[gentoo-user] PHP4?
Hi all, I have just installed SquirrelMail, and found that parts of it are not working. The version of PHP that is installed is 5.1.2. Searching the sqirrelmail website, it appears that squirrelmail doesn't work with php5. So, how do I downgrade PHP to version 4.1.4 (which seems to be the recommended version). Thanks, -- Anthony Roy. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] PHP4?
So, how do I downgrade PHP to version 4.1.4 (which seems to be the recommended version). Don't worry - I have found the appropriate packages. -- Anthony This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP
Hi all, I am trying to set up mutt to access an IMAP account via SSL. Now I set the 'ssl' USE flag before emerging mutt, but entering mutt -v I get the outpu at the bottom of this post. Note in particular the -USE_SSL flag indicating that mutt has been built without SSL support. Are there any other USE flags other than 'ssl' that need setting to enable SSL in mutt? More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage use flags and a packages compile options? #--- mutt -v output --- Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (i686) [using ncurses 5.4] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG +HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE -USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK -USE_INODESORT +USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_GNUTLS -USE_SASL -HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX +COMPRESSED +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +USE_HCACHE -ISPELL SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail MAILPATH=Maildir PKGDATADIR=/usr/share/mutt SYSCONFDIR=/etc/mutt EXECSHELL=/bin/sh MIXMASTER=mixmaster To contact the developers, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. patch-1.5.6.dw.pgp-timeout.1 patch-1.5.6.dw.mbox-hook.1 rr.compressed patch-1.5.4.lpr.collapse_flagged Lukas P. Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] patch-1.5.10.tt.assumed_charset.1 #--- --- Thanks, Anthony Roy. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP - Email found in subject
Anthony Roy wrote: More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage use flags and a packages compile options? Short answer is: Read the ebuild. Look for things like: Spot on! Turns out that SSL conflicts with gnutls which I had set. Thanks, Anthony. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...
Firstly - my apologies for the messed up titles of my replies. I hadn't been able to get posts accepted on the list from GMail (probably because I was using a different 'from' address than my gmail address). Anyway I have to use the pieces of sh** Outlook and Exchange at work, and I hadn't noticed all the [SPAM] tags it had added... I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in I've sorted the problem I was having. It was of course me mis-understanding how rsync works. I was not after simply connecting to my server using rsync via ssh, but setting it up as an rsync server... It turns out that I had the server set up correctly (and it seems it is simple to restrict access to our main PC's IP address so that unwanted intruders - such as the kids on their PC ;-) - are kept out. It seems I was using the wrong client-dside command: rsync -avz test.xml 192.168.0.100:rsync should have been rsync -avz test.xml 192.168.0.100::rsync i.e. with two colons! Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...
Hi all, I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in order to run backups to the server from my other machines. I have a very simple rsyncd.conf file, (see below), and from what I can tell, I should be able to rsync some files across from a different box. The command I am using to rsync from a different box is: rsync -avz test.xml 192.168.0.100:rsync I have also tried the following with the same results: rsync test.xml 192.168.0.100:rsync The result is that I am continually prompted for a password. As far as I can tell from the rsyncd.conf no password should be required (which is fine as the rsync port cannot be reached from outside the intranet). The rsyncd: # This line is required by the /etc/init.d/rsyncd script pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid use chroot = yes read only = false log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log # Simple example for enabling your own local rsync server [rsync] path = /srv/rsync comment = Main Rsync Server Any help appreciated. -- Ant... -- Anthony Roy This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem... - Email found in subject
Hi John, unless you say otherwise, rsync uses ssh. unless you set it up to use key authentication, ssh will require a password. Ah. Makes sense. How do I tell it *not* to use ssh? As I said, I don't need it to be secure, just simple - the rsync server won't be exposed outside of the firewall. -- Anthony Roy This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [SPAM] - Re: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem... - Email found in subject - Email found in subject
I normally hate this answer, but i looked it up and it's more meat than you want to read via email. man rsync has a section on using an rsh program...basically, it's an argument to --rsh= so read the man page for rsync, it goes into a lot of detail. Sure. Also, you might consider that a crust defense (i.e. relying solely on a firewall) is contrary to current security best practices. I normally favor external-facing firewalls, internal firewalls on each box, and encrypting and securing all transports that can be. but if it's just a home network...maybe not such a big deal. personally, It is just a home network. However, I had a HD go bang (my previous backup server) a while back and my current priority is to get the backups running again. Then I can think about locking down the security. The security is fully batoned down for the ports I allow outside the firewall (ssh and http) the rest will come when I have time... there are too many windows boxes on my home network for that kind of trust. and you can NEVER trust the kids :) That's for sure ;-) -- Anthony Roy This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication represents the originator's personal views and opinions, which do not necessarily reflect those of HPI Limited. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] message has been scanned by Anti-Virus. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus checks to this message on delivery. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.
On 10/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's not part of the stage1. It's emerged when you do emerge system, I believe. Which would have been fine, except that I thought I was doing a stage 3 install :-) -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.
Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory doesn't exist! Where should this directory have come from? Thanks, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.
It's OK - thanks for the replies, but I downloaded and untarred the stage1 tarball rather than the stage3... Seems that the timezone directory isn't part of the stage1. On 11/04/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory doesn't exist! Where should this directory have come from? Thanks, -- Ant... Hi, Try #emerge sys-libs/timezone-data -av and try again afterwards. HTH.Rumen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEO/JVNbtuTtsWD3wRAtNKAJ9NF/K9+oJuj/B3+0SV1dT729tKWwCfZJ9k EkXf05IOJxFZf4QAjjs1I1E= =NMns -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Hi Dale, Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 Cheers. I had already googled around, without much success - this gives me an idea of what to do at least. Looks like I need a partition of at least the same size as the damaged one to copy the blocks over to. Unfortunately, I haven't got another *drive* that's as big as that partition... Looks like an expensive deal for a single bad block! I'll be getting a replacement big drive to replace the damaged one, and a large external drive to use for backups. Ironic really, as the server was supposed to be my backup solution - it has my subversion repository on it, and an rsync module for backup. Unfortunatly, I'd started to use it as a webserver etc... Oh well, first disk corruption in 10 years - got to learn the hard way sometime... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
I have been really lucky. I have been messing with computers for over 25 years and I don't recall having a hard drive of mine go out. I have worked on others that have though. I guess I replace mine to often. Lucky indeed - the drive that has gone tits up was only 12 months old... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to ensure that things were working OK, and indeed they were. I then set it running when I went to bed. This morning I wake up to find the server had crashed and was inaccessible. All processes seemed to have shut down. Rebooting the computer resulted in the reiserfsck being run - and failing!! I have tried reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hdc6 and I get a complaint that the filesystem could not be rebuilt bread: Cannot read the block (87878789) (Input/Output error) It also suggests (aside from buying a new disk!) to try overwriting the blocks if there are only a few of them. How do I go about doing this?? And does anyone have any other suggestions on how to recover the filesystem? Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with Me too. I've given Gnome a try several times (the latest on a recent Ubuntu Live CD, and I just don't like the whole look and feel as much as KDE, which is great IMHO. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi Man - you are a genius. Don't know where you dragged that bit of black magic up from, but the Gentoo boot prompt loaded up like a dream! So the job for the weekend is the install... Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Cheers dude - I'll give it a shot tomorrow! Off to bed now... ... At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Hi all, I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2 (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it. I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot get it to boot from CD. After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the following key combinations down during the boot sequence with no success: 1) C 2) Alt 3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell) 4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on the keyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple and alt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked). Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo
I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data copied over, I booted up into Gentoo properly. This way, I could mount the old Suse partition to have access to my old configuration files, and fix any problems I was having. So basically, if you have space and a spare partition/drive, I would install side by side until everything is working OK before binning Suse. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. The CD doesn't appear on the list. Only OSX, OSZ 9 and network folder... Thanks for the help so far... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Hi Holly, Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as if the CD is for some reason not bootable. The CD is perfectly browsable from within OSX. How did you burn it? Burnt from ISO image as I always do with iso images - that's certainly not the problem. I know you have to ask these questions of course! Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.
Thanks for the input. For reference if anyone stumbles across this thread looking for the same information, I found the following extremely helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633 Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.
Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? --- The details: I do not know very much about the mail subsystem in Linux, and so would appreciate some help in setting up a mail system on my Gentoo server. 1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others (eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for different purposes and people already have these addresses. 2) I have a server and three client PC's set up at home. The server is Gentoo, and the client machines are Windows XP, Kubuntu and Apples OSX respecitvely. 3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the other machines. 4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin. Hence, it seems to me that I want to set up an IMAP server to manage the mailboxes and give the functionality required in (3) above. I also need some way of downloading mail from the remote pop servers and load them into the IMAP inbox. (4) can wait until later! Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.
Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? --- The details: I do not know very much about the mail subsystem in Linux, and so would appreciate some help in setting up a mail system on my Gentoo server. 1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others (eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for different purposes and people already have these addresses. 2) I have a server and three client PC's set up at home. The server is Gentoo, and the client machines are Windows XP, Kubuntu and Apples OSX respecitvely. 3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the other machines. 4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin. Hence, it seems to me that I want to set up an IMAP server to manage the mailboxes and give the functionality required in (3) above. I also need some way of downloading mail from the remote pop servers and load them into the IMAP inbox. (4) can wait until later! Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.
You will want to check out the gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml which will help you set up imap, spamassassin and more. Thanks, this should be a good place to start for phase 2 of my setup - i.e. anti-virus and spam filtering. Moving mails from one server to another can be different depending on your level of access to the servers but you probably should be able to drag and drop them from one inbox to another using a common mail client such as mozilla thunderbird. I need to do this automatically. It looks like fetchmail may be what I am after here. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Jedit, cannot install XML plugin
You should be able to download it from the jedit website (www.jedit.org). Installing is simply a matter of unzipping the file into the $USER/.jedit/plugins directory. The plugin manager sometimes has network problems, and occaisionally a corrupted plugin distribution finds its way onto the plugin download server. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Successful Trac Install Using mod_python.
Hi all, I have just emerged Trac, and noticed that the Gentoo docs cover the cgi apache config, but not the mod_python config. In addition, the Gentoo emerge is v8.4, while the latest Trac is 9.1 - hence the docs on the Trac site are *too* recent, as the package structure has changed... Would it be helpful to put my config for mod_python on the Wiki? -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.
Hi all,
I have written a simple init script for controlling a wiki, and have
encountered a strange effect:
from the init.d directory, I can start and stop my app just fine with
wiki start and wiki stop resp. However, the stop script complains that
the script has not been started!
rc-status does not list my script, however wiki status shows it as started!
The script is as follows:
=
# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
depend() {
need net
after domainname
}
start() {
ebegin Starting Wiki
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile
/var/run/antwiki.pid --make-pidfile --exec /srv/wiki/wiki-start
eend $?
}
stop() {
ebegin Stopping Wiki
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/antwiki.pid --name wiki
wget http://localhost:1234/?shutdown /dev/null
eend $?
}
==
Any ideas?
--
Ant...
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Init script strangeness.
Thanks for the quick reply, but #!/sbin/runscript is the first line - it must have scrolled just off of the screen when I copied the text (sorry!). You don't appear to have #!/sbin/runscript on the first line. Any other ideas. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
Hogwash. What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro, once you get past the install issue? Several points here: 1) The install issue is the crux isn't it? A Linux newbie would falter at this first hurdle. I have recently installed two Gentoo stage 3 installations, and the biggest problem a newbie would face is that if something went wrong during the install (i.e. they missed a step in the instructions somewhere) they wouldn't have the experience to work out where they went wrong and fix it. 2) The install procedure is a relatively lengthy process (mainly due to the time it takes to download and compile). Both of my installations had to be spread over two or three evenings before the kernel was built and the Gentoo system was ready to stand alone. Without a good chunk of prior experiece, a newbie wouldn't know how to get back to where they left off. 3) Linux newbies generally come from somewhere - the vast majority don't stumble upon Linux as their first OS. Which means they will be coming from a Windows or Mac background. Both are heavily GUI focused - don't underestimate the intimidation factor of a Console to the average Windows/Mac user. Just what precisely is so not-simple about Gentoo as opposed to any other distro (barring perhaps Linspire)? See above and in addition, most mainstream Linux distro's out there will with little work from the user provide a desktop environment with all of the office and multimedia software installed, and hardware set up. These are not criticisms of Gentoo - I love it so far. After the initial install, setting up Apache and subversion was a doddle, and took far less time than when I did it on the previous Suse installation, with the advantage that I now have a lean fast and tidy server, rather than the bloated and messy system Suse gave me. This is mainly due to Gentoo's excellent Portage system, and superb documentation. But then I am not a Linux newbie, and work as a software developer for a living ;-) JM2PW -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Failed to resolve module dependencies.
Hello all, My Gentoo installation is running fine at the moment, but ever since I installed it, I have had the boot up message Failed to resolve module dependencies! displayed during the boot process. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this and how to resolve it? Thanks, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] The attractive terminal on the installation disk?
Hi all, I am getting on pretty well with Gentoo at the moment - I've found it a great way to install Linux and get to know just how it all works and holds together. I am using it for a server machine, and so I am not running X. My question is: How do I get a terminal setup like the one that is used by the installer disk - i.e. with the Gentoo strip along the bottom etc. Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The attractive terminal on the installation disk?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash Thanks - much appreciated. I wonder if this is a FAQ anywhere - I wouldn't have guessed at fbsplash if I was just browsing the HOWTO's! -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it
I've been having the same problem, but have ignored it for now, since I am setting up the box primarily as a server. So sorry - no solution! On 07/11/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it - fails with an error on I2C_ALGO_ATI. I have copied the working 2.6.13 config over without luck - this symbol doesnt show in it. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvu, mozilla designer: why such behaviour ?
Your question may be better posted at http://forum.nvudev.org/ -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.
Hi all, I am new to Gentoo, but having made a test install on one of my machines, so far I am impressed. The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the installation. My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a complete installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect to take a number of weeks to set up before it will have the necessary software installed to replace Suse). I also want to ditch one of the drives in that box (I have a 120GB drive which I want to keep, and a 6GB drive which I want to remove). The 6GB drive currently has the Suse installation on it. Here is the current setup: hda - 6GB. hda1 - /boot hda2 - swap hda3 - / hdb1 - /srv hdb2 - /home And my current plan: 1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb whilst partitioning?) 2) Install Gentoo on the new partition with grub set up to boot from hda and hdb. This way I can run Suse whilst not actively installing Gentoo. 3) Once Gentoo is running the necessary software (the minimum is probably ssh, an FTP server, Subversion and apache with mod_python). So far so good. But what is necessary to remove the old drive? The plan is to move the 120GB drive into the hda position. Clearly I will have to edit grub.conf, and fstab, but are there any other things I will need to think about. Cheers, -- Anthony Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.
You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do your gentoo installation. Excellent - so really I won't even need to have server downtime while installing? I'll definitely look into this approach. Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.
Thanks for the prompt advice guys. I'll be taking it slowly - I aim to get the main installation and changeover done over Christmas when I have a little more time, and the preparation done prior to that so that I have the partitions ready to go. I'll let you know how it all went (probably be asking more questions between now and then anyway!) Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
