Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-21 Thread frank
No, I never use genkernel and I use modules only for things I need once a year (loop, ramdisk, ... ) or things which can't be built into the kernel. Just now I tried the vanilla kernel. Let's see what the reboot brings up. Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On S

[gentoo-user] Re: Practical log reviewing

2006-08-21 Thread reader
gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Depending on what you're requirements are, try OSSEC-HIDS > (www.ossec.net). I've been using it for a couple weeks now and it's > pretty handy. The longer I use it, the more I add to it, the better it > is. Unfortunately there isn't an ebuild for it (yet).

Re: [gentoo-user] launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:08:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > How do I launch a java script at boot time??? If you can do it from the commandline, put it in the file... /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-21 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: > Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on > the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through > the previous day's rotated logs? > > - Grant Depending on what you're requirements are, tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-21 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/21/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through the previous day's rotated logs? Isn't that why logwatch was created? -- Collins Richey If you fill yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-21 Thread Grant
> Do you think the reject_rbl_client stuff is safer than greylisting? > > - Grant 1. Blacklists have the HIGHEST false positive rate of any anti-spam technique other than sending all mail to /dev/null. 34% http://www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html 2. Blacklists block the least amount of spam

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Fish schrieb: > or "emerge -e world" to complete. I would be tempted to just change > the flags and hold off on recompiling everything until the next > version of gcc comes out. ( ... "next version" in terms of minor- or major-

[gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-21 Thread Grant
Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through the previous day's rotated logs? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-21 Thread Grant
> Do you think the reject_rbl_client stuff is safer than greylisting? > > - Grant 1. Blacklists have the HIGHEST false positive rate of any anti-spam technique other than sending all mail to /dev/null. 34% http://www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html 2. Blacklists block the least amount of spam

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Acer TM 634 P4-M 1.8GHz (cpu family : 15, model : 2) 512 MB RAM 30 GB 5200 rpm HDD It's all relative. I have a 2.1Ghz Core Duo with 2G of RAM and a 160Gb HD, so *I* would consider your laptop, um, "underpowered". :-) But I also run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:09:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > chmod +x /path/to/script > > echo /path/to/script params >> /etc/conf.d/local.start > > echo "/path/to/script params &" >> /etc/conf.d/local.start > > Otherwise it will block anything set to run after it. Than

Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

2006-08-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian wrote: > root $ emerge --ask -v world > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating world dependencies > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ? > if not mydepgraph.xcreate(my

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many X modules pulled in

2006-08-21 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:56 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > > I'm not an expert with portage, but the fact that xorg-server is > > > indented one space from gtk+ means that gtk+ depends on it directly, > > > doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/21/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:27:14 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > So it is not *that* constrained in terms of RAM and disk, I assume. > > But I am also ready to go the -Os-way if you recommend/suggest it for my > system. Many laptops have rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging wesnoth - SDL-Mixer ogg support

2006-08-21 Thread Fede
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:37:32PM -0300, Penguin Lover Fede squawked: >> Error: >> >> configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer >> with OGG support >> >> >> I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg suppor

[gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

2006-08-21 Thread Adrian
Greetings all; Emerge is doing some odd things. Most of the time it works, but when I try to run emerge -pv world I get: - Mon Aug 21 19:47:13 /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots root $ emerge -pv world These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-21 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: Do you think the reject_rbl_client stuff is safer than greylisting? - Grant 1. Blacklists have the HIGHEST false positive rate of any anti-spam technique other than sending all mail to /dev/null. 34% http://www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html 2. Blacklists block the least am

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging wesnoth - SDL-Mixer ogg support

2006-08-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:37:32PM -0300, Penguin Lover Fede squawked: > Error: > > configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer > with OGG support > > > I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg support, USE="ogg" emerge > sdl-mixer, but i have the same error. > USE="vor

[gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client

2006-08-21 Thread Grant
I've followed the steps outlined here to eliminate spam up to the section on "SPF and greylisting" on the second page: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus_spam_postfix/ The author is really into greylisting: "If you take nothing else from this article, let it be that greylisting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:09:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Check script permisions and add it to local.start: > > chmod +x /path/to/script > echo /path/to/script params >> /etc/conf.d/local.start echo "/path/to/script params &" >> /etc/conf.d/local.start Otherwise it will block anything se

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging wesnoth - SDL-Mixer ogg support

2006-08-21 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Martes, 22 de Agosto de 2006 00:37, Fede escribió: > Hello i have problems emerging wesnoth. > > > Error: > > configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer > with OGG support > > > I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg support, USE="ogg" emerge > sdl-mixer, but i have th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think so I am not shure the program was installtd to launch through xdm > as a server for the graphical interface. It is a Java application then... > I cal login and launch the script > but ti wont auto launch. > Check script permisions and add it to local.start:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a PDA (mda III or xda III)

2006-08-21 Thread hawat . thufir
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, JC Denton wrote: From: JC Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Gentoo on a PDA (mda III or xda III) Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Hi Group! I was looking for a project that installs Gentoo on a PDA (MDA III or XDA III) but did not find something useful. Is there suc

[gentoo-user] Problems emerging wesnoth - SDL-Mixer ogg support

2006-08-21 Thread Fede
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello i have problems emerging wesnoth. Error: configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer with OGG support I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg support, USE="ogg" emerge sdl-mixer, but i have the same error. Sorry for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/20/06, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. > > Either: > > a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread gentoo
On Monday 21 August 2006 17:38, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How do I launch a java script at boot time??? > > By starting it at boot time ;) That's done with an init script, normally. > Other options include to add it to inittab or to /etc/conf.d/local.star

[gentoo-user] Re: Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR [SOLVED]

2006-08-21 Thread hawat . thufir
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Michael Sullivan wrote: [...] I found this site: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why#Single_disk_installation It's got my wife's computer doing what she wanted it to now, for the most part. I should have thought to look at the Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal access through web-browser...

2006-08-21 Thread Stuart Howard
The clients above are java based clients and as such I dont believe will solve your issue. Is it that you dont want to open 22 on your server or is it that "work" or whereever is locking you out? if its home then many people leave 22 open quite safely and you can even move the port to something no

[gentoo-user] Re: launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do I launch a java script at boot time??? By starting it at boot time ;) That's done with an init script, normally. Other options include to add it to inittab or to /etc/conf.d/local.start. But are there JS interpreters for the command line? Alexan

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:51:43 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Now I read about the fact that -O3 results in bigger binaries and isn't >> at all guaranteed to give me a faster system. The bigger files result in >> more load on IO, so this tells me that it puts the lo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Richard Fish schrieb: > On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do I have to do "emerge -e --newuse world" on my system or what else >> would be needed? > > --newuse is not needed here. "emerge -e world" will catch everything. Got that from one of the zillions of howtos ..

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:51:43 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Now I read about the fact that -O3 results in bigger binaries and isn't > at all guaranteed to give me a faster system. The bigger files result in > more load on IO, so this tells me that it puts the load on the > (relatively slow)

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:05 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> · Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > Docs on /etc/conf.d/net are about as clear as mud from where I sit. The >> > last thing I need to figure out is what exactly is the difference >> > betwe

[gentoo-user] launch a program at boot

2006-08-21 Thread gentoo
How do I launch a java script at boot time??? rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do I have to do "emerge -e --newuse world" on my system or what else would be needed? --newuse is not needed here. "emerge -e world" will catch everything. I am not asking this to get the "best result" in terms of speed or performan

[gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I *don't* want to start some flamewar her, I am a newbie in this group, and I just would like some info on how to do it right, as my extensive rtfm'ing/googling/etc. has still not given me a satisfying answer. I started my Gentoo-installation with CFLAGS containing -O3, believing to do it right .

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: .keep

2006-08-21 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Philip Webb wrote: >>> 060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? >>> It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, >>> eg esp du

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many X modules pulled in

2006-08-21 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:56 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > I'm not an expert with portage, but the fact that xorg-server is > > indented one space from gtk+ means that gtk+ depends on it directly, > > doesn't it? If so, whence does that dependency come from (it's obviously

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:20:36PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > > Ah, thanks for the clarification. But wouldn't changing the USE > > variables change (pull in) dependencies and linked libraries? Or am I > > misunderstanding what is meant by installed code? > > It looks like in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:34:45 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > > Ebuild fixes and other general tidying up that do not alter the > > installed code do not get a revision bump. > > Ah, thanks for the clarification. But wouldn't changing the USE > variables change (pull in) dependencies and linked libr

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:28:48PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > > I would think that if IUSE changed in an ebuild, that would warrant a > > version bump, but I don't know the dev's policy on that. > > Ebuild fixes and other general tidying up that do not alter the installed > co

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a PDA (mda III or xda III)

2006-08-21 Thread James
JC Denton yahoo.de> writes: > Hi Group!I was looking for a project that installs Gentoo on a PDA (MDA III or XDA III) but did not find something useful. Is there such a project? I found the familiar and xandux project so far but I would like to try Gentoo. Regards If you do not find anything,

[gentoo-user] Re: 2006.0 install

2006-08-21 Thread James
Martin S gmail.com> writes: > I am having problems installing Gentoo 2006.0. The computer has partitions and data I want to save. > Whenever I try to install (using the LiveCD) I get as far as entering > the root password but when the actual installation is about to start > the installation dies

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

2006-08-21 Thread Canek Peláez
I'm using the latest kernel, with the ipw2200 driver it provides (not the one in portage). Evrything works great in WPA, but I don't use the -Dipw option of wpa_supplicant; I use -Dwext: the tip is in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200 I'm using the suspend2 sources, so I don't have 2.6.17

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:11:57 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > That would be a neat idea. But I don't think that's what the OP > described. Packages shown with R implies it is being re-compiled. > yellow or % USE flags are new ones. If you have already installed the > package once, the USE flags cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 21 August 2006 17:11, fei huang wrote: > uh, that's a good idea, I'll emege wireshark and see what's happening, > the most annoying thing is that there's no log for troubleshooting, I > wonder why iptable never write anything to syslog? that's wierd. It will, if you tell it. Look at th

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread fei huang
On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 16:22, fei huang wrote:> still no luck... I tried to build everything in kernel, and later> build additional iptable_filter as module, add iptable to my default> run level,, neither of them works.. I'd try first with ipta

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:51:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan Mckinnon squawked: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:21 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > > Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world', > > packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags > > shown. I as

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

2006-08-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:53:52PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked: > I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly > gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great > success. I have never had any wireless problems, using the ipw2200 > centrino

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 21 August 2006 16:22, fei huang wrote: > still no luck... I tried to build everything in kernel, and later > build additional iptable_filter as module, add iptable to my default > run level,, neither of them works.. I'd try first with iptables filters *disabled*, to make sure it's not a

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread fei huang
still no luck... I tried to build everything in kernel, and later build additional iptable_filter as module, add iptable to my default run level,,  neither of them works.. I found there is a warning message after emerge iptables says: ip forwarding is not included in iptables any more. what does it

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-21 Thread brettholcomb
Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear. I upgraded baselayout then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing up). I then went through the file and found that it appears ipr

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal access through web-browser...

2006-08-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 21 August 2006 10:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK, webmin has such a feature, but it seems to me rather > heavy, I would prefer light-weight solution. Any ideas? I think you have to use a java applet, see for example mindterm [1] or JTA [2]. [1] http://www.appgate.com/products/80

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:21 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world', > packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags > shown. I assume that this is because a USE flag has been removed from > either the ebuild or an ecl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:05 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Docs on /etc/conf.d/net are about as clear as mud from where I sit. The > > last thing I need to figure out is what exactly is the difference > > between config_eth0 and iface_eth0 entries? > > Oh

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

2006-08-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
I use the sourceforge ipw2200 stuff - never could get the kernel stuff to work, even on simple networks. bunyip ~ # esearch ipw2200 [ Results for search key : ipw2200 ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * net-wireless/ipw2200 Latest version available: 1.1.3 Latest version installed: 1.1.3

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two > alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? That most likely doesn't depend on the init process. Most time is consumed by the numer

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw200 wireless config problem

2006-08-21 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 8/19/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've used the drivers from outside of the kernel since version 0.6 and never had any problem. For what it's worth, I'm using the 2.6.17 kernel drivers without problems. (See also http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200.) -- ellotheth rimmwen

[gentoo-user] Packages being Re-emerged after portage update

2006-08-21 Thread Graham Murray
Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world', packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags shown. I assume that this is because a USE flag has been removed from either the ebuild or an eclass used by the ebuild. If this is correct, it would be nice if

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

2006-08-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am pretty sure I have the latest firmware installed---several versions are installed. I'll check whether I am using the package or the kernel-based firmware. I may upgrade the kernel, also. This will take a day or so. Thanks (again), Alan Davis On 8/21/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-user] Re: .keep

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: >>> Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? >> >> It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, >> eg esp during a package update. >> > I believe it is to do with how tar handles di

[gentoo-user] Nucleus CMS

2006-08-21 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want to install a blog on my web server and was going to install Nucleus CMS (http://nucleuscms.org/) as I've used it in the past but I can't find an ebuild. Is there an ebuild or is there a better package for blogging? Cheers, Dave. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread fei huang
On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 11:24, fei huang wrote:> yep, that's why I get so frustrated, I did exactly the same as what> the guide instructs..> any other posibilities that may cause the problem? Ok, let's see: you say that your eth0 (which I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file or directory

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/20/06, Goran Dubajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file or directory (No such file or directory) Does /usr/bin/nifd actually exist? What does ldd /usr/bin/nifd report? How about "equery check net-misc/howl"? -Richard -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/21/06, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect that ubuntu loads firmware that is incompatible with gentoo. More likely you just don't have the right firmware installed under gentoo. Check the dmesg output after attempting to load the module, and look for something about missin

[gentoo-user] Wireless WPA and ipw2200 problems

2006-08-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'll throw two chickens in one pot. I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great success. I have never had any wireless problems, using the ipw2200 centrino. I've not changed kernels for a long while, stil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initng or runit?

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:51:27 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > There's a third option that doesn't involve switching init systems, > > set RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc. I saw a significant > > speedup when using this, and it is fully integrated into baselayout. > > You saw a *spee

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread fei huang
On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 08:38, fei huang wrote:> did I miss something? or the guide is just incomplete?I see you are directly connecting the real host to the virtual host usingtuntap (eg, you don't use uml_switch). I would like the most direct a

[gentoo-user] Re: initng or runit?

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > >> Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two >> alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? > > There's a third option that doesn't involve switching init syst

Re: [gentoo-user] .keep

2006-08-21 Thread Shawn Haggett
Philip Webb wrote: > 060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: >> Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? > > It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, > eg esp during a package update. > I believe it is to do with how tar handles directories. If there are no files in a dir, tar w

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie ebuild question

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:58:47 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > Thanks a lot. 'nomirror' is not in the ebuild man page but there are > plenty of packages that are using it. It's covered in the ebuild HOWTO. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two > alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit? There's a third option that doesn't involve switching init systems, set RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no" in /etc/conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie ebuild question

2006-08-21 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:42 -0400, Andrew Frink wrote: > Jules, > I think you need to add something like(see below) Read the man page > for that one, or grep usr/portage/ Thanks a lot. 'nomirror' is not in the ebuild man page but there are plenty of packages that are using it. Thanks, jules >

Re: [gentoo-user] the user mode linux can't access network..

2006-08-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 21 August 2006 08:38, fei huang wrote: > did I miss something? or the guide is just incomplete? I see you are directly connecting the real host to the virtual host using tuntap (eg, you don't use uml_switch). You probably need to enable forwarding (and possibly masquerading) on the r

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 01:52 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 060819 David Corbin wrote: >> > I emerged a bunch of stuff this morning, and got this: >> > "Gentoo is moving toward common config file for all network interfaces. >> > I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examp

Re: [gentoo-user] Fastest raw copy method ? (/dev/sda -> /dev/sdb)

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 13:50 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested, whether there more speedier methods of copying > /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (both are identical hds -- only the serial # > differs :) as the good old > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs= dd is about as fast as

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 01:52 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 060819 David Corbin wrote: > > I emerged a bunch of stuff this morning, and got this: > > "Gentoo is moving toward common config file for all network interfaces. > > I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.example & it's woefully unclear > > how I port my

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation - about creating /etc/fstab

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:35 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > About creating /etc/fstab [snip] > Whether following entries are correct ? [snip] > /dev/vg/usr /mnt/gentoo/usr ext3 noatime 0 1 This one (and the other 4 LVM entries) should follow this format: /dev/vg/usr /usr e

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 17:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating > systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old > games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to > boot into Windows XP t