Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: However, is this something to do with my firewall, or my sysctl setup? Neither. $ nc -l 192.168.0.1 -p 80 Can't grab 0.0.0.0:80 with bind : Permission denied You're not root and thus a process of yours cannot open ports =1024. Alexander Skwar --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem (proxy? firewall?)

2006-06-20 Thread Leonardo
It works now, maybe it was only some misconfiguration; only thing I noticed is I have to set : export ftp_proxy=http://proxy-blah.blah:3128; That ftp/http inconsistency I cannot understand. Ciao, Leo --- Leonardo wrote: Hi all, I have a Gentoo PC connected to the net through a proxy

Re: [gentoo-user] coldplug module autoloading, and module options

2006-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:16:42 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: Can I get coldplug to ignore a single module? Put it in /etc/hotplug/blacklist -- Neil Bothwick If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell her she has the right to remain silent? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] coldplug module autoloading, and module options

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 13:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: Can I get coldplug to ignore a single module? Put it in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Oh, now that's beautiful, thanks. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael account, root can't use GUI apps. It used to be able to before the install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable it. How would I go about doing that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 15:22, Michael Sullivan wrote: Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael account, root can't use GUI apps.  It used to be able to before the install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable it.  How would I go about doing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Petr Uzel
Dne úterý 20 červen 2006 15:22 Michael Sullivan napsal(a): Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael account, root can't use GUI apps. It used to be able to before the install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable it. How would I go about

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Devon Miller
#1 USE=pam emerge shadow#2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line: session optional pam_xauth.sodcmOn 6/20/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michaelaccount, root can't use GUI apps.It used to be able to before

[gentoo-user] kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
My up-to-date ~x86 laptop, that I updated last night now fails to start kdm/kde. It has been working fine, after adding the necessary lines to package.mask a month ago or so relating to xorg7 and nvidia-glx. I am not sure what was updated with my update last night that would have been giving me

Re: [gentoo-user] kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:29:54 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Any idea what was updated in ~x86 yest. that would give me problems here? genlop --list --date yesterday will show you what you emerged, then you can roll back any likely contenders. If you don't have genlop installed, emerge it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, Hardened, and AMD64

2006-06-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
Michael Crute wrote: I am building a server (AMD Opteron 64) and as a matter of policy I always run the hardened profile on my servers. Now this is my first time doing an install on an AMD64 architecture with hardened and so far it has gone relatively well. The thing that is giving me the most

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
What are the names of the config options that change the memory split? I'm running gentoo-sources-2.6.17, and for the life of me, I can't find any config option that deal with memory (and I know they existed: I've set them before.) Thanks. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:01:26AM -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: What are the names of the config options that change the memory split? I'm running gentoo-sources-2.6.17, and for the life of me, I can't find any config option that deal with memory (and I know they existed: I've set them

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC000 CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: What are the names of the config options that

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Huber
Yea, What architecture are you running on? Is it possible that you have some kind of memory interleaving option turned on in your bios that isn't working right because of slight timing differences in the manufacturing of each stick of ram? Are they exactly the same spec (CAS,NS, etc..)? What's

Re: [gentoo-user] kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On 6/20/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:29:54 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Any idea what was updated in ~x86 yest. that would give me problems here?genlop --list --date yesterday will show you what you emerged, then you can roll back any likely contenders. If

[gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-20 Thread Trenton Adams
Anyone have an idea why this is happening? Did someone make a mistake on the genkernel package? Emerging (1 of 12) sys-kernel/genkernel-3.3.11d to / Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/klibc-1.2.1.tar.bz2 --00:10:34-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/klibc-1.2.1.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-20 Thread Teresa and Dale
Trenton Adams wrote: Anyone have an idea why this is happening? Did someone make a mistake on the genkernel package? Emerging (1 of 12) sys-kernel/genkernel-3.3.11d to / Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/klibc-1.2.1.tar.bz2 --00:10:34--

[gentoo-user] Re: kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Jason Weisberger
I have had this same problem since updating to 3.5.3 and each of the r* releases. Any ideas would be appreciated! On 6/20/06, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My up-to-date ~x86 laptop, that I updated last night now fails to start kdm/kde. It has been working fine, after adding the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:12 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: #1 USE=pam emerge shadow #2 Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add/uncommenth this line: sessionoptional pam_xauth.so dcm That line was already in there... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
* Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 12:55]: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC000

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-20 Thread Mick
On 19/06/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It uses the BROWSER environment variable if it exists to pick a browser to which it sends a mailto: link containing all the info to compose a mail in the composer that the browser uses to handle mailto. Hope that makes sense. :) Yes it

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:05 -0500, David Klempner wrote: * Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 12:55]: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:30, Mick wrote: Any idea what the syntax should look like for the googleearth script to acknowledge the BROWSER env variable? # diff -Naur /opt/googleearth/googleearth{,-mod} --- /opt/googleearth/googleearth2006-06-14 11:14:46.0 +0200 +++

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
* Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 14:45]: Is that with x86 and 2.6.17? I had those config options with 2.6.16, but they are not present in 2.6.17. Though looking at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Kconfig I cannot see why the option was not offered. For whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On 6/20/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had this same problem since updating to 3.5.3 and each of ther* releases.Any ideas would be appreciated! How did you get it to work? I had 3.5.3 working, could have been with the r1-r2? Mike On 6/20/06, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Boinc setiathome on AMD64

2006-06-20 Thread matthew . garman
Is anyone on this list using BOINC+setiathome on AMD64? If so, what was your process for getting it working? From what I can tell, the setiathome package in portage is out-of-date. Furthermore, the x86_64 BOINC+setiathome ebuilds never worked correctly (in particular, /etc/init.d/boinc

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:01 -0500, David Klempner wrote: * Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-20 14:45]: Is that with x86 and 2.6.17? I had those config options with 2.6.16, but they are not present in 2.6.17. Though looking at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Kconfig I

[gentoo-user] fetching patches on demand

2006-06-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'd reall like to save traffic and disk space by not syncing patches with emerge --sync and let them be fetched on demand instead. Is this supported yet ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone:

Re: [gentoo-user] USE settings

2006-06-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:44, James wrote: Besides /etc/portage/package.* /etc/make.conf /etc/make.profile/make.defaults /etc/make.globals is there any other place that Gentoo sets USE variables? The profile is cascading. This will show you the USE flags of every make.defaults in your

[gentoo-user] linuxwacom, mi nightmare

2006-06-20 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I'm a AMD64 user, and I've installed Gentoo lots of times, in all kind of computers, but I'm stucked right now... linuxwacom seems that won't compile anymore !! and it doesn't get fixed, so I won't be able to compile X.org... and nothing, because every graphic app needs X.org to be

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a console (ncurses) emerge frontend

2006-06-20 Thread b.n.
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there an console (ncurses) frontend for emerge which allows to query the db, edit package's useflags, trigger rebuilds, etc ? We have just begun to code one: http://genetic.sourceforge.net I guess it's not the kind of help you'd have loved to get, but

[gentoo-user] Re: USE settings

2006-06-20 Thread James
Bo Ørsted Andresen bo.andresen at zlin.dk writes: is there any other place that Gentoo sets USE variables? The profile is cascading. This will show you the USE flags of every make.defaults in your profile: # cd /etc/`ls -ld /etc/make.profile | awk '{print $NF}'` # while [[ -f parent ]];

[gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Persson
I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to maildirs to users' home directories, but that can also be disabled easily when I need that bit of extra performance for something. I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] aRts sound server on KDE 3.5.2?

2006-06-20 Thread Claudinei Matos
Hi Michael,I give oss-emulation backend a try in arts configuration and it really works for me (now I can run noatun again), but you said u're using xine-backend as amarok engine without arts. Well, I did tried to use gstreammer with amarok but there's a problem with the gst mad library (a friend

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-20 Thread Trenton Adams
Nope, those mirrors do not change anything. I tried to use default mirrors, and it only tried three mirrors. Don't know why it's not working. Very odd. On 6/20/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams wrote: Anyone have an idea why this is happening? Did someone make a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 01:56, Trenton Adams wrote: Nope, those mirrors do not change anything.  I tried to use default mirrors, and it only tried three mirrors. Don't know why it's not working.  Very odd. They must have moved it on the mirrors. Just download it manually at put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-20 Thread Trenton Adams
I synced my portage, but the problem is still occuring. On 6/20/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, those mirrors do not change anything. I tried to use default mirrors, and it only tried three mirrors. Don't know why it's not working. Very odd. On 6/20/06, Teresa and Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:38:41 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: gmp udev freetype gtk+ DBI I don't see anything there to hinder me... You do, you just don't realise it! I've just had the same thing happen when I tried to restart KDE. Rolling freetype back from 2.1.10-r1 to 2.1.10 fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] kde/kdm ~x86 failure

2006-06-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On 6/20/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:38:41 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: gmp udev freetype gtk+ DBI I don't see anything there to hinder me...You do, you just don't realise it! I've just had the same thing happen when I tried to restart KDE. Rolling

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Markowski
Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there in gentoo land. Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generally unhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel stuff back on /boot. I was confident this would do

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel cannot find files

2006-06-20 Thread Teresa and Dale
Trenton Adams wrote: I synced my portage, but the problem is still occuring. The problem is on the server end. It is either moved or they have not downloaded their copy for some reason. You can always download it manually and save it to /usr/portage/distfiles then emerge it. It will see it

[gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip

2006-06-20 Thread fire-eyes
I am using dvdrip. Every time out of three titles I have tried so far, the ripping phase always gives an error at the end, such as: It seems that transcode ripping stopped short. The movie has 187351 frames, but only 152564 were ripped. This is most likely a problem with your

[gentoo-user] [OT] Copying PS/2 game CDs

2006-06-20 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, I want to make copies of our PS/2 game CDs so that they can use the copies and we can put up the originals. They seem to either scratch real easy or they are really touchy about scratches. Does anybody here know of a way to do this? This is Linux, surely someone has found a way. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mike Markowski wrote: Any ideas? Bueller? Bueller? Please post: $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst $ ls -l /boot $ sudo fdisk -l $ ls -l /dev/console $ ls -l /dev/initctl $ ls -l /dev/null pgpnN7lAeIv4t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Klempner wrote: For whatever reason, they made prompting about VMSPLIT dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. I upgraded yesterday to 2.6.17 and also noticed that there was no split option. Not thinking much of it I installed the kernel which works

[gentoo-user] dbus checksum fail

2006-06-20 Thread Kumar Golap
I am trying to updat dbus to the latest and i get the following # emerge -uv dbus Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/dbus-0.62 to / checking ebuild checksums !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-0.62.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Huber
My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors is for memory address space (4Gigs of virtual memory space without PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like 128Terrabytes of addressable memory). There must be some advantage associated with being

Re: [gentoo-user] running fetchmail/procmail as a service

2006-06-20 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users' home directories, but that can also be