[gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: snip HtH Thanks Bo, that what what I was looking for. Thanks to everyone else as well. I will know have a long and fun night of playing in Gentoo : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: * on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot

[gentoo-user] AA Fonts

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
/fonts/dejavu/ /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFEEOXBeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAm8QAJ43+9woiYSxURl8WJSIjRAWWEduTQCSA3Fj

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
from speed of file creation/deletion. thanks Trevor. Did you try to boot from the livecd, or another boot cd, and see if you can even mount your JFS partition? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
some bugs. What issues are you having? Do you get any error messages? What are the specs of the box you are trying to boot it on? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
to your JFS drive and build your own kernel. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEQJaeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAnppAJ9qNlnsEhYZi9YMDfzOa1x88CdyEQCdF729 Byaw75q1y2+WTa8c+DmWMC0= =Mm9v -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: TN wrote: Jim wrote: Can you build a kernel? I could build a kernel for you with JFS support and zip up the kernel image from /boot and everything under /lib/modues. Or see if you can use a boot CD to boot, then chroot to your

[gentoo-user] Apache security tips

2006-03-10 Thread Jim
to help it out. I noticed that I get requests like the following in my apache log: 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] SEARCH /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. Thanks for any tips, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips

2006-03-11 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 159610784 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked: I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips

2006-03-11 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 159600160 Michael Stewart (vericgar) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to look into mod_security for apache as well. IIRC it is designed to protect from such attacks. Thanks for the tip. I will give mod_security a try. Jim -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-11 Thread Jim
for windows under Wine if there is no app under linux. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEE6W0eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAqkcAJ9/DdT7YqCOYS8LsqozhVCOYWs6uQCfZ3MO yPKVlAACPDMwT4QEwXa24h8= =g1sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
); // pop to top } /script Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFDsheqJ5Vbm4CxYRAlctAJ4lpChgD+3GqsA3toEVJ3FcnvicVwCeNasE GiNEzODFxCwEhHAvFYawbB4= =OC+n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
for 32bit. Once the 32bit is up and running, you then compile a 64bit kernel and boot into that and then just recompile your system. I am not sure if the above will work since I have never had to do it. Just thought I throw out the suggestion :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 147007040 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows under Wine if there is no app under linux. Thanks, Jim FYI, this did not work :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 162934872 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook

[gentoo-user] Gnome menu editing

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a gnome menu editing app that I can emerge in gentoo? There was a menu editor for Gnome in the latest version of ubuntu, though I can not remember the name of it. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
=0770 //laptop/C$ /mnt/laptop The above is should be one line. This will mount my laptops C$ share and give permission for everyone in the users group to read/write/execute. If you need to mount win2k then you would change cifs to smbfs, file_mode to fmask and dir_mode to dmask. Jim -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
would be a noticeable difference from running 32-bit on an AMD64. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbqCeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAtG0AJ9B+ZNw9EC5/Pqhgdei3ib6rHnUTgCfft9L 29GXO8rFqf2cCcrz5uFcGkw= =6M2I

[gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
burned down the road because I turned of Native Language Support . I would rather recompile now while I have the time ; ) Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
and this never happened. Maybe I used a different tool, can't remember. -Maxim Use wget -c. Example, you start to download http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso and your connection dies. To continue you would use: wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso Jim -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] -nls

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to have NLS

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFd+UeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAi0xAJ4rvSEyExCXRsJFFA0FGtzsfyp+XwCeOtBJ 8jJMZOdaMktryZtOqkRBr7c= =Qw+M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
remove /home!]) Thanks for the details Boyd. ;) I have plenty of space so I might try the chroot. I take it I can find chroot gentoo install instructions on the wiki? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-442920.html Do tell us if it works. Dang!!! Why does it have to be a kde app :K Does anyone know if jingle support is in any gnome app? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] slots

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
of mysql? Or do I need to emerge -c the older mysql? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?

2006-03-25 Thread Jim
* on the Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:59:05PM +0100, Jarry said: Norberto Bensa wrote: SATA VT8251 do not work on Linux. There are -very- experimental patches, but I've not tried them myself. Return the board and buy anything else that's not VIA based. I did. Bought nForce4-based board.

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
* size)); return 0; } END CUT You might want to try: # mem 225 Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance

[gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
not found !!! ERROR: net-misc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1526: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 923: Called src_compile tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, line 41: Called die I take it xmkmf is no longer used in xorg 7.0? Jim

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
somebody workign on it - seeing that the last update to tightvnc is dated July 2005, I doubt that anybody maintains it anymore. I am testing out the different vnc versions along with freeNX to see what will give me the fastest remote desktop. Alexander Skwar Jim

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:24 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jim wrote: Here is a little program I tossed together to free that cached memory. Hm. Why do this? Do you actually get any performance benefits after having freed the memory occupied by the cache? In theory, you shouldn't see

Re: [gentoo-user] setting the time

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
time when you shutdown/reboot. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky

[gentoo-user] gccmakedep

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
of xorg. I an trying to run x11-misc/vnc2swf to make a demo. However I cannot get it to with net-misc/vino or x11-misc/x11vnc. When I connect to local host, both of those apps go nuts and start a mirror effect. So it looks like I need to run a separate xvncserver to do the vnc recording. Jim

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap won't start

2006-04-02 Thread Jim
in *... ] net-mail/courier-imap-4.0.4 (/usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect) Maybe try the newer version with the newer ebuild or just make your own startup script? Jim -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.

2006-04-02 Thread Jim
rc-update add hplip default sudo rc-update add cupsd default Now you should be able to go to: http://localhost:631/ Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance

Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] OT: Application for video cutting ?

2006-04-03 Thread Jim
on reception. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image

2006-04-28 Thread Jim
option would be Ubuntu or bloated Fedora. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD

2006-04-29 Thread Jim
(ipw2200) working with Gentoo and more specifically with the installer? Thanks, Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)

2006-04-29 Thread Jim
. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Jim
*modern* webmail app? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???

2006-05-09 Thread Jim
idea to me ;) Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-11 Thread Jim
-terminal 2.14? It is *really* fast now. About 4x faster then xterm. If you use antialiased fonts, xterm gets *real* slow. xterm is more then 60x slower then gnome-terminal for scrolling a lot of antialiased text. http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/ Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag

2006-05-13 Thread Jim
characters so I built my systems with a global use flag of -unicode. It won't hurt to include Unicode. Basically if you want to work with any language other then English, just enable Unicode. Thanks, Mark Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with sys-apps/apmd

2006-05-19 Thread Jim
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 19:31 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I think you need to re-emerge libtool and then run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.4 allan Ahh, thanks for the tip. I never knew about fix_libtool_files.sh. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash and Xorg 7.1?

2006-06-09 Thread Jim
/xorg-server and x11-base/xorg-x11 and all the installed drivers I have under x11-drivers/*. I hope this will fix me up because right now I cannot get into Gnome. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend

Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs

2006-06-13 Thread Jim
to the end of all lines, except blank lines and now it gets me pretty much what I was looking for. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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, it looks like a

[gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
the parameters and contents of the initrd I'm currently using and/or generate a new one to permit booting from the RAID disks? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Cunning
gentoo system? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
, and how to fix this? Thanks, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Burwell
lines for each of of your RAID devices on the boot line, which tells the linuxrc scripts to start up your RAID devices in the initramfs so it can mount your LVM2 root partition. - Jim -- +-------+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-16 Thread Jim Burwell
) should wind up being only a bit slower than if you were swapping to a single drive. - Jim -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so

2006-01-06 Thread Jim Burwell
viewer to the virtual X display by connecting the viewer to hostname or IP:1. - Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with Firefox

2005-05-11 Thread Jim Hatfield
I think this may have started happening since a recent Firefox upgrade. If I try to download (say) vtun from vtun.sourceforge.net, it points me at the mirror list and I pick one, say Heanet. I get the what should firefox do with this file dialog and select Save To Disk and when I hit OK I then

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with F irefox

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:28:24 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: 1) if you're specifically talking about vtun, it's in Portage, so you don't even necessarily have to download it separately. I'm building a statically linked version for a remote Redhat box to which I only have ssh access and

[gentoo-user] Setting up a route through a point-to-point interface

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hatfield
Scenario: using vtun to build a Lan-to-Lan VPN. One end FreeBSD, one end Linux. On the BSD box I can set up a route directly through the tun0 device without having to assign it an IP address, like this: ifconfig tun0 up mtu 1450 -arp route add 192.168.10.0/24 -interface tun0 and it works just

[gentoo-user] Build failure when updating mplayer - header version problem?

2005-05-18 Thread Jim Hatfield
I did a 'emerge --update world' and the mplayer compile ended like this: cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -frename-registers -fno-pie -fno-pie -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2

[gentoo-user] Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/ # NISDOMAIN=insignia Which line does that comment refer to, the one above or the one below? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ypbind man page incomplete?

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
not set: terminator ~ # domainname (none) then ypbind will not start: terminator ~ # ypbind -d domainname not set - aborting. jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc

2005-06-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:35:46 +0100, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that the DHCP server gives out the hostname and DNS and NIS domain names, should these files be left empty? Answering my own mail. If /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname are both blank, we get: (none

[gentoo-user] Does the automounter support direct maps?

2005-11-29 Thread Jim Hatfield
The man page for auto.master(5) refers to direct maps, ie The mount-point for the direct map is always specified as /- in the auto.master map. My auto.master map looks like this: speyburn ~ # ypcat -k auto.master /home auto.home /mp auto.mp /- auto.direct and my auto.direct map looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Jim Burwell
up to boot up (the final key was the lvmraid= flags which cause the linxrc to start up the md devices. I had to read through the linuxrc scripts to figure this one out). Good luck. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Burwell
, the userspace tools for dmraid are presently keyword masked in gentoo, and the somewhat sparse documentation for dmaid seems to indicate that it's not quite ready for prime time yet. Looks interesting though. -- +---+ | Jim

[gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?

2006-03-15 Thread Jim Hatfield
They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?

2006-03-15 Thread Jim Hatfield
kashani wrote: Jim Hatfield wrote: They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. I've got three of them running Gentoo in our dev environment. 2005.1 and 2006.0 disks worked just

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Hatfield
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card (networking is set up for NAT). I had lots of problems initially with running the perl script which configures the network, but eventually

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?

2006-12-06 Thread Jim Burwell
kashani wrote: Grant wrote: Is there a decent webmail package in portage (or a layman overlay) that doesn't depend on PHP? what is the problem with php? Every webmail is going to need to depend on some kind of server side scripting. Nangus I am using perl and I'd rather not install

[gentoo-user] Finally got mplayer updated

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Hatfield
I posted ages ago about failing to update mplayer due to compile errors which seemed to be caused by it using header files under /usr/src/linux. So after a while of headscratching I did the obvious: renamed /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.NIU and re-emerged. No problem. Still don't know why

[gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

2005-07-14 Thread Jim Hatfield
The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead. It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A. Ah well. So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a

[gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server

2005-07-19 Thread Jim Hatfield
We have a Solaris based YP server. On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to: domain insignia broadcast and set NISDOMAIN to insignia in /etc/conf.d/domainname. If I run ypbind -debug I get: speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug parsing config file Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast parsed domain

[gentoo-user] Where to find smbmount?

2005-07-26 Thread Jim Hatfield
A system I have which is a year or so old has a /usr/sbin/smbmount, but if I use qpkg -f to find out which package owns it I get nothing. A recently-installed system doesn't have this file and I can't find any obvious package which would have it (except maybe Samba). Do I need to install Samba

[gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb

2005-08-22 Thread Jim Hatfield
I just bought a Pinnacle ShowCenter and am using it with some Apache/PHP/MySQL code to play mpeg movie files to a TV. It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb

2005-08-23 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:45:23 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for PHP but didn't see anything obvious. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd?

2006-06-23 Thread Jim Burwell
. Also, you can do all the kernel customization you wish (within reason) even if you use Genkernel by using one of the --menu|x|g|config flags, and/or --oldconfig. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network

[gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run

2006-07-08 Thread Jim Burwell
quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r12 (1280x1024-16 mode is listed in the /proc/fb0/modes file, so it's a valid BIOS mode) Any ideas ? Suggestions ? - Jim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch?

2006-07-11 Thread Jim John
Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild it? Thanks. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Ramsay
for nailing it down to some specific version ? Sure, mask anything higher than the version you want in your /etc/portage/package.mask file: dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Ramsay
-4.1.20-r1 but not mysql-4.1.21 -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Ramsay
the correct answer(?) would be to mask: ~dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 Then you get bugfixes but no new versions. -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Network connection repeatedly failing!

2006-08-16 Thread Jim Ramsay
playing daemon (server), then one of the front-ends (media-sound/ncmpc is a good console client) to set up your playlist. http://www.musicpd.org for more info and a list of other frontends. -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

2006-08-18 Thread Jim Ramsay
it, though. 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar' -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Ramsay
Anthony Roy wrote: More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage use flags and a packages compile options? Short answer is: Read the ebuild. Look for things like: econf $(use_enable ssl) if use ssl; then # Do many things fi use ssl epatch some_file.patch -- Jim

[gentoo-user] Re: Streaming Audio: source - server - clients.. What to use for source to send to server?

2006-09-01 Thread Jim Ramsay
on the fly and stream them as mp3 to the icecast server. I'm pretty sure media-sound/mpd can do this. -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Jim Cunning
, and going back to the archive, I still didn't see any reference to it. Sorry to have offended you. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Cunning
/pidgin, which I do use. Does this mean I can't continue using pidgin with KDE4? Are there good alternatives to pidgin, including OTR (the encrypted plug-in)? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Cunning
older kernel? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Cunning
Available versions: (2) 2.12.1-r2 2.14.1 {X doc examples} Installed versions: 2.14.1-r1(2)(23:46:21 09/17/09)(X -doc -examples) Homepage:http://www.pygtk.org/ Description: GTK+2 bindings for Python Any suggestions how to resolve this? -- Jim

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails SOLVED

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Cunning
On Friday 18 September 2009 02:50:03 Arttu V. wrote: On 9/18/09, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error: === checking for sh... /bin/sh checking Python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2

[gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Cunning
find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x

[gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:52:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird

[gentoo-user] Strange sunbird segfault

2009-10-18 Thread Jim Cunning
and other applications starting also get them. Anyone have any suggestions where to look when sunbird segfaults again? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30

2009-10-19 Thread Jim Cunning
*only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30

2009-10-20 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: [...] vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel

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