[gentoo-user] Wine Socket Error

2003-04-04 Thread Alex Combas
I just installed winex. Anyone know what to do when wine does this after trying to be run for the very first time: wine: lstat /home/alex/.winex/wineserver-bif/socket : No such file or directory -- alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r2 => ip6_output compile failure

2003-04-04 Thread Adrian Head
Some more info follows: On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:21, Adrian Head wrote: > I'm currently trying to compile the newest gentoo-sources: > linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r2 > > I get the following error: > > prefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ip6_output -c -o ip6_output.o > ip6_output.c ip6_output.c: In function `ip

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

2003-04-04 Thread C. Brewer
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:19:00 -0800 Abhishek Amit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19:49 Thu 03 Apr , C. Brewer wrote: > > > 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 th

[gentoo-user] linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r2 => ip6_output compile failure

2003-04-04 Thread Adrian Head
I'm currently trying to compile the newest gentoo-sources: linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r2 I get the following error: prefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ip6_output -c -o ip6_output.o ip6_output.c ip6_output.c: In function `ip6_build_xmit': ip6_output.c:1006: structure has no member named `mode' ip6_output

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

2003-04-04 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 05:15 Sat 05 Apr , Vano D wrote: > This is why it would be a superb idea for Gentoo to adopt something like > Knoppix. What I would really love to see is a "Knoppix Gentoo" where the > whole base is a Gentoo system with portage and all (probably not with > the portage tree as this can be hug

[gentoo-user] vmware & samba: "no permission to access resource"

2003-04-04 Thread gabriel
any idea what that means? here's what i've done: installed gentoo 1.2 running X 4.2 & kde 3.1.1 emerged vmware-workstation ran the config program and guessed at the values (pretty much went with the default every time) installed windows98 on the syntetic partition. and where's what i can do ru

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

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Bryan, On April 4, 2003 08:44 pm, Bryan Feir wrote: >Most of the time when I make comments about 'it works for me', it's > not looking down at the person, it's more a comment on 'Well, it _can_ > be done, but I have no idea what you're doing wrong so I can't help you > other than to give

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Maxime Larocque
(Sorry for the previous e-mail, it seems I forgot to force a text e-mail) Hi Dmitry, One way to work around the next emerge sync problem and be able to use your personal tarball is to copy the kernel 2.5.66 ebuild to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory. To do so: - Uncomment and set the PORTDIR_OVE

[gentoo-user] Apache ScriptLog directive not recognized or not usable??

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
I am trying to move over to Gentoo Apache the settings I had in my old httpd.conf file under Windows Apache. One setting that came in real handy was ScriptLog for tracking down cgi errors. I tried adding it to the /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf file like so ErrorLog logs/error_log ## Add

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

2003-04-04 Thread Bryan Feir
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:20:16PM -0700, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > I don't how many times I have heard statements to the effect of "well, it > works for me" also. As though that alone should make me realize that if I > was a more experienced Linux user the solutions to the problems would be

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

2003-04-04 Thread Vano D
Hi there, More than an installer from scratch, what would be really usefull would be a simple script (can be done in a few hours, but it would be nice to have it included for people who already know Gentoo) to install the base system *post stage3*. That is, the system logger and the rest o

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Maxime Larocque
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Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-04 Thread Vano D
> I'll tell you why I like the GRP. I like gentoo a lot as a distribution. There > is one disadvantage in gentoo. It takes a lot of time until the system has > compiled all packages that make it usable for work. Some time ago I got a > computer to work from at a company that participates in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Archives?

2003-04-04 Thread Bill Davidson
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:07:10 +0200 Christian Herzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Davidson wrote: > > >New gentoo user here. This list is archived isn't it? I can't seem to > >find them. Could someone post a link? > > > >TIA > >Bill > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > >

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome fails

2003-04-04 Thread Nick Torenvliet
Hi there, I'm pretty new to gentoo, I've got a working installation, and a X11 instance, I'm trying to put gnome on top of it. When I do an "emerge gnome" I get an error that looks like this !!! Error: dev-libs/libxml2-2.5.6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 37, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error mes

[gentoo-user] Plugger doesn't read pluggerrc

2003-04-04 Thread Andreas Edlund
I want galeon to show files ending in ps.gz in gv embedded in the browser. For this I use the plugger plugin. The problem is that the plugin doesn't seem to care about what I enter into /etc/pluggerrc. I changed the following lines in /etc/pluggerrc: Original: ... application/x-postscript: ps: Po

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

2003-04-04 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 10:49 Thu 03 Apr , Meir Kriheli wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 23:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > As I just installed Gentoo the first time 3 days ago (I was using Linux > > From Scratch for 2.5 years now but I got sick of tracking all dependencies > > when keeping the major packages up

Re: [gentoo-user] IPMasq Troubles

2003-04-04 Thread Alex Combas
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 09:11, Bob Phan wrote: > Anyway, rants aside, the first thing that you want to do if you're using > iptables is to go into your kernel config and under Loadable Module > Support, make sure you *disable* set version information on all modules. > I'm not sure why this is an is

Re: [gentoo-user] install problems

2003-04-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
1. You might want to try modprobe prism2_pci and see if it loads it. Gentoo makes a best guess. Even on my desktop with no wireless I get the aironet4500 modules. > Hi, > > I just started installing gentoo on my x86 box. > > I have two questions/problems: > - > > 1

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

2003-04-04 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 18:24 Thu 03 Apr , James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: > Yeah. But I find that dobin, doman and friends ease that for most > packages. I just put one together for http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/ > and used: > > dobin lft > doman lft.8 > dodoc CHANGELOG COPYING README TODO lft-

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

2003-04-04 Thread Abhishek Amit
On 19:49 Thu 03 Apr , C. Brewer wrote: > > 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

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

2003-04-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:15, Spider wrote: > Some things I'd like to see, see this again as personal ramblings > and perhaps more or less something that might be worth looking at, > but not an official Gentoo position, ok? And here is my comments on them. > *) improved "secure" portage, gpg

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Chris I
Dmitry wrote: (snip) But why my patched tree have do be different from kernel.org tarball? I thought that patches bring the source EXACTLY the same through different versions - that's all its about. If they aren't, then I would expect troubles on compiling and such. Maybe i thought wrong? ) I c

[gentoo-user] install problems

2003-04-04 Thread Stephane Brossier
Hi, I just started installing gentoo on my x86 box. I have two questions/problems: - 1. I have a wireless network card. I did not find the driver (prism2_pci) in the list of supported driver. Instead gentoo loaded the modules "aironet4500-proc" and "aironet4500-core".

Re: [gentoo-user] Where's mkdosfs?

2003-04-04 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:51, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Me thinks you're looking for dosfstools [After a 30-second emerge] Indeed I was! Eventually I probably would have gotten around to "emerge --searchdesc dosfs", but somehow that just wasn't intuitive. Thanks! -- // Carl Hudkins :

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

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Mark, On April 4, 2003 09:13 am, Mark Bainter wrote: > > It never ceases to amaze me how adding a nice installer and hardware > > detection front-end to Gentoo and other such things is considered by many > > to be a dumbing down of Gentoo. Honestly. I just plain can't understand > > it. > >

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

2003-04-04 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:01:08 +0200 Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll bite again :) > I think Gentoo could be a good option for corporate use, using > some > of the suggestions that have been mentioned in this thread for > improving stability and administr

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting to XP with grub

2003-04-04 Thread Ian Truelsen
On 04 Apr 2003 15:39:20 -0600 ds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian, > > I followed the wording to a tee on the below link, I just rebooted and > it worked liked a charm. So you too can do it and be fixed :) > > Doc > > PS- We have the same HD setup so this is why I know it will work for > you to

[gentoo-user] [ignore this - delete this message]

2003-04-04 Thread Yinchie
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Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php problem

2003-04-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 09:27, Alex wrote: > > !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.1-r1 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 216, Exitcode 1 > !!! bad ./configure > > > Has anyone gotten this? I believe this is caused by having or is trying to use java. In you /etc/make.conf place in your USE= l

Re: [gentoo-user] autoconf version

2003-04-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 04 April 2003 23:44, Ladanyi Akos wrote: > Hi! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # autoconf --version > Autoconf version 2.13 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # qpkg -v autoconf > sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 * > x11-misc/Xautoconfig-0.15 > sys-devel/autoconf-2.54-r1 > sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 > sys-dev

Re: [gentoo-user] IPMasq Troubles

2003-04-04 Thread Bob Phan
* [Apr 04, 2003] Alex Combas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:28, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > > Matt Neimeyer wrote : > > > 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

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

2003-04-04 Thread Sami Näätänen
On Friday 04 April 2003 17:14, Jesse Jacobs wrote: > Hello Sami, > Thanks for your reply. > I was unable to locate the EDID value within my monitor section. Is > this on by default? How would I disable this? Option "EDID" "0"? > Previously, I disabled dpms. > Thanks again, > Jesse. Checked and

Re: [gentoo-user] Several emerges at once

2003-04-04 Thread ds
Agree, only do this if you know for sure the dependancies aren the same until you get the hang of it :) On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:46, brett holcomb wrote: > Maybe - what happens if thing1 depends on something called > A and thing2 does also. If both try and emerge A you > could have a mess. To

Re: [gentoo-user] Several emerges at once

2003-04-04 Thread ds
Yes you can, however make sure the apps dont rely on a shared dependancy. Another trick I do (courtesy of PL) is emerge -f appname in one terminal and then in another actually emerge samepackagename. However normally this is only good to do in doing emerge system or world as most packages don't req

Re: [gentoo-user] Several emerges at once

2003-04-04 Thread brett holcomb
Maybe - what happens if thing1 depends on something called A and thing2 does also. If both try and emerge A you could have a mess. To me it's not worth getting in a hurry. The archive is not on gentoo - it's somewhere else but I am not where I can look up the address. On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 01:4

Re: [gentoo-user] Several emerges at once

2003-04-04 Thread Tom Wesley
On Friday 04 April 2003 10:40 pm, Dmitry wrote: > Hi everyone! :) > > Please tell me could i do several emerges at one time? For example, can i > run > > $emerge 'thing' > in one xterm > > and > #emerge 'anoterthing' > in another xterm? > > I mean, is it safe? (in fact "thing" != "anotherthing") >

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting to XP with grub

2003-04-04 Thread ds
Ian, I followed the wording to a tee on the below link, I just rebooted and it worked liked a charm. So you too can do it and be fixed :) Doc PS- We have the same HD setup so this is why I know it will work for you too. On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:15, ds wrote: > I am looking to Ian :) I did the

[gentoo-user] Several emerges at once

2003-04-04 Thread Dmitry
Hi everyone! :) Please tell me could i do several emerges at one time? For example, can i run $emerge 'thing' in one xterm and #emerge 'anoterthing' in another xterm? I mean, is it safe? (in fact "thing" != "anotherthing") Thanks, Dmitry. :) PS. And may be a stupid question: I cannot find

Re: [gentoo-user] autoconf version

2003-04-04 Thread Alex Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 April 2003 21:44, Ladanyi Akos wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # autoconf --version > Autoconf version 2.13 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # qpkg -v autoconf > sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 * > x11-misc/Xautoconfig-0.15 > sys-devel/autoconf-2.54-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting to XP with grub

2003-04-04 Thread ds
I am looking to Ian :) I did the same thing last night. I am going to try the method posted here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18319 and see how it works. If you get a work around before hand let me know to!!! Doc On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 10:59, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I am trying to dual

[gentoo-user] xine does not emerge

2003-04-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just emerged sync and still cannot emerge xine (same problem last weekend). Any idea? TIA. emerge xine-ui Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 2) media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.13-r3 to / >>> md5 ;-) xine-lib-0.9.13.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... (...) checking for GNU gettext in libc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Dmitry
At first thanks for reply, Dave :) >MD5 sums will tell you with whether the files match with a very high >sensitivity to any change. I fully understand that. :) >Odds are that there are mild differences >between your patched tree and the official kernel.org tarball for the >kernel. But why

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php problem

2003-04-04 Thread Xabier Ochotorena
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2003 19:27, Alex escribió: I'm getting this too. Also with php (cgi version). It seems that configure script thinks that we are using a cross compiler which is, of course, not true. Check http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [gentoo-user] IPMasq Troubles

2003-04-04 Thread Alex Combas
I have serious iptables problems of my own. I have recompiled my kernel and copied it to /boot serveral times, rebooting the comp after first rerunning lilo each time. I have also emerged ip_tables several times, however this is what i get when i try to modprobe ip_tables: # modprobe ip_tables /li

[gentoo-user] Can Evolution do this?

2003-04-04 Thread Kent Jantz
I want to try Evolution but there's one thing holding me up. I am currently using Sylpheed-Claws and one of the nice features it has is to check the age of the emails on the mail server and then delete them after X amount of days. In Evolution I see the option to leave messages on server but don

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

2003-04-04 Thread Alex Combas
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 05:31, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Why would we want idiot users. I personally believe gentoo should not want to > be an all-users distro. Please let the noobs run redhat, mandrake, caldera, > suse whatever. The installation manual is an excelent way to filter out those > users

[gentoo-user] autoconf version

2003-04-04 Thread Ladanyi Akos
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # autoconf --version Autoconf version 2.13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root # qpkg -v autoconf sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 * x11-misc/Xautoconfig-0.15 sys-devel/autoconf-2.54-r1 sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 sys-devel/autoconf-2.13-r2 sys-devel/autoconf-2.57 sys-devel/autoconf-2.53a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't shut down openldap

2003-04-04 Thread douggorley
I will; thanks. Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Ryan Henry [mailing list]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, April 4, 2003 10:51 am Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't shut down openldap > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The stop() in the in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't shut down openldap

2003-04-04 Thread Ryan Henry [mailing list]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The stop() in the init script /etc/init.d/slapd has the wrong pidfile in it. It should be /var/lib/slapd.pid instead of /var/state/openldap/slapd.pid. You should file a bug report on this. - -Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Hello again list, | |I'

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

2003-04-04 Thread Fred Van Andel
Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (04/03/2003 08:44) >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 Check out webmin, it understands portage and can give you a view of the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't shut down openldap

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Jinks
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:48:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello again list, > > I'm playing with openldap, and I'm having a problem with the init scripts. slapd > starts fine, but I invariably get the less-than-informative "[ !! ]" error when > trying to shut down. Has anyone else e

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

2003-04-04 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
I didn't know that this elitest attitude had been around for so many years in the Linux community. Hmm...interesting. I have only recently plunged into Linux and that is one of the first impressions I have been left with when discussing Linux quirks with those more experienced than me.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Web-frontend for portage?

2003-04-04 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi FX, Nachricht vom Freitag, 4. April 2003, 20:47:30: > I have found that 'kportage' is a frontend for portage inside of KDE > if you want a GUI for it. I was looking for something on the web to have access to the db when I have no access to my gentoo-based systems. Susie's hint was I was loo

[gentoo-user] Kportage Front-end GUI

2003-04-04 Thread FX
try kportage KDE frontend for portage -- FX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a dyndns server

2003-04-04 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, OK, so there are http://www.dhis.org/dhis/ http://www.ddts.org/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/ned/?topic_id=150%2C149 http://www.htoc.com/mhdns/ http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/ The first two are certified dead or very near so... The next two are the ones I don't know, gnudip is one i

[gentoo-user] Can't shut down openldap

2003-04-04 Thread douggorley
Hello again list, I'm playing with openldap, and I'm having a problem with the init scripts. slapd starts fine, but I invariably get the less-than-informative "[ !! ]" error when trying to shut down. Has anyone else encountered this? Thanks, Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTE

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

2003-04-04 Thread FX
I have found that 'kportage' is a frontend for portage inside of KDE if you want a GUI for it. On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:46, Susie wrote: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:44:38 +0200 > Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > is there some web-frontend for portage? > > > >

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] ttt = tele traffic tapper

2003-04-04 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Alexander, Nachricht vom Freitag, 4. April 2003, 14:58:40: AF> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:25:36 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: >> anybody ever heard of/used ttt? >> http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html#ttt >> seems to be something like mrtg, giving you traffic by host/port in

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

2003-04-04 Thread Graham, Steve
I for one would LOVE having the ability to chose the options I want, customize the settings, start the script and come back in a week to find the system completely compiles and ready to go. Ohh yea, and cut the graphics - I like the text idea w/ explanation! Now, having said that I must admit to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Way to prevent Apache under Gentoo writing logs totwo different directories?

2003-04-04 Thread Ing. Bernardo Lopez
I guess is a symlink... lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Feb 18 15:11 logs -> ../../var/log/apache2 Have a nice day. My Apache running under Gentoo logs errors and access to log files in both /etc/apache/logs AND /var/log/apache directories. The files are identical. It may be a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?

2003-04-04 Thread jsmith
Quoting gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On April 4, 2003 11:29 am, Alex wrote: > > Could someone recommend a good Window-Manager (and whatever add-ons) > > that support alpha-blending? (Where all/most the windows are > > transparent) > > as far as i know, X itself does not support "real" alpha tra

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting to XP with grub

2003-04-04 Thread João Seabra
On Friday 04 April 2003 17:59, Ian Truelsen wrote: >The drive is identified as hdb. So, I > added this to my grub.conf: > > title=Windows XP > root (hd1,0) > chainloader (hd1,0)+1 rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 This should do the trick Kind Regards, João Seabra -- [EMAIL P

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

2003-04-04 Thread Sundance
I heard Mark Bainter said: > Look. If you like what redhat and other distros are doing why don't > you use those distros? I'm not trying to be mean, it's an honest > question. I don't know about Carlos, but here's my own reason. I use Gentoo to save time. All in all, I'm freaking tired of com

[gentoo-user] 2.4.20_pre6-gss & the Zaurus

2003-04-04 Thread Robert Cole
I've noticed that I can't configure the vendor ID and such in the usb PDA config to setup my zaurus for syncing. Is this a .21_pre6 problem? I noticed it's missing from 20 as well. Is there a new way to setup syncing in the zaurus now? Does anyone have a link I can follow to see how or does any

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

2003-04-04 Thread jsmith
Spider, you make some very valid points. I've written a (small, kludgy, in-house, will never be fit for prime time) text installer in python that essentially asks all the pertinent configuration questions (root partition, boot partitoin, swap partition, what filesystem type(s) one wants, static ip

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question? (Gentoo semi-lock-up)

2003-04-04 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > I've seen vi sessions, when they lose their controlling terminal, go > completely haywire then start consuming memory. One session started > taking over 400M. Were you, by any chance, using vi? I'm pretty sure I wasn't at the time... -- Magnus Lie Hetlan

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a dyndns server

2003-04-04 Thread Joao Sena Ribeiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Boettcher wrote: [...] | I am looking for some tool to let me run my own Dyndns server.Has | anyone made experiences with that? [...] More dynamic DNS suites for you: * GnuDIP, http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/ * MHDns, http://www.ht

RE: [gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?

2003-04-04 Thread Graham, Steve
Alex Take a look at http://www.waimea.org/ this is one of my favorites, and in the spirit of gentoo its completely customizable. Enjoy ps let us know how it all turns out -Original Message- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a dyndns server

2003-04-04 Thread Joao Sena Ribeiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Boettcher wrote: [...] | I am looking for some tool to let me run my own Dyndns server. Has | anyone made experiences with that? [...] You have the DDT Project (http://www.ddts.org/). Regards, Joao Ribeiro - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://sena.smux

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question? (Gentoo semi-lock-up)

2003-04-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:46, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > So... Given that I have no info (anymore) about what processes were > running etc., I suppose finding out what was going on is a bit > difficult (to say the least), but any insights would be appreciated. > For example, are there any cleanup

[gentoo-user] mod_php problem

2003-04-04 Thread Alex
I recently start going to an all ~x86 system. I get the following error when I try to install mod_php.. Adding USE="-java" before it didn't help checking for unix.h... no checking for utime.h... yes checking for sys/utsname.h... yes checking for sys/ipc.h... yes checking for fopencookie...

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question? (Gentoo semi-lock-up)

2003-04-04 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
MAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > I have seen the exact same thing on my home desktop PC (twice) and a > laptop, both running Gentoo. This has only happened since I have > upgraded to 2.4.20 kernels. I'm still running 2.4.19. > I have no idea why it happens, other than it is not an out of m

Re: [gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?

2003-04-04 Thread gabriel
On April 4, 2003 11:29 am, Alex wrote: > Could someone recommend a good Window-Manager (and whatever add-ons) > that support alpha-blending? (Where all/most the windows are > transparent) as far as i know, X itself does not support "real" alpha transparencies. so any window manager you use will

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups printing gives garbage

2003-04-04 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Searching the archives at www.cups.org i have found one person with the same problem, and there also no anwswer. It seems that that cups is creating a postscript file, and the printer just tread it as a normal text file, so that wy i get all that garbage. But wy is it good whit gimp? I have crea

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 compile error

2003-04-04 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello. I get the following error when compiling the kernel. fs/fs.o(.text+0x1b0f1): In function `dput': : undefined reference to `atomic_dec_and_lock' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 I've seen others suffer from this same error. Any suggestions? Also, how does one start fresh with the kernel witho

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question? (Gentoo semi-lock-up)

2003-04-04 Thread MAL
Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: So... Given that I have no info (anymore) about what processes were running etc., I suppose finding out what was going on is a bit difficult (to say the least), but any insights would be appreciated. For example, are there any cleanup operations that could be done automati

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

2003-04-04 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 04 April 2003 11:13 am, Mark Bainter wrote: > As a result, people who actually know what they are doing, and can > answer /real/ problems and questions will leave the list to avoid the > noise. I would tend, for the most part to disagree. Those few that do leave will be replaced by t

[gentoo-user] dual booting to XP with grub

2003-04-04 Thread Ian Truelsen
I am trying to dual boot to XP using grub. XP is installed on a separate hard drive which is a slave on my primary IDE controller, the same one that Gentoo is the master on. The drive is identified as hdb. So, I added this to my grub.conf: title=Windows XP root (hd1,0) chainloader (hd1,0)+1 When

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Port Forwarding Curiousity

2003-04-04 Thread douggorley
Yep, so simple... thanks! Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, April 4, 2003 8:49 am Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Port Forwarding Curiousity > > See the -g option of ssh. > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH Port Forwarding Curiousity

2003-04-04 Thread Andrei Ivanov
See the -g option of ssh. On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm reading the new article on Devshed (http://www.devshed.com/) about tunneling > with SSH, and I'm having some issues with the port forwarding. I ran the following > command on my machine: > > $ ssh

[gentoo-user] Impossible question? (Gentoo semi-lock-up)

2003-04-04 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
I guess it may be hard, if not impossible, to answer my question here, given the limited amount of information I have, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea of what might have gone wrong with my Gentoo... Basically what happened was this: One day I noticed I couldn't log into my Gentoo box th

[gentoo-user] SSH Port Forwarding Curiousity

2003-04-04 Thread douggorley
Hello list, I'm reading the new article on Devshed (http://www.devshed.com/) about tunneling with SSH, and I'm having some issues with the port forwarding. I ran the following command on my machine: $ ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 localhost Now, when I use lynx on the local machine like so: $

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

2003-04-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 00:17, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > So what's the problem with this? "Power users" could still do things > the way they like it, and Gentoo could gain mass adoption from people > (ok, idiot people, sorry again) that doesn't want to mess up with > compilers, boot manage

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming-sources issues

2003-04-04 Thread Richard Kilgore
Isaac, I don't know where these packages are looking for this info, but couldn't you just re-emerge gentoo-sources? But save your /usr/src/linux-2.X.X-gentoo-rX/.config file first so you don't lose it. - richard On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:21:19AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's the

[gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?

2003-04-04 Thread Alex
Could someone recommend a good Window-Manager (and whatever add-ons) that support alpha-blending? (Where all/most the windows are transparent) Thanks -Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Dave Klipec
Dmitry wrote: Hello! I decided to try new development kernel. :) And i have some questions already. First. I had a linux-2.5.63.tar.bz2 on my HDD, so i thought that it would be less time for me if I just patch it rather then downloading full version. So i downloaded three patches (up to 2.5.66

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

2003-04-04 Thread Mark Bainter
Carlos C. Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On April 3, 2003 08:11 am, Robert Spahr wrote: > > [snipped] > > > Educate the companies.. do not dumb down Gentoo! > > It never ceases to amaze me how adding a nice installer and hardware detection > front-end to Gentoo and other s

[gentoo-user] Questions about 2.5.66 kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Dmitry
Hello! I decided to try new development kernel. :) And i have some questions already. First. I had a linux-2.5.63.tar.bz2 on my HDD, so i thought that it would be less time for me if I just patch it rather then downloading full version. So i downloaded three patches (up to 2.5.66) and done the

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

2003-04-04 Thread Mark Bainter
Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > begin quote > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:17:36 +0200 > Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I'll take the bait... here > > One thing that scares me with the ease-of-install and simplicity, the > lowering of the threshold for users to install Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp/sendmail: cannot open [mailhub]:25

2003-04-04 Thread Philip Rieger
Hello Paul, finally I found the error. After removing the root entries in /etc/crontab (which I didn't put there and which I thought should indicate the user running the scripts) the error messages cease to come. So: 0 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly instead of 0 * * *

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

2003-04-04 Thread Sandor MISKEY
* DE SMET Bram (BDSR) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030404 11:07]: > Well, I got used to setting Oracle on Sun boxes on my previous job and > indeed there is a trick to it. > I don't know what problems we might have on Gentoo. > I guess if all env variables are set and the share

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizing and bug WAS [Re: [gentoo-user] survey:gentoo corporate usage?]

2003-04-04 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:36:47 +0200 Sigurd Stordal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * About the optimization flags, don't give the "idiot" users the > > chance to change sensitive compile flags. Maybe they could > > only

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

2003-04-04 Thread No Free Lunch
At the risk of having someone flame me, I'm not sure I'd run Gentoo on Corporate desktops or servers. I don't think that it's stable enough for a production environment. It is more stable than most commercial distributions (Red Hat and Mandrake in particular). We use it in a corporate environment,

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

2003-04-04 Thread No Free Lunch
At the risk of having someone flame me, I'm not sure I'd run Gentoo on Corporate desktops or servers. I don't think that it's stable enough for a production environment. It is more stable than most commercial distributions (Red Hat and Mandrake in particular). We use it in a corporate environment,

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

2003-04-04 Thread No Free Lunch
Seems reasonable to me to come out with a CD every 6 months with the stable, tested Gentoo of that moment, easily updated each 6 months, and offer training (& a book) and certification. I'd personally lean toward making the CD have a nice installer with hardware detection, possibly built off of

Re: [gentoo-user] Where's mkdosfs?

2003-04-04 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:44 am, Carl Hudkins wrote: > Hi... > > Ok, I only need to deal with floppy disks once or twice a year here, > but the other day I needed to format one in a DOS fashion. Trying > the easy way, I popped up "Kfloppy", but it said it could not find > "mkdosfs" and was

[gentoo-user] Where's mkdosfs?

2003-04-04 Thread Carl Hudkins
Hi... Ok, I only need to deal with floppy disks once or twice a year here, but the other day I needed to format one in a DOS fashion. Trying the easy way, I popped up "Kfloppy", but it said it could not find "mkdosfs" and was therefore less than useful. Sure enough, "mkdosfs" does not

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

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos C. Gonzalez
Hi Bram, On April 4, 2003 06:59 am, DE SMET Bram (BDSR) wrote: [snipped] > This is a know 'bug' that has been around for many years in the Linux > community. I didn't know that this elitest attitude had been around for so many years in the Linux community. Hmm...interesting. I have only rec

[gentoo-user] Optimizing and bug WAS [Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?]

2003-04-04 Thread Sigurd Stordal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > * About the optimization flags, don't give the "idiot" users the > chance to change sensitive compile flags. Maybe they could only > change the processor they are compiling for with --march- > and nothing else, I thought you

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