Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver issue

2005-12-27 Thread Christoph Gysin
sHadoW MaN wrote: I have Xscreensaver 4.22 installed and the thing I find strange is that when a regular user locked the screen and then I tried to unlock the screen with root password, it does not work, with the previous versions this worked. is There a way to fix this please? I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system world rebuild

2005-12-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
John J. Foster wrote: //garbanzo/root # start-stop-daemon --quiet --start \ --exec /usr/bin/env \ - /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-imapd-ssl.rc produces no visible errors, but still can't connect to maildirs. Just run:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
赵光 wrote: i want know how to emerge e17 i found some method on gentoo forum,but i can;t emerge it some package on cvs can't download who can tell me how to emerge it The anonymous cvs server from sourceforge is very busy. Perhaps you are luckier with the newly set up mirror from thinktux.net.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message look like the server refuse me Try again in a few hours. It is down for maintenance at

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirecting a script output to the mail command

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
Thiago Lüttig wrote: I need to redirect an script output to the mail command. how ?? i've tried the following: ./script.sh mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] but the bash says [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] command not found. Use the pipe character '|':

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: On 11/1/05, *Christoph Gysin* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stroller wrote: Can anyone explain to me how to use this, please? Try as I might I don't seem to be getting it right. Seems to be a bug in lspci. It works here like it should. I have tried this on a couple of machines. The output produced by `lspci -x` _looks_ reasonable - I've attached

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Why search Google and not b.g.o itself, or packages.gentoo.org? Either manually or-- if you use Firefox-- using the Firefox b.g.o search engine? Seems like a waste of effort to have to filter irrelevant hits from Google when one already knows that the status of the issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stroller wrote: Do you have any references on this, please? I'm obviously using different search terms from you, because I can't find anything about this bug on Google. search term: bug lspci -F : ... brings us to: http://www.google.ch/search?q=bug+%22lspci+-F%22+%22%3A%22+ ...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other

2005-10-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with... Maybe you should take a look at the man page? There is a nice EXAMPLE section... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box

2005-10-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But this is not the same as the SCSI emulation used for IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rafael Fernández López wrote: I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer user in CVS so I cannot upload. If I fill in a bug for uploading ebuilds (is the right way) I've created a patch

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- gcc .o linking and undefined references

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Dan wrote: The bit that makes me think I'm stupid is that it seems that neither gcc or I can find the source (.c) or compiled binaries (.o) which implement the structures and functions defined in ldap.h. What am I doing wrong? Where are the .c and .o files supposed to be on a regular linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Wes Gray wrote: What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? This would be the first thing I would try. Also check dmesg. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rafael Fernández López wrote: I filled it in, and it is uploaded. I'm gonna work with wxmaxima too, and create a new ebuild for it (http://wxmaxima.sf.net). I'd like to know if there is any posibility of becoming a Gentoo Dev, I'm offering as a developer, and I'd like to know what I've to know

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
gentuxx wrote: I was emerging some packages to set up a postfix virtual mailer and got this: emerge (8 of 10) mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.5 to / !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-sylpheed-claws-1.9.1 # emerge --sync -- or -- #

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

2005-10-21 Thread Christoph Gysin
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: * Phillips Streamium [ http://en.streamium.com/products/sl50i/ ] * Netgear MP101 [ http://www.netgear.com/products/details/MP101.php ] I've seen vague hints that these devices might be supported by UPNP - for which there is a package in portage... but it seems as

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jerry McBride wrote: Yes that would be possible. But since the OP's kernel doesn't even boot up, it's not an option. He was asking how to see the previous dmesg output this would do it on future boot ups... He was trying to update the kernel. Since it didn't boot up, he was looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264. Christoph -- echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
John Jolet wrote: add -radius to your USE flags? How willl this help? $ grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ethereal/*.ebuild IUSE=adns gtk ipv6 snmp ssl kerberos Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks! I'll have a look but guess early development isn't good enough yet. I'd still give it a shot. Most of the time the software is more stable than the developers would admit. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-17 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ian Brandt wrote: Is it possible to get the dmesg for the boot prior to the current one? No it isn't. dmesg shows the ring buffer contents of the running kernel. I'm trying to remotely upgrade from the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel. I followed the migration guide, but I got something wrong because my

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-17 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jerry McBride wrote: No. Once the kernel reboots, the dmesg data is lost. Unless ofcourse you put this in /etc/conf.d/local.start: #!/bin/bash # /etc/conf.d/local.start /bin/dmesg /var/log/dmesg Then you will at the least have a log of the current dmesg, which could be rotated. Yes that

Re: [gentoo-user] Somebody's cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles and I want it to stop! ;-)

2005-10-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
Dave Nebinger wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:48 am, Justin Patrin wrote: Are you running http-accelerater and repcacheman on one? Oh, and both use /var/cache/http-replicator as the source dir, not /usr/portage/distfiles. AFAIK repcacheman *moves* the sourcefiles from

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf [SOLVED]

2005-10-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jorge Almeida wrote: Glad that worked for you, but please now remember to add nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx to /etc/portage/package.keywords as allowed to be ~x86, or else Portage will try to downgrade them the next time you do an emerge world-- ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on an emerge command line is only

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-11 Thread Christoph Gysin
James Colby wrote: I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Shields wrote: reports the speed as UDMA44 to the BIOS, when in fact there is no such standard and it should be UDMA66, but that's easily fixed with hdparm). Actually, there was a UDMA44 standard. It's defined in ATA-5 (Ansi NCITS 340-2000), tough I've never heard of hardware supporting

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-21 Thread Christoph Gysin
Pupeno wrote: DEPEND=chicken mysql should be: DEPEND=dev-scheme/chicken dev-db/mysql RDEPEND= Not sure, but I've often saw this: RDEPEND=${DEPEND} src_unpack() { mkdir -p ${S} cp /usr/portage/distfiles/${A} ${S} } mkdir isn't nessessary IIRC. You also shouldn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-21 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: You also shouldn't have to copy the egg. Does it get modified during chicken-setup? If not, you can leave out the whole src_unpack(). Of course, you'll need to specify the path to the egg in chicken-setup. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2

Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

2005-09-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joseph wrote: The (CN) of the certificate match out company name it doesn't match localhost I assume your apache is configured with hostname localhost. What does your apache.conf look like? (snipped to the relevant parts, of course) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr *

Re: [gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

2005-09-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joseph wrote: How to get rid of this error: [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name Every time I start apache it generate this error in ssl_error_log My certificate is for my domain-name not my localhost, and I don't have any vhost configured with

Re: [gentoo-user] Central syslog server and then

2005-09-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm going to setup a central syslog server for Linux and windows machines, but whats the best program to examin these logs, and send out email alerts to users ? It seems that there are not so many opensource solutions. Which ones have you already checked out?

[gentoo-user] Xorg and RANDR

2005-09-14 Thread Christoph Gysin
I'm trying to use the RANDR extension from xorg. Here is what i get: $ grep RANDR /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR seems like RANDR is built-in, but: $ xrandr Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :0.0. Any experts on xorg here? ;-) Christoph -- echo mailto:

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling DMA on SE7520BD2S

2005-09-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jaroslaw Kapica wrote: Well I tried few diffrent combinations of drivers before, (I've even compiled all drivers in ;} ), but it didn't help too. There are too many posibilities to gues the right one, moreover I think that it maight be sth somewhere else? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX should be your

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

2005-09-12 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: so I hit this bug too. :( Well, the log itself says it's a bug and (even worse) that nobody knows where it comes from. Somebody on b.g.o. suggests to try building with a vanilly kernel. Did someone here make the same experience and if yes, will it run then on a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home grub root (hd0,4) grub setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe it's into the MBR and not into partition 1, correct? If

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: (hd0,4) would be your / partition. But grub expects the partition containing the grub installation files, which are located on /boot so it should be (hd0,2) stupid me, of course it should be (hd0,1) as mentioned in my other post. If you're confused now, go with Heinz's

Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Neil Bothwick wrote: Correct, and /dev/hda5 is (hd0,4) despite all the conflicting advice you've been given. All my boxes have /boot on hda5 and all use hd0,4 (well, except the iBook which uses that horrible yaboot thing, anyone who wants to start a grub vs. lilo flame war should be made to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Heinz Sporn wrote: Question: may I run mkraid /dev/md0 on the fly now or will that somehow destroy the partition table on the entire disk A ? This wont't work since only data written to md0 gets mirrored. You can't mirror an existing partition. An mkraid will probably destroy partition A2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Introducing RAID 1 into a running system

2005-09-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mike Williams wrote: Quicker method :) create B1 and B2 umount /dev/A2 # mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/A2 /dev/B2 You CAN create a mirror of an existing partition, and NOT lose data. I know, I've done it. But how does it know which of the devices is the master? Does it simply copy the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Javier Uribe wrote: * emerge --sync * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gnomebaker N! The way to do it would be: # mkdir -p /etc/portage # echo app-cdr/gnomebaker ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge -avt gnomebaker Don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line. This has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Please point me to the doco on an nVidia install

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Andrew Lowe wrote: I've managed to build up a machine that uses an nVidia nforce2 chipset. I'm now in the process of installing the nVidia drivers. The problem is that I'm sure I've come across doco that describes what to do but for the life of me I can't remember where it is. I've done

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). nice ;-) Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: Nice reading ... 5.8. ... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to continue with the install. We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;) No, we are chrooting into our diskless directory. 6. ...untar the tarball that is mounted... We can mount tarballs ???

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/bash if [ ${ACTION} = add ] [ -f ${DEVICE} ] then rmmod garmin_gps chmod 666 $DEVICE fi $ man test

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???

2005-08-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jarry wrote: I'm using sendmail as my mail-server, and I noticed, that mail for users is stored in $HOME/.maildir, not in /var/spool/mail. And each mail is stored as separate file, not all in one file. WHY??? It's called the maildir mail storage format. I find it very useful, especially with

Re: [gentoo-user] very OT (was: why gentoo doesn't have long description?)

2005-08-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Daniel da Veiga wrote: You know bud, read some rules, be polite. If you have nothing good to say, say NOTHING!. Do you really THINK before replying? Have you added something to the question? Care more about WHAT people write than WHERE is it written, you'll be more happy. Comments like yours

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Christoph Gysin
Matan Peled wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: To get a chance of getting it included in the portage tree, you'll need to provide a package with everything needed to build the game from source. Some sort of build instruction would also be nice. But we can't... It requires a commercial basic

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. I don't have mozilla installed: $ emerge -avt unison These are the packages that I

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. Found out some more: You seem to have the 'gnome', 'mozilla' and 'gtk' or 'gtk2'

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Christoph Gysin
Frank Schafer wrote: To unsubscribe send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... you got this with the Welcome message during subscribing. Not only that. In every mail you get from this list, there is a line in the header: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Christoph -- echo mailto:

Re: [gentoo-user] Ktoon

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ian K wrote: Does anyone know how to get KToon working? http://ktoon.toonka.com/ No. Let's see what the problem is... I cannot compile it because when I run Qmake to compile the sources, it says qmake: command not found. You seem to be missing qmake, which turns out to be part of QT (by

Re: [gentoo-user] external modem identificaton

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joseph wrote: How to identify external modem? I think it is by running command: ATI4 Though, how do I connect to a modem from a command line to get a response to ATI4? $ cat /dev/ttyS0 $ echo ATI4 /dev/ttyS0 $ kill %1 My modem also gives useful Information on ATI1, ATI3 and ATI9. For a

Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Neil Bothwick wrote: The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this makes sense on / Actually, both user and users are valid mount options, with slightly different meanings. Neither is applicable here though, because / is mounted by root and both options only affect

Re: [gentoo-user] F4L

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Nick Rout wrote: try the ebuild that is on bugs.gentoo.org Be nice and provide a link: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82154 Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would like to hear from someone that knows :) - when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same kernel? Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root of one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer iso ?

2005-08-15 Thread Christoph Gysin
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: I can't seem to see these two additional images on any of the mirrors, could someone please point them out to me ? http://your_favourite_mirror/experimental/x86/livecd/x86/livecd-x86-2005.1.iso Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer iso ?

2005-08-15 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: Nelis Lamprecht wrote: I can't seem to see these two additional images on any of the mirrors, could someone please point them out to me ? http://your_favourite_mirror/experimental/x86/livecd/x86/livecd-x86-2005.1.iso Sorry, didn't read your whole post. The hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?

2005-08-15 Thread Christoph Gysin
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Have you tried adding users to your fstab? Have you read the post before answering? The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this makes sense on / Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] why I cannot compile gsview? don't have idea what is this error message?

2005-08-10 Thread Christoph Gysin
Zhang Weiwu wrote: bash-2.05b# emerge gsview Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-text/gsview-4.6 to / !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-gsview-4.5 try: # emerge --sync or # rm

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find file I need for an emerge!

2005-08-10 Thread Christoph Gysin
Michael Sullivan wrote: Yesterday I got my external DVD-RW/CD-RW drive in. I added dvd use flags to /etc/make.conf and issued emerge uDN world. The first package in the emerge is xcdroast, which is good because that's what I use to write CDs (and DVDs if I can get this to work.) emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
Norberto Bensa wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory, the buffer

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Uwe Thiem wrote: Anybody in the know how to generate an xpm image with 16 colours and 1 character per pixel? I mean other than using vi. ;-) Alternatively, converting an image to that format would do for me. imagemagick is your friend :-) # emerge -avt imagemagick The following isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 8 03:17:00 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14366126) = blocks count(14366126) - block_group = 438, es == c2510400 [...] Aug 8 08:46:52 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14372149) = blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Norberto Bensa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Check your temp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try fsck? nope :-( I'm a bit too afraid to try it. It's a production server with only one partition and it's located about 6000 miles away. If something goes wrong, I'll be really in a bad situation. I think I'll have to do it anyway, but I'm checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with this, fsck won't change anything to my partition at all? nope. and what about this line from the output of tune2fs? Filesystem state: clean with errors Is it like critical or like informative? only fsck can tell... Since e2fsck _will_ find errors,

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: which I understand because it is trying to use *vi* and I don't have it. If I'm not wrong, vi is not even in portage. So, is there a way to work around this, maybe using another editor to edit it? It's probably hardcoded in the code. Workaround: $ sudo ln -s nano

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: Christoph, I can't find the screenshot I saw and made me think about moving to E, but this one is also good and has the panel (right under the IM app) I was talking about: http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~uriel/images/screen.jpg In the browser window you can see

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: And in the E docs, there is this sentence: Note that you should not mix -* and ~x86 ebuilds. So is it enough that I just change everything to -* and all packages will be upgraded, or will I need to unmerge every package before? Just keyword all packages -* and update

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: Also found other scripts to compile directly from cvs, without using portage. Can anyone tell me what the advantage of doing so? I'd suggest using portage since it allows you to uninstall, query information and doing other nice package managment stuff. Christoph, is

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

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Essential : * Must be secure against remote attacks. * Must support username-and-password based authentication. Desirable : * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server) * As lightweight as

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Luke Albers wrote: I run this every day to recompile from CVS. Somtimes it compiles, sometimes it doesnt, but I dont really care. I don't think it is difficult to use at all, you will rarely need to change much from the command line. The only thing that can be a bitch is making all the eapp

Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo

2005-07-29 Thread Christoph Gysin
Yuan MEI wrote: however, I cannot execute matlab with 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 matlab', which causes: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Does libdl.so.2 exist on your system? I'm running ~x86: $ equery b

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff

2005-07-27 Thread Christoph Gysin
Zhang Weiwu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ diff -I ^[[:space:]]*/[*].*[*]/[[:space:]]*$ header.inc.php empty 1,2d0 ?php /* $Id: header.inc.php.template,v 1.58 2005/07/08 05:00:14 milosch Exp $ */ in man it's being said, -I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE Ignore

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff

2005-07-25 Thread Christoph Gysin
Zhang Weiwu wrote: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep \b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b* Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.11 2004/05/23 14:51:27 ralfbecker Exp $ */ This doesn't work: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc (was: howto install gentoo without a cd-rom)

2005-07-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
John Blinka wrote: I've almost got this laptop functioning under gentoo, but the compile times are horrendously long. Hence this question: Can I use distcc to speed it up? I have 3 other machines already using distcc, but they are more modern; their /etc/make.conf contains: CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment WM -- setup

2005-07-11 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: Hi everyone, I've seen a few screenshots of the Enlightenment Window Manager and I wanted to try it. I've emerged *enlightenment *and (as the howto says) I should be able to load Enlightenment after restarting X, however I don't get that option. I only have default,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Christoph Gysin
Dave Nebinger wrote: I did a sync last night and gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 wants to be emerged. Got the kernel ok, but it needs genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2. I've searched a number of the mirrors and so far haven't found it. Anyone out there know where I can find it? Daniel Drake is

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
David Morgan wrote: afaik you can only do it with su -c echo foo bar, which stops bash from doing anything with the or the whitespace to begin with, but then passes everything inside the double quotes to another shell, which gets started by su -c It's kind of annoying, I know, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: I'm really lost. Where am I going wrong? check my other post. Oh, btw, just remembered-- this is bash 3. Does that make a difference? No. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Thank you, Christoph Your welcome. Last question on this subject-- is this all just bash scripting (so I can learn about it if I sit and study the abs-guide) or is there someplace else I should check out if I want to learn how to write this stuff myself? Yes, this

[gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: $ equery b $(which kfm) Thanks! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Actually, none-- it's 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' now (this just bit me the other day when I tried one of my rare uses of Konq and went looking for kfm, which no longer exists). So just install konqueror. Thanks! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Holly Bostick wrote: Or is this not a valid proof that there are some limits left? Not, it's not. A simple sudo bash will give you a root shell. The problem in your example was the missing quotes: $ sudo bash -c /etc/init.d/samba restart Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard for Dual-Core CPU - Linux firendly

2005-06-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joseph wrote: Looking for Linux friendly motherboard where everything will work from sound to graphics for Dual-Core CPU (AMD 4400) Any recommendations? I'd stick with Intel, they make pretty good Dual-Boards. The new Intel HD-Audio onboard soundcard, and the widely used Marvell/Yukon Gb-LAN

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc

2005-06-23 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: Of course lirc needs a kernel module, didn´t you read the docs? How about compiling it directly into the kernel? That's the way I did it... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc

2005-06-22 Thread Christoph Gysin
Luigi Pinna wrote: I have no /dev/lirc ... What must I do? I use udev but the device doesn't exist I can create it with mknod but I don't know the major and the minor of the device... I had the same problem on my xbox a while ago. Either set in /etc/conf.d/lircd LIRCD_OPTS=-d /dev/lirc0

Re: [gentoo-user] text browser with frames and javascript that actually works

2005-06-22 Thread Christoph Gysin
Iain Buchanan wrote: from pc at work: ssh -L :192.168.1.3:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or, to start an ssh tunnel in the background, i use: $ ssh -fNL port:host:port [EMAIL PROTECTED] or for the opposite direction: $ ssh -fNR port:host:port [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Richard Fish wrote: It is a long-standing bug in portage, and apparently not easy to fix. reference to bugzilla, anyone? Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Module parameters

2005-06-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: To keep a networkcard in 100mbit full duplex i have put a line in /etc/modules.conf. Now hte next time this machine is rebooted will it use this parameters or must i do something extra? AFAIK /etc/modules.conf is generated from update-modules. Edit

Re: [gentoo-user] raid messages at boot time

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Richard Fish wrote: I think a far better option would be to filter them in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. Then you do not have to re-patch your kernel with every upgrade. This affects only output via syslog. During the md autorun, the kernel hasn't even finished booting. The post was about

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
maxim wexler wrote: Yes, thanks, emerge --sync is awesome! But must it run so long? I started more than an hour ago and it's still churning away. I noticed it started another server(went from Xeon to P4) and kept on going. Does it know enough to stop? Is it repeating itself? At some point

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