Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?

2006-02-21 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 14:36, Manuel A. McLure wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:47 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: after modprobe lp lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). after cat textfile... lp0: ECP mode Some googling brought up this:

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-21 Thread Nagatoro
krgn wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 02:14 schrieb ext krgn: 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

[gentoo-user] ufs

2006-02-21 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
Hi! I have a Solaris disk with Solari's ufs FS. I found ufs support in my kernel, but I'm not sure if it's the same as Solari's one (I'm not sure if solaris uses standards ufs fs). does anyone mounted a solaris ufs disk using ufs kernel's support? Regards, -- Arnau Bria ¿Vienes a mi casa, el

[gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Anyone knows?? A google search found interesting details on cvsup. (there's even the purported 50x increase in speed on a 56K link)http://www.cvsup.org/cvsup6.html Then I also found a link in one of GWM (Gentoo Weeky News all the way back in 2002 -

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-21 Thread Julien Cabillot
On 2/21/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] * Local changes will be preserved if you want them to, just like anoncvs. Anyone who's ever had their package.mask file overwritten by an emerge rsync will appreciate this feature. [SNIP] If you don't want loose

Re: [gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-21 Thread Mattias Merilai
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:07, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync': Anyone wants to comment?? I already think Gentoo base system requirements are a bit heavy just having python in there. (I'm trying to run gentoo on my WRT54G 1.1; storage over

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

2006-02-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Feb 2006, at 02:06, John King wrote: 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. This might be better asked on the OS X For Users mailing list, or one of the other

Re: [gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-21 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
It helps, thanks !!! On 2/21/06, Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm running a laptop with an ethernet card and a wireless one. Currently the ethernet is eth1 and the wireless is eth0. How to reverse this situation, that is to have eth0 ethernet card eth1 wireless Many thanks in advance for the help, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: 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 :( rc-update add alsasound default The 'alsasound' daemon saves your

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

2006-02-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 12:49 schrieb ext Marco Calviani: Hi list, i'm running a laptop with an ethernet card and a wireless one. Currently the ethernet is eth1 and the wireless is eth0. How to reverse this situation, that is to have eth0 ethernet card eth1 wireless If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

2006-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Marco writes: i'm running a laptop with an ethernet card and a wireless one. Currently the ethernet is eth1 and the wireless is eth0. How to reverse this situation, that is to have If you compile the drivers as modules and put them in /etc/ modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, you can set the

Re: [gentoo-user] open-Xchange

2006-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 February 2006 19:48, Steven S. wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: 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 Ze

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Alex, If you compile the drivers as modules and put them in /etc/ modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, you can set the order by listing the normal ethernet card's module first. At least I think so :) unfortunately this is not true, since the modules in that files are loaded in order ethernet --

Re: [gentoo-user] change eth0 to eth1 and viceversa

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Dirk, If you're using udev, see http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-iface about how to give any name you want to a network interface. many thanks for your indication. I've used that nice howto some time ago for configuring an external drive... but i forgot that nice

Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups

2006-02-21 Thread brettholcomb
mt is an app that will let you manipulate it. The simples is to tar to the drive. There are many apps such as Amanda and others - check /usr/portage for the backup category. From: Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 10:51:46 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

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

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Iain Buchanan wrote: etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' Any ideas? How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd error

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm experiencing some errors with dhcpcd-2.0.0. When i try to run net.eth1 to start the a wireless device, dhcpcd stops with errors. In /var/log/dhcpcd.log i can see: dhcpStart: interface eth1 is not Ethernet or 802.2 Token Ring What does it means? Regards, MC --

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-21 Thread Alec Shaner
krgn wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd error

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i'm experiencing some errors with dhcpcd-2.0.0. When i try to run net.eth1 to start the a wireless device, dhcpcd stops with errors. In /var/log/dhcpcd.log i can see: dhcpStart: interface eth1 is not Ethernet or 802.2 Token Ring it seems all related to the fact that when running #

[gentoo-user] NFS LDAP client can't see directory.

2006-02-21 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. I'm still pretty much a n00b in the arena of NFS LDAP so bear with me. Server info: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /dir1 192.168.0.0/24(rw) 192.168.1.0/24(rw) Client info: The

Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups

2006-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:51, Nick Smith wrote: i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and how to i access it? tar -cf /dev/st0 writes to tape tar -xf /drv/st0 reads from tape mt and mtx for

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

2006-02-21 Thread Francesco Riosa
Iain Buchanan wrote: 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

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

2006-02-21 Thread Francesco Riosa
How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every corner you could look at it ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd error

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-C0-9F-00-00-1C-A1-53-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-21 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 20:54, Alec Shaner wrote: krgn wrote: 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

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

2006-02-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:59, Francesco Riosa wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: 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

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

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Francesco Riosa wrote: How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every corner you could look at it ? How about because that is set from the default installation and that 95% of the folks on this

[gentoo-user] iptables: --state/--syn

2006-02-21 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm trying to configure some basic iptables rules, and came across to state module. Could someone please explain me, what is the main difference between using --state ESTABLISHED and !--syn options in iptables? I thought I will define rules for incomming ssh-connections as: iptables -A

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

2006-02-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:47, Dave Nebinger wrote: Francesco Riosa wrote: How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every corner you could look at it ? How about because that is set

Re: [gentoo-user] coreutils downgrade problem

2006-02-21 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i faced the same problem today http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435291.html check there On 2/20/06, Marko Kocić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this problem couple of times. emerge says that I should downgrade coreutils: citadela ~ # emerge -pvuD system [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-user] coreutils downgrade problem

2006-02-21 Thread Marko Kocić
I just sync'd portage few minutes ago and it seems there are new version of coreutils available, which compiles ok (so far). Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-21 Thread krgn
oh.. jusrt tried it out and it seems to have worked! Thanks! Will this possibly crop up in future as well? Karsten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread Nick Smith
where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo. TIA nick -- Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal

[gentoo-user] Toshiba Laptop Issues

2006-02-21 Thread Mike Myers
Hi everybody. This is my first post to this list, mainly because the Gentoo community is so awesome to have documentation for everything that I haven't needed to use it before. I've finally seemed to have run into something that I can't figure out and I can't find very good documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread Sarpy Sam
On 2/21/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Toshiba Laptop Issues

2006-02-21 Thread krgn
I have a Satellite P10 probably slightly different from yours but maybe this modeline works. I have a widescreen too.. and get the 1280x800 working normally. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf|grep ModeLine ModeLine 1280x800_60 81.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/21/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo. The default

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:52, Nick Smith wrote: where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo. TIA

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 2/21/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/21/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir,

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread John Jolet
On 2/21/06 2:52 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo. It

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread kashani
Nick Smith wrote: where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo. Gentoo default is /var/lib/mysql/ or you

Re: [gentoo-user] Toshiba Laptop Issues

2006-02-21 Thread Mike Myers
Thanks for the quick reply! When I went to enter that in, I looked up a website to tell me where to put that, because I couldn't remember. I finally stumbled on this: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQVideoModes#head-a8891acdd12af18ef2c26fd86e50c194ac26eb0f which says how to get the correct numbers

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

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Rumen Yotov wrote: Or how about the fact that glibc 2.3.6-r3 (as 2.3.6 in general) is masked in Portage indicating that you should expect problems if you're going to build your box on an unstable version of glibc? Please don't scare me, it's in testing (not masked). At least 2.3.6-r2|3.

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

2006-02-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
wah horsey, whoah! OK... 1. I could have deleted the line by myself, but I didn't because I've never touched /etc/host.conf so far, and because it belonged to glibc, I didn't want to stuff around with it. My system is working, even though I get this error message, so I left it as is until I

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

2006-02-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST) A. Khattri wrote: 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

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

2006-02-21 Thread Christopher Cowart
Sounds like this is related to the bug that's in an earlier thread. Do as root: # ebuild `equery which udev` digest This will update the digest for now. The changes will be overwritten the next time you sync portage, but it won't matter til the next time you emerge udev. At which time, hopefully

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

2006-02-21 Thread Grant
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 Gentoo system? - Grant Might be worth

[gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2006-02-21 Thread Luis Monzon
Luis Adolfo Monzon Carcamo. Life will never be the same Linux User #: 307233 AMD 750, 162MB, GeForce2 32mb. Gentoo 1.4, Debian Woody -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-Version: 3.12GAT d- s: a-- C UL++ P++ L+++ E W++ N+++ o+ K w-- O+ M V PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5+ X R tv+ b++ DI+ D++ G e++

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-21 Thread Aniruddha Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That said, it would be nice to do away with the building file list... delay we have with rsync. That I can live with. It's the updating portage cache - especially the long wait at 50% that drags. K -BEGIN PGP

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

2006-02-21 Thread Eric Bliss
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 16:35, Grant wrote: and I've been working with wireless-tools ever since. I'm using: ifconfig ath0 up iwconfig ath0 essid Myessid iwconfig ath0 key s:Mykey pump -i ath0 I don't know if it matters, but try running the iwconfig lines BEFORE the ifconfig up.

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

2006-02-21 Thread Rob Oravec
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:35 -0800, Grant wrote: I was originally using wpa_supplicant with this Airport and it wasn't working. John Jolet said: well, you DON'T use wpa_supplicant. I'm not aware of any issues regarding the use of wpa_supplicant with regards to WEP. It is supported. and

[gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Having trouble getting cups to work with a smb installed printer. It connects ok apparently but has trouble finding ghostscrip ESP. Googling this group on `cups ESP' I find a few mentions but mostly about needing to install it. I have it installed as indicated by esearch: *

Re: [gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Manuel A. McLure
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:45 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: Having trouble getting cups to work with a smb installed printer. It connects ok apparently but has trouble finding ghostscrip ESP. Googling this group on `cups ESP' I find a few mentions but mostly about needing to install it. I

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

2006-02-21 Thread James
Christopher Cowart ccowart at rescomp.berkeley.edu writes: Sounds like this is related to the bug that's in an earlier thread. Do as root: # ebuild `equery which udev` digest Generating digest file... udev-079.tar.bz2 Generating manifest file... ChangeLog files/05-udev-early.rules-078

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Any auto-hiding panels with a bunch of dependancies?

2006-02-21 Thread Walter Dnes
My mantra is tha I don't run desktops, I run applications. My attitude to KDE and GNOME is The Pox on both your houses. They have nice apps like KOffice and Gnome Office Gimp, Gnumeric, AbiWord, etc. I run the apps I need and emerge pulls in any necessary dependancies. I've been using

[gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Manuel A. McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around ghostscript that do the work. No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message. Restarted cups and see no improvement. The logs still say the bit bout ESP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Manuel McLure
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:12, Harry Putnam wrote: No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message. Restarted cups and see no improvement. The logs still say the bit bout ESP ghostscript. D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Job 27 hold_until = 0 D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600]

[gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

2006-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around ghostscript that do the work. No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message. Restarted cups and see no improvement. The logs still say the bit bout ESP

[gentoo-user] NTP problem

2006-02-21 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
My system was off about 10 days and when I turned it back on, I began getting these messages in my logwatch: Time Reset time stepped -0.133773 time stepped -0.662954 time stepped +0.271164 time stepped +0.461200 time stepped -0.787647 snip Time Reset 25 times (total: -1.239782 s