Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Dan Farrell: Secondly, in addition to some kind of driver for IDE, either generic or specific, you need the cdrom driver (module: cdrom.ko) for cdrom support. My guess is, you upgraded the kernel and fell into the commonly experienced PATA driver burn --

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 11 May 2007 04:29, Grant wrote: Hello, I've been using everydns.net as my site's nameserver but they were down for a long time yesterday and are currently down again today. I've used zoneedit.com for years and have never had a problem. If this remote machine is my only web and mail

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Florian Philipp
quoth the Florian Philipp: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? Another thought: Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM for. Have

[gentoo-user] Problems recieving digest

2007-05-11 Thread burlingk
What format is the digest usually sent in? I got an email that seems to be a bunch of attatchements that had been stripped from the message. Is there a way to set my settings so that I get a text only digest? Most lists I am on, that is the default, so I was surprised. Please respond to this one

[gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread David Harel
Greetings, After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot time I got panic halt on root mount

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a tar.gz, Use rpm2tgxz to do that. then use emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz. (IIRC that's a way you can install a binary package...). That should make portage aware

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:46 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary, which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /. Portage binary packages aren't

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Anyway, how

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Friday 11 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a tar.gz, Use rpm2tgxz to do that. then use emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz. (IIRC that's a way you can install a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread jarry
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: Would you use djbdns for this? It would be a more secure choice than bind :) Well, I do not know djbdns well so I can not compare djbdns/bind, but I think bind security is not so bad: it can run as non-root user now, moreover bind supports chrooting right out the

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Mick wrote: Also noticed that OpenOffice fonts look odd, but I think these are Gtk controlled? No, Open Office uses it's own font rendering engine -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: Greetings, After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb ext David Harel: After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot

[gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Martin S
Just recently tried using locate foo.conf | cd to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of locate. I did a brief google on locate, but

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: Just recently tried using locate foo.conf | cd to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the

[gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Turi Tropea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people :) why on a fresh install of 2007.0 (using the minimal cd and the official howto) when i try to emerge kde-meta is required gcc-3.3.6 that does not support my cflags (pentium-m) this is a little bit of emerge kde-meta kdm These

[gentoo-user] OT - !!! An error occured while trying to send logmail:

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
Since I installed an exim server on a couple of my machines yesterday I have been getting this error when I try to emerge anything: !!! An error occured while trying to send logmail: {'root': (501, 'root: recipient address must contain a domain')} I have the domain name set in the DNSDOMAIN

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... If the OP doesn't need any bind-specific feature

[gentoo-user] OT - A serious problem with my exim configuration

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On my new exim install on my server box, I have a serious problem. It will accept mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the relevant portions of my config: domainlist local_domains = @ espersunited.com : baby.espersunited.com : localhost domainlist relay_to_domains

Re: [gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 May 2007, Turi Tropea wrote: Hi people :) why on a fresh install of 2007.0 (using the minimal cd and the official howto) when i try to emerge kde-meta is required gcc-3.3.6 that does not support my cflags (pentium-m) this is a little bit of emerge kde-meta kdm [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:53:42 +0200, Martin S wrote: Forgot you're still toppost sensitive in this group. And always will be, once oyu've seen the one true way you don't change :) Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan suggestion. You could use a script. e.g.

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread David Harel
Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the problem in a glance). Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 11 May 2007 16:39, David Harel wrote: lilo is double checked. Below the relevant section. boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda1 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-r8.v0 label=SDA1-20-r8.v0 append=root=/dev/sda1 This last line, written this way, looks wrong or at least useless

Re: [gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Turi Tropea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Naga ha scritto: emerge sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 and gcc-3 will go away :) Worked very well!!! now i can emerge my kde without any interruptions :) (ehm...i hope) thanks thanks thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32)

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Martin S writes: Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan suggestion. You could use a little shell function like this one. Add it to your ~/.bashrc or somewhere like that. locatecd() { oldIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' results=( $( locate $1 ) )

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Martin S
That works yes. A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Martin S 2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: Just recently tried using locate

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Martin S
2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:29:03 +0200, Martin S wrote: A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Or type cd double-click middle-click Forgot you're still

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - A serious problem with my exim configuration

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk GROSSE OSTERHUES
On 11/5/07 15:35, Michael Sullivan wrote: [...] domainlist local_domains = @ espersunited.com : Try it with a : after the @ ;) baby.espersunited.com : localhost domainlist relay_to_domains = hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 70.234.122.248 : 70.234.122.250 : 70.234.122.251

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:39:57 +0300, David Harel wrote: Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the problem in a glance). Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 OK, you seem to have run into the Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and replace it with ATA thing that happened in 2.6.18... In

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
And if you use the new one, you have to be aware that it is attached to the SCSI subsystem now. This means that you have to enable SCSI as well as support for SCSI disks (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y) and SCSI cdroms (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m = sr_mod.ko), just as you would do with SATA. Thanks,

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
What do I need to do to set up mailman to work with exim? I have a test list called phantom that I tried to send a test message to from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: exim_main.log:2007-05-11 11:47:37 H=adsl-70-234-122-248.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (baby.espersunited.com) [70.234.122.248] sender verify

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 May 2007, Martin S wrote: That works yes. A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Make it a shell function if you need it often. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... If the OP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread kashani
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it...

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb maxim wexler: Problem is persistent-CD.rules that keeps getting re-written every boot. Hmm that's strange. Doesn't happen on my system(s). I've already written a 10-local.rules to handle my _one_ CD, /dev/cdrom- /dev/hdc and _one_ DVD, /dev/dvd- /dev/hdd

RE: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Öhler , Alessandro
Hi I follow this treat now for a while, but something is still missing here. RPM is not just a Binary Package. I agree most of them are. Some of the RPM´s also have some scripts embedded which are not handled if you convert it with rpm2targz or simular. For example i still look for an way to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:43 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi Michael, Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 11 May 2007 12:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007, Mick wrote: Also noticed that OpenOffice fonts look odd, but I think these are Gtk controlled? No, Open Office uses it's own font rendering engine Thanks Alan, Would the OOo rendering engine work with freetype? I

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
Can you post the relevant lines from 10.local.rules. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10* BUS==ide, KERNEL==hdc, SYMLINK+=cdrom, GROUP=cdrom BUS==ide, KERNEL==hdd, SYMLINK+=dvd, GROUP=cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ see http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Francisco Rivas skrev: Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so much...I have to thank you to all for this experience... Well we got a lot of work to do for help Johannes. You fell confortable installing the ati-drivers manually?, if your aswer is Yes, then: 1.-

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread JD
-Original Message- From: Johannes Skov Frandsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X Francisco Rivas skrev: Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: If I can't get this working, I'll have to go back to sendmail, which I know it works with... I use Postfix and it plays nice with Mailman. I'd highly recommend it! R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-11 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, 1 Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007, 13:39:21 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:43 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread Francisco Rivas
Johannes, It is a good idea try with other version of the xorg. please post something about your experience. On 5/11/07, JD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Johannes Skov Frandsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:24 PM To: