Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: If partition A runs out of space while partition B has plenty, Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Uwe, Change the kernel line to: kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 unfortunately with these options i'm

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to share a problem that i'm encountering in dealing with two net interfaces. I've a normal ethernet device (eth0) and a wireless ipw2200 one (eth1). 1) i would like to have, at boot, a situation in which first of all eth0 is started; if dhcp signal is found proceed with

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 09:29 +0100 schrieb Marco Calviani: Hi list, i would like to share a problem that i'm encountering in dealing with two net interfaces. I've a normal ethernet device (eth0) and a wireless ipw2200 one (eth1). 1) i would like to have, at boot, a situation in

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Heinz, thanks for this hint i will try it. Question number 1) seems ok... Regards, MC 2006/2/17, Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 09:29 +0100 schrieb Marco Calviani: Hi list, i would like to share a problem that i'm encountering in dealing with

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 10:15, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Change the kernel line to: kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Uwe, It makes sure the splash screen start as early as possible (don't forget the quiet option). On my systems, it starts immediately after the kernel and the initrd are loaded. Kernel panic ... hm ... How did you generate your initrd? Maybe, it doesn't contain linuxrc which does all

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:59:44 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while one of the others has plenty free. I prefer to have these three on the same partition for a desktop, but separate from /. I use the bind option to mount /var and

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:52:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find yourself in, as I did recently. Yes, this might happen. How often does it, though? Twice

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:05:04 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: # cat /etc/portage/package* | grep gentoo-sources grep gentoo-sources /etc/portage/package* is better, it shows which files match. -- Neil Bothwick C:\BELFRY is where I keep my .BAT files ^^^oo^^^ signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:46:32 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: Have you looked into sys-apps/ifplugd ? Note that the latest baselayout supports ifplugd itself. You only need to emerge ifplugd, you don't need to configure it or add it to a runlevel. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't suceed, try

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Rob Oravec
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but the same commands don't work in Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 11:16, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, It makes sure the splash screen start as early as possible (don't forget the quiet option). On my systems, it starts immediately after the kernel and the initrd are loaded. Kernel panic ... hm ... How did you generate your

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out. Are you pushing it near its limits, perhaps with many disk

[gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Bo Andresen
I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to get 3d rendering working with the free dri drivers so I followed this howto: http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml But it does not work: ~# glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: No Below is listed

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 17 February 2006 08:37, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it refused to boot, as I forced it,

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Uwe, Try: genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could add --menuconfig if you want to check your kernel options. Look up the exact name of the generated initrd in /boot and adjust your grub entry

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: 1. Tell us the Watts of the power supply (perhaps you'll have to change it) 2. Take the PC powered off and try extracting the video card and replugging it. 3. Try to change the plug you

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Ghaith Hachem
havn't tried it since i have a newer unspoorted ship (X300SE) but try this guide here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers On 2/17/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to get 3d rendering

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:17, Rob Oravec wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Rob Oravec
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 06:29 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: You also need to emerge madwifi-tools, and you need ath_hal loaded too. Emerging madwifi-driver will emerge madwifi-tools. I have never needed to explicitly load ath_hal as ath_pci loads it dynamically even with the older madwifi code.

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user-pl] update kernel

2006-02-17 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
Po drugie genkernel jest bardzo miłym i pomocnym narzędziem, nie trzeba się bawić w initrd itp. To takie półautomatyczne robienie jajka :) uzywanie czy nie uzywania genkernela nie ma nic wspolnego z uzywaniem initrd... -- Pozdrowienia, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread John Jolet
Emerge ifplugd. that's precisely what my laptop does. -Original Message- From: Marco Calviani[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/17/06 2:29:46 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orggentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

[gentoo-user] nspr problems and revdep

2006-02-17 Thread Constantine Kardaris
hello, some problems occured last week when i upgraded dev-libs/nspr to most stable version (4.6.1-r1 - 4.6.1-r2). Many programs stop working cause they use shared libs from nspr. yelp, gnome-about-me, devhelp are some of them. There is no problem actualy; i just re-emerged them and problems

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-17 Thread James
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: Hey, this is cool, do you have an example 'ip-up' config file? My customised part of ip-up looks like this: snip Doesn't matter whether it uses a modem, just a serial line or any other media, /etc/ppp/ip-up is executed as soon as the two ppp processes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: This functionality is not in any way a hack: equery belongs /sbin/installkernel [ Searching for file(s) /sbin/installkernel in *... ] sys-apps/debianutils-2.15 (/sbin/installkernel) It's part of system.

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 13:10, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Try: genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could add --menuconfig if you want to check your kernel options. Look up the exact name of

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios cgi.cfg SOLVED

2006-02-17 Thread Herman Grootaers
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:29, Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: El Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:46:23 + Arnau Bria Ramírez dijo: In order to let apache move into nagios directories, I add to include apache into nagios group. All my problems moved away! Many thanks to all how read this threat!

[gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 17 9:46, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Note that the latest baselayout supports ifplugd itself. You only need to emerge ifplugd, you don't need to configure it or add it to a runlevel. I'm having a similar problem, and I'm using ifplugd via baselayout.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:45:39 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Is there another way to get a list of packages that comprise the system profile (other than just trying to unmerge one and getting a warning)? You could look at the packages files in the directory linked to by /etc/make.profile and its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 15:32, James wrote: Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: Hey, this is cool, do you have an example 'ip-up' config file? My customised part of ip-up looks like this: snip Doesn't matter whether it uses a modem, just a serial line or any other media, /etc/ppp/ip-up is

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~# lsmod | grep 'drm\|agp' drm65944 0 intel_agp 20508 1 agpgart29256 2 drm,intel_agp There should also be a drm_radeon there (not sure how it's called because I use it builtin the kernel)

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 16 février 2006 à 16:32 +, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:50:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I found xdiskusage to be a very practical tool to findout where space is wasted on a disk. [...] Filelight is another useful program here... and with more eye-candy :)

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Uwe, Yes, it is. You can use genkernel to create your initrd without haven used it for the kernel itself. i would like to thank you very much for your help. Effectively the system is working now. Thanks again. Since we're here and you're expert in this field, i would like to ask you if,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:56:23 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: I'm having a similar problem, and I'm using ifplugd via baselayout. (net.eth0 and net.eth1 starting by default runlevel, not ifplugd.) However, when I start my laptop, only net.eth0 is started even if a wireless signal exists.

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:19:22 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Filelight is another useful program here... and with more eye-candy :) Stupid question : Is there a gnome equivalent ? Not that I know of. (I like candy !) So do I, but I don't like GNOME SCNR :) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 17 février 2006 à 16:07 +, Neil Bothwick wrote, using Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) So do I, but I don't like GNOME SCNR :) But apparently, you like GTK+ software enough to use it to write this Gnome-bashing answer ;) SCNR ... Fred PS: I

Re: [gentoo-user] File system full issues

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:49:07 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: So do I, but I don't like GNOME SCNR :) But apparently, you like GTK+ software enough to use it to write this Gnome-bashing answer ;) Good catch :) PS: I know GTK != Gnome. I suppose you use XFCE. I use KDE for the

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 17 February 2006 16:35, Marco Calviani wrote: Since we're here and you're expert in this field, i would like to ask you if, like me, you experience problem in deleting the /etc/splash/default symlink: # rm -rf default/ rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory How is it

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:03, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/17/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably power-related

2006-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought the case, I'm sure its only about 350W. More than enough. But maybe the mains is polluted (by electric motors or other high frequency stuff) or its tension has been lowered by some 10 or 20 volts? Benno --

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Grant
I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are totally up to date.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish wrote: On 2/17/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006

[gentoo-user] /dev/ttyS0: Too many levels of symbolic links

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Hartmann
Hi list, I tried to use a serial device, but /dev/ttyS0 is a symlink to /dev/tss/0 and /dev/tss/0 is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0 (again) /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/tts/0 - /dev/ttyS0 -- [...]. I don't know if I have compiled the right kernel drivers for serial devices (in fact I've compiled and loaded these

[gentoo-user] Re: fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Simon Kellett
Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 As a side issue: for kernel versions from

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alexander Skwar wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Are you two done with your pissing match yet? Sure. As soon as that moron stops pissing at me, I'll also stop. You lost. If you're so clever, you should stop first. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Take it to an IRC chat or whatever where the both of you can keep going with this pointless and obviously selfish discussion that is not even close to the OP question and had been discussed a lot over the net, being one of those things where you think you're right and use it, and somebody else

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Maarten
Okay, can we stop with the flamefest, already ? Comments below... Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml And what if you dont want to upgrade?! -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread Jarry
I'm having also problems with php installation/upgrade: I need php, php-cgi, php_mod and phpmyadmin. Impossible! mod_php/php-cgi is still in 4.x version, it installs php 4.x, and I can not install phpmyadmin because it wants php5. And php can not be upgraded from 4.x to 5.x, because it is

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread Maximilian Gaß
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 21:44 schrieb Jarry: I'm having also problems with php installation/upgrade: I need php, php-cgi, php_mod and phpmyadmin. Impossible! mod_php/php-cgi is still in 4.x version, it installs php 4.x, and I can not install phpmyadmin because it wants php5. And php

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml And what if you dont want to upgrade?! Never mind, I figured it out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Maarten wrote: Okay, can we stop with the flamefest, already ? Certainly. Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:18, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 17:35, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Yes, it is. You can use genkernel to create your initrd without haven used it for the kernel itself. i would like to thank you very much for your help. Effectively the system is working now. Thanks again. Congratulations! Since

[gentoo-user] Re: php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 17 February 2006 21:44, Jarry wrote: I'm having also problems with php installation/upgrade: I need php, php-cgi, php_mod and phpmyadmin. Impossible! mod_php/php-cgi is still in 4.x version, it installs php 4.x, and I can not install phpmyadmin because it wants php5. And php can

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably power-related

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Saturday 18 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought the case, I'm sure its only about 350W. More than enough. But maybe the mains is polluted (by electric motors or other high frequency stuff) or

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick Börjesson
First, I can't really understand why either one of you two won't fully explain your reasonings when going against the other. It helps noone. On 2006-02-17 19:04, Hemmann, Volker Armin uttered these thoughts: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 19:38, Alexander Skwar wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 2/17/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread John Jolet
the problem is they both have valid points. in this,as in nearly all aspects of unix administration, there is not a single right answer. -Original Message- From: Patrick Börjesson[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/17/06 4:15:08 PM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 22:35 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Maarten wrote: Okay, can we stop with the flamefest, already ? Certainly. Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday

[gentoo-user] really large inline replies

2006-02-17 Thread kashani
Really large inline replies with five people and thirteen separate arguments are pretty much unreadable. I'm all for fighting things out to bitter end, but not when it's impossible to follow along. I'd recommend the following: 1. snip. snip a lot. Keep the point you're arguing and snip the

RE: [gentoo-user] still can't print

2006-02-17 Thread maxim wexler
I can't remember, have you tried to get your printer working with the hpijs driver? Emerge -uDpv hpijs Yow! that's 32 megs. Had to be satisfied with simple emerge hpijs. Then it worked! Well, not quite. The test page printed OK but when I ran lpc reread as per the instructions at the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:35:48 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Okay, can we stop with the flamefest, already ? Certainly. [snip] Yep, but you have to find those places. If you cannot execute programs, that will be hard. With /tmp, an attacker knows that he can write there. OK, a better

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Manuel McLure
On 17 February 2006 17:35, Marco Calviani wrote: Since we're here and you're expert in this field, i would like to ask you if, like me, you experience problem in deleting the /etc/splash/default symlink: # rm -rf default/ rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory Remove the trailing / :

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-17 Thread Eric Bliss
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:36, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Please don't take this post as a signal for more battles. IMHO there are many true facts from both of you. Just a few point, as i have some (limited experience with hardened systems). 1.For 2-3 years using portage-tree in /var/portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-17 Thread Maarten
Eric Bliss wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 14:36, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Please don't take this post as a signal for more battles. IMHO there are many true facts from both of you. Just a few point, as i have some (limited experience with hardened systems). 1.For 2-3 years using portage-tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Interpret characters in /etc/inputrc

2006-02-17 Thread George Garvey
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:31:45PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats what I'm asking. Exactly what you see .. when you press what? In other words how can I tell what [2~ or any of the others, are without experimenting with C-v and testing different keys. I think I've seen a chart

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-17 Thread Ryan Tandy
Maarten wrote: Or else, if /usr can be mounted noexec without trouble, I'll donate 75 bogomips to the FSF. Can we get that in writing, with a signature, creative use of {sym,hard} links and nested mounts notwithstanding? ;) Where trouble is defined as a system that won't run

[gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm running into some difficulty. The most immediate problem I'm having, is that I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have a CDROM. (These are old boxes.) So, my

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Bruce Burden
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks ago, and I still get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a stage-4, which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want added to it and a generic kernel built with genkernel. It is made available through a tarball on a web

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:30 -0500, Ghislain Bourgeois wrote: At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a stage-4, which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want added to it and a generic kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ghislain Bourgeois wrote: At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a stage-4, which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want added to it and a generic

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Steven S.
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, gentuxx wrote: Read through http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6 You can install from a distro's boot floppies... I have done it sucessfully using Slackware 9.1 floppies. You need a binary of bzip, you can download one from where I stuck mine at

[gentoo-user] Unable to locate mail

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Kintzios
Hi All, I have not (knowingly) set up my syslog-ng, logrotate, or some other application to send me mail, so I am curious where this little message came from: === Feb 17 20:10:02 study1 cron[12102]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons