Re: [gentoo-user] kernel woes..

2006-12-20 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It seems you recently updated your kernel. After every kernel upgrade, you must re-merge nvidia-drivers to rebuild them against the current kernel. Note that /usr/src/linux must point to the configured kernel sources for your running kernel (or the

Re: [gentoo-user] mkisofs for XP CD

2006-12-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Grant wrote: Does anyone know if there are any special options I should use with mkisofs to create a perfect copy of an XP CD including making it bootable? If you're making copy of a CD-- if you're trying to *clone* it-- then you shouldn't use mkisofs. (Recommendations

Re: [gentoo-user] PC Speaker is an Input Device?

2006-12-08 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Randy Barlow wrote: I was just looking for the PC speaker in my menuconfig because I kinda like that neato little beep, and I couldn't find it. Some googling told me that it was under INPUT devices. Does this sound funny to anyone else? Sounds weird, but that's where it

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub set default for next reboot?

2006-12-06 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: grub-set-default only sets it for one boot, so your default, which would sensibly be set to a known working kernel, takes over next time. I still don't see how grub-set-default has any provisions for booting a kernel just once and then automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub set default for next reboot?

2006-12-05 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jakob wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to tell Grub to start another system than the default for the next reboot? On lilo there is the command lilo -R ... whitch tells lilo to use the specified system for the next reboot and than switch back to the default after

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub set default for next reboot?

2006-12-05 Thread Flophouse Joe
On lilo there is the command lilo -R ... whitch tells lilo to use the specified system for the next reboot and than switch back to the default after that. There does not appear to be a quick-and-easy way to get grub to boot an entry in a one-off test run as you described. Yes there is,

Re: [gentoo-user] Newly created user can't ssh in but others can?

2006-11-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Daevid Vincent wrote: I have had my server for several years, I haven't added a new user in probably 6 months or more. I tried to add one last night and all seemed fine. However it can't login via ssh (not at a console, so I don't know about that way) but existing accounts

Re: [gentoo-user] man openssl

2006-11-17 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote: I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl. How can this be? I looked at the output of equery files --filter=man openssl and noticed that while the openssl package on my system contained *some* manpages, it certainly didn't contain a

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, James Colby wrote: I was trying to delete some files from my /sbin directory and with an unfortunate use of a wildcard accidentally deleted the entire contents on the /sbin directory. I have recovered the contents of the /sbin directory from a stage 3 tarball. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Flophouse Joe wrote: Yes, I think an emerge --deep --emptytree world would be in order. Wow. The other posters are right. Re-emerging everything is a waste of time. It'd be much easier to re-emerge only the packages that had placed files into /sbin . Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 17:40, Flophouse Joe wrote: Yes, I think an emerge --deep --emptytree world would be in order. Why? And what exactly do you expect --deep to do with --emptytree? Using --deep is a force of habit for upgrades, so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin

2006-11-16 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, James Colby wrote: I had one file in /etc that needed updating, and when I tried to run etc-update it was missing. I'm not clear on what's happened. Is it etc-update that's missing or is it something else? Joe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Roger Mason wrote: I am following the runlevel guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4 to set up an offline runlevel for my laptop. When I boot into the kernel with this entry in grub.conf: # For booting GNU/Linux title Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with script for iptables

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -i ! ${UPLINK} -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT I would like to define more than one iface in UPLINK, e.g. eth0, wlan0, ppp0. It sounds like you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with script for iptables

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:25, Flophouse Joe wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: UPLINK=eth0 wlan0 ppp0 for x in ${INTERFACES} do iptables -A INPUT -i ! ${x} -j ACCEPT . . . more rules

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Wont mount

2006-11-14 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, timothy johnson wrote: Having a little issue with NFS mount 10.250.107.10:/home /mnt/pdc1Home returns mount: 10.250.107.10:/home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied /etc/exports /home (no_root_squash,rw) Try explicitly listing the IP address of the

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Wont mount

2006-11-14 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, timothy johnson wrote: Joe, I have tried this and got the same results On 11/14/06, Flophouse Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, timothy johnson wrote: mount 10.250.107.10:/home /mnt/pdc1Home returns mount: 10.250.107.10:/home failed, reason given