Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:34, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i would say you should emerge kdm mar martins # slocate default3.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png mar martins # equery belongs default3.png [ Searching for file(s) default3.png in *... ] kde-base/kdm-3.5.2

[gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, A few moments ago I tried to emerge slocate but got: # omc-2 ~ # emerge -va sys-apps/slocate These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r8 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you

[gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread pat
Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Thomas Kear
I know it's not quite the answer you asked for, but might I suggest rlocate. rlocate uses a kernel module to do real-time updates of the locate database (uses very little cpu time), which as well as providing instant indexing of new files reduces the complete hard drive trawl from once a day to

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread martin nicolas
Maybe this http://csee.wvu.edu/~ccole/oracle10g-ubuntu.html but you have to adapt it for Gentoo (just a few differences I think). On 4/21/06, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) onGentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread Rolf Wathne
On 2006-04-21, 09:29 +0200, pat wrote: Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Gentoo-wiki.com has a howto for 10g: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g -- Rolf Wathne [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Christer Ekholm wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After updating lvm2 from 2.02.02 to 2.02.03, the system mount / which is on a primary partition but frefus to mount /usr,/var,/home and /tmp. On the console I see: Setting up the logical volume manager Volume group for uuid not found:

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-21 Thread Farhan Ahmed
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, When I try to dialup the 'net on a fresh 2.6.16 install I get: #pon isp /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: unrecognized option '/dev/ttyS0' Sure enough, there's no such file, just /dev/tty, 0, 1 ... On my 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 boxen /dev/ttyS0 is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2006-04-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan LaMotte wrote: anyone know if you can compile something locally into your home directory using portage without being root? basically what I want to accomplish is like... ROOT=/home/lamotte/compile emerge openssh or ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:50:30 -0500, John Jolet wrote: I think the more offical way is to uncomment the following lines in /etc/rc.conf: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm XSESSION=Gnome I would disagree. This is how you boot into x. not necessarily how you run x. I personally prefer the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:41:09 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: WARN: postinst An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. In order to avoid breaking packages that link against it, this older version is not being removed. In order to make full use of this newer version,

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:35:51 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get a new and nearly identical timestamp. No they won't. -a includes -p, which

[gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Christer Ekholm
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm, did yo note the following warning? WARN: postinst An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. In order to avoid breaking packages that link against it, this older version is not being removed. In order to make full use

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 21 April 2006 05:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get a new and nearly identical timestamp. Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or anything

[gentoo-user] Re: lan-http-replicator docs

2006-04-21 Thread James
Anielkis aherrerag at estudiantes.uci.cu writes: i recommend you to use torpage http://www.kroon.co.za/torpage.php Well before I do that, I have to figure out how to disable lan-http-replicator on the client machines. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 11:41 PM, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get a new and nearly

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
I don't know whether this is off or on topic, but I noticed that my modem was assigned to a different ttySX w/ 2.6.16. I ran wvdialconf again, which identified the new /dev/ name, and it has worked flawlessly since. 2.6.X kernels have given me, at least, fits over /dev/ttySX. The /dev/ttyS

[gentoo-user] Ati driver

2006-04-21 Thread Roberto Griso
Hello, i try to install new ati driver on my linux system. The installation on Xorg and the modprobe action for the fglrx module works very well, but wharn i try to start an X session, it exits with the follow error message : (EE) fglrx(0): No V_BIOS found(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitInt10

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Sebastián Ferrara
El Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:10:59 +0530 Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2), I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christer Ekholm wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm, did yo note the following warning? WARN: postinst An old version of an installed library was detected on your system. In order to avoid breaking packages that link against

[gentoo-user] qmail queue delete help

2006-04-21 Thread El Nino
Dear friends, i deployed a qmail(qmail-1.03-r16) server. now its spamming... its queuing more than 13000 message. i issued #qmHandle -D to delete the queue. when it finished. i issued #qmail-qstat so now its showing following output, messages in queue: 13715 messages in queue but not yet

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 09:09 Fri 21 Apr , Jules Colding wrote: Hi, A few moments ago I tried to emerge slocate but got: # omc-2 ~ # emerge -va sys-apps/slocate These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Roy Wright
Sebastián Ferrara wrote: El Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:10:59 +0530 Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol on

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail queue delete help

2006-04-21 Thread kashani
Stefan Onken wrote: Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 16:54 schrieb El Nino: My Question:- 1) how to delete un preprocessed(not yet preprocessed) messages in the qmail queue? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=qmhandle Yes he said he was using qmhandle so I don't mentioning it again is

[gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is /bin/false, can user apache become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a web-based website editor, similar to

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/21/06, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09:09 Fri 21 Apr , Jules Colding wrote: emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r8 to / !!! Files listed in the manifest do not exist! slocate-3.1.ebuild files/digest-slocate-3.1 omc-2 ~ # su -c ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volume group for uuid not found: m6reV.(four times) Any idea? http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-fs/lvm2/ChangeLog # ChangeLog for sys-fs/lvm2 # Copyright 2000-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header:

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin * kde-base/kdeadmin Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE administration

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 11:24 Fri 21 Apr , Richard Fish wrote: But do an emerge --sync first. The most likely cause of this is that your last sync was done while the server was being updated, and you got the updated manifest but not the ebuild. These kinds of problems are almost always fixed by a new sync.

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Waeber wrote: I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT chain to DROP. I do not want to change the rule with iptables -P INPUT DROP after loading the kernel, I want that the kernel/modules automatically DROPS everything after it has been loaded. You can do this

[gentoo-user] OT - unusual USE flag possibilities [WAS: Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?]

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is /bin/false, can user apache become other users via su or sudo? What I

[gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Hmm. I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which supports hot-pluggable SATA drives. In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo doesn't see it until reboot. Has anyone else used

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread brettholcomb
Will the hotplug package work on these drives? From: Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/21 Fri PM 04:46:38 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question... Hmm. I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which

RE: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
Brett, Will the hotplug package work on these drives? Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be installed. # equery list hotplug [ Searching for package 'hotplug' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401

RE: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: Brett, Will the hotplug package work on these drives? Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be installed. # equery list hotplug [ Searching for package 'hotplug' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:24:11 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: su -c ebuild /path/to/slocate-2.7-r8.ebuild digest;emerge --verbose --ask slocate or even emerge --verbose --ask --digest slocate But do an emerge --sync first. The most likely cause of this is that your last sync was done while the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - unusual USE flag possibilities [WAS: Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?]

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:11:16 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way that I could find out what these flags mean? They are not in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc... Are they in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc? Either way, reading the ebuild will show you which configure options

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread Chris White
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:29 am, pat wrote: Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Give me a free license for oracle and you'll get a really nice howto ;D -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka:

[gentoo-user] netfilter: -P INPUT DROP in kernel

2006-04-21 Thread Daniel Waeber
Benno Schulenberg wrote: (By the way, please do not reply to another message when starting a new topic.) Benno Sorry for that. So I start a new thread now. Daniel Waeber wrote: I was looking for a way to set the default rule for the INPUT chain to DROP. I do not want to change the rule

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 21 April 2006 15:46, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...': In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. That's the same across all linuxes. If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:07:38 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: The problem here seems to be that LVM2 (which is build statically, and no static USE-flag present). sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.03 Checked - is a static binary, but must somehow be build against the older library (code), so the said

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread kashani
Rolf Wathne wrote: Gentoo-wiki.com has a howto for 10g: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g The Wiki will probably get you installed, but if you need general Oracle/Linux knowledge this is one of the best sites around. It's saved my ass a couple of times.

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread Ryan Tandy
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get a new and nearly identical timestamp. Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or anything related to administer

[gentoo-user] Opera and cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2

2006-04-21 Thread Mick
Hi All, A couple of days ago I updated cyrus-sasl to 2.1.21-r2 and got this message in the ebuild: === You have both gdbm and berkdb in your USE flags. Will default to GNU DB as your SASLdb database backend. If you want to build with Berkeley DB support; hit Control-C

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Sebastián Ferrara
El Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:07:21 +0530 Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin * kde-base/kdeadmin Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 Installed: none Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi again, Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 21:12 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: Dear gentoo-users, yesterday I recognized a strange problem with my soundcards. I have two soundcards in my system. A Soundblaster, ens1371 based, and a Terratec DMX6Fire, which uses an ice1712 chip. The Soundblaster

[gentoo-user] Mediawiki

2006-04-21 Thread Sergio Polini
I can't install Mediawiki 1.4.15. I've installed: a) apache 2.0.55-r1 b) dev-lang/php 5.1.2 (current flags in /etc/portage/package.use: dba gd -gd-external pcre mysql mysqli session) c) mysql 4.1.14-r1 I got the error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes when creating the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I don't know - I figured hotplug would be logical. I'm in the process of replacing a SCSI system with SATA and haven't got there yet. On Friday April 21 2006 17:14, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: Brett, Will the hotplug package work on these drives? Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System unusable after updating lvm

2006-04-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:07:38 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: The problem here seems to be that LVM2 (which is build statically, and no static USE-flag present). sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.03 Checked - is a static binary, but must somehow be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to setup sun-jdk

2006-04-21 Thread wu chuanwen
Thank you for you reply! I think we should have more fun in life but not just programming.Just as what you said,playing banminton,which is my favorite sport.And our department(i am a undergraduate) had won the first place in ouruniversity's league match.I am so lucky that i am one of the member in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to setup sun-jdk

2006-04-21 Thread wu chuanwen
Thank you ! I have settle the problem days ago.The package i downloaded is Ok but the one after i copied in my usbdisk and got it in gentoo is corrupt.My usbdisk is broken! Now everything is Ok. Thanks for your reply! 2006/4/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:30

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Roy Wright
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin * kde-base/kdeadmin Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: