[gentoo-user] dev packages

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Smith
I'm working on an install of Xen 3.0 (manual install, not from Portage) and trying to locate its listed prerequisites. I'm having trouble locating two of them: zlib-dev python-dev (This is what the Xen docs refers to them as.) I don't see anything in Portage that resembles these names, nor do I

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Tom Smith
console. Ron Bickers wrote: On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the EXACT

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
. at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch. On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version. How do I go about getting a win4lin-sources kernel? I

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Passing ./configure options via emerge

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
perfectly to the cursor in QEMU and Bochs. I thought this one might be useful to others having the same problem. ~ Tom Tom Smith wrote: Man, I tell you what... Bochs built correctly and the RFB stuff worked... Sort of. There seems to be an issue with both QEMU and Bochs when used via VNC. Both

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote: I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz' So that, the

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
Ernst Herzberg wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:40, Jeff wrote: DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face... Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to digest this, yes? Should I be worried? Last week i

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not

[gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
I use Kermit 95 to connect to my server. When I run pstree from an SSH session, I get the following type of output: output pcadobe ssh # pstree initqwqaacraid tq2*[agetty] tqcron tqevents/0 tqkhelper tqkhpsbpkt tqkjournald tqksoftirqd/0 tqkswapd0

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: what is the output of echo $TERM? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of echo $TERM? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try export TERM=vt220 and see if that helps. This did work for pstree but seriously broke functionality in Vim, an app

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of echo $TERM? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try export TERM=vt220 and see if that helps. This did

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread Tom Smith
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of echo $TERM? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux

[gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Smith
I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this USE flag does or what additional functionality it enables in vim? Thanks in advance for your help. --

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Smith
Rumen Yotov wrote: On (20/01/06 10:00), Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this USE flag does or what additional functionality

[gentoo-user] Passing ./configure options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
I installed app-emulation/bochs using the default USE flags. Afterwards, I tried to enable rfb but received a message that indicated it wasn't enabled. After some research, I discovered this is a configure option that isn't enabled in the bochs ebuild script. Is there a way to pass this sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing ./configure options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
does not match recorded size Is there a way I can override this behavior? (The file size obviously doesn't match because I added an additional ./configure option to it. Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:23:13 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Is there a way to pass this sort of information

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing ./configure options via emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Smith
, Tom Smith wrote: Well, I tried that and get the same error--PANIC bochsrc.txt: display library 'rfb' not available. OK, so this isn't one of most ebuilds So I tried to edit the ebuild file and add --with-rfb and get the emerge error: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr

[gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
I'm working on a manual QEMU install (that is, I'm installing from source downloaded from their website). There's a reference in their kqemu documentation about setting UDEV permissions on /dev/kqemu. I initially disregarded this, but now it's become an issue. It was easily resolved by /manually/

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:50:08 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions

2006-01-17 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much further. :-? Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[gentoo-user] Basic SMTP server

2006-01-15 Thread Tom Smith
I need to find a basic SMTP server, one that will allow the server to send outbound messages (such as Cronjob status and various alerts) and will allow LAN devices (such as printers and copiers) to relay mail through it. It doesn't need to support SMTP AUTH, TLS, or anything of that nature--it

[gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Smith
Are these flags mutually exclusive? I know, for example, that if I have a Pentium II that the MMX flag should apply while the sse and sse2 flags would not. But what if I have a Pentium III or IV? Would I only use the most recent optimization or do I need to add all three to take advantage of

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Smith
, 2006 at 03:09:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: Are these flags mutually exclusive? I know, for example, that if I have a Pentium II that the MMX flag should apply while the sse and sse2 flags would not. But what if I have a Pentium III or IV? Would I only use the most recent

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
of Win4Lin works out pretty well. Does QEMU support anything like this or does it need to be run from within an X session? Thanks again to everyone for their opinion of QEMU! ~ Tom Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've been using Win4Lin TS 3.0 for some time to server Win98SE to five remote users for legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
from the users. Andrew Frink wrote: Tom, I hacked that in by putting qemu in ~/.xinitrc so when the user does startx thats what they get. i believe that vnc uses the same file to figure out what to run after X Cynyr. On 1/11/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! Sounds like

[gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-10 Thread Tom Smith
Hi all, I've been using Win4Lin TS 3.0 for some time to server Win98SE to five remote users for legacy application support. I'm currently testing the recently released Win4Lin Pro TS server running Win2k as an intended replacement for the old TS server. This is where I came across QEMU... QEMU

[gentoo-user] vnc.so

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Smith
Hi all, I installed vnc with the server USE flag enabled. I've been working on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working. My question is, is this module a part of RealVNC or some other program? (I tried to locate a description of the use flags for VNC but was unable

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Smith
the mirror in a mirror issue. Once I connected from another system, things looked better :) On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:39 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I installed vnc with the server USE flag enabled. I've been working on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working

[gentoo-user] Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-24 Thread Tom Smith
Peter wrote: Actually, I thought the version of Win4Lin in Portage was the Pro product (bad assumption on my part) as the package description doesn't indicate whether it's Pro or Home. This is unclear. The 5.1.1 in portage I _think_ is the PRE 9X win4lin versions. I don't think those

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Tom Smith
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:16:52 +, Peter Ruskin wrote: Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm hell here! What you need is rpm -ivh --nodeps Win4Lin... Before you do that, check through the list of dependencies that rpm showed and make sure they are all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Tom Smith
Peter wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:37:33 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Actually, Pro IS the server product... What makes them different is the license code. They haven't officially released the Terminal Server product yet in that they're not officially advertising it. What I've got

[gentoo-user] Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
I've got a couple of RPM-based programs to install (there's also an option to install their .deb equivalent). What is the best way to install the RPMs on Gentoo? I personally prefer apt from Debian but couldn't find that in Portage. The only thing I was able to locate with rpm. The main thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Dec 2005 16:47:53 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: I'm getting a failed dependencies error indicating that there are a number of failed deps. I think I know what some of them are but have no idea which Gentoo packages the others can be installed from. Here's the error that rpm -ivh Win4Lin... generates

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
2005 18:39:29 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: VMware isn't an option. I'll be using Win4Lin Pro as a Windows Terminal Server. I got a two month eval license from them as we will be upgrading from their kernel-based Win4Lin Terminal Server 3.0 software. I don't think VMware can do anything like

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Dale wrote: I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so maybe I am missing something. Why not do a emerge win4lin and be done with it? Why does it have to be a rpm install when it is in portage? Like I said, maybe I'm missing something here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p win4lin These

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/domainname not resolving correctly?

2005-12-20 Thread Tom Smith
This may seem like a petty issue but I've been unable to locate a solution to it. After the finishes booting, it displays the contents of /etc/issue. In it's default configuration, the result of this file after booting is: This is ts.(none) My question is: What do I have to do to

[gentoo-user] BIND DNS?

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Smith
I'm looking to install BIND DNS on one of my server (the first Gentoo box on my network) but haven't been able to locate it in Portage. I tried the obvious searches for "bind", "nameserver", "dns", etc, but still haven't been able to find it.Does Gentoo have a BIND package and, if so, what's it

Re: [gentoo-user] BIND DNS?

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Smith
Hm... Odd. I was searching the Portage database via gentoo.org and didn't see it. Your emerge string did the trick, though.I must of just had a brain fart or something. Thanks for your help. (Same for the other two responders.)Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Smith wrote: Does Gentoo have

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Smith
Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is what makes Gentoo what it is.If you like, you can add an emerge option

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Smith
.)Another option for the original poster is ccache. The initial install will still take some time but recompiles are said to proceed much faster.~ TomGerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
Earlier this year, I worked with Netraverse on trying to solve this issue... I was able to get a Mandrake 9 server working (NumLock included) but couldn't get the same results when I tried to migrate to Mandrake 10. MDK 9 was working so I left the issue alone.Now I'm trying to get Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
.Any thoughts?Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:31, Tom Smith wrote: Earlier this year, I worked with Netraverse on trying to solve this issue... I was able to get a Mandrake 9 server working (NumLock included) but couldn't get the same results when I tried

[gentoo-user] LiveCD customizations

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
I need to make some slight customization to the Live CDs for installations at remote offices--things like configuring a root password, enabling SSH by default, and so on.I looked at the Gentoo docs at the web site but wasn't able to locate anything specific.Can anyone offer any pointers to

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.How do I go about getting a "win4lin-sources" kernel? I was unable to one anywhere. Maybe I would have better luck with that.Ron Bickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu December 8 2005 16:47,

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Smith
advantage of some of the gentoo-specific kernel enhancements and patches.Oh well, vanilla's working and that's what's important.Thanks for your help, John.John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Hi all,I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo.There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin-sources kernel but I have yet to find it anywhere.Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
it or apply it again.This iswhat the problem is. Suggestions? John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: um, then the patch didn't apply. On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have