Re: [gentoo-user] What happens to samba?

2006-02-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:53, Rafael Fernández López wrote: In every bootup I've to press Ctrl+C to kill samba startup. It won't start. I don't know what happens to it. Is this happening to someone else? Bye, Rafael Fernández López. Nope. What do the samba log files tell you?? Jerry

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., CUPS problems... surprise,

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove

2006-02-06 Thread Jerry McBride
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Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 05 February 2006 13:59, Uwe Thormann wrote: unsubscribe NO! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 2:31pm up 140 days, 5:56, 4 users, load average: 1.93, 2.00, 2.03 --

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 04 February 2006 19:39, John Jolet wrote: Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: trying to use sudo, but it keeps

[gentoo-user] mythtv backend problem...

2006-01-14 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm having a real odd problem running the backend server for MYTHTV... The short story is, I can't startup the backend server via the startup script at /etc/init.d/mythbackend... start does not work. It claims it starts but it doesn't, no errors, nothing at all in dmesg or messages and worse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper, broadcom 4320 and 802.11b

2005-12-29 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here an ndiswrapper expert? I would most welcome some setup help... I'm working with a COMPAQ R3320US which sports an internal wifi setup using the broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Installing the ndiswrapper and the correct windows drivers, the setup process seems to go without a hitch.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 29 December 2005 08:24, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, maybe this question is a little bit related since it regards non Gentoo-specific topics. I would like to add a specific suffix to a list of files. For example i have files of the type: duck1.jpg duck2.jpg duck3.jpg

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 09 December 2005 18:20, michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. ---snip--- ... I should only have to look up something once, then that info is available locally until I reboot. Or, like that... So, how do I know if this is doing what I want? If anyone knows the

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-11-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 27 November 2005 14:10, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote: unsubscribe NO! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 20 November 2005 15:24, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 20 November 2005 14:49, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Optional things aren't standard. They are optional. PAM is optional. You don't need it - at least not for basic setups. It is NOW

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 29 October 2005 20:55, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 29 October 2005 20:14, Bob Sanders wrote: Since I'm rambling now, guess I should do the rest of the memory download... Let me join you in rumbling. ;-) Nice post Uwe. You beat me to the response. Have a good day. --

Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes [SOLVED]

2005-10-29 Thread Jerry McBride
I fixed my ALSA problem. YEAH!!! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

2005-10-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-user-es] unsubscribe

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McBride
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Re: [gentoo-user] lots of wierd traffic with smb mounted share

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 21 October 2005 07:03, Iain Buchanan wrote: I have autofs mounting a windows share on my network, 's'. This is the line from the automount file: s -fstype=smbfs,defaults,gid=mounter,dmask=770,fmask=660,credentials=file ://server1/public However, I noticed recently there was quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 16 October 2005 18:25, Ian Brandt wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get the dmesg for the boot prior to the current one? No. Once the kernel reboots, the dmesg data is lost. Unless ofcourse you put this in /etc/conf.d/local.start: #!/bin/bash # /etc/conf.d/local.start /bin/dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 17 October 2005 13:18, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: No. Once the kernel reboots, the dmesg data is lost. Unless ofcourse you put this in /etc/conf.d/local.start: #!/bin/bash # /etc/conf.d/local.start /bin/dmesg /var/log/dmesg Then you will at the least

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 17 October 2005 14:18, Richard Fish wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: No. Once the kernel reboots, the dmesg data is lost. Unless ofcourse you put this in /etc/conf.d/local.start: #!/bin/bash # /etc/conf.d/local.start /bin/dmesg /var/log/dmesg FYI, the bootmisc init script already

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 10 October 2005 04:00, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 03:19, Jerry McBride wrote: I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine. Feature enhancements are on hold until the 227 currently

[gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine. I thought I'd ask here first, to see how everyone feels about them and if there's too much negative response I'll just drop the idea. Two new features I'd like to see

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 09 October 2005 18:57, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:19:50 + Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine. I thought I'd ask here first

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 09 October 2005 19:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:19:50 +, Jerry McBride wrote: 3- Make a list of hooks available to hackers, like myself. I know I can implement the above features, but the emerge source is huge and teasing out the details is proving more time

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 22 September 2005 03:03 am, Qiangning Hong wrote: I tried to transfer a large file (~300MB) to a windows machine from my gentoo laptop: # mount -t cifs //winbox/movies /mnt/samba -o iocharset=utf8,umask= # exit $ cp largefile.avi /mnt/samba The transfer starts and eats 100%

[gentoo-user] c-sources, 2.6.13-ck5 corrupt.

2005-09-20 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else notice that the ck5 version of the ck-sources is flawed? Each atempt to emerge it results in a failure at during modules build at: drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c: In function `yenta_probe': drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c:986: error: `KERN_ERROR' undeclared (first use in this

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 11 September 2005 12:56 am, Paul Hoy wrote: On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Dave Nebinger wrote: Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ Senior System Administrator UNIX Expert For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to a mailing list ;-) -- LOL VBG --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 08 September 2005 01:23 am, James wrote: gentuxx gentuxx at gmail.com writes: Why not just sit down and read the source? I'm sure that's going to happen too. But having a working machine with iptables/netfilter is like having a lab-class to go with the (theory) lecture part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote: Michael Crute wrote: I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:14 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Jonathan Nichols wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You know bud, read some rules, be polite. There are many who consider top posting to be just

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:55 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote: What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered laptop. For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2 and gz? -- Kirk

[gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-12 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject line of this message. The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never heard of two of them... Anyone else know about LZMA or 7ZA? The

Re: [gentoo-user] jpeg-mmx [Build Error]

2005-07-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:30 am, simply change wrote: hi! i just try to emerge jpeg-mmx new version. de following error came This is already covered at bugs.gentoo.org... There's a typo in the jpeg-mmx ebuild. Where it lists the configure options, change include-dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 07:54 pm, Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 01:18, giovedì 28 luglio 2005, Pupeno ha scritto: Hello, I want to have the /home of my laptop encripted, with an external key (in a CD or floppy, until I get an usb pain drive), specially to be able to change the passphrase

Re: [gentoo-user] pam error, cant su -

2005-07-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:23 am, Jorge Boscan wrote: pam does not compile *** Building pam-unix module of the framework... ---snip--- * Checking if all modules were built... * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. I just had this problem while upgrading an older

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 16 July 2005 08:33 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yesterday I removed openafs as I haven't used it for ages. However, now I can not login as and the system won't start properly (netmount and those depending on it don't run). I get messages about not being able to find

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to Migrate to 2.6. But when I reboot into my new genkerneled system, I cannot use X.org anymore, it complains about agpgart not working. Even If I modprobe the kernel mod or even compile it in directly it rejects it. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA progress

2005-06-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:59 pm, Digby Tarvin wrote: Thanks Richard, The yenta tip certainly seems to have helped. The system now seems to recognise the existance of the bridge, and when I insert the 3Com card, it recognises both the network interface and the serial port from the modem.

[gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-05-29 Thread Jerry McBride
Well kde-3.4.1 has been in portage for a while now, but no source code is turning up on the mirrors... Anyone have an idea when this show goes on the road? I'm holding off building a new desktop computer so I won't have to goi through the kde emerge routine a second time... Jerry --

Re: [gentoo-user] LinkSys wpc11 V3

2005-05-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 29 May 2005 10:44 pm, Randall wrote: I am considering trying Gentoo and was wondering if it was pretty good at recognizing LinkSys wireless PCMCIA cards in a laptop ? The one I use with SuSe and have used with Red Hat is a version 3 card, never could get the version 4 cards to work.

[gentoo-user] Portage... where dreams come from....

2005-05-25 Thread Jerry McBride
Everytime I go to the portage tree, I find myself CONSTANTLY finding new gems and thing-a-ma-bobs that make my linux time a fun time. Thank you. Jerry McBride -- ** Registered Linux User

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to keep a networkcard into 100mbit full duplex

2005-05-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:07 pm, Qian Qiao wrote: On 24/05/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Whats the best way to keep my networkcards in 100mbit full duplex, now i have put the commands in the /etc/conf.d/local.start. Shouldn't most network cards/hubs/switches be

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't know how it works. Thanks for any advice. I have a number of text mode only servers running iptraf

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic monitor

2005-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:13 pm, q-parser wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote: Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't know how it works. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Absolutely FANTASTIC... has aes too!

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:28 pm, rob3 wrote: Hi all, Hi Rob, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:50 am, Willie Wong wrote: last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the gentoo-user list is the best place to ask this question at this moment. Thanks to you and Bastian, I'm coming up to speed on

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 April 2005 12:52 pm, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? Don't know about favored. It's the one I use =) So far it hasn't failed me... It hasn't failed you? You mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 11:57 am, James Colby wrote: Hello everyone - I apologize if this has been covered before, but I have not been able to find an answer through searching. My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells me that it wants to install kde-base and

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

2005-04-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote: Huh? I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery at least gives me a chance to gracefully shut down the computer. One of the methods I used to

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

2005-04-18 Thread Jerry McBride
of mine used to say, make a decision, it is the right or the wrong decision, only time will tell. Not making a decision that is the real big mistake. So pick any fs, and learn it is problems (googleit) and be prepared for them. That is the best you can do. 2005/4/19, Jerry McBride [EMAIL

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

2005-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:21 pm, A. Khattri wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:51 pm, W.Kenworthy wrote: One possibly severe disadvantage I can see is losing the whole tree due to corruption of the loop file (it happens). Then again, it will be smaller and easier to backup! I've been working with encrypted loops for a year or two now and

[gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-12 Thread Jerry McBride
I found an way to speed up portage and save some drive space at the same time The first thing I tried... I happened to have some spare room on a scsi harddrive and simply moved /usr/portage and /var/db to the scsi drive. Then created links from the scsi pointing back to the original

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. On my notebook, I'm still using ext2 for power management reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:28 pm, Robert Persson wrote: Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using xmms-1.2.10-r13. I've no idea how long ago I emerged this version. Is this a problem with this particular

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