Re: [gentoo-user] about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (03/09/07 14:28) William Xu wrote: Hi, why the `work' subdir under /var/tmp/.. has this sort of permission setting: , | drwx-- 3 portage portage 80 Sep 3 10:43 work ` This way, it seems rather difficult for a non-root user to access them. Currently I'm trying to debug

Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 3. September 2007 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: This setup is for a desktop PC that has a user not a bunch of users. I am *NOT* running a server with a bunch of users. If I was, I'd be using quotas to prevent the problem described above. To solve a problem that you otherwise

Re: [gentoo-user] failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 03 September 2007, LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS wrote: Dear Sirs After I had downloaded and burned on K3B the forementioned CD I don't get it booted on my machine amd64 +3000. I've already its manual and doc, I upgraded my K8VXSE motherboard BIOS...nothing! I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread William Xu
Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May be because this directory is meant to be used by portage only. Since it's just a tmp dir, only allowing portage user to read seems too strict. IMHO that is so because of FEATURES=... userpriv ... (please check the syntax). Same must be valid for

[gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Recently I noticed an inconsistency between the behavior of 'emerge -n' and the advise shown while executing 'emerge --depclean'. emerge --depclean -pv ===snip Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always be

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:39:56 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: localhost ~ # grep python /var/lib/portage/world ###(--No result) localhost ~ # emerge --noreplace dev-lang/python Calculating dependencies . . . ... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 03 September 2007, William Xu wrote: Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May be because this directory is meant to be used by portage only. Since it's just a tmp dir, only allowing portage user to read seems too strict. It's more than that. It's the portage *BUILD*DIRECTORY*

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thank you both for the quick replies. The answer to my problem is htpdate. I was searching for such an utility for quite some time. I still have one problem, though. When installing Gentoo, I probably chose the USA as my location. However, I'm located in CET (that is, GMT+1). From htpdate, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (03/09/07 16:13) William Xu wrote: Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May be because this directory is meant to be used by portage only. Since it's just a tmp dir, only allowing portage user to read seems too strict. May be 'yes' but it's kind of security measure - so while

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:47:48 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:39:56 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: localhost ~ # grep python /var/lib/portage/world ###(--No result) localhost ~ # emerge --noreplace dev-lang/python Calculating dependencies . . .

[gentoo-user] Re: about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread William Xu
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's more than that. It's the portage *BUILD*DIRECTORY* (which just happens to be short-lived, not temp), that's where all your merges are built. Just like you don't want to give just anyone the ability to overwrite your binaries in /bin, you also

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 03 September 2007 10:15:48 Marc Joliet wrote: localhost ~ # grep python /var/lib/portage/world ###(--No result) localhost ~ # emerge --noreplace dev-lang/python [SNIP] localhost ~ # grep python /var/lib/portage/world ###(--Still no result) localhost ~ # Python is part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 03 September 2007 10:40:39 William Xu wrote: It's more than that. It's the portage *BUILD*DIRECTORY* (which just happens to be short-lived, not temp), that's where all your merges are built. Just like you don't want to give just anyone the ability to overwrite your binaries in

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:42:07 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Python is part of the system profile, so it doesn't need to be added to world. Portage knows this. While this is true --noreplace should still add it to world. Why? When system is included in world?

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:05 -0500, Liviu Andronic wrote: For some reason, it persistently considers my timezone EST (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5). I reconsidered Gentoo's localization guide and now /etc/cond.d/clock contains these two options: localhost liviu # nano /etc/conf.d/clock [..]

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 03 September 2007 11:58:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:42:07 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Python is part of the system profile, so it doesn't need to be added to world. Portage knows this. While this is true --noreplace should still add it to world. Why?

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/3/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:05 -0500, Liviu Andronic wrote: This setting is only used when emerging timezone-data, to copy the correct file to /etc/localtime. Either re-emerge timesone-data or cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime.

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean+noreplace

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 12:14:58 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 03 September 2007 11:58:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:42:07 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Python is part of the system profile, so it doesn't need to be added to world. Portage

[gentoo-user] playing mms with totem

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
When I fed mit-arvind-tribute-dennis-220k.asx to totem, a popup appeared saying No URI handler implemented for mms Is there a plugin I need or an extra use flag? thanks, allan ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available versions: 2.16.5 2.18.2 2.18.3 {a52 dbus debug

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thread wikified: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Synchronize_time:_simple_and_lightweight_solutions On 9/3/07, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/3/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:05 -0500, Liviu Andronic wrote: This setting is only used when

Re: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem

2007-09-03 Thread Nick Rout
can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both do. On Tue, September 4, 2007 2:43 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I fed mit-arvind-tribute-dennis-220k.asx to totem, a popup appeared saying No URI handler implemented for mms Is there a plugin I need or an extra use

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:08:27 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been unable to boot into my gentoo system due to a Machine Check Exception. This is an AMD 64 system. MCE for AMD is enabled in the kernel (2.6.21 gentoo-sources). I am unable to boot in to turn off MCE

Re: [gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:19:15 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are gentoo users using? Anyone? I recommend submitting this question (or rather, reading responses to others' similar questions) on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro Gentoo UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, a vanilla Gentoo installation could be considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since such a

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-03 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Liviu Andronic wrote: Thread wikified: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Synchronize_time:_simple_and_lightweight_solutions I've added a paragraph and made some syntactical/gramatical corrections. Great article! - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman -

[gentoo-user] Dependency problem

2007-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
Well, with bare X up, I decided it was time to install a window manager. I picked xfce4 and icewm. I emerged xfce4, and after a lot of packages, it finally told me: reemerge x11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set Well, I emerged icewm with no problems, then went back to xfce4 by changing my

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-03 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Dell Inspiron 1721 is based on AMD ATI M690T chipset, Turion 64 X2 dual core processors with speeds from 1.8GHz to 2.2GHz, and ATI Mobility Radeon X1270 so How/where do I read which chipsets are covered by which drivers? I would personally

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/3/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Dell Inspiron 1721 is based on AMD ATI M690T chipset, Turion 64 X2 dual core processors with speeds from 1.8GHz to 2.2GHz, and ATI Mobility Radeon X1270 so How/where do I read which

Re: SPAM: Re: [gentoo-user] failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-03 Thread LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS
Citando Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 03 September 2007, LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS wrote: Dear Sirs After I had downloaded and burned on K3B the forementioned CD I don't get it booted on my machine amd64 +3000. I've already its manual and doc, I upgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you. I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that there is something untoward going in on my hardware. Earlier on, this was intermittent. I also wonder whether a register was set or a cmos flag, because after I booted the Ubuntu partition, the machine did boot with no

Re: [gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

2007-09-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/1/07, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are gentoo users using? Anyone? I am trully no specialist in the domain, but browsing these links might be of help:

mplayer fonts (was: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem)

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both do. Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it complained that it could not load bitmap font sans-serif. So I went to preferences and pointed

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency problem

2007-09-03 Thread Lothar Braun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Hendrik, Hendrik Boom wrote: Well, with bare X up, I decided it was time to install a window manager. I picked xfce4 and icewm. I emerged xfce4, and after a lot of packages, it finally told me: reemerge x11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag

Re: SPAM: Re: [gentoo-user] failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-03 Thread Danilo Marcelo
Cara, tem que gravar como imagem, senão não boota. In english: You must record the CD in image mode to make a bootable CD. 2007/9/3, LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Citando Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 03 September 2007, LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-03 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I suspect that ATI has integrated an existing VGA core into a new chipset. yep I stick with the radeon driver if I want any real support. That driver did not work either It's a waiting game. One day, when googling, I'll find a post

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/3/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I suspect that ATI has integrated an existing VGA core into a new chipset. yep I stick with the radeon driver if I want any real support. That driver did not work either It's a waiting

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your solution is the better one, though. I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do with it. The thing is, you are

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating to emacs 22.1

2007-09-03 Thread felix
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:45:07AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: 2. splash screen Every file I open first shows me the copyright/logo/help page, like you see when you open emacs without specifying any file. To see the file I just opened I have to click / type / move cursor. How do I get rid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-03 Thread LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS
Citando Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:41:43 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS luizbcampos at click21.com.br writes: Dear Sirs After I had downloaded and burned on K3B the forementioned CD I don't

[gentoo-user] ssmtp and php mail()

2007-09-03 Thread Stefano Guglia
hello everybody!.. trying to use mail() + ssmtp in a php script but no way.. my host: pc-0001.localarea mail server: pc-0004.localarea I can send mail to remote smtp server thru ssmtp (and its alias sendmail) via command line (and can also pop back to my client), but if I try from php, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 4. September 2007, LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS wrote: Citando Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:41:43 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS luizbcampos at click21.com.br writes: Dear Sirs After I

[gentoo-user] S-ATA Disk freeze

2007-09-03 Thread Louis Miller
Hello, I have a problem with my S-ATA disk. After boot up the computer and logging in my hard disk freeze and the following messages will be produced: Sep 4 01:00:58 bigblue ata3: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400 next cpb count 0x2 next cpb idx

[gentoo-user] Re: about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-03 Thread William Xu
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that during unpack and compile the permissions on the files in the work dir could be anything depending on the permissions inside the tarball the files might come from or depending on the build scripts (which may be run as

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Dan: I'll look into this. Time to tear the old box apart again. Thank you again. Alan On 9/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your solution is the better one, though. I did follow the