Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade

2006-07-31 Thread Andreas Schoelver
Hi Richard On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:07:36 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/30/06, Andreas Schoelver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all each world update either updates or downgrades neon depending on the version just installed at that moment. It is a _very_ long-standing

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and mono-tools blocking

2006-07-31 Thread Andreas Schoelver
Hi Jesús On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:11:30 +0200 Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] My favorite browser is firefox, but how do I tell both of mono-tools and gnome about that? Andreas AFAIK, USE=firefox will remove the dep on seamonkey and that stuff. I dont use gnome though,

Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/30/06, Andreas Schoelver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good, ... but: I performed a revdep-rebuild in between which did the downgrade of neon to 0.24.7, but the remerge of rapidsvn failed then. Hmm, maybe try to emerge --unmerge rapidsvn and then re-merge it. Another alternative to the

[gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
Dear All,Which is the best for organization mail server.Thanks rgds.Suranga

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean screw up

2006-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:29:06 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: If you run emerge -av --noreplace on all the packages that emerge -av --depclean wants to clean, then depclean will no longer complain. This is equivalent to fixing low oil pressure in your car

[gentoo-user] configurtion error

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
I got this when switching the user. Any advice would help. Thanks, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su root Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item

Re: [gentoo-user] configurtion error

2006-07-31 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Hi, Alex Fortwinder a écrit : I got this when switching the user. Any advice would help. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-366499.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
command not found. As root everything is ok. Suggestions? Alex. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Alex Fortwinder a écrit : command not found. As root everything is ok. Suggestions? # emerge sudo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. sendmail has had numerous holes way back then. And I dislike the configuration language. So, I'd suggest postfix or exim. I personally use Postfix always.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Alex Fortwinder
Done. Example on how to use it? I tried sodo -u to no avail. Thanks Alex. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:19:57 +0200 Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Fortwinder a écrit : command not found. As root everything is ok. Suggestions? # emerge sudo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 7/31/06, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Sudo_config There's an official guide, as well: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml -- ellotheth rimmwen * monjoy * -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. sendmail has had numerous holes way back then. And I dislike the configuration language. So, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions

2006-07-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Collins Richey wrote: The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was said and done, I discovered that the automatic dependancy selection

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Crute wrote: On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. I would beg to differ with the statement about security. Qmail is arguably

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run pppoe-start as user

2006-07-31 Thread Jody Storme
On Monday 31 July 2006 16:28, Alex Fortwinder wrote: Thanks again, but... nothing is changed? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo -l User nabokov may run the following commands on this host: (ALL) ALL [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pppoe-stop bash: pppoe-stop: command not found Try sudo pppoe-stop. --

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. I would beg to differ

Re: [gentoo-user] dev/tty1 permission denied

2006-07-31 Thread Mike
Alex Fortwinder wrote: When I start screen as a user, I got the following: Cannot open your teminal 'dev/tty1' - please check. When I run w3m in console it says that permission denied to dev/tty1 How to set up permission? Thanks Alex chmod 666 /dev/tty1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dev/tty1 permission denied

2006-07-31 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Mike: Alex Fortwinder wrote: When I start screen as a user, I got the following: Cannot open your teminal 'dev/tty1' - please check. When I run w3m in console it says that permission denied to dev/tty1 How to set up permission? Thanks Alex chmod 666 /dev/tty1 Or better: add

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread kashani
Alexander Skwar wrote: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. Some clarification on the security of qmail: qmail has no known holes be default other than still playing the MTA game by 1998

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and mono-tools blocking

2006-07-31 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Lunes, 31 de Julio de 2006 18:58, Richard Fish escribió: On 7/31/06, Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tinkered a bit with this and came along with this ebuild (i have no idea You could have saved yourself some trouble by reading the ChangeLog for yelp, which contains: 02

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions

2006-07-31 Thread Collins Richey
On 7/31/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was said and done,

[gentoo-user] Subject: [gentoo-user-de] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation

2006-07-31 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, on my system Xawtv is installed with USE=zvbi, so that I have `scantv' enclosed. Anyway, it doesn't work: # scantv [...] vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument # I wonder how this error message could arise because of the following: # dd if=/dev/vbi bs=8

Re: [gentoo-user] Subject: [gentoo-user-de] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, on my system Xawtv is installed with USE=zvbi, so that I have `scantv' enclosed. Anyway, it doesn't work: # scantv [...] vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument strace -e open scantv might give more info.

[gentoo-user] 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread James
Hello, Since I've got to install a web server on an older machine (PIII) and this web pages suggest that 2006.1 will be released in August, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ I thought I'd ask if anybody can point me to an early release or testing release of 2006.1 liveCD or just a

[gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Marco Fabbri
Hi everybody.I am new in Gentoo's world: I have just installed it.My trouble is in downloading packages went I emege it. I can ping distfiles.gentoo.org, but it doesn't download anything. Output is: ***Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org...1.0.0.0Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|1.0.0.0|:80...

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Marco Fabbri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I am new in Gentoo's world: I have just installed it. Welcome My trouble is in downloading packages went I emege it. I can ping distfiles.gentoo.org, but it doesn't download anything. Output is: You should probably try

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Marco Fabbri
Thanks Richard! It works!I am in debt!2006/7/31, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You should probably try setting a different mirror for GENTOO_MIRRORSin /etc/make.conf.You can see the current mirror list here:http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml -Richard-- Marco

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/31/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Since I've got to install a web server on an older machine (PIII) and this web pages suggest that 2006.1 will be released in August, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ I thought I'd ask if anybody can point me to an early release or testing

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread kashani
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process you'll get the latest Gentoo anyway. I think the idea is to skip the five hour

[gentoo-user] boot stalls at 'mounting local file systems'

2006-07-31 Thread Martins
any have a hint, my gentoo desktop box stalls booting at 'mounting local file systems' for a sudden. there's no system config files i alerted, nothing at all. from win i see all my ext3 partitions, all VFAT are there too. whatshoul i look for? martins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade

2006-07-31 Thread Steve Evans
On Monday 31 July 2006 07:24, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/30/06, Andreas Schoelver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good, ... but: I performed a revdep-rebuild in between which did the downgrade of neon to 0.24.7, but the remerge of rapidsvn failed then. Hmm, maybe try to emerge --unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] boot stalls at 'mounting local file systems'

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any have a hint, my gentoo desktop box stalls booting at 'mounting local file systems' for a sudden. there's no system config files i alerted, If you are using ldap, it can cause long delays for things that occur before networking is active when

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Marco Fabbri
The problem persists... Even if I changed mirror (it worked for a while) I still have to download packages manually on my windows pc and then trensfer the files.It's strange: it download some packeges, but not some others. Some packages are available on some server and not in some others. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Marco Fabbri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem persists... Even if I changed mirror (it worked for a while) I still have to download packages manually on my windows pc and then trensfer the files. It's strange: it download some packeges, but not some others. Some packages are

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Marco Fabbri
2006/8/1, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7/31/06, Marco Fabbri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem persists... Even if I changed mirror (it worked for a while) I still have to download packages manually on my windows pc and then trensfer the files. It's strange: it download some packeges,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Resolving mi.mirror.garr.it... 1.0.0.0 mi.mirror.garr.it resolves to 193.206.139.34, maybe you have a DNS issue? Did you setup /etc/resolv.conf properly? Can you test ping mi.mirror.garr.it to make sure your machine can actually resolve it's IP properly? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Even if I changed mirror (it worked for a while) I still have to download packages manually on my windows pc and then trensfer the files. It's strange: it download some packeges, but not some others. Can you give some examples? Maybe the packages that are not

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process you'll get the latest Gentoo

[gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . For example, in my gmail account I see something like this in the (prettified) header of each message from Gentoo's mailing lists: From: Marco Fabbri

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Rout
It has been discussed before and IMHO should not change. Please if you want to discuss go somewhere else like IRC. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:10:48 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists:

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Penguin Lover Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov squawked: Who is in charge of the mailing lists and would be the best person to suggest this to? Should I send this to a different gentoo-* list? Big discussion over this about 18 months ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . That is a matter of opinion. I find the Reply-To munging to be very helpful. Who is

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Marco Fabbri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resolving mi.mirror.garr.it... 1.0.0.0 Um, ok, somehow you resolved both mi.mirror.garr.it and distfiles.gentoo.org to 1.0.0.0. Even if that was a valid IP address, I would say your DNS server is lying to you. Try using a sane DNS server in

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Big discussion over this about 18 months ago. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/120320/focus=120320 Thanks a lot. I didn't find the search functions on the archives sites very helpful in finding an old thread about this. The change was made as you suggested, without

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Rout
there is something wrong with your name resolution: distfiles.gentoo.org does not have IP address 1.0.0.0 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:55:55 +0200 Marco Fabbri wrote: Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org...1.0.0.0 Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection timed out.

[gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process you'll get the latest Gentoo anyway. I

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. Here, here. -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpa1ta5KFB8F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread Collins Richey
On 7/31/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process

[gentoo-user] Foomatic should be added to the Gentoo Printing doc

2006-07-31 Thread Grant
I followed this guide to set up printing: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml but it didn't start working until I emerged foomatic. The guide doesn't mention foomatic whatsoever. My printer is a Brother HL-2040 laser. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Foomatic should be added to the Gentoo Printing doc

2006-07-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: I followed this guide to set up printing: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml but it didn't start working until I emerged foomatic. The guide doesn't mention foomatic whatsoever. My printer is a Brother HL-2040 laser. Maybe file a bug against docs? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Foomatic should be added to the Gentoo Printing doc

2006-07-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: I followed this guide to set up printing: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml but it didn't start working until I emerged foomatic. The guide doesn't mention foomatic whatsoever. My printer is a Brother HL-2040 laser. The latest cups ebuild will force you to