Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2007-11-09 Thread Billy Holmes
one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode: /usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d then in another terminal ssh -p 23 $host once you quit that session, your sshd process will terminate -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding [fixed]

2007-11-13 Thread Billy Holmes
Roger Mason wrote: I am assuming that I failed to set up ipv6 routing or something? Anyway, the problem is fixed, if not quite solved. ah. I didn't think about that. I actually turn off ipv6 in the beginning, because I hate for things to run that I'm not using. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with hdparm and SATA-controller

2007-11-15 Thread Billy Holmes
from what I recall, hdparm works perfectly for PATA drives, but not so much for SATA. Something about PATA drives looking like IDE drives and SATA drives looking like SCSI drives (to the kernel). notice /dev/sda a pata would be /dev/hda I think you're rather limited in what you can control

Re: [gentoo-user] how to detect the throughput in the lan?

2007-11-15 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't you recommend some tools? I've always liked ntop. It provides way more than you probably want, but it provides pretty graphs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting pepone.onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? if you can recreate the partition table EXACTLY as it looked, then you might be able to run some type of recovery util like e2fsck or xfs_repair,

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting pepone.onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW testdisk seems that is not in the minima install disk, maybe can be interesting have it in the minimal install disk. it should be in a rescue disk, but not really a minimal install disk - would sort of redefine the meaning of minimal to include

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Solaris and then you can't paste it into something else? For example, I highlight in firefox, but it doesn't paste in my xterm... and my xterm doesn't seem to like any combination of Ctrl-V, etc xterms shouldn't intercept Ctrl-V to the clipboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Jonathan R. Haws wrote: Why not go Seamless with a VM? That works great for me. That way you can forget about the dual boot. Just set the VM to run on startup and you can access any Windows program from within Gentoo. Works great, speed is just as fast as when booting to XP. that has to

Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Doesn't seem so, added this and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, no difference. Stefan after you add something to .config, are you doing a make oldconfig ? it should automatically, but I do just to make sure -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gmailfs and gmail 2.0

2007-11-17 Thread Billy Holmes
just a heads up for those of you running gmailfs. Gmail is now 2.0, so if you want to access your old files, you have to install libgmail-0.1.8. It was released 2007-11-13. Create a portage overlay of libgmail: 1) add PORTDIR_OVERLAY to /etc/make.conf (/usr/local/portage) 2) create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-18 Thread Billy Holmes
Thufir wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2658736 Nov 16 23:52 kernel-with-als why do you have kernel-WITH-alsa in your /boot, but kernel-HAS-alsa in your grub.conf? typo? or is there a particular reason? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-18 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown block (0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option. Here are the available partitions run make menuconfig in your new kernel dir. check to ensure ext3 is compiled in. (not sure why it wouldn't be) check to make sure you've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-18 Thread Billy Holmes
Thufir wrote: I'm going to experiment a bit and then recompile again, though because, ironically, the alsa kernel fails to load alsa and the genkernel had alsa all along, which was the impetus for the recompile. alsa, at least to me, is some sort of dark magic. Once I get it to work, I

Re: [gentoo-user] (more about) portage issues and simple/basic hacks/ideas about how to deal with them ...

2007-11-18 Thread Billy Holmes
Albretch Mueller wrote: be quite a bit stupidly risky. I am thinking here mostly about running servers on servers, I am VERY selective about what gets updated with portage. I have even added package versions to portage.mask in order to keep things from upgrading (such as php4 vs php5).

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-18 Thread Billy Holmes
Grant wrote: but in white. Am I the only one with a white terminal background? back in my day, we didn't have colored backgrounds! A GUI was putting the printed cardboard mapping sheet on the keyboard for your word processor. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this behavior for about a year

Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb). that's very odd that there is a sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Jeff Cranmer wrote: When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of course, but while I think the seek time metric is mostly informational and not really indicative of harddrive failure, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-23 Thread Billy Holmes
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: No difference with su -. I don't have any line in root's *rc files which set the DISPLAY. $ set | grep XAUTH $ su - # set | grep XAUTH notice, they will be different. It boils down to security. you can do it two ways. $ su - # export

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-24 Thread Billy Holmes
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Sorry, but I don't get your point. How does this explain why root has a correct $DISPLAY after using su or su -? it's probably pam related. check /etc/pam.d/su check if it has: sessionrequired pam_env.so sessionoptional pam_xauth.so then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-24 Thread Billy Holmes
Neil Bothwick wrote: it's probably pam related. I have he same here and I don't use pam. have you looked at /etc/profile{,.d,.env} ? otherwise, if you really want to know, then strace su - --b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-27 Thread Billy Holmes
Dale wrote: didn't even name the systems since all I used them for was to run folding. After I named them and put the entries in the hosts file, it worked fine even when ssh'ing in with the IP number. Before that, it took forever to login. google: reverse lookup dns wikipedia click on the

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Holmes
Mick wrote: I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random port number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 connections . . . try two things: 1) put your sshd on port 443 if you can. see if you can connect with no latency. or 2) perform this as

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Holmes
Helmut Jarausch wrote: ImportError: /usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol JVM_GetClassSignature, version SUNWprivate_1.1 not defined in file libjvm.so with link time reference does it really need 1.6? 1.5 and 1.6 aren't always compatible, but from the sound of it, jcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Spahr wrote: I have been running these gentoo servers since 2003, with very few problems. Although I am conservative in doing my updates. I've run gentoo on several servers from dual intels running dns, squid, routing, to web servers, to quad opterons running as terminal servers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) linux virtualization some links: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html linux-vserver looks pretty neat, too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer --

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2007-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW then do this: check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog if it's dying, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-12-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Alan wrote: rollback plan. Apache, php, modules, mod_perl, etc. No biggie at all if it's your home server, but that's potentially a lot of downtime (ie: a couple of hours) as I compile, test, re-jig the config files, test more, etc. I'm in the same boat with postfix, running a 2.0.x when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer what is 0.1 ? is that your router? as in a gentoo system acting as a router? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't see how that could be because I was able to log in when the system was freshly booted yesterday. I'll grab a monitor and keyboard from the garage, have a look, and report back here. when I have problems with ssh, I run another instance in debug mode:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints INIT: cannot execute /sbin/shutdown. I'm going to do a hard reset and we'll see what happens. Since it's acting as your firewall, there's a very large possibility that your machine was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you tried temporarily disabling the firewall on 192.168.0.1 and checking the tcpwrappers for any deny all directives which knock your client out when it tries to connect? I was about to suggest that. if you can ssh to localhost via 0.1, then it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: also look for strange kernel modules How can I do that? One way is to test what's in your /lib/modules with what's in your kernel source: [cmds] (cd /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/build/; find -type f -name '*.ko')|sort /tmp/t1 (cd /lib/modules/$(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I wasn't hacked, this kind of strange behavior would have to be a hardware or filesystem problem right? What are the best ways to check for that? Just fsck? dmesg, /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages. Look for IDE or SATA timeouts, or kernel panics.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't run binary packages

2007-12-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $ firefox-bin /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 368: /opt/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client: No such file or directory Does this sound like a problem caused by my selecting an amd64 non-multilib profile? That's what I'm getting from the from what I remember,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. what does ls show? perhaps your HDD has decided to retire early? or a hacker deleted a lot of your stuff? or /usr/src/linux - points to something else what's in /usr/src ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # ls -l notice in /usr/src/linux, you have much fewer files (not dirs), than you do on your laptop. Something deleted them. The vmlinux, Module.symvers, and System.map are all generated files. So it looks like something deleted those files while your

Re: [gentoo-user] Be careful when using dhcp with a LiveCD

2007-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
I guess eventually all dhcp implementations will catch up with this change, although for now it is bound to create some problems with particular DHCP You could try disconnecting your cable modem for about 10 minutes, ensuring the ISP recognizes that it's offline, and thus remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] psmouse.c lost sync at byte 1

2007-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Daniel Lehle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But what does this parameter do exactly? i8042.nomux=1 not exactly sure :) But I'd imagine it's your intel chipset, and a driver issue in the kernel that's expecting a newer intel chipset and thus attempting to use a newer feature (that it expects

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dmesg | grep -i print returns: parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5L see if this helps http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2005/12/24/wheres-my-parport0/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5 masked notice (was: Gentoo on the server side)

2007-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PHP 4 won't be maintained after 8/8/8 (August, 8 2008) and so should be of php 5.0 and 5.1. Just to warn those who don't know (I believe you do know ;) ). Actually I hadn't seen that, thanks for the notice. I'm pretty sure I'll have things all upgraded by then

Re: [gentoo-user] psmouse.c lost sync at byte 1

2007-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Daniel Lehle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on my laptop the touchpad hangs sometimes, so I have to release my finger and touch it again to move the mouse again. psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1

Re: [gentoo-user] cups problem

2007-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2005/12/24/wheres-my-parport0/ Bingo!. cool. I wasn't sure if it would help, as it was a stab in the dark. Glad you got it working! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BIND DNS?

2005-12-13 Thread Billy Holmes
Tom Smith wrote: Does Gentoo have a BIND package and, if so, what's it name? $ emerge -s ^bind$ Searching... [ Results for search key : ^bind$ ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-dns/bind Latest version available: 9.2.5-r6 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

2005-12-14 Thread Billy Holmes
Neil Bothwick wrote: Don't worry, enough people have quoted the entire mail in their replies for several copies to get through. yeah, my server stopped it at the SMTP session.. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: it reboots? I don't expect that this should happen often, but I'd like to know when it does. setup ssmtp, install mail-client/mailx, then add this to /etc/conf.d/local.start: date|mail -s 'I just rebooted!' [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Any 'sed' geniuses out there?

2005-09-30 Thread Billy Holmes
gentuxx wrote: concerned about that. My main concern was validation, and htmltidy gives me that. open it in vim, and do the autoindent function (select all, hit =) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-09-30 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and different file try shred: # shred -v /dev/hda -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug, or PEBKAC?

2005-10-12 Thread Billy Holmes
are you using distcc or ccache? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug, or PEBKAC?

2005-10-12 Thread Billy Holmes
FEATURES=autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox I would try getting rid of ccache, first.. and if you have distcc installed (portage still could be using it if you updated your profile and path). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootstrap USE flags opinions?

2005-10-12 Thread Billy Holmes
Richard Fish wrote: FYI, -mcpu is deprecated, and a synonym for -mtune, which is implied by -march. So you can just take it out and get the same effect. I think some ebuilds filter out march, but don't filter out mcpu/mtune, so you can still get some processor specific optimizations out of

Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging

2005-10-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: over again so my doubt is if there a way to continue compilation from where it stops. sometimes, but you have to add FEATURES=keepwork to make.conf not all ebuilds will support it, and your /var/tmp/portage will get very large, very quickly. I send to use it

Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging

2005-10-19 Thread Billy Holmes
Dave Nebinger wrote: Keepwork will keep the results of the build process in /var/tmp/portage, but I didn't believe portage could pick up in the middle even if keepwork was set... I will resume in the middle, based upon how the Makefile, autoconf, and dependancies are setup. Since the .o

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 . d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 .. your root directory should NOT have these perms. try: # chmod 0755 / -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: I wonder how it ever got that way? I don't know what a trailing 't' even means, much less put it there on purpose! Well, you have been tinkering with things lately. It's possible you ran an funky install script that had a space between a pathname / var/tmp. To be safe,

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-27 Thread Billy Holmes
Konstantin V. Gavrilenko wrote: Apparently you need to disable file locking by commenting out the following lines: either that or run lockd... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-27 Thread Billy Holmes
Bruno Lustosa wrote: It seems rpc.statd isn't running, because status monitor doesn't show on the list. ah.. that's right. lockd needs statd. silly nfs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Skwar wrote: Than why did you top post? More importantly: Why do you full quote? trimming is good -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Holly Bostick wrote: Oooh, so it's a double joke (in both binary and decimal). Now I like it even more. ok.. I have another geeky joke for you, then.. Why do programmers always confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because oct31 = dec25 --b -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Skwar wrote: Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25. bah.. you beat me to it.. dupe post -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Nicholas Hockey wrote: I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? just because you *can* do it, doesn't mean you should. General common sense. I'd much rather fill up my harddrive with mp3's rather than 400 replies that top post the original, which basically mean you

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG in glibc????

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
capsel wrote: j=strcmp( log, *(lines+i) ); printf( ble\n ); if( strcmp( log, *(lines+i) ) == 0 ) { printf( ble2\n ); it looks to me like you're probably getting an invalid pointer reference. When that

Re: [gentoo-user] lockup and freeze

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Tamas Sarga wrote: What can be the problem? What other informations do you need? you could try turning off dma for your drive and see if the problems continue to happen, however, you need to rule out certain things first. (1) Rule out the harddrive - put in another harddrive -or- (2) Rule

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge difficulty.

2005-11-03 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael A Rowley, MD wrote: + set +x it's possible there is a problem on that volume, and it's stuck waiting for IO? try fscking that volume? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-03 Thread Billy Holmes
John J. Foster wrote: date|mutt -s 'System restarted' [EMAIL PROTECTED] try putting in the full path to the commands? the environment that local.start is in is not the same as your shell. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge difficulty.

2005-11-04 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael A Rowley, MD wrote: works. But whenever I try to get a package to emerge, I get a failure at 'set +x' on the debug screen, and it just sits there. -x The shell shall write to standard error a trace for each command after it expands the command and before it executes it. It

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-04 Thread Billy Holmes
brullo nulla wrote: Wow. You evil geniuses of regular expressions! °_° can even shorten it with just one sed expression: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | sed -n 's/^.*inet addr:\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/p' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-04 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Skwar wrote: But I actually don't quite like the regexp - it's too long... With perl, I'd use a non-gready .*, like so: then don't use a regex at all: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-04 Thread Billy Holmes
Alexander Skwar wrote: Don't like that - there might be locales, where there's no inet in the line. IMO better: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep :255\. | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 broadcasts don't always begin or end with 255, odd yes, but if we're spliting hairs then anything is possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Accessing Linux filesystems from Windows with Crossmeta

2005-11-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Heinz Sporn wrote: Noone's interested in this? Are you kidding me? ;-) haha.. I don't run windows in a situation where I have to access files from a physical drive. I rarely run windows at all, actually. Well, in the end I got this thing running and I now have read and *write* access to an

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Holly Bostick wrote: world. *Ob*viously. Because *ob*viously, emerge -uDNworld updates to the version of whatever containing the patch for the hole. No matter what your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is set to, no matter what USE flags are enabled. I also wanted to add something: sometimes patches are

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-08 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael Shaw wrote: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. I use vim. it highlights and can auto indent. perfect for me! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Bash scripting

2005-11-11 Thread Billy Holmes
Peper wrote: And one more thing, is there any smarter way to read one line of file then head -n x file|tail -n 1 ? if you know the line number from the top: sed -n ${line}p if you don't know the number from the top but from the bottom, then tail | tail is your best bet... --

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-22 Thread Billy Holmes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the fucking manual. I understand where you are coming from, however, without people willing to push the envelope and try new things, nothing will innovated will happen. While being an expert

Re: [gentoo-user] man mouse problems

2005-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Willie Wong wrote: r/man/ -name mouse.* /usr/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz /usr/man/man4/mouse.4.gz gnu man will allow you to give a full path :) yes, that's a hack, but the man # $page uses the # as the directory. so if mouse.4x.gz was in /usr/man/man4x/mouse.4x.gz, then man 4x mouse would work.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael Sullivan wrote: can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? Yes I can. maybe put some of your local machines into your /etc/hosts file, so it won't attempt to do dns lookups on them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes

2005-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: kill -15 PID kill -9 PID killall -9 process_name see if you can perform a top and find the process that is hung. if it has a state of D, then you can't kill it. It's waiting for some type of IO or for some hardware. This is typical of a hardware failure, buggy driver, and

Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes

2005-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: Possibly it's a video driver issue? I'd say this is probably the first place to start looking. Try using an open source X driver and see if the problem goes away. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-12-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Jamie Dobbs wrote: This information was given to you on a number of occassions including when you first joined the list and is quite clearly stated on the lists website as well. Sounds like it's a PEBKAC issue to me... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson wrote: I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through wget -r http://$site/ have you tried that, yet? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice update from Ximianised version

2005-12-02 Thread Billy Holmes
Charly ghislain wrote: [massive amounts of OP snipage] try USE=-eds ever hear of trimming? Here are some helpful links: http://www.emailreplies.com/ http://kimihia.org.nz/articles/email/ http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson 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. Try this: emerge HTML-Tree then as a normal user, run this script like so (where

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson 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. my previous message assumes that your bookmark file is in reality a HTML file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-06 Thread Billy Holmes
pclouds wrote: We've got a map of Gentoo users here: http://www.frappr.com/gentoo cool :) I see there are two representing Florida. (go FL!) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Norberto Bensa wrote: Tried. Same result: invalid city. Google doesn't have a map of that city yet. This is satelite images, but their maps stop at this zoom level. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buenos+Airesspn=1.110276,2.943237t=hhl=en :( -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Harry Putnam wrote: I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the last 1/2 hr or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer I'm working on. Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too. I think 3 beeps is either your memory or CPU isn't slotted

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Bill Roberts wrote: I can see the map in firefox on one computer, cannot see the map at all in firefox on another. Looked through the settings, use flags, etc., and couldn't find any differences. it only works with javascript enabled. Do you have that off? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Harry Putnam wrote: memory problem. Just in case, I removed and reseated the memory cards, also tried booting with first one then the other mem card (2 256 cards). No change in beeps. doh. I totally missed that part of your email. you may need a chip in each slot. I can't remember how your

Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael Kintzios wrote: In the absence of another machine (and the risk of causing the same or worse due to not earthing oneself onto the box frame first) MEMTEST 86 should do the trick of diagnosing the blown memory module. this assumes one can get past POST :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop brocken since kernel 2.6.14

2005-12-07 Thread Billy Holmes
Sascha Lucas wrote: since 2.6.14 the kernel stops early before vesafb. The last lines look like this (taken from dmesg of 2.6.13): have you tried booting of a kernel without vesafb? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] system audit

2005-12-08 Thread Billy Holmes
J.A.H. wrote: sent to gentoo-user instead. Why have more than one mail list period??? If we are all users don't we all belong here... I personally enjoy g-server and g-amd64, I know that those lists pretty much stay on topic, where as g-user runs all over the place topic wise. I'm not really

Re: [gentoo-user] disable disk write caching?

2005-12-08 Thread Billy Holmes
El Nino wrote: how to disable disk write caching on scsi ide harddisks? $ man hdparm -W Disable/enable the IDE drive's write-caching feature (default state is unde- terminable; manufacturer/model specific). I'm not sure on the scsi drives. I think it's vendor

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: hm, you want to tell me, that it is as easy to get into the computer room, hack a line and listen, than to hold an atenna in the right direction? it only takes *one* compromised router/machine to ruin your day. Trust in nothing. Encrypt everything. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-09 Thread Billy Holmes
Richard Fish wrote: In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop. I I've ran xfs, jfs, reiserfs v3 and v4, and ext3. jfs on a firewire drive is a bad idea. When it crashes, it crashes hard. No amount of recovery was helpful. In the end, a week old backup, and a

Re: [gentoo-user] tomcat5 sun-jdk issue

2005-08-09 Thread Billy Holmes
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I seem to remember that after installing NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) support a Java virtual machine with all its threads maps to just one linux process, so you would stop seeing that many processes every time I can confirm this. I run the blackdown jdk, and

Re: [gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

2005-08-11 Thread Billy Holmes
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I can't use wget - because I want to put files... I can use the classic ftp program (which works fine is passive mode) - however I dislike the user interface... ncftp worked fine for me in the past... post a trace (or screen grab) of the ftp program running passive mode,

Re: [gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail

2005-09-13 Thread Billy Holmes
Antoine wrote: tux ~ # sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] hithere sendmail: Cannot open mail:25 ssmtp always uses a smart host. It can't deliver mail by itself. edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, make your changes (use your ISP's mail server), and I personally turn on FromLineOverride=yes. You may have