RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending mail to a program

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
Here is my code: #include fstream using namespace std; int main (int argc, char* argv[]) { ofstream out; out.open(/root/test.data); for (int x = 0; x argc; x++) out argv[x]; out.close(); return 0; } It works fine from the command line, but when I try

RE: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why people use Reply to all on a list such as this I have no idea... Because the standard for most lists is that a reply goes to the original sender only and 'reply to all' is used to send a message to the OP and the list. The gentoo list is the only one that we have seen that violates this

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
I don't think 'fixing' is likely to happen as this discussion happens frequently. It mostly boils down to the list handling being correct but some clients seems to behave incorrectly. Personally, I'd prefer if the clients handle lists properly. As would we all. But the truth of the matter

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm getting an error with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1: #ifdef ERROR_MESS i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc localealias.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -mcpu=i686 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fPIC -g0 -O99 -fomit-frame-pointer -D__USE_STRING_INLINES

RE: [gentoo-user] Won't emerge -uDvp world

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Anyways, I emerge synced, which went fine, but when I try to pretend to emerge -uDvp world to see what it's going to install, I get the error about missing /etc/make.profile and check symlink. What does this mean and what can I do about it? Are those the emerge options I should be using for

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
NOTE: Making the changes I suggest below may impact your system (especially by changing the CHOST). If you choose to make them be sure to emerge --emptytree system at least and probably the world as well. My make.conf has CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu use CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ Nah! It's got to be an april fool's joke... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Bug reporting questions

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
OK. What does CHOST do? It's the basis for the hosting architecture. By defining it as 686 it (plus the right CFLAGS) is supposed to optimize compiles for your platform. OK. What does -pipe do? Gcc will build intermediary files to pass between the internal components (i.e. the

RE: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder!

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monthly BugDay reminder! On Apr 1, 2005 8:39 AM, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:10:00 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I say again, no other list I am on exhibits this

RE: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
The other problem that was confusing everything is still a problem though. When I start the machine the /etc/init.d/sshd script doesn't start sshd, /etc/init.d/sshd restart doesn't work and /etc/init.d/sshd status tells me that sshd is running when it isn't . I have to /usr/sbin/sshd

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
What's wrong with emerge cyrus-sasl? emerge cyrus-sasl fails. How about posting a transcript of what is actually going on? Have you tried sync'ing since this started? If it was a temporary fluke there may be a new or updated ebuild to fix it. And just because the emerge fails doesn't mean

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
I want more space under /, so I tried to move /usr to a different partition - and (IIRC) had a 'failure to unmount the initrd' on boot... and no boot. So, is there a safe way to do this? /usr is a little tricky because it will usually have open processes on it. You can move /usr to a new

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: On-topic, possible mailing list issue

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
-Original Message- From: Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to figure out how two copies of my email You should not be posting mail to robin.gentoo.org, just [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving /usr to different partition

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
As to whether to move all of /usr or just parts of /usr, I have separate partitions for /usr/local and /usr/portage but leave /usr on the root partition. Okay. I can live with that, if I know it's possible. I just need a little extra space, as the disk use approaches 90%. Moving

RE: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
grep: /usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkio.la' is not a valid libtool archive I have kde 3.4, but he tries to compile with a library from kde 3.3 that is not

RE: [gentoo-user] Error compiling showimg

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
Is there any way to see what libraries hare linked to library? ldd is your friend... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
The advice was: rm -f /usr/lib32 ln -s ../../emul/linux/x86/usr/lib /usr/lib32 FEATURES=-sandbox emerge gcc This fix the update off gcc problem. (but i am wondering it may break somting else?) Well probably you lost your /usr/lib32's file crt1.o file. Bummer. If you remember what the

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does not work directly after booting. After restarting the net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people without root access] i would like to know if someone has had

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
You could also try setting up ifplugd. If nothing else, it would allow your users to reset the network by removing and reinserting the network cable. That's not something I'd let *my* users do ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] sometimes internet works only after /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restar

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
# during boot ## Mar 31 15:31:31 [kernel] NET: Registered protocol family 10 Mar 31 15:31:31 [net.agent] add event not handled # guess this line is the problem # Mar 31 15:32:07 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response_ # guess this line is the problem

RE: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
There may not be nothing wrong with it, but it is nevertheless almost as crappy way to do it. This is because the next time the package with custom CFLAGS gets updated as part of a world/system update, it will be emerged with the default CFLAGS again... In these cases it is better to manage

RE: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well after I updated gcc I run the updatescript and this script merges some pacage (portage gcc-config distcc linux-headers etc..) so gcc was working when i updated the system to 2005.0 else I will received an error.. (at least i suppose so :-) locate output this: Mjolne spetznaz # locate

RE: [gentoo-user] Config Files Update?

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
There is a program called 'etc-update' this will show you the changes that will be required to update your files in /etc and subdirs, but I find it doesn't do all the updates.. Really? I use etc-update all the time but was running under the assumption that it was supposed to handle all of the

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am trying to compile cyrus-sasl and during configure i got the error that build options where changed in CFLAGS even though they were not. the recommended at the end of the script was to make distclean or rm config.cache and try again so i did that and ran ./configure with options

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
We can't make Linux better and ready for the desktop-- which does *not* mean we have to do everything via a GUI, dagnabit; people can certainly use the command-line comfortably *if they know how*-- unless we identify where people are falling over it and how to remove the obstacles to their

RE: [gentoo-user] '[Masked]' packages - another newbie question...

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Can someone explain (or point me to a document which explains) exactly what the implications of the 'Masked' annotation... Masked means, as you assumed, that it is not considered 'production ready' under gentoo. Could mean that it hasn't been fully tested yet, could mean that there are issues

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Everyone assumes that the masses must have a GUI, because the command-line is too scary in some way. But if the command-line was intuitively understandable, *would these users still be scared of it*? Would they continue to avoid Linux, just because text is not as pretty as icons, even when

RE: [gentoo-user] Rotating cron files

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I would like instead to enumerate the two files (starting from monday = 1, till friday=5) in order to keep a week backup, such as for instance: curve.1.tar.gz , curve.2.tar.gz, .. curve.5. tar.gz and the same for etc How can I obtain this result with crontab? Use date +%u to get the day

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why does something have to act/look like Windows to be ready for the desktop. If that's what you need/want just use Windows already! It's not that the next OS has to act/look like windows to supplant windows, it's a question of usability... There's a lot of research that has been done and is

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Unfortunately, Holly, I don't think linux will be ready for the desktop for quite awhile (yes, that does make me sad). Novell disagrees: [snip] ATT disagrees: [snip] Various governments disagree: [double-snip for an nytimes link] The tide is turning. Only if you can't see the

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
My biggest worry now is Internet predators. I wish there was a real solution for that sort of stuff under Linux, like Net-nanny etc. under Windows. That's what scares me as a parent. Heard of squid? It's only the standard proxy for linux-based systems and kicks the crap out of net nanny...

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why does something have to act/look like Windows to be ready for the desktop. If that's what you need/want just use Windows already! It's not that the next OS has to act/look like windows to supplant windows, it's a question of usability... There's a lot of research that has been

On-topic, possible mailing list issue: was RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay, mailing list question... I received six different copies of Mark's message... Granted he did cross post to gentoo-user@gentoo.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can understand getting two copies, but six? No offense to you, Mark, but was this something he did or something that either the

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well I took the same options ebuild uses when it ran ./configure, i used the same options again. Hence I believe the use flags might be retained. I wouldn't know until it is installed. A wild swing and try. I just want to get over the compile error so that I can compile openldap which has

RE: On-topic, possible mailing list issue: was RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I received six different copies of Mark's message... Make that 8 copies now... Looked at the actual message headers and other than repeats for mailing list stuff (see below), there's nothing really helpful in identifying the problem source... Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To:

RE: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 error

2005-03-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
Yeah, but why are you trying to use ebuild to install the package in the first place? Did emerge choke on it? Do you need custom configure script options? Having that background will help to figure out how to complete the task it seems you're trying to do... Being a newbie, I

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge wget failed - help

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am trying an emerge on wget. I get a compile error: In file included from ftp.c:52: ftp.h:81: error: parse error before numeric constant make[1]: *** [ftp.o] Error 1 Jason, wget-1.9.1-r3 builds fine on my system. Perhaps you could send the output from a few lines before this error

RE: [gentoo-user] again gdeslets please help

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
i hardly try to run gdesklets on my gentoo whit xfce4 i have emerged all the packages and now i have the gdesklets in the menubar. if i try to run gdesklets [snip] zh, not to sound crass but if you haven't seen any traffic on this message it's most likely because no one has an answer for

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-base/arts doesn't see qt

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! !!! ERROR: kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1 failed. !!! Function

RE: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.conf file??? No, that's not what make.conf is used for. I want to remove balckdown/ibm JDKs. You can use the 'emerge -i dev-java/blackdown-jdk dev-java/blackdown-jre' command to make portage think it's installed but not

RE: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] A Windows shell Im creating

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
Does it mean that non .NET will not run properly on their forthcoming pieces of vomit OSes? Nope, it just means that support for VB 6 and earlier versions of the development tool will not be supported. Applications built under VB 6 will still run (obviously as there is a huge installation base

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Users and errors (was: help line 6: B: command not found FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
In any case, Dave still had to search for the typo one way or another even with the advice; this was unavoidable. But the error message already contained the information on where to start the search (and in fact what was wrong, by indicating that there was a typo somewhere). So what I am

RE: [gentoo-user] CHOST *can* be changed!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Impatient to an answer to my query whether or not I could change CHOST and CFLAGS in make.conf after having installed everything with reference to Intel arch instead of AMD, I went ahead anyway -- and it worked! After 7 3/4 tense hrs(!)xorg was emerged successfully. Well, almost. While the

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge/make failure i386 vs i686

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Trying to emerge the kde packages I get a make error from kde-libs build. Its looking for: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: i386 packages but what is installed there is: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la i686 stuff. Do I need to pass

RE: [gentoo-user] configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Unpacking patch-2.5.9.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/patch-2.5.9/work Source unpacked. configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use -- host. configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. If you go to

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge system = many automakes

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why does emerge system want to install 6 different automake versions in different slots and 2 different autoconf versions? They are slotted. Different packages need different versions of auto{make,conf} to build properly. They don't take up that much space and ensure the system builds

[gentoo-user] Any posters getting bounce messages?

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought the mailing list was set up to auto-unregister folks when the bounce messages are returned? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Obviously I need to get a bit more used to where to find documentation on gentoo. I am used to being able to use 'man -k' to find most system documentation on BSD, with the addition of 'texinfo' and 'locate' since experimenting with linux... Web browser meet Digby. Digby meet web

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
It seems odd to me that you have 3.4.3 emerged, but 3.3.5 is selected. Anyone else know what might be going on here? Gcc are slotted, there's nothing bad having multiple versions. I didn't say it was wrong, but it *is* curious that the *older* version is selected, rather than the

RE: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Oh, I agree that being able to nominate a runlevel at boot time is a good thing. But I think it would be more consistent to do it by specifying it the same way that it is specified in inittab or to telinit, and the same way it is reported by 'who -r' That is, they should all use

RE: [gentoo-user] configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
configure:1655: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -DLINUX -D_XOPEN i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory cc1: Broken pipe: error closing Dude, you've got a seriously broken gentoo system :-( Your toolchain is corrupted

RE: [gentoo-user] Runlevel schizophrenia...

2005-03-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
For instance you refer to /sbin/rc as the way to change from one runlevel to another, yet 'man rc' shows nothing. Whereas a 'man telinit' on gentoo does give a description of a program claiming to be the correct way to change runlevel... Documentation (and man pages in general) are typically

RE: [gentoo-user] xorg emerge seg-fault -- NOT ram!

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu Why i386, could go i586, coudn't it? Because you never change the CHOST after the initial gentoo build. Besides, the PIII is i686. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] one more su problem

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
Can you log in as the user at all? Or are you trying only from su? only from su... You should try to log in as the user specifically to ensure that the login is not expired. don't know what this means. After boot I login as user or root. If, as user, I enter su, I get error, acct

RE: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4 b0rkage with segmentation fault

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe You really should try to match your CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. It's safer that way. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] one more su problem

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
Now I'm wondering what you're trying to do. Are you trying to su to a user ??? in user - root, like I said!! If I'm already root where on earth could I su to? or why? Su is just that - switch user. I do it frequently from root to another user, i.e. I want to test some changes

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: gnu time command

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Im trying to write some scripts to record some times for creating graphs. Im trying to use the time command and have it output to a file. In the man page it gives details of how one can use the -o and -a switches to output to and append to a file. However the utility does not seem to

RE: [gentoo-user] /dev/dri/card0 gone (ATI Radeon 9600)

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have recently lost 3d support for my ATI Radeon 9600, and am using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 and media-video/ati-drivers-8.10.19. In my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, excerpted below, it complains that /dev/dri/card0 doesn't exist and sure enough: 6.8.2-r1 is a new release of xorg; I'm going to

[gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I typically run a customized kernel but every time the vanilla kernel (2.4) is modified it's included in emerge --pretend --update --deep world. I'm aware of package.mask, etc., but was wondering if there's a better way to keep portage from trying to download/build the unused gentoo kernels...

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'd imagine that 100% of the people on this list interact with email, which is a much better ratio than those that use X, setup a bootsplash, or want sound to work. I quitely delete those threads as being of no interest to me, but interesting and on topic for others on the list. I expect

RE: [gentoo-user] kde-split ebuilds advice

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
My ? is, do I have to emerge each individual app or kdemeta in order to be able to emerge individual apps at a later time for updates etc... I installed my KDE via the emerge kde command. I don't typically see updates for individual applications but do see updates for the core KDE component

RE: [gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
That is what homebrew-sources is for. It's a dummy ebuild that provides all necessary virtuals to simulate gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.99. Great! As I mentioned at the end of my reply, it was possible that I was missing your point and apparently I was. Thanks for this pointer; I'm going to give it

RE: [gentoo-user] How to convince portage not to manage kernel...

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Put it in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sys-kernel/homebrew-sources and emerge. Did that, but portage still thinks I want the 2.4 kernel: server homebrew-sources # emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild

RE: [gentoo-user] managing servers

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have most of this done already... I guess what I am really looking for is package management / security updates and building new machines. I'm sure I'm not dealing with the sizes you are, but I'm running gentoo on a number of my systems at home. To that end I've got a 'gentoo server' that's

RE: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
Thanks, but I've already added those to my package.mask, but the 1.0-6111 nVidia kernel module refuses to compile on 2.6.11 and most its the release candidates for me. When I was using nvidia I downloaded the 6111 release from nvidia.com and had to modify some of the code to get it to compile

RE: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
| Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4. Hrm. Are we talking app-vim/colorschemes stuff here? If so, sync and upgrade. Checked both systems, neither has colorschemes installed. I guess if the working one did and the failing one did not I could understand. But I compared the

[gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm not sure what I did, but I've lost color syntax in VI... I've got two gentoo systems, each sync'd last night, each running vi 6.3-r4, duplicate /etc/vim/vimrc and ~/.vimrc files. SSH into one and vi does the color syntax. SSH into the other and vi does not do the color syntax. Term is set

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4. -Original Message- From: Ciaran McCreesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors... On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:26:16 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Take a look at the contents of /etc/make.profile. There's really not much in there outside of (from what I can see) files containing use flags and package masks. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it was the default values used to construct the base system from your initial install, whether

RE: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
What is /etc/localtime linked to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo mirrors

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets unreachable after a while (usually one week or two). What do you mean by 'unreachable'? emerge --sync reports an error, or is it more of a network problem that

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

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
You can safely drop /var/tmp/portage to reclaim a lot of space. /usr/portage will typically contain the distribution files for those pieces that you've emerged; you can remove these but re-emerging/updating would download them again. To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing

RE: [gentoo-user] Root cannot open display

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error. E233: cannot open display By default X.org disables tcp access. To enable root (or another user) to open windows on the display you need to: 1. remove the -nolisten tcp

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost par_port printer after emerge

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hello all, Hello, James. After a emerge --update --deep --newuse world and then env-update source /etc/profile updatedb etc-update I hope you had a reason to include --newuse as, without the -e for empty tree it's kinda pointless, I believe. I used cups to setup the printing and

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost par_port printer after emerge

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
I did 'emberge unmerge ghostview' and 'merge ghostview-afpl' earlier today... In that case I'd re-emerge cups. There are parts of cups that tie into ghostview for the printing of postscript files. Having a different ghostview implementation could be causing you some problems. --

RE: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? I've been running eclipse on my gentoo system, 256mb, no problems. I think you'll notice a big difference between it and

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie Hardware Advice

2005-02-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD. I am very happy with my new nVidia card. I went through hell with my ATI card. So I greatly recommend nVidia. From personal experience, I can say this: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN NVIDIA CARD.

RE: [gentoo-user] uuencode

2005-02-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
Where is uuencode packaged? I think it's part of uulib. What is the correct way way to find this out myself? esearch -S uuencode Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
I know that today I sent two messages back to the people who originally posted when I really wanted it to go back to the list. Yes I was not thinking and just did a reply (which should have gone to the list). That's just it - the thought process should go into which messages go to the list,

RE: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time emerge --searchdesc analyzer Searching... -/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 21: ... real22m48.548s user18m54.880s sys 3m29.307s do an emerge --meta which might help a little. Second, is this the only way to see all of the packages in a specific

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

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken, recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state. One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a simple google search. But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get 7 different

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

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
Yes, but the point of the list is to tell the list, not that one person alone. Had all 7 replies been to the OP, then no one else who wanted the answer, now or in the future, would know what the answer was. The broken 'reply to' means that you don't have to think about where your replies go, a

RE: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
I think you're right. Does this mean anyone could easily intercept my login and password and log in as me? The basic answer for this is yes. Definitely your password could be intercepted and used by others. But consider for a minute what is involved with that... Someone floating out there

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
From /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} MAKEOPTS=-j2 The machine is has a Pentium MMX 199MgHz processor, so I'm not sure if the i686 is right (I thought i686 was a Pentium II) so I changed CHOST to x86 and changed

RE: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo installation won't let me set root'spasswd [SOLVED]

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hope you have a spare week or so with a machine that slow. :) Either that or a distcc compile farm, which is what I use for keeping a gentoo p133 system up to date... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Unattended sftp?

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm also concerned about sending my password for these systems over the internet in clear text. Ah, you're doing that whether you are doing it manually or automagically via a cron task. So if you're not worried about the manual upload, why worry about the automated upload? Based on the

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're running xscreensaver, do - Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver. Well, a

RE: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. Last I heard write support to ntfs was still classified as experimental. I don't know that I'd

RE: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded from my router, however, I can only connect to the server locally and only by specifying 127.0.0.1:8000. Outside of the machine, all I get is connection

RE: [gentoo-user] Error in the emerge of gpm-1.20.1

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
My questions are : a. Why is this happening (i.e. is this a bug, or a misconfiguration on my side) b. How should I fix this ? Don't believe it's a bug, but then I'm not running emacs so I don't have that use flag set. You could try an env-update, which would rebuild the ld cache and might

RE: [gentoo-user] Cygwin and Sygwin

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
Is it the same thing? Freshmeat shows no projects with that name and google matches seem to indicate they are the same (people entering typos). http://www.cygwin.org Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Cygwin and Sygwin

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
http://www.cygwin.org Oops, that should have been http://www.cygwin.com Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Assistance? Kernel 2.6.10-as2-grsec-20050124: proftpd segfaulting(11 / SIGSEGV)

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
Now, does this mean grsecurity sent that signal? Or is this just the signal logging? Grsecurity is sending the signal. Segment violations are usually culprits of bad pointer referencing, not that it would help identify why grsecurity is failing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Patches

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well, there are 2 tarballs with patches. Can someone tell me where ${DISTDIR} is? I'd like to have a look at the tarballs to at least know what I'm patching. ... or where do I find the genpatches-*? ... and where is ${WORKDIR}? Maybe the _README will tell me what I want to know. These

RE: [gentoo-user] symlinks missing when distcc installed

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
Then, it didn't work. Distcc did not distribute any compile tasks to the other computers. I tracked it down as far as I can. It looks like there are not any links from the /usr/lib/distcc/bin directory to the distcc binary. For a short term solution, I created the links on the PCs that

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix excessive logging

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
For every single mail I get I see a few hundred(!) lines of logs... :-( I reckon something is running in debug mode, but try as I might I cannot find what is (and where it is configured). A log excerpt is to be found below. It's mostly the smtpd guy (it looks like) that is generating the

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing GENTOO from CD

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
I was comparing the installation instructions for Gentoo with that of other Linuxes. I currently have Libranet, SuSE, two KNOPPIXes, UBUNTU, installed and of course some decisions, such as you mention, were needed but not to the extent that Gentoo requires. They didn't have a 100 page set

RE: [gentoo-user] [Gentto-user] R for Gentoo linux

2005-02-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
What's the best way to install R? That depends upon your needs. For a simple usage scenario, emerge is the best as it will become part of your world file and will be updated automatically as new releases are put out. For a custom usage (i.e. you need to use special options for the configure

RE: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I want to know which filesystem is a better choice for having lots (4billion) directories. The dirs will be in tree format, so at the root will be 256 dirs, each with 256 sub-dirs, each with 256 sub-dirs. This will go on for 8 to 12 levels deep (I don't know yet) Then each dir will have one

RE: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
ReiserFS does deal with billions of tiny files better than almost all other file systems. You're going to run into inode issues with ext3 as well. However what you're doing sounds like it belongs in a database instead of creating weird data structures within your filesystem.

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