[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks > complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so much > earlier. > > [1] Screen falls into this category too. I can confirm about screen, I use it everywhere now. But I've yet to try LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Dale
Jim Burwell wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Philip Webb wrote: >> >>> 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> This question "Is LVM a good idea?" keeps cropping up on mailing lists. I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits and have yet to find a valid downside for ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Jim Burwell
Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> This question "Is LVM a good idea?" keeps cropping up on mailing lists. >>> I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits >>> and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. >>> >> >> If you haven't used it, i

Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 04:12:10 W.Kenworthy wrote: > > > On a mixed stable/unstable x86, which binutils should one generally > > > use? > > > > So why do you use multislot at all? > > On a previous job (long ago now) I was switching gcc's and needed > multislot. Now I dont. I presume if I rem

Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 03:24 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:56:06 W.Kenworthy wrote: > > Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version > > inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update > > is in (not listed below) > > > > bun

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-10-08 Thread John Blinka
Not an elegant solution, or one that sheds any light on the nature of the problem, but this process worked for me: 1) Removed everything from the default run level except for the system logger and net.eth0. 2) Rebooted and started nfs by hand successfully after the reboot. Added nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: > So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the "lost" RAM data to be > recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still > physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology > and know-how recover it? In other words, is this a serious brea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> This question "Is LVM a good idea?" keeps cropping up on mailing lists. >> I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits >> and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. >> > > If you haven't used it, it looks like a questio

Re: [gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:56:06 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version > inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update > is in (not listed below) > > bunyip ~ # binutils-config -l > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 > [2] i686-pc-l

[gentoo-user] which binutils?

2007-10-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Something that has bothered me ever since I had some version inconsistencies way back in the dark days ... now a new binutils update is in (not listed below) bunyip ~ # binutils-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 * [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.17 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, > If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra complexity, > which could bite your fingers unexpectedly for little real gain. It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so muc

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:08:40 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whether the software compiled against newer headers will still work > depends solely on the kernel. In your example, when you also decide to > run a 2.6.10 kernel, then the software relying on newer features (due > t

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:25:23 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! > > I'm looking for some info in gentoo wiki and I think I have all fine: > > APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL -D PHP5" > in conf.d/apache And y

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:44:21 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: > The splice system call was added with 2.6.17 and corresponding headers. If > you build an application that has optinal (on compile time) support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: > This question "Is LVM a good idea?" keeps cropping up on mailing lists. > I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits > and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra complexity, which could bite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb Thufir: > On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:05:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Yes. Mount it, (recursivly) change the group of the top level directory > > and give group write permissions, then add all users which should have > > full access to that group (they need to l

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with > Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... > > I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but > trying to get it done automatically is trou

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
Arnau Bria wrote: > You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! I actually just did this upgrade as well, and also found php not to work (and revdep-rebuild didn't catch it). Re-emerge php and look in /etc/apache2/modules.d for the mod_php file. If you've got that and you'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.2.6 missing /etc/apache2/mime.types

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Barlow
Tim wrote: > Change the TypesConfig directive in Apache2 to the location of your > mime.types file (in this case, /etc/mime.types). So I ended up just clobbering my configs and starting over with the default ones because lots of things were being "weird". Now I just have to figure out how to do a

[gentoo-user] Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:05:56 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Yes. Mount it, (recursivly) change the group of the top level directory > and give group write permissions, then add all users which should have > full access to that group (they need to logout/login to change their > group membership in

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Alfredo Perez
Thank you Liviu Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez wrote: > Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive > does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings > Behaviour > Desktop Icons > Choose "File/launcher icons" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but trying to get it done automatically is troublesome... I setup a softlevel named "wireless". I deleted the net.eth0 hardware connec

[gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: > Hi, > > my current default gcc is of version 4.1.2 but I would like to > switch to version 4.2.1. > > As root (only) I can do > > gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.1 > > but this switch is lost after re-login. > Furthermore I cannot switch in non-root mode. > (BTW I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Fernando Antunes
On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Fernando for the info. I followed your > instructions and now my pen gets mounted. :)) > > Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive > does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? > > Thanks Sorry, I don´t know ho

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive > does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings > Behaviour > Desktop Icons > Choose "File/launcher icons" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Alfredo Perez
Thank you Fernando for the info. I followed your instructions and now my pen gets mounted. :)) Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Thanks On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:55:15PM -0300, Fernando Antunes wrote: > On 10/5/07, Fernando

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:27:16 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why so many changes in this upgrade?¿? > > You'd best ask the Apache devs. I thought the changelog for 2.2.6 > > was quite short myself. > Well, it was more a rhetorical question, but thanks for your reply :-) A nu

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:43:08 +0100 Steve Dommett wrote: > On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: > > You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! > Have you run revdep-rebuild, or even simply manually re-emerged PHP > after updating Apache? Both, I always do a revdep-rebu

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: > You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! Have you run revdep-rebuild, or even simply manually re-emerged PHP after updating Apache? > not sure if all those dir should be empty... > could you please confirm? I have only php.ini

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:52:41 +0100 Steve Dommett wrote: > On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: > > My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. > > Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in > > firefox: > > I'm just guessing, but Apache 2.2.6 removed

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dommett
On Monday 08 October 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: > My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. > Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in firefox: I'm just guessing, but Apache 2.2.6 removed "index.htm" from the list of default index files. It may be possibl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 October 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Extra benefits of LVM: You won't need this right now for your > > simple desktop with one drive, but it's good to know what else LVM > > can do: > > > > Snapshots. > > Well, I "disagree". This feature i

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Extra benefits of LVM: You won't need this right now for your simple > desktop with one drive, but it's good to know what else LVM can do: > > Snapshots. Well, I "disagree". This feature is also very useful on a single drive setup. Reason why: Backup.

[gentoo-user] HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, my current default gcc is of version 4.1.2 but I would like to switch to version 4.2.1. As root (only) I can do gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.1 but this switch is lost after re-login. Furthermore I cannot switch in non-root mode. (BTW I'm using the zshell) Many thanks for a hint, Helmu

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Thufir: > I seem to have the permissions wrong in fstab.  On boot I do have an icon > on the desktop for the LVM volume, which can be browsed as root, but not > as a user. > > I want read/write permissions to the LVM volume as user "thufir" (or any > user, rea

[gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, My apache2 worked fine until lasta Friday I update it to 2.2.6. Now, when I try to access my drupal site, I see this error in firefox: You don't have permission to access / on this server. and looking error log file: Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/www.site.com/htdo

[gentoo-user] permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-08 Thread Thufir
I seem to have the permissions wrong in fstab. On boot I do have an icon on the desktop for the LVM volume, which can be browsed as root, but not as a user. I want read/write permissions to the LVM volume as user "thufir" (or any user, really). Can this be done? arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # fdi

[gentoo-user] gthumb scroll wheel cycles through images

2007-10-08 Thread Thufir
Shouldn't the scroll wheel in gthumb cycle through, browse, the images rather than change the magnification on a specific image? Can this be changed? I found Ubuntu references on this, nothing gentoo specific. thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list