Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home grub root (hd0,4) grub setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe it's into the MBR and not into partition 1, correct? If

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:55 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: I would be interested in a copy of your xorg.conf - its always good to see how the other guy does it ... Mine is at http://wdk.dyndns.org/xorg.conf.html Here's Mine. (note that The Dual Head is commented out. I don't use dual Monitor all

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.11 compile failure

2005-09-07 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:50:33PM -0400 or thereabouts, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: I was doing a emerge -u world and gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.11 failed. the last few messages on screen are --- configure: *** These plugins will not be built: xvid checking asm/atomic.h

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 08:32 -0700 schrieb gentuxx: [snip] Well, as long as you're not trying to establish the VPN tunnel over IPX, you can tunnel whatever you want. So, once you've established a VPN connection with another box, or a concentrator, it shouldn't matter what type of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 21:40 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, OK, the target machine is now rebuilt. I decided since I had to rebuild both WinXP and Gentoo that I'd just put them on the same hard drive. The Gentoo install is complete right up to the point where I run grub and write it

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: (hd0,4) would be your / partition. But grub expects the partition containing the grub installation files, which are located on /boot so it should be (hd0,2) stupid me, of course it should be (hd0,1) as mentioned in my other post. If you're confused now, go with Heinz's

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:23:50 +0200, Heinz Sporn wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:41:36 +0200, Martin S wrote: The main problem I feel is that lots of apps are written for a specific WM rather than a generic non-WM/DE-dependent API. Which makes the entire desktop look like bits and pieces the cat draged home (run Gimp, Kontact and Scid under KDE and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Neil Bothwick wrote: Correct, and /dev/hda5 is (hd0,4) despite all the conflicting advice you've been given. All my boxes have /boot on hda5 and all use hd0,4 (well, except the iBook which uses that horrible yaboot thing, anyone who wants to start a grub vs. lilo flame war should be made to use

[gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi all! I was wondering if it is possible to introduce RAID 1 (i.e. mirroring of a spare partition to be precise) into a running system? Let's assume there is a disk A with partitions A1 and A2. A1 carries a fully functional Gentoo, A2 is a spare partition. Kernel is 2.6.12.5 with Raid stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 10:25 +0200 schrieb Christoph Gysin: Neil Bothwick wrote: Correct, and /dev/hda5 is (hd0,4) despite all the conflicting advice you've been given. All my boxes have /boot on hda5 and all use hd0,4 (well, except the iBook which uses that horrible yaboot thing,

[gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Qiangning Hong
Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

2005-09-07 Thread Harald Arnesen
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask. 1) I just installed Win XP 2) I'm going to install Gentoo 3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot Any reason I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 September 2005 09:15, Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 08:32 -0700 schrieb gentuxx: [snip] Well, as long as you're not trying to establish the VPN tunnel over IPX, you can tunnel whatever you want. So, once you've established a VPN connection with another box, or a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 11:39 +0200 schrieb Uwe Thiem: On 07 September 2005 09:15, Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 08:32 -0700 schrieb gentuxx: [snip] Well, as long as you're not trying to establish the VPN tunnel over IPX, you can tunnel whatever you want. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:15:51AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote does xine also have a speed problem? If yes: I don't have xine loaded. I've had problems building it in the past. mplayer has been trouble-free. could you please post xorg.conf/Xorg.0.log? Maybe they contain somethin

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-07 Thread cbeamer
Drew Tomlinson writes: I can't start xorg as /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist. I used to have this working with the same hardware and don't recall making any changes. What things must be loaded or what should I check to get my mouse detected? I'm using 2.6.11 kernel with udev. Nudges to an

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Heinz Sporn wrote: Question: may I run mkraid /dev/md0 on the fly now or will that somehow destroy the partition table on the entire disk A ? This wont't work since only data written to md0 gets mirrored. You can't mirror an existing partition. An mkraid will probably destroy partition A2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:58, Christoph Gysin wrote: First, let me recommend you mdadm. It's a replacement for the old raidtools. *Much* better IMHO. VERY much so. - Create a new RAID1 in degraded state from B2: # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 /dev/B2 missing -

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 13:58 +0200 schrieb Christoph Gysin: Heinz Sporn wrote: Question: may I run mkraid /dev/md0 on the fly now or will that somehow destroy the partition table on the entire disk A ? This wont't work since only data written to md0 gets mirrored. You can't mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 13:17 +0100 schrieb Mike Williams: On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:58, Christoph Gysin wrote: First, let me recommend you mdadm. It's a replacement for the old raidtools. *Much* better IMHO. VERY much so. - Create a new RAID1 in degraded state from B2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Andrey Bulgakov
Hello Qiangning, Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 1:12:47 PM, you wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? Screen is not applicable? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Martin S schreef: The main problem I feel is that lots of apps are written for a specific WM rather than a generic non-WM/DE-dependent API. Which makes the entire desktop look like bits and pieces the cat draged home (run Gimp, Kontact and Scid under KDE and you'll know what I mean).

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I think it might be important to point out here how Shorewall handles/uses these files. I don't use Shorewall, so I can't really shed light on it. But these config files are really only one side of the mirror. Actually these files are typically the only ones you'll need to edit...

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken build of grass

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/6/05, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package grass seems to be broken (emerge): Did you try searching bugs.gentoo.org? There are several bugs about this issue, including: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27915 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-07 Thread krzaq
On 9/7/05, Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 11:39 +0200 schrieb Uwe Thiem: On 07 September 2005 09:15, Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 08:32 -0700 schrieb gentuxx: [snip] Well, as long as you're not trying to establish the VPN tunnel

Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/7/05, Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? How about disown, a bash built-in? $ disown -h job number HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Routing problem

2005-09-07 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have connected two sites with openVPN, this works fine all traffic goes trought the tunnels, and i can ping machines from one site to another. But, i can't ping a machine from siteA from openVPN from siteB. to make it compleet bizar the machine on siteA can ping the openVPN on siteB. If i

[gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi List, can some explain this? Machine A+B have identical make.conf (expect in 3 USE-falgs), /etc/portage/*, /usr/portage, profile. Machine A: - FEATURES=buildpkg - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse world * builds new samba package * rebuilds some packages (kdebase, cups,

[gentoo-user] emerge dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 fails (wrong compiler called?)

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear list, emerge of dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 fails (for details see below). It seems to me as if the script is calling i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, where it should call i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (as for all the other packages). Do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mike Williams wrote: Quicker method :) create B1 and B2 umount /dev/A2 # mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/A2 /dev/B2 You CAN create a mirror of an existing partition, and NOT lose data. I know, I've done it. But how does it know which of the devices is the master? Does it simply copy the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-07 Thread Preston Hagar
On 9/6/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as someone already said emerge eixthen runupdate-eix (you need to be root to do that part)this creates some sort of very quick index to your ebuilds which is MUCHfaster to search than emerge -s. then just useeix searchterm...--Nick Rout [EMAIL

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 fails

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Sorry for the noise- problem is a known bug, I have solved it for myself. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-embeddedm=112066327800026w=2 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88777 #]From: Andreas K. Huettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] #]To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org #]Date: Wed, 7 Sep

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi waltdnes, on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote: Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money on a UPS. Not if all you want is to give your home system 5 minutes to shut down in a

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-07 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: krzaq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 September 2005 14:58 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question Right you are ;) The other endpoint is supposed to be WinXP box. I was wondering if there's some magical way to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and/or X optimization

2005-09-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:15:51AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote does xine also have a speed problem? If yes: I don't have xine loaded. I've had problems building it in the past. mplayer has been trouble-free. could

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/6/2005 10:00 PM Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:03:09PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: No rubbish. Not working. Thanks for your help. That means it is not an X problem, but a problem at the kernel (unlikely) or your hardware. You said it is part of a wireless

[gentoo-user] init script dependency problem

2005-09-07 Thread A. Khattri
Anyone else encountered this? * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Could not get dependency info for nscd! * Please run: * # /sbin/depscan.sh * to try and fix this. * Starting Name Service Cache Daemon ...

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/6/2005 9:53 PM W.Kenworthy wrote: use lsmod to get the module list. The modules are usbmouse and psmouse (not sure if you have said what mouse type you are using) . Note that you will need to revisit your kernel configuration if you dont have them. If they dont show in lsmod, try

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: I think it might be important to point out here how Shorewall handles/uses these files. I don't use Shorewall, so I can't really shed light on it. But these config files are really only one side of the mirror. Sorry, I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN

Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? man nohup? (+nice/renice?) Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, James escreveu: Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: I think it might be important to point out here how Shorewall handles/uses these files. I don't use Shorewall, so I can't really shed light on it. But these config files are really only one side of the mirror.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: snip (Booo) this is where the Gentooers mess their britches? The really sad thing in this whole thread, is nobody has even mentiond which (kernel) sources to use, what to disable/enable and why. Is this some sort of deep secret or is the gentoo community un_caring about

[gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people, I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. What are your suggestions? Any interesting sites

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Hi people, I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. I don't think this is realistic... you are trying to reduce the file

[gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-07 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hey all, I've been experiencing some random kernel crashes, and need a way of finding out what happened. I can't find any information in /var/log/lastlog or in /var/log/messages.*.bz2. Is there any way that I can monitor kernel messages during a crash and recover this information on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: I think it might be important to point out here how Shorewall handles/uses these files. I don't use Shorewall, so I can't really shed light on it. But these config files are really only one

[gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Hi I've been building a box for a specific purpose by emerge-ing and playing with various packages until I ended up with something that matched what I wanted. I'd now like to rebuild the box including just the packages that turned out to be relevant. Rather than do source installs again I

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: Is this 100MB a strict limit on the final file size (if you even can do it, it's going to be the size of a postage stamp, though possibly the most beautiful postage stamp ever seen)? Is all the data in the original file

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Antoine
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people, I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. What are your

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kerwin wrote: Is there any way that I can monitor kernel messages during a crash and recover this information on the next boot? You may snapshot dmesg's output in a timely manner, ala crontab. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman -

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread James
Rumen Yotov rumen_yotov at dir.bg writes: IMO OpenBSD initial goal was just that - to be very secure even in it's default install. Haven't seen such claim for Gentoo (plain). Huh? This release also gives provides two additional x86 LiveCD images, in combination with the minimal and

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-07 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kerwin wrote: Hey all, I've been experiencing some random kernel crashes, and need a way of finding out what happened. I can't find any information in /var/log/lastlog or in /var/log/messages.*.bz2. Is there any way that I can monitor kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: You may snapshot dmesg's output in a timely manner, ala crontab. Additionally, you my wish to play with the log_buf_len kernel parameter: log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/7/05, Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 10:25 +0200 schrieb Christoph Gysin: Neil Bothwick wrote: Correct, and /dev/hda5 is (hd0,4) despite all the conflicting advice you've been given. All my boxes have /boot on hda5 and all use hd0,4 (well,

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Is this 100MB a strict limit on the final file size (if you even can do it, it's going to be the size of a postage stamp, though possibly the most beautiful postage stamp ever seen)? Is all the data in the original file strictly

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread James
Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Good morning, this is the general users list. If you want the security experts, try gentoo-security For the discussion of security issues and fixes gentoo-hardened For a security hardened version of Gentoo You mean I have to go to this

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:33 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: Hi List, can some explain this? Machine A+B have identical make.conf (expect in 3 USE-falgs), /etc/portage/*, /usr/portage, profile. Machine A: - FEATURES=buildpkg - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse world *

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread James
gentuxx gentuxx at gmail.com writes: I think, perhaps, you misunderstood what I was saying. My understanding of shorewall was that it was a script (or series of scripts) that look for the previously specified config files and do cool stuff with the information contained in them. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
Machine B: - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world * merges binary samba * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild ) It would be nice if I understand why emerge won't remerge binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi Ian, 1) Does this seem like a sensible idea? Will it generally work? 2) Will --usepkg --getbinpkg use binary packages for dependencies? 3) Is the resultant Portage database equivalent to source emerges, especially in respect of future --updates, --newuse, etc? 4) Am I right to use a

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Wow, that is news to me... I've always just banged out iptables rules and then saved them... On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: I've been trying to build a simple firewall with a DMZ for a web server. Dude, trying to use iptables directly was your first mistake. Take a spin out and

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: That's about the best I can do for you without knowing more about the construction of the file, and what you're trying to do with it. Well, many people have assumed that it being a 5gb+ file, it was a dvd. Definitely not. It

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
That's all I'm going to say in the face of all this needlessly insulting behaviour. Holly, I have not nor do not intend to insult or constipate anyone. Sincere apologies. However, I find this very strange that published rulesets do not exist for iptables/netfilter, for simple and common

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: gentuxx gentuxx at gmail.com writes: I think, perhaps, you misunderstood what I was saying. My understanding of shorewall was that it was a script (or series of scripts) that look for the previously specified config files and do cool

[gentoo-user] dev-util/meld-1.0.0 won't run

2005-09-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
Meld doesn't work. Bugs.gentoo.org shows Zarro Boogs found for keyword meld. Before I submit a report, any ideas? locutus bin # emerge -a meld [ebuild R ] dev-util/meld-1.0.0 locutus bin # which meld /usr/bin/meld locutus bin # /usr/bin/meld Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Good morning, this is the general users list. If you want the security experts, try gentoo-security For the discussion of security issues and fixes gentoo-hardened For a security hardened version of Gentoo You

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: That's about the best I can do for you without knowing more about the construction of the file, and what you're trying to do with it. Well, many people have assumed that it being a 5gb+ file, it was a dvd. Definitely not. It

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: Direct from tv? Use avidemux or any video editing program to get rid of the commercials then. Not direct from tv. The people who record (with cameras) and then join the pieces provide this file. I can't do that. The producer

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Sascha Lucas wrote: Hi List, Machine B: - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world * merges binary samba * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild ) It would be nice if I understand

[gentoo-user] Errors while updating scrollkeeper

2005-09-07 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
checking which XML catalog to use... /etc/xml/catalog checking for DocBook XML DTD... configure: error: not found. Make sure you have the DocBook DTD installed and ensure that it is registered in /etc/xml/catalog. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!!

[gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Vernon A. Fort
With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm -qi basesystem. I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured. Any pointers? Vernon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?

2005-09-07 Thread Zac Medico
Sascha Lucas wrote: - -uD --newuse --usepkg world (binary if possible, else ebuild) does not work very well I've also had problems with --usepkg. When it gives me problems, as a workaround, I force emerge to do what I want with emerge --usepkgonly --nodeps --oneshot for each and every

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
Okay, I am no video expert, but On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:49:47PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Playing work/dd/DD_24_2005.MPG. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 9900.0 kbps (1237.5 kbyte/s)

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
If you do --pretend --verbose, does it show the changed USE flags for the packages? Not sure if 'world' does this, but you could try the individual packages that you expect to be rebuilt. IIRC, it appears in green (on a colour screen...) with a + and * next to the USE flag. emerge -uD

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
As posted on /. recently, On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:12:21PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Beyond that I don't pretend to know anything. The one thing that always confuses me is the difference between placing grub in the MBR and placing it in a partition. It is my understanding that the MBR is

[gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

2005-09-07 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I currently run php 5.0.4 as build thru portage For some reason, portage only has up to 4.4.0 now. Was php 5.x abandoned? What's going on? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_php looks like only 4.4.0-r1 is around now... what the heck? -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
As far as functionality and rule set development, I don't think there is that much of a difference between 2.4 and 2.6. I'm sure there are tons of cool things that go on under the hood that I don't really know about, but the implementation is basically the same. 2.6 kernels may offer newer

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Direct from tv? Use avidemux or any video editing program to get rid of the commercials then. Not direct from tv. The people who record (with cameras) and then join the pieces provide this file. I can't do that. The producer

[gentoo-user] Re: Errors while updating scrollkeeper

2005-09-07 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
problem solved On 9/7/05, Ivan Lucian Aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking which XML catalog to use... /etc/xml/catalog checking for DocBook XML DTD... configure: error: not found. Make sure you have the DocBook DTD installed and ensure that it is registered in /etc/xml/catalog. !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Bryan Whitehead
check out this webpage: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?back=Examples you can start the encode with crazy options to make it small... and then view it while encoding to see if the quality is good enough. On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Rar or Tar.gz or zip the file up and share it, or encode it down to an xvid (which will likely reduce the size at least somewhat, but anybody correct me if I'm wrong) and *then* rar/tar.gz/zip it up and share it. And how do I easily encode it down to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
I've also had problems with --usepkg. When it gives me problems, as a workaround, I force emerge to do what I want with emerge --usepkgonly --nodeps --oneshot for each and every binpkg that I want merged. If I think that this may have broken something then afterwards I use revdep-rebuild -p

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

2005-09-07 Thread kashani
Bryan Whitehead wrote: I currently run php 5.0.4 as build thru portage For some reason, portage only has up to 4.4.0 now. Was php 5.x abandoned? What's going on? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_php looks like only 4.4.0-r1 is around now... what the heck? It's part of

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Sascha Lucas wrote: emerge -1 --usepkg --pretend --verbose pkg_spec_from_equery then the change in USE-Flags are showen and my _correct_ binarys are used. There's probably a good reason for it being the way it is, but it doesn't sound as transparent as we might like. A further

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

2005-09-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bryan Whitehead wrote: I currently run php 5.0.4 as build thru portage For some reason, portage only has up to 4.4.0 now. Was php 5.x abandoned? What's going on? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_php looks like only 4.4.0-r1 is around now... what the heck?

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Vernon A. Fort wrote: With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm -qi basesystem. I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured. Any pointers? Hi Possibly a little empirical, but on things like the mod

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
emerge -1 --usepkg --pretend --verbose pkg_spec_from_equery then the change in USE-Flags are showen and my _correct_ binarys are used. There's probably a good reason for it being the way it is, but it doesn't sound as transparent as we might like. yes may be... if so, I would like to know

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: I know iptables/netfilter. I've worked through all of the online documentation, I've read iptables books, I've implemented firewalls using just iptables. got any scripts/ files to share? Knowing all of that information, I still suggest using a

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/meld-1.0.0 won't run

2005-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:00:55 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Meld doesn't work. Bugs.gentoo.org shows Zarro Boogs found for keyword meld. Before I submit a report, any ideas? Search for ALL meld, otherwise closed bugs are excluded from the search. -- Neil Bothwick How do I set my laser printer

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:30:34 -0300 (ART), Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Rar or Tar.gz or zip the file up and share it, or encode it down to an xvid (which will likely reduce the size at least somewhat, but anybody correct me if I'm wrong) and *then* rar/tar.gz/zip it up and share it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:36:59 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm -qi basesystem. I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured. Any pointers? head /var/log/emerge.log

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
Hi On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:30:34PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Rar or Tar.gz or zip the file up and share it, or encode it down to an xvid (which will likely reduce the size at least somewhat, but anybody correct me if I'm wrong) and

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But you still haven't said why the final output file has to be so small. To be shared over bittorrent :P U people share full DVD- size files over BT all the time. If it's an issue of not wanting to seed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?

2005-09-07 Thread Zac Medico
Sascha Lucas wrote: I've also had problems with --usepkg. When it gives me problems, as a workaround, I force emerge to do what I want with emerge --usepkgonly --nodeps --oneshot for each and every binpkg that I want merged. If I think that this may have broken something then afterwards I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-07 Thread William Kenworthy
If they worked previously, they are probably compiled into the kernel. I find this is a mistake unless you have a specific reason for doing so - being able to remove/add modules helps track down weird problems like this, and some things just work best as a module. I take it that it is a usb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: BIIIG SNIP A beautiful woman once asked why she married the mechanic out of all the numerous suitors beckoning to her. She replied because he torn it up on the first night, and has

[gentoo-user] Error when emerging Gnome

2005-09-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
While executing an emerge gnome I get the following error: Unpacking apmd_3.2.1-4.diff.gz to /var/tmp/portage/apmd-3.2.1_p4/work * Applying apmd_3.2.1-4.diff ... [ ok ] Source unpacked. libtool --quiet --mode=compile gcc -c -O -g -Wall -pipe -I.

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Nick Rout
There is no meta-info AFAIK in a binary .tar.gz, so portage does NOT know what CFLAGS, or USE flags it is built with. Go ahead, use quickpkg to make a binary tarball of any package on your system, then look tat the tarball. There is nothing to indicate USE or CFLAGS. If you want to install

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