On 8/11/06, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there
> anything other than samba the works reliably.
HTTP
FTP
DAV
Samba
SSH/SCP
(probably others too)
Take your pick.
On 6/12/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried
this:
uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
I think that you need to run sort on the file first, then uniq.
HTH,
Matt
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On 6/4/06, Leandro Melo de Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to compile dev-perl/Geo-IP and I got the following message:
Did you try searching bugzilla?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123546
HTH,
Matt
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On 6/1/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that
just takes up space, such as /usr/portage.
Depending on how much free space you have available, you could send a
copy of the portage tree along with the binary
On 5/30/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
does anyone known an FTP server, which can execute some
command after upload ?
I know that pure-ftpd has funcitonality like this, though I have never
personally used it. Check the man pages for more info about the
"--uploadscript" option.
I am not a portage expert, but would it be possible to re-tar the
fixed source, then re-generate the ebuild digest using:
# ebuild digest
Then you should be able to continue with the emerge?
HTH,
Matt
On 5/23/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to make a change in the co
On 5/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a way to get the java compiler without installing x11?
Try adding "-X" to your USE flags.
HTH,
Matt
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On 5/9/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action.
Is there a setting to tailor this?
I can think of two things off the top of my head:
1) In the unstable version of portage, there is a feature called elog
that is su
On 5/7/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Meanwhile the portage xorg maintainers have decided
that they are not going to reinstate 1.0.2-r3, not
even hard masked, which means that, unless 1.0.2-r4
decides to work for me second time round, I'm stuffed.
I think that you should be ab
Ahh, here is the relavent section on dhcp:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap3
On 5/5/06, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that
explained the different options for the n
There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that
explained the different options for the net scripts. However, I cannot
seem to locate it anymore.
Matt
On 5/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the best way to go about doing this?
I would prefer to use dh
One solution to this issue is to use the faster server as a binary
host for the slower one. I was able to do something similar with a
slow laptop and a fast desktop machine. I'm not in front of my gentoo
machine right now, so I can't provide the exact details, but it goes
something like this:
On
On 3/28/06, Chad Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got an old nVida card:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta
> LT] (rev 15)
>
> and am using the 7174. GLX, DRI it all works well. I've been putting
> off upgrading to modular X on this box until I k
On 2/23/06, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use xpdf, because acroread takes ages to load. For this to
> work I added xpdf as handler for the "application/pdf" MIME-type to the
> list of helper applications. It should be somewhere in the preferences.
I can't seem to find this option
On 1/6/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address.
> I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using
> Any hints?
>
I know that you can do this with udhcpc using the "-r" option:
" -r ADDRESS, --request=ADDRESS
Request IP addr
I think you are having the same problem that I did:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976
HTH,
Matt
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On 12/3/05, Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes, I know, but it means to download lot of tarballs, which is
> a bit complicated ... therefore I wish to have database on gentoo.org :-)
>
This issue has been discussed on this list before many times: because
ebuilds are compiled from s
On 12/3/05, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget
> is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it
> couldn't handle this particular file.
>
I don't know what the exact format of your pa
On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why? What do you expect to gain?
>
The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a
Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is
equivalent to an i586.
Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST var
First off, I've never tried to create a new thread from an existing
one, so please excuse me if I screwed up the threading, etc.
On 11/21/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can change
> everything after a stage 3 install, although you have to be careful when
> changing CHOST.
I've
> Hi All,
>
> Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ?
>
> Is there any reason to do this ?
>
Do you have the "apache2" USE flag enabled?
HTH,
Matt
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On 9/15/05, aka Sevein Jes__s Garc__a Crespo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! Was Portage developed to work with a /usr/portage directory mounted
> from another computer with NFS or SMB? I did it and it worked.
>
> I thought this way could be easier than rsync when you have maybe two
> or three co
On 9/14/05, Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In /etc/portage/package.mask:
> >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4
>
> In /etc/portage/package.unmask
> >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
>
Thanks for the help. So the atoms in package.unmask are evaluated
after the atoms in package.mas
> My partner's computer is running the 1.0.7174 drivers, the latest that
> work with the TNT2 card, on gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r1 with no stability
> problems. It also worked fine on later the 2.6.12 revisions.
>
> That may indicate that the fault is elsewhere in your setup, or it may
> mean that th
I've been having serious problems with newer versions of
gentoo-sources (basically 2.6.12-r9 and 2.6.12-r10), so I have
downgraded to 2.6.12-r4, which is rock solid for me. So, I thought to
add something like this atom to /etc/portage/package.mask:
>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4
However, wh
On 9/7/05, Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it
> running after I logout without interrupt it?
>
How about disown, a bash built-in?
$ disown -h
HTH,
Matt
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On 9/6/05, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The package grass seems to be broken (emerge):
Did you try searching bugs.gentoo.org? There are several bugs about
this issue, including:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27915
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On 8/23/05, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello List,
>
> Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be
> installed by a package without installing it?
>
IIRC, it is not possible to get a complete file list without actually
compiling the package,
On 8/22/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I use a NFS exported distfiles directory?
>
Try exporting the NFS share with the "no_root_squash" variable.
HTH,
Matt
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> 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.
>
On 8/18/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> $ emerge -a
On 8/17/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather
> successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only
> taking up 9mb (when gzipped).
>
> Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzip
On 8/17/05, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> Take a look here
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/server.html.
Ok, I changed the "debug" attribute to 9 and restarted tomcat, but the
log file still looks the same.
Matt
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On 8/17/05, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy
> (http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some
> reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the
> we
I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy
(http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some
reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the
webapps/ directory, as it should according to the Tomcat
documentation. What is interesting
On 8/12/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I cannot seem to find detailed document/manual on using bash robustly
> in a programming environment.
Let me be the first of many to point you to the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
HTH,
Matt
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On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize
> option is being used?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like
ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used.
Mat
> On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From the MythTV-Users list I've seen people talking about using NFS
> > devices but recommending that they be set up with TCP instead of UDP.
> > So far I haven't yet found any Gentoo docs on how to do this.
IIRC, there is also a kernel c
On 7/26/05, Oscar Carlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone :)
>
> I'm currently at work (in a drug store, or whatever it's called in english
> (: ), using a "public" computer, and I don't think I dare to download and
> run putty on this machine...
> So I'm out looking for a web bas
>
> What would be the easiest way to somehow "map" a network drive on my
> Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH?
Could you try something like WebDAV? It should be easy to forward the
necessary port over ssh to a web server on your Gentoo box. Plus, XP
has built-in suppo
On 7/12/05, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working on:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html
>
> Comments, etc are welcome.
I think this is very good. I liked the discussion on user privilages,
but maybe it w
> I'm confused here. I want VSFTPd installed on my server. What is
> net-ftp/ftpbase and what is requiring it? And why has this not been an issue
> before? I currently have vsftpd 2.0.3 installed, why is the -r1 causing a
> problem now?
Did you try searching the mailing list archives? There was a
> On 6/29/05, anthony hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone have any tips on getting XdirectFB working on gentoo 2005?
There's also a lengthy post in the forums about it:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-34174-highlight-xdirectfb.html
One post mentions that this might be a gcc-3.4 iss
On 6/21/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my systems, since they are frontend only, this might work but I
> don't know how to do it. Can someone point out basically how to try?
>
> Also, what user account would be used if mythfrontend was started this
> way? Maybe that will be appare
On 6/21/05, Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone had success installing Gentoo 2005.0 on a Dell Latitude D610?
> Specifically I'm worried about getting the ATI RADEON X300 video card
> and the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 working. I don't foresee any problems
> with the Sigmatel sound
Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from
/etc/inittab with a "respawn" action?
Matt
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On 6/16/05, Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone gotten Gentoo to work on a Alienware Area-51m 7700 or Sentia? I
> am leaning towards the Sentia since I still get performance and mobility
> without the bulk of the Area-51m 7700.
Have you seen this:
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajs
> mine looks like this:
>
> CONFIG_SND=m
> CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
> CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
> CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
> CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
> # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
> CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
> CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
> CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
> # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE
> x, svgalib, sdl
What USE flags did you use for links? (I think) you need to include
fbcon and/or directfb in order to use links with the framebuffer.
Matt
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> lspci -v reveals:
> :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard
> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
> I/O ports at e000
> Capabilities: [c0] P
> the "links2 -g -driver fb" works.
>
> i tried "links2 -g" before, but it stops responding.
> the -driver option is not mentioned in the man page.
> so... there might be tips somewhere i dont know..
>
I think that if you just specifiy the '-g' option, links is supposed
to auto-seach for an app
> is there a way to display images directly
> in links? i think it is possible, but could
> not find any option to turn it on, any ideas?
Have you tried running links with the '-g' option?
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>
> 2) How do I get this GLSA to actually apply, or know that it's applied,
> or whatever?
IIRC, glsa-check has an 'inject' option for just this purpose. If you
run glsa-check without command-line parameters, it should print out a
usage message.
Matt
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> I assume either xterm or utempter is requiring ssmtp, but I don't
> understand why. Any ideas?
Looking at the ebuilds themselves, neither ebuild has a dependency
upon ssmtp or an other mta.
Matt
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>
> echo "dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> echo "dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> echo ">=dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
> echo ">=dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
What's the difference bet
On 6/8/05, Marchal Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another solution could be to run distcc in colinux on your Windows box,
>
> that's I do home.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/colinux-howto.xml
>
> Just be sure to have Windows XP Pro edition, Windows XP home doesn't
>
> work for me...
>
> OK, I but often I like to keep the older kernel versions and grup entries
> around for a while to test the differences in the various kernels. Won't
> this approach overwrite entries in grub or does it just make another
> entry? Some of my grub.conf files get pretty ugly...
My expeirence with u
> > Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a
> > network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have
> > the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned
> > using smbclient to access the dir but I really would like to be able
> > to
On 5/11/05, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking for something along these lines, myself, although
> I'm also looking for one that does WYSIWYG based on arbitrary XSLTs.
> Anyway, I've looked around and found a few things.
For a WYSIWYG-based XML editor, check out Vex.
> > Hi,
> >Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before
> > installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe
> > the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need
> > to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the parti
On 4/28/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to sign up with LayeredTech.com but they are rabidly
> refusing to go through the:
>
> 1. boot to LiveCD
> 2. start networking
> 3. set passwd
> 4. start sshd
If there is already a Linux distro installed on the system, you could
use the Al
> Gentoo must be the only distribution on the planet that doesn't have
> support for MySQL 4.1, what's up with that ?
Actually, Debian stable only includes 3.23
Matt
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> probably that you forget 50% of the times the
> # mount /boot
> ;) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up)
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I seem to recall that the make install script will spit out an error
if it doesn't find grub or lilo in /boot, which wou
> I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to
> deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile
> and moving the kernel around and such.
What's wrong with make && make modules_install && make install?
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> If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help
> you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find
> something that interacts with something else that you've already done
> that makes "what you've already done" irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all
> through
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