[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 12 March 2006 01:20, Walter Dnes wrote:   Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2?  Or emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)?  After the ipv6 fiasco, I began USE with -*, like so... I think we are seeing a misinterpretation/bug. Apache2 flag is

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Alan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: I'm having a problem with dvdrip. I emerged it and when I try to run it it just says: [filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode... but it never actually does anything. That message will stay there for

[gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? Regards, and thanks, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Bind Questions...

2006-03-12 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi All, I am facing one problem. Here is a message log from server1(Master DNS) and server2(Slave DNS) on domain guru.com =SERVER1.GURU.COM=== Mar 12 15:40:57 server1 kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0366c20(lo) Mar 12 15:40:57 server1

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [SOLVED] reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-12 Thread Peter
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:14:51 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do): yes enter Oh yes, Ryan was not splitting hairs. Yes must be entered just like it asks. Capital Y e s. Yup and whatever the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With vhost.conf apache2

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Haim, Thanks for the help. That is now working :-D Haim Ashkenazi wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:33 +, Tito Valentin wrote: Hello All, I am trying to get apache to work with a few vhost. The problem is that when I hit www.domain.com it shows the apache page rather than the

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless machine

2006-03-12 Thread Mattias Merilai
Stefan Istvan wrote: Hello! I've tried to setup a diskless environment based on this howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml When the client starts booting and try to download the kernel, it says that it is not a valid image. Why? Thank you for your help in advance, Istvan

[gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Hello All, Does anyone know why when I go to my website and click on the links within my site the url still stays the same? For example: if I go to www.my_web_site.com and click on the link messages within my site, the url is still www.my_web_site.com rather than

[gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test but I get the following error messages: ssh: connect to host lkd5f port 22: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the /ebuilds/, not the packages. I'm not a dev, but from

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Paul, You could try it like this: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test -e ssh lkd5f:/test Also, make sure that your other machine allows you to connect via ssh ...hope this helps Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command: rsync -Cav --delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:20:38 -0500 Tito Valentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why when I go to my website and click on the links within my site the url still stays the same? For example: if I go to www.my_web_site.com and click on the link messages within my site, the

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 12 Mar 2006 13:06, Tito Valentin wrote: Paul, You could try it like this: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test -e ssh lkd5f:/test Also, make sure that your other machine allows you to connect via ssh ...hope this helps I tried it as you suggested but get the same errors. I

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Does the machine belong to you? If so check if sshd is running like ps -eaf | grep ssh If not, you may need to check with the Admin of the machine. Also, your ip might be listed in the /etc/hosts.deny files to reject any unrecognized ip's. You might need to be added to the hosts.allow.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the /ebuilds/, not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Hans, It is showing a framset in my page when I view page source. How would I be able to correct this? If I hit the test site I can see all the paths but when I host it live I CANNOT see the paths in the url. Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:20:38 -0500 Tito Valentin

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 12 Mar 2006 13:30, Tito Valentin wrote: Does the machine belong to you? If so check if sshd is running like ps -eaf | grep ssh If not, you may need to check with the Admin of the machine. Also, your ip might be listed in the /etc/hosts.deny files to reject any unrecognized ip's.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
060312 Marco Calviani wrote: At the root of my question there was the need to understand why kde 3.5.1 packages are still testing even if there aren't critical bugs at bugs.gentoo.org My experience is that the Gentoo KDE devs are rather conservative tend to leave versions in 'testing' a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? No. Gentoo's stable and testing refers to the

[gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Keats
Hi, here is my problem : i have acces to my remote server and i want to install gentoo on it. the problems are : -during the install process i can only boot in a rescue mode with 32bit linux 2.4 kernel -my remote processor is a xeon with 64bits if during the installation i choose to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 157182712 Tito Valentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans, It is showing a framset in my page when I view page source. How would I be able to correct this? If I hit the test site I can see all the paths but when I host it live I CANNOT see the

[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread james
Walter Dnes waltdnes at waltdnes.org writes: The whole point behind -* is to prevent future surprises. Yesterday it was emboss and ipv6. Today it's apache2. What's next; and when? One reason I'm using Gentoo is because I want the maximum control over my machine that's possible without

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sunday 12 March 2006 17:02, Keats wrote: Hi, here is my problem : i have acces to my remote server and i want to install gentoo on it. the problems are : -during the install process i can only boot in a rescue mode with 32bit linux 2.4 kernel -my remote processor is a xeon with 64bits

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Keats
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:38:21 +0200 Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you tried booting with install-ia64-minimal-2006.0 CD ? it's 56 MB. Afterwards you could use stage3-ia64-2006.0.tar.bz2. HTH.Rumen i can't boot on a medium it's a remote server, i can't physicaly acced to it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 161979872 Keats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip if i choose to boot a stage3-x86 and do my install wwith it... when i'll reboot, i ll not be able to make an upgrade to 64bit api cause my kernel will be in 32 bits... is there any solution ?

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Paul Stear wrote: In KDE I can copy files using Konqueror to lan://pc2/ which shows my device.homenet.com. If I then click on the device I get 3 icons NFS SMB HTTP If I click on SMB the location changes to smb://device.homenet.com and I can copy any files I want - even

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 147007040 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows under Wine if there is no app under linux. Thanks, Jim FYI, this did not work :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

[gentoo-user] Evolution mail sorting

2006-03-12 Thread Ash Varma
Hi. I would like to configure Evolution to sort mail similar to GMail.. ie. Threaded, but if a message arrives as part of a thread, it is promoted to the top of the mailbox.. Is this possible ? Thanks Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 01:45, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': Another thing (issue) is with virtual/x11. Had to put virtual/x11-6.8 in package.provided to be able to emerge again. Rumen That's a work around for the

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 02:43, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help': A couple of options. - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or | emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)? Uh, USE flags are not packages. You're misunderstanding how USE flags work. Adding apache2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:51, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*': On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or | emboss

[gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
ntp-client is in my default run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges: Operation not permitted 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished, exiting If I run it as root

[gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-12 Thread Mick
Hi All, Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: ntp-client is in my default run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges:

[gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread michael
hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? Here is the dmesg usb section. The mice are usb 3-1 and usb 3-2: ehci_hcd :00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 ehci_hcd :00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? If you're using udev, the devices should be found in /dev/input/mice. At least that's where mine is. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread michael
There they are, and they both work. I feel so dumb. Thanks very much Holly, Michael On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? If you're

[gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread JimD
Hey group, My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get one of the two models below for a really good price on

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great euse tool) euse -D useflag. Or, for those type A personalities out there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. Another tool is ufed (use flag editor). Nicely combines flag name, set

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the heavy lifting for you. Just tried acidrip which is mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 23:23 -0500, JimD wrote: Hey group, My trusty old computer died tonight :( I _wish_ mine would die, then I could justify an upgrade ;) Maybe it will have an ... accident! Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual Core,EM64T Processor I

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:43, David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: ntp-client is in my default run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
Roy Wright wrote: This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use flags. I'd like to know: * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have installed. * Which use flags are deprecated. * Which use flags are new. Ideally I'd just add this to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread JimD
Iain Buchanan wrote: I wish mine would die, then I could justify an upgrade ;) Maybe it will have an ... accident! Just spill a little coffe and you should be all set :) I just bought an Pentium D 830 (Dual core 3.0 GHz, seems nicely fast :) for a friend's upgrade. It went with an Asrock

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Transport = the shit [1] Hyper-Threading = just