Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread z3rosix
Hello, On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:55:56 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: I was going to pipe in about that Neil, but ya beat me to it. I like to shorten it and just type emerge -DNavu world , though. The short options make for easier typing, the long ones for easier understanding. So I use the short options at

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:57:31 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot

[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-26 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Frank, You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc. I would also recommend following the other

Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:53:30 -0500 Chris Cox wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 15:13, Eric Waguespack wrote: apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was curious, is there an unattended installation project for Gentoo? It would help with mass deployments... I was

[gentoo-user] Libxdiff ebuild

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Crute
Does anyone happen to have an ebuild for libxdiff (so I can build the xdiff extension for php)? I can write one if need be but wanted to check here first. There isn't one in either portage or bugzilla as far as I can tell. Thanks! -MIke-- Michael E. CruteSoftware

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:12 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Shields
Sounds to me like you don't have logrotate installed or the install is corrupt. If emerge --search ^logrotate$ shows it's installed, I would re-emerge it.On 10/25/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stuckedI was

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread Tomas Jankovic
Hi Allan, use logrotate example - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_cron#Logrotate Tomas 2005/10/25, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. I'd suggest trying moto4lin -- it's pretty slick. Not too sure about the error messages you're getting, though,

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-26 Thread 赵光
yes, I start run|winipcfg and the ip of win98 is 10.0.2.15 and the gateway is 10.0.2.2 but my ip is 192.168.1.102 and gateway is 192.168.1.1 did it right?2005/10/26, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In windows did you enable the network functions?check the IP address withstart|run|winipcfg(thats in

[gentoo-user] USB interface

2005-10-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
I've been looking at the 'moto4lin' ebuild on my 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 system, and it seems to be looking for a file '/dev/usb/acm/0' which does not seem to exist on my system: 1.penemunde:mobile/moto4lin-0.3/moto_ui ls -lR /dev/usb /dev/usb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:44 +, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games,

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
emerge logrotateit'll let you safely rotate various log files. On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:12, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or

[gentoo-user] help

2005-10-26 Thread Tamer Higazi

[gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

2005-10-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something different with net.ath0, and I don't understand how to create an

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Fish
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. For

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-26 Thread Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
Hi list, I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem, that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2 hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and such problem never happened with OpenOffice 1.x The problem happens on two gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

2005-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2005 09:28 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:12:34 +0800 赵光 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, I start run|winipcfg and the ip of win98 is 10.0.2.15 http://10.0.2.15 and the gateway is 10.0.2.2 http://10.0.2.2 but my ip is 192.168.1.102 http://192.168.1.102 and gateway is 192.168.1.1http://192.168.1.1 did it right?

[gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 Binary package, nothing to compile, no way to fix broken binaries. =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05 Binary package. =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix any

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Jason Ayres
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376 I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest,

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 Do not change tarballs. Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild in your overlay, add the patch to it with

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:27:49 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but

Re: [gentoo-user] USB interface

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
Anyone know if the missing file is supposed to exist, or is this a relic from an earlier instance of the USB driver software? It's actually one of the USB modules in the kernel that produces it... Device Drivers - USB Support - USB Modem (CDC ACM) Support -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

2005-10-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi, Thanks - I did home in on that one as it seems to be the only one that explicitly claims to support my model phone. I tried the other options first as moto4lin was masked. As per my recent post, the problem I am having seems to be a mismatch in the USB system on my gentoo and what moto4lin

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:44, Holly Bostick wrote: It's worth considering creating such a setting yourself, adding the directories of any additional -bin files you may use (firefox, thunderbird, etc). I should read man pages more often, excellent tip Holly! -- Mike Williams --

[gentoo-user] Xfce 4.2.2 taskbar button caption oddity

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I made some changes to my xfce-4.2.2 configuration. Everything seemed fine until a few days later (this morning) when I rebooted. Now the taskbar button captions overflow onto the next button (or even farther) if they don't fit, instead of

[gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used with gentoo :)) --

[gentoo-user] esp ghostscript?

2005-10-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I am using cups and later I installed ghostscript-afpl. And later, I bought a new printer and found later it's not working. By other people's suggestion, it seems that's because I should be using ghostscript-esp but I don't find this package on gentoo! I don't know why qpkg -f -I told me

[gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem

2005-10-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez schreef: Hello everybuddy: I've just installed beagle and it just keeps telling me that I don't have inotify in my kernel but /dev/inotify it's there and /proc/config.gz says inotify is there... any hint? Thanks in advance Beagle requires a very specific version

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread James
Tom Eastman tom at cs.otago.ac.nz writes: So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the

[gentoo-user] Re: unattended installation

2005-10-26 Thread James
Eric Waguespack ewaguespack at gmail.com writes: would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to reinvent the wheel. You may find some useful ideas and information here:

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:39, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376   I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 Do not change tarballs. Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:54, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and

[gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs where I find out how to make a video dvd but still not clear what cmdline is required for data dvd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with... Maybe you should take a look at the man page? There is a nice EXAMPLE section... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about

[gentoo-user] Re: laptop

2005-10-26 Thread James
John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:04, James wrote: John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Fish
Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix any broken binaries you will have to upgrade. Also, KDE is (or at least was) slotted, so if you have already

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Fish
Budd, Tracy wrote: Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting an X windows error. ... Screens found but none have a usable configuration. I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe prior to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. R.
Hi, I run Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p. This is a very nice laptop and very Linux-friendly. HTH, - AR On 10/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll beputting gentoo on it.Does anyone have a recommendation for a very

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-26 Thread kashani
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Frank, You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc. I would

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used

[gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Shaw
Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to startx as root, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

2005-10-26 Thread j5483
Your problem is related to your mouse. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure a mouse (usually /dev/psaux) is set. Also make sure your regular user can access it. The easiest way to test that is as your user run cat /dev/what ever your mouse is then move the mouse around. You should see stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Fish
Michael Shaw wrote: Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But this is not the same as the SCSI emulation used for IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

2005-10-26 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:26:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Michael Thinkpads: my experience was good for linux. I had an X20, which

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-26 Thread b.n.
Michael Crute wrote: On 10/26/05, *Tamer Higazi* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With what? Probably he vanished before having time to tell us what was putting him in danger. Poor Mr.Higazi. We will miss him. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-26 Thread Antoine
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer to send me a PS or PDF document.

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-26 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and suchproblem never happened with

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:04:13 +0200 Antoine wrote: So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. Now welcome for suggestions. I think the key to this whole story is the second to last line above. for typical office workers says it all. I think you are quite

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bruno Lustosa wrote:On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like:

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
Do you have it working? Yes. And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need to do? As I said in my reply to your other post, make sure you have USB Modem

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
OK, So what is wrong with this patch: _ --- /kde-base/korganizer/komonthview.cpp #474283:474284  @ -960,7 +960,7  @       }    } else if ( event ) {        for ( QDateTime _date = date; -            _date event-dtEnd(); _date =

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
051026 Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. -- useful advice snipped after archiving -- see growisofs man page 2

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will result in disk read and

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-26 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 10/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in my experience samba works better for that sort of thing anyway. If a server serving an nfs share goes down, all the computers with that share mounted will go nuts, spending 100% cpu trying to get the share back. Samba seems to fail more

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: OK, So what is wrong with this patch: What is the error message? :) What I normally do is: unpack the affected tarball, copy the affected files to .orig versions, make the necessary changes, create a patch from above the topdir with 'diff -u' between the orig

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Fish
Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to

Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch

2005-10-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:27, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: OK, So what is wrong with this patch: What is the error message? :) What I normally do is: unpack the affected tarball, copy the affected files to .orig versions, make the necessary changes, create

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? Yes it is. 1X on a CD is 172KB/s, 1X

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:20:39 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no drivers for the built in wireless. Im guessing this is with Airport Extreme rather than plain ole Airport? (I have a friend running Debian on his iBook quitw

Re: [gentoo-user] advice for an ipod-like device?

2005-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +, b.n. wrote: Hello, I'd like to have an Ipod-like mp3 player, something with at least 4-8 Gbyte of storage. To avoid any compatibility issue, I'd like something that works just like most USB-pen mp3 players (mine included): I stick it in my PC, I

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11, why hath thou forsaken my 2nd screen?

2005-10-26 Thread Phill MV
In a haste to get the latest gnome-light packages, I ran ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -Duva world without thinking about the consequences and ended up running an 'unmasked' system. Now, this is okay. I'll just wait till said packages go into the stable depository or downgrade or something. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: Do you have it working? Yes. That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Ok,

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2 simple follow-up questions (I'm thinking of getting a DVD drive): (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? Its in /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
051026 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? Yes it is. 1X

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Works fine on IBM X31 and T42. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread fire-eyes
Note: mkisofs (in cdrtools) is what you create the ISO with, growisofs is what you use to write the iso to DVD with. Yeah, I think growisofs is a confusing name, too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:51 pm, James wrote: So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' ...I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $

[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. Just make an ISO 9660-compatible image with whatever data you want (in fact, neither a DVD nor CD needs to contain a ISO 9660 file system at all). I usually do something very similar to: Well that

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:57 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:20:40 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Seems to me, very small 'n' light is mutually exclusive with grand or under. Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? Works for me, but you'll need a USB

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-26 Thread Stroller
On Oct 27, 2005, at 12:01 am, Elliott Clark wrote: I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some kind of gentoo community run mx

[gentoo-user] Adsl, rp-ppoe and new IP assignment

2005-10-26 Thread Sean Lester
Title: Message Greetings to the group, First, if this is not the first time you've seen this I apologize. I lost all of my last 24hrs of email. And, I didn't see this on the reflectors. So,I appreciate your patience - thank you. I have been running pppoe by roaring penguin for a couple

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
Stroller wrote: Set relayhost on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate do SSL but it's easily done. Stroller. Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' which sounds like it works in a

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
James wrote: YES it exist, but, some of the 'old timers' on the list are likely to fall into deep laughter The original *Mail* tool. Note not mail but 'Mail' for example: Mail -s subject $USER body-file body-file to all usernames in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James wrote: Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD. I was suprised to find lspci on the latest LiveCDs so I guess this is improving all the time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Yes, Thinkpads run well with Linux (there is a web site and mailing list dedicated to Linux on TP).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
Hey there, you could try postix: 1. use it's sendmail binary so you don't have a daemon ruuning 2. take a look here about how to configure postfix to defer delivery: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#dialup 3. write a short script, call it, say, dumpmail, called with dumpmail ispname dumpmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
I get around this problem by running a zebedee tunnel on the laptop to my home server using imap: the tunnel surfaces inside my home LAN which is heavily firewalled, but unauthenticated internally. Avoids a whole lot of issues running public servers, as well as simplifying laptop setup. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? Razr V3 - it's a pretty sweet phone. ;) You were right - my initail problem was having omitted the cdc_acm driver from my kernel config. Excellent. I like it when I'm right - it happens so infrequently... :) cdc_acm

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that

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