[gentoo-user] thanks and farewell
Hi, I have just finished moving the last of my boxes over to fedora, and am saying goodbye (for now at least) to the list. I would like to thank all for their great help - I know there are many things I will miss not running gentoo but I am now at a stage where I want my systems to be a little less on the edge. We are going to standardise on fedora/redhat at work and I am pleased enough with it to run it at home now too... To the devs - keep up the great work providing a distro for those who want/need true control over their systems. Without your great work the linux platform would be much the worse. Have a great summer to all those in the north, and don't get too cold for those of you in South (and for those of you in the UK, where the weather always sucks! ;-)) Cheers Antoine ps. you will have to cc me if I am to read any replies... -- This is where I should put some witty comment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)
so that means log into root before you run X. # vi groups (or whatever the correct way of doing it is) add your user to wheel you're done Cheers Antoine On 23/03/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Where do I have to tweak to allow su from xterm, mrxvt or whatever owned by a normal user ? I think you just need to add the user to the wheel group. HTH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- This is where I should put some witty comment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge java syntax
On 22/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, masked packages only require that package.keyword be edited, but hardmasked packages also require that package.unmask be edited? I see the sense in having different grades of unmasking, but not the need for two distinct files(?). One file with syntax or two files without... Cheers Antoine -- This is where I should put some witty comment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
Sense we're on it though, why would they put out a broken product? If you have to install gentoo from a stage tarball why devlope a live cd that can't even boot right? Maybe because the devlopers understand that if gentoo is to become populare beyond the geek squad they'll have to have something non-programmers can use. I think you will find that is a minority of gentoo programmers - the majority are just fine in geek mode - haven't you heard? the Geek will inherit the earth. 8=} Cheers Antoine -- This is where I should put some witty comment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT? - resizing a windows partition to take up more space (and take from gentoo :-()
Hi, I have the following partition table /dev/hdb6 9004120 8780172223948 98% / udev452040 108451932 1% /dev /dev/hdb8 8803312 8388844414468 96% /usr /dev/hdb1 12289692 11802356487336 97% /winsux /dev/hdb2 10080520 7198664 2369788 76% /mnt/ubuntu /dev/hdb7 39068848 37834076 1234772 97% /mnt/b40 none452040 0452040 0% /dev/shm Basically, I want to give my ntfs windows winsux partition half the disk (.net2 is so enormous I have no space for anything else...). I have an 250gig external usb hd that I am formatting in ext3 (and it looks like it will take several hours!) that can be used for transfer. I would like to create images of both windows and gentoo and then restore afterwards - basically only / and /usr need to be imaged (I guess I could just copy them, and may end up doing that...) but I am pretty sure a straight copy of windows won't work. What I *might* try is to copy linux to the server or external hd and then simply resize the ntfs partition with ntfsresize. I have had success resizing ntfs with rescuecd so might go that route. Anyone got any suggestions on the best approach? dd? cp + ntfsresize? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel
And dual booting should be possible, it was always possible with the old apples. I hope Apple didn't do some magic to prevent installation of other OSes like Mac OS X. Anyway, I guess I will give it a try. I believe the idea was that you can do just that - dual boot with whatever you want for x86. The inverse - installing intel osx on a non-mac machine is not going to be possible (or at least probably not legal). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives
Simon Kellett wrote: Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to perform this task. IIRC Windows likes (or used) to be installed on the first drive *only*. I would take no chances and physically *remove* your Linux disc, make your windows-to-be disk the first drive, install Windows, put your linux disk back in, install Grub and correct /etc/fstab if required. I can confirm that you will have a much better time if you indeed physically remove your linux drive... Cheers Antoine ps. I am going to try to expand C: this weekend and put linux on another disk so have a challenging time ahead... I thought 10gig would be all I would ever need for doze - then came along .net2... and no, there is not choice, I have either that or vb6 so I choose .net2... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Antoine wrote:
I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde
Check the permissions and owners in /dev/s{,ou}nd?
Benno
tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/
total 0
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 audio
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 19 20:29 dsp
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 19 20:29 mixer
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 1 Jan 19 20:29 sequencer
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 8 Jan 19 20:29 sequencer2
tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/audio
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 /dev/sound/audio
The groups seem right... but even after adding her to wheel the problems
persist after a reboot. It seems bizarre as I haven't had sound problems
for ages.
Cheers
Antoine
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[gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?
Hi, I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde - is this normal? She was in audio, video, games and users and had no sound. I looked at my groups and the only plausible difference was wheel. Sure enough adding her to wheel did the trick. Now not that I don't trust the wife - but well, should someone have to be in wheel to get sound? Am I wrong or is there some logic somewhere that explains this? A config option to change? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] firefox java plugin
Hi, I can't seem to find out how to get java working again in firefox (1.5). I am running blackdown (std, 1.4.2) and I simply don't get java with most sites now. Is it possible that I need to update to sun's 1.5? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)
Personally I use ext3 for everything except windows partitions. I have 3 NTFS-partitions, and one FAT32 partition. The freeware read/write ext2-driver for Windows doesn't work with Windows 2003, so I have to use FAT32. Especially because captive-ntfs aren't working for me. Seeing as we are all talking nonsense anyway - does anyone have an opinion on the fact that m$ just got a fat patent validated by a US court? Chrs A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore
Hi, Until now I have been able to chmod halt to let me halt/reboot as a normal user and my last big emerge -uDNav world put a stop to that - any ideas? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] more problems emerging world
Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone got any suggestions? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world
David Morgan wrote: On 20:42 Tue 17 Jan , Antoine wrote: I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone got any suggestions? /etc/portage/package.use ? (man 5 portage) That is what I love about Gentoo (I knew it had to be something simple)! Cheers Antoine ps. This made me feel a little less guilty... NAME portage - the heart of Gentoo DESCRIPTION The current portage code uses many different configuration files, most of which are unknown to users and normal developers. Here we will try to collect all the odds and ends ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi, [blocks B ] media-libs/libungif (is blocking media-libs/giflib-4.1.4) [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4) [empty/missing/bad digest]: sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r6 [blocks B ] =x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 (is blocking x11-libs/motif-config-0.9) I get these blocks when trying to emerge world. I can't seem to figure out why for any of them. Can someone shed some light? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
It it totally bug-free! ... There's no such thing as bug-free software, and Santa Claus does not exist, neither does the Easter Bunny or Trolls (but I'm not really certain about the trolls). There are two kinds of programs, the ones with discovered bugs and the ones with bugs to be discovered. Rubbish! I have never written code with bugs in it! A great deal with some highly undesirable features... but my code is nowhere near good enough to create actual bugs :-). Chrs A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
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... Very humerous. Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.
I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means they let me access via pop. You can certainly activate pop in yahoo. Maybe you can't access via pop with hotmail but yahoo, gmail and probably most others will let you... Cheers Antoine ps. unless you refuse if you don't have imap that is... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages
Oliver Friedrich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Nino wrote: Dear gentoo friends, i want to network 12 pcs. so can any body advice me for a good technology(wireless or wired??).price is not a problem, so what will be the best technology among wireless wired? maybe some more info about what you want and your situation... are you in an office? Café? Are you going to have customers seeing the setup? Can you drill through walls? Are they all in the same room? Why are you networking them? What sort of traffic do you expect between them? A million other questions...??? Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I install sun-jdk through emerge?
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: I've done this, but i still ger the same message # echo dev-java/sun-jdk /etc/portage/package.unmask cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kpdf insisting in A4 paper size
On 03/12/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After recent upgrade kpdf wants to print on A4 paper size even though myprinter is set to letter size.Does anybody know the solution?Move from the US ;-)Antoine -- This is where I should put some witty comment.
Re: [gentoo-user] kpdf insisting in A4 paper size
Move from the US ;-) AntoineI wouldn't like to go there, besides there is no reason even to go there I'm in Canada :-)But Canada is a state of the US, isn't it?;-)Antoine-- This is where I should put some witty comment.
Solved - Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/29/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support. I have generic scsi support and there doesn't seem to be anything to Do you have SCSI disk support. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m. It is under SCSI support. That was it. Thanks Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question
You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support. I have generic scsi support and there doesn't seem to be anything to do with scsi in block devices... the usb key works fine under windows, is formatted in vfat and has data on it. There are a whole bunch of /dev/sd?s but trying to mount to any of them gives me not a valid block devices. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/29/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might need to run fdisk /dev/sd? then mkfs.* /dev/sd?? . If you don't have a /dev/sd? , check your kernel for SCSI block device support. I have generic scsi support and there doesn't seem to be anything to Do you have SCSI disk support. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m. It is under SCSI support. That must be it... I am compiling now. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb key question
Hi, I get this from dmesg usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Model: USB Flash Memory Rev: 1.04 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete But I can't seem to mount it... what dev do I mount? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Solved - Re: [gentoo-user] autoexpect?
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:00:09PM +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote If you create a private-public pair with ssh-keygen you can access to the other machine without a password. Then your script would call ssh and probably sudo /sbin/poweroff as a parameter to halt the remote machine. Thanks for all your suggestions, as I basically wanted to create an icon on the desktop to turn off the firewall/server, I went with expect. I also discovered cygwin on my journeys so am very happy - I just have a single script for all systems. I didn't read the docs carefully enough, and didn't see that autoexpect is just a script, so downloading from the expect site + gentoo expect solved it for gentoo. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] autoexpect?
Hi, I would like to write a script to log in to a network machine and run halt (for the missus, who doesn't really like logging in via ssh just to turn of the internet connection...), and saw that autoexpect looks like it would fit the bill. It doesn't seem to be in portage and it seems a lot more difficult with expect... Any ideas? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem with wxGTK
Hi, I get the following when trying to emerge poedit md5 src_uri ;-) poedit-1.3.2.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking poedit-1.3.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/poedit-1.3.2/work Source unpacked. !!! set-wxconfig: Error: Can't find normal or debug version: !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/bin/wxgtk2u-2.4-config not found !!! set-wxconfig: /usr/bin/wxgtk2ud-2.4-config not found !!! You need to emerge wxGTK with unicode in your USE But... tux ~ # emerge -av wxGTK These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.1 -debug -doc +gnome +gtk2 -joystick +odbc +opengl +sdl +unicode -wxgtk1 0 kB Any ideas? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities
kashani wrote: Antoine wrote: Hi, We are going to set up ssl on a webserver at work and I guess that means we need a certificate... does anyone have any useful alternatives to Verisign? Are they really worth the name? We are not going to be doing any monetary transactions but our clients are very security conscious (who isn't!) and I have no experience in these matters. I am certain the boss will want verisign, as he buys a lot of stuff just for the name but if I can offer him a comparable alternative at a fraction of the cost he may go for it. ... Thanks for all your suggestions. I think we will just go for a self-signed because, at the end of the day, all our clients know us, and trust us. Thanks again Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities
Remember that your web server must be properly configured (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_howto.html) in order to offer any real security. The howto says SGC is only available with verisign - is this true? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities
Hi, We are going to set up ssl on a webserver at work and I guess that means we need a certificate... does anyone have any useful alternatives to Verisign? Are they really worth the name? We are not going to be doing any monetary transactions but our clients are very security conscious (who isn't!) and I have no experience in these matters. I am certain the boss will want verisign, as he buys a lot of stuff just for the name but if I can offer him a comparable alternative at a fraction of the cost he may go for it. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing
Strange. Even when I set the dirty bit and restart, no check was done. I think it's time to call up IBM. Maybe one of their wonderful contraptions is stopping chkdsk at startup _ I don't know why you are having these problems... I had no probs at all with rescuecd. Just burn and boot (then follow the instructions you have previously printed...). Cheers Antoine ps. there is a really good site on ntfsresize -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - ORT invisible
Hi, I am trying to set up a website for my father and wanted to use a free hosting service here in France (1 gig space + php + mysql, no ads - so not to be sniffed at!). I have got myself a domain name (for me not him, but it is just for testing...) and am trying to work out whether it is possible to make it so that the user doesn't see the fact that it is on a free host. I am using the redirection provided by my dns service to point to a directory on the free site (http://antonovich.free.fr/DerekMelser). When I put the url http://www.antonmelser.org into the url bar it does indeed take me there... but clicking on the links on the page keeps the same thing there (eg, the link http://antonovich.free.fr/DerekMelser/journal/recent.html), which means still http://www.antonmelser.org. That would be OK but unfortunately even when I click on a link to an external site the http://www.antonmelser.org stays there... not so nice! I get the same with firefox and konqueror and even IE on doze - so it looks more like a feature than a bug - can someone enlighten me on this? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles
I can't change the whole world just for one list. No need to. Even in other mails, there's seldom a need for HTML in mails. I too am interested in useful contexts for html. I just can't think of any situation where I wouldn't use structured text markup in an email. Sure, I might *attach* an html document (or pdf or even, god forbid, an MSWord doc!) but that is different (even if it gets displayed just like a message would...). Maybe I have an old-fashioned view of email but I see more expressive means of communication better served with other technologies (IM, etc.) Cheers Antoine ps. since stopping top-posting on lists I have since stopped top-posting *anywhere*. People who have a list of questions and answer them two posts up without any real reference to the questions are simply poor communicators... and that is certainly what I see a lot of. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] people who don't understand binary
brullo nulla wrote: Whoa! Are you running for Ubergeek-Of-The-Year award? :D Seriously (haha), your considerations are technically true, but they are of no use in explaining/burning down the famous joke. The sense of the joke is (1)making people that understand binary understand the joke itself and (2)letting other people puzzled about and the other 8? I think you should get some sense of humour done today :) m. I think that we all took far too much acid back in the sixties. And I wasn't even born then! :-) Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes
And while I'm being talkative I'd like to second what Holly and a few others have hinted at. Command of language is essential. As someone who stumbled into the admin/network business nine years ago I can say that my writing and language skills, specifically the lack of either, did far more to hold my career back than any missing technical skills. Indeed, life is harder for those of us who don't have English as first language. kashani, still trying to get his German, Spanish, and Farsi up to speed In a way I am glad to have English as a native language but in others most decidedly not. Can you imagine how hard it is to learn another language when everyone wants to speak English to you? I even speak a bastard dialect (linguisticly one of the purest but where have the standards gone!) and that doesn't help... I speak a few languages and am pretty good at accents (by far the best way to get people to forget you are a foreigner) but still get frustrated with the eagerness with which people switch to English with me. My philosophy has always been when in Rome but anyway... I guess Rome is now the internet. Salem, Antoine ps. I have just started Arabic - Sabah lkhair! It's not morning but unfortunately the Al-Jazeerah website seems to only stream... wma! (Haven't got to evening yet!) argh! and gentoo+mplayer/xine doesn't like it... and I thought it was a libre thinking news source! pps. any hints on getting al-jazeera (audio of their news channel) to work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles
I'm going to take a bath and soak a while. I have a skin disease and cool/cold weather makes it mad. :( Come and live in Bordeaux then! It was 24°C today... I knew there was a reason we moved here :-) Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend
I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip i understand dvdrip is a front-end to transcode and it's good to rip dvds, and re-encode them to burn to a cd. Which is precisely what I am looking for... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer to send me a PS or PDF document. Because I always save two copies of every of my document, one in original format (eg. odt) and another in printable format for my colleagues in case they don't have the Linux fonts and software. Here comes the question should I keep a PS copy or PDF copy. I think PDF copy is absolutely the prefered format because: * easier to find acrobat reader; * can be 'Tagged', especially used with OOo; * possibility to 'copy and paste', though format will be lost; * not to take other people by surprise with unfamiliar PS extension; * different quanlity: I can save PDF in very high quanlity that I was told can be taken to press house * easy to convert to PS format when needed. Here comes the question: if the above all stands true, why do I ever need PS format at all? There might be some reasons to keep this format still existing. Perhaps in other areas, other then office work. So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. Now welcome for suggestions. I think the key to this whole story is the second to last line above. for typical office workers says it all. I think you are quite right to say you can forget PS format. You could probably stick with pdf if you only need the documents for 2-5 years. PDF is very much industry standard for archiving, and isn't going away soon. I would *definitely* think about keeping documents (if you are going to go to the trouble of archiving and all that) in text format, probably xml like odt or even m$ xml, because if the data are valuable then finding something to read it in 50 years will probably be difficult. The EU is looking like it will go that way just like Massachusetts - no reason why you shouldn't either. You will ALWAYS be able to find or create a tool to get decently printed and onscreen presentation from well marked up plaintext. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend
Hi, I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip a couple of clicks, legal (in France it is even LEGAL to copy rented dvds!!!) backup of dvd. Why are things so much more difficult with doze?!? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office and ODBC Connection to MySQL
C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm tearing my hair out by the roots on this one. First, I had a bit of a problem getting the the ODBC connection to my MySQL database set up. That was my own fault though 'cause a couple of files that I though were supposed to go in /etc (that's where they went in Fedora Core) were actually supposed to go in /etc/unixODBC/. So, I got the connection set up okay. The issue that I'm having is that once I got the ODBC connection working, I can view the data source in Open Office, but cannot edit the table. I took a look on Gentoo Forums and I found one similar issue except that it turned out that the person did not have a primary key set. I have a primary key set in the MySQL database, but I still can't edit the table in Open Office. ... Any ideas? Alas yes - I think this is probably an OO problem. Have a look on the OO bugzilla - you will find at least one other DB (Oracle 9i and 10) that doesn't work with ODBC (though this is under doze). Several of us have not been able to get odbc connections working properly (i.e., read but no edit) that work fine in microsoft products... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: It looks from the ebuild that net-misc/e100 was intended for 2.4.x series kernels (*.o as opposed to *.ko). I would suggest running 'make menuconfig' or similar and enabling e100 as a module from within the kernel tree. I don't think that he built net-misc/e100... I think his module just didn't autoload. Did I miss something? This seems strange... my e100 card was recognised OOTB (with the livecd) - is this normal? Enable it in the kernel and then well... it should just work. Cheers Antoine ps. I can't remember the exact name, but look in the help for the kernel ethernet modules that have Intel in their name. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] Re: links in thunderbird broken again...
Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:32:22PM +0200, Antoine wrote ser_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, firefox); should and doesn't. If Thunderbird's prefs are anything like Firefox's, you may also have to expose the protocol (enable it) first. In front of that line you show, enter... ser_pref(network.protocol-handler.expose.http, true); Sorry, I should get into the habit of saying things are solved. Actually, it WAS working with just the firefox, and then it needed /usr/bin/firefox. No idea why, and it was quite annoying, but it seems to be fixed now... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT (again) - more thunderbird blues...
Hi, I should have mentioned this with the last one, as I think it stopped working at the same time. When I double-click on attachments (or right-click Open) now the open file dialogue appears but then... does nothing. I can save as then open, but that is annoying. Again, it used to work OOTB... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]And they say Gentoo-ers have no sense of humour...!
Just followed a link (from the Beagle site) back to packages.gentoo.org, where I was supposedly going to see what versions of app-misc/beagle (as opposed to sci-libs/beagle) are available in Portage. None are (which was what I had thought), but the 'search failed' page was a bit unusual: Sorry, dude. I could not find that package. Information on the package you requested could not be found. Be sure to check the packages.gentoo.org main page Sorry, dude? Dude???!!! as long as there is no 'sex identifier' sent by the browser, you have to live with that - but I bet, as soon as it is possible to seperate men and women by their browser string, you will greetet with a 'Sorry, duderina' ;) Or is it dudette? I don't know how this compares but in (the north of) NZ bro is good for both sexes now (at least for the 30s). I guess dude has some male connotations for me but pretty slight really... I guess the RFLS will still have a go because something starts is lexical life with a gender specific meaning but there we go! I think it's sweet as bro. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] links in thunderbird broken again...
Hi, I have the appropriate line (user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, /opt/firefox/firefox);) in my prefs.js but my links (open firefox when I click on a url) are broken again. Anyone else had this prob with TB1.0.6 and FF1.0.7? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: links in thunderbird broken again...
Antoine wrote: Hi, I have the appropriate line (user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, /opt/firefox/firefox);) in my prefs.js but my links (open firefox when I click on a url) are broken again. Anyone else had this prob with TB1.0.6 and FF1.0.7? Cheers Antoine Of course this line won't work... but ser_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, firefox); should and doesn't. Cheers again Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] lost ê/ë in OO2 bin with french k eyboard
Hi, I just upgraded to OO2RC1_2 and no longer have êë/âä/ô, etc. I am using a French keyboard and (obviously) this only happens in OO2 (kword is fine, as is thunderbird). When I hit the appropriate key ^ or ¨ and then the letter simply nothing happens. Anyone got any clues? The characters that have keys like é and è are fine. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] init.d script run order
Richard Fish wrote: Antoine wrote: Hi, I have a server that I have just installed. Everything is just fine except that gshield (and hence my NAT) seems to be stopped after boot. My understanding was that having the need net would mean that it would wait for all the interface cards to come up - is this not the case? Bizarrely, dmesg makes it look like it is coming up and doing everything it needs to but when I log in it is stopped. Any info or pointers appreciated. Take a look at the RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING setting and comments in /etc/conf.d/rc. Brilliant! that did the trick. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] init.d script run order
Hi, I have a server that I have just installed. Everything is just fine except that gshield (and hence my NAT) seems to be stopped after boot. My understanding was that having the need net would mean that it would wait for all the interface cards to come up - is this not the case? Bizarrely, dmesg makes it look like it is coming up and doing everything it needs to but when I log in it is stopped. Any info or pointers appreciated. Cheers Antoine ps. and yes all my cards and gshield are configured properly and added to the default runlevel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?
John Lange wrote: I'd like to test the newest version of OpenOffice which is 2.0rc1. I have 1.1.4 installed currently. When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as being available. Is this because I need to unmask something or because nothing past 1.1.4 is available in the ports yet? basically (yes unmask). You will have a week or so old beta in openoffice-bin that you can install but I doubt that the rc will be in there before mid to late next week (possibly it is actually the same version that they have bumped up to RC). I'm a bit new to this portage system so I still seem to have problems figuring out how to keep everything up to date plus sometimes access the bleeding edge stuff. /etc/portage/package.keywords is your friend Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 no longer appearing but /dev/hdc is there...
Hi, This is udev stuff isn't it? The problem appeared after an emerge world - did I fail to edit a conf i needed to? I have had to change my fstab back to the old style... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sort of OT - dev-lang/php vs dev-php/php
Hi, I am at a bit of a loss to understand the difference between the shell interpreter and the runtime engine - could someone clarify? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail
Hi, I am trying to get php to send an email and am completely lost. It seems as though I had it working on an mdk box at work today, cos I got the messages on my yahoo account, but now I am trying to set up a similar thing at home I am getting nowhere. I have never done anything apart from setting up pop/smtp servers in gui mail clients and once in a networking class we sent an email via telnet. Having done the extremely simple cl mail sending I was under the impression that this would be simple! I just can't work out why it is so difficult... first of all ssmtp was blocking everything. So I uninstall and install postfix. I try to get postfix going but get lots of abusive messages about it not liking certain parameters (the default php ones). Now I read the ssmtp man page and ask myself - why shouldn't this work? All I want to do is send a simple little email - if telnet can do it then this can... Now I reinstall ssmtp and nothing is working. From mutt, sendmail (see below) and the php script I get the below. tux ~ # sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] hithere sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 I don't want to do ANYTHING but have php send emails. I don't really care about security (for the moment) and really just want it to work without thinking about it! Can someone give me some advice? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail
I don't want to do ANYTHING but have php send emails. I don't really care about security (for the moment) and really just want it to work without thinking about it! Can someone give me some advice? Cheers Antoine Personally I would just emerge sendmail and use that, especially if you don't need incoming mail. Postfix is probably overkill and I don't know jack about ssmtp. You may encounter two situations however: 1) Your ISP is blocking the SMTP port (25) and/or 2) Your firewall, software or hardware, is blocking mail. As I recall there isn't any special setting needed for sendmail to send a message from php, it just needs to be installed. Nope... i still get the same thing with the proper sendmail :-(. I can also telnet to yahoo (though can't seem to send because it wants to authenticate...) on port 25 so don't think it is the isp or firewall. Anything else I could try? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail
Billy Holmes wrote: Antoine wrote: tux ~ # sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] hithere sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 ssmtp always uses a smart host. It can't deliver mail by itself. edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, make your changes (use your ISP's mail server), and I personally turn on FromLineOverride=yes. You may have to set your hostname in the file, too. I will give that a try but I seem to be making at least some progress with sendmail (in fact it wasn't properly installed and I had to uninstall ssmtp and reinstall to get it working...) I also had to hardcode /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail into php.ini cos /etc/mail/mailer.conf doesn't look like it's working but anyway - tux ~ # php /home/antt/tmp/test.php [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] pMessage successfully sent!/ptux ~ # Obviously it wasn't successful, and I have done something silly here... This is frustrating! Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql no longer working :-(
... If you still have a copy of your old databases and you stick with myisam tables Try to: - stop mysql (check it with ps fax after) - copy the old /var/lib/mysql/mysql dir into /var/lib/mysql/mysqlold - copy the remaing databases in /var/lib/mysql/ - start mysql Now you could play with your old tables pheraps Good luck I had to reinitialise phpmyadmin (of course!) because the data in the old database was no longer there! Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mod_perl2
Hi, I just can't seem to figure out how to get perl working on apache2. There don't seem to be any decent gentoo-specific docs, and it seems like the names of config files are changing constantly :-(. Anyway, I have installed ~x86 apache2 and mod_perl. What do I do now? I have tried to test things but when I put the following in httpd.conf apache no longer starts. Alias /perl/ /home/httpd/perl/ Location /perl SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Registry Options ExecCGI PerlSendHeader On PerlSetupEnv On /Location tux ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: Syntax error on line 1104 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'PerlHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Can someone point me in the right direction? It seems a lot more complicated than simply adding -D PHP4... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mysql no longer working :-(
Hi, I didn't use mysql for a while and it has stopped working! I try and start it and all I get is tux ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql status * status: stopped tux ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql start * Starting mysqld (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) ... . * MySQL NOT started, proceding anyway [ ok ] tux ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql status * status: started tux ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql restart * Stopping mysqld (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) ... [ !! ] tux ~ # mysql -u root ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) This is most annoying! I have not modified anything (though have been trying to install rt and some other trouble ticket systems) but it seems pretty dead. A remerge did nothing. Any pointers? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mysql no longer working :-(
This is most annoying! I have not modified anything (though have been trying to install rt and some other trouble ticket systems) but it seems pretty dead. A remerge did nothing. I ended up getting rid of the databases I had before (including one that rt tried to create) and reinitialised with the ebuild config command. Now I have it working... but for some reason phpmyadmin doesn't work anymore. It asks me for a username and password but won't accept a valid username. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: You could try gtranscode. I tried, and it said that the file didn't exist :P - I'll try again. Maybe my full ~x86 gentoo system is excesively ~ :P http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html Use mencoder from the command line (or in a script file). I managed to get some pretty amazing results with mencoder + ffmpeg. I don't use it for ripping dvds cos it is too much hassle and with 700meg to play with the difference is not visible. If you are going to be doing it reasonably regularly and really care about getting the best results then, no matter what your budget, this is the best option. I very much doubt there is any programme/codec in the world that would beat mencoder in the hands of an expert. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people, I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. What are your suggestions? Any interesting sites to read about this? scripts? ebuilds? I've done some research in the area for the last two days, but I am definitely not a video guru, and many things I do not understand. Unless the mpeg is mostly nothing at all (very little motion, no flames, water, sky, textures, ...) then you will find it hard to get down to 100meg. Don't forget that mpeg2 (probably the format you have...) is already compressed. Also don't forget that 1h30 of *audio* at 128kbps (normal mp3/ogg quality) will take about 90-100meg. What you are asking is pretty unrealistic. You could do it with mplayer or transcode but the results will be horrific. For 1h30 mins you will be down to a very small size, very low quality and barely discernable audio. Can you really only go to 100meg? You might get something reasonable with 300meg if you play around enough but otherwise I would say forget it. Cheers Antoine ps. more info about the nature of the original could change everything -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge (?) broke thunderbird opening links in firefox
Hi, I think it was that anyway - I certainly haven't played with the config of either for a long time. I get nothing when I run thunderbird from the cl either... I searched for a preference somewhere but couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Cheers Antoin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sudo
You also need to install vim because you have to edit the /etc/sudoers
file in order to add a user name. If you display the sudoers file ('cat
sudoers') it will tell you that the file *must* be edited by the visudo
command as root.
exaggeration... that is certainly the safe way to do it, but unless I'm
mistaken, only really dangerous if you have lots of people logging
in/you can't tell the other people not to do so while you are editing
it. vipw stopped working for some strange reason and I have never looked
back :-).
Certainly BETTER to do it that way, no denying that!
Cheers
Antoine
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[gentoo-user] explanation of rc.conf, hostname, etc - .../conf.d/* changes
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a good document explaining the changes and how to seemlessly change to the new system. I am assuming I don't just go deleting the etc files! Cheers antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola
Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Kintzios schreef: Sharing our private information (i.e. our own browsing trends) for profit without our consent is evidently not on This carries the assumption that our own browsing trends is, in fact, private information, which I do not necessarily agree with. Surfing the Internet is a lot like walking down the street. You can see me. The fact of my existence is not private. Because you can physically see me, you know a lot of things about me already. 1. I am human. 2. I am female. 3. I am of childbearing age (you don't know my exact age, but you can see that I am older than 9 and younger than 50). 4. I am of African descent. 5. I am (for the purposes of this example), wearing a wedding ring, so I am or was in a committed relationship, most likely with a man. How would you feel if a company bought lots of too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around wherever you went (in these public places, which would certainly include shops but not the bathroom...)? Without you being conscious of it? Very useful to follow someone around to get their (window)shopping habits, and almost certainly completely illegal. How are these different (apart from legality)? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola
Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 August 2005 01:32 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola [snip] And if my theory holds water in any way, then the Mozilla Foundation really would have had no choice but to spin off a for-profit subsidiary... after all, if the money is rolling in (via perfectly legitimate and socially acceptable means), it has to go somewhere, and it can't go to the N-F-P foundation beyond a certain level. An accountant could probably advise better, but I would think that there are appropriate vehicles (e.g. NfP trusts) which would allow financial profits that cannot be expensed in activities supporting the Moz Organisation objectives within the financial year, to be stored and in turn invested thereafter both in for profit and not schemes so that they may grow and prosper. Making an economic profit is not a problem in itself. Compromising Moz.Org./OSS objectives in seeking to derive this profit creates a conflict of interest and therefore it becomes a problem. Of course this may not be the case with the FF/Google syndication, I don't really know. Is this right? AFAIK, non-profits don't actually make profits at all, they have surpluses. The surpluses can't be redistributed as such (though of course a non-profit could give money away, though would probably need justification) but they are surpluses that in theory should be reinvested/spent. I really don't see any reason whatsoever for spinning off a company for these reasons. In any case, if the company remains wholly owned by the mozilla foundation then the problem won't go away - if the foundation decides to withdraw capital it will still be surplus. I guess the company could then be sold but I can't see how it would differ from any other company that is paid to be the guider of an OSS project... I may be wrong about my assumptions but would be interested to know if that is wrong... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/dvd playing up
Hi all, I got a new kernel and now can't get dvds to play. Does anyone have any suggestions? I searched for ages but never got a solution that works... Using mplayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mplayer dvd://1 Playing dvd://1. libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd /dev/dvd is there - but I am not sure if this is right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 7 13:34 /dev/dvd - hdc Changing it to /dev/hdc does nothing... trying mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc doesn't work either, though I can mount the dvd manually and access it that way, though of course I can't play it normally. Any help appreciated. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dvd playing up
My guess is that you have a permissions problem with your DVD device (/dev/hdc). Check the permissions there. Mine looks like this: brw-rw 1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 10 12:47 hdc If that is your case just `gpasswd -a yourusername disk` and you should be good to go. Don't bother trying to change the permissions on hdc since they will be reverted back when you next reboot. Bingo... did that change somewhere? Since the gentoo 2.6.8r8 kernel? I was not in the cdrom group before and the mount options has users... I guess I should have thought of it, once again thanks heaps Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - imap and thunderbird
Hi, I can't work out how to tell thunderbird to look in all of the folders on an imap server (for a single account) and retrieve at least the fact that there is a new message. It is rather annoying that one has to click on the folder for it to check - with 20+ folders this becomes unmanageable... Any pointers welcome, Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server
Hi, Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to an Oracle database. The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $3+ solution is not on the cards... Cheers Antoine ps. we have only x86 servers at the moment mostly running server 2000 or 2003, but the admin would rather be running linux... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT-OO2.0 dbase problems
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Any users of oo2.0 and the dbase app of theirs? My problem is everytime I try to use the wizard to build a query or report when I am all finished it gives me an error SQL Status: 01000 Error code: 1000 The column does not support the property 'Name'. I have to cancel the report/query? Anyone seen this, solution?? Mike The database app is still buggy as hell. I have been trying to use it as an option to access at work since about week70, and it is still woefully lacking. They were supposed to have 2.0 out by now but quite frankly it is still quite a way off RC if you ask me (which nobody did!). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] grub takes ages to... load the kernel image?
Hi, I installed a fresh ~x86 system on the wife's laptop, it runs fine (pretty much only thing that would install) and there is only one annoying problem - after grub gets told to boot linux (either through timeout or hitting enter) it takes *ages* (~45 seconds) for the dots to run and finally get onto the kernel. Does anyone know why this might be? Should I just go with what I know and install lilo? I went with genkernel (and the livedisk hardware profile) to avoid having to find out all the hardware - is this the problem? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers - solved!!! argh!
Hi, Well I was told by the techie today that we have just purchased a two-year extension to mdaemon+worldclient... and seeing as the boss is a big richard, he is not going to change any time soon. So much for wanting to save the company money! Thanks to everyone Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
Dont know about Windoze, but I work for an ISP and we use qmail + vpopmail + MySQL + Courier-IMAP + Squirrel Mail to support thousands of users. From some reading this looks like it would fit the bill. Do you know of any helpful howtos for this or similar combos? How much maintenance does it take? We have around 50-100 users and at the moment the maintenance is pretty low (except crashes etc...). Would it be a major effort to get it set up? Would it be possible to migrate the current contents over from mdaemon? What do you use for spam and virus filtering? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
Hi, I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux user, though not a fanatic like me ;-)) that there are free alternatives to what we have now (he said MailDaemon, if that is a brand and not just a mail daemon...) that are more reliable and stable alternatives then I can probably convince him (to convince the boss) to change. I would like to have people's opinions on the most stable, reliable, fastest, securest, lowest maintenance mail servers in *both* open source and proprietary worlds. Basically if there is a proprietary windoze server app that is much better, I will just keep my mouth shut. At the moment we have reboots every few weeks and mail sits there for ages sometimes before being delivered... There is only one real requirement apart from being the best (:-)), and that is that there is a fully featured web client (we are currently using WorldClient). We only have web access to our mail from offsite. Thanks for your time! Antoine ps. I guess there are extra issues like virus scanning (all our desktops and almost all our serveurs are running doze...), and whatnot - these are issues that I guess are taken for granted when recommending a best. pps. I know nothing about email! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?
My one piece of advice is to avoid RealTek chipsets (usually RTL-8139). These are the winmodems of the network world. Most of their processing is done by software, not in hardware. Been solid as a rock for me for ages now (is that 8139too?)... I occasionally shift dvd images around but nothing more serious than that though... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software
Mediawiki also powers the following: http://gentoo-wiki.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/ Two very big-name sites! I haven't done any wiki editing or dev before - not ever having had the urge. At the moment the intranet is in pseudo-html (basically ie-only, with lots of doze file links, etc), and is about as standardised as apple pie. The problem is that there are only a few of us (basically the IT dept) that are brave enough to code the html (and I am the only one who even tries to make it valid), so no one else changes anything. All the others write word files, and then just put them in known directories. Basically we have to have a wisiwig environment for there to be any interest. Even minimal tags will be too much for some of the long-toothers in the company. I had a quick look at wikiwig, which looks pretty much like it fits the bill. Has anyone used it seriously? Maintained it? I just might be able to get Gentoo on one of our servers if I can get a really polished wisiwig interface that won't crash every ten minutes... having locking is also (now I think about it) going to be necessary (almost got subversion for the intranet, but the lack of locking was not a plus... I know you can do it with cvs but anyway). Thanks for the suggestions so far Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wiki software
Hi, I am looking for wiki software to install for our company intranet and I see that twiki is masked. Is this not the main wiki software? What do others use? We would want the possibility to restrict write access but apart from that we are very flexible. What would be the lowest maintenace OSS software? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] weird permissions problem
Hi, Anyone seen this before on reiser3 (as root and user is the same...)? tux Cod # ls -l DivX4FullInstaller.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 antt users 726306 Sep 5 2004 DivX4FullInstaller.exe tux Cod # rm -f DivX4FullInstaller.exe rm: cannot remove `DivX4FullInstaller.exe': Permission denied Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination
I've only done the discriminating based on other people's non use of Gentoo. :-) My brother's father-in-law has just retired and spends all his time in front of his computer. I have tried to get him onto linux but am a little too far away to do it effectively. His son has a mate that is one of those perfect gentoo wankers. You won't be able to understand Linux (the f-in-l is an engineer, and a [EMAIL PROTECTED]' chess Master!!!). I tried to get him started with Mandrake but he ended up trying with fedora. No success yet but I am going to go and sort him out this summer. The son's mate could easily come around and sort his probs (mainly ISDN-related) out with something that didn't require configuring a kernel but he prefers to be the superior Gentoo man. You just use windows - you're too old to move to linux... I won't give you my opinion of this guy, cos there wouldn't be anyone on this list who would have at least half the expletives I have used ;-). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7
However, I understand some PDF's are encrypted and can only be read with adobes own reader. xpdf (and offshoots) support decryption of at least some versions of pdf. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo
Hi, I was most disgusted to find that to watch a dvd I rented last night I had to boot to doze. Luckily I just bought a new drive and had the OEM powerdvd, cos I haven't tried to do anything with a dvd in years under doze. I get the following error message from dvdrip 0.50.18: ... libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access [tcprobe] DVD image/device libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2812127 libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2812127 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 2 (VTS_02_0.IFO). Can't open the title 2 info file. (probe_dvd.c) failed to probe DVD title information [tcprobe] failed to probe source It may be invalid but powerdvd certainly manages to read it no probs. The problems started a couple of weeks ago but I thought they were related to my aging dvd drive. One gets similar messages (or vaguely anyway) when disks are scratched or dirty, and I also had problems with the head on the other drive (I think). It is not just transcode that has problems - neither xine nor mplayer can play the dvds (they around 1/2-2/3 through and then bail), and most annoyingly of all, a dumpstream on mplayer exits about 4/5s of the way through the movie reporting success! Argh! I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30 seconds between reads - clearly not an option for the last 1 gig! Seeing the problems I tried (on machine 1) remerging and the merging ~x86 versions of libdvdread and libdvdcss but no change. Any help or even similar stories would be most appreciated. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo
1) dirt (rented DVDs pass through a lot of hands) cleaned with special stuff - if doze can get the data then linux should be able to too. 2) new encryption that libdvdcss cannot handle. After all, that regstered encoding copy-protection business that the media providers have been pushing/implementing (I don't follow RIAA/MPAA news that closely) is certainly more likely to be on DVDs available for rental, since they know that it's a source to rip DVDs. So that's where I'd put it if I thought it was important to make it (meaning on DVDs destined for rental outlets). possible, but highly unlikely. One of the dvds was quite old and I have successfully played/ripped dvds of that vintage. Plus it would make older dvd players no longer work. Plus, you *played* it under PowerDVD, but you didn't try to *rip* it under Windows-- I suspect that it wouldn't work there either, and that PowerDVD and other Windows players have the facility to bypass the copy protection for reading, but that the DVD itself is copy-proofed against both Windows and Linux tools. hmmm. If the player can get the stream then so can I. The problem is that neither mplayer nor xinelibs can get the stream. It very much appears to be a dvdread or dvdcss problem but you never know. They are just encrypted files, and the decryption software in powerdvd or libdvdcss should be able to decode it. Clearly some of them are-- I just read (not a week or two ago) about a French claimant who won (!!) a case claiming that DVD copy protection violated his privacy rights (he was trying to copy a DVD to a video tape-- the story is at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154663,00.html ). And guess where I live! Apparently there was some talk of encrypted dvds no longer legally being able to be distributed here. There is a law that says that once an author has distributed a work they must allow copy for private personal use. That means that if I rent a dvd I am *legally* allowed to copy it! Or that seems to be how the courts have interpreted it. Certainly no redistribution allowed, but copy for personal use seems to be OK. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] getting the tvout to work with MSI nvidia geforce 4 mx 440
Hi, I have been looking about and found a couple of good things - unfortunately they don't seem to work. I have the latest nvidia binary driver. I just want to watch movies on the bigger Tv, though I know that watching movies (something about overlay) might be a big ask. Just getting kde would be a start. If anyone has got this to work and could give me the most basic xorg.conf that would work I would be most appreciative. I will need from devices down (ie, display, screen, etc) cos I have never set up a config with more than one screen (and usually just run xorgconfig...). Thanks heaps Antoine ps. will I have to recompile mplayer/xine with xinerama? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev not getting usb key
Hi, out put from dmesg gives: ... usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Could someone gives me an idea on what the prob might be? Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: udev not getting usb key
On 5/8/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, out put from dmesg gives: ... usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Could someone gives me an idea on what the prob might be? Cheers Antoine Looks like a faulty usb key as it isn't recognised under doze either. However, the other key (two of the same brand) gives this: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 10 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: USB Model: DISK Pro Rev: 2.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: : Current: sense key=0x6 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08 sd: Current: sense key=0x6 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0 sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: : Current: sense key=0x6 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08 sd: Current: sense key=0x6 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0 sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: : Current: sense key=0x6 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08 sd: Current: sense key=0x6 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0 sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 unable to read partition table Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete Then continues to do something for quite a while and sometimes outputs this: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 After which i can mount it. It takes an age though. Is this likely another hardware problem (works ok under gentoo once it finally stops plaing around, and fine under doze)? Any pointers welcome Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - accented characters in OO (or kde generally) with a us keyboard
Hi, I have a us keyboard and am trying to get french é, è and others in OO-bin (1.9.95). The help mentions something about setting the environment var SAL_NO_DEADKEYS - whatever the hell that means (set it to what???), and putting xkbvariants in xorg.conf. Both of those were done (I tried setting the envvar to true, no workies) but under kde 3.4 (at least) it doesn't work. The system is a freshly installed gentoo ~x86. Thanks Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?
On 5/6/05, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I got an email from the gentoo-user list manager saying that it failed to deliver a message from the list to my G-Mail account. So far, it's just been once. What's going on? Does G-Mail have serious issues to resolve? I haven't had complaints from any one of my friends about not being able to send me mail, but I am just curious... I have this all the time, and from real people too (ie not lists). I regularly get messages saying that a mail server has been trying for a day to get to me etc... I am not going to throw it away, but the 1 gig I now get from yahoo is looking enticing... Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10???
Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 4/25/05, timothy johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea on when this will be available? On avg how long does it take things to make it to become an ebuild? It's there already, just masked. I've been using it for some time now (almost a month I think). Me too - it's a bit rough around the edges, for me at least. I have been wanting to post some qs for a while now so will start a new thread... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] python fails to emerge
Hi, I am trying to get up to date and python won't emerge. It borks at : i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: glibc: No such file or directory ln: accessing `libpython2.3.so.1.0': No such file or directory make: *** [libpython2.3.so] Error 1 I tried revdep-rebuild but it gives me nothing to do with python. Can anyone shed any light on this? cheers Antoine tux root # emerge -av python These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.4-r1] +X +berkdb -bootstrap -build -debug +doc +gdbm -ipv6 +ncurses +readline +ssl +tcltk -ucs2 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes emerge (1 of 1) dev-lang/python-2.3.5 to / md5 files ;-) python-2.4.1.ebuild md5 files ;-) python-2.3.5.ebuild md5 files ;-) python-2.1.3-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) python-2.2.3-r6.ebuild md5 files ;-) python-2.3.4-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) python-2.4-r3.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-lib64.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-mimetypes_apache.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4.1-readline.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-updater md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-readline.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.1-r5-gentoo.diff md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-add_portage_search_path.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.3-xmlrpc.patch md5 files ;-) files/digest-python-2.3.5 md5 files ;-) files/digest-python-2.4.1 md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-xmlrpc.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.2-tk-8.4.x.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.3-gentoo_py_dontcompile.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-gentoo_py_dontcompile.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-readline.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-add_portage_search_path_take_2.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.3-db4.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4.1-db4.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.3-fPIC.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-xmlrpc.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3.4-lib64.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-config-2.2 md5 files ;-) files/python-config-2.3 md5 files ;-) files/python-config-2.4 md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-db4.2.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-gentoo_py_dontcompile.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3-add_portage_search_path.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.2.3-disable_modules_and_ssl.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-db4.2.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-config-2.2.1 md5 files ;-) files/python-config-2.2.2 md5 files ;-) files/python-2.3.2-disable_modules_and_ssl.patch md5 files ;-) files/digest-python-2.1.3-r1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-python-2.2.3-r6 md5 files ;-) files/digest-python-2.3.4-r1 md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4.1-libdir.patch md5 files ;-) files/depreorder.py md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-libdir.patch md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-disable_modules_and_ssl.patch md5 files ;-) files/digest-python-2.4-r3 md5 files ;-) files/python-2.4-mimetypes_apache.patch md5 src_uri ;-) Python-2.3.5.tar.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking Python-2.3.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/python-2.3.5/work * Applying python-2.3-readline.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying python-2.3-add_portage_search_path_take_2.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying python-2.3-gentoo_py_dontcompile.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying python-2.3.2-disable_modules_and_ssl.patch ...[ ok ] * Applying python-2.3-mimetypes_apache.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying python-2.3-db4.2.patch ... ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] compaq 2500 no /dev/dsp
Hi, Can anyone give me any hints on what to do to get sound going on this thing? I have no idea what module to look for but have seen some mention of conexant... It ran out of the box when i installed suse... Any help much appreciated Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage
Eamon Caddigan wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:16:41 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Vim's great, but sometimes you just want vi.=20 That's a shame, because I removed (traditional) vi from the tree. Your choices are Vim, nvi, elvis or fixing traditional vi to work with terminfo rather than termcap and submitting a bug with a patch. Can't you tell vim to act like good ol' vi? Is it still not good ol' vi, no matter how much they try and make it like it? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic
Hi, I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: intercept browser traffic
On Apr 12, 2005 1:49 PM, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? Cheers Antoine btw, it is in https, but seeing as it is my browser I want to spy on, isn't that OK? ;-) Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] getting sound to work with a new kernel and udev
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:36:58 +0200, Antoine wrote: I have upgraded to the latest ck and udev. Everything seems to be working, except sound. I also compiled my soundcard as a module this time, instead of right into the kernel. I didn't load it on boot, but a modprobe doesn't seem to make any difference. Could someone tell me what I should put in my autoload? I am using a yamaha whose module is snd-ymfpci. You don't use modules.autoload to handle ALSA modules. Edit /etc/modules.d/alsa to suit your card. Why on earth would gnome have different settings for my two kernels? It turned off the sounds for my new kernel, and that was the problem... Thanks for everyones help... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Time one hour off every time I start
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:44:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Only problem with UTC in bios is for those of us who (have to!) keep MonopolSoft's wunnerful(Hic!) system on the same computer. No problem, Gentoo is smart enough to know about such things. Set your BIOS clock to local time and put CLOCK=local in /etc/conf.d/clock - or possibly in /etc/rc.conf, depending on your baselayout version. Hi, Could you expand ever so slightly on baselayout version? I have had this annoyance for a long time now (though I try and boot to doze as irregularly as possible), and want to finally understand how to fix the damn thing for good. So if I understand it I won't have to ask for instructions again! Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
