler? I would be happy to, I didn't know there was one. Is there any docs that explain how to the gcc fortran complier? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-07-29 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
USE=fortran emerge gcc If you're on gcc4, it's gfortran and is Fortran95 (and older) compatible. If you're on gcc3, it's g77 and is (as one would expect) compatible with Fortran77. Thanks! Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Missing /sbin/mount.cifs

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
/return code = -22 If my problem isn't related to missing mount.cifs, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing /sbin/mount.cifs

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
its from samba Thanks all for the feedback. Regards, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root fs on uknown - block (0,0)

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
these new kernels. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
... USE=server symlink bugzilla sshd postgresql -mysql -mysqli postfix -X -xorg -berkdb -kde -gnome -metacity Is there a way to override this selection and have postgresql and DBD-pg installed instead? Any ideas? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
! But the problem hasn't completly gone away. [ebuild N] dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 [ebuild N] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007 [ebuild N] dev-db/libpq-8.1.4 [ebuild N] dev-db/postgresql-8.1.4 [ebuild N] dev-perl/DBD-Pg-1.43 Any other idea? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
its new kernel so I couldn't actually test it. Thanks for all of the help. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Here is what I get on the new server. (chroot) livecd linux # emerge -pvt bugzilla These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] www-apps/bugzilla-2.18.5 -apache2 -mysql -vhosts 1,623 kB [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
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Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Because of the problems I had, I would *NEVER* encourage people to *NOT* recompile everything. Sorry, but double negatives only confuse me. :-) So you are advocating that everyone recompile everything. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm: No arrays found in config file

2006-07-18 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I have noticed following message in /var/log/boot (but I see them too early during boot-up): ... * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to obelix ... [ ok ] * Starting up RAID devices (mdadm) ... mdadm: No arrays found in config file

[gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
to restore the terminals is by rebooting the computer. Is there a way to fix corrupted command line terminals once corrupted other than rebooting. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Are you running a framebuffer console? Some cards (nvidia notably) don't come back well to a framebuffer console after X has been running. Try booting to a regular console by adding vga=normal to your boot line in grub. Thanks, I will give it a try. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr

[gentoo-user] genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 -- Digest verification failed

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Does anyone have any recommendation about what do I need to do to get genpatches to download correctly? Any suggestions? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. Downloading http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 --14:51:51-- http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net

Re: [gentoo-user] genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 -- Digest verification failed

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
for the help! Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3

2006-07-03 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
a fresh --sync from this morning has reloaded a library package to a prior version. Once again thanks for all of you time. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3

2006-07-02 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
clientattrib.c:132: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[3]: *** [clientattrib.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 make[1]: *** [default] Error 1 make: *** [linux-dri-x86] Error 2 Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3

2006-07-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile mesa-6.5-r3.ebuild, line 231: Called die It there a shared library that I need to emerge first that has these header files? Thanks for any help on the subject. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4 --huh? what spare would that be?

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I just preformed an emerge --update world after update grading to portage 2.1-r1. I noticed that mdadm and some other packages were required to be updated to older versions. Since then, I am getting false alarms from mdadm. --- mdadm monitoring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: mdadm monitoring

[gentoo-user] New portage adds USE description

2006-06-22 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Would anyone be so kind as to point out any documentation that explain the new features of Portage 2.1. I am primary enterested in the USE= ... string that I see when I: emerge --update --pretend world Thanks for any answers. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] New portage adds USE description

2006-06-22 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
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[gentoo-user] New elog functionality Log rotation?

2006-06-17 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I was wondering if anyone could point me to the conf file to turn on log rotation for my emerge.log. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue

2006-06-05 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Try use Denyhosts ... no problem with bruteforce attacks anymore. Denyhosts add the IP of the attacker to the /etc/hosts.deny file. Install it with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge denyhosts and add to your /etc/crontab */10 * * * * root python /usr/bin/denyhosts -c /etc/denyhosts.conf Use it

[gentoo-user] Advice to maximizeSoftware Raid 1 speed.

2006-05-30 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
maximum reliablity and speed? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-25 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I was having problems getting OO to build. I issued the following bug report. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126937 In my case the it was due to a hardware issue. I kept retrying the emerge and at last it succeeded (on a very very cold evening...). My best guess is that the large

[gentoo-user] how to determin CFLAGS used in a package emerge

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Is there are way to determine the CFLAGS options used to build/emerge a specific package? In my case, I am specifically looking to determine which CFLAG options where used to build the apcupsd package to determine if it has SNMP support built in or not? Any advice or tech docs is greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] how to determin CFLAGS used in a package emerge

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
cat /var/db/pkg/sys-power/apcupsd-3.10.18-r1/ Thanks guys for the help. I found that apcupsd-3.10.18-r1.ebuild had the compiler options that I was looking for. It looks like I was incorrecting calling the compiler options CFLAGS. But thanks for the help because I was able to find what I was

Re: [gentoo-user] how to determin CFLAGS used in a package emerge

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Neither. These are all options passed to the configure script - in this case, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are set as environment variables for it (since they're specified prior to the actual ./configure call). Configure options are set by the ebuild in Gentoo, so you could conceivably look