Re: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice
I think SeaMonkey is the whole Suite now. From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/29 Wed PM 04:46:42 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans de Hartog wrote: Just to stay close to what you're used to: how about good old mozilla? That's something that isn't clear to me: Is Mozilla still actively maintained? If so, what's the rationale for Firefox? I changed to Firefox because I assumed Mozilla was going to disappear... And why all the fuss about Firefox? But, I think if you put a little more effort in Firefox, I guess you can easily get rid of the annoying behavior (delete all the cookies, history, cache, .mozilla/firefox, maybe re-emerge). I don't want to lose customizations. That's something I really hate. As for re-emerging, that's been done more than once, when an upgrade is available. (The problem is with me for too long!) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] sshd issues
I think that tells you that this is the default setting if you don't change it. From: Jon M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/14 Tue PM 09:35:13 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sshd issues Hi Daevid, I tried playing around with some options in there and didn't seem to do much, but not sure if I tried changing that specifically. I do have a question though.. My ssh_config looks something along the lines of this: # Host * #PasswordAuthentication yes My question is, should they actually have # symbols in front as if they're commented out? My gut is telling me no.. Thanks again Daevid Vincent wrote: Change/Add this: PasswordAuthentication yes In /etc/ssh/sshd_config DÆVID -Original Message- From: Jon M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:04 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] sshd issues Hey all, I've been using other distributions for a while (CentOS, Slackware, Red Hat, etc) and finally switching to Gentoo, however this oddness with SSH is getting to me. It seems when I SSH into my machine it uses keyboard interative mode, where as I'm used to every other distro using just password mode I think it is. I'm wondering if there is any way to change this. I tried comparing /etc/ssh/ssh_config between my CentOS machine and my Gentoo machine, and both files are pretty much the same, and everything is commented out anyway. Any light someone could shed on this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup
Yes - that's it - just one is all you get G. I just figure I get one shot at it G. From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/13 Mon AM 02:49:07 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Basic Vmware setup · Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Server you can't do snapshots Well, almost correct. You can create 1 snapshot, but not multiple snapshots, that's correct. so you create a VM, save it, copy it, then modify it. Yep. And supposedly, VMware Workstation has some better memory optimizations. That's what VMware told me, at least. Alexander Skwar -- Prunes give you a run for your money. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors
What I did was create folders for each mail list and tell Kmail the folder contains a mail list. When you do that you have an option to put the reply to address for the list in the setup. After that I filter the mail list messages to the right folder and when I hit reply I get the right address. From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/02 Thu AM 09:00:53 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors
Nice tip. From: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/11/02 Thu AM 09:17:59 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I did was create folders for each mail list and tell Kmail the folder contains a mail list. When you do that you have an option to put the reply to address for the list in the setup. After that I filter the mail list messages to the right folder and when I hit reply I get the right address. For the last step, type 'l' to reply to a list, then kmail gets even smarter and always picks the list address for the headers, regardless of how the list admin has munged Reply-To: alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring UPS for Gentoo
Set it to shutdown when you have x minutes of battery left where x is enough to allow you to shutdown the system. There is an application in portage - nuts I think that is supposed to interface to UPSs. From: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/10/11 Wed AM 01:27:25 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Configuring UPS for Gentoo Dear all, I'm having a 2.2KV APC UPS, and i'm connecting my Gentoo email server on it, so what is the proper way to configure my server to auto shutdown, when the Main power off. Thanking you, Suranga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games
Is your user a member or the games group? From: sdoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/08/24 Thu PM 12:48:02 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Can't play games Hi again, I've added some games to my system anr ran ``gpasswd -a frank games''. I get Permission denied even for ``ls /usr/games''. Well trying to start some game I get the same. Can anyone tell em what I'm missing? Thanks Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net
Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear. I upgraded baselayout then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing upG). I then went through the file and found that it appears iproute2 is now preferred although there are no man pages or docs and it got installed on my system. I use static so I updated the address with the new function per the in-file instructions and set the route. I restarted net.eth0 and immediately lost internet access - I had pop and https but no news or regular http or sync! After much hassle all I did was comment out some nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and left a couple more and it worked again. To be honest I can't say the upgrade was to blame - I'm checking into the nameservers having issues. However, the differences between the old and new or what the new is supposed to do better is very unclear. From: Alan Mckinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/08/21 Mon AM 09:43:17 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:05 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: · Alan Mckinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I read it, but it doesn't deny anything - it simply doesn't mention iface_* at all. Maybe iface_* is deprecated, but I've used it since 2005.0 and that's what the docs said then. I haven't seen any updates about it either. The baselayout ebuild has several checks at the end for old deprecated files and veriables, but iface_* isn't one of them. I'm using baselayout-1.12.4-r6 alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ?
LVM let's you add space to volumes without having to create new partitions, move the data over, and then do something with the old one. From: Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/08/08 Tue PM 12:27:53 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ? Hi, Soon I will change me system from PATA (80GB) to SATA (200GB). I am playing with installing LVM for all parts of the filesystem with the execption of the / -filesystem. May be I will convert this later, too, but one step after the other... But I have no idea about the Pros and Contras of using LVM instead of the classical fixed size partition scheme. Can someone point me to a text or something which explains this aspect of LVM ? I tried google but there far too many Pro and Contra texts about other things. Thanks a lot in advance for any help in advance! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet
My limited experience with wallet is that is was a hassle which is why it was limited experience G. If Never again for this site doesn't work try opening the wallet configuration - click or right click on the wallet icon if I remember right and see if you any settings there work. Wallet worked fine for Knode - at least it didn't ask too much but for Kmail it asked every single time I logged in. I finally turned Kwallet off. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/27 Tue PM 03:07:20 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet Anytime I have to login to a site A window pops up from KDE wallet offering to save it or whatever. I never want this but I see no button or choice to tell KDE never to show it again for any site. Close as it gets is a button saying `never for this site' How to turn this `helpful' offer ... OFF? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet
Hmm, I'll have to go back and look at it again. I wanted to use it for the same reason you do - to handle all those passwords but maybe my use was flawed. I'll check it out again. Thanks. From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/27 Tue PM 05:29:49 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server
Did you check out sftp? Or programs like secure shell which do ftp also. From: JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/06 Tue AM 11:38:06 EDT To: Gentoo-User gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] FTP Server Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and give him his own directory to play with. I have never had a need for ftp since I have always used ssh. However, I want to make it as easy as possible for him to learn web page design, so that is why I thought ftp would be the easiest and most supported by tools. He uses winXP and I think Nvu can publish to ftp. If he really gets into building websites, he wants to purchase something like dreamweaver. From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow someone to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses tcp wrappers. Thanks for any guidance, Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server
Jim, DONT let him use Frontpage. I used it once and have had to support a server with it for a class - - it creates junk, hides stuff (in the MS you don't need to know way). Once I inherited a site done in FP to maintain and I moved it to Dreamweaver - very nice. From: Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/06 Tue PM 12:53:35 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:01, JimD wrote: I have ssh. However, How many of the typical winXP tools for website editing support sftp? I was just looking at Nvu and the text editing in it stinks real bad. I don't know what windows software he will always use. He may try FrontPage or Dreamweaver or some other tool. A lot of those tools allow publishing to a site with FTP, though I am not sure if they support sftp. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?
Did you try scale=n Where n is the number of digits after the decimal? More in man bc. From: Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this. From the manpage: - The most basic element in bc is the number. Numbers are arbitrary precision numbers. This precision is both in the integer part and the fractional part. All numbers are represented internally in decimal and all computation is done in decimal. (This version truncates results from divide and multiply operations.) There are two attributes of numbers, the length and the scale. The length is the total number of significant decimal digits in a number and the scale is the total number of decimal digits after the decimal point. For example: .01 has a length of 6 and scale of 6. 1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale of 3. Anyone have any ideas? --Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...
Will the hotplug package work on these drives? From: Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/21 Fri PM 04:46:38 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question... Hmm. I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which supports hot-pluggable SATA drives. In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo doesn't see it until reboot. Has anyone else used hotpluggable SATA drives in Gentoo 2006.0? Is there some mysterious package I need to emerge for this to work right? Output of dmesg follows. Thanks in advance, Best, --Glenn Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 20:23:47 UTC 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f400 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7f6e (usable) BIOS-e820: 7f6e - 7f6e3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 7f6e3000 - 7f6f (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 7f6f - 7f70 (reserved) BIOS-e820: e000 - f000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fec0 - 0001 (reserved) 1142MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f3a60 On node 0 totalpages: 521952 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 292576 pages, LIFO batch:31 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 IntelR) @ 0x000f7bc0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x7f6e3040 ACPI: FADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x7f6e30c0 ACPI: MCFG (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x7f6e7540 ACPI: MADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x7f6e7440 ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef Cpu0Ist 0x3000 INTL 0x20041203) @ 0x7f6e75c0 ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRefCpuPm 0x3000 INTL 0x20041203) @ 0x7f6e7a50 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTELR AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010e) @ 0x ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec0] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec0, GSI 0-23 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfec84400] gsi_base[24]) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 32, address 0xfec84400, GSI 24-47 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 2 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 8000 (gap: 7f70:6090) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 mapped APIC to d000 (fee0) mapped IOAPIC to c000 (fec0) mapped IOAPIC to b000 (fec84400) Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0427000 soft=c041f000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 3400.303 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Dec 21 14:36:03 EST 2005 : initialized Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 2061544k/2087808k available (2388k kernel code, 24896k reserved, 561k data, 220k init, 1170304k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6808.63 BogoMIPS (lpj=34043180) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 2010 649d CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 2010 649d monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 2010 0080 649d mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support...
Re: [gentoo-user] Install help
You have to install X and a window manager or app like KDE to get that. From: Bob Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/20 Thu PM 03:25:28 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Install help Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface like boot Thanks. Bob Bao -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] evms
I used the info on the EVMS site and there is a wiki entry which helped quite a bit. I'm not at home so I don't have the wiki entry but I found it via a search on evms + Gentoo. I like EVMS as it makes managing the disks much easier than trying to all of them separately. From: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/17 Mon AM 10:14:13 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] evms Trying to set up a new server using evms, but the howto on the gentoo site seems very old and incomplete. is there a better/more complete one? basically, i've got 3 hot-swappable scsi drives, but no raid controller.. I want to end up with lvm logical volumes on top of a software raid-5. but getting there with evms is presenting me some issues. FYI, i've been an aix system adminstrator for over 10 years, so i'm very familiar with lvm concepts and applications..just trying to translate that process into evms terms. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] evms
You are in the same boat I was - I had to translate the wiki to my needs but between that and the EVMS docs and the EVMS mailing list I put the pieces together. The wiki fillied in some missing pieces or stated them in another way that made sense. I went with EVMS mainly to learn about it as this is a home system and I found I liked it so much I'll use it on any work Linux systems that I have. From: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/17 Mon AM 11:27:57 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evms On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the info on the EVMS site and there is a wiki entry which helped quite a bit. I'm not at home so I don't have the wiki entry but I found it via a search on evms + Gentoo. I like EVMS as it makes managing the disks much easier than trying to all of them separately. I did find that wiki entry, i think. having to translate it into a 3 disk setup, mostly for raid5, but looks pretty good. since i've done software raid/lvm on linux quite a bit, i think i'll go ahead with this box and evms just to be able to compare my experience. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage
Try the kde game set. I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not near the system) what it's called. From: Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/03/28 Tue AM 02:43:21 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage Ted Ozolins wrote: pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine. Yea, I have that one though. I was wondering if there were any more though. I looked in /usr/portage but they are not sorted by card or anything. I do like Pysol though and you do need that flag too. Thanks, Any more neat card games? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Thanks for the input. I've come to the conclusion my two motherboards are too old. One doesn't work on 2005.1-r1 and the other doesn't work on Windows XP Pro. Both systems install but they can't boot because they don't see the drives and don't see the controller. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/27 Mon AM 06:15:27 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives Brett I. Holcomb wrote: 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands Personally I could not install gentoo 2005.1-r1 on ASUS A8N-VM mobo (southbridge nVidia 410 MCP, + northbridge GF6100 graphics). Loading sata_nv always freezes system. Probably too old kernel... I also tried experimental install-amd64-universal-2005-12-11.iso (as advised in gentoo-forum). This time booting was without problems, both network as well as sata-drives were recognised. I could even partition both sata-drives, and create /dev/md's arrays... Problems came later, when formating (mke2fs -j /dev/md*): I got random sync-errors causing kernel-panic. I repeated it a few times, always sync-error, but on random places of disk (sometimes while formating 1st partition, sometimes while formating 4th partition). I could never get past formating all 8 partitions, so I gave it up... 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. In my story, I have tried it with 2x Seagate 7200.9, but I still think problem is mobo/chipset. I tested drives with Seagates' sea-tools utility, full test took ~4 hours (2x 160GB). No errors found. Moreover, I could install WinXP on this computer without any problem. Sad, but I've heard NVidia is not so open to kernel-dev to give them enough details about its new chipsets... That's my experience with gentoo sata drives/controler. I'l try to get some VIA-based mobo (K8T890) to see if it works better... Jarry -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen f?r GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups
mt is an app that will let you manipulate it. The simples is to tar to the drive. There are many apps such as Amanda and others - check /usr/portage for the backup category. From: Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 10:51:46 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and how to i access it? what would its device name be? it is a scsi drive. is there any software that is command line based but has a menu system, possibly like the old colorado backup system used to have? TIA Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question
Thank you very much. I'll need to go back and reread this and digest it some more. I hadn't thought of doing multiple RAID types on the drives. I have two and did RAID1 for /boot and was going to RAID1 the rest. However, I really want RAID0 for speed and capacity on some file systems. The swap comment is interesting, too. I have two small partitons for swap - one on each drive and I was going to parallel them per one of DRobbins articles. From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 01:30:59 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. 3. Neither. See below. First a discussion of the two options. 1. Is fine, but it forces you to choose a single raid level for all your data. I like raid 0 for filesystems that are used a lot, but can easily be reconstructed given time (/usr) and especially filesystems that don't need to be reconstructed (/var/tmp), raid 5 or 6 for large filesystems that I don't want to lose (/home, particularly), and raid 1 for critical, but small, filesystems (/boot, maybe). 2. Is a little silly, since LVM is designed so that you can treat multiple pvs as a single pool of data OR you can allocate from a certain pv -- whatever suits the task at hand. So, it rarely makes sense to have multiple volume groups; you'd only do this when you want a fault-tolerant air-gap between two filesystems. Failure of a single pv in a vg will require some damage control, maybe a little, maybe a lot, but having production encounter any problems just because development had a disk go bad is unacceptable is many environments. So, you have a strong argument for separate vgs there. 3. My approach: While I don't use EVMS (the LVM tools are fine with me, at least for now) I have a software raid 0 and a hw raid 5 as separate pvs in a single vg. I create and expand lvs on the pv that suits the data. I also have a separate (not under lvm) hw raid 0 for swap and hw raid 6 for boot. I may migrate my swap to LVM in the near future; during my initial setup, I feared it was unsafe. Recent experience tells me that's (most likely) not the case. For the uninitiated, you can specify the pv to place lv data on like so: lvcreate -L size -n name vg pv lvresize -L size vg/lv pv The second command only affect where new extents are allocated, it will not move old extents; use pvmove for that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
It could be a power supply problem, too. I seen it when one of the power rails gets flakey the computer will do funny things. If you have another power supply connect it - you don't have to install it but just put it beside the box and then hook it up. If it works you have found the problem. For overheating clean everything well - get rid of dust, etc. and then open the case and use an external fan to blow air in the case. From: Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/16 Thu PM 05:47:49 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help? Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no matter what OS I'm using. A few days ago, the system shut itself down. I pressed the start switch but it would not respond, instead the power LED just kept blinking. I thought it to be an overheating issue and let it cool off for a bit. It worked fine for a few days and then this phenomenon just kept repeating itself and the frequency increased. There were a few lockups in between too. This would happen when running and update world while running Azureus in KDE or even when I was doing something as trivial as just chatting. One day, the system refused to start. I pressed the start switch after a few minutes of such a shutdown and all that happened was I could see the power, HDD LEDs and the DVD burner's LED all glowing, but the monitor wouldn't start. The CPU fan would be working. I let the thing sleep for a few hours. Later, I though I'd just run memtest to check if the RAM modules aren't causing any trouble. The pc actually started this time, but as soon as the memtest86+ screen came up, the thing shut itself down once again. Next day, I had the system lock up twice while editing the BIOS settings. This time I decided to dig out the processor and take the board and the processor to the dealer for checkup. Turns out that the processor had got stuck to the heat sink. After separating and reinstalling the two, the system worked fine for a few days. Now, again, a couple of days ago, I had the shut down. This time I decided to keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly. It's showing a pretty neat 35C right now, running Azureus, Kmail and Kopete. Anyway, the point of this lng emails is that I haven't exactly pin pointed the problem. If anyone thinks this is something other than over heating, please reply. Thank you, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid
Most hot swap stuff has the drives in caddys that fit in a mount. The mount contains power connections and drive connections. the caddy has cables for the disk data and power that go to a connector on the caddy. The caddy slides into the mount and the connections are made. Some caddies have a lock on the front that cuts off power when unlocked for removal. From: Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/10 Fri PM 02:50:24 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid First of all, thanks for your answer. On Friday 10 February 2006 19:39, Rick van Hattem wrote: You are correct, you are able to hot-swap the drives without rebooting or anything. I have a 3ware 7506-12 card and I'm able to hot-swap drives aswell, the drivers work very good and the management tool allows you to create/modify/rebuild raid arrays without rebooting. But how do you actually hot-swap the drives? Does the disk that is going to be removed have to be somehow powered off (eg, via some switch in the backplane or in the enclosure) before? (Sorry for the dumb questions, I read a reasonable amount of documents about RAID but actually I never had to deal with it in the real life - until now of course). Is the management tool opensource or is it a binary proprietary program? But.. Areca cards are a lot faster for the serial ata stuff, altough I'm not sure about there linux driver support, it's worth to take a look at there stuff :) Well, areca is in fact the other brand I was interested in (together with LSI)...I'm not sure, but they seem to use marvell chipset; there is support for it in the kernel, although the driver is still experimental (but they mantain a separate opensource driver). Don't know about their management tools (infos are welcome). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser
Did you try /etc/init.d/cupsd zap and see what happens. Also, sometimes a reboot (shades of windows G) fixes cups. From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 07:27:56 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser Clearly CUPS is not happy... The thing is that even in this strange state I can call up Firefox, go to http://localhost:631 and I get the CUPS management stuff. How is that possible if CUPS isn't running? The answer is that it's running at least enough to have a process in memory: lightning ~ # ps aux | grep cups root 8015 0.0 0.1 17416 1876 ?Ss 11:08 0:01 /usr/sbin/cupsd root 16662 0.0 0.0 2660 508 pts/0R+ 16:27 0:00 grep cups lightning ~ # I don't understand.clearly I don't understand. thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
Good idea! In this case a commerical program created the tape but fortunately they have good docs so I could find what they do. I needed to get to the archive because for some reason the commercial program had the files I wanted in a backup set listed in the tape contents directory but it could not access them. Fortunately they - on purpose - used tar format for transportability so I could get the files out. From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/08 Wed AM 06:01:00 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes On Wednesday 08 February 2006 03:54, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Got it. tar -tvb 240 -f /dev/tape0n | more lists the files. I did some searching and found that the error (cannot allocate memory) sometimes shows up when the block size is wrong. do'h, that is why I always save the command line, which I used to put something onto the tape.. ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
No problem. I appreciate the response. You are correct, I really don't know the format. I'll try the dd idea and see what happens. I was counting on the file marks being there so I figured I could walk through the marks and see what is there but I didn't realize about asf. Thanks From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/07 Tue AM 10:20:09 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I can walk through the label files. They take two files/label file so I go from 1 to 3 to 5 How do I get to this file to untar it? What I have is this when I do tar -tvf /dev/tape0n. -rw-rw 0/01994 2004-11-20 20:56:25 /tmp/fs_95.lbl Thanks. Sorry for the slow response on this. It sounds like you don't really know the exact contents of the tapes, so I think you should do something like: # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archive1 bs=10k # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archive2 bs=10k ... # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archiveN bs=10k This should give you a dump of all of the data on the tape, and then you can analyze it in more detail. You might have to fiddle with the bs= value above though. For some background info, tape devices generally write file marks between archives. So as long as you are using the no-rewind tape device and reading the full archive, you can usually just read them one after the other. The mt fsf command is mostly useful for skipping over archives. However, tape devices are not very consistent. Sometimes if you read just part of an archive and close it, the tape will automatically move to the next file mark. Other devices will require an mt fsf command to get to the next file mark. The asf command sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. rewind and fsf is the safest method. -Richard On Sunday February 5 2006 23:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be able to access each of these tar files. At this point I can tar -tvf /dev/tape0 and see the file that contains the tape label. But I can't get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, set mark using mt with no luck. mt is the correct command, but you need to make sure you are using a no-rewind tape device (ntape or nst0). Otherwise you will end up seeking to the next file, closing the file descriptor, which causes the driver to rewind the tape. -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts
It's happened on several websites so I was wondering if I'd missed some setting or could tell Konq to carry on. From: Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/30 Mon PM 07:24:34 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts As a rule Firefox handles errors and badly formed pages extremely well... So it may very well be the website. On 1/29/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running KDE 3.4 and on some sites Konqueror pops up a dialog telling me some script is causing KHTML problems - it may freeze things up. If I hit continue Konqueror continues and all is well. Firefox handles these pages so I assume it's some setting but I haven't found it. Any ideas on what it might be. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.
Isn't windows fun G. Someone has a sense of humor. In my new assignment I am now the Administrator for Windows servers and SQL Servers! I asked it that was because a) no one else wanted windows (we're AIX/Linux/Netware) and b) I was low man on the totem pole. The answer was jokingly yes - plus I've worked with Windows before (guess my resume had to much info on it!). Well I do get to run Linux here and at home. From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/25 Wed PM 02:36:51 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router. On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: Recheck (I assume you've checked it already G) his network settings. He may have a bad card. Can you setup a network trace/sniffer on your linux gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I played a bit with his laptop (damn it's a bi**h to do anything with winders) and found that Internet Connection Sharing was enabled. I disabled same and it seems to have done the trick. My God! I fealt like a noobie trying to fumble my way around that thing. Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
Based on your post to my other thread I've been looking at the drives you mentioned. What do you know about the WD Caviar drives? They are cheaper than the Raptors. From: Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/20 Fri AM 09:52:01 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED
It would be nice. Let us know if you find it. From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/04 Wed PM 04:14:09 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:01, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: Glad to hear it's fixed! Something must have been messed up in the profiles. It's possible, though I don't think so. I believe I had deleted and recreated the profiles and accounts previously. I would be interesting to find what caused the problems in the first place. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce
You have to set yourself up to be able do shutdown and reboot if desired. Do this in the sudoers file. I don't have my setup where I can reach it at this moment but if you need I can post it later tonight. From: Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 08:26:16 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
What happens if you do emerge -uD kdepim -p. Have you tried emerge kdemail? From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 08:57:13 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail This is just too wierd! I've done all the maintainance steps everyone has suggested, probably several times by now, but kmail still refuses to send email. The good news is Thunderbird is working. Being a creature of habit, I want to get kmail working. Last night I did: # emerge -eD kdepim thinking that this would bring all dependancies in the correct order and I would wake up able to use kmail. No such luck. The only change I've seen so far is kmail has gone back to crashing when deleting failed emails from the outbox. Below is the backtrace from the KDE crash handeler, followed by the Konsole output. Note that the Konsole output complains (when I deleted the failed mail) kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/samba/smb.conf' kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/security/fileshare.conf' Wy would kmail want to remove smb.conf and fileshare.conf? My thanks to all who have offered suggestions, I really appreciate the effort. (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library /lib/libthread_db.so.1. (no debugging symbols found) `system-supplied DSO at 0xe000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. (no debugging symbols found) repeated 55 times (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1249028432 (LWP 16621)] [New Thread -1276220496 (LWP 16625)] [New Thread -1267827792 (LWP 16624)] [New Thread -1259435088 (LWP 16623)] [New Thread -1251042384 (LWP 16622)] [KCrash handler] #4 0xb7ba3cea in KMMessage::setTransferInProgress () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #5 0xb7cb8628 in KMSender::slotIdle () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #6 0xb7cb88ab in KMSender::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #7 0xb609ec64 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #8 0xb609f382 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #9 0xb7cb45f9 in KMSendProc::idle () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #10 0xb7cb46da in KMSendSMTP::abort () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #11 0xb7cb40ee in KMSendSMTP::slaveError () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #12 0xb7cb56c0 in KMSendSMTP::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #13 0xb609ebed in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #14 0xb6c8e327 in KIO::Scheduler::slaveError () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #15 0xb6c8fa14 in KIO::Scheduler::slotSlaveError () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #16 0xb6c92fff in KIO::Scheduler::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #17 0xb609ec64 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0xb6c88a3c in KIO::SlaveInterface::error () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #19 0xb6c8b3a4 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #20 0xb6c8a033 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #21 0xb6c85fdb in KIO::Slave::gotInput () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #22 0xb6c86388 in KIO::Slave::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #23 0xb609ec64 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #24 0xb609f22a in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0xb63f2010 in QSocketNotifier::activated () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0xb60bb7ef in QSocketNotifier::event () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #27 0xb603c01f in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0xb603c1bc in QApplication::notify () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #29 0xb66b6926 in KApplication::notify () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #30 0xb602f8f3 in QEventLoop::activateSocketNotifiers () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #31 0xb5fe88f1 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #32 0xb6052720 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #33 0xb6052676 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #34 0xb603b1cf in QApplication::exec () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #35 0x0804a477 in ?? () #36 0xbfe6fb10 in ?? () #37 0xbfe6fa20 in ?? () #38 0x in ?? () From the konsole: kmail WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x83ba700 ): KAccel object already contains an action name delete kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED
Glad to hear it's fixed! Something must have been messed up in the profiles. From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/04 Wed PM 02:01:40 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED On Wednesday 04 January 2006 12:19, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: Yes, you are right - I've been working with Windows all morning so my brain was dead G. I figured you had but thought I'd ask. From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip just for the hell of it, I synced and ran emerge -uD world. This brought in xemacs-base, festival (which failed until I remerged speech-tools and it ran) poppler-bindings and transcode. Kmail still failed. I logged into konsole as root and set up a brand new kmail profile using only one of my 2 email accounts. Kmail actually sent and email. I then closed root's kmail and opened as user. I deleted all profiles and account information and started fresh using the same address as I used for root. IT WORKED!! I then recreated my ntplx account. ALL IS WELL. I'll be damned If I know why but kmail seems (at least so far) to be fixed. Thanks to all for their patience and suggestions, even the people who told me (in a nice way) I didn't know what I was doing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc
There's a file in /proc - a *.gz if I remember. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/20 Tue PM 01:37:46 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel config available from /proc I've diddled around with the .config file in /usr/src/linux so much with going thru fake menuconfig, renaming and etc that I'm not sure anymore what I have running. I'm pretty sure I selected to have access to kernel config from running kernel but now can't remember where or how to access it. I believe it was somewhere under /proc. Running find with such things as -iname '*config*' or -iname '*kernel*' hasn't tured up anthing interesting. If I am running a kernel with that option set how is the config accessed? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
There is a book covering backups that is supposed to be the Bible for backups. Unfortunately, I am not where I can lay hands on it and can't remember the title. From: Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/15 Thu AM 08:03:34 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Backups Good day Gentoo List !!! Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is deprecated? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/14 Wed AM 12:35:17 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3' Sounds like that's what you're thinking of. -- That may be a way to do it. It isn't what I was thinking of though. I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say about it. And `man inject' doesn't now about it at all. The man page makes a brief comment: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options
Did you select framebuffer support - there needs to be a * beside it before you see the rest. If that doesn't work set the see experimental items flag in the general setup. From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/08 Thu PM 11:07:39 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Framebuffer and kenerl options Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's under device drivers-graphic support. You select Support for framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type Hit enter there and you can select vesa or vesafb-tng. I'm not seeing that here. device drivers-graphic support YES Select Framebuffer support YES I don't see any options like what you mention appearing in this list anywhere. No VESA VGA Graphics support I see Console Display Driver Support --- and then: Frame Buffer Console Support. Never any mention of VESA or Vesafb-tng There is no mention of it in .config either. Not even disabled or off. This is kernel-2.6.14-r4 Is that what you are looking at? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
Something thinks it needs it. Check out the depends with equery and see what it tells you. From: Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/06 Tue PM 06:32:56 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help with world update Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. I'm presuming that there was an error during the unmerging such that portage still thinks the package is installed, what can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing
Are you running cups? From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/11/30 Wed PM 02:31:16 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing Guys, this is ridiculous! Every time I want to print something from my main Linux machine I have to physically disconnect the printer from the second box and connect it to this one. The way this is going I will soon need to buy another parallel port connector because the pins will wear out! Surely, it can't be that difficult. I mean, it obviously is for me, but a lot of people have cracked it. It should be straight forward printing from one Linux box to the other. Please ask if you need more info from config files etc. In hope that some advice will soon arrive ;-) Cheers, Michael Kintzios wrote: From:: Oliver Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:58:27 +0100 Michael Kintzios wrote: I created a new printer on hostname1 and also named it Compaq-HP. I set the ipp address to ipp://hostname2.STUDY/ipp but I kept getting errors telling me it can't resolve the address. AFAIR the IPP-Adress has to be: ipp://[Host]/[PrinterName] in your case this would mean: ipp://hostname2.STUDY/Compaq-HP I'm afraid I had no success. I tried using the address as you suggested above but it says unknown host . . . perhaps I should add it in my hostname file, but my netgear router which acts as the nameserver should know where to go? In any case, when I changed it to the IP address of hostname2 box (192.168.0.3) I got this: I [25/Nov/2005:20:23:13 +] [Job 56] Connecting to 192.168.0.3 on port 631... I [25/Nov/2005:20:23:13 +] [Job 56] Connected to 192.168.0.3... D [25/Nov/2005:20:23:13 +] [Job 56] Getting supported attributes... E [25/Nov/2005:20:23:13 +] [Job 56] Destination printer does not exist! E [25/Nov/2005:20:23:14 +] PID 13299 stopped with status 1! Anything else I should try? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Interfaces
Thanks. I'll check that one out. From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/11/21 Mon AM 06:05:19 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Interfaces On Monday 21 November 2005 04:00, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I am looking for a GUI interface to PostgreSQL and have found several open source ones available. I'd like some comments on what others use and the good, bad, and ugly of what you use. knoda is my favourite GUI interface. It's actively developed and in portage. -- Peter Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3. kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r5. i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+. gcc(GCC): 3.3.5-20050130. KDE: 3.5 (RC1). Qt: 3.3.4. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf
Hmm, that I can' answer yet as I am still booting to runlevel 3 and then doing start x. I would assume that everthing gets run including local.start and then X gets started after all that. From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/13 Thu AM 03:53:59 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: One thing to check is do you have any /dev/nv* devices? There was a thread in the forums on this which has a script for recreating them and another thread on this list in which I posted it. That was it. I found the thread, that's why I emerged the masked versions of the driver (see my reply to myself). BTW: the suggestion to put the script in /etc/conf.d/local.start seems somewhat strange: doesn't /etc/init.d/local get executed after all other scripts in the default runlevel? Doesn't this mean that the script would be started _after_ the X server? Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia
On a new system I built I had to recreate the /dev/nv* items. From: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/12 Wed AM 03:11:08 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 13:51 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Reemerge nvidia - it's one of the modules that when you rebuild the kernel you have to redo them. Doesn't work, sorry. Any other suggestion? Thanks Alex From: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/11 Tue AM 03:29:52 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that it is loaded. * media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed * sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed Additionally, I installed the coldplug package. grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules KERNEL==nvidia*, NAME=%k, GROUP=video Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ? What did I forget? Thanks for suggestions and greetings Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev
udev is now default. If you've built your kernel with udev and emerged udev then you should be able to uninstall devfs. I did - but I've been running udev for a long time now. There is a doc on Gentoo about how to move to udev so make sure you've done that first. From: gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 10:39:55 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] New kernel and udev -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I went to do my routine emerge -Duptv world and it came back with devfsd blocking gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3. I'm not sure whether I'm using udev now or not. I remember compiling into the kernel last time I did a kernel compile. Naturally, when I did the emerge -Cpv devfsd it complained that I was unemerging something in the system profile, and that it could damage my system. So I just thought I would check here before hurting anything. ;-) So, does the v2.6.13-r3 gentoo-sources use udev? (Am I confusing this with something else?) How can I tell if I'm using udev now, and/or if I will hurt anything by uninstalling it, to get the new kernel sources? Thanks. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRd/6LYGSSmmWCZMRApEjAJ95zhCxlNCIZW1e71555qUy/8HLDgCghDdK 8H9sLDiT4Mfh+I+5SOHXIJs= =w92s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage
Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds. You can use existing ones as models. From: John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT To: Gentoo User gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in Gentoo Portage and contribute it... Is there a How-To for this? My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I can't find it. -- John Lange -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage
That's good to know. It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant. From: John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage The Gentoo documentation on ebuilds is after-the-fact. Contributing Ebuilds: This guide explains how to submit ebuild packages through the Bugzilla tracking system. I did finally find it. Its apparently not in the gentoo documentation but there is a Wiki. Once I figured out the appropriate search term is ebuild I was able to turn up some decent google results. For the sake of anyone else looking: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Thanks, -- John Lange On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds. You can use existing ones as models. From: John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT To: Gentoo User gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in Gentoo Portage and contribute it... Is there a How-To for this? My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I can't find it. -- John Lange -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
Thank you both for the comments. This helps. From: Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 01:42:20 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400 schrieb Ron Bickers: On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of memory I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the Intel 915G boards I have. The driver is included with the kernel (ata_piix) and I've had no problems with it. Linux treats it as a SCSI device. If you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for availability and stability of the drivers first. It seems as if I'm having pretty much the same layout in several of my servers. Running Software Raid 1 on 200GB Seagate SATA drives. Worked out of the box with vanilla sources 2.6.12.5. I recommend using mdadm to build the array instead of using the older RAID tools described in the Gentoo Wiki. In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving encoding/compressing on-the-fly. 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out of it. I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) than with one drive. 3. Anything else I should know? Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything. Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already. -- Ron -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
My moterboard (Tyan Tiger) does nto have SATA support so I need a separate card. For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? From: Ron Bickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 12:59:51 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of memory I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the Intel 915G boards I have. The driver is included with the kernel (ata_piix) and I've had no problems with it. Linux treats it as a SCSI device. If you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for availability and stability of the drivers first. In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving encoding/compressing on-the-fly. 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out of it. I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) than with one drive. 3. Anything else I should know? Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything. Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
Thank you for the feedback.. From: Ron Bickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/22 Thu PM 02:26:23 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about it. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? In my primitive tests, XFS showed good performance for really large files -- like raw video files in the gigabytes (as it was designed to do), but small and normal file size performance is what I needed more and it wasn't -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
Thank you for the feedback.. From: Ron Bickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/22 Thu PM 02:26:23 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about it. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? In my primitive tests, XFS showed good performance for really large files -- like raw video files in the gigabytes (as it was designed to do), but small and normal file size performance is what I needed more and it wasn't -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alias
You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then source this in the ~/.bash?? and to make sure new users get it I modify what's in /etc/skel. I used /etc/bash.rc because it was on a distro I was familiar with at the time. From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/19 Mon AM 08:24:45 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] alias Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID
I did it with EVMS. I created the raid, then lvm on it. It's been a while so I don't remember the details. If you're not using EVMS you can create the raid, then apply LVM to do what you want. From: A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/15 Thu PM 02:30:42 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID Anybody using lvm2 and RAID together on the same partitions? Can anyone detail how to create such a setup? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?
Windows doesn't care where it's system files are installed (XP that is) except that I remember it needs a partition on C to put it's boot stuff.like boot.ini. From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/05 Mon AM 09:38:39 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? Hi, Is it possible to put Windows XP an a second drive in a Linux box and have Windows be happy? 1) I'm pretty sure that grub will have no problems with this, correct? 2) Will Windows be happy if it's the only OS on a non-boot drive? I've done lots of dual boot machines before but there were always Windows on the main drive and System Commander to get me to Linux. I don't want to use System Commander this time. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?
It's been a long time since I did a multi boot Windows install. With Windows and the boot managers for Windows maybe it has to be. However, with Grub or LILO you set them up on the MBR, then tell them where to find Windows and it's all done from there. At initial boot there are no partitions. Way back when with Win98 and before they had to have the loaders on the C: drive to keep them happy. From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/05 Mon AM 09:50:29 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? Thanks Brett. I did think that Windows cared where it's boot loader was and that it had to be the first partition on the drive. Is that not true? Thanks again, Mark On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows doesn't care where it's system files are installed (XP that is) except that I remember it needs a partition on C to put it's boot stuff.like boot.ini. From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/05 Mon AM 09:38:39 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? Hi, Is it possible to put Windows XP an a second drive in a Linux box and have Windows be happy? 1) I'm pretty sure that grub will have no problems with this, correct? 2) Will Windows be happy if it's the only OS on a non-boot drive? I've done lots of dual boot machines before but there were always Windows on the main drive and System Commander to get me to Linux. I don't want to use System Commander this time. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?
I was afraid of that G. There is a bug with rmmod causing crashing in Bugzilla. What puzzles me is these two systems have never had any problem at all - I even did a make oldconfig with the 2.6.11 .config so they would be the same. From: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/08/31 Wed PM 10:34:59 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems? On Thursday 01 September 2005 04:13, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel panics on boot. I have another system I'm installing Gentoo on that has an Adaptec 2940uw on and since I was using 2005.0 it had 2.6.12 on it and would not boot. I found that on both systems if I build the aic7xxx as a module I can get further in the boot process. I also tried 2005.1 but that is a disaster on both systems. I tell it to noload=aic7xxx and it loads it anyway which results in system not running. Is it just me G. it have to ;) I have an adaptec 2944 card and it works without problems (just did a big restore through it with an 2.6.12-gentoo* kernel). At least none while booting ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?
I tried 2.6.12-r9 which was released a short time ago. I'm in the process of trying the old driver. From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/01 Thu AM 02:05:46 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
That's good to know. I had missed that part of it. So far it just worked G. From: George Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/07/26 Tue PM 11:28:41 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone According to the man xorg.conf the search paths are different depending who is starting X. If X is started by a user the search paths are not as extensive as if X is started by root. If root was the one to start X then it could be able to pick up the xorg.conf I had stashed in the / folder. The sudden switch from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /xorg.conf is what triggered my confusion. Brett I. Holcomb wrote: My understanding is that X searches the path given in xorg.conf irregardless of who starts it but I may be wrong. I use xdm, not gdm. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for xorg.conf. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is Snip I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My question Thanks Thanks, it seems the system searchs farther than I understood. Based on what I have read on gdm, the X server is started by a non-privliged user, to avoid possiblities of exploition of the system via the login area. If this is in fact true then the search for the xorg.conf file would be limited to the /usr or /etc folders, not the / folder. Does there need to be an update to the man file, or is this a undocumented feature? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6
Do a ls -ld /etc/make.profile to see what it's linked to. From: Benjamin Grauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/07/25 Mon AM 08:52:50 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6 hi - Since some time now i tried to re-emerge a new Version of the gentoo sources earlier in this year i just emerged the gentoo-dev-sources, and it worked perfectly, but since the change of the 2.6 kernel to the gentoo-sources-ebuild, i don't seem to be able to emerge any version above 2.4.X also i do not see, what use-flags could affct this, since on my laptop i have the same ones, and there it works with gentoo-sources hopefully, there is someone out there, that encountered the same problem... greetings Benjamin Grauer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] safe devfs - udev migration
I used the steps on the Gentoo docs. They also link to some udev site. Essentially 1. Set up kernel not to autostart devfs (when everything is okay you can remove devfs from the kernel) 2. emerge udev 3. I modified /etc/conf.d/rc (I think it was) to have a devfs and a udev version. The udev version did not use the tarball and had another variable set. 4. Save the devfs rc and then copy the udev rc to rc 5. Reboot. For me it worked. From: Richard P. Groenewegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/07/19 Tue PM 01:10:10 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] safe devfs - udev migration All, During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after the first reboot. The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable and the file system could not be mounted. Installation of devfs solved it, but, as I can tell from the mailing list devfs is obsolete. **What is a safe way to migrate to udev?** I'd prefer to do only steps that are reversible, as the installation is now finished and it took a while. For your information, I have /dev support in my 2.6 kernel. Is it essential to remove /dev support? best regards, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool
Did you try emerging CUPS again? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/06/01 Wed PM 10:17:16 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool bash-2.05b# cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 98! I happens after about 5 seconds. What I am doing doesn't sem to matter. I can't, cupsd dies quickly. Well, that's a problem. At what point does it die (what are you doing when it dies), and what does it say with its dying breath (error message)? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS and the LiveCD 2005.0
Yes, it does. After more reading of the docs I think I'll have to recreate them with EVMS instead of cfdisk. Then I'll have to resign myself to booting with an initrd file. x From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/30 Mon AM 03:45:26 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS and the LiveCD 2005.0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine
Thanks. From: Johannes Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/24 Tue AM 01:32:11 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine
Thank you for the explanation. That clears it up. I don't play the Doom series either - I have Soldier of Fortune and Half-LIfe along with some others. And I have an Nvidia card G. From: Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/24 Tue AM 06:28:10 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine Brett I. Holcomb schreef: Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no more. Loki may be no more, but the Loki Installer is alive and well, and quite able to save one's bacon, using either native games that just have Linux binaries and take the data files from the Windows disks, or Windows games that must be run under Wine or Cedega, but whose installers don't work (properly) under either. See Loki Installers for Linux Gamers at http://liflg.org and to buy what native stuff is available, try TuxGames at http://www.tuxgames.com/ . I find their prices a bit outrageous, but you are supporting the community if you buy from them, so that may make up for it. And on a side note-- Half-Life 2 being ported? I don't think so... I'm sure I heard that HL2, like HL, will *never* be ported. But Cedega tied themselves into a pretzel to get it running (and Steam as well, although I heard that a recent Steam patch broke the whole shebang again), and I know that the Wine developers are beavering away madly to get DirectX 9 support into the package (mostly for WoW, but also for HL2, Myst 4 and Pirates!, those being the games that I've heard mentioned being tested against the incomplete patchset). Not that I care, of course... I have an ATI card using the fglrx drivers, so even half the things which *are* supposed to work under Wine and/or Cedega do not (although native stuff generally runs fine, including Doom 3. Too bad I have no interest at all in playing Doom 3, having never liked the Doom series). So I try not to get all excited about things that will work in the near future, as nice as it would be to finish Myst 4 (and Uru). Until ATI gets their driver act together (or I find the money to buy nVidia), I'm kinda SOL in any case. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] wine
I did the ebuild for Winex after it was removed from portage - and I can't argue with that. At the time TG let you download CVS if you would provide feedback so I joined the mail list and did so. There is a native SOF but I had purchased Windows SOF long before it came out couldn't go get another copy of it. I'm lucky in that I don't need IE much so I can live without it or go to the Windows machine and use it if I have to. VMWare would be an option but for the Installshield stuff I need a Windows machine to test on and duplicate what the users have. That would be an interesting Beta report to MS - operating system is Linux G. Crossover I'd buy in a minute if I had a need for it but at this time OpenOffice does it all. If I can't get my wife to OpenOffice I may use Crossover and run MSOffice on it. I don't mind paying either for something that's worth it but I figured as you did that I would try and do something with Wine and I like that fact it's more general, also. Silent Service is DOS based essentially. Yup - I know DOSBOX. I spent a lot of time with it and SS but again lack of time and the system dying killed that project. As soon as I get the Windows machine built I'll be getting my main Linux box back up and start all this up again. I'm planning on sooner than three years G. Every Windows box I have to work with makes me appreciate Linux more - and every FC box makes me appreciate Gentoo more G. From: Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/24 Tue PM 12:25:31 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Isn't SoF native? http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4381 ... Yes, it's available at TuxGames. I don't mind paying if the product is worth it, but there are just too many things I don't like about Cedega-- can't try before you buy (and they don't even accept PayPal, so I actually can't buy, as I don't have Silent Service looks like a console game (available for Commodore 64, Amiga and NES)-- oh, I see it's also available for DOS. In that case, you're in luck, because Silent Service 2, at least, is listed as supported (since version 0.58, and we're now on 0.63) on the DOSBox page (dosbox.sourceforge.net), so I would think that Silent Service should run as well (maybe no one's tried it). And of course, Gentoo has tons of console emulators available, if you have one of the other versions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling
When you compile a kernel and move it to /boot you need to run LILO so it will find it. From: Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/20 Fri AM 11:53:39 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: Thanks. I'm using lilo. Now I recompiled kernel again and did #lilo After that I'm able to boot the system. It means the clue was in lilo? askar Hi, It means, that if you be sure, you should reinstall (#lilo) lilo after kernel upgrade. HTH. Cheers, Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás -- Make the world confused! Zavard össze a világot! Smile on monday morning! Mosolyogj hétf? reggel! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image
You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. From: Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/20 Fri PM 04:01:59 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an iso image? There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd rather not go down. Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild digest is complaining about no PF
man 5 ebuild and the ebuild docs for the naming conventions. If you haven't
already create a portage directotry overlay and set up make.conf to define it.
This will be where you can create your own ebuilds and not mess with the tree.
From: Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/05/17 Tue PM 02:45:05 EDT
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] ebuild digest is complaining about no PF
I'm trying to create an updated ebuild for treeline-0.12.0, to take
advantage of the new install scripts it uses. I'm having a bit of
trouble generating a digest, however, with ebuild digest. It is
complaining that part of the name or the version is missing, and then
that PF is null or , and it bails. I don't know how I could have
caused this, because I didn't even touch PF and its generated
automatically anyway, right? I've included my modified script below.
# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
inherit eutils python
DESCRIPTION=TreeLine is a structured information storage program.
HOMEPAGE=http://www.bellz.org/treeline/;
SRC_URI=http://www.bellz.org/treeline/${P}.tar.gz;
LICENSE=GPL-2
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~x86 ~ppc
IUSE=spell
DEPEND=spell? ( || ( app-text/aspell app-text/ispell ) )
|| ( dev-python/pyxml dev-libs/expat )
virtual/python dev-python/PyQt
=x11-libs/qt-3.3.0-r1
S=${WORKDIR}/TreeLine
src_compile() {
printf '#!/bin/sh\n\nexec python %s/treeline.py $*\n' \
/usr/lib/treeline ${T}/treeline
}
src_install() {
dodir /usr/lib/treeline /usr/share/icons/treeline
install.py -p /usr
}
pkg_postinst() {
python_mod_optimize /usr/lib/treeline
}
pkg_postrm() {
python_mod_cleanup /usr/lib/treeline
}
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Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal Client
You might look at rdesktop or tightvnc. From: Mike Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/13 Fri AM 11:04:08 EDT To: Gentoo Users gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Terminal Client -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a real need for a terminal client program for gentoo that will allow me to connect to a Windows machine. I know Mandrake (Mandriva) has one which works very nicely, but I would really like to be able to use gentoo. Can anybody tell me what I can use for this and where I can find it. Thanks, Mike - -- Mike Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 0xFFDFC13B Key fingerprint: 8204 1297 B9AD 0CED 2FCE 1FB0 9491 5824 FFDF C13B Keyserver: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFChMHolJFYJP/fwTsRAtn9AJ41zldb2JRPu9TeGZf7p5xpPD5L6wCggCvL pOY7B9eQdDX9NrXyNtO3rDs= =FzzI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuild help (mod_perl)
Man ebuild Also, check out the Gentoo docs on ebuilds and look at some existing ones as guides. From: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/13 Fri PM 01:55:53 EDT To: Gentoo mailing list gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuild help (mod_perl) I'm trying to try the mod_perl-2.0.0-rc4 ebuild posted here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77551 but when I try to generate the digest or emerge it from the overlay I get: No digest file available and download failed. There is also a mod_perl.patch posted a week after the ebuild. How do I incorporate that? Sorry about the lameness. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem
One thing I found helpful with NFS was the NFS How-To at linuxdoc. You may have already looked at that but it has a good setup guide to make sure things are running. From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/09 Mon PM 11:04:28 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem On 5/9/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hello again, A bit more info. On the server side the directories seem to be exxported: dragonfly ~ # exportfs /home/mark/MusicLib world /MusicLib world dragonfly ~ # The second one is the one I'm trying to mount remotely. However it's not clear to me if nfsd is listening on the right port - normally 2049 according to the remote devices /etc/services file: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem
1. What about Group IDs (GID). At one time we had to make them the same on all machines - but maybe not anymore. 2. Server down implies it can't find the server so it gives up and then gives you the error about not mounting the file or no such file. 3. What about the comment someone had from the FC list about FC2 or 3 breaking something. From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/10 Tue PM 12:36:43 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem Hi, I'm going to recap and hopefully focus this discussion based on current results. Thanks to Richard, Walter, Ralph and Brett for your help so far. I'm working from these two documents: http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/server.html There are 4 machines on our home network that are involved in this problem: Dragonfly - Gentoo music server Flash - Gentoo workstation Godzilla - FC2 workstation Christmas - FC2 workstation Dragonfly used to be FC2. The /MusicLib directory could be mounted on all the other machines. Since converting Dragonfly to Gentoo we have not been able to mount it. As of this morning the setup on Dragonfly looks like this: # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). #/MusicLib *(ro) /MusicLib 192.168.1.55(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.29(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.51(ro,sync,no_root_squash) The line commented out above was all that was required to allow MusicLib to be mounted when Dragonfly was running FC2. That hasn't worked under Gentoo, nor has the currently more complicated line shown above. Currently Dragonfly says it's exporting: dragonfly ~ # exportfs /MusicLib Dragonfly /MusicLib Flash /MusicLib Godzilla dragonfly ~ # Results when trying to mount from Flash (Gentoo): fstab has: dragonfly:/MusicLib /home/mark/MusicLib nfs noauto,user,ro,_netdev 0 0 flash ~ $ mount MusicLib/ mount: dragonfly:/MusicLib failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory flash ~ $ Results when trying to mount from Godzilla (FC2): fstab has: dragonfly:/MusicLib /mnt/MusicLib nfs noauto,user,ro,_netdev,proto=udp0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ mount /mnt/MusicLib/ mount to NFS server 'dragonfly' failed: server is down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ Results when trying to mount /MusicLib on Dragonfly itself is identical to Flash. Both are Gentoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount NFStest/ mount: dragonfly:/MusicLib failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ So the Gentoo machines are consistent. As an NFS client they both say MusicLib is not exported, but according to exportfs on Dragonfly it is. The FC2 machines says that the server is down. I've tried with both the proto=udp in and out. I hope this focuses the problem a bit better. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cdrecord (``cannot allocate ...)
Check the mail list for this subject. There was an extensive discussion a few weeks back. From: Hareesh Nagarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/08 Sun PM 10:10:03 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with cdrecord (``cannot allocate ...) Hi All: When I try to burn data with cdrecord as a regular user I get this error: cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer When I run it as root cdrecord does not spit any errors. I'm running the following kernel: 2.6.11-ck7. How do I get cdrecord to work for an oridinary user? Thanks, -Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
