Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

2005-05-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:43 -0700, Pingveno wrote: I'm trying to get software suspend to work on my computer. While configuring my kernel, I added in support for software suspend aka hibernate. Alas, I have no idea what command to run to suspend the computer. gentoo-wiki.com has an article

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging extra python

2005-05-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:07 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Jason Stubbs schreef: On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly don't want to mess up Portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade procedure question

2005-05-27 Thread Zac Medico
--- Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Then delete directories - bin, sbin, lib, sys, etc, opt. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2chap=4#doc_chap3 You could recycle the old directories as a 32-bit chroot environment. That could come in handy if you want

Re: [gentoo-user] sed changing behavior

2005-05-27 Thread Antonio Souto
Hi Darren On 5/26/05, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing around with this, and it seems to be working fine for me. Areyou using two different versions of sed? Any major differences between thetwo systems? Identical scripts? The useflags are the same on both systems: # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-05-27 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On 5/27/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Drugowitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you use the usb-storage driver or the usb block device drive (which mentions things like slow and cpu-hungry and unstable in the

[gentoo-user] Question about ARPing

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Tedjawardhana
Hello people, I have a gentoo box with 2 NICs. eth0 with DHCP connected to the internet and eth1 with 192.168.0.1 ip, set manually; connected to the local network. This computer doesn't route anything and iptables is off. Recently I received a mail from the network admin who is really anal

Re: [gentoo-user] USB External HardDrive

2005-05-27 Thread Martin
please see the actual Thread Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk there might be some hints for you ... and have a look whether your system and the enclosure support USB 1.x or 2.0 Martin timothy johnson wrote: I just bought a 120GB harddrive and an external

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Carpella
Hi! James Colannino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip tags from your view of the text and make it more readable? Just wondering. I'm using Gnus in emacs to

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about ARPing

2005-05-27 Thread James
Martin Tedjawardhana bitboxx at gmail.com writes: I have a gentoo box with 2 NICs. eth0 with DHCP connected to the internet and eth1 with 192.168.0.1 ip, set manually; connected to the local network. This computer doesn't route anything and iptables is off. OK, Why have the second interface

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

2005-05-27 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi Ryan, Do you need a GUI (graphic interface)? If so, I like using Ark, as Paul pointed out; It is really simple and support a large array of archive types. If not, using the tar command on a shell can be faster. To do so: tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 path/to/be/included Creates a bzip2 archive

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Kain
I know Ryan personally and unfortunately I know he is still too bonded to winduz to be able to embrace the command line completely ;-) Just kidding slick. Try Ark. On 5/27/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ryan,Do you need a GUI (graphic interface)?If so, I

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-27 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: make menuconfig make make modules_install make install is easier and accomplishes the same, and also updates the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks in /boot, removing the need to alter your grub config. OK, I but often I like to keep the older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Shields
What port do you suggest (sorry for hijacking this thread!)? On 5/27/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Change the sshd port, the hammering will be smaller... 2005/5/27, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Walter, thanks for the useful tip. I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

2005-05-27 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ouch, nah I am getting lazy. Ark is perfect, thanks Paul, file-roller has a hundred and one file dependancies. On 5/27/05, Paul Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Ryan personally and unfortunately I know he is still too bonded to winduz to be able to embrace the command line completely ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] bootstrapping or Linux from the scratch with Intel C++ compiler?!

2005-05-27 Thread Matan Peled
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! Has anybody of you ever bootstrapped / built Liunux from the scratch with the Intel C++ compiler?! I would love to know the process itself, if it was a difficulty step building linux from the scratch with a different compiler (implemetnation to get it run).

[gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-27 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I'm trying to set up my computers so I make backups of my server from my workstation (we don't have a backup server). The thing is that I have a normal user on that server and I'm on the sudoers file to perform any root-task. Now, to back up, I'm running an rsync thru ssh to the server,

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with KDE 3.4?

2005-05-27 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 28 May 2005 01:03, Radu Filip wrote: Hi, I was wondering what problem(s) might be with KDE 3.4 that prevents it to be in x86 after few months since the KDE team released it? See message entitled KDE 3.4 visibility support disabled posted just under 24 hours ago to

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about ARPing

2005-05-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:45:33 +0200 Martin Tedjawardhana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why is eth0 responding to 192.168.0.1 http://192.168.0.1 arping although it does not have that address? How can I remedy this? How can I block arping? read about the arp_filter sysctl in

[gentoo-user] Re: Python kerflooie = portage kaboom; need help or advice

2005-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Nevermind. It seems to have fixed itself. I have no idea how, because I did not emerge anything and I did not reboot or restart anything. Go figure. ++ kevin On 5/26/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the portage here just died of a python bite. Skipping to the bottom

Re: [gentoo-user] sed changing behavior

2005-05-27 Thread Antonio Souto
On 5/27/05, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My version I tested with is also 4.1.4I just can't see this being the fault of sed here, for one to work and not theother just doesn't make sense.Have you diffed the two different tcupdate scripts to be sure they are exactly the same? What about

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-27 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run sudo after you ssh. On my network, I backup my servers by setting up sudoers on the server I want to backup and running the following command from my workstation: ssh flags user@hostname sudo dump -udumplevelf- filesystem | gzip

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

2005-05-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:51:21 -0700 Pingveno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just remerged hibernate-script and ran it (after saving everything :P ). The one problem: I have to shut down X11 because the nvidia driver has to be unloaded before hibernation is started. This is, of course, with

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble connecting to foreign APs

2005-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me know if you might be able to help. Hi Grant, I will try to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 27 May 2005 12:16, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Changing port is not about security, it save cpu (that can be true using RSA auth only too). The question, though, is whether changing the port is worth the hassle. If you're getting 1000 SSH attempts per day, and each connection

[gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-05-27 Thread Colin
When I try to bootstrap a Power Macintosh 8500, I get this error from /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh: emerge (1 of 7) sys-apps/textinfo-4.7.-r1 to / !!! Cannot create log... No write access / Does not exist !!! PORT_LOGDIR: /var/log/portage !!! Cannot create log... No write access / Does

Re: [gentoo-user] maemo and scratchbox

2005-05-27 Thread Julien Cayzac
On 5/27/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Please open a bug for each of these. Post the bug id here, so I can add myself on CC. 94211. I hope I get enough free time to work on these this week-end. Julien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-05-27 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 5/27/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See 'config.log' for more details. /var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.7-r1/work/texinfo-4.7/config.log is available if needed. I really don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-05-27 Thread Colin
Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 5/27/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See 'config.log' for more details. /var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.7-r1/work/texinfo-4.7/config.log is available if needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-05-27 Thread Julien Cayzac
On 5/27/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I found it. I changed -fstack_protector to -fstack-protector and now it's compiling. It bugs me how some CFLAGS use underscores, others dashes, and some use both. That underscore is a Darwin specific thing. Darwin gcc maintainers are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble connecting to foreign APs

2005-05-27 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me know if you might be able to help. Hi Grant, I will try to get

[gentoo-user] kde kioslave media problem

2005-05-27 Thread Michal Kurgan
Hello! I have problems with usage of media kioslave in new-old kde 3.4.0. As i read, it can use fstab to detect hardware in system, and also additional tools like hal. I don't use hal, and rely only on manual configured /etc/fstab and udev to mount devices by hand, with mount commands. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:50:29AM -0400, Mark Shields wrote Walter, thanks for the useful tip. I've been looking to increase the efficiency of my server (Athlon XP (Thorton), 2400+ (2ghz), 133 fsb, 512mb pc2100), especially since now I've been looking at my log files I've noticed it's

[gentoo-user] su authorization files all over the place; wheeeeeee !NOT

2005-05-27 Thread Walter Dnes
I finally solved local my user inability to su -. Here's a short summary that'll hopefully help anybody else running into this problem. There appear to be at least 2 files which can deny a user the ability to su - if you are running shadow, not pam. If you get blocked by either one of them,

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-27 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 2:27 am, Gabriel M. Beddingfield said: This sounds like you need to re-emerge the driver for your NIC. For example, every time I upgrade my kernel I have to do something like this: # cd /usr/src # rm linux # ln -s newkernel linux If you set