Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Steve Brenneis wrote: I had problems with Xorg 6.8.2 and a duplicate symbol in libbitmap.a. This was a well-known problem and the two most popular fixes seemed to be to switch gcc to the non-hardened version or to rebuild Xorg with the static use flag. I chose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Wilson
Have you tried kmyfirewall ? Steve On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:27, Dale wrote: James wrote: Dale teendale at vista-express.com writes: Now figuring out the iptables command is another matter. It never has really made much sense to me. I just searched for a good script and ran

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

2006-03-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to re-direct email to it

[gentoo-user] SELinux

2006-03-08 Thread Steve B
of this. I don't have the luxury of recompiling the kernel because this is a virutal server running under Xen 2.0. Thanks! V/R Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] qmail

2006-03-05 Thread Steve B
. Thanks. V/R Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] qmail troubles

2006-03-04 Thread Steve B
I'm trying to setup a qmail sever via the documention found at gentoo.org. I have used these instructions before and all went ok, however now I'm having problems. Everything is starting fine, but when a user tries to auth I get their clients are telling them the server quit and the following is

[gentoo-user] qmail troubles

2006-03-04 Thread Steve B
I'm trying to setup a qmail sever via the documention found at gentoo.org. I have used these instructions before and all went ok, however now I'm having problems. Everything is starting fine, but when a user tries to auth I get their clients are telling them the server quit and the following is

Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

2006-02-13 Thread Steve Evans
/~rcw/abcde/page/ which is available in gentoo. I am sure that there are many others though! Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux

[gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated.  Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: Steve B. wrote: Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Wilson
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:04, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 January 2006 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop w

[gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Wilson
and Kubuntu on another Compaq Deskpro EN. But consider myself a Gentoo novice. This is my first email to the list. Thanks in advance for any help, --- Steve Wilson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread Steve Evans
/etc/default/tar contains a list of tape devices. So on Solaris 2.8 if -f is not specified and $TAPE is not set, which it isn't by default, then tar will use a tape device *not* stdin/stdout Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail

[gentoo-user] Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently experienced a bizarre failure... and I wondered if anyone else has experienced something similar or has a suggestion to avoid a similar annoyance in future. I run fetchmail to poll 3 servers every minute... and while this has worked fine for weeks, last night it froze at 2am and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
if it was a known (obscure) bug with the latest version... maybe, for example, one that only arises in the context of a TCP error or, maybe, a remote server failing mid-transaction? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advantage of daemon mode here is that I neither end up with a huge polling delay nor any risk of a collision where two processes attempt to access the same POP account at the same time (which I'd expect to cause aggravation.) Running from cron will not cause

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1 now fails...

2005-11-24 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
A few days I 'updated world' and spamassassin 3.04 was replaced by spamassassin 3.1 - after a few minutes spent migrating my configuration (to enable Razor,Pyzor and DCC) all seemed to be working well... but then, after running fine for a day or two, the spamd daemon stopped responding and

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Steve B
WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. If I'm forced to use canned binaries I might as well go with FC or Debian.. I've never listened to the Gentoo is

[gentoo-user] Ruby Rails and Rake - strange error on Gentoo...

2005-11-07 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently started playing around with Ruby and rails under Gentoo. I've installed everything using emerge as opposed to the using ruby gems. While I seem to be able to use my rails application, I get a puzzling error message when I try to verify it using the default generated rakefile

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord trouble

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Brenneis
Alexey Asprov wrote: Thanks very much for your replies. It seems that cdrecord has a tough time to coexist with 2.6 kernel series. I have ended up with fireing Kanotix LiveCD, mounting my Gentoo partition and burning new Knoppix 4.0.2 with k3b with some sort of hacked Ubuntu drivers ( cdrecord

[gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Has anyone any experience in setting up a wireless music streaming device to read MP3 files from a Gentoo installation? These are the kind of devices I have in mind: * Phillips Streamium [ http://en.streamium.com/products/sl50i/ ] * Netgear MP101 [

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
... but they're cheaper - retailing at about £80 and I've seen them at £50 on ebay. I prefer the appearance of the MP101 over the Streamium too. I'm sure there are other more expensive options out there too. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
... It would be far easier for me to buy a unit on-sale here in the UK... assuming I can get it to suck tunes from my Gentoo box. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] About a proxy-like idea... (was Shell through the web)

2005-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Bridge confusion

2005-10-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
which (without a bridge) are often restricted to a single subnet. I hope that helps? Steve This is the setup i want: Lan 1 Lan 2 eth1---brigdeeth1 || 10.32.0.0/22

Re: [gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everbody, I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4 where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Brenneis
WKenworthy wrote: Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything

[gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]

2005-09-29 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
with a watermark dating the copy? Is anyone aware of any existing packages - preferably for Gentoo, but any open-source solution would suffice. Thanks in advance for any suggestions :-) Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]

2005-09-29 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I think I want a document management solution - though I'm not sure that everyone understands the same idea by the term. This might be overkill: http://www.alfresco.org/ Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Evans
in preparation for 2.6.13 moving to x86. I experienced exactly your problem of /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 disappearing. Fortunately the solution is simple, as you describe above. Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Steve B
and some stuff that I acctualy use. KDE is no longer a hardware/cpu hog and doesn't take much more resources than Fluxbox. However I still use fluxbox if I am going to run a game such as AA. -- Steve B.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Evans
/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/cvs/ which is a more general purpose tutorial. Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http

Re: [gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

2005-08-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Billy Holmes wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Can anyone see where I'm going wrong. I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and with the latest unmasked vanilla ftp from portage. When I try to use

[gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

2005-08-09 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Can anyone see where I'm going wrong. I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and with the latest unmasked vanilla ftp from portage. When I try to use ncftp, however, I run into difficulties: --

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-05 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Oscar Carlsson wrote: I think lighttpd might be something like what you're looking for. It's pretty lightweight, fast enough and php/ruby/perl works with it (through fastCGI). http://www.lighttpd.net/ And of course it's in portage :) Oscar I've installed lighttpd - and while mostly

[gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-04 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
- server would be heavily loaded and low capacity.) Can anyone make suggestions as to good packages to investigate? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar... ssh / shell glitch...

2005-07-28 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
+cygwin+ssh. In the first search result it suggested to Switch off ForwardX11 in your .ssh/config. Thanks... I guess I suspected gentoo rather than cygwin as I first noticed just after an emerge -uD world... Cygwin it must be then. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Peculiar... ssh / shell glitch...

2005-07-27 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
. Does anyone have any idea why this might have started to happen? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-22 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
guess, given that I need cygwin, that my only option is to wait and hope the nx client for windows is fixed at some point? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
more convenient to have tips/tricks/gotchas available annotated with each package - say on http://packages.gentoo.org/... Hmmm. In any case, thanks - crontab /etc/crontab seems the perfect resolution. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
ssh. Google for samba tunnel putty. This is exactly what I wanted to know. I hadn't thought of googling with putty as I'm using OpenSSH on both client and server - but the techniques look the same. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Because I need my Gentoo server to perform periodic tasks on my behalf I new I needed some implementation of cron - and after a brief investigation I settled on fcron as I liked the idea that I could give flexible scheduling in order to allow the OS to delay processing in the event of heavy

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
dependencies which prompted me to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS with emerge -uD ... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access IMAP; SMTP, X applications etc.

[gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-14 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward. Portage (by default) still gives me version 1.1.3... but version 1.2 has been available for a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-14 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Marco Matthies wrote: Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's dependencies) in

Re: [gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working

2005-06-29 Thread Steve B
On 6/29/05, anthony hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Matrox G550 dual head graphics card and I want to have DirectFB running on one head for VDR output http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ using softdevice, and the other head running XDirectFB so I have a local graphical desktop. The

[gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently discovered a problem doing my periodic emrege -uD world - which looks as if there is some general problem with jade [Attached below - output from the command.] It seems to me that jade is linked against libsop.so.3, however I only appear to have a copy of libsop.so.4. I've not

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
this is a simple issue that packages should now be dependent on openjade and not jade, that the portage tree would have been updated to reflect this? Is this planned? I wonder why it seems to have taken so long? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] # ./CA.pl -newca certification problem

2005-06-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
askar ... wrote: I'm trying to setup email system by reading the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide. I have a problem in section 5. When I do # ./CA.pl -newca have error unable to load certificate 2319:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:637:Expecting:

[gentoo-user] Online backups...

2005-05-24 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I admit that this is a pretty generic idea... but I hope no-one sees harm in me asking about it here... I plan to do this with gentoo... so if someone else has had a similar plan... maybe they could offer me the benefit of their wisdom :-) Assumptions: 1. There are two Linux Hosts

[gentoo-user] IMAP/Spamassassin/RazorPyzor

2005-05-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
be possible to set-up an internal account spam to which only local users (i.e. myself) can send mail... bounce all my spam there (using the Mail Redirect extension?) - and somehow use procmail to report it? Is there a neater solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
for the suggestions... at least it seems I'm not overlooking the obvious? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have a few bespoke XML schema specs, and I want to find a generic tool to construct XML files which are syntactically valid with respect to the schema specs. The schemas represent data-structures for domain specific records with moderately complex structure. It would not make sense to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-27 Thread Steve B
This occured to me when I upgraded to the 2.6.11 nitro sources... after moving back to gentoo-dev-sources (or gentoo-sources now) the problem went away. On 4/26/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/05, Robert Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this too. I believe its the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Steve B
On 4/25/05, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 April 2005 10:00, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The command nl It is part of coreutils `man nl' to see usage. Hmm.. this is even simple than using grep or using sed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
if it would be worth my while to look around for another cheap modem or wait... if sometime this year a usable (very small volume) support for Class 1 faxes becomes available then that would probably be fine - I've other (less convenient) options which can see me through until then. Steve -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to get it working, but it's pretty straight-forward. That looks

[gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen to be. I've heard of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
alternatives before I do... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] New E-mail

2005-04-12 Thread Steve B
account. However I am not going to renew my subscription. -- Steve RShadow B -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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