Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:30:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Using - www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-03 Thread Nicolas Bailey
Putting : www-proxy/squid-2.5.7 [ebuild UD] www-proxy/squid-2.5.6-r3 [2.5.7-r2] It wants to Downgrade to 2.5.6 using =www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 [ebuild UD] www-proxy/squid-2.5.6-r3 [2.5.7-r2] It _still_ wants to downgrade.. I don't understand the confusion. There are 4

Re: [gentoo-user] strange speeds

2005-02-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:24:51 +0200 raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |I can feel the lag, download speed can become more than ~20-30 mbps can become === can't become - http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-12-08-004-32-OS-BZ-DT-0005 snip MS Office is popular in the same way as heart

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling *everything* as a kernel module.

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:34:49 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modules are handy, but the way I figure it, things like modules and initrd's are a pain to do by hand, and mostly exist to meet the needs of generic distributions and LiveCD's and the like. If you don't blow away your source tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:06:18 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Read the previous replies again. you already have 2.5.7-r2 s you don't want to mask that, you want to mask everything greater than it. The line is package.mask should be www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2. Putting an = after the as you first

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jans Han Xie ha scritto: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:51:41 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06:43 am, Jans Han Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a mistake since I thought what you are talking about is *linux26-headers* instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants to downgrade a package

2005-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 09:27 pm, Pshemko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: (I'm guessing) You have the old ati-drivers installed. Either add them to package.keywords (with the keyword ~x86), remove them comletely, or add xorg-x11-6.7.99 to package.mask. Your

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs linux26-headers

2005-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:57 am, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jans Han Xie ha scritto: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:51:41 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. linux-headers (and gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources) reflect the current stable version [according to /gentoo/, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-03 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! Lots of confusion out there ;-) Question: when did you perform your last emerge sync? The reason I am asking: as of today Squid Version v2.5.7-r5 will be found both in the stable and in the unstable (~x86) branch. Since you're having trouble with v2.5.7-r4 it might well be that you suffer

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:06 am, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:30:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Using - www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling *everything* as a kernel module: a compromise?

2005-02-03 Thread Tom Eastman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I modularalize next-to-nothing; it feels slightly less maintainable for my home machine. 768 MB of RAM... and I can save 2k by compiling the loopback filesystem as a module and only loading it when I need it, but it will make my configuration more complicated, or use

[gentoo-user] Repairing damaged partition

2005-02-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I just rebooted one of my snort machines and i got a kernel panic and a lot of Drive seek errors om my ext3 partition. The first time i run fsck form a cdrom on that partition it just says again drive seek errors and non-recoverble. The second time, fsck says: could this be a zero lenght

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/init.d/alsasound fails to load soundcard module

2005-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Jans Han Xie wrote: Just guess here: Have you re-emerge the alsa-dirver ebuild every time you re-compile your kernel? Um, no. It's a 2.6 kernel. Why would I have to do that? It's part of the kernel, right? Yes, and no. The ALSA drivers are part of the kernel. The alsa-driver

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants to downgrade a package

2005-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Pshemko wrote: (I'm guessing) You have the old ati-drivers installed. Either add them to package.keywords (with the keyword ~x86), remove them comletely, or add xorg-x11-6.7.99 to package.mask. Your guess was right - the ati drives. However, does it mean that if I want to use them I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Package.Mask / Do Not Upgrade these packages

2005-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:30:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Using - www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS/Samba problems

2005-02-03 Thread Robert S
try restarting samba and cupsd a couple of times. works for me (win2k client) I had a similar problem at work with cups/samba on debian. It would randomly stop working. Made myself unpopular. I've switched to printing through an http port - set up the network address in Windoze to

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: | I've been using webalizer to analyze apache2's access_log. When I | browse the raw log file, I realize I'm missing out on a lot of | information when I'm using webalizer, but then again, the raw log file | is too much info. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with stage1 install

2005-02-03 Thread Gentoo
Dave Nebinger wrote: I'm trying to do an stage1 on an pentium, but im getting this error when bootstrapping: Follow the instructions for emerging 2.6 headers: 1. emerge -C linux-headers 2. emerge --oneshot --nodeps linux26-headers 3. scripts/bootstrap.sh --

[gentoo-user] Firefox/WordPress Problem

2005-02-03 Thread Jim
I'm a user from blogsome.com(A web hosting site for blogs which is based on WordPress), after I activated the WYSIWYG plug-in, the textarea works with some problems under my firefox, when I paste some text, images or anything else on the textarea, the following msg from firefox poped up:

[gentoo-user] Funny

2005-02-03 Thread Frank Schafer
emerge-webrsync Fetching most recent snapshot Attempting to fetch file dated: 20050203 --- No md5sum present on the mirror. (Not yet available.) Attempting to fetch file dated: 20050202 --- No md5sum present on the mirror. (Not yet available.) Attempting to fetch file dated: 20050201

Re: [gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
I use a MidiMan 2x2 under Gentoo all the time. Works great. the 2x2 is not terribly expensive but it does use firmware that has to be downloaded so it's problematic to hook it up to a new machine the first time. After it's set up it's great. Anyway, no problems with Gentoo and MIDI. Good luck,

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie installation problem: lost Internet/network card after install

2005-02-03 Thread bogdan romocea
Thank you Bob, I followed all steps up to rebuilding the kernel, however I got stuck at # emerge sync temporary failure in name resolution; rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c (88) # emerge-webrsync attempting to fetch file dated... (a bunch of them); no md5 sum present on

Re: [gentoo-user] Repairing damaged partition

2005-02-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I just rebooted one of my snort machines and i got a kernel panic and a lot of Drive seek errors om my ext3 partition. The first time i run fsck form a cdrom on that partition it just says again drive seek errors and non-recoverble. The second time, fsck says: could this be a zero

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-03 Thread Arran Fraser
On a side note, this problem would be a little less severe if I could restart the printer without being root. Can anyone provide a hint for that? use sudo perhaps? At the risk of making a fool of myself (because I've never actually used sudo), I don't think that applies. In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling *everything* as a kernel module: a compromise?

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
Tom Eastman wrote: Next question though... I wonder how I can work out which pieces of my kernel aren't actually being used by my hardware? That would also make me happy, removing everything that isn't actually applicable to the hardware I have. Having things as a modules means you KNOW it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/WordPress Problem

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jim wrote: I'm a user from blogsome.com(A web hosting site for blogs which is based on WordPress), after I activated the WYSIWYG plug-in, the textarea works with some problems under my firefox, when I paste some text, images or anything else on the textarea, the following msg from firefox poped

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Tim Igoe
You mentioned using webalizer, the tool i use is similar awstats. It produces similar outputs, i found with more information however. It depends what your wanting to see. AWStats will show referal information, search queries, browser type and version etc. Times the page is views, bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] Repairing damaged partition

2005-02-03 Thread Ralph Slooten
As for a solution ... I have no idea. As for prevention (in the future) .. try reiserfs. Greetings Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:02:28 -0400, Arran Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note, this problem would be a little less severe if I could restart the printer without being root. Can anyone provide a hint for that? use sudo perhaps? At the risk of making a fool of myself

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/WordPress Problem

2005-02-03 Thread Jim
But WYSIWYG will be very helpful if we have lots of things which need to be paste from other places, just simply paste into the textarea that we don't need to typeset it one more time. On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:08:21 -0800, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: I'm a user from

Re: [gentoo-user] Failure during emerge -Du world

2005-02-03 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:26:41 -0800, Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't know if this is relevant but I manually pointed /usr/bin/aclocal to aclocal-1.9 otherwise I get this error: * Running autotools in '.'... /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 126: aclocal: command not found Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I am not using this list much lately so this is my last question... how can i unsuscribe from this mailing list? thanks in advance Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Grant
You mentioned using webalizer, the tool i use is similar awstats. It produces similar outputs, i found with more information however. It depends what your wanting to see. AWStats will show referal information, search queries, browser type and version etc. Times the page is views, bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Grant
| I've been using webalizer to analyze apache2's access_log. When I | browse the raw log file, I realize I'm missing out on a lot of | information when I'm using webalizer, but then again, the raw log file | is too much info. Is there another tool that lets you see, for | example, all raw

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Grant
I am not using this list much lately so this is my last question... how can i unsuscribe from this mailing list? thanks in advance Rafael http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:43:37 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: how can i unsuscribe from this mailing list? Read the headers of any mail from the list. almost all list servers include unsubscribe and help addresses in the mail headers. -- Neil Bothwick Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Tim Igoe
Grant wrote: You mentioned using webalizer, the tool i use is similar awstats. It produces similar outputs, i found with more information however. It depends what your wanting to see. AWStats will show referal information, search queries, browser type and version etc. Times the page is views,

[gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Smith
i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and then it starts coping everything. is this bad? building file list ...

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-03 Thread Grant
I turned the volume and pcm up in the xfce4 mixer (even though it's grayed out), but alsamixer is a bad command. When I open xmovie in a terminal and try to play an MP3, I get this: open odevice failed Ahh...that's a different issue. So what's in /dev, /dev/snd/, and

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Smith
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and then it

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Arran Fraser
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:14, Nick Smith wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Nick Smith wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ You should at least exclude /sys /proc /dev from the backup A better

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Matthew Cline
building file list ... readlink //proc/2/task/2/exe failed: No such You should always exclude the /proc filesystem from your backups. The data there is generated dynamically by the kernel. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-03 Thread michael
Hi Mark, I'm curious what software you're using with the MidiMan 2x2. Any recommendations, positive or negative? M On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I use a MidiMan 2x2 under Gentoo all the time. Works great. the 2x2 is not terribly expensive but it does use firmware that has to be downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Sanders
Hi Grant, I don't have anything in /dev/sound. Here's /etc/modules.d: aliases ath_pci i386 ppp slmodem It sounds like I need an alsa in there? I always compile everything I can into the kernel so this module stuff is new to me. Per-chance have you emerged alsa-lib alsa-utilities

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:04:57 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and then it starts coping everything. is this bad? You need to use the -x option to stop it trying to back up /dev, /proc, /sys etc,

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Steve
Nick Smith wrote: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: rsync is not really intended for that sort of backup. rsync is good at copying your own user files to a remote PC - it offers little or no advantage when

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:52:48 +, Steve wrote: rsync is good at copying your own user files to a remote PC - it offers little or no advantage when simply copying between devices attached to your local PC. I disagree. rsync is excellent for keeping a local backup as it only copies those

Re: [gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
I'm wondering if anything uses Gentoo and MIDI together at all?  If so, could you please send me some details about your system, software and kernel setup? I use a Edirol UM-1S as a MIDI controller and a Terratec Aureon USB 5.1. Both work out of the box thanks to snd-usb-audio. Best

[gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Hi, I'm trying to use distcc for building my system. I've yet encountered a rather strange problem, I've added CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} MAKEOPTS=-j8 FEATURES=distcc to my make.conf. I've got the daemons running on the other

Re: [gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:44:16 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, I'm curious what software you're using with the MidiMan 2x2. Any recommendations, positive or negative? M Michael, Hi. First, you'll have to understand that I go back and forth about the value

Re: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Philip Lawatsch wrote: The other machines are in /etc/distcc/hosts and I cant ping / ssh to them. tv1 / # distcc-config --get-hosts localhost icebear icebird Still emerge does not use distcc to compile for instance xine-lib or bison or perl. I'm not sure what I missed to do, perhaps someone here

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-03 Thread Grant
Hi Grant, I don't have anything in /dev/sound. Here's /etc/modules.d: aliases ath_pci i386 ppp slmodem It sounds like I need an alsa in there? I always compile everything I can into the kernel so this module stuff is new to me. Per-chance have you emerged alsa-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Lawatsch wrote: The other machines are in /etc/distcc/hosts and I cant ping / ssh to them. Sorry, this is a typo, of course i _can_ ping / ssh to them, otherwise this would not make much sense ... tv1 / # distcc-config --get-hosts localhost icebear icebird Still

Re: [gentoo-user] MIDI and Gentoo?

2005-02-03 Thread michael
Thanks for such a detailed answer, Mark. This is tremendously useful. Could be a FAQ or an article, I imagine. Truthfully I have almost no electronic music background but am trying to learn on a budget. Inexpensive interfaces like the MidiMan and free Linux software are me to do this. Helpful

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Sanders
Hi grant, All this extra stuff is being done on the off-chance that sound wasn't working because alsa was compiled into the kernel instead of as a module. Why would alsa work as a module, but not when built into the kernel? Avoiding all of this is one of the reasons I moved up to 2.6.

Re: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Philip Lawatsch wrote: I know all of that and I've already set up the distccd on the local host in this way (not via distcc_hosts but by configuring distccd on localhost). BUT, for some reason portage does _not_ use distcc at all but the normal gcc and this will result in -jN jobs running on

RE: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
I know all of that and I've already set up the distccd on the local host in this way (not via distcc_hosts but by configuring distccd on localhost). BUT, for some reason portage does _not_ use distcc at all but the normal gcc and this will result in -jN jobs running on localhost. Phil, I've

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to configure wireless net?

2005-02-03 Thread Yoann Pannier
Mats Lidell wrote: My laptop comes with built in wireless support. I can set it up using iwconfig etc. So all I need now is where to place this so that I can get the network up during boot with out to much effort. I am not sure this is the best solution (if someone knows it, please share). But

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:13:56 -0800, Grant wrote: I don't have anything in /dev/sound. Here's /etc/modules.d: aliases ath_pci i386 ppp slmodem All this extra stuff is being done on the off-chance that sound wasn't working because alsa was compiled into the kernel instead of as a

Re: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Andreas Vinsander wrote: Philip Lawatsch wrote: I know all of that and I've already set up the distccd on the local host in this way (not via distcc_hosts but by configuring distccd on localhost). BUT, for some reason portage does _not_ use distcc at all but the normal gcc and this will result

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

2005-02-03 Thread Grant
All this extra stuff is being done on the off-chance that sound wasn't working because alsa was compiled into the kernel instead of as a module. Why would alsa work as a module, but not when built into the kernel? Probably because you are using the slmodem drivers. which also have

[gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
Hello All, I am tring to figure out why my DWL-122 usb wlan card isn't working and I've noticed serveral references to /log/var/messages, which I don't have! I have several new logs I'm not used to like kernel/current and everything/current. I am running Gentoo 2.6.10 dev-sources. - Brad --

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Steve
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:52:48 +, Steve wrote: rsync is good at copying your own user files to a remote PC - it offers little or no advantage when simply copying between devices attached to your local PC. I disagree. rsync is excellent for keeping a local backup as

Re: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Philip Lawatsch wrote: My distcc setup is verified to work (compiling something else on the machines right now). My problem is that emerge simply does ignore FEATURES=distcc and instead uses gcc / g++ directly. Either emerge fails to tell the packages autoconf script to use distcc as a

[gentoo-user] emerge of pdflib failing

2005-02-03 Thread Daryl Warkentin
Hi, I am new to this list so let me know if I need to post problems like this somewhere else. I am trying to upgrade octave with emerge. One of the dependencies is pdflib for which the compile is failing. I have included the errors from the compile below, and I can send the entire emerge output

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread David D. Rea
On Thu, February 3, 2005 11:04 am, Nick Smith said: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and then it

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bradley Serbu wrote: Hello All, I am tring to figure out why my DWL-122 usb wlan card isn't working and I've noticed serveral references to /log/var/messages, which I don't have! I have several new logs I'm not used to like kernel/current and

[gentoo-user] Wrong link for X11.

2005-02-03 Thread Ed Jabbour
I'm having problems setting up Codeweavers. I have to set up certain links with rgb,l which I've done. I still have problems, however. I just noticed that in /usr/lib/X11 I have: X11 -- ../X11R6/lib/X11 in blinking red. No wonder, as /usr/lib/X11R6 doesn't exist. /usr/X11R6 does. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

2005-02-03 Thread Douglas James Dunn
if you have cable and your using a new ISP now, Besides the wasting of bandwidth on the lists part does it really matter if they keep sending email to your old isp email? On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 19:52 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: When I upgraded to cable, I tried to unsubscribe from my old

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling *everything* as a kernel module.

2005-02-03 Thread Douglas James Dunn
comparing the number of new kernels I use compared to how often I upgrade hardware. For me I dont unload kernel modules. the only modules I have are sound and video. I think you have to load them as modules. Anyways depending on how often you upgrade your kernel and if you actually need to

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
Yea, Obviously thats what I ment to type. I did some further research and I have determened I don't have a syslog-ng deamon runnning, but I have metalog. I'm going to find and play around with those config files to see where my messages are being filtered to. This raises another question.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling *everything* as a kernel module.

2005-02-03 Thread Douglas James Dunn
well if you know what your doing when you are compiling your kernel, knowing meaning, knowing your system and chipsets, I know exactly what I need and dont need, what I use and dont use. IMHO guesswork with the module is bad you should know what drivers you need and what hardware you have. For

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of pdflib failing

2005-02-03 Thread Scott Taylor
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:07 -0600, Daryl Warkentin wrote: I am new to this list so let me know if I need to post problems like this somewhere else. http://bugs.gentoo.org - check there first as your problem might already be fixed. When you submit a new bug there, its best to attach the results

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Alexandre St-Pierre
I did some further research and I have determened I don't have a syslog-ng deamon runnning, but I have metalog. I'm going to find and play around with those config files to see where my messages are being filtered to. With metalog check in /var/log/everything/current You should see the

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Thursday 03 February 2005 19:31, Bradley Serbu wrote: Obviously thats what I ment to type. I did some further research and I have determened I don't have a syslog-ng deamon runnning, but I have metalog. I'm going to find and play around with those config files to see where my messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong link for X11.

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Sanders
I'm having problems setting up Codeweavers. I have to set up certain links with rgb,l which I've done. I still have problems, however. I just noticed that in /usr/lib/X11 I have: X11 -- ../X11R6/lib/X11 That's what I have on my x86 box, but on my amd64 box it's correct. $ ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
Are the message details/events the same. I am specifically looking for the hotplug messages after plugging in an usb device. (Also, I'm not seeing those in everything, rather kernel/current) Also, does compiliing packages with the debug use flag increase the verbosity of the log? - Brad

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong link for X11.

2005-02-03 Thread Douglas James Dunn
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 10:47 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: I'm having problems setting up Codeweavers. I have to set up certain links with rgb,l which I've done. I still have problems, however. I just noticed that in /usr/lib/X11 I have: X11 -- ../X11R6/lib/X11 That's what I

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:06:27 +, Steve wrote: Fair comment... I stand corrected that rsync/rdiff-backup are appropriate for backup of user files. This issue is an old one of trade off between being able to make fast backups and being able to recover quickly. IMHO the dd approach is

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 02/03/05 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:02:28 -0400, Arran Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note, this problem would be a little less severe if I could restart the printer without being root. Can anyone provide a hint for that?

[gentoo-user] Re: USB printer questions...

2005-02-03 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:02:28 -0400, Arran Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only is this annoying, it doesn't seem Linux-like to collect the root password in such a way. Is there a group that I'm supposed to add users to so they can admin CUPS? Anyhoo, I've now officially

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Steve
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:06:27 +, Steve wrote: Fair comment... I stand corrected that rsync/rdiff-backup are appropriate for backup of user files. This issue is an old one of trade off between being able to make fast backups and being able to recover quickly. IMHO the

[gentoo-user] Re: USB printer questions...

2005-02-03 Thread Remy Blank
Remy Blank wrote: One caveat, though: lppasswd is installed with permission 4711 and ownership lp:lp. This doesn't allow it to create the passwd.md5 file. You'll have to change it with: chown root /usr/bin/lppasswd Sorry for replying to my own post, but I forgot that changing the user resets

[gentoo-user] need samba-2.2.8a.ebuild - how to get it today?

2005-02-03 Thread Christian Fischer
Hi all. Maybe an ugly question: Are there any portage achives? Need to run samba-2.2.8 on alpha because of some bugs of samba-3.x Had 2.2.8 working, get 3.x not working. Thanks Christian -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Abap
Another option for doing backups is snapback2. It uses rsync, and has some really nice features. I have contributed an ebuild, and it can be found on http://bugs.gentoo.org, just search on snapback2. Kevin On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:27:34 +, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting dual monitors to work

2005-02-03 Thread James Hiscock
How can I tell if it's loaded opengl correctly? I'd be rather shocked if this was a problem caused by opengl, but you can check with glxinfo or xdpyinfo, IIRC. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] need samba-2.2.8a.ebuild - how to get it today?

2005-02-03 Thread Matthew Cline
Are there any portage achives? Need to run samba-2.2.8 on alpha because of some bugs of samba-3.x Had 2.2.8 working, get 3.x not working. I seem to recall something about a Portage attic that you could access via CVS that countained all the old ebuilds. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] need samba-2.2.8a.ebuild - how to get it today?

2005-02-03 Thread Scott Taylor
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:50 +, Christian Fischer wrote: Are there any portage achives? Need to run samba-2.2.8 on alpha because of some bugs of samba-3.x Had 2.2.8 working, get 3.x not working. cvs on the web:

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer questions...

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:16:04 +0100 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the online administrator manual could help: http://localhost:631/sam.html#RemoteRoot Read the manual? what a novel approach! cheers -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong link for X11.

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
take a look at this thread on gentoo-dev. it may have something to do with it http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/25025 On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:22:47 -0500 Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems setting up Codeweavers. I have to set up certain links with rgb,l

Re: [gentoo-user] need samba-2.2.8a.ebuild - how to get it today?

2005-02-03 Thread Christian Fischer
On Thursday 03 February 2005 19:59, Scott Taylor wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:50 +, Christian Fischer wrote: Are there any portage achives? Need to run samba-2.2.8 on alpha because of some bugs of samba-3.x Had 2.2.8 working, get 3.x not working. cvs on the web:

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Jason Cooper
Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:06:27 +, Steve wrote: Fair comment... I stand corrected that rsync/rdiff-backup are appropriate for backup of user files. This issue is an old one of trade off between being able to make fast backups and being able

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bradley Serbu ha scritto: Hello All, I am tring to figure out why my DWL-122 usb wlan card isn't working and I've noticed serveral references to /log/var/messages, which I don't have! I have several new logs I'm not used to like kernel/current and everything/current. I am running Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] No /log/var/messages

2005-02-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
for some reason I've not seen the previous messages, please ignore mine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Crawford
On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:24 pm, Douglas James Dunn wrote: if you have cable and your using a new ISP now, Besides the wasting of bandwidth on the lists part does it really matter if they keep sending email to your old isp email? Yes, it does matter, as I'm trying to setup a home

[gentoo-user] DWL-122

2005-02-03 Thread Bradley Serbu
I have been in coversation with the writer of the HOWTO: DWL-122 USB and havn't gotten much further. Maybe someone on this list has some usefull input. I really want to get this working. I think the problem is somewhere with hotplug. Perhaps because I have no wlan.agent file? My latest

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-03 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Steve wrote: snip I think you want to look at dd the disk duplicator. This command will allow you to take an exact copy of a smaller hard-disk and store it on a larger one using a single command.. a restore operation uses a similar single command line. Having made an

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
I'm assuming then that you sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this dial up account? I do believe they send you a confirmation email, could you have possibly deleted it? Robert Crawford wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:24 pm, Douglas James Dunn wrote: if you have cable and your using

Re: [gentoo-user] DistCC + Portage Questions

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
are you setting up distcc using distcc-config? what does the logfile say? distcc-config --set-hosts host list distcc-config set-verbose 1 distcc-config set-log /var/log/distcc touch /var/log/distcc emerge blah tools to analyse: tail -f /var/log/distcc (on the compiling machine)

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