Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Xorg + DRI on G3?

2007-06-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 May 2007, David Gurvich wrote: The end of block range error is trivial and happens on most ppc macs. The real problem is the XIO error. That usually happens when there is no driver in the kernel for your video card, the driver is misconfigured, or the wrong driver is used in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace operation or so it seems .. but not always.

[gentoo-user] PHP and glsa

2007-08-31 Thread A. Khattri
glas-check shows that PHP on one of my servers is vulnerable but in examining the GLSA and comparing my version against it I see I am running a version that is unaffected by this GLSA - so do I need to tell GLSA to ignore that package or is there something else Ive missed? root# glsa-check

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml And what if you dont want to upgrade?! -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml And what if you dont want to upgrade?! Never mind, I figured it out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

2006-02-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to /usr/local/mailman. IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to place it to /opt or

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop portscans but it will stop brute force attacks directly on port 22. I

Re: [gentoo-user] user command auditing

2008-07-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: Is there a tool or a way of keeping track of which commands user's are executing on a system? I understand that history files can be wiped out and they don't really contain the time at which a command and it's arguments were run so I refrain from

Re: [gentoo-user] Time one hour off every time I start

2005-04-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Antoine wrote: Could you expand ever so slightly on baselayout version? He means that depending on what version of baselayout you are using you may have to either edit /etc/conf.d/clock or /etc/rc.conf - the exact one is left as an exercise to the reader :-) (Did you look

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Ok, how about: cd /dev /sbin/MAKEDEV generic Or how about /bin/MAKEDEV console -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation

2005-04-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, J. Michael Morse wrote: I get the following message: !!! ERROR: sys-apps/texinfo-4.8 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I have yet to figure out

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh - temporary lock if too many login attempts?

2005-04-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, James R. Campbell wrote: If you use PAM, have a read on: 'man pam_fail_delay'. Also, if you are doing this because someone is banging on your sshd from say the Internet, then you should also look at the following sshd_config options: PermitRootLogin AllowUsers Ideally,

[gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains a lot of control codes. -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jason Stubbs wrote: It's already handled earlier. I was considering moving the whole lot downward but then there is color output when bad options are specified. Hey that was fast ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Last I want to be able to record and distribute TV on the network and need some pointers as to both hardware and software. A lot of people like MythTV (mythtv.org) - ebuilds exist. It has a client-server architecture so you can have less powerful setop

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap results: need help

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, death rince wrote: 3306/tcp open mysqlMySQL (unauthorized) Maybe the root login in MySQL has no password? (This is the default when you install MySQL. It is considered good practice to put a password on the root login after installation). -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: Is there a pendant A pendant? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Warm up TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C Scary. Plus some authentication!! Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed... -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: I also recommend reiserfs. I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root filesystem (325000-35 files) would take a bit over 10 minutes usually. With reiserfs,

[gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few questions: 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already installed). 2. Do I need udevtools? 3. Do I need coldplug? Nice to see gentoo-source now using 2.6 kernels :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not present on my boxes I guess I meant udev - I just checked and it looks like its already installed. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: I kinda avoid ext(2|3) for pure prejudice. Don't have anything to complain about them, but when I migrated from Mandrake, I left behind everything that had anything to do with RPM distros*. Since they use ext3 as default FS, I

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mal Herring wrote: re-installed using a Stage3 and success... (had to use Stage3 for reasons of time...) being a little tired after going @ it all day - anyone know what support is needed for a DL380G4 network interface ? are they intel cards ? # emerge pciutils #

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mal Herring wrote: Now after booting the 2005.0 cd and mounting /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 it would seem that I have only a single directory of which is lost+found. Have I just lost this mornings work and is it worth re-installing ? What could have caused this to happen and

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways of doing graphics when I'm not in X? Sort of like older DOS type graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and writing directly into the card's memory? Yep. (Great for

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolution not working with DHCP

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: While the network connection works fine (I can ping any valid IP, such as my email server, my home network, etc). However, DNS name resolution is not working. Some things to check: 1. Can you ping that name server? 2. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: I assume he just wanted to get a life... Yeah, having a family, kids, will do that... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: New products in the store, check it out: http://store.gentoo.org/product_info.php?cPath=22products_id=48 Nice hoodie... :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Raid: using smartctl on individual drives

2005-04-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, fire-eyes wrote: I'm using 100% hardware raid. I have a raid1 as well as a raid5. I can use smartctl on each array, but I can't seem to figure out how to aim it at one physical disk. I think you will need to find out if there's any software that allows you to query and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql for MythTV - fails to set password

2005-04-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I should probably be looking for a real HOWTO on running MythTV under Gentoo. Plenty of those around ;-) http://tinyurl.com/bur7l -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eamon Caddigan wrote: I know a few people who swear by elvis, but I'm a little disappointed that portage lacks good ol' BSD vi (unless I'm missing it). Yes, Im regularly annoyed by vi on BSD boxes... vim rocks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm just poking around looking at kernels again this morning. Maybe I've missed it but I cannot find one in portage that uses Ingo Molnar's realtime-preempt patches. Is there one? I am now using both ck-sources as well as the realtime-lsm module from

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV (or possibly mysql) stopped working after a kernel rebuild

2005-04-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Sasha, I have since done this in the last hour. I had saved the kerenl config this morning before finding the i915 driver. I went back to that config, turned on i915 support, and rebooted, etc. I did that before I wrote this message. however

Re: [gentoo-user] Saving Space on Backups: rm -r /usr/portage/* ?

2005-04-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, fire-eyes wrote: I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups? No, because /usr/portage is rsync'ed. You probably

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Paul Kain wrote: Hi there I get this error at boot modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/modules.dep no such file or directory have you tried running modules-update ??? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for online contact manager?

2005-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Travis Osterman wrote: Try Plaxo. Don't know about Linux compatibility but it should work with Wine... www.plaxo.com I was really hoping for more of a web application and I would rather host it myself if possible. Maybe one of the groupware packages like

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe error

2005-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Paul Kain wrote: nope no joy :( When you installed the current kernel, did you do make modules_install ??? On 4/25/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Paul Kain wrote: Hi there I get this error at boot modprobe: FATAL: Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

2005-04-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system. It is considered good practice to do a dry run with emere -pv before installing any package to see what USE flags are in use and what dependencies there are. If you dont, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD

2005-05-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: So no I have a minimal 2005.0 LiveCD booted and am logged in via ssh. I'm following the installation handbook section 4 regarding partitioning. However I don't seem to have my SCSI drives available. I have 3 drives in the system as follows: 160 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-06 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: One more question: should I use a meta-package like vpopmail, or would a plain qmail+mysql (maybe with a custom admin webinterface) be enough? Its a matter of preference. If you use something like vpopmail, email will be stored under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XBox as a standard PC - Cromwell vs. grub bootloaders

2005-05-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Answering my own question with a partition answer, grub installs fine but does not boot using an ext2 boot partition. I am told online that the EvolutionX BIOS only supports somethign called FATX so I'll have to learn about how to format using that file

Re: [gentoo-user] About runlevel's

2005-05-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Shields wrote: I think you're missing what he wants (and what I wanted to). See: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level AFAIK, the only difference between 5 and 3 is the lack of X in 3. So you can achieve the same result merely by disabling xdm from starting

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: very error prone, easily a security risk, often gives counterintuitive results and the error reporting in the log usually doesn't help (client denied by server configuration) Yes, means your server config has overrides switched off. This is the

Re: [gentoo-user] About runlevel's

2005-05-09 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Pere Gentoo wrote: Yes, of course, this is the unique differences between runlevel 3 and 5, but I think it should be enough, isn't it? I think have or not have the X working was a big difference about resource using, isn't it? Why not maintain this difference with a run

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless workstations questions for MythTV

2005-05-11 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: (I'm concerned here about keeping the DHCP servers from colliding since the Wireless router also has a DHCP server. When looking at wireless options for my home LAN, I already had a router doing DHCP so I decided to get a wireless brigde rather than an

Re: [gentoo-user] iPodder

2005-05-11 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: As it seems something is missing. But what.. According to the readme the following stuff is needed: Prerequisites: - Python2.3+ python-gtk wxPythonGTK libwxPythonGTK2.5_2 pythonlib libpython2.3 libxml2-python Python and

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless workstations questions for MythTV

2005-05-11 Thread A. Khattri
I was merely commenting about using one DHCP server - I dont have a specific answer about having more than one DHCP server. Presumably, if they are on separate LANs (or separate subnets), having two DHCP wouldn;t be a problem. On Wed, 11 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for the response.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: I misdiagnosed the problem. My wife's computer (blossom) is running RH9 and she gets faster DNS resolution than baby does. Our ISP assigns all addresses (including DNS) via DHCP. Her /etc/resolv.conf file was being updated by her dhcp client. I

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Users with access to shell!

2005-05-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 12 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the point, my server is a DataBase Server, I mean, users log in and run a C++ script and then they work with the database files.. THEY HAVE TO LOG IN, so there's only few that has access to the bash shell, because they need it!!!... so, I

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility -debug 382 kB [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel

2005-05-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in kernel, recompiled, copied the bzImage and .config to /boot as usual and rebooted the system. But booting stops after: --- Loading gentoo...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo

2005-05-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Antoine wrote: possible, but highly unlikely. One of the dvds was quite old and I have successfully played/ripped dvds of that vintage. Plus it would make older dvd players no longer work. That's right - some of us may recall the early release of Celine Dion's

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Comments in my previous email are based upon my experience with both Windows Mobile 2003 regular and Phone Edition. Both had full IMAP function and both have the same namespace issue. Both see subdirectories but with the 'Inbox.subdir' format that

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 15 May 2005, askar ... wrote: I have thinkpad laptop 240X. I have Windows98 and Suse installed on it. I have a external floppy drive (not usb) and external usb CD-ROM drive. I installed Suse first booting from floppy and when system booted I was able continue installing Suse with

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 things vhost directories are not directories?

2005-05-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 15 May 2005, kashani wrote: I'm guessing that you haven't defined /var/www/* as directories and given them permissions. In my Apache1 installtion I have these lines in commonapache.conf. #Restricted set of options Directory / Options -All -Multiviews AllowOverride None

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I believe that the way to handle this is by SNMP, and that the HP agents are SNMP agents which can be queried by SNMP software on my machine. I've never messed with SNMP before, so does this sound right? Is the RAID array done in hardware? If it is, then

Re: [gentoo-user] th0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c00 at 821885478/821885538 command 000c0000.

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I believe that the ethernet interface is a Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet. My FreeBSD box has the same main board and that is what shows up in its boot messages for that interface. On this Gentoo box I get a bash-2.05b# ifconfig -a

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink troubles

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, sIbOk wrote: I did: USE=pic emerge glibc emerge prelink # prelink -amR prelink: /usr/bin/gnome-name-service: Could not find one of the dependencies prelink: /usr/bin/goad-browser: Could not find one of the dependencies prelink: /usr/bin/loadshlib: Could not find one of

Re: [gentoo-user] th0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c00 at 821885478/821885538 command 000c0000.

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: bash-2.05b# lspci lspci: /usr/share/misc/pci.ids, line 1: parse error bash-2.05b# Seems lots of crap in /sbin is corrupted cannot execute reboot either Weird. Did you do som updates or a kernel upgrade recently? -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, kashani wrote: completing them any faster than the old server. However load remains a steady 0.10-0.20 whether there are 300 threads or 500. This appears to be the main benefit of the new threading. Better scalabilty and more efficient use of resources in a highly

Re: [gentoo-user] th0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c00 at 821885478/821885538 command 000c0000.

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: But the jfs thing happened again (with indeterminate effects so far) Bad disk??? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any ideas??

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 15 May 2005, timothy johnson wrote: I am doing a fresh install on a VIA Mirco-ITX board. This isnt my first gentoo install, usually they go great. Maybe these will help: http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto http://www.walibe.com/sections-printpage-60.html

Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: Bear in mind that was a quick and dirty bit of bash scripting that hadn't been tested beyond making sure it didn't give a syntax error. Consider it as reliable as an alpha version of Windows :) Surely you mean the full release of Windoze? ;-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: check permissions of all my files!

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like, if it's possible, some kind of report daily by email or in some log file with this information...? Tripwire do that? http://www.google.com/search?q=tripwiresourceid=firefoxstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Share serial port over network

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Robert G. Siebeck wrote: Actually ser2net comes close to what I was thinking about, but they recommend telnet as client. Could you possibly use netcat to read/write to ser2net??? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 of the HOWTO http://tinyurl.com/7h8dr the `cmaidad` agent collects data from cciss/cpqarray drivers, so surely that hadles everything for me? `cmaidad` is running, and I believe my SCSI array is of

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, askar ... wrote: 11) tar -xvjpf /temp/stage3file.bz2 and here I had a error: tar: illegal option -j I have question: a) Does it mean tomsrtbt doesn't support '-j' option? Its possible some features were switched off to make the binaries small enough to fit on the

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: Well, this is more a repost than an answer ... antonio By the way, i'm using gnome-2.8.3 ... OK, Ill bite ;-) Google really is your friend. Apparently, /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys has the MIME type and icons in XML format (note: this

Re: [gentoo-user] acpi vs apm

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, James wrote: I was just builging a kernel for an intell PIII processor. I initially selected 'ACPI' and not 'APM'. The kernel build failed with this message: UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: A discussion about enterprise linux distros came up, and my old boss (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said And Gentoo will *never* be one of those distributions.. before going back to his conversation. The Gentoo servers were

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Colin wrote: Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive Sure

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl-0.9.7e-r1 / perl / Net::FTP

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Christopher Wall wrote: What is stranger though is when taking the source, running ./config, and making libssl.so.0.9.7, then copying into /usr/lib the error goes away. Commenting out Use Net::FTP; also makes that error go away, but breaks the script. Net::FTP only

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel [m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/group wheel::10:root,waltdnes,user2 What does

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Pingveno wrote: If a Gentoo system uses entirely stable packages, upgrades are a simple command away. But then you have to wait hours, even days, for much of the system to be recompiled. It's more than most users would tolerate. There are reasons many roll their eyes when

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run 'grpconv' afterwards? Normally, one would use vigr to edit /etc/group. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Julien Cayzac wrote: I regard sys admins running RedHat with great respect, since this distro is mush more difficult to maintain than Gentoo :-) They must be some king of gurus :p Most of the time they are very tired. Then one day they decide to install Gentoo... --

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: does bzip2 exist? you could do something like bzip2 -cd | tar -f - or something... Why not just bunzip2 it and then gzip the stage file instead? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hello all, I am setting up a way to have my laptop automatically get a correct ip address. When I am at my office, I have a fixed ip; at home (on a private network) I use dhcp. I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want something

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-19 Thread A. Khattri
gentoo... askar On 5/19/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: does bzip2 exist? you could do something like bzip2 -cd | tar -f - or something... Why not just bunzip2 it and then gzip the stage file instead? -- green machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). The SATA controller is a Silicon 3512. Before, with devfs, I used dmraid to

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: yes my clock has been going craizy lately as well i use rdate to time.nist.gov to sync it and it appears that my clock always skips some seconds and minutes in time, i use local clock. rdate? NTP is your friend. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Hendré Claassen wrote: Linux is alive; I really hope that I will be able to make a living out of OpenSource in the not too distant future ... A lot of us do and have done for years... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rob wrote: No, the hour changes and the minutes change. Please edit /etc/rc.conf and read the comments therein regarding the system clock. You may also want to emerge NTP to keep the clock up-to-date. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System crashes with monitor off

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Colin wrote: Yeah, this is a weird one. I've noticed that if I leave my system (2.6.11-gentoo-r9) idle with the monitor off during an emerge, it will hang. However, if the monitor is on, then it won't hang and will keep emerging. Normally, leaving it idle for sixteen

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up I know you're very into alternate archs especially MIPS and SPARC (which is great BTW). So is it true that Niagara SPARCs will have

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, River Yan wrote: I came across a problem. I used cmd emerge --unmerge python :( I just wanted to update my python to python2.4, but I forgot the dependence of emerge. Always always always always run emerge with -pv. excpet of using bootable disk to reinstall the

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: So my guess is that there are some conflicts between the various mime files on my system. Especially, how are the mime* files in /etc connected to the ones in /usr/share/mime-info/ ? Those are probably nothing to do with GNOME. BTW, did you

Re: [gentoo-user] stuck mount points

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm running into a problem while testing my install scripts on the minimal CD. as I try to fix failures, and unmount disks to restart installation process, reasonably frequently, I cannot unmount my target drive even though there is nothing on

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I'll have another go at this later today. Since I know you've worked with Proliants before I was figuring you wouldn't need to look at the docs - maybe I'll post any future questions to the HP Forums. Thanks for your help. Ive worked on a few Proliants

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Rob wrote: Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that solved the problem CLOCK=local. This does not appear in the Gentoo manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted a doc bug report, so that no one else gets bit with

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 22 May 2005, q-parser wrote: So I installed ntop, ran it and now what? If you read the docs, you'll probably see you need to connect to the machine from a web browser on a specific port. BTW, if you need to graph bandwidth, I highly recommend cacti. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] No floppy drives found by 2005.0 install CD

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: I saw this on one machine, and thought maybe the machine was flakey. Now I see it on another machine. The 2005.0 install CD comes up with a gazillion devices in /dev but there is no floppy drive!!! Is this a reportable bug? Is there a way to force

Re: [gentoo-user] world file clean-up - glibc linux-headers??

2005-05-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Stroller wrote: On May 18, 2005, at 3:11 am, Mark Knecht wrote: As per some conversations last week I've been doing a lot of clean up of my world files. I've moved from a high of 235 files down to my low today of onl 112. On a related note, today I took a

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Peng wrote: Meh. I do not have JavaScript enabled in Thunderbird, and I don't even know if it can have Java support. And I'm just not too worried about an HTML vulnerability. And if there is one, I'm quite sure Mozilla will fix it promptly. I dont know why people are

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned using smbclient to access the dir but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: I use mdadm and I have not compiled md and raid0 as modules, but directly into the kernel. The problem is that while booting md doesn't find the raid properly. If you,re interested, this is part of the output of fdisk -l

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP

2005-05-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I have installed net-snmp to send snmp info to a snmp server the info it get is good but not enough, i need to send/see the index load also, this is the info i'm get until now: what elso must i configure ? Have you tried using snmpconf to

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Antoine wrote: Basically we have to have a wisiwig environment for there to be any interest. Even minimal tags will be too much for some of the long-toothers in the company. I had a quick look at wikiwig, which looks pretty much like it fits the bill. Has anyone used it

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Richard Fish wrote: If you _do_ decide to rebuild the raid array, and you want the kernel to autodetect things when it starts, then you need to have the right partition types and create the array with the persistent-superblock option, or use mdadm to create the array.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

2005-05-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc. I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here

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