On Sunday 23 November 2003 14:23, Shawn wrote: > Check your USE flags (/etc/make.conf), and make sure you have removed > anything you don't need (i.e. "-X"). This will prevent X code from getting > compiled if it's not really needed. The e-builds are smart enough to > ignore the USE flags if a module must be there.
Its still insisting it needs x11 stuff, but upon further inspection it sort of makes sense. Esp qt... [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # emerge -p mod_php These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r4 [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9 [ebuild N ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 [ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.1 [ebuild N ] app-arch/unzip-5.50-r2 [ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-0.6 [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/jpeg-6b-r3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/tiff-3.5.7-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/lcms-1.09 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1 [ebuild N ] app-crypt/mhash-0.8.18-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/pdflib-4.0.3-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.7 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.5.11 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.0.33 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.31-r1 [ebuild N ] app-text/sablotron-0.97 [ebuild N ] net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r1 [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.50.3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/t1lib-1.3.1 [ebuild N ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r5 [ebuild N ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.48 [ebuild N ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r3 by the way, SSH is working, making cut n paste possible rather than copying it off my other monitor. *sigh of relief > > I don't normally use the apache2ctl command. Instead, I start/stop all my > services with "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" type commands. Which brings me to ask, can I rc-update apache/sshd to load at boot? If so, how? I dont know what exactly rc-update does but I probably dont want to have an oopsie. I find this > easier than trying to remember all the individual commands for each package > on the server. Also, if I need to reconfigure something, and am not sure > where the config files are, I check the scripts in /etc/init.d for their > locations. But this is a personal preference; I can't say if it's "better" > or not... > > And as for my web server, I'm running PHP and ZOPE through it as well... Cool :) > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Nick W > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo again; why me? > > On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:24, Shawn wrote: > > Just for comparison.... > > > > My web/mail/samba server is running on a PII-400, with 468 MB RAM. I've > > yet to see any cpu load issues, and likely never will given the type of > > use > > > it gets. > > I have a few PHP pages I plan to set up but I don't think it'll ever get > enough traffic to be an issue. > > It is a Gentoo server, and I did try compiling X on it one day. > > > The X install failed, but it did compile fine. Took about 20 hours. The > > failure was most likely to my own errors... I should have tried for a > > stable X system, instead of doing an emerge on a KDE application first > > (and > > > thereby having all it's dependancies, including X, compiled). > > > > If your server is strictly a web server, then I wouldn't bother with X. > > For some reason mod php reqires some X11 libs, but I don't know if that > means > all of X will be compiled. > > > Learning how to configure Apache (you are using Apache aren't you?) > > Yes, and its already in, which brings me to a question. When I do apachectl > start its throwing me a command not found, same with httpd -k start. Whats > with that? > > isn't > > > that tough, and is worth the effort in the long run. However, if you do > > decide you need a graphical interface, then X should work out fine for > > you (depending on your hardware of course). > > > > Shawn > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Nick W > > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:41 PM > > To: General discussion for Calgary Linux Users Group > > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo again; why me? > > > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:19, Trevor Lauder wrote: > > > Nick W said: > > > > Well, it worked so far...just needs a kernel now. woohoo! It actually > > > > wasn't > > > > even that painful... ~40 hrs for stage 1&2 to compile isnt bad > > > > considering the machine its on. I just hope it doesnt take 567 tries > > to > > > > > get the kernel in. Back to work, thanx again. > > > > > > Is this a server machine you are buidling? I ask because if you plan > > > on compiling XFree, Qt, KDE, GTK & Gnome on it and it took ~40 hours > > > for stage 1 & 2 it would probably take at least a week to compile all 5 > > > of those packages (Probably more actually). If you are going to need a > > > GUI on it, I would recommend XFCE (http://www.xfce.org). It's quickly > > > becoming the best lightweight desktop environment out there. > > > > Yeah it looks pretty cool. I havent decided on X or no X yet. The machine > > is being upgraded to a AMD k6-2 450 from 166, but basically its gonna be > > a light-load web server for me to play with. Thanks for the heads up. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Trevor > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > -- > > Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) > > MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yahoo: foolish_gambit > > ICQ: 303276221 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > -- > Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) > MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo: foolish_gambit > ICQ: 303276221 > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
