[gentoo-user] gcc missing but it is somehwre !?

2003-07-24 Thread raptor
I have very strange problem see below (this is session trought ssh). I have just emerged gcc (to be sure), and everything went ok !! The interesting thing is that if i do "make menuconfig" directly on the console it succeeds !!! any idea.. (i'm succesfully emerging packges w/o any problems, no m

Re: [gentoo-user] getting giFT to work properly

2003-07-24 Thread Al Raq
Hi Dear, Here What I have: gift-0.11.1 giftcurs-0.6.0 frontend (The best of all !!!) gift-fasttrack-0.8.2 great pluging --->> you will get the maximum Users on line. To run giFT with FastTrack support and giftcurs as frontend, run: # /usr/bin/giFT -d -p /usr/lib/giFT/libFastTrack.so ; /usr/b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Kevin Hayes
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:54:21 +0200 Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin Hayes (2003-07-24 07:29 +0200) > > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:44:15 -0400 > > Robert Kruus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:15:54 +1000 it is rumored that Kevin Hayes > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/log/messages absent

2003-07-24 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks for the response! Now I know. I wonder if I should submit a bug report for the gentoo printing howto since it recommends doing tail -f /var/log/messages? I think I will -- that would be a nice (little) improvement. -- Stephen On Thursday 24 July 2003 09:45 am, Florian Huber wrote: > On

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Egner
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:23, Joel Palmius wrote: > Small data-driven applications which mainly is data-in data-out > via a fancy interface: use PHP. Larger more complex project which may need > to include complex string parsing: use perl. If you are going to write > *really* large and complex pr

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge

2003-07-24 Thread dao
-Original Message- From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge dao wrote: > I download packages for emerging from my workplace. And after I've done > "emerge xfree86" at home

Re: [gentoo-user] getting giFT to work properly

2003-07-24 Thread Simon Mushi
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:45, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Simon Mushi wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > Yes, I have had gift-fasttrack via cvs and giFTui running constantly for > > the past 3 days since I installed them from info supplied in the TIP > > section of the last Gentoo Newsletter. Its been smooth s

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 12 July 2003 20:45, Meka[ni] wrote: > On Saturday 12 July 2003 09:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > Using those CFLAGS (athlon-mp instead of xp...typo), I did a base > > install of Gentoo. The bootstrap took 49 minutes. The 'emerge system' > > took 50 minutes. I love this system! :) > > > >

[gentoo-user] read and send ISP mail via Squirrelmail (+ sylpheed-claws, mutt?)

2003-07-24 Thread Devios McShady
I am a small step above a complete noob when it comes to Linux. I am seeking guidance and very detailed information in setting up my system so I can read and send email addressed to and sent from my ISP email (POP/SMTP) account. I already have Apace/PHP/SquirrelMail installed and working on my

Re: [gentoo-user] getting giFT to work properly

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Simon Mushi wrote: Andrew, Yes, I have had gift-fasttrack via cvs and giFTui running constantly for the past 3 days since I installed them from info supplied in the TIP section of the last Gentoo Newsletter. Its been smooth sailing although I remember playing around with my accept setting before I

[gentoo-user] distcc and openoffice 1.1 now working ?

2003-07-24 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi, has any one managed to compile openoffice 1.1 beta with distcc? I can compile it fine without distcc. However, with distcc on, I always get this error -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Harlan
On Thursday 24 July 2003 12:11 pm, Alex wrote: > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? > > The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will > use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do > X. On all of my systems,

Re: [gentoo-user] Online package list differs from emerge cache

2003-07-24 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/25/03 Molnar Peter wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to gentoo. I've installed gnome2, and right now I'm trying to > get the new gnome-themes-extras package work. There is a bug in the > gnome-panel package, that was fixed in version 2.2.2.2. According to > the online package list, it is already av

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 Test

2003-07-24 Thread Jeremy Hanmer
generally when you compile external modules (alsa, wireless drivers, etc) that aren't part of the kernel source (luckily, alsa's part of 2.5/2.6), they'll look for the kernel headers in /usr/src/linux. I guess it doesn't really matter if you don't use any external modules, but it's still good prac

Re: [gentoo-user] getting giFT to work properly

2003-07-24 Thread Simon Mushi
Andrew, Yes, I have had gift-fasttrack via cvs and giFTui running constantly for the past 3 days since I installed them from info supplied in the TIP section of the last Gentoo Newsletter. Its been smooth sailing although I remember playing around with my accept setting before I would be permitted

Re: [gentoo-user] Online package list differs from emerge cache

2003-07-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is the new build masked? The ebuild file will have KEYWORDS="~x86" or other arch if it is. Try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p gnome. and see what it tells you. > Hi! > > I'm new to gentoo. I've installed gnome2, and right now I'm trying to > get the new gnome-themes-extras package wor

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Terje Kvernes
daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > for example, mail() is a php function that sends mail to someone. > this capability is available in perl, but requires much more work on > your behalf. in perl, you have to open a pipe to your mail binary, > write to it and then close the pipe. e

[gentoo-user] Online package list differs from emerge cache

2003-07-24 Thread Molnar Peter
Hi! I'm new to gentoo. I've installed gnome2, and right now I'm trying to get the new gnome-themes-extras package work. There is a bug in the gnome-panel package, that was fixed in version 2.2.2.2. According to the online package list, it is already available through emerge. But no matter how many

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 24, 2003 18:25, Cal Evans wrote: > http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-full-featured-email.howto.txt > * > * Cal Evans > * http://www.christianperformer.com > * Stay plugged in to your audience! > * I've copied the file so that both posted links work. Sorry for the confusion. Regards, Brian

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with blocked ebuilds

2003-07-24 Thread Terje Kvernes
Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot to mention that I had tried that and perl will not even > update. It fails with the same error. unmerge the blocking packages, then update perl. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Some init.d problems

2003-07-24 Thread Paulo da Silva
Summary - I am trying to start hdparm before checkroot during the booting process. So, I put "before *" in the hdparm script and "after hdparm" in the checkroot. I used rc-update as follows: rc-update del hdparm rc-update del checkroot rc-update add hdparm boot rc-update add

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread Cal Evans
http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-full-featured-email.howto.txt * * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay plugged in to your audience! * blade- said: > Hi, > > link not working > The requested URL /~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.txt was > not found on this server. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread Bryan D. Stine
The correct link seems to be here: http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-full-featured-email.howto.txt On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:19, blade- wrote: > Hi, > > link not working > The requested URL /~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.txt was > not found on this server. > > regards > > Brian

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread blade-
Hi, link not working The requested URL /~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.txt was not found on this server. regards Brian Richardson wrote: The full text of this HOWTO is too large for the list. Please read it at: http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.t

[gentoo-user] RFC: Gentoo Linux secure, SPAM-free e-mail HOWTO

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
The full text of this HOWTO is too large for the list. Please read it at: http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/gentoo-linux-full-featured-email.howto.txt Any comments or helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Don't worry, I haven't configured anything to send encrypted mail to mailing lists :) And I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages absent

2003-07-24 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 24, 2003 05:50, Stephen Boulet wrote: > I've emerged metalog according to the directions, but there is no > /var/log/messages. > > Is this normal? Apologies for the encrypted e-mail. The answer I sent was that metalog does not use /var/log/messages. The metalog syslog is under /var/log/e

Re: [gentoo-user] Nspluginscan doesn't exist (even if compiled with +motif)

2003-07-24 Thread Stefano Marinelli
Alle 01:50, venerdì 25 luglio 2003, el lodger ha scritto: > locate nspluginscan nothing...it doesn't get compiled at all... Stefano -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nspluginscan doesn't exist (even if compiled with+motif)

2003-07-24 Thread el lodger
> strange...same USE, more or less, but the which doesn't find > anything... try using locate nspluginscan -- Powered by GENTOO LINUX -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:37, Asgodom Woldu wrote: > You are right guys, 'ifup' and 'ifdown' are debian commands, he did say > that he uses debian. i was able to use 'ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 up' to > activate the card, however, i still have the same problem even though the > card is activated. do

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:39:33 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Hayes wrote: > > Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get > > the following during boot, can anyone shed some light on the > > xargs: error message, > > > > Update baselayout. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:37:40 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Asgodom Woldu) wrote: > You are right guys, 'ifup' and 'ifdown' are debian commands, he did > say that he uses debian. i was able to use 'ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 up' > to activate the card, however, i still have the same problem even > though th

Re: [gentoo-user] 802.11 cards

2003-07-24 Thread Stefano Marinelli
Alle 14:42, giovedì 24 luglio 2003, Christian Aust ha scritto: > I'm using a Netgear MA401 wireless card with gentoo; it works well. I > have to plug in the card after init finishes and starts the user I have the same wireless card and I think it's a good piece of hardware, but I have some proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Nspluginscan doesn't exist (even if compiled with +motif)

2003-07-24 Thread Stefano Marinelli
Alle 14:24, giovedì 24 luglio 2003, Peter Ruskin ha scritto: > $ qpkg -f `which nspluginscan` > kde-base/kdebase * > > $ emerge -pv kdebase > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-3.1.2 -ldap +pam +motif +enc

[gentoo-user] Re: Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kevin Hayes (2003-07-24 07:29 +0200) > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:44:15 -0400 > Robert Kruus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:15:54 +1000 it is rumored that Kevin Hayes >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get >>> the follo

Re: [gentoo-user] usermod strangeness

2003-07-24 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Maybe you should try: # usermod -G wheel,audio,games,slocate,portage,svn -g users doug as users is given with the -g option. The other, more preferable, way is to open the /etc/passwd file and add every additional group by hand :-) On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:02:39 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > W

Re: [gentoo-user] make modules-update do this...

2003-07-24 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Anything that you want to be put in modules.conf should be added to /etc/modules.d/aliases. modules-update checks all files in /etc/modules.d/ and creates the /etc/modules.conf file automatically that's why your changes were lost. Hope that helps! :-) On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:24:31 +0100 Tom Wesle

[gentoo-user] [Slightly OT]: good search cgis?

2003-07-24 Thread Shane Hickey
Does anyone out there have some good recommendations for cgis to index and search your site? I would prefer something that was perl or PHP. This is for Apache. It would be awesome if it was something that I could use on apache for windows also (that's why I was thinking perl or PHP). I saw some

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer and real audio?

2003-07-24 Thread Juri Haberland
Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:58:16AM +, Juri Haberland wrote: >> Actually, I never tried streaming with mplayer. I only played local >> files - successfully. > > Ok, I emerged the LIVE plugin, then re-emerged mplayer, and I still > get all the same erro

[gentoo-user] getting giFT to work properly

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Is there anyone who has giFT working properly? I was using the latest release of gift (not gift-cvs). It worked fine, except it would keep dying every few minutes. I'd have to exit my client (usually giFTcurs), restart the daemon, and restart my client. If anyone has it working, what versions a

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Asgodom Woldu
Marshal Newrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Asgodom Woldu wrote: > >> >Do you have socket filtering enabled in the kernel? I don't know how or >> >why, but this seems to be required to allow dhcp to work. >> >> I am in the initial stages of the installation, trying to do 'eme

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Alex wrote: > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? I'm quite happy with Gentoo running on my TiBook 1GHz G4 at home. It took one weekend to set it up, and most of that was solving the disk partitioning and multi boot (Mac OSX, Gentoo and Yellow Dog) problems. I

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Joel Palmius
I second that. :-) Another difference between perl and PHP is which perspective they are using. In PHP you are in essence writing html pages which include code. In (most) perl you are writing perl code which prints html output. (I say most, since you can do PHP-style programming with perl too,

Re: [gentoo-user] mikmod server doesnot work.

2003-07-24 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
If you want to build mikmod just for listening to mod files on xmms, you may want to give the modplugxmms plugin a try. It gives way better sound quality than mikmod and has better support on some module files like .it.xm etc... On 23 Jul 2003 07:45:31 -0700 Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Norberto BENSA
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > I have the same problem. I have the newest baselayout and all my files > are updated. $ qpkg -I -v baselayout sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.9 * This is a snippet of bootmisc: # Clean up any stale locks. # ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread A. Craig West
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Stroller wrote: > On 24/7/03 6:11 pm, "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? > >... > > I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *slow* > > of a computer can be useful? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2003-07-24 Thread Leonid Podolny
> On Thursday 24 July 2003 08:11, Leonid Podolny wrote: > > Hi, > > I know this question was asked here at least dozen of times, but I still > > have the following problem. I have postfix-2.0.13-r1 installed, and every > > emerge -u world is trying to downgrade it to version 2.0.11. > > See emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I have used Gentoo on an IBM TP600 PII 300 for some time.Works well,even KDE etc... Definatly usable, but no demon. The gs sources kernel,with the lowlatency and preemption reallyhelps. I just got an IBM TP 21. PIII850, 32gigHD, 512mgmemory. And is is really fast with gentoo. I bought this one

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail for several users

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: >Now my problem is how to distribute all that mail to the mailboxes of >those users. I can use procmail and filter for TO: and drop the mail in >his Maildir, and then let sylpheed do the filtering for the subfolders. >I think that qmail will be to

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread daniel
On July 24, 2003 02:24 pm, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to > use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl > can be used "standalone" of php i don't know. perl is amazing. you can write cgi-scr

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 15:13, Asgodom Woldu wrote: > I am in the initial stages of the installation, trying to do 'emerge > sync'. So, i haven't had a chance to enable socket filtering yet. Is it > possible to install just from the CD, and enable socket filtering first? > > I also tried using sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Asgodom Woldu wrote: > >Do you have socket filtering enabled in the kernel? I don't know how or > >why, but this seems to be required to allow dhcp to work. > > I am in the initial stages of the installation, trying to do 'emerge > sync'. So, i haven't had a chance to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 14:57, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Steven Elling wrote: > > > I used 'net-setup eth0' and selected the 'Use DHCP to auto-detect my > > > network settings' option. Then when i enter 'ifconfig' neither eth0 > > > nor eth1 are there. If i enter 'ifconfig eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 13:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I prefer Perl for several reasons, but the most compelling is the > Template Toolkit (http://www.tt2.org/). I simply haven't found anything > as flexible and powerful for PHP. > > Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a perl guy as well but

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Asgodom Woldu
Marshal Newrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Steven Elling wrote: > >> > I used 'net-setup eth0' and selected the 'Use DHCP to auto-detect my >> > network settings' option. Then when i enter 'ifconfig' neither eth0 nor >> > eth1 are there. If i enter 'ifconfig eth0' there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
My p233 took 2 days just to bootstrap :) Nathaniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail for several users

2003-07-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/7/03 7:52 pm, "Patrick Marquetecken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm installing a small server (88mb ram can't be upgraded) that will gather > mail for 10 persons > The have mail adresses at "normal" isp's and hotmail. > For hotmail i'm using gotmail. > And using fetchmail for gatherin

[gentoo-user] usermod strangeness

2003-07-24 Thread douggorley
When I execute the following command: # usermod -G wheel,audio,games,users,slocate,portage,svn -g users doug My computer just sits there until I Ctrl-C to get my shell back. I thought this was pretty straightforward; am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [E

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/7/03 8:40 pm, "Michael Gruenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Compiling stuff is probably too slow without distcc (KDE took 4-5 days > if I remember correctly without distcc). It took 20 days to compile KDE & all it's dependencies with my poor knackered hard-drive!! Stroller. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Steven Elling wrote: > > I used 'net-setup eth0' and selected the 'Use DHCP to auto-detect my > > network settings' option. Then when i enter 'ifconfig' neither eth0 nor > > eth1 are there. If i enter 'ifconfig eth0' there is no IP address shown. > > I even tried using 'dhcpcd

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 July 2003 6:41 pm, Alan wrote: > I'm sure some of my facts about PHP are wrong or outdated, and I've > missed tonnes of pros and cons on both sides, but there you go :) I > think it might come down to if you're doing this for just web,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration problem

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:55, Asgodom Woldu wrote: > Hi; > > I am trying to install Gentoo (1.4_rc4) on an old IBM Aptiva (Pentium MMX > 200, with ~ 192 MB of memory), where this machine will be turned into a > firewall (planning on using Netfilter), and will be used in a Lab at a > university. G

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul K. Dickson
The problem with any low-end old laptop is it's graphics chipset is going to have very little memory available to it. I had a PII-450 and it's video had to be set to 15bit color or it jerked all over the place. I can't imagine anything less. Not to mention that Mozilla isn't exactly light weight

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple question

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:02, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 07:57, Steven Elling wrote: > > On Thursday 24 July 2003 00:36, Raimundo Bilbao wrote: > > > I have a simple question: if I plan to "gentooize" ;-D several PCs > > > (all of them have the similararchitecure , x86 ), can

[gentoo-user] make modules-update do this...

2003-07-24 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi all, I am trying to get my Tiger MP S2460 working with lm_sensors and have found the correct information to put into /etc/modules.conf, but this file gets replaced whenever I run modules-update. Does anyone know how I can get it to complete the instructions in the attached file? -- Tom We

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Roest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Marquetecken wrote: | Hi, | | I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. | I know that perl can be used "standalone" of php i don't know. | | All your th

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> If updating >> baselayout is supposed to fix the bug, just wondering why it didnnn't >work >> for me. Any suggestions as to what else I might do. Thanks for anything. > >Check date on /etc/init.d/bootmisc. Perhaps you forget to update some >files >after upgrading? I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail for several users

2003-07-24 Thread Florian Huber
Hello Patrick, On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:52:39 +0200 Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now my problem is how to distribute all that mail to the mailboxes > of those users. I can use procmail and filter for TO: and drop the > mail in his Maildir, and then let sylpheed do the filtering

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Norberto BENSA
Michael Rasile wrote: > If updating > baselayout is supposed to fix the bug, just wondering why it didnnn't work > for me. Any suggestions as to what else I might do. Thanks for anything. Check date on /etc/init.d/bootmisc. Perhaps you forget to update some files after upgrading? Norberto pgp0

[gentoo-user] Procmail for several users

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm installing a small server (88mb ram can't be upgraded) that will gather mail for 10 persons. It will be for Gentoo & Windows users. The mail client will be Sylpheed for both clients. The have mail adresses at "normal" isp's and hotmail. For hotmail i'm using gotmail. And using fetchmail

Re: [gentoo-user] unresolved symbol cmpxchg in radeon-module

2003-07-24 Thread Robert Young
I am not at home right now but I believe my kernel was compiled for a 386. I changed it to a Celeron (Coppermine) , recompiled and according the the log for X it seems that DRI is now working. angus proc # cat config | grep CMPX CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y if CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=n then I think i would ha

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Gruenberger
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:27, Stroller wrote: > On 24/7/03 6:11 pm, "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? > >... > > I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *slow* > > of a computer can be useful? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice-bin downgrade? (1.1_beta-r1 ->1.0.3.1)

2003-07-24 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:22, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > After a sync portage wishes to following downgrade. > > [ebuildUD] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.0.3.1 [1.1_beta-r1] -kde -gnome > > > > Should this be happening? Are we making a perm

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Alan
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:24:58PM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with > apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. > I know that perl can be used "standalone" of php i don't know. > > All your

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Meadors
Java. ;-) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Hi, I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl can be used "standalone" of php i don't know. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No usb mouse support, after 12 re-compiles. Missing modules? USB support proper also fails...

2003-07-24 Thread Norberto BENSA
Cox HSI Mail wrote: > still can't get usb mouse support working > It seems like I get a different system with each new install using Can you PLEASE stop replying a message and starting a new thread? Now for your problem. Which kernel? Gentoo, Vanilla, CK? Which version? > IRC channel is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages absent

2003-07-24 Thread Norberto BENSA
We don't know what Brian Richardson wrote 'cos he sent an encrypted e-mail a public mailing list :-( -- $ man women No manual entry for women pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 July 2003 20:24, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best > language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. > I know that perl can be used "standalone" o

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread douggorley
I prefer Perl for several reasons, but the most compelling is the Template Toolkit (http://www.tt2.org/). I simply haven't found anything as flexible and powerful for PHP. Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/7/03 6:11 pm, "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? >... > I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *slow* > of a computer can be useful? > > Would mozilla run well on a Pentium II-266 Mhz? I real

[gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl can be used "standalone" of php i don't know. All your thoughts are welcom. Patrick -- "If we don't get more power to the warp drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice-bin downgrade? (1.1_beta-r1 ->1.0.3.1)

2003-07-24 Thread Spundun Bhatt
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > After a sync portage wishes to following downgrade. > [ebuildUD] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.0.3.1 [1.1_beta-r1] -kde -gnome > > Should this be happening? Are we making a permanent move from 1.1 to 1.0 branch > then? It doesnt make se

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing KEYWORDS masked packages

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Egner
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:00, Tom Knight-Markiegi wrote: > Hi > > I've downloaded some packages masked with the ~x86 KEYWORDS and was > wondering what the process is for testing these packages so that they can > become unmasked for other users. Is there a set procedure or do I just test > away and

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing KEYWORDS masked packages

2003-07-24 Thread Alan
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Tom Knight-Markiegi wrote: > Hi > > I've downloaded some packages masked with the ~x86 KEYWORDS and was > wondering what the process is for testing these packages so that they can > become unmasked for other users. Is there a set procedure or do I just tes

[gentoo-user] Testing KEYWORDS masked packages

2003-07-24 Thread Tom Knight-Markiegi
Hi I've downloaded some packages masked with the ~x86 KEYWORDS and was wondering what the process is for testing these packages so that they can become unmasked for other users. Is there a set procedure or do I just test away and post my results somewhere? Cheers Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

RE: [gentoo-user] 802.11 cards

2003-07-24 Thread Travis Roy
> I strongly suspect the D-Link DWL-650+ is being talked about here. It's > not a true 802.11g card as far as I know, but it does have 22Mbps > speeds. Please keep in mind that these D-Link products only get 22Mbps with other D-Link products.. I'm sure most of you knew that, but better safe then s

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2003-07-24 Thread Yannick Le Saint
On Thursday 24 July 2003 08:11, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Hi, > I know this question was asked here at least dozen of times, but I still > have the following problem. I have postfix-2.0.13-r1 installed, and every > emerge -u world is trying to downgrade it to version 2.0.11. See emerge --help or

Re: [gentoo-user] 802.11 cards

2003-07-24 Thread Robin H . Johnson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:04:06PM +0200, Florian Huber wrote: > On 24 Jul 2003 13:10:02 +0200 > Ian Delahorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which 802.11{b,g} PCI cards work well with (gentoo) Linux? More > > specifically, which D-Link or NetGear cards work well? > Does anybody know if there is su

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread brett holcomb
Yes, I agree. It would be nice to have an indication that it is using a different slot (maybe an S in there). Unless you know about slots it's hard to tell what's happening. On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:36:41 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:18:30 -0400, brett holcomb <[

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread list-gentoo-user
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:18:30 -0400, brett holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It means 2.x is installed and it want's to install >(installing another version when one is installed is >evidently considered an upgrade) the other version. I understand what it means in this instance, what I'm saying

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread brett holcomb
It means 2.x is installed and it want's to install (installing another version when one is installed is evidently considered an upgrade) the other version. On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:41:05 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:35:56 -0700, Andrew Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Håvard Wall
Alex wrote: Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do X. I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:11, Alex wrote: > Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? > > The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will > use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do > X. > > I was wondering, since

Re: [gentoo-user] unresolved symbol cmpxchg in radeon-module

2003-07-24 Thread Eric Marchionni
i had athlon-xp as far as i remember. actually that's the processor i have. but it didn't work for me. when i changed it to i386 and recompiled the kernel, radeon module just worked fine (after a rebuild of course)! but befor that i tried several different values like athlon, athlon-xp and so o

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread brett holcomb
GTK 1 is in a different slot probably. Check the ebuild for SLOT=. They should coexist. On 24 Jul 2003 12:34:15 -0400 Tom Caudron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Everytime I do an: emerge -upv world I get this in the resultant list: [ebuildU ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10 [2.2.1] +nls Since I'm

[gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Alex
Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do X. I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *slow* of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Jul 24, 2003 at 12:39:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Kevin Hayes wrote: > >Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get > >the following during boot, can anyone shed some light on the > >xargs: error message, > > > > * Configuring kernel param

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with blocked ebuilds

2003-07-24 Thread Marius Mauch
On 07/24/03 Ben Ricker wrote: > I forgot to mention that I had tried that and perl will not even > update. It fails with the same error. > > Ben Ricker > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:12, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2003 10:38:18 -0500 > > Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread list-gentoo-user
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:35:56 -0700, Andrew Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA >> emerge -upv world >> I get this in the resultant list: >> [ebuildU ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10 [2.2.1] +nls >> Since I'm not looking to downgrade GTK from 2.2.1 to 1.2.10, I can never >> just do a

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread donnie berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 July 2003 11:34, Tom Caudron wrote: > Everytime I do an: > > emerge -upv world > > I get this in the resultant list: > > [ebuildU ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10 [2.2.1] +nls > > Since I'm not looking to downgrade GTK from 2.2.1 to 1.2.10

RE: [gentoo-user] GTK downgrade in emerge world

2003-07-24 Thread Rex Young
>Everytime I do an: > >emerge -upv world > >I get this in the resultant list: > >[ebuildU ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10 [2.2.1] +nls > >Since I'm not looking to downgrade GTK from 2.2.1 to 1.2.10, I >can never >just do an emerge -u world. > >A couple of questions about this: > >1) Why does it wan

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