[gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. What are othe posibilities ? TIa Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Christian Affolter
Hi, I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. What are othe posibilities ? Have a look at mail-mta/ssmtp or mail-mta/nbsmtp

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this time i just looked at pine, but i don't thik thats possible. What are othe

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as body text, at this time i just looked at

[gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Michal Kurgan
Hello all Gentooists! I want to know if it's possible to configure network in that way that if dhcp fails it will use a static IP, written by me in config file. I only want that service will start succesfully if dhcp server is dead, so dependent services will start too (like Apache), because i

[gentoo-user] Convert reiserfs to ext3

2005-05-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Group, Is there a way to convert reiserfs to ext3 without data loss (or having to move data)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: equery which gives wrong version?

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 18:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Python :: (noun) :: A computer programing language that has adopted (swallowed!) every programming construct from every other known programming language. (And I have red a list somewhere listing the multiplicity of languages from

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Tim Igoe
Look in the /etc/conf.d/net.example file (assuming your using a more recent baselayout) - theres a fallback address (fallback_eth0 iirc) to which you can set an IP or say 'apipa' to get an IP in the 169 range like Windows does when it can't find one. HTH -- Tim Igoe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Rowley
Greetings fellow Gentoo users :) I wonder if anyone could be of assistance. I am desperately trying to get Gentoo playing nicely with my IBM ThinkPad T40, but I am having a /serious/ problem that could easily render my laptop inoperable if I continue to use it. Basically my CPU fan doesn't

[gentoo-user] Laptop + T40

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Rowley
My apologies, I just discovered the gentoo-laptop mailing list. I will post there too, but my question remains open here if anyone has any assistance they can offer :) Thanks -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Monday 02 of May 2005 11:58, Tim Igoe wrote: Look in the /etc/conf.d/net.example file (assuming your using a more recent baselayout) - theres a fallback address (fallback_eth0 iirc) to which you can set an IP or say 'apipa' to get an IP in the 169 range like Windows does when it can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Convert reiserfs to ext3

2005-05-02 Thread slarti
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:51:37AM -0500, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group, Is there a way to convert reiserfs to ext3 without data loss (or having to move data)? I know of sys-fs/convertfs. Dunno if it works -- make backups, expect the worst. Tom -- Tom Martin,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Cliff Rowley wrote: Greetings fellow Gentoo users :) I wonder if anyone could be of assistance. I am desperately trying to get Gentoo playing nicely with my IBM ThinkPad T40, but I am having a /serious/ problem that could easily render my laptop inoperable if I continue to use it. Basically

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Graham Murray
Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but amd64 is itself an extension of the x86 architecture, isn't that the case? amd64 chips run x86 code, i'm sure. do they not support those extensions? I understand that for some reason the USE flags are irrelevent here, but I don't understand why

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I have it set up with / and /boot as regular partitions and I'll let EVMS handle the rest. From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 02:37:37 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / Am Montag, 2. Mai 2005 04:41

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
In EVMS a compatible volume is one which doesn't have the EVMS metadata on it. From what I've seen I'll simply make / and /boot compatible, standard volumes and then let EVMS handle the rest. From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 12:08:46 EDT To:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 5/2/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Vexler wrote: I think that the claim of Windows unable to boot from logical partition is half true. As I have written, I did managed to install and boot windows from a logical partition but the windows boot loader (ntldr) had to be on a

[gentoo-user] problems booting from sata raid

2005-05-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi everybody, i'm a new gentoo user and i encountered following problem: my computer is amd64 on abit ax8 mobo, installation started at stage2. i put root on mirrored sata (raid1) disks. kernel compiled ok, i performed all steps described in the installation guide with the modifications

Re: [gentoo-user] Net config

2005-05-02 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Monday 02 of May 2005 13:10, Tim Igoe wrote: I'm using baselayout 1.11.9-r1 currently on my server (not at my workstation so I use 1.9.4-r6, but it's latest stable, also i use 2005.0 default linux profile. can't find out what thats on). But the server has the relevant example file -

[gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt rta: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script, from different from addresses and can use text files as

Re: [gentoo-user] script to recursively unmask a package

2005-05-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jason Cooper wrote: Integrate as in 'emerge --recursive-unmask package-name' or integrate as in 'app-portage/unmask'? in portage, not in app-portage. Never mind, it's not that I can't live without it. It would merely be a little helper for unmasking packages. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread A. R.
Hi, I do not know if this can be of any help at all, but I am currently running Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p without any problems. I think that you could try to re-compile the kernel with some different combination of the ACPI options enabled. I am using kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 and I am not

[gentoo-user] can't set root passwd

2005-05-02 Thread Jaap van Geffen
I did a stage1-install,gentoo 2005.0 on a amd 64. Everything seemed to be allright. Except that I cannot login as root after booting the new gentoo. I tried it with passwd after chrooting to my root-partition from the installationcd.Allso I tried to blank out the root-entry from /etc/shadow to

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread LostSon
On Monday 02 May 2005 11:30, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Drugowitsch wrote: Hi everyone, As I couldn't find a bug report at neither gentoo.org nor kde.org, I'm asking here if someone's got the same problem and managed to resolve it.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Calvin Spealman
So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if otherwise. OK, now I get it. The way it had been said, I just got the impression there was something different going on. Thanks for clearing up the confusion.On 5/2/05, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Spealman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:08, Botykai Zsolt wrote: Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt írta: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script,

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hübner
Keziah W wrote: Maybe this will help? http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-HOWTO Interesting, I will read. Thank you! Jan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Starting jabberd 2.0s8

2005-05-02 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # jabberd -D I emerged jabberd 2.0s8 and I've done the basic configuration to use a MySQL database that I've created, I'v tried starting it, but it didn't work, this are the messages I get when I run it on debugging mode: JBRD: debug on JBRD:

[gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Bradley Serbu
Has anyone used this? - Brad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hbner
I thought a bit about it and came to the conclusion that doing the install just like normal is the way to go, all in a single dir somewhere. For CFLAGS i will go with march=i686 and mtune=athlon-tbird, think that will keep compatibility with my home setup and will also optimize for remote arch.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
BOFH? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. Scott Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 01:15 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: emerge sys-dev/automake-1.7 Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in sys-dev/automake-1.7 dependencies. !!! Specific key requires an operator

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Yi Ding
I wouldn't recommend rebuilding your system with it. Apparently glibc needs to release a new version 2.3.6 to be compatible. Of course, since it's stricter than previous GCCs, it's probably a good idea to try compiling any software you write with it to make sure that it doesn't break in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking session doesn't activate screensaver (kde 3.4.0)

2005-05-02 Thread Jan Hübner
Jan Drugowitsch wrote: Do you have xscreensaver installed? yes, but it doesn't seem to show up in the kde settings. Jan There was a bug once, something with the suid bit of xscreensaver or some other permission thing.. Will try to find the info [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.0

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Walker
Bradley Serbu wrote: Has anyone used this? Yes. A lot of stuff simply will not compile with it. The rest tend to produce large and slow executables. I wouldn't use it for anything yet. 3.4.x is the best to date. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Walker
Calvin Spealman wrote: So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if otherwise. No. There is no detection. Just assumption that AMD65 will support certain extensions. And please turn of HTML for posts in mailing lists. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max

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

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Because a lot of Linux users use a text-only mail package, and the html stuff makes it *hard* to read. (I use graphical...) --Because this is what thy're used to /or they have limited memory -AND/OR- becase this is the Safe! way to do email. -- -- (Just look at all those *loverly* security

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

2005-05-02 Thread David Morgan
On 15:45 Mon 02 May , Dave Nebinger wrote: I know people say it, but why? It's an extreme waste and provides no value. We're here to post questions and responses, not to create pretty pictures with colored fonts, etc. Not to mention the fact that not everyone is using a client that

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Cox
On Sunday 01 May 2005 03:06 pm, Maxim Vexler wrote: oops, sorry my mistake. windows (fat32) is on hda6. hda5 is ext3 which is mapped as /home. The grub syntax is correct, sorry for the confusion. I tried that setup once and never could get it working on an extended partition. -- Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Is this on the same port on the same computer? I ask because I

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

2005-05-02 Thread kashani
Calvin Spealman wrote: I know people say it, but why? On 5/2/05, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And please turn of HTML for posts in mailing lists. Be lucky, Neil Because it tends to look like crap in any other mail client other than the one it was composed in. Or any other resolution. Or

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

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 + Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog That'd be the one without a spell checker? :-) Frankly I think your approach is arrogant. Mail is a text medium, if you want to do html, make a web page. As the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Crosscompiling

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
whatever you do in the chroot will not affect your system outside the chroot (except where you have remounted stuff like /usr/portage and /proc) therefore you can set CFLAGS to whatever you like inside the chroot, and compile for athlon in there, leaving your P4 setup intact on your base system.

(OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: BOFH? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. -- Scott Taylor - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOFH Excuse #253: We've run out of licenses *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there is some documentation

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin - the memory black hole

2005-05-02 Thread Andreas Karlsson
Gooday all, I have a little problem with Spamassassin. It is eating all my memory. I am useing SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 running on Perl version 5.8.5. It has been running quite fine for some time now, till today. I noticed my harddrive started swapping extremly. From top: 1785 root 18

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

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to, asking people to turn it off wont work much, better to make a better argument and ask the developers to dist it without html as default. Remember that

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin - the memory black hole

2005-05-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Yes, that is almost 3 gig swap used (it is maxed out). And I thought that one gig of RAM would be enough... Does anyone have a clue? :O I would ask the folks on the SpamAssassin-users mailing list, actually. The developers live there and they are usually very helpful. :) --

RESOLVED---Re: [gentoo-user] cx88xx error

2005-05-02 Thread Al Bayrouni
Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I compiled the kernel-2.6.11-r6 with videoforlinux support and conexant 2388xx support. When I modprobe cx88xx I have this error: FATAL: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or

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

2005-05-02 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. I dunno, next we'll be told to stop using HTML on our sites And I'd prefer if you

[gentoo-user] xawtv compilation error

2005-05-02 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello, I cannot emerge xawtv. The output is: console/fs.o(.text+0x587): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSOpenServer' console/fs.o(.text+0x5a4): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSServerName' console/fs.o(.text+0x5de): In function `fs_connect': : undefined

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 emerge error

2005-05-02 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, when I try to emerge xorg-x11, I have the following output: http://maerlyn.uw.hu/xorg.log I already tryed other use flags, but nothing changed. Has anyone met something like this before? Maerlyn - -- Maerlyn maerlyn[AT]citromail[DOT]hu

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

2005-05-02 Thread kashani
Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. I dunno, next we'll be told to stop using HTML on our sites

[gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo

2005-05-02 Thread michael
Years ago, I had a heck of a time finding a KVM switch that wouldn't cause my mouse to go crazy. It's time to get a new KVM switch, one that can support USB mice (but sadly still a PS/2 keyboard). Does anyone have any recommendations, for or against, KVM switches that play well with gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 5/2/05, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So its automatic detection of the features if possible, but USE flags if otherwise. No. There is no detection. Just assumption that AMD65 will support certain extensions. In other words, -march=athlon64 implies those flags. -- Bruno

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

2005-05-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. Just to prove it in Thunderbird: Edit=Account

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

2005-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 02 May 2005 23:16:34 + Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, I cannot understand *why* you need to send html mail in order to receive it? Thats a non-sequitur. A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I

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

2005-05-02 Thread Travis Rousseau
On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Humm but when you need HTML email cause you get them, A little bit of a pain to disable them. Also working 19-20 hour days means I can do without (IMHO) needless things like turning off a function that I use. I dunno, next we'll be told to

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I use BlackBox products on various OSs - they work fine. I have a ServSwitch Multi now on Gentoo. I've used Belkin for FC3 and Windows XP and don't like them as they sometimes loose the mouse and you have to power them and the systems back on and off - but they are cheap. Over the years

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

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Welcome back - wondered where you were! Well said - and who wants to receive a virus breeding ground in the mail G - no HTML! On Tue, 3 May 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my

[gentoo-user] Silly CFLAGS - -O9 doesn't make your wang grow longer

2005-05-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hey folks, We're starting to see a lot of bugs over the last couple of months, directly or indirectly, caused by stupid use of CFLAGS and/or MAKEOPTS=-j2000 (or similar. ;) Ladies and Gentlemen, have a gander of bug 74072[1], bug 91167[2] and bug 90973[3] for a few prime examples. Now,

[gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...?

2005-05-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey ho, all-- This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know

[gentoo-user] Mandrake Display Manager

2005-05-02 Thread Ian K
Hi everyone I saw a screenshot of MDM http://pcc-services.com/distcomp/images/mandrake_login.jpeg and I would like to try it out on my computer, but because gentoo mandrake I DONT want to goto Mandrake. Is the source for MDM seperate, if so, do you know where I could download it? Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...?

2005-05-02 Thread James Hiscock
This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know what I

Re: [gentoo-user] xawtv compilation error

2005-05-02 Thread Daniel Rder
Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello, I cannot emerge xawtv. The output is: console/fs.o(.text+0x587): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSOpenServer' console/fs.o(.text+0x5a4): In function `fs_connect': : undefined reference to `FSServerName' console/fs.o(.text+0x5de): In

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Watson
did you try to use only emerge automake Hi - Yes I did. Afterwards # ls /usr/bin/automak* /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.9 If I then rerun # emerge gtk+ I get the same error. It seems I must have automake-1.7 to continue. I'm really stuck at the moment so any help would be really

[gentoo-user] Can't shrink files on myth TV

2005-05-02 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
Anyone knows how to fix this? regards, Pubudu. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list