Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-07 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:48:15 -0600, Kashani wrote: Actually in large scale stuff you'll need to use shared storage so .maildir/ is still your best choice. You do burn a lot of inodes, but it's a decent trade off against the alternatives. What is the best way to convert

Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Vinsander
George Roberts wrote: Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. You might wanna take a look at tmpwatch (emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] configuration nvidia TNT2 m64

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:15:19 +, Pedro Sousa wrote: As I'm aware, the nvidia-kernel doesn't suport anymore old card. That's no longer true. The initial 1.0.6629 releases didn't work with the TNT2 or GF2, but I'm now using nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r5 and

Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-25 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:10 am, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next you'll be claiming it doesn't matter whether you use vi or emacs ;-) Let's not get into religion on this list. ;) Hehe, I use both... Wonder where that takes me... /Andreas --

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with 3com network cards

2005-02-23 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Zbynek Houska wrote: Feb 23 12:59:35 mailsrv dhcpcd[6627]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response Do you have a proper dhcp server in your local network? /Andreas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the list... is that an intentional change? I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead. /Andreas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] about mysql db backup...

2005-02-14 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Seung Hyun Cho wrote: Hi, I've copied db folder in /var/lib/mysql to my new gentoo server from fedora server. When I connect to mysql in gentoo, I've got this error message... like... MySQL Error: 1017 (Can't find file: './db/table_xxx.frm' (errno: 13)) What is going on here? What should I do???

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: squirrelmail and huge message folders

2005-02-11 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Nick Smith wrote: i would suggest upping the limit anyway, because the folder will still continue to grow. ;-) Nah, I do a cleanup once in a while removing all messages older than 60 days... So I keep it pretty constant at 1 messages... I'm surprised that my tiny server can handle it...

[gentoo-user] OT: squirrelmail and huge message folders

2005-02-10 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! Being a subscriber to this list, I filter (procmail) all messages from the list into a separate folder. Now I have started playin with squirrelmail, and found out that I get a timeout when trying to access folders with many messages (typically this list's folder). Fatal error: Maximum

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: squirrelmail and huge message folders

2005-02-10 Thread Andreas Vinsander
R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Try to increase the max_execution_time in php.ini. Also, enable server side sorting and threading in squirrelmail config (if your imap server supports it). Enabling serverside sorting and threading did the trick... I didn't touch the timeout limits in php.ini. Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail

2005-02-06 Thread Andreas Vinsander
David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 06 February 2005 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:36:05 -0500 David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, but there is a solution. Enable logging and look only at the small second logs. Here is what I mean. The last three lines in my

Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups

2005-02-04 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Nick Smith wrote: well what is the difference between rsync and rdiff-backup if the latter is based on rsync? was there something added? Yep, it handles incremental backups and allows you to restore backups from a certain date, more like a real backup system than plain rsync. More info at:

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] 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] 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 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Private Rsync Mirrors

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Vinsander
lucas wrote: I was just wonding, just what is the regular mirrior system and what do i need to do to set it up??? Take a look at /etc/make.conf... look for SYNC /Andreas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving /usr/portage

2003-11-14 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:00, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 11:47, Mark Knecht wrote: Can /usr/portage just a be a link to a directory on another partition? I'm out of space on my main drive and I'd like to move the data, but I was thinking I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing uris

2003-10-20 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 October 2003 07:41, Alberto G. Hierro wrote: Hi all, We're planning to install Gentoo in 50 workstations in my high school. These workstations won't have access to internet , so i'm planning to set up a rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly OT: NAS / USB Print Server Suggestions?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Vinsander
I suppose u need the extra storage, but why don't you convert the windoze box to gentoo and use it as print and fileserver? I use an old PII 300Mhz as NFS, samba (both PDC and plain fileserver) and USB print-server (for my Epson Stylus C82), it works like a charm! /Andreas Matt Neimeyer wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl perl script

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Vinsander
If the goal is to find out what you need to recompile, just follow the advice in the ebuild... For instance: revdep-rebuild --soname libssl.so.0.9.6 -p Look at the man-page... /Andreas Andrew Gaffney wrote: Brett wrote: Greetings, Can somebody help me with the following script, I cannot get

[gentoo-user] Kbd and mouse hang

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! I'm experiencing hangs of my kbd and mouse while using X (or switching between X and console). It seems like the hang is showing up when moving the mouse fast. I can still ssh into the machine. Symptoms: kbd and/or mouse is non-responsive I'm starting to wonder if it can have anything to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kbd and mouse hang

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Vinsander
, 2003-09-29 at 15:52, Andreas Vinsander wrote: Some more information. In addition to moving the mouse fast I can make the mouse hang by switching (ctrl + alt + functionkey) to and from X. The MB includes video and sound controllers (cheap thing). I have a similar machine running (not the same MB

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find why kde likes to downgrade gnome?

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Do u need gnome at all? Else I would do: USE=-gnome -gtk emerge -upD kde /Andreas Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Thanks for the explanation, in the rest I run emerge in debug mode ... in the output is (little bit hidden) answer to my question :-). Renat Golubchyk wrote: If the D sign is missing then

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync daemon logs alot

2003-09-19 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Thnx! /Andreas Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 14:59, Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! I have setup one of our local hosts to be a gentoo rsync-mirror, for use within our private network. My problem is that the rsync daemon (on the server) logs so much when one of the clients syncs

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail Server error...

2003-09-18 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Look at this snippet from ezmlm manual: [EMAIL PROTECTED](*) Get the latest 30 messages from the archive. If the list has a digest, the messages returned are the messages received since the latest digest (the last message of the latest digest is returned so that there always will be at

[gentoo-user] Saying hello!

2003-09-18 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! Since I became a member of this list today, I just wanted to say hello to all fellow gentoo users. I have been using gentoo on my machines at work since april-may 2003. During the summer I also setup a web/mail-server at home using gentoo. Have yet to move my home day-to-day box over to

[gentoo-user] rsync daemon logs alot

2003-09-18 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! I have setup one of our local hosts to be a gentoo rsync-mirror, for use within our private network. My problem is that the rsync daemon (on the server) logs so much when one of the clients syncs against it, that the sync is halted until I restart the metalog daemon. Every process using

[gentoo-user] baselayout merge failed?

2003-09-18 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi! When mergeing baselayout I got the following problem: The ebuild tries to copy a '.keep' file to my /home filesys. The thing is that I automount each user directory (/home/someuser) from my server, which means that /home is not writable by anybody. When doing emerge -up baselayout it