[gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-19 Thread Tim Kruse
* On 18.03.2006 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:17:19 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: Like you set all options in zsh ... setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY # incrementally append history to $HISTFILE Not that different from Bash then? :-) shopt -s histappend Do you mean the option itself

[gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Sumeet Pal Singh
HI This mail is not directly related to gentoo. I have gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home partition between FC4 and ubuntu. The installation went well. I did not install KDE in FC4. I was well

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:04, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: HI This mail is not directly related to gentoo. I have gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home partition between FC4 and ubuntu. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:04, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: HI This mail is not directly related to gentoo. I have gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless woes after upgrading kernel from kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gent

2006-03-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/19/06, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - my original kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 runs wireless fine with ipw2200 and ipw2200-firmware. After upgrading to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 I was experiencing conflicts as in Well, it seems like a DOWNGRADE, isn't

[gentoo-user] sendmail with outlook

2006-03-19 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi, I have a setup of mail server with sendmail 8.13 and pop3/imap. Now the problem is that I can send mail from outlook via sendmail but I am not able to receive message. The error is coming that Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:55, Holly Bostick wrote: That's what I would have thought, too. But frankly, it seems too much maintenance to me, since as soon as the versions go out of sync, then you're likely to have problems that are difficult to track down. I have no problem with two users

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail with outlook

2006-03-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 March 2006 15:34, Hiren Dave wrote: Hi, I have a setup of mail server with sendmail 8.13 and pop3/imap. Now the problem is that I can send mail from outlook via sendmail but I am not able to receive message. The error is coming that Your server has unexpectedly terminated the

Re: [gentoo-user] Bind Problem

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
What is the output of this command: netstat -tap - Original Message - From: Hiren Dave To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bind Problem Hi, Thanks for the solution. Now I can see MX entry in dig command. Now the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to get a proper FQDN, you need to set up three files: /etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/hostanme, /etc/conf.d/domainname. I also have the same problems as you in past, and one day I found that the most tricky thing was that you must give a seperate line for your FQDN

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-19 Thread Diogo Tridapalli
The accentuated C occurs in X and terminal or just in firefox? On 3/19/06, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've set my us_intl keyboard, and the accentuation is working ok, but i`ve got a problem with cedilla, when i type ' and c, it appears a ć (accentuated C) instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-19 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Sunday 19 March 2006 02:14, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Are you sure? At Windles i use ' + C, and comma isnt a dead key. windows and kde apps we use ' then c to get a ç. in gtk apps (firefox, for example) we use altgr + , then c. []'s Mauro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:34:55 +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: My question is that can sharing /home okay for a long run or will it lead to problems. Sharing the /home partition is fine, sharing a home directory between distros will cause trouble. Even if you fix the permissions problems, by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:18:58 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: You see the difference? :-P Yes. One up to zsh it would appear, there;'s no such option in Bash. -- Neil Bothwick Your lack of organisation does not represent an emergency in my world. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:57, Neil Bothwick wrote: Share things like you KDE/GNOME config files and it WILL bite you at some time. no, it won't kde uses for its major versionds (3.3, 3.4, 3.5) different directories (.kde3.3, .kde3.4, .kde3.5). Worst case - you have to set a symlink (.kde)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-19 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
SOLVED! Thanks! On 3/19/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to get a proper FQDN, you need to set up three files: /etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/hostanme, /etc/conf.d/domainname. I also have the same problems as you in past, and one day I found that the most

[gentoo-user] Gnome Floppy Formatter bug ?

2006-03-19 Thread sHadoW MaN
I have gnome-utils-2..12.2 installed...so I launched the gnome floppy formatter application and then when I wanted to close the application by clicking the Close buttons, nothing happened so I had to click to the x on the right top of the window to force quit application. I lauched gfloppy

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:13:37 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Share things like you KDE/GNOME config files and it WILL bite you at some time. no, it won't kde uses for its major versionds (3.3, 3.4, 3.5) different directories (.kde3.3, .kde3.4, .kde3.5). Worst case - you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-19 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Tim Kruse, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: * On 18.03.2006 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:17:19 +0100, Tim Kruse wrote: Like you set all options in zsh ... setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY # incrementally append history to $HISTFILE Not that different from Bash

[gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi, I am using Mozilla 1.7.12 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060222 at my home desktop. However, even when configured to block unrequested popups, my mozilla [on both windows and linux] is not able to block pop-ups from websites. I assure you this is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread fire-eyes
On Sunday 19 March 2006 12:48, Rohit Sharma wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DT [snip] Please post to this list in plain text and I will consider responding, I was going to until my client was flooded with stuff appropriate for a web browser... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread Jane
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 17:48 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Hi, I am using Mozilla 1.7.12 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060222 at my home desktop. However, even when configured to block unrequested popups, my mozilla [on both windows and linux] is not able to block

Re: [gentoo-user] livecd install problems

2006-03-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:04, David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm trying to install the livecd (livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso) on a PII-450 machine with 256MB ram and an 18GB Fujitsu hard drive. The machine is on a 192.168.1.x LAN with 192.168.1.2 providing DNS and DSL firewall services.

Re: [gentoo-user] livecd install problems

2006-03-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/19/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day, I'm trying to install the livecd (livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso) on a PII-450 machine with 256MB ram and an 18GB Fujitsu hard drive. The machine is on a 192.168.1.x LAN with 192.168.1.2 providing DNS and DSL firewall services. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
The site is OK, and even with the ridiculous URL redirection by samachar it does not open any popups (at least for me). On 3/19/06, Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Mozilla 1.7.12 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060222 at my home desktop.

[gentoo-user] core packages for a dual-boot system

2006-03-19 Thread hawat . thufir
I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching over from fedora. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

[gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

2006-03-19 Thread hawat . thufir
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: core packages for a dual-boot system I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching over from fedora. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:24:10 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Major versions, yes, but not minor versions. The problems occur when you upgrade one distro to a later minor version, run it, then go back to the older version. config files are intended to be backward-compatible, not

Re: [gentoo-user] livecd install problems

2006-03-19 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:21:50 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: ...[snip]... Well, it seems the installer was unable to mount /mnt/gentoo, that will be your root mountpoint (the / in the device), you have told the installer not to format the partitions, that could be one of the reasons why it

[gentoo-user] emerge kicker(KDE taskbar) fails

2006-03-19 Thread Adrian Vraciu
i can't emerge kicker from kde. here is the ouput of my error: exe_dlg.cpp: In constructor `PanelExeDialog::PanelExeDialog(const QString, const QString, const QString, const QString, bool, QWidget*, const char*)': exe_dlg.cpp:59: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
No popups for me. I am using Firefox 1.5 and I also have the adblock extension installed. Looking at adblock it appears that anything from the url ads.indiatimes.com is blocked. Try putting this linein your /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 ads.indiatimes.com Or install these two extensions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-19 Thread Diogo Tridapalli
if you set GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla ' + c will work in gtk apps too. On 3/19/06, Mauro Faccenda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 March 2006 02:14, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Are you sure? At Windles i use ' + C, and comma isnt a dead key. windows and kde apps we use ' then c to get a ç. in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with cedilla

2006-03-19 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:00, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: if you set GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla ' + c will work in gtk apps too. it worked for me. thanks. []'s Mauro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

2006-03-19 Thread hawat . thufir
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17394484 14690156

[gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
Is there a liveCD for amd64? The amd64 handbook part 1, chapter3 under the Do I need Networking? section states: The stage3 file built by the amd64 Installer LiveCD is optimized for generic amd64 usage and uses NPTL. However looking on the download page I only see the LiveCD for x86. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:24:10 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Major versions, yes, but not minor versions. The problems occur when you upgrade one distro to a later minor version, run it, then go back to the older version. config

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing file systems

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:50:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: KDE, especially if one of the distros uses a customised version. Running Gentoo and Mandrake with a shared home directory broke things in very short order. Using separate home directories on a single shared partition gave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

2006-03-19 Thread Robert Welz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 March 2006 15:27, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?': Is there a liveCD for amd64? I don't know where it is on the mirrors, but the bittorrent tracker has livecd-amd64-installer-2006.0; I'm seeding right now. -- If there's one thing we've

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 19 March 2006 22:27, JimD wrote: Is there a liveCD for amd64? The amd64 handbook part 1, chapter3 under the Do I need Networking? section states: The stage3 file built by the amd64 Installer LiveCD is optimized for generic amd64 usage and uses NPTL. However looking on the

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
Bo Andresen wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1chap=2#doc_chap3 snip Is that the same as the *live* CD? The x86 live CD for 2006.0 had a GUI that I could use why the installer did its thing. I thought the regular universal installer was console

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Bo Andresen
On Monday 20 March 2006 01:32, JimD wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1ch ap=2#doc_chap3 Is that the same as the *live* CD? The x86 live CD for 2006.0 had a GUI that I could use why the installer did its thing. I thought the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
Peter Ruskin wrote: ...or emerge net-proxy/privoxy How is privoxy? Is it fast? I have never tried it. I do think a system wide setup would be nice. Can privoxy be used across my home network? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:49, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?': On Monday 20 March 2006 01:32, JimD wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-amd64.xml?part =1ch ap=2#doc_chap3 Is that the same

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 Installer LiveCD?

2006-03-19 Thread Bo Andresen
On Monday 20 March 2006 02:19, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:49, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Yes. The versioned 2006.0 Universal Installation CD aka the Installer LiveCD is the one with a GUI. Admittedly they haven't made that very clear but you will see

[gentoo-user] kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, When I open any pdf from any source (home-made or downloaded) in kghostview, they seem to be stretched wider than normal. Also the font is some ugly fixed-width font. However, in acrobat, or evince, the pdf's show nicely (correct aspect and fonts). You can see what I mean about the

[gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
oops, should have said: $ kghostview --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.1 KGhostView: 0.20 -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au There's no such thing as a free lunch. -- Milton Friendman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Joseph
What ghostscrip are you using? If you have ghostscript-esp replace it with ghostscript-gnu and the problems will go away. -- #Joseph On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 11:15 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: oops, should have said: $ kghostview --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.1 KGhostView: 0.20 -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:53 -0700, Joseph wrote: What ghostscrip are you using? If you have ghostscript-esp replace it with ghostscript-gnu and the problems will go away. I tried that (unmerged esp, emerged gnu), and it doesn't seem to make any difference. I even rebuilt one of my own pdfs -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kghostview pdf aspect distorted!

2006-03-19 Thread JimD
Iain Buchanan wrote: any more ideas? thanks, Try strace on evince and then strace on kghostview and see if kghostview is opening up a weird font or if it is doing anything really different than evince. Also, you could look at the README from kghostview and see who the maintainer is can

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-19 Thread Nick Rout
If you want to see what each of the emails in your queue is take a look in /var/spool/postifx. In that dir there are a number of subdirectories, including one called defer and one called deferred. As I don't have anything stuck in there I can't recall exactly which of those subdors houses the

[gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-19 Thread Matthias Langer
Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a

[gentoo-user] Re: no shell permission denied?

2006-03-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Oh, by the way, I'm leaving for about 2-3 days, so I'll be replying back then. On 3/20/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I just re-installed my system because all of a sudden I started getting the following... [15:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /] # su - trenta Cannot execute

[gentoo-user] no shell permission denied?

2006-03-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi everyone, I just re-installed my system because all of a sudden I started getting the following... [15:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /] # su - trenta Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied In addition, I am also unable to login from the console, or X. I get no shell: Permission Denied I'm

[gentoo-user] Problem burning Gentoo 700 MB LiveCD

2006-03-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have been trying to burn the Gentoo 2006 ISO image to a Memorex 700 MB CD using Nero 5.5. I first tried to use other CD burning programs. They all gave the same error message: No media in the drive or Drive is empty. Please insert CD. Of course, the CD is in the drive. So,

[gentoo-user] MOV to AVI

2006-03-19 Thread Justin Hart
Hey, I need to convert an MOV to an AVI... anybody have a way to do this? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list