Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Oxley
Roy Wright wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a probl

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Roy Wright
Dave Oxley wrote: I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem. Dave. Dave Ox

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 12:09 am, Phill MV wrote: > Well, it's just weird. What if said person is engaging in harassment? That's a separate can of worms altogether. First you'd have to prove to the court that you are actually getting harrassed. A statement like the one automagically appe

Re: [gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?

2005-10-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:14 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Looks like if I wish to add comment to PDF files, the only thing I can do is > to buy Acrobat. I don't mind buying one copy, but other people in the > company will need it too, that's a lot of copies. > > Just come by this question and is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple Partition Scheme - any way to mount it?

2005-10-18 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 13:39 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi, >I'm playing around with some external 1394 drives. The purpose is > to find the best setup to allow a given drive to be mounted on my > Gentoo boxes, my last Win XP system and my new Mac Mini. Obviously not > all file system t

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Oxley
I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem. Dave. Dave Oxley wrote: I have j

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:47 +1000, Dave Oxley wrote: > I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my > Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from > 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating > why on my server as it is most

[gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?

2005-10-18 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Looks like if I wish to add comment to PDF files, the only thing I can do is to buy Acrobat. I don't mind buying one copy, but other people in the company will need it too, that's a lot of copies. Just come by this question and is there a free product for adding PDF comments? I need to add comment

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: >Hello, > >For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet >interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). >Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? >Just disabling all responses fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
Legally binding, maybe  But enforcable, hardly.  Had the individual mailed youdirectly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversationbetween the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to sharepri

[gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Oxley
I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP. Duri

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:32:03 -0400 Phill MV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | :\ that sucks. | That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? | Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for | say posting such an email verbatim on a website? Well... UK financ

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39:09 -0400 Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I mustbe getting old or something. I swear when I looked at it | before it matched the other guys and not yours. Now mine matches | yours. I need to start drinking ;-) Wheee, another person successfully confused by sn

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 07:00 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > are you saying that this line > > app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries > to enable title and clipboard features in xterm > > is not the same on your file, despite the identical header? I mustbe getting ol

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 08:32 pm, Phill MV wrote: > That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it > actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting > such an email verbatim on a website? Legally binding, maybe But enforcable, hardly. Had

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
this is required by many companies legal departments.  Some places even add itat the mta, not the client. :\ that sucks. That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread William Kenworthy
wirecutters/stanley knife as appropriate - cut the tx wires in the cable to the card. In one case where the box had to absolutely silent (hacker proof, undetectable monitoring - think it was the honeypot project where I saw this one?), the wires from the socket to the circuit board on the card its

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
You would at the very least have to be detectable in hardware, otherwise the hardware (switch, hub, whatever) won't even talk to you. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:19:56 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet > interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). > Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? > Just disabling all

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Patrin
On 10/18/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet > interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). > Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? > Just disabling all responses from the et

Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread Scott Tiret
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet > interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). > Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? > Just disabling all responses from the

[gentoo-user] stealth ethernet

2005-10-18 Thread James
Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfi

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Gordon
Scott Stoddard said: > Look I'm not at all suggesting that we "dignify LSB" but what the o.p. > is suggesting is not at all a bad idea. > > An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, > version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can > only help maintainers

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > I know mine comes out of CVS with the header $Header: > /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 > 00:03:00 vapier Exp $, so I'm guessing that I have the later file. > So does mine:

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

2005-10-18 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39, Dave Cameron wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install > Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you can disable > the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to > have these constant

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:50 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system > > > that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. > > > > I sync against the Netherlands rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:12:39 +1000 Dan wrote: > > > That's a little ironic -- I've been doing that on mailing lists for > years, I noticed the effect myself right after I sent the message with > thunderbird's threaded view. > > Noone has ever complained before, until now -- in other words, th

[gentoo-user] Open Office and ODBC Connection to MySQL

2005-10-18 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I'm tearing my hair out by the roots on this one. First, I had a bit of a problem getting the the ODBC connection to my MySQL database set up. That was my own fault though 'cause a couple of files that I though were supposed to go in /etc (that's where they went in Fedora Core) were actu

Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:40, maxim wexler wrote: > > I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half > fat32 but it makes no difference. > Did your problems start when you tried to remove windows? Or was the disk just plain flakey to begin with? -- /* The HME is the biggest piece of shit I have

Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Douglas James Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > um a low level format is always the entire drive. > It basically returns > the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high > level format would > be what your talking about which would be the same > as reformatting a > partition. as fdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Dan
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:28 +1000 Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Please please do NOT hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread do NOT just reply to another message and change the subject. That's a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error -SOLVED - [blush...]

2005-10-18 Thread Dan
Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. useless error messages Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? I tried again with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86". As always, it just emerges the same packages anyway, but I let it run regar

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:28 +1000 Dan wrote: > Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. > Please please do NOT hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread do NOT just reply to another message and change the subject. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > > For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system > > that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. > > I sync against the Netherlands rsync pool, > SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage". > > I s

[gentoo-user] Apple Partition Scheme - any way to mount it?

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm playing around with some external 1394 drives. The purpose is to find the best setup to allow a given drive to be mounted on my Gentoo boxes, my last Win XP system and my new Mac Mini. Obviously not all file system types are going to work everywhere. So far it seems that only FAT32 is su

[gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Cameron
Hi All, I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install Sun Java or "Macromedia crap". Does anyone know how/if you can disable the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to have these constant nags, especially(sic) since I can't install these binary

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:44 pm, Matias Grana wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: >> >>> motub-> useflag vim-with-x >>> /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - >>> Linking console vim against X11 libra

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Cameron
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:10 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > znx wrote: > > >How about Squid Guard? > >http://www.squidguard.org/ > > > >With free blacklists > >http://ftp.tdcnorge.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/ > > > > > > > I use both of these and it works pretty darn well. Configur

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:44:54 -0300 Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. > How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong > to any package > (tried "equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc" > and di

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:44 pm, Matias Grana wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > motub-> useflag vim-with-x > > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - > > Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard

[gentoo-user] Re: codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread James
Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes: > > > anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an > > > *encoder*) for linux? > I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising > results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB The > encoding

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:44:54 -0300 Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | This is why I neglected to see that clipboard and vim-with-x were | related. But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. | How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong | to any pac

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread James
Scott Stoddard cs.ubishops.ca> writes: > An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, > version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can > only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with > less frustration. Be sure to include enoug

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:25 pm, Scott Stoddard wrote: > An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, > version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can > only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with > less frustration. Come on, f

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:20 pm, Phill MV wrote: > "We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and > are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name > and release version." > > Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think abo

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Matias Grana
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > motub-> useflag vim-with-x > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - > Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard > features in xterm Aha! Now it seems that I have an old (or not

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:25:07 -0400 Scott Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, | version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can | only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with | less fru

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
"We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version." Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think about it. LSB is sort of a pain and one sided, based on their 'st

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Scott Stoddard
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The "lsb_release -ir" commands | se

[gentoo-user] Re: low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:42, maxim wexler wrote: [...] >Is there a > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while > leaving the rest intact? It is a contradiction in terms, partitioning is not low-level. Use partimage to save the partition to preserve and check/format the disk with

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
im not sure if this is relevant but is radius not some kind of client server protocol On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: > Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. > > I get a mess: > > > i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/inc

Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
um a low level format is always the entire drive. It basically returns the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high level format would be what your talking about which would be the same as reformatting a partition. as fdisk would do. On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:42 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Douglas James Dunn
it would be about as stable as anything released for windows On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:38 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Thanks! I'll have a look but guess "early development" isn't good enough > > yet. > > I'd still give it a shot. Most of the time the software is more stab

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The "lsb_release -ir" commands | seems to provide what we are

Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread krzaq
On 10/18/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everbody, > > Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky > Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. > Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of > sparing one partition or the other -- it does the > whole thing. > > I str

Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
maxim wexler schrieb: > I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half > of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while > leaving the rest intact? Uhm, I'd make a backup of the data and let that tool whatever it wants to do. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Also from a system administrators point of view it is helpful to know > the operating system running on a particular server if you are > responsible for managing a diverse environment with thousands of > systems. I'd check for the existence of "emerge" and/or /etc/mak

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Frank.Pikelner
>On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If you "cat /etc/gentoo-release" it give back " Gentoo Base System >> version 1.4.16". >> >> Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, >> there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you "cat /etc/gentoo-release" it give back " Gentoo Base System > version 1.4.16". > > Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, > there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a > Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:56 am, Scott Tiret wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: > > Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. > > Try revdep-rebuild. If it is not available emerge gentoolkit and try > again. You may have some missing links t

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Scott Tiret
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: > Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Try revdep-rebuild. If it is not available emerge gentoolkit and try again. You may have some missing links to the libraries. Good luck, -- Scott Tiret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive

2005-10-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everbody, Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of sparing one partition or the other -- it does the whole thing. I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half of the drive where X

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:06 am, Richard Fish wrote: > In either case, the solution is the same: MAKEOPTS=j1 emerge ethereal. Sorry, but I can attest to -j(n > 1) works locally for me. It is most likely not the issue. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Frank.Pikelner
If you "cat /etc/gentoo-release" it give back " Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16". Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a Gentoo distribution. If the distribution could support "lsb_release -ir

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Richard Fish
Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 "-D_U_=__attribute__((unused))" -Wall -W -O -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
it sounds like one of the Linux Standard Base stuff... you won't see it at gentoo in any time soon i guess On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems > and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote system

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of p

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 "-D_U_=__attribute__((unused))" -Wall -W -O > -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include > -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 > -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] CDMA phone line for Asterisk?

2005-10-18 Thread Kevin Hanson
Stroller wrote: On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:08 pm, Michael Crute wrote: On 10/17/05, Widyachacra Rajapaksha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear friends, im very new to asterisk, even diz z my 1st mail to the list. am working for a smb company & it has two main CDMA telepone connections. now they

[gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Frank.Pikelner
We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of popular distributions.

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks! I'll have a look but guess "early development" isn't good enough yet. I'd still give it a shot. Most of the time the software is more stable than the developers would admit. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
John Jolet wrote: add -radius to your USE flags? How willl this help? $ grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ethereal/*.ebuild IUSE="adns gtk ipv6 snmp ssl kerberos" Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 09:20, Dan wrote: > Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. > > I get a mess: > > > i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include > -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 > -I/usr/inc

[gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread Dan
Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. I get a mess: i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 October 2005 13:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an > > *encoder*) for linux? > > http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html > > x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. > > You can use mencod

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Matias Grana schreef: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:28:54PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: | I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One >> can do this | by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. The

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Matias Grana
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300, Matias Grana wrote: > > > I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this by > > passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for this > > feature. After some

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264. Christoph -- echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is aticonfig (bug confirmation, please)?

2005-10-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> As you all might know, I have an ati card. I just installed the new >> 8.18.6 drivers yesterday. >> >> I was later hanging around on the Rage3D Linux Drivers forum, and >> noticed mention of a utility called 'aticonfig', which apparently is a >> wo

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Nick Rout
mencoder seems to support something called x264enc (according to the man page) On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:14 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi all, > > anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) > for linux? > > Uwe > > -- > 95% of all programmers rate themselves am

Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?

2005-10-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jerry McBride wrote: Yes that would be possible. But since the OP's kernel doesn't even boot up, it's not an option. He was asking how to see the previous dmesg output this would do it on future boot ups... He was trying to update the kernel. Since it didn't boot up, he was looking for

[gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi all, anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis