Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashing when printing

2005-08-29 Thread Aurélien Reynaud
Le samedi 27 août 2005 à 17:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb a écrit : Firefox is now crashing whenever I print a page. Firefox gives its popup showing the status. When the status is complete, everything vanishes and nothing is printed. The error msg is not very helpful. Hello, I had the same

Re: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote: It contained dev-util/cvs app-editors/emacs-cvs According to the portage man-page you must include the version of the package too. == . . . . package.provided

[gentoo-user] X very slow after resume2

2005-08-29 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I managed to install swsup2 after struggling with the nvidia driver and it suspeds ok, but after resume X is very slow. I disabled agpgart in the kernel and use the nvidia one (with agpgart swsup does not work). No FW or SBA. I'm using KDE as desktop manager. Would GNOME

[gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 29 August 2005 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote: It contained dev-util/cvs app-editors/emacs-cvs According to the portage man-page you must include the version of the package Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? But it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Nagatoro
Harry Putnam wrote: Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? That is, will portage just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 09:53, Nagatoro wrote: In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't _need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the provided package. Yup, so you would only need to change the version of the package in packages.provided to a

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant (WPA-PSK + TKIP) + Intel 2200bg (ipw2200)

2005-08-29 Thread Greg Armer
Hi List, I am having a few issues with the below setup, the wireless lan connection intermittently drops and reconnects every couple seconds. This only happens while using wireless, and only with the setup below. I am running the latest wpa_supplicant drivers and the latest ipw2200 driver. My

[gentoo-user] Piles of errors from rsnapshot follown emerge world -u

2005-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Following an emerge world -u all my rsnapshot scripts are erroring out like this: ERROR: config_version was not defined. rsnapshot can not continue. /usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \ /etc/rsnapshot_News.conf weekly: ERROR: config_version was not defined.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashing when printing--SOLVED

2005-08-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:53:52 +0200 Aurélien Reynaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le samedi 27 août 2005 à 17:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb a écrit : Firefox is now crashing whenever I print a page. Firefox gives its popup showing the status. When the status is complete, everything vanishes and

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant (WPA-PSK + TKIP) + Intel 2200bg (ipw2200)

2005-08-29 Thread Nagatoro
Greg Armer wrote: Hi List, I am having a few issues with the below setup, the wireless lan connection intermittently drops and reconnects every couple seconds. This only happens while using wireless, and only with the setup below. Not sure if it's the same problem but I had the same symptoms

[gentoo-user] Access problem

2005-08-29 Thread Rajat Gujral
Hi there Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur suggestions it wouldnt have been possible .. Now that i have completed installation and created users .. I am not able to log into the superuser mode through my login , it keeps showing su - Password: su:

Re: [gentoo-user] Access problem

2005-08-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:02, Rajat Gujral wrote: Hi there Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur suggestions it wouldnt have been possible .. Now that i have completed installation and created users .. I am not able to log into the superuser mode through my

[gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
Hi, I recently did a: $ emerge -DNuva world which came back with: snip ... [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd +flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine +xv ... /snip Thinking it was so good, so far... I went with the upgrade and got

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:07 + (GMT) Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the machine relaunched

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ric de France schreef: Hi, I recently did a: $ emerge -DNuva world which came back with: snip ... [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd +flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine +xv ... /snip Thinking it was so good,

Re: [gentoo-user] Access problem

2005-08-29 Thread Rajat Gujral
Thanx brian that helped .. now i am able to log in On 8/29/05, Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 August 2005 12:02, Rajat Gujral wrote: Hi there Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur suggestions it wouldnt have been possible .. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:32, Ric de France wrote: Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly appreciated. Is it the same as this one? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860 -- Cheers, Alex. pgpqHbxniI6qX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
From:: Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:35:28 +0200 Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root? Well, yes because when I run it as a plain user I am denied

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
Hi Holly, Thanks for the prompt response... On 8/29/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, first of all, you should know it can work: eix totem * media-video/totem Available versions: 1.0.2-r1 1.0.4 Installed: 1.0.4 Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
Alex, On 8/30/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it the same as this one? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103860 It sort of describes some of the problem, as I can see the same error a little higher on in the page. What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it: a) Wait for the fix to be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Sergio Polini
Michael Kintzios: There's nothing wrong with dd, but I see no reason to create my own script to extend the basic dd functionality. I would rather use shred which does everything I want it to do - if only I can avoid the deletion if the device node itself. Why -u? From the man page:

[gentoo-user] Default fonts for applications in X

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
Hi All, I have noticed that the fonts in some applications (in say, their drop down menus) have changed to something that looks like a Courier font, which I don't like much for this purpose. Applications which appear to have been affected and display their menus in Courier (or whatever that

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
From:: Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:36 +0200 Why -u? From the man page: Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 13:09, Ric de France wrote: What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it: a) Wait for the fix to be sync'ed into portage? b) Emerge gst-plugins-flac? It's (b) Or you could do $ emerge --oneshot gst-plugins-flac (which wont record it in your world file) and wait for the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Kintzios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant (WPA-PSK + TKIP) + Intel 2200bg (ipw2200)

2005-08-29 Thread Greg Armer
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 13:52 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: Greg Armer wrote: Hi List, I am having a few issues with the below setup, the wireless lan connection intermittently drops and reconnects every couple seconds. This only happens while using wireless, and only with the setup below.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Alec Shaner
Nick Rout wrote: OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this game please try it out. If it

[gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-29 Thread Michal Kurgan
Hello! Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel (2.6.12) and sync mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat filesystem. This is my case, but i want to have sth like sync when

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? | Stable, ~x86 etc? Note that such a number wouldn't be useful for comparing with, say, other distributions or ports, because a) we can SLOT

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Alec Shaner schreef: Nick Rout wrote: OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess that must be it in /usr/lib/laby? Yes, indeed it is: la /usr/lib/laby totaal 5388 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 . drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 110112 aug 29 17:20 ..

[gentoo-user] Black background on OpenOffice and wine icons

2005-08-29 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi !! I'm compiling with CFLAGS -mtune=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointers, and what I want I've done is recompiled all my system with an emerge -ve world. Now everything has been recompiled with those CFLAGS. What I've noticed since that update is that my icons (on dialogs, menus,

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Greg Bengeult
Holly Bostick wrote: Holly Bostick schreef: You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess that must be it in /usr/lib/laby? Yes, indeed it is: la /usr/lib/laby totaal 5388 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 . drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 110112 aug 29

[gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
Hi All, Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: === # fdisk /dev/fd0 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/fd0: 0 MB, 737280 bytes 2 heads, 9 sectors/track, 80 cylinders Units = cylinders of 18 * 512 = 9216 bytes Device Boot Start

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Alec Shaner
Holly Bostick wrote: This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem. I could be wrong, though, especially since it works under KDE. Why

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Wade Brown
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not, but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies. -- Wade Brown On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Using fdisk to

RE: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not, but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies. emerge mtools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Alex
On Monday 29 August 2005 16:51, Michael Kintzios wrote: What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting? # mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 -- Cheers, Alex. pgphQj8fBbRIL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT) Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: [...] Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual task): partition table of a floppy disk? well, you

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
Thank you all, From:: Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:32:24 +0200 Hi, On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT) Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-29 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Fernando Canizo wrote: El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. snip The questions would be: -

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:11:04 +0200, Michal Kurgan wrote: Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel (2.6.12) and sync mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat filesystem.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Alec Shaner schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem. I could be wrong, though, especially since

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:12 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: According to the portage man-page you must include the version of the package Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an older version

[gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Randolph
I know that upgrading glibc can cause some programs to break if they were built against the previous glibc. This happens to me all the time and I have gotten in the habit of simply re-emerging any packages that misbehave since a glibc upgrade. Well, I have upgraded both glibc and gcc within

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-29 Thread Jarry
Neil Bothwick wrote: MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/ at the top of /etc/procmailrc OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is: DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same Mail is still in maildir format but at least in /var/spool/mail. Q: How can I prohibit users

[gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Randolph
I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself iptables if there is a simple alternative.

[gentoo-user] Ericsson K750i

2005-08-29 Thread Martin S
Anyone played with the USB feature of the Ericsson phone? I forgot to bring the cable to my new phone from work - but I suppose I just plug it in and it will be found as an extra drive (like my USB memory stick). Anyone can verify this?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Martin S
KFireWall (I think it's called) if you use KDE.Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-29 Thread Timur Aydin
inferno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, If it's any help: I'm using 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 kernel not a genkernel. Maybe the version of kernel on your computer is newer than the one on the live cd, try a downgrade and see if it help. Best regards I found the problem. The USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I think you're not quite right :), but I can see why you'd think this. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for

Re: [gentoo-user] Ericsson K750i

2005-08-29 Thread Oscar
From what I could find from a quick search on the gentoo forums, it's as simple as plug'n'pray :) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354115-highlight-k750i.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374017-highlight-k750i.html Oscar On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:58:29 +0200 Martin S [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] iptables rules managed from php mysql

2005-08-29 Thread inferno
Hi, I would like to know if anybody used mysql to store and load the rules for iptables and if there is any script for this allready available or any sugestions. ( Personally I woul like to try a combination of mysql + php + iptables to be able to remotely control the firewall, and I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Oscar
I use shorewall on my gateways / firewalls, but it's probably a bit overkill for you. A really simple setup can be done with firehol(.sf.net), but I don't think running a firewall on a unix desktop is necessary. Oscar On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:54:46 -0400 Matt Randolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-29 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Monday 29 of August 2005 20:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: Make sure you haven't enabled BLK_DEV_UB in your kernel. I am sure. -- Michal Kurgan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonas Geiregat schreef: Fernando Canizo wrote: El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. snip Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
iptables really isn't that difficult if you just want to do what the average home user wants to do- accept certain services and block everything else. Provided that you have kernel support for iptables you can just copy/paste some example code in a text file.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Nick Rout
did you have the laby wrapper script in /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/files ?? I posted the wrapper script with the first version of the ebuild. On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 09:49 -0700, Greg Bengeult wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: Holly Bostick schreef: You can see that 'laby' is

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Greg Bengeult
Nick Rout wrote: did you have the laby wrapper script in /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/files ?? I posted the wrapper script with the first version of the ebuild. Nope, I didn't keep a copy of it at the time. To be considered complete, the ebuild should either include a copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux? [OT]

2005-08-29 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
but I don't think running a firewall on a unix desktop is necessary. I certainly do. What about ssh multiple-login attacks? I know that pam can easily fix this (http://gentoo-wiki.com/GWikInstall_Essential_Daemons#Securing_SSH), but I know there are other services (portmap) that can be

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-29 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
are you accessing it as /dev/sda or /dev/uba? Ever since the new usb-block device option has been in the kernel I've noticed this as well. I don't believe it has anything to do with the sync option, but I have been known to be wrong. I can't remember off the top of my head, but if you check

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their $HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? That way they could circumvent my /var userqouta settings (100MB) and use /home settings (5GB)... Dont know if you can stop that. One more problem: I can

[gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have mozilla available when I

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Nick Rout
yes well when it is in portage the file will be updated into the portage tree automatically. in the meantime you have to download both the ebuild and the wrapper script, same as for any other new ebuild. Sorry if I didn't make this clear in the email with the new ebuild. I don't think its correct

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-29 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Monday 29 of August 2005 22:02, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: are you accessing it as /dev/sda or /dev/uba? Ever since the new usb-block device option has been in the kernel I've noticed this as well. I don't believe it has anything to do with the sync option, but I have been known to be wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:42:38 +0200, Jarry wrote: MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/ at the top of /etc/procmailrc OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is: DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same Mail is still in maildir format but at least in

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from reiser4 to reiserfs

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:48:54 +0200 (CEST), Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hm, short addition here: ...and don't forget to use tar's p option! This is the default on tar now, and has been for quite some time. -- Neil Bothwick Electric chairs are period furniture: they end a sentence

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-29 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 27/ago/2005 a las 14:00 -0300, Alex me decía: Joe writes: So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which overwrites the

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-29 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 29 août à 20:42:38 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | OK, I tried. My /etc/procmailrc is: | DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/ # that is the same | Mail is still in maildir format but at least in /var/spool/mail. DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME (no slash at the end) should give

[gentoo-user] firestarter [Personal Linux Firewall]

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
I read through a few firewall products for my workstation and settled on firestarter. In reading through their docs, they say to enable 'every option under iptables'. there are 36 possible choices here! (counting the sub-choices under Full NAT Packet Filtering). Is it necessary to build all of

[gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for good measure. $ equery depends vim [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/equery, line 1551, in ? cmd.perform(local_opts)

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Sean Higgins
Matt, Check out net-firewall/firestarter, http://www.fs-security.com/, it is a gui frontend for iptables and has a way to monitor the communication. Sean On Monday 29 August 2005 02:54 pm, Matt Randolph wrote: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for good measure. $ equery depends vim [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/equery, line 1551, in ?

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I've seen messages like that from portage and when I run the command again it works. It seems that sometimes portage is running and executing a command like that cause it to get confused. On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: The problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've seen messages like that from portage and when I run the command again it works. It seems that sometimes portage is running and executing a command like that cause it to get confused. This has happened for some time now, on my office

[gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as the doc I found suggests) all of the options as modules under iptables. (The doc also says that if they are compiled as modules, I didn't need to

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay - it's not that then G. On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've seen messages like that from portage and when I run the command again it works. It seems that sometimes portage is running and executing a command like that cause it

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:03:37 +0200, Michal Kurgan wrote: When i mount by hand without sync my flash work as usual but it start writing on umnount command, this is not what i want... I can confirm the same here, with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9. Copying a 96MB file to a usb stick and then

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: The problem, from the looks of it, could be in Python, or in gentoolkit itself. Have you updated Python recently? Perhaps you need to run /usr/sbin/python-updater to make sure everything is copacetic. python is

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Don't think it's in the docs; I know about it from reading my emerge output. The recommendation to run /usr/sbin/python-updater is in the einfo displayed at the end of a Python emerge (in the case you just updated from 2.2.x to 2.3.x). So I remembered

[gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo install pretty soon. I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as the doc I found suggests) Oh, John, to hell with the doc you found (which look to be from the Wiki). No offense to the

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Shields
Depending on what you have installed, it will take more than 14 hours. Are you sure they're talking about emerge -e system and not emerge -e world?On 8/29/05, Matt Randolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that upgrading glibc can cause some programs to break if theywere built against the previous

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
Holly~ The Firestarter kernel requirements doc says - *Device drivers *Networking support [y] *Networking support *Networking options *Network packet filtering [y] *Network

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
My scheme is: 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but its mostly space att) 2G swap 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning /boot on this partition. Particularly useful with

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
ok. I got a clean kernel and removed iptables and firestarter. I then went into the kernel config and _only_ turned on iptable support as a module, and ran modules-update. all looks ok. Rebooting the kernel, however, I get this in dmesg - ipw2100: disagrees about version of symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that such a number wouldn't be useful for comparing with, say,other distributions or ports, because a) we can SLOT things, so wedon't need separate foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3 packages, and b) we don'tneed to do a zillion foo, foo-python,

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
The focus isnt on the number of packages per se, but on the size of the install media that a modern distro requires. Gentoo (as long as it has the coverage) has a natural advantage here in that you only install what you want to install from the repositories, or from a single, relatively small CD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:01 am, Michael Kintzios wrote: Hi All, I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting the machine relaunched udev which recreated

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My scheme is: 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but its mostly space att) 2G swap 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning

[gentoo-user] Shell shows complete path

2005-08-29 Thread Rajat Gujral
Hi when i work in shell it shows me the complete path of the folder i am in ... this make the command promt to extend to almost half the screen .. How can i change the prompt so that it displays only the directory i am in .. Thnx Rgds Rajat

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
/dev/hda3 is the backup/rescue. What I did last time I built a system, is used this to build a working system. Put it into service, adjust/configure until I am happy. Create the LVM in prep for the main install. Copy the rescue system to the LVM and setup grub. reboot into the main and go

Re: [gentoo-user] Ericsson K750i

2005-08-29 Thread Martin S
OK, I'll give a shot - sounds promising... :)Regards,Martin S

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread John Dangler
yep. it's a bug. As soon as I remove iptables from the kernel config, ipw2100,ieee80211_crypt_tkip, ieee80211_crypt_ccmp, ieee80211_crypt_wep, ieee80211 all show up fine in lsmod. no dmesg errors, and eth1 (wireless) shows up fine. Off to bugz to log this. John D -Original Message-

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell shows complete path

2005-08-29 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Rajat Gujral, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: Hi when i work in shell it shows me the complete path of the folder i am in ... this make the command promt to extend to almost half the screen .. How can i change the prompt so that it displays only the directory i am

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:34 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Don't think it's in the docs; I know about it from reading my emerge output. The recommendation to run /usr/sbin/python-updater is in the einfo displayed at the end of a Python emerge (in the

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo install pretty soon. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 06:28 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: That's very helpful. To test my understanding /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M Way too much. /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G Can be on a logical volume, too. /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install? Why? Use the LiveCD. /dev/hda4 -

[gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-29 Thread Amphibian
emerge mldonkey gives me this: * If the compile with gui fails, and you have updated ocaml * recently, you may have forgotten that you need to run * /usr/portage/dev-lang/ocaml/files/ocaml-rebuild.sh * to learn which ebuilds you need to recompile * each time you update ocaml to a different

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