[gentoo-user] IPMasq Troubles

2003-04-03 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Hey all... I'm running through the IPMasq setup portion (section 3.4.1) of the IPMasq How-To at http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/ipmasq/c-html/index.html I've gotten to the line "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth5 -j MASQUERADE" in the part about enabling SNAT functionality. eth5

[gentoo-user] Re: Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread Ian Truelsen
ds writes: Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside, place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for winblowz and all this time winblowz wont get upset for moving it down the chain? I mean I have to ch

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2003-04-03 Thread Seth Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yes, wicked old mask at the bottom of package.mask, we've got it fixed in cvs and it should hit the rsync mirrors soon seth On Friday 04 April 2003 01:51 am, Susie wrote: > I just got this: > >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! > > These are th

Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg and virtuals

2003-04-03 Thread Susie
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 23:53:09 -0500 Jeff Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that 'qpkg -q foo' doesn't pick up packages that rely on foo > to satisfy a virtual dependency. It's easy enough to tell that foo is > > filling some virtual role, by /var/cache/edb/virtuals, but is there a > way

Re: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-03 Thread Bryan Feir
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:13:01AM +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Also I heard once that use of all r* programs should be carefully > considered because of security reasons... does rdate count to this > group? No. rdate is a very simple command that uses the standard 'daytime' TCP or UDP port

[gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2003-04-03 Thread Susie
I just got this: >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-python/python-fchksum" have been masked.!!!(dependency required by "sys-apps/portage-2.0.47-r10" [ebuild])

Re: [gentoo-user] Web-frontend for portage?

2003-04-03 Thread Susie
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:44:38 +0200 Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > is there some web-frontend for portage? > > Where one could see which packets are in which versions in portage, > what is new/dropped? I don't know about web front end but if you go to gentoo.org in the

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. April 2003 01:13 schrieb ext Timo Boettcher: > > But rdate/ntpdate do this, too or is there a difference between them? Different protocols/ports. > ntpd can make the clock go faster/slower for continuosly going right. > Or did I get this wrong? If the difference between server(s) cl

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Doug Gorley
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 19:34, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On April 3, 2003 05:17 pm, Robert Spahr wrote: > > [snipped] > > > You seemed to miss my point completely. I did not mean that an easier > > installer would dumb gentoo down. > > > > Making a CD of binaries issued every 6 m

RE: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:55, DE SMET Bram (BDSR) wrote: > Yet another example is that we are going to set up a Oracle cluster on > Linux. Also using Gentoo. Oracle under Linux tends to be horribly sensitive to variations in libraries. (Heck, it's that way under Solaris too). I'm not going to say "

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:39:58PM -0800, Timothy Grant wrote: > I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the > differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice? Well, I'm really not familiar with stow; I've really only heard a bit about it, never used it. I

[gentoo-user] Unable to connect to Windows share with Samba on Gentoo?

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
I was wondering if this list is a good place to ask about how to run specific packages under Gentoo? I am having a problem accessing some Windows shares from Gentoo through Samba and have gone through all the usual recommended ways of starting and using Samba without sporadic but inconsistent s

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread C. Brewer
> The only issue is that lft needs to be suid to work for non-root, and > I've not yet dealt with that in the ebuild > > -JimC I know this is off the thread a bit,but you can chmod right in the ebuild.. chmod 2755 ${D}/usr/bin/lft and that'll fix up the perms before the merge:) -- Chuck Br

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Robert, On April 3, 2003 05:17 pm, Robert Spahr wrote: [snipped] > You seemed to miss my point completely. I did not mean that an easier > installer would dumb gentoo down. > > Making a CD of binaries issued every 6 months, and rejecting the portage > system would be missing a large part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread ds
WOOT install and grub went flawless. Thx all!! I just disabled the primary drive in the bios and XP installed like a charm. On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:50, Alan wrote: > Pretty much. Lilo can do a trick to make the OS see the primary as the > secondary and the secondary as the primary, so if your w

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with scsi card

2003-04-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm having the same problem with an Adaptec 3210S card. I filed bug report 15847. > I own an adaptec 2930CU, its fully supported under AIC7xxx. I enabled it in > the kern (not as a module) however every time i boot i see.. > > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/m

[gentoo-user] Need help with scsi card

2003-04-03 Thread aSe
I own an adaptec 2930CU, its fully supported under AIC7xxx. I enabled it in the kern (not as a module) however every time i boot i see.. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostakmod: failed to exec is there more i need to do.. I'm running 1.4rc3 an

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache

2003-04-03 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Thursday 03 April 2003 04:22 am, Ryan Oberto wrote: > On 4/3/03 2:09 AM, "gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On April 2, 2003 02:51 am, Ryan Oberto wrote: > >> I emerge -u world last night > >> And this morning my apache wont start I get this error > >> [wed Apr 2 09:45:21 2003] [alert] mod

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails at Qt

2003-04-03 Thread steve fox
Cool, just making sure we don't double up on the reporting, assuming this is a bug. Thanks. On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:47, Trudgett, Glen wrote: > I have just got a user account for bug reports from the gentoo website. > I'm going through the protocol process now ! :) > > Cheers > > > > -Or

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread Alan
Pretty much. Lilo can do a trick to make the OS see the primary as the secondary and the secondary as the primary, so if your windows doesn't like being on anything but the primary master, you can install it to any drive and through grub (or lilo as well I'm sure) fake it out. So yea, you can swa

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails at Qt

2003-04-03 Thread Trudgett, Glen
I have just got a user account for bug reports from the gentoo website. I'm going through the protocol process now ! :) Cheers -Original Message- From: steve fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Trudgett, Glen Subject: RE: [gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Mark Saunders
I manage development at a small software firm in Australia. We began running Gentoo on our development systems about 8 months ago, and now have 5 systems in our office running Gentoo. Before this we were using a mixture of windows, redhat and mandrake linux. The primary reason we run Gentoo is b

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails at Qt

2003-04-03 Thread steve fox
I'm following Kurt's advice, I've backed off some of the USE flags and trying to rebuid. Have you submitted a bugz? On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:13, Trudgett, Glen wrote: > I have had this problem as well. > > I am in fact doing a fresh install (from stage 1 -> stage 3). After I > had rebooted the

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Spahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos, You seemed to miss my point completely. I did not mean that an easier installer would dumb gentoo down. Making a CD of binaries issued every 6 months, and rejecting the portage system would be missing a large part of what makes gentoo so i

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Not really: you would be putting a lot of effort in trying to make gentoo into a mandrake/redhat lookalike. Gentoo's advantages are its easy update and software management, both of which you are saying are not needed in the scenario you paint. As far as better installer and hardware detection, ge

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Timo, On April 3, 2003 04:13 pm, Timo Boettcher wrote: [snipped] > > In my understanding ntpdate is now deprecated in favor of being rolled > > into ntpd itself. So it should really not be used anymore. > > So ntpdate will cease to exist? Any hint on why? No idea. > > Also, in my unders

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Also, Windows (starting with Win98 if I remember correctly) will install to drives other than drive 0. > Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside, > place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my > linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for winb

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell

2003-04-03 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 10:54 Mon 31 Mar , William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the -s option as a login shell? > I ask because when I give the command > > sudo -s > > and enter a password, I become root, but not with root's environment, so /sbin, > /usr/sbin, etc, ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread ds
Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside, place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for winblowz and all this time winblowz wont get upset for moving it down the chain? I mean I have to change the jumpe

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread Andy Quinn
Looks like its a bit late now but if you had unhooked your primary hd then put your new drive as primary you could have installed windows and then putting this drive as slave and reinstallining your primary drive. Then it would have been a relativley simple job to set grub to boot windows from t

[gentoo-user] Sniffle

2003-04-03 Thread ds
Tears are welling up, I got my 2nd HD today and when I tried to load Winblowz on it, it wanted to write to -- of course you guessed it HD0 :( No free space so now I am going to have to totally rebuild my Gentoo box once againO the Cursed world of Games I am swept into, woe is me :( I will see y

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
> "Craig" == A Craig West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> The biggest problem I find with cooking up ebuilds is sandbox Craig> violations, where some package doesn't necessarily follow the Craig> rules about where to install stuff. I occasionally have to make Craig> a patch to fix it... Ye

Re: [gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 03 April 2003 22:02, Jesse Jacobs wrote: > Hello Again, > Just to clarify, I've used xvidtune for the appropriate one line > values but this did not help. What I would like to find is a utility > for the horizontal and vertical timings at each resolution. > TIA, > Jesse. > > Jesse Jac

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:39, Vano D wrote: > Probably we could add a feature to emerge so one would "emerge > --custom some_source" and Portage would untar into the work dir the > file /usr/portate/distfiles/some_source-2.9.tar.gz (or other > extensions etc..) and would carry out a simple skel.

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails at Qt

2003-04-03 Thread Trudgett, Glen
I have had this problem as well. I am in fact doing a fresh install (from stage 1 -> stage 3). After I had rebooted the system I emerged xfree without any problems. As soon as I emerged gnome (USE= X gtk gnome alsa -kde -qt). I also receive this same message and as a consequence can't build gnome

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Carlos, Nachricht vom Freitag, 4. April 2003, 00:50:08: > Hi Timo, > On April 3, 2003 10:09 am, Timo Boettcher wrote: >> Hi! >> >> In the last GWN >> http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml#doc_chap8 >> there was something on how to sync the local clock using rdate. >>

[gentoo-user] ldap addressbook

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
Is anybody know what mail client can edit entries in ldap addressbook ? Mozilla-mail can only search addresses in it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew B. Panphiloff
<цитата от="Robert Claeson"> > > Already tried that before I asked. Doesn't help if I want to make use of > the samba that's in portage. I recently installed Gentoo linux on my university server (~400 users), and all notes about users ( accounts, shells, passwords ...) are stored in ldap directo

Re: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Timo, On April 3, 2003 10:09 am, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi! > > In the last GWN > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml#doc_chap8 > there was something on how to sync the local clock using rdate. > Whats the difference to using ntpdate? In my understanding ntpdat

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use this list effectively?

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Ian, On April 3, 2003 09:26 am, Ian Tindale wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:21 am, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > > Oh well. Lists seem to be much better than forums for some odd reason > > but they sure do fill up the mailboxes. > > You're not supposed to actually read them. They're ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Question:

2003-04-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay - let me ask why you would want to do that - there doesn't seem any point in it as bootstrap is simply used to get you a base where you can then emerge system and world. If you have a working system then emerge -u --deep system and emerge -u --deep system should keep you updated. > That's

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Robert, On April 3, 2003 08:11 am, Robert Spahr wrote: [snipped] > Educate the companies.. do not dumb down Gentoo! Nothing personal Robert but your comment here was something I simply could not restrain myself from commenting on :). It never ceases to amaze me how adding a nice install

Re: [gentoo-user] Question:

2003-04-03 Thread Chris van der Pennen
That's not quite what I meant. I was talking about bootstrapping again in an already installed Gentoo setup - not creating a new one from within chroot. Chris On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:02, brett holcomb wrote: Assuming you set up the mount points and chroot as per the instructions it won't

[gentoo-user] maildrop

2003-04-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hi all, Please see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45510&sid=b68f7897e9a41fe77cc2c8f2c05d5e7e ... maildrop is driving me insane. I followed the virtual mail server how-to I found on gentoo.org, but I need to get server-side filtering going. Can anyone help? Thanks, -Jonathan -

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal slow scrolling

2003-04-03 Thread Xabier Ochotorena
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 3 de Abril de 2003 23:13, Shane Hickey escribió: > Okey doke. This isn't a gentoo-specific question as I have dealt with > this with RedHat also. Basically, I find myself wanting to select text > from my terminal application quite often a

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread A. Craig West
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: > I'm new here, but if the skel.ebuild file fits well in this case it would > probably be doable with a script. > One thing that strikes me as being more urgent would be to allow sources to > be built as non-root and installed as root. The biggest problem I

Re: [gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-03 Thread Dave Klipec
Jesse Jacobs wrote: Hello Again, Just to clarify, I've used xvidtune for the appropriate one line values but this did not help. What I would like to find is a utility for the horizontal and vertical timings at each resolution. TIA, Jesse. Jesse Jacobs said: Hello everyone, I've, well, kind of an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails at Qt

2003-04-03 Thread Kurt Bechstein
Maybe try backing off some of the optimization options in CFLAGS in make.conf if that is applicable in your case. On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:17, steve fox wrote: > Hi, > > After doing 'emerge sync' I've attempted 'emerge -u world'. The build > works fine until it gets to x11-libs/qt-3.1.2 where i

[gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails at Qt

2003-04-03 Thread steve fox
Hi, After doing 'emerge sync' I've attempted 'emerge -u world'. The build works fine until it gets to x11-libs/qt-3.1.2 where it fails, with the following errors: make[3]: *** [.obj/main.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [sub-psql] Error 2 make[1]: *** [sub-sqldrivers] Error 2 make: *** [sub-plugins] Err

[gentoo-user] gnome-terminal slow scrolling

2003-04-03 Thread Shane Hickey
Okey doke. This isn't a gentoo-specific question as I have dealt with this with RedHat also. Basically, I find myself wanting to select text from my terminal application quite often and it's too dang slow. Like, let's say I'm ssh'd into a remote router or firewall and I want to show the entire

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Claeson
Andrew B. Panphiloff wrote: Samba on Gentoo obviously uses LDAP for authentication. Is there any way to stop if from doing that? export USE="-ldap" emerge samba Thank's. Or, alternatively, is there a good, short guide for setting up LDAP with pam authentication and Samba for Gentoo? You must rea

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Vano D
> Seems to me the spirit of Gentoo is not to 'compete' with redhat or any other distribution. > > Being more a meta-distribution allows the user to control what they have on > there machine. That and the portage systems keeps my machine up to date with > the software I choose to install. It also

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thursday 03 April 2003 9:39 pm, Vano D wrote: > > > I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the > > > differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice? > > > > Why just not write an ebuild. Often even the skel ebuild just works with > > your package, and yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Vano D
> > I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the > > differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice? > > Why just not write an ebuild. Often even the skel ebuild just works with your > package, and you just need to add the url. (/usr/portage/skel.ebuild) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Request for bug fix

2003-04-03 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 22:20, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way that I can request of bug fix be merge from kde cvs into > gentoo if possible. I have an annoyed kde bug #56279 > (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56279) > > I'm not sure if the fix can be implemented, and I'm not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

2003-04-03 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:39, Timothy Grant wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 01:25 pm, Matt Garman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > > Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of > > > software installed with ./configure && m

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:11, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi Toby, > > Can't portage resolve such deadlocks? IMHO it should do... update > portage to something older, then update bash, portage, openssl... > It shouldn't really happen, but I think here the binary packages can play an important role

Re: [gentoo-user] First install trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Jordan Elver
> I agree. If the grub.conf is bad you won't get that far. I'd suspect > your kernel configuration but not sitting there I'm at a loss. > Others on the list could probably find a problem if you attached your > /usr/src/linux/.config and posted processor and chipset info. Good > luck! S

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache

2003-04-03 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 03 April 2003 19:51, Tom Nicholson wrote: > Don't know if this will help or not, but I had the same error reported and > solved it by putting localhost inside apache.conf where it asks for > ServerName. > ServerName localhost > Maybe that doesn't fit your needs but it worked for me. I c

Re: [gentoo-user] make.defaults USE settings

2003-04-03 Thread Patrick Börjesson
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib" On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:52:

Re: [gentoo-user] make.defaults USE settings

2003-04-03 Thread Jon \"GenKiller\"
Jan, Here are the USE variables in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl

Re: [gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-03 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Hello Again, Just to clarify, I've used xvidtune for the appropriate one line values but this did not help. What I would like to find is a utility for the horizontal and vertical timings at each resolution. TIA, Jesse. Jesse Jacobs said: > Hello everyone, > I've, well, kind of an annoyance. This

Re: [gentoo-user] make.defaults USE settings

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
> I've set the USE flags in /etc/make.conf while comiling gcc and have just > noticed that it merged them to /etc/make.profile/make.defaults, resetting > the make.conf to its previous state. > > As I don't want to mess around with these settings and reset them to the > defaults, could someone pleas

[gentoo-user] X flicker,flicker,flicker fine...

2003-04-03 Thread Jesse Jacobs
Hello everyone, I've, well, kind of an annoyance. This has been occurring since introducing a KVM at Christmas(my fam splurged this year). The monitor is a Sync-Master 950P. When X starts the screen flickers a few times and then loads my win-manager. This take ~10 seconds. This also occurs when

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Nicholson
Don't know if this will help or not, but I had the same error reported and solved it by putting localhost inside apache.conf where it asks for ServerName. ServerName localhost Maybe that doesn't fit your needs but it worked for me. I can now access apache from within my home net. > On April 3,

Re: [gentoo-user] PCtel 'Winmodem' Driver

2003-04-03 Thread Alex
I was afraid someone would say that but the weird thing is that I just built the module with gcc 3.x! -Alex On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 10:26, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > The problem is just as it says. You can't insert a module built with GCC > 2.x into a running kernel compiled with GCC 3.x. You have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mozilla and Phoenix (was: Mozilla mime types)

2003-04-03 Thread Alex Combas
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:10, Alan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:27:44PM -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > * Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-04-2003 13:21]: > > > i have installed mozila 1.2.1-r5 but there is no mime type list,do i have to > > > ceate that manualy, if so where can

Re: [gentoo-user] Question:

2003-04-03 Thread brett holcomb
Assuming you set up the mount points and chroot as per the instructions it won't hurt. I've done it. On 03 Apr 2003 23:54:30 +0930 Chris van der Pennen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is re-bootstrapping from within a live gentoo installation a good idea, or will that Break Things? Chris -- [EM

[gentoo-user] Re: How to use this list effectively?

2003-04-03 Thread Jehan
Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: Sounds very interesting Jehan. May I ask, have you noticed any increase in spam as a result of using their service? I mean does your email address get picked up by spammers more so using their service than just straight mailling list use? Every post on the mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mozilla and Phoenix (was: Mozilla mime types)

2003-04-03 Thread Alan
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:27:44PM -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > * Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-04-2003 13:21]: > > i have installed mozila 1.2.1-r5 but there is no mime type list,do i have to ceate > > that manualy, if so where can i find a list of all those types ? > > Also, reg

[gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate

2003-04-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi! In the last GWN http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml#doc_chap8 there was something on how to sync the local clock using rdate. Whats the difference to using ntpdate? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Web-frontend for portage?

2003-04-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi! is there some web-frontend for portage? Where one could see which packets are in which versions in portage, what is new/dropped? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage error

2003-04-03 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(11:27)-(~)> emerge kdeedu -Cp >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1699, in ? if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1321, in unmerge for y in localtree.dep_nomatch

[gentoo-user] Re: Mozilla and Phoenix (was: Mozilla mime types)

2003-04-03 Thread Bruno Lustosa
* Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-04-2003 13:21]: > i have installed mozila 1.2.1-r5 but there is no mime type list,do i have to ceate > that manualy, if so where can i find a list of all those types ? Also, regarding Mozilla, it's already complaining about being too old. Is there an

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use this list effectively?

2003-04-03 Thread Ian Tindale
On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:21 am, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > Oh well. Lists seem to be much better than forums for some odd reason but > they sure do fill up the mailboxes. You're not supposed to actually read them. They're there to make it seem like you know about certain subjects. I've go

Re: [gentoo-user] PCtel 'Winmodem' Driver

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
The problem is just as it says. You can't insert a module built with GCC 2.x into a running kernel compiled with GCC 3.x. You have to wait until a new binary module is released that is compiled with GCC 3.x. Or, if you *really* want it, you could compile your kernel on another linux box with GC

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd issue with gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 - fixed

2003-04-03 Thread Bruno Lustosa
* Chris van der Pennen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-04-2003 11:21]: > It was ACPI. Damned crappy acpi support. I can't wait for kernel 2.6. I've read somewhere something in the lines of everyone is waiting for kernel 2.6, but on the other hand, there are too few people testing the 2.5 tree. Without m

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Cryptoloop Cipher should I use?

2003-04-03 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Daniel Jaeggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably best to read the judges report on the AES finalists. Any of > them should be decent, Rijndael seems to give a good compromise between > speed/security, I'm using Serpent because it seems to be the simplest Indeed. Its been said that Serpent is

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use this list effectively?

2003-04-03 Thread Ian Tindale
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:47 pm, Steve Juranich wrote: > that mutt and kmail do as well (though I could be wrong). KMail definitely - I use it a lot to sort lists into folders within folders. Works very well - you can see all the different unread mail pile up. Must try reading some of it oc

[gentoo-user] Mozilla mime types

2003-04-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, i have installed mozila 1.2.1-r5 but there is no mime type list,do i have to ceate that manualy, if so where can i find a list of all those types ? TIA Patrick -- Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze. Nothing comes out better than what is initially put in. PG

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo support for GNU emacs?

2003-04-03 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Hi Steve, I maintain app-emacs/ and also app-xemacs (looking for help with the latter btw). Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've noticed that there's a lot of packages that I want to use with > plain GNU emacs, but Gentoo only provides these packages for Xemacs > (e.g., leim, ess).

[gentoo-user] PCtel 'Winmodem' Driver

2003-04-03 Thread Alex
I have a PCtel modem and I am trying to get the PCtel modem driver to work. I am not having much success. I get the following for pctel-0.9.6 /tmp/pctel-0.9.6 0 $ insmod pctel Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/pctel.o /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/pctel.o: The module you are trying to load (/lib/modules

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Spahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems to me the spirit of Gentoo is not to 'compete' with redhat or any other distribution. Being more a meta-distribution allows the user to control what they have on there machine. That and the portage systems keeps my machine up to date with th

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-03 Thread Josh McCormack
Trying to understand the perspective of the 'business people,' as we call them in mixed company, I can kind of understand. First off, Redhat is like the IBM/Microsoft of Linux, so selling management on why Linux != Redhat is a challenge. So lets say you tell them they can run their ancient, ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache

2003-04-03 Thread gabriel
On April 3, 2003 02:22 am, Ryan Oberto wrote: > On 4/3/03 2:09 AM, "gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On April 2, 2003 02:51 am, Ryan Oberto wrote: > >> I emerge -u world last night > >> And this morning my apache wont start I get this error > >> [wed Apr 2 09:45:21 2003] [alert] mod_unique_i

[gentoo-user] Question:

2003-04-03 Thread Chris van der Pennen
Is re-bootstrapping from within a live gentoo installation a good idea, or will that Break Things? Chris signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd issue with gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 - fixed

2003-04-03 Thread Chris van der Pennen
It was ACPI.  Damned crappy acpi support.  I can't wait for kernel 2.6. Chris On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:34, Chris van der Pennen wrote: It wasn't the apic. Any other suggestions? Chris - Original Message - From: "Mark Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thur

RE: [gentoo-user] Apache

2003-04-03 Thread Palmer, Justin
>I emerge my whole system witch updated apache >My machines hostname is cygnus.bondsa.co.za yes it is the same as my >/etc/hostname >When I try start it my logs just keep giving me that error from above What does your /etc/hosts look like? Do you have cygnus an alias of localhost. The top line

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to acpi?

2003-04-03 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:49:00 +0200 Christian Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r1 used to give my Compaq EVO N800C proper acpi > support, i.e. closing the lid would turn off the display. (Very > important, otherwise the machine will heat up too much) > > The c

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation/Deinstallation of rhythmbox

2003-04-03 Thread ds
Just emerge -C rhythmbox will suffice :) On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 06:43, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > i'm going to install Rhythmbox. > But i normal install only programs with if possible no KDE or Gnome support it make > some programs heavy to load, now i've seen that rhythmbox have fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Cryptoloop Cipher should I use?

2003-04-03 Thread Daniel Jaeggi
Probably best to read the judges report on the AES finalists. Any of them should be decent, Rijndael seems to give a good compromise between speed/security, I'm using Serpent because it seems to be the simplest and most secure (in that, the way it's designed, it's unlikely an exploit will be discov

[gentoo-user] Installation/Deinstallation of rhythmbox

2003-04-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, i'm going to install Rhythmbox. But i normal install only programs with if possible no KDE or Gnome support it make some programs heavy to load, now i've seen that rhythmbox have from both files !! If i want to deinstall it, do i just emerge -C XXX and go from bottom to top from wat the eme

[gentoo-user] A few sound problems

2003-04-03 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello. I have gentoo running flawlessly on my machine at home, although I've had a few sound problems lately. Permissions in /dev/sound/* are 660 (root.audio), and when I open kde using a standard account (in audio group), sound works fine. However, after leaving kde, permissions in the devices ge

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell

2003-04-03 Thread Henning C. Nielsen
On 02/04-03 13.24, D. Wollmann wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Monday 31 March 2003 10:54, William Hubbs wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the -s option as a login > > and enter a password, I become root, but not with root's environment, so > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking whole branches of Portage

2003-04-03 Thread Richard Gibert
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 01:32, Matt Neimeyer wrote: > I know I saw this before but I don't remember if there was a solution... > > What I'm wondering is if there is a way to mask off entire branches of > Portage that I know I will never need... and thus will never be fetched > when I do an emerge

[gentoo-user] What happened to acpi?

2003-04-03 Thread Christian Aust
Hi all, gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r1 used to give my Compaq EVO N800C proper acpi support, i.e. closing the lid would turn off the display. (Very important, otherwise the machine will heat up too much) The current version doesn't do this anymore, and the ebuild of acpi-sources has disappeared. Wha

[gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 problem

2003-04-03 Thread Erlend Simonsen
Trying to update my system gives this error when trying to upgrade docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12. Any ideas what I can do to get around it or fix it? jade:../../doc/refentry/jw.sgml:81:25:E: element "GROUP" undefined jade:../../doc/refentry/jw.sgml:82:12:E: element "ARG" undefined jade:../../doc/refe

[gentoo-user] Injected Packages

2003-04-03 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hello all, some time ago I asked about a way to skip some packages that only have minor release changes when doing an emerge -u world. One of the answers was, to inject these packages and I am using the way right now. What I would like to know is, if ther is a way to get a list of all injected

Re: [gentoo-user] New NVidia drivers

2003-04-03 Thread Anarconda
With my GeForce3 works fine, the locks with open gl screensavers has gone. Chears. -- Scientia et sapientia patrimonium humanitatis sunt. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstallation of Konqueror browser by itself through emerge??

2003-04-03 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Paul, On April 3, 2003 02:12 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:47, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > > One thing that is very confusing trying to figure this out is which > > directory KDE is using. .kde3 or .kde3.1. I have been told on the KDE > > list that it's .kde3 but

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