Re: [gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow

2007-10-01 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Sonntag, 30. Sep 2007, 20:15:06 -0500 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200 Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I detect there are users in passwd that don't have a shadow entry... that makes sense, because some users aren't allowed to log in. For

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dan Farrell, I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured that out for yourself. What's wrong with pxe grub. I use it and it works, so I haven't tried pxelinux. Is there a good reason to change if it works? -- Neil Bothwick Newsflash! Explosion at M$ beta

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:41:43 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Dan Farrell, I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured that out for yourself. What's wrong with pxe grub. I use it and it works, so I haven't tried pxelinux. Is there a good reason

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Montag, 01. Okt 2007, 07:51:36 -0500 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:41:43 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured that out for yourself. What's wrong with pxe grub. I use it and it works, so I

[gentoo-user] /tmp directory: best policy for clearing?

2007-10-01 Thread Alan E. Davis
Somenow I've overlooked that my /tmp file has been filling up with large files for over a year. May I ask what is a reasonable way to handle the /tmp directory, without deleting large files that are maybe only a few days old? Thank you for any ideas, Alan -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School,

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp directory: best policy for clearing?

2007-10-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:05 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: Somenow I've overlooked that my /tmp file has been filling up with large files for over a year. May I ask what is a reasonable way to handle the /tmp directory, without deleting large files that are maybe only a few days old?

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp directory: best policy for clearing?

2007-10-01 Thread Hex Star
This can be done easily as shown: *find /tmp/ -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Change +1 to the number of days old you want the files to be before deletion *

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp directory: best policy for clearing?

2007-10-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:05:03 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: May I ask what is a reasonable way to handle the /tmp directory, without deleting large files that are maybe only a few days old? How often do you reboot? If you don't measure uptimes by the seasons, setting WIPE_TMP=yes

[gentoo-user] Couldn't load XKB keymap...

2007-10-01 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Hello, I've got a big problem after updating world. My Keyboard - Apple Extended USB Keyboard - refused to print german umlauts, AT and euro symbol. Xorg.0.log: (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap setxkbmap quits reliably with Error loading new keyboard description $

Re: [gentoo-user] Couldn't load XKB keymap...

2007-10-01 Thread Emil Beinroth
Hi On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:35:21PM +0200, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: Xorg.0.log: (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap setxkbmap quits reliably with Error loading new keyboard description I had the same problem, emerge -1 xorg-server solved it. Maybe that'll work for

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Dan, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured that out for yourself. I'm almost certain to get stuck so I'll probably be back asking again. Let me know. Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2007-10-01 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 01 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: P.s : Actually rebuilding from these saved dumps requires a little thought - I'll post the steps if anyone new to dumps is interested in using this method  for themselves. Yes, please. I'm not completely new to dump, but I'd like to read about a

Re: [gentoo-user] Couldn't load XKB keymap...

2007-10-01 Thread Ralf Stephan
Search for setxkbmap on the bug server. A missing link on installation is the problem. We're waiting for a patch. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-10-01 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:56:50 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Arnau Bria, Hi Neil, [...] Create a two disk RAID1 using only your existing disk, marking the other disk missing. Then add your new disk and the RAID will automatically update it from the first disk. I'll do so. Thanks for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-10-01 Thread Arnau Bria
Thanks Steve, Finally, I solved my problem with your advices. Cheers, Arnau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2007-10-01 Thread Jason Messerschmitt
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:43:41 +0200 Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: P.s : Actually rebuilding from these saved dumps requires a little thought - I'll post the steps if anyone new to dumps is interested in using this method  for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails at ffmpeg

2007-10-01 Thread Jason Messerschmitt
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:38:31 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, This one is still giving me grief: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv xine-ui These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:47:37 +0200 Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, 30. Sep 2007, 20:15:06 -0500 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200 Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I detect there are users in passwd that don't have a shadow

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:57:05 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I tinkered some more with pixegrub and broke it again. Now pxelinux won't work either. I've attached my dhcpd.conf, sans rndc-key. Please note that this

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI with Radeon X850 on AMD64

2007-10-01 Thread Reinhard Kreim
Am Montag 01 Oktober 2007 schrieb Daniel D Jones: Trying to get DRI working on a Radeon X850 on AMD64. In my Xorg log, Im seeing: (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2007-10-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Francesco Talamona wrote: Yes, please. I'm not completely new to dump, but I'd like to read about a complete dump-backup solution. Ciao Francesco Well - its not complete by any stretch of the imagination... but the attached (hopefully not striped off by the mailing list

[gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Jed R. Mallen
Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file for a new kernel version if it's *not* a revision-upgrade and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-10-01 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:14:58 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in the states. Will the DVD play in Mplayer? Tony try emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:19:57 pm Jed R. Mallen wrote: Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file for a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:19:57 +0800 Jed R. Mallen wrote: Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file for a new

[gentoo-user] per-ebuild compil options

2007-10-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, after recompiling another bunch of libraries just to unstrip them, I'm wondering if I can specify FEATURES and CXXOPTS (for example) on a per-ebuild basis. eg. I would always want to build glib and glibc with nostrip in the FEATURES, and -ggdb in the compile options, but all other

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Hex Star
It is quite simple, take this config file which is the default distro config: http://esc69.midphase.com/~moiress/good_config (compiles most everything as modules, if you don't want the compile to take forever you might want to change the config to only include what is absolutely necessary to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-10-01 Thread forgottenwizard
On 23:25 Sat 29 Sep , Patrick May wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:17:14PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 13:41 Sat 29 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-09-29, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Hex Star
Oops sorry forgot this was the gentoo list XD ... Just use this config: http://esc69.midphase.com/~moiress/good_config (rename to .config!) and do a make oldconfig and enjoy :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:07:08 -0700 Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is quite simple, take this config file which is the default distro config: http://esc69.midphase.com/~moiress/good_config (compiles most I don't really need the config files. As I've said I've been doing the make oldconfig