Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

2005-12-28 Thread Mattias Merilai
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? You will want to check out

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Mattias Merilai
Antoine wrote: I'm glad you didn't write humor-impaired, because then we'd have had a long discussion on whether the longer humour stands out and represents a great community better than the traditional (albeit more recent) humor... Didn't that ou/o stuff in humour/humor, saviour/savior,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-13 Thread Mattias Merilai
Neil Bothwick wrote: Yes, it now just says Saviour Linux comming soon! I wonder when the distro will include a spell checker... echo sci-fi/saviour-linux spell /etc/portage/package.use emerge saviour-linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Mattias Merilai
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to

Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge

2006-01-17 Thread Mattias Merilai
Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the –with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the –with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do

Re: [gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer

2006-02-21 Thread Mattias Merilai
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble trying to save alsamixer settings. I had tried every little thing I know and could make it to work, if I reboot my system alsamixer settings go all to mute :( Anyone have a clue about it ? -- An application asked: Requeires

Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts

2006-02-28 Thread Mattias Merilai
Ow Mun Heng wrote: or do I need to chgrp /bin/mount into group-owned by disk/wheel? Yes you do, and for /bin/mount, it already should be 4755 root:root. SUID bit makes the program to be executed in the rights the owner of it, so if you want to have a program run SUID root you will have to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Mattias Merilai
Harry Putnam wrote: I noticed while emerging mysql that the ./configure flags used during compile contained one that says: --without-docs Not a good plan for someone knowing zip about mysql. How can I change that to --with-docs from cmdline? Another thing I noticed is this: [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless machine

2006-03-12 Thread Mattias Merilai
Stefan Istvan wrote: Hello! I've tried to setup a diskless environment based on this howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml When the client starts booting and try to download the kernel, it says that it is not a valid image. Why? Thank you for your help in advance, Istvan

Re: [gentoo-user] adding unicode use flag?

2006-03-14 Thread Mattias Merilai
b.n. wrote: Hi, When I first installed Gentoo I missed the +unicode use flag, that I would have liked to have. I didn't worry for a long time, but I have been annoyed enough a bit here and there to consider adding it to my use flags. I'd do it straight, but I remember this old thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] setting the time

2006-04-03 Thread Mattias Merilai
Daniel Waeber wrote: hi i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync error

2006-04-18 Thread Mattias Merilai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I find the problem is caused by utf-8. My local changed from zh_CN.GB2312 to zh_CN.utf8 recently. But I don't know how to correct. Unicode still messes up a lot of portage/compile thingies. You will want to leave your system locale to C or POSIX and set

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Mattias Merilai
Steven Gill wrote: Genkernel copies the file into /boot/ BUT names the System.map as System.map-genkernel-x86-2.6.xx-gentoo-rx so all you need to do is copy/rename this file as System.map (note the capital S) and everything should be fine. The kernel should be able to find System.map whether

Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD

2006-05-23 Thread Mattias Merilai
Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 22 May 2006 17:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM Two maxtors have died on me, and a lot more on my friends. I'd go with