Re: [gentoo-user] Where has Aqua Datastudio gone?

2006-02-20 Thread Max Lorenz
Hi Wolfgang, On 2/20/06, Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing DB centered JAVA apps, so I tried out Aqua Datastudio (a DB frontent written in pure JAVA), and was rather satisfied w/ it. BUT now the ebuild for that app (dev-db/aqua-data-studio) has gone, w/o a trace.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-20 Thread Rob Oravec
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:38 -0800, Grant wrote: Ok, this must be a package version issue right? Which packages should I be examining? I'm thinking wireless-tools. Anything else? What file should I look at on the Knoppix disc to find out what version it's running so I can match it on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-20 Thread joaoemanuel1981
Bo Andresen wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! Total size of

[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade fails

2006-02-20 Thread Marco Calviani
As of now, nothings has changed, apart from the fact that also other people have trouble in emerging udev I hope it will be solved soon. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

2006-02-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to /usr/local/mailman. IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to place it to /opt or

[gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Smith
just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/20/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think im confusing myself here. can you partition a raid device aka /dev/md0? Yes. You can either use mdadm to create a partitionable raid device, or use LVM/EVMS (which would be my recommendation) to create logical volumes on the array. Just

[gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document so you can run it under Windows without having

[gentoo-user] open-Xchange

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody in the know here what is going on this openXchange? It has been masked since September last year. Other distribution ship it. Did the Gentoo developers drop out or what? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Sybase ASE 15.0

2006-02-20 Thread Fabiano Caixeta Duarte
Hi everybody! Does anyone happen to have this SGBD installed and working? As a pre-requisite I installed sun-jre-bin 1.5.0.06 What else is necessary? Where can I find some docs about it? Thanks in advance! Fabiano -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 February 2006 09:57, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] raid/partition question': just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
The 'file' command and mime types are different things. On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps

[gentoo-user] coreutils downgrade problem

2006-02-20 Thread Marko Kocić
I have this problem couple of times. emerge says that I should downgrade coreutils: citadela ~ # emerge -pvuD system [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.93 [5.94] USE=nls -acl -build -static 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/make-3.80-r4 [3.80-r3] USE=nls -build -static 0 kB But when I try emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AUTOTOOLS

2006-02-20 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Sorry but my english got worst (you know, 'if you don't use it, you lose it'). I'll start again and maybe you'll understand me better: My problem is that I've been downloading some QT apps (KDE apps) to know how autotools code is written (I read the manual, but I need some

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. What is better to do with LVM2 after the RAID is created. I am using EVMS also. 1. Make all the

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you very much. I'll need to go back and reread this and digest it some more. I hadn't thought of doing multiple RAID types on the drives. I have two and did RAID1 for /boot and was going to RAID1 the rest. However, I really want RAID0 for speed and capacity on some file systems. The

[gentoo-user] Autotools

2006-02-20 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, Since my question about Autotools was pretty bad explained, I'll sum up it into a question: I'm searching for a manual (not autotools manual from gnu, because I had already read it and it is not enough) that explains how to use autotools with QT apps (METASOURCES = AUTO), and so

Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?

2006-02-20 Thread Manuel A. McLure
On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:09 pm, maxim wexler wrote: This looks like an elaborate form of echo -e This text should appear on the printer\f /dev/lp0 Which works fine. Also, from apsfilter I was able to print a test page. So the hardware seems to be OK. OK, then. Now, if I remember

[gentoo-user] Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice seg faults

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Philp
My system has just gone wonky - I am running ~AMD64 and today I can't run Firefox, Thunderbird or OpenOffice. I get the following errors: kryton kevin # thunderbird-bin No running windows found 1553: Î(tU 1553: Î(tU/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 1553 Segmentation fault

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the combined idea of hal, dbus, udev and auto mounting that you don't need entries in fstab? Yes, you're right. You don't need to manually add entries to fstab. udev/hal

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-20 Thread Manuel A. McLure
On Monday 20 February 2006 02:57 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I still get the message no support for HAL on this system in the peripherals storage media setup. A stupid question - do you have the 'hal' USE flag set in make.conf? -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org

Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:04 -0800, Manuel A. McLure wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 02:57 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I still get the message no support for HAL on this system in the peripherals storage media setup. A stupid question - do you have the 'hal' USE flag set in make.conf? yep:

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
I thought I had this one sorted, but apparently not! Essentially, I want konsole to always appear in the bottom right of the screen. It appears the -geometry option isn't quite implemented properly, so a user suggested to use the special window settings to remember the position of konsole. This

[gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff
Hey all. I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device once connected, hence I can just enter hostnames and ping or PuTTY with no

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. 2. select special window settings from window advanced menu. 3. set position to remember, and the coords should be already there. 4. open and close konsole as many times as you want and

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:11 +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. 2. select special window settings from window advanced menu. 3. set position to remember, and the coords should be already

[gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
Since my recent upgrade of glibc from glibc-2.3.6-r2 (Jan 18) to glibc-2.3.6-r3 (Feb 21) I'm getting this error when starting emacs and doing various other things: etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' according to equery /etc/host.conf belongs to glibc. I've rebooted, but the

[gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-20 Thread krgn
hi I have a question concerning my modular X installation. I did this according to the gentoo guide here http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml. now, I have synced again, and a lot of blocks are coming up and I am not sure really how to solve this. These are the blocks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?

2006-02-20 Thread John Jolet
On 2/20/06 6:04 PM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device once

[gentoo-user] [OT] OS X admin book

2006-02-20 Thread John King
Can anyone recommend a book for administering OS X tiger. I am looking for something that focuses on securing and configuring the OS rather than using iChat. Cheers, John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: odd /dev/null beharvior

2006-02-20 Thread James
Christopher Cowart ccowart at rescomp.berkeley.edu writes: The easiest way to fix this problem permanently is to $ sudo rm /etc/udev/{permissions,rules}.d/50-* $ sudo emerge -av udev This will blow away the default udev conf files that are causing you problems, then re-emerge udev. The

[gentoo-user] Re: odd /dev/null beharvior

2006-02-20 Thread James
Christopher Cowart ccowart at rescomp.berkeley.edu writes: The easiest way to fix this problem permanently is to $ sudo rm /etc/udev/{permissions,rules}.d/50-* $ sudo emerge -av udev This will blow away the default udev conf files that are causing you problems, then re-emerge udev. The

[gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-20 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble trying to save alsamixer settings. I had tried every little thing I know and could make it to work, if I reboot my system alsamixer settings go all to mute :( Anyone have a clue about it ? -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS [SOLVED]

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff
Ok, after skimming through Gentoo docs, and reading people's comments on this thread, I've once again tracked down the culprit. All I did, so that CUPS would show me all the available drivers in the web interface, is add the following flags to my make.conf: cups ppds cups - Add support for CUPS

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-20 Thread David Mallwitz
On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, Since I have started a project that needs to be redistributed (it'll be GPL) I've started to deeply read Autoconf and Automake manuals. Well, I had read some of FHS too, to know what I should do and what I should not do

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a Open with... option in the

[gentoo-user] Portage mirroring questions

2006-02-20 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hello Gentoo users, I have had this problem for a while and never ended up finding an answer to it, wondering if anyone has a similar situation and if so what have they done about it to make their lives easier. I run a heap of web servers and some of them are mirrors of others (backup