[gentoo-user] PHP4?

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony Roy
to be the recommended version). Thanks, -- Anthony Roy. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do

RE: [gentoo-user] PHP4?

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony Roy
So, how do I downgrade PHP to version 4.1.4 (which seems to be the recommended version). Don't worry - I have found the appropriate packages. -- Anthony This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom

[gentoo-user] Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

2006-08-25 Thread Anthony Roy
-hook.1 rr.compressed patch-1.5.4.lpr.collapse_flagged Lukas P. Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] patch-1.5.10.tt.assumed_charset.1 #--- --- Thanks, Anthony Roy. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP - Email found in subject

2006-08-25 Thread Anthony Roy
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: Spot on! Turns out that SSL conflicts with gnutls which I had set. Thanks, Anthony

Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-06-01 Thread Anthony Roy
Firstly - my apologies for the messed up titles of my replies. I hadn't been able to get posts accepted on the list from GMail (probably because I was using a different 'from' address than my gmail address). Anyway I have to use the pieces of sh** Outlook and Exchange at work, and I hadn't

[gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Roy
local rsync server [rsync] path = /srv/rsync comment = Main Rsync Server Any help appreciated. -- Ant... -- Anthony Roy This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed

RE: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem... - Email found in subject

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Roy
of the firewall. -- Anthony Roy This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those

RE: [SPAM] - Re: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem... - Email found in subject - Email found in subject

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Roy
the firewall (ssh and http) the rest will come when I have time... there are too many windows boxes on my home network for that kind of trust. and you can NEVER trust the kids :) That's for sure ;-) -- Anthony Roy This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Roy
On 10/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's not part of the stage1. It's emerged when you do emerge system, I believe. Which would have been fine, except that I thought I was doing a stage 3 install :-) -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory doesn't exist! Where should

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony Roy
It's OK - thanks for the replies, but I downloaded and untarred the stage1 tarball rather than the stage3... Seems that the timezone directory isn't part of the stage1. On 11/04/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

2006-04-01 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi Dale, Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition of at least the same size as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

2006-04-01 Thread Anthony Roy
I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Lucky indeed - the drive that has gone tits up was only 12 months old... --

[gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!

2006-03-31 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to ensure

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Anthony Roy
I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with Me too. I've given Gnome a try several times (the latest on a recent Ubuntu Live CD, and I just don't like the whole look and feel as much as KDE, which is great IMHO. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony Roy
At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi Man - you are a genius. Don't know where you dragged that bit of black magic up from, but the Gentoo boot prompt loaded up like a dream! So the job for the weekend is the install... Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony Roy
Cheers dude - I'll give it a shot tomorrow! Off to bed now... ... At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2 (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it. I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot get it to boot from

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

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data copied over, I booted up into

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi Holly, Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as if the CD is for some reason not bootable. The CD is perfectly browsable from within OSX. How did you burn it? Burnt from ISO image as I always do with iso images - that's certainly not the problem. I know

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

2005-12-29 Thread Anthony Roy
Thanks for the input. For reference if anyone stumbles across this thread looking for the same information, I found the following extremely helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633 Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony Roy
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?

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

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony Roy
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?

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

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony Roy
You will want to check out the gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml which will help you set up imap, spamassassin and more. Thanks, this should be a good place to start for phase 2 of my setup - i.e. anti-virus and spam filtering. Moving

Re: [gentoo-user] Jedit, cannot install XML plugin

2005-12-08 Thread Anthony Roy
You should be able to download it from the jedit website (www.jedit.org). Installing is simply a matter of unzipping the file into the $USER/.jedit/plugins directory. The plugin manager sometimes has network problems, and occaisionally a corrupted plugin distribution finds its way onto the

[gentoo-user] Successful Trac Install Using mod_python.

2005-11-24 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I have just emerged Trac, and noticed that the Gentoo docs cover the cgi apache config, but not the mod_python config. In addition, the Gentoo emerge is v8.4, while the latest Trac is 9.1 - hence the docs on the Trac site are *too* recent, as the package structure has changed... Would it

[gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

2005-11-21 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I have written a simple init script for controlling a wiki, and have encountered a strange effect: from the init.d directory, I can start and stop my app just fine with wiki start and wiki stop resp. However, the stop script complains that the script has not been started! rc-status does

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.

2005-11-21 Thread Anthony Roy
Thanks for the quick reply, but #!/sbin/runscript is the first line - it must have scrolled just off of the screen when I copied the text (sorry!). You don't appear to have #!/sbin/runscript on the first line. Any other ideas. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-11-21 Thread Anthony Roy
Hogwash. What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro, once you get past the install issue? Several points here: 1) The install issue is the crux isn't it? A Linux newbie would falter at this first hurdle. I have recently installed two Gentoo stage 3 installations, and the

[gentoo-user] Failed to resolve module dependencies.

2005-11-16 Thread Anthony Roy
Hello all, My Gentoo installation is running fine at the moment, but ever since I installed it, I have had the boot up message Failed to resolve module dependencies! displayed during the boot process. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this and how to resolve it? Thanks, -- Ant...

[gentoo-user] The attractive terminal on the installation disk?

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I am getting on pretty well with Gentoo at the moment - I've found it a great way to install Linux and get to know just how it all works and holds together. I am using it for a server machine, and so I am not running X. My question is: How do I get a terminal setup like the one that is

Re: [gentoo-user] The attractive terminal on the installation disk?

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Roy
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash Thanks - much appreciated. I wonder if this is a FAQ anywhere - I wouldn't have guessed at fbsplash if I was just browsing the HOWTO's! -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it

2005-11-10 Thread Anthony Roy
I've been having the same problem, but have ignored it for now, since I am setting up the box primarily as a server. So sorry - no solution! On 07/11/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it - fails with an error on

Re: [gentoo-user] nvu, mozilla designer: why such behaviour ?

2005-10-31 Thread Anthony Roy
Your question may be better posted at http://forum.nvudev.org/ -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Roy
, but are there any other things I will need to think about. Cheers, -- Anthony Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Roy
You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do your gentoo installation. Excellent - so really I won't even need to have server downtime while installing? I'll definitely look into this approach. Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Roy
Thanks for the prompt advice guys. I'll be taking it slowly - I aim to get the main installation and changeover done over Christmas when I have a little more time, and the preparation done prior to that so that I have the partitions ready to go. I'll let you know how it all went (probably be