Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Causey
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:02:38AM +, Stroller wrote: It might be helpful to post the EXACT error messages. I doubt if I'm able to help, but it seems to me that posting without them may be one of those

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: 2009/1/4 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit

[gentoo-user] Searching for an audit / grsecutity like tool

2009-01-05 Thread schwidom
Hi, im searching for an tool like grsecurity or app-armor. There is an tool 'audit' which can track the actions of an program or the system, but this tool is not able to restrict the access. Is there any easy to install tool, which can restrict the access in rule based form like audit? Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Mick
2009/1/4 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit tab for the

[gentoo-user] Re: Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-05 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I think I'm getting the hang of the thing now tho. I am finally getting use to the space key being on the left instead of the right on my old phone. Dale I too have a razr, and have never gotten anything to work with gentoo and the basic razr phone

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
090105 Willie Wong wrote: What is Uniserve? Sorry, I assumed the context made it clear: Uniserve is my ISP. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp folder

2009-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:28:44 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: when i rebooted Gentoo Linux Server, the /tmp folders got cleaned up. Is there a way i can prevent it from cleaning it up. Edit /etc/conf.d/bootmisc Also I know that the /tmp directory should not be used for storing important files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:13:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: Oops, I should have been more clear. Although there's no such entry in my .bashrc, and also none in /etc/skel/.bashrc, but bash completion *works* without flaw both in login shells as well as in interactive

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: 090105 Willie Wong wrote: What is Uniserve? Sorry, I assumed the context made it clear: Uniserve is my ISP. Okay... hum, have you checked your outgoing mail logs to see if cron attempts to send mail when fetchmail

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:13:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: Oops, I should have been more clear. Although there's no such entry in my .bashrc, and also none in /etc/skel/.bashrc, but bash completion *works* without flaw both in login shells as well

[gentoo-user] Re: test

2009-01-05 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:09:31 +, schwido wrote: test fail.

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:42:40AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Starting yesterday IIRC I've been getting one of the messages below every time my Fetchmail cron job polls my 2 ISPs for new mail. The content of the msg clearly comes from my own Fetchmail, as it refers to both ISPs, but the msg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:20:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: If your /etc/skel/.bashrc doesn't have an entry for bash completion but your ~/.bashrc does, then I guess it's not needed anymore but probably was needed a long time ago. AFAIK, updates won't change files in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-05 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I think I'm getting the hang of the thing now tho. I am finally getting use to the space key being on the left instead of the right on my old phone. Dale I too have a razr, and have never gotten anything to work

[gentoo-user] /tmp folder

2009-01-05 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi when i rebooted Gentoo Linux Server, the /tmp folders got cleaned up. Is there a way i can prevent it from cleaning it up. Also I know that the /tmp directory should not be used for storing important files. Any ideas ? Thanks and Regards Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: Thanks. I'll try your suggestions this evening when I get home. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:33:29AM -0800, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: Since the problem does not appear under X, bash is not broken and you probably have a mis-configuration somehow. The rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:27:01PM +, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit tab for the bash completion, it

[gentoo-user] Re: Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-05 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm not sure how this will appear as far as threading. Gmail doesn't send me a copy of my own emails so I can't reply to myself. No Gmail does not send you a copy. But, with Gmane you can reply to your posting or anyone else's posting by going

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:54:04AM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: Uhhh yeah... not developed anymore... anyone know why that is? To your original question (I seem to have lost the post, so this reply is a little bit out of order in terms of threading. Sorry!) Sometimes packages

[gentoo-user] test

2009-01-05 Thread schwidom
test

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
Thanks. I'll try your suggestions this evening when I get home. On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:33:29AM -0800, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: Since the problem does not appear under X, bash is not broken and you probably have a mis-configuration somehow. The rc scripts that are run are

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:20:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: If your /etc/skel/.bashrc doesn't have an entry for bash completion but your ~/.bashrc does, then I guess it's not needed anymore but probably was needed a long time ago. AFAIK, updates

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:17 -0800, Grant wrote: The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. Can anyone help with this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp folder

2009-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 January 2009 11:58:44 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi when i rebooted Gentoo Linux Server, the /tmp folders got cleaned up. Is there a way i can prevent it from cleaning it up. WHY? The correct usage of /tmp per the standard is: Files in this directory must not be expected to persist

[gentoo-user] Re: update brings no recognition of tty hence no login

2009-01-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: [...] Does anyone recognize this problem without further diagnostics? If not then I will be back to the problem machine later tonight and supply more information. Ideas about what info would be most useful would be appreciate What packages did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type

[gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: As to the question of why that is... I guess the author got bored? The link to the package catmur.co.uk/gentoo/udept is a dead link now (404s) I am not even sure if the original author can be reached at the e-mail address given by Dirk. For the record

[gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-05 Thread Grant
The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. Can anyone help with this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:17:27PM -0800, Grant wrote: The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. Can anyone help with this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-05 Thread James Stull
Will do, thanks for your assistance! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /etc/portage/packages.use: dev-java/sun-jdk -doc Typo. It's /etc/portage/package.use. You need to emerge -N world after that.

[gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
Starting yesterday IIRC I've been getting one of the messages below every time my Fetchmail cron job polls my 2 ISPs for new mail. The content of the msg clearly comes from my own Fetchmail, as it refers to both ISPs, but the msg itself originates at Uniserve, as is shown by the list of routings

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:48:29PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I don't doubt all can be done in other ways, but that one tool combines a lot of functionality... though I'll admit I mostly use it for checking dependencies and reverse dependencies (q doesn't do reverse I don't think) and just

[gentoo-user] Xine and Mplayer Sound problems

2009-01-05 Thread sean
Recently whenever I try to play a CD, or a file such as an .avi, Xine instead generates a xine-out.wav and no sound. The video portion looks perfect. If I play the xine-out.wav, it is the audio track from the file I tried to play. Trying to play that same .avi with Mplayer yields a pop-up window.

[gentoo-user] Re: udept dead upstream

2009-01-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: So it's not perfect. equery works better, but slowly. I agree with you about the tools: it is hard to change one's habit and use new tools. I keep telling myself to learn eix but just never got around to doing it. dep outputs several kinds of trick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, connected, now what?

2009-01-05 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm not sure how this will appear as far as threading. Gmail doesn't send me a copy of my own emails so I can't reply to myself. No Gmail does not send you a copy. But, with Gmane you can reply to your posting or anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
090105 Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: have you checked your outgoing mail logs to see if cron attempts to send mail when fetchmail is called? Thanks for the suggestion: the last few lines of /var/log/syslog are : Jan 5

[gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, guys I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it. It is easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before. But when it's enough, it's enough. While booting, I can see the init scripts progress up to the time xdm (kdm) starts. Then I lo gin and start to

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/6 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com Hi, guys I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it. It is easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before. But when it's enough, it's enough. While booting, I can see the init scripts progress up to the

[gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes: Also, have you updated either cron or fetchmail recently? The problem originated 090104 c0520 , when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile. However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed: I've restored the

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Francisco Ares
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.net wrote: 2009/1/6 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com Hi, guys I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it. It is easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before. But when it's enough,

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
Sorry to answer a question with another one, but how do I know to which group the services should be added? That really might be the solution of my problem. And, yes, it is really X . This is the output from rc-uptate -s : acpid | default alsasound |

[gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Denis
Hello and Happy New Year! I was just updating from kernel linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r7 to linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 using the oldconfig method, and I cannot get the new kernel to load my network. I have Intel network hardware that runs on the E1000 driver, which I generally compile right into the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Francisco Ares
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.netwrote: Sorry to answer a question with another one, but how do I know to which group the services should be added? That really might be the solution of my problem. And, yes, it is really X . This is the output from

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:56:28PM -0500, Denis wrote: Hello and Happy New Year! Happy new year to every members here. I was just updating from kernel linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r7 to linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 using the oldconfig method, and I cannot get the new kernel to load my network. The use

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.netwrote: Sorry to answer a question with another one, but how do I know to which group the services should be added? That really might be the solution

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Nick Cunningham
rc_parallel=NO (I have tried once, but gave up) and it is really X, I use verbose framebuffer images Gonna check that openrc, though. But, while re-emerging sysvinit: * WARNING: You have older net.* files in /etc/init.d/ * They need to be converted to symlinks to net.lo. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:56:28PM -0500, Denis wrote: Hello and Happy New Year! Happy new year to every members here. I was just updating from kernel linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r7 to linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Nick Cunningham n...@monkeydust.netwrote: ... Ok, that net.* error may mean you have some config in the wrong place (or a really old config file). Network configs for all interfaces should go in /etc/conf.d/net and then to ensure they get started you create

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:59:13AM -0200, Francisco Ares wrote: snip Avoid the HTML format in your mail, please. Also, learn to quote. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 03:55:30 schrieb Nick Cunningham: If thats xdm then ive no idea why its starting so early, Because it's perfectly fine to do so. On my system, there are about 10 services which are started _after_ xdm (kdm). Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

2009-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 03:52:54 schrieb Francisco Ares: Tried to use net.eth2 in boot group: it works, There's no need to do so, they belong into default. but I still have the init scripts frozen as X starts, up until I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and watch them go on. What is the next service

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009 02:56:28 schrieb Denis: I have Intel network hardware that runs on the E1000 driver Did you try e1000e? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:25:44 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The use of 'oldconfig' when upgrading from a previous .z kernel (as in 2.6.z) is a bad idea. There are too much changes between such upgrades. Please retry a compilation from scratch That's just FUD. oldconfig is intended to be used