[gentoo-user] cybercafe font

2003-02-15 Thread Seg Faulted
Hello All; I really like the look of the console font cybercafe.fnt.gz. But it does not have the ` character. In slackware linux, it does not have the ~ character. ` and ~ are the same key on the keyboard, but one with shift. Does anyone know how I can fix the font file?

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia + GCC 3.2?

2003-02-15 Thread Viktor Lakics
VIA-KT-400, Mobo=Gigabyte GA-7vax Hope this helps... -- Viktor On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0300, Papo wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:18:58 + > Viktor Lakics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have the same video card (GeForce4 MX440 TV out), I use nvidia > > 1.0.3123-r2 and gc

[gentoo-user] Alsa, sound all problems solved!

2003-02-15 Thread Don Smith
Title: Alsa, sound all problems solved! Some may remember my problems here getting sound to work.  Right now I am listening to mp3s in XMMS using ALSA as a regular user.  Since I last fought sound, I have upgraded my motherboard so I am using Alsa and snd-intel8x0 (Intel 82801BA/BAM /proc/pc

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:25, Daniel A. Segel wrote: > > > Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by > > > including it in /etc/modules.autoload. > > > >No. > >X is loading the nvidia modul itself. > >Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the cleaner > > way. > > Rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Sunday 16 February 2003 03:25, Daniel A. Segel wrote: > > > Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by > > > including it in /etc/modules.autoload. > > > >No. > >X is loading the nvidia modul itself. > >Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the > > cleaner way. In fac

[gentoo-user] Minor query: KDE + ghostscript + Asian fonts?

2003-02-15 Thread Carl Hudkins
Hi... First off, this is a *very* minor issue for me, one that most people wouldn't even worry about. However, not being most people, I am wondering what is required to get printed output of Web pages, e-mails, etc. containing Asian fonts to look like it does on screen. (Note: I cann

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Daniel A. Segel
> Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by > including it in /etc/modules.autoload. No. X is loading the nvidia modul itself. Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the cleaner way. Really? X won't even start up for me if I don't load either the nvidia or NVdriver m

[gentoo-user] Please help me w/ overlay for xawtv

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Charles Fullman Park
I can run xawtv (and zapping) grabber mode, but I would much prefer overlay (less overhead). When I try overlay I get a wierd cyan screen with some green square looking things - sometimes there is part of a scene, but nothing moving. I've tried two different cards (one ati tv wonder and an older

[gentoo-user] Arial doing italics not bold

2003-02-15 Thread Jay Goodman Tamboli
I have to admit little knowledge of X's font handling, so I have no idea what would be causing this problem. In programs using whatever X's default font rendering is, Arial's bold style is instead rendered in italics. For example, Mozilla (non-xft) render's the headline on CNN.com's front page in i

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree slowdowns... is that normal?

2003-02-15 Thread Terje Kvernes
Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Usually this behavior only occurs on a slower machine. I used to > encounter that on my PIII-800MZ, but now that I'm using an Athlon-XP > 1900, I don't see that behavior. You can overcome that by giving > the X server a negative nice value before

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86

2003-02-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 15 February 2003 19:35, mikepolniak wrote: > On 19:11 Sat 15 Feb , Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I > > wasn't having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso > > image just for kicks. So I finish the test,(too

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86

2003-02-15 Thread mikepolniak
On 19:11 Sat 15 Feb , Ernie Schroder wrote: > Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't > having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just > for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default > tests) and I rebooted th

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86

2003-02-15 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:11, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't > having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just > for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default > tests) and I rebooted

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86

2003-02-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default tests) and I rebooted then did "startx". The nVidia splash screen stayed up f

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree slowdowns... is that normal?

2003-02-15 Thread Mike Williams
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 17:44, gabor wrote: > > Usually this behavior only occurs on a slower machine. I used to encounter > > that on my PIII-800MZ, but now that I'm using an Athlon-XP 1900, I don't see > > that behavior. You can overcome that by giving the X server a negative nice > > value be

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with VTE (gnome2.2)

2003-02-15 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Marcos Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > !!! ERROR: x11-libs/vte-0.10.19 failed. > !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2 > !!! compile failure > ..." > I tried to compile it myself, but it crashes anyway. I tried also to use the > flag ACCEPT_KEYWORD="^x86" (SORRY i dont kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Saturday 15 February 2003 21:20, Eric Miller wrote: > OK. I'm going to try to write a step-by-step how to > for enabling the most current Nvidia modules and glx > on a gentoo system. Bear in mind -I STILL DON'T HAVE > IT WORKING ON MY SYSTEM- so I need some help, esp with > the "check if

[gentoo-user] gentoolkit gone on website?

2003-02-15 Thread Mike Morrell
Has anyone else noticed that gentoolkit is no longer available under app-admin for the online package database on the website? I wanted to check out the changelog for 0.1.18 to 0.1.18-r1 and I could not find it. What was the command line option for emerge/qpkg to show the changelog? Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
The readme for 1.3.x says 1. For XF86Config Have Load GLX line Remove/comment out dri, GLCore line 2. What's the opengl-update? I never ran it and OpenGL worked on my sysetm. 3. The requirement to put nvidia driver in modules.autoload is a function of something gentoo did. I did not have

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror

2003-02-15 Thread Ben M. Thomas
I haven't tried this personally, but overall it looks like a simple matter. I believe you will need to set up a machine on your lan with rsync access to one of the public mirrors that offer rsync access such as http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/ and with either ftp or http server capabilities. The

[gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help

2003-02-15 Thread Eric Miller
OK. I'm going to try to write a step-by-step how to for enabling the most current Nvidia modules and glx on a gentoo system. Bear in mind -I STILL DON'T HAVE IT WORKING ON MY SYSTEM- so I need some help, esp with the "check if this step works" parts. Before I start the parts I know, I have two q

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide needs to be updated (or clarified)

2003-02-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
Depends - in 1.3.x it was nvidia, on newer builds it's different from what I gather on this list. The guide is a little outdated maybe. I've just emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and had my system up and running. Also, check the readme Nvidia provides - it has a wealth of information on

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS nightmares

2003-02-15 Thread Devi0s
So I checked my cups error log. It kept giving me the error that I should check my cups configuration file because FileDevice was disabled (default configuration)... # FileDevice: determines whether the scheduler will allow new printers # to be added using device URIs of the form "file:/foo/bar"

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide needs to be updated (or clarified)

2003-02-15 Thread Eric Miller
The Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml) instructs to edit the XF86Config for Nvidia cards as such: Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce" #Driver "nv" Driver "nvidia" #VideoRam32768 # Inser

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: constant hangings

2003-02-15 Thread Brice B
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:50 pm, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > * Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14-02-2003 23:50]: > > > What should I do? > > > > emerge memtest86 > > Alright. Memtest86 tested for about 10 minutes, until it found an error > in address 252.2mb (at the end of the testings), and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Cole
On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:08 am, William Kenworthy wrote: > Is that strictly needed? Try using a common NFS mounted distfile > directory. The first machine to request a tarball will load it into the > common directory and the rest get it from there. With a http server, > you will still have

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Cole
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:13 am, Troy Dack wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: > > I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple > > machines without busting my bandwidth. > > > > The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that

[gentoo-user] SU: error in module

2003-02-15 Thread John Marr
Please see my post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=208522#208522 Any help is appriciated!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree slowdowns... is that normal?

2003-02-15 Thread gabor
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Collins wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 07:16 am, gabor wrote: > > hi, > > > > when the cpu is doing some intensive work ( like compiling or so ), > > the cursor sometimes begins to lag... his movement is not smooth... > > after some time it becomes sm

Re: [gentoo-user] Not allow remote Root login???

2003-02-15 Thread James Dennis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is in the gentoo security doc's on the site. - -James On Friday 14 February 2003 01:34 pm, Keith Hamilton wrote: > How do I set it where root can only be used from the machine itself? > > -- Keith > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -BE

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache, PHP and HTTPS issue

2003-02-15 Thread James Dennis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It sounds like you didn't run the ebuild scripts after installing. Read the doc's on how to install things before expecting magic... - -James On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:17 pm, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: > Hi Everyone > i have installed apache, mod

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread keanu
on one of my machines i killed kdm and x, and rm'ed everything in /tmp, now it starts in about 2sec, was about 26 before that, on my other machine i reemerged fontconfig and the startup time there went from 32 to alsa about 2sec so both solutions given seem to fix the problem ... (the 2 boxes

Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop

2003-02-15 Thread Voicu Liviu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 17:11, William Kenworthy wrote: > Not using gnome, but fluxbox. Nautilus has lots of bad things that I am > trying to avoid on a low memory, slow processor machine. > > idesk has some anoying problems ranging from reqiring

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ports

2003-02-15 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:53, Carl Hudkins wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 18:57, Eric Miller wrote: > > I am behind a firewall. Exactly which ports do I need > > to have open to use emerge? > > It may depend on your firewall (such as whether it uses state tracking), > but here I h

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86

2003-02-15 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
Go to the config options and you can select what or all the test you want run. It takes a long time to do them all. > On Saturday 15 February 2003 00:32, Shane Hickey wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:58, Dave Klipec wrote: > > psyched to try this out. I'd never heard of this package before.

Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop

2003-02-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Not using gnome, but fluxbox. Nautilus has lots of bad things that I am trying to avoid on a low memory, slow processor machine. idesk has some anoying problems ranging from reqiring *3* mouse click to execute an icon (two machines) to segfaulting on another, so I am looking for a lightweight alt

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?

2003-02-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Is that strictly needed? Try using a common NFS mounted distfile directory. The first machine to request a tarball will load it into the common directory and the rest get it from there. With a http server, you will still have to get the tarballs in some way, and probably have a lot of unwanted on

Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86

2003-02-15 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 15 February 2003 00:32, Shane Hickey wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:58, Dave Klipec wrote: > > If you are using grub: > > title = Memory Testing Utility (MemTest-86 v2.4) > > kernel = (hd0,0)/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin > > > > ... to grub.conf (note that hd0,0 should be chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: constant hangings

2003-02-15 Thread Bruno Lustosa
* Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14-02-2003 23:50]: > > What should I do? > > emerge memtest86 Alright. Memtest86 tested for about 10 minutes, until it found an error in address 252.2mb (at the end of the testings), and then HUNG!! I believe now, that this is a bad hardware issue. Perhaps g

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge python" breakage

2003-02-15 Thread Alex Holden
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 14:21, Collins wrote: > This won't help you, but I always add tcltk to USE flags (you need it to get > tkinter), and python always builds without any problems. In your current > situation, get one of the /usr/portage/sys-apps/files/portage-rescue... > files. As I mentione

Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop

2003-02-15 Thread Maximus
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 06:18:18 -0800 "Bobby R. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Give this a try. By Fluxbox for Fluxbox... > > http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/ > > And there is also this ... > > http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3 > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:19:46PM +0800, Willia

[gentoo-user] problem with VTE (gnome2.2)

2003-02-15 Thread Marcos Garcia
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my built-from-binary gnome2.0 to gnome2.2. It's the first time i have a big problem with emerge. When emerging gnome, the VTE package gives me a thousand error messages like " vte.c:15713: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type vte.c:15714: dereferencing poin

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Pat Double
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:55 am, Pat Double wrote: > I remember a message a while back saying after you upgrade XFree you need > to remerge font-config. I think this applies to kde as well because when I > merged one of the 3.1_rcX builds, it sta

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Ralf Kessler
Hi, my KDM is now starting normally :-))) Am 15.02.2003 um 07:55:02 schrieb Pat Double: > I remember a message a while back saying after you upgrade XFree you need to > remerge font-config. I think this applies to kde as well because when I > merged one of the 3.1_rcX builds, it started up very

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge python" breakage

2003-02-15 Thread Collins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:41 am, Alex Holden wrote: > Hi, I'm building a new system, and I've managed to break it just by > running "emerge python". What happened was that I emerged fetchmail, and > it said that in order for "fetchmailconf" to work I would have to > re-emerge python with the

Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop

2003-02-15 Thread Bobby R. Cox
Give this a try. By Fluxbox for Fluxbox... http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/ And there is also this ... http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3 On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:19:46PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Besides idesk, are there any other ways to add icons to a fluxbox > desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail lock failure

2003-02-15 Thread mikepolniak
On 08:56 Sat 15 Feb , Mr R A Mercer wrote: > Hi > > Whenever an email gets delivered to my inbox I get the following error in > the procmail log > > ## procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/ram.lock" > > any ideas why procmail is having problems creating the lock file? > Have not had

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Pat Double
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:48 am, Ralf Kessler wrote: > and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? I can't find any Errors > in /var/log... I remember a message a while back saying after you upgrade XFree you need to remerge font-config

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Ralf Kessler
Hi, Am 15.02.2003 um 14:26:20 schrieb Sundance: > > What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with > XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The > problem disappeared at once when I upgraded XFree -- now KDM loads up > almost instantly. sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Sundance
I heard Jorge Almeida said: > I have that version of XFree and also no joy... Okay, so it is weird. There has just been a power outage, and when it went back up, KDM took 30 seconds to load here too. I'm now officially confused. :) Hmm, after some experimentation, it would seem that wiping out

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge python" breakage

2003-02-15 Thread Alex Holden
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 11:41, Alex Holden wrote: > Any ideas why Python has broken (was it something I did wrong or a bug > in the ebuild?) and more importantly, how can I fix it without > reinstalling from scratch? I managed to get Portage running again by copying a known good /usr/lib/python2.2 o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Sundance wrote: > I heard Ralf Kessler said: > > > and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? > > What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with > XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The > problem disappeared

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Voicu Liviu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 15:26, Sundance wrote: > I heard Ralf Kessler said: > > and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? > > What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with > XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a probl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Sundance
I heard Ralf Kessler said: > and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The problem disappeared at once when I upgraded XFree -- now KDM loads up a

[gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop

2003-02-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Besides idesk, are there any other ways to add icons to a fluxbox desktop? BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Jonathan Morton
and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( It could be because KDE and QT are very big resource hogs. :o) To speed things up, you might try using pre-linking - but I haven't tried it. Personally, I used XDM with KDE, and it worked just as well and reasonably quickly. Loading KDE was wh

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Voicu Liviu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 14:57, keanu wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2003 13:48, Ralf Kessler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > System: > > Duron 1200 MHz > > 512 MB RAM > > fast HDD (DMA is on) > > Gentoo 1.4-rc2 > > kde 3.1 > > > > and kdm needs about 30

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread keanu
On Saturday 15 February 2003 13:48, Ralf Kessler wrote: > Hi, > > System: > Duron 1200 MHz > 512 MB RAM > fast HDD (DMA is on) > Gentoo 1.4-rc2 > kde 3.1 > > and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? I can't find any Errors > in /var/log... i have the same problem, on both my machines, i

[gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Ralf Kessler
Hi, System: Duron 1200 MHz 512 MB RAM fast HDD (DMA is on) Gentoo 1.4-rc2 kde 3.1 and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? I can't find any Errors in /var/log... Best Regards Ralf -- .-. Ralf Kessler * Freiburg/Germany * http://www.ralfkessler.de/ .-. oo| Citizen of Ladonia

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with phoenix

2003-02-15 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Phoenix and it's plugins go to /usr/lib/phoenix. I'm running phoenix-bin as a user and had no problems with the java and flash plugins. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:37:17 -0800 Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering has anyone else had this problem with phoenix? When I > installed some

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?

2003-02-15 Thread Martin LORANG
Le Vendredi 14 Février 2003 22:01, Matt Tucker a écrit : > -- raptor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > > if I emerge sync from one of my computer in the network... can I > > after that sync other computers on the network from it but not from > > the central gentoo mirrors ... how ? > > > > rsync

[gentoo-user] "emerge python" breakage

2003-02-15 Thread Alex Holden
Hi, I'm building a new system, and I've managed to break it just by running "emerge python". What happened was that I emerged fetchmail, and it said that in order for "fetchmailconf" to work I would have to re-emerge python with the tcltk USE flag set. Actually that flag was already set, but I thin

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror

2003-02-15 Thread Troy Dack
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: > I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple > machines without busting my bandwidth. > The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that > an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say

[gentoo-user] Gcc Myths and Facts

2003-02-15 Thread João Seabra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I wrote a small and humble article about gcc - some myths and some facts. I hope it helps clarifying some misunderstandings around gcc and the optimizations.Could be useful for make.conf. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/730/ Comments a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Cole
On Friday 14 February 2003 02:12 pm, Anthony de Boer wrote: > I've done this. I started with the rsync-mirror documentation at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml This is what I've found so far: http://sunsite.dk/info/guides/rsync/rsync-mirroring.html Still doesn't seem to copy the en

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Cole
On Friday 14 February 2003 02:12 pm, Anthony de Boer wrote: > SYNC="rsync://192.168.69.5/gentoo-portage/" > > and now "emerge sync" there gets data from the first machine. I'm not > doing the every-30-minutes rsync that the document requires for official > mirrors, because I'm simply doing "emer

[gentoo-user] Mounting Problems USB and Firewire External Drives

2003-02-15 Thread Kent Jantz
I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1 installed. I have supermount compilied into my CK3-sources kernel. I have an external 80GB Firewire Drive and a 32MB USB Pen Drive, my problem isn't so much that I can't mount them but how they are ordered in /dev since they are both seen as SCSI devices. To fruther

[gentoo-user] procmail lock failure

2003-02-15 Thread Mr R A Mercer
Hi Whenever an email gets delivered to my inbox I get the following error in the procmail log ## procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/ram.lock" any ideas why procmail is having problems creating the lock file? Cheers Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] rsync mirror

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Cole
I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple machines without busting my bandwidth. The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say nothing about that. I have rsyncd running and that ap

Re: [gentoo-user] login question

2003-02-15 Thread Martin Volf
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:36:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:09:22PM -0600, Henning, Brian wrote: > > i guess i am trying to set it up like i have my freebsd machine... the > > root password can only be accessed locally on the machine unless the > > user is in the whee