Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Can I force USB drives' device name?

2005-05-04 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Wed May 4 2005 02:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: With suitable udev rules, you can name them anything you like, say /dev/ floppy and /dev/jumpdisk. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php [skims intro] That looks like exactly what I was

Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags

2005-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 May 2005 08:00:33 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Just to add some info, IMHO even when not using any USE-flags there are some default flags (see them in /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults file) and when you put some USE-flags in /etc/make.conf they are merged/override

Re: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork

2005-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:11:00 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: locutus ~ # emerge -Dav kwifimanager These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kwifimanager-3.4.0) [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] USB dosnt start everytime

2005-05-04 Thread Daniel Röder
Hi NG, I am using Gentoo with kernel 2.6.11-r6 and have the following Problem: when I switch my PC on, he do not recognize my USB-Devices. Even restarting the USB services and modules wont help. First after the 3rd _reboot_ (sometimes less, sometimes more) everything is working fine. I have an

Re: [gentoo-user] can't set root passwd

2005-05-04 Thread Jaap van Geffen
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 20:00 +0200, Unknown wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:26 +0200, YoYo Siska wrote: Jaap van Geffen wrote: The weird thing is that I can create a user account and set a password for it in the chrooted envirenment. So I can only login as user and not as root.

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread José Moreira
I mean there are no menu entries under view-window in addition to there not being any buttons to push at the lower left to get into those panes. Email and Contacts are there, just not the calendar or tasks. Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] exactly the same problem. i'm doing revdep-rebuid right

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation on an old notebook with a little help from my desktop pc

2005-05-04 Thread krzaq
On 5/4/05, Ezequiel Tolnay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a decent desktop with gentoo, and an old and slow Pentium-266Mhz notebook, where I would like to install Gentoo. Can anyone suggest me how to use my fast processor to do the installation, perhaps mounting a drive using NFS and

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups webinterface

2005-05-04 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 5/4/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to connect to our cups printserver with http://:631 but i always get: cups connection is refused. On the machine itself i have no problem with localhost:631 In cupsd.conf i've got allow from 10.32.0.0/22 our ip range and

[gentoo-user] installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here are some key features requested by our customer: - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias etc) - 100MB quota per user - autoresponder - about 50.000 user - online backup of data -

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Roberts
I hadn't replied because I don't have an answer and haven't bothered to do any troubleshooting or research yet. Anyhow, on one of my systems, Evolution no longer has a calendar or task pane available at all. By not available, I mean there are no menu entries under view-window in

[gentoo-user] OSS software prototype

2005-05-04 Thread Jose Moreira
Hello, i've been thinking about a new software and i would like the opinion from the community about it's viability. It's not directly related to Gentoo but OSS in general. The name i believe would describe it the best is 'helpforge' the sameway it exists 'howtoforge' and 'sourceforge'. The main

Re: [gentoo-user] python fails to emerge

2005-05-04 Thread Jonas Pedersen
q-parser wrote: Maybe running fix_libtool_files.sh could repair libraries. I would give it a try. Looks like that solved my problem. Thanks! -- Jonas Pedersen - jonas(a)chown.dk http://chown.dk http://pictureshow.dk Nyheder på din windows desktop? http://rss.chown.dk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge-webrsync bandwidth improvement

2005-05-04 Thread sf
blog). On second invocation I got: Looking for available base versions for a delta fetching patches failed fetching snapshot-20050503-20050504.patch.bz2.md5sum no patches found? up to date? syncing Syncing local tree... building file list ... 114391 files to consider Number of files: 114391 Number

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups webinterface

2005-05-04 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On 5/4/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to connect to our cups printserver with http://:631 but i always get: cups connection is refused. On the machine itself i have no problem with localhost:631 In cupsd.conf i've got allow from 10.32.0.0/22 our ip range and

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:08 -0500, Canek Peláez wrote: The problem is that, at some update, the libraries that EDS depends upon were changed, and now EDS doesn't work. Run revdep-rebuid. Canek The machine that had the problems was already running a revdep-rebuild overnight. That fixed

[gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Claudinei Matos
Hi guys, I just put my dns to work hear at my network, so now I'm wanting to put it to my webserver with a real domain name. At my office machine I have bind-9.2.5 that is working very fine, but at the webserver I have bind-9.2.2-r3. My problem now is that bind at webserver refuse to work. I even

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups webinterface

2005-05-04 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 04 mai à 16:01:18 Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: On 5/4/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to connect to our cups printserver with http://:631 but i always get: cups connection is refused. On the machine itself i have no problem

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
-rw--- 1 named named 77 May 4 10:00 /etc/bind/rndc.key This matches mine except the group is root rather than named, so the permission denied message from the log is perplexing. drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 48 May 4 10:00 /var/run/named This matches mine exactly, so again the permission

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread Jose Moreira
exactly. i runned revdep-rebuid also and noticed that in the output. now, the task and calendar functions are ok. Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:08 -0500, Canek Peláez wrote: The problem is that, at some update, the libraries that EDS depends upon were changed, and now EDS doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Claudinei Matos
Looking at google I've discovered that I had to specify the username named with -u named, now it's working, but I have another problem I tried to start named with the rc script but there was an error in the load and now I can't reload/stop/start it with the rc file, always when I try I get

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
zap, zap, zap... why /etc/init.d/named doesn't tell me about that option? just because I didn't, ehhehe. The scripts typically document only those options which the scripts support (i.e. start and stop). /sbin/runscript has many other options, zap being one of those useful ones that aren't

[gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread askar ...
Hello! I can't mount CD by mount /mnt/cdrom and get error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, or too many mounted file systems My fstab is: /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda6 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread Peter H.
auto makes mount guess for the filesystem (recommended for removable media as they can be created with one of many filesystems) and user makes it possible for non-root users to mount the CD. from the handbook... try replacing iso9660 with auto in fstab... --- askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] Openoffice crashes when opening ANY file

2005-05-04 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! After emerging openoffice-1.1.4-r1, I can't open any .sxw, sxc, etc file. Immediately, a window pops up saying An unrecoverable error has occured With the old version 1.1.4, it works fine, even on the same files that cause 1.1.4-r1 to crash (so bad files can be excluded) The

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribing to gentoo forums

2005-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:07:57 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Somebody here suggested I join forums.gentoo. | | This I have done. About 16 hrs ago. Should it take | this long(and waiting) to receive the confirmation | link in my mail? | | Seems fairly retrograde to me. Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribing to gentoo forums

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Kain
use gmail I'll send you an invite On 5/4/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:07:57 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Somebody here suggested I join forums.gentoo. | | This I have done. About 16 hrs ago. Should it take | this long(and

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread A. R.
Hello, I have experienced the exact same situations as you have described. But, for some very odd reason, I have not seen an error while mounting a cdrom ever since I changed my fstab line from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. I am clueless as to why this is the case... heck. Regards, -AR On

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS software prototype

2005-05-04 Thread Nick Rout
you have posted the same message three times. is there a reason for this? Hint::if no one replies, no one is interested. Take the hint! On Wed, 04 May 2005 13:05:45 +0100 Jose Moreira wrote: Hello, i've been thinking about a new software and i would like the opinion from the community about

[gentoo-user] Problem with RSYNC

2005-05-04 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When trying to do a backup of my data with rsync, I'm getting this kind of errors, they happen always in the same file untill I remove that file, any ideas ? /home/pupeno/.kde3.3/share/apps/kmail/imap/.1476700102.directory/.INBOX.directory/Trash

[gentoo-user] Re: Cups webinterface

2005-05-04 Thread James
Patrick Marquetecken patrick.marquetecken at pandora.be writes: hoi, I'm trying to connect to our cups printserver with http://:631 Don't forget: http://localhost:631/sam.html for documentation! cheers James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread M3rL7N
Hello Rob, I'm very interested in that subject. I hope you write that howto :) Goodluck with it M3rL7N On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:28:29 -0700 rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:28 pm, rob3 wrote: Hi all, Hi Rob, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread LostSon
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 16:14, M3rL7N wrote: Hello I as well would be very interested in this as i already encrypt certain files and such, but being able to encrypt the whole home directory would be very beneficial, thanks. Hello Rob, I'm very interested in that subject. I hope you

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread Roy O. Wright
Please! If you want beta testers for your howto, I'm game with a fresh install of Gentoo on an old PC (Athlon 800 and yes, last night was it's first night not running emerge ;-) Thank you, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS software prototype

2005-05-04 Thread José Moreira
for some reason Evolution does not display the messages i send. thats the same reason i thougth the list didnt get the mail. your agressiveness has been registered, thank you for replying Qui, 2005-05-05 s 08:28 +1200, Nick Rout escreveu: you have posted the same message three times. is there a

RE: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I use udev and have /dev/cdrom mapped to /dev/cdrom - hda. I have all SCSI except for the CD/DVD unit. Here's the udev rule # cdrom symlinks and other good cdrom naming BUS=ide, KERNEL=hd[a-z], PROGRAM=/etc/udev/scripts/cdsymlinks.sh %k, SY On Wed, 4 May 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice crashes when opening ANY file

2005-05-04 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2005 21:25 schrieb Alexander Kern: On Wednesday, 4. Mai 2005 20:30 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: After emerging openoffice-1.1.4-r1, I can't open any .sxw, sxc, etc file. Immediately, a window pops up saying An unrecoverable error has occured Do you mean that its

RE: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager blocked by kdenetwork

2005-05-04 Thread Daevid Vincent
Thanks Neil for the reply, I think many moons ago, when I first installed Gentoo via the online docs, I installed kde v3.2 via some emerge kde-base/kde or something like that. If I do an esearch kde, I notice a whole lot of packages I don't have?! :( I would like to use my

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread rob3
Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm interested too. I would love to have this on my notebook in case the worst happens. I can also test this in a Gentoo VMWare that I use. If you'd like the image, I can ftp it to you somewhere. Its' about 900MB zipped. Daevid. Hi David, Yes, I use a notebook

[gentoo-user] laptop-Modular Bay HotPLug possible?

2005-05-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just wondering if there's code to mark the modular bay in laptops to be hot-pluggable. I believe Thinkpads has one which is acpi controlled. I'm on a dell, is there one ? The problem here is that I have a Battery/CDrom/HD and I would like to be able to switch from one to another without

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop-Modular Bay HotPLug possible?

2005-05-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
Same here: I can swap the bay mounted cdrw with a floppy module for a short time, and as long as I swap it back before doing a software suspend all is fine. Any other combination (including leaving it out for extended periods) ensures a painful crash at inopportune moments. As well, my i82k has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread Shawn Singh
Oh yeah!!! That does sound like something I'd like to learn how to do. On 5/4/05, rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is