Re: [gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

2005-04-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matan Peled -- Possibly because e-mail clients that reply with AW: also break the headers in some strange way... ... but kmail has no problem sorting and threading those messages, so why can't evolution handle this? Any ideas for solving this issue, or do I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

2005-04-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Ow Mun Heng -- Evolution nor any mail clients uses that as a basis for threading. (AFAIK). They use these headers embedded in the email messages instead References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, but why

[gentoo-user] OT: reply prefix in evolution

2005-04-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, is it possible to configure evoultion to recognize other prefixes then Re: as a reply? I get many emails with other prefixes like AW:, but evolution does create a new thread then in threaded-view :( Any ideas? Greetings, Matthias -- Oh, Lisa, you and your stories. `Bart is a

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

2005-03-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Nicolas Bailey -- To rip I use dvdrip. Hi, can you make backup copies of copy protected DVDs with dvdrip? Of course, including menu and resizing to a single layer DVD, as some windows programs can do? Greetings, Matthias -- When will I learn? The answers to life's

[gentoo-user] OT: howto enable ALSA sound?

2005-03-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have been running OSS since years, but now I want to try ALSA, because I want to use my microphone for skype. So I followed the Gentoo ALSA guide, but unfortunately w/o success Sad First, I looked for my sound card. It's a SB Live!, so I added ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 to my /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto enable ALSA sound?

2005-03-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Christoph Eckert -- * You do not need the ALSA driver package with 2.6 kernels because the drivers are now included in the kernel any advices for a 2.4 kernel? BTW: Whenever possible Skype can be avoided using SIP softphones like linphone. what are pros and cons

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto enable ALSA sound?

2005-03-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Christoph Eckert -- Thenj you'll need the external alsa-driver package, plus alsa-lib and - optionally - alsa-utils. Alsaconf is in alsa-utils, so I recommend to install alsa-utils. I tried that (following Gentoo ALSA config guide), but as said in my first post,

Re: [gentoo-user] graphics under console?

2005-03-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- My question now is: Are there any other possibilities to display graphics (simple images) under text console? thanks for your suggestions, I will try them... Greetings, Matthias -- Marge: I would love you if you weighed 1,000 pounds

[gentoo-user] howto tune SpamAssassin

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, after upgrading SA to version 3 I now do get lots of false negative. I trained my filter via sa-learn, and many of these FP do have BAYES_99, but they do not reach 5.0 points. What to do, any ideas? Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- Herb: All born in wedlock? Homer: Yeah, though the

[gentoo-user] graphics under console?

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a bunch of *very* old 386 and 486 which I want to use only to display some images an alike. Problem is, those old graphic cards are not VESA 2.0 capable, so they do not support framebuffer. My question now is: Are there any other possibilities to display graphics (simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto tune SpamAssassin

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Thomas Kirchner -- In your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file, add some lines like the following, for whatever tests you want to modify: score BAYES_50 1.0 score BAYES_60 1.5 score BAYES_80 2.5 score BAYES_95 4.0 score BAYES_99 4.5 thanks, that did the trick!

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-22 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Aleksandar Radovic -- [Drive D] Path = /media/dvdrom Type = hd Device = /dev/hdd Filesystem = win95 Once that is done, start DVD shrink with something like: $ wine fake_windows/Program\ Files/DVD\ Shrink/DVD\ Shrink\ 3.2.exe d: After starting the above command I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-21 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Francesco Talamona -- I'm surprised you didn't suggest convertfs... There was a thread about ext-reiser migration early this year (was: convert ext3 to reiserfs). Thanks for your tip, but I moved my data via copying to a temp. drive... Greetings and thx, Matthias

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin 3 does no bayes filtering?

2005-02-19 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Richard C. Cox -- I'm running the new 3.0.2, and got this from a piece of spam just a few moments ago: 1.9 BAYES_99   BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% I haven't done anything to my configs, so I believe you just have to give it a little

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-19 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Aleksandar Radovic -- This is anything but proper Linux solution: DVD shrink under wine works perfectly for me. The program itself seems to run fine, but it can't find my DVD. Do I have to mount it? What settings do you have for your dvd drive in your wine config?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-19 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Antoine -- I can't understand why people don't take dvd::rip more seriously. It is really great (though doesn't do menus but none of the other solutions seem to either). People think that you only do cds with it - silly. You just specify the size you want the output

[gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-18 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I want to make a backup copy of my DVDs, but since they are copy protected I can't just copy them via k3b. I thougt I could rip it with dvd:rip and then burn it to DVD, but it seems that dvd:rip is only for backups to CD-ROM (or did I miss something?). Isn't there a CloneDVD-like tool

[gentoo-user] spamassassin 3 does no bayes filtering?

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, just finished upgrading my spamassassin installation to version 3.0.2 and it seems to work fine, but with one exception: I think it does not use any bayes filtering. IIRC there was some info on bayes filters in every spam mail with spamassassin-2.x, but I can't see them any more in my

[gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I need to build a backup server with at least 3x200gb SATA disks on a hardware raid5. I do not have many good experiences with HW raid controllers under (gentoo) Linux, since the system never saw the raid array, but the seperate disks. So I had to build a software raid over them...

[gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a backup system with 3 brand new IDE disks (200gb each), and a linux based software raid5 over them. I am storing data of some servers on this /dev/md0 (ext3 on it), including thousands of little files from a mailserver, some webs, and some data of windows based servers. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 3Ware is your friend. Check out their SATA RAID controllers. They have kernel support. thanks for your tip! are they supported under 2.4 as well, or only under 2.6? which one should I buy? -- Did you hear that, Marge? She called me a baboon!

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice for HW raid5 controller needed

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 3Ware is your friend. Check out their SATA RAID controllers. They have kernel support. One more questions: Are there any 3Ware controllers with IDE support as well, which can be used for real hardware arrays under Gentoo Linux? -- Homer: Your

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Bob Sanders -- Bad drives? I don't trust drives until they've run for at least 2 wks after I purchase them - I've had them die in that time. But do you think that all 3 of them are bad? Since I run a raid and do the filesystem check over this whole array, I wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mike Williams -- On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Now I do not really know where to search for the problem. Is it Linux's software raid5 implementation, which is buggy? Is it one or more of the IDE disks? Or is this normal

Re: [gentoo-user] file preview in KDE's open file dialog

2005-02-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Alex -- On Monday 07 February 2005 02:39, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: somehow I managed to disable file preview (for images, pdfs etc.) in my KDE setup. I remember there was a preview pane on the right side of any open file dialog in KDE, but now it's gone

[gentoo-user] file preview in KDE's open file dialog

2005-02-06 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, somehow I managed to disable file preview (for images, pdfs etc.) in my KDE setup. I remember there was a preview pane on the right side of any open file dialog in KDE, but now it's gone. Does anybody has an idea how I can get this back? Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- I may just quit

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing PalmOS w/ OSS groupware?

2005-01-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- J-Pilot is very very nice, currently the closest thing to the Palm Desktop. It has exactly and only the features of the Palm Pilot. Evo/Korganizer have features in the desktop that don't translate to the Pilot, and they miss some

[gentoo-user] Synchronizing PalmOS w/ OSS groupware?

2005-01-13 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a Tungsten T5 handheld running PalmOS v5.4.5, which I synchronized with MS Outlook so far. Now I am searching for an open source alternative groupware system (with calendar), which I can use for synchronizing as well. Are there any options for this -- do you guys have an idea?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: For anyone having a bad day with thier servers....

2004-02-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Sami Samhuri -- Wow I thought I was good with 600-something. ... That was only luck ... you can punch tux further than 1.000 meters with enough mines ;) -- Step aside, everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville.

Re: [gentoo-user] incorporating bug fixes

2004-02-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Grendel -- It actually is superior, My IQ ranks at 165, and I am a life member of mensa. Wow Grendel, you're my man ... you must be the most intelligent guy I've ever wrote to! What I can't understand: How could it be that a guy with an IQ of only 132 (shame on me)

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail functionality

2004-02-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mike Williams -- Aren't the 'POP3 Filters' there to do that? On the Tools menu. Never used them myself. ... yes, you can do with these POP3 filters exactly what the OP asked for. Greetings, Matthias -- Michael: Hi. I'm Michael Jackson, from The Jacksons.

Re: [gentoo-user] incorporating bug fixes

2004-02-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Grendel -- 1. I clicked on the New Link which is actually New-Expert, and not New-guided which is listed in the bottom of the screen were o one who is submitting his first bug report would look. What? If you visit bugs.gentoo.org there is a link under Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: For anyone having a bad day with thier servers....

2004-02-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Andrew Gaffney -- A friend of mine showed me that last night on a different site. What's your high score? I've gotten 731ft using only 2 mines. 1008,3 meters :) -- Mmm...incapacitating. -- Homer Simpson The Springfield Connection

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: just a comment

2004-02-26 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Andrew Farmer -- Don't know about you, but here (in the US) I can get an eMac (1GHz G4, 40GB HD, 128MB RAM) for $800 (or 1.98 ounces of gold, at current exchange rates). It's not a supercomputer, but it's still a decent machine. Don't want to say anything against a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-15 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Grendel -- Well spam assasin is not very accurate, ie my ISP runs spam assasin but out of the 4000 mails I get per day I find that about 80 spam get through, which is annoying, so I used bmf and it is very accurate, now only one spam per day gets through. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hey!

2004-02-15 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Spider -- look at the bottom of http://gentoo.org/~spider/ thx! [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg --fingerprint [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/38B4DF79 2002-05-07 Spider (Spindel) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = C996 F74E 6915 9BC7 6D1D 55A3 652F 4265 38B4 DF79 thx! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Peter Ruskin -- and you, grendel, have been added to mine. I think this list would be better without you and your nasty comments Is it wise to put someone into your killfile on a public mailing list? I mean, you would loose some information of one thread this way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests

2004-02-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Grendel -- ... trust me that bmf and bogofilter are better than spamassasin. I tested that with the last 1000 emails I recevied 200 were spam, and only 1 got through. I have similar results using SpamAssassin over a year now. So why do you think is bmf better than

Re: [gentoo-user] When portage doesn't know about the latest release of a package...

2004-02-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Kevin -- Ok. Misconception #1 cleared up. Thanks again for the replies. One thing: Often it's possbile to just copy one ebuild (under /usr/portage/category) for example called test-1.2.3.ebuild to test-1.2.4.ebuild and emerge this new ebuild. That's not allways

Re: [gentoo-user] Font problem after emerging QT3.3

2004-02-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Scharf Yuval -- After emerging qt 3.3 non-latin letters appear on the screen as empty squares. I have this problem at least with licq. Look at this bug for some information: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40887 -- It's wonderful, it's magical. Oh boy,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo facing other source distros

2004-02-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jérôme Bouat -- Up to now, I'm a Mandrake Linux user. I search for a more optimized system (i.e. source based distros). I have heard many stuffs on Rock, Socerer, Lunar, Source Mage, Onebase and Gentoo distro. Could you explain me which differences are between all

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it a bug? baselayout-1.8.6.12-r3 in /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh

2004-02-10 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Tianran Chen -- does anyone know that it is a bug? or it was designed to be like that? I would search @ bugs.gentoo.org and eventually post a new bug there... Greetings, Matthias -- Kirk: One day your wife is making you your favorite meal, the next day

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree update

2004-02-10 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Chuck Mize -- [ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r4 [4.3.0-r3] Next question: Is it worth to update from 4.2.1 to newest 4.3.0-r3? I mean, are there any special features I could benefit from? Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: Okay, okay, don't panic. To find

[gentoo-user] portage and no output (broken pipe)

2004-02-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a strange problem with portage, but it seems I am not alone with it. Since some weeks I get this error line after compiling or merging anything: * Caching service dependencies... awk: cmd. line:2: (FILENAME=/etc/init.d/xfs FNR=290) warning: error writing standard output

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and no output (broken pipe)

2004-02-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- I have a strange problem with portage, but it seems I am not alone with it. Since some weeks I get this error line after compiling or merging anything: * Caching service dependencies... awk: cmd. line:2: (FILENAME=/etc/init.d/xfs FNR

Re: [gentoo-user] log events

2004-02-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mauro Arnoldi -- Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons )_ Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) CMD (root^Itest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons )_ This CRON entries are from your cron daemon. Look into /etc/crontab

Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase 3.2 compile error: syntax error autom4te

2004-02-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Gerald Preissler -- While emerging kdebase-3.2.0.ebuild, I get the following errors: ] snip [ The compile later ends with an error message ] snip [ I hade exactly the same problem yesterday night. But after downgrading my autoconf to version 2.58 (from 2.59) I had

Re: [gentoo-user] runlevel order

2004-01-29 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Henry Umansky -- Hello, I just signed up for this mailing list, so I apologize if this is a repeat post. I was just wondering in what order Init will execute all the scripts. I currently have three runlevels, boot, default, and nonetwork. When I look in

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin not as good as before :(

2004-01-28 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all SpamAssassin users! I am using SA since some months now and never had to look back. It filtered around 98-99% of all spam mails out. But since one or two months, I would say the false negative rate is around 30%, but I do not have any idea why this could be. On another SA installation

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin not as good as before :(

2004-01-28 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Thanks for the replies, I will check through your suggested web pages now Greetings, Matthias -- First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk -- probably -- now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Fails at 2GB Limit

2004-01-27 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Krikket -- I'm currently using vsftp, but that's only because it's what's built in to Fedora. Now that Im building the system from scratch, I want to choose a program that has more versatility -- vsftp just doesn't cut it because it doesn't cope with name-based

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] Help! file system problems - force an fsck? - now more confused

2004-01-19 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mark Knecht -- Right now I'm left with this 'incomplete merge' message.. Did you post a bug @ bugs.gentoo.org? -- Cable. It's more wonderful than I dared hope. -- Homer Simpson Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] qmail-pop3d and replacement for @-symbol?

2004-01-13 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a strange problem w/ my qmail server and a mac user. I run qmail's own pop3d for mail distribution, and everything works like a charm. Only one user has a problem retrieving his mail: He works on a mac and can't use his full email address for authentication (which is needed,

Re: [gentoo-user] please remove me to your mailling

2004-01-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting jeon byung-wuk -- thankyou from this email's headers: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marge: This is the best gift of all, Homer. Homer: It is? Marge: Yes, something to share our love. And frighten prowlers. Simpsons Roasting

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail vs. sendmail

2004-01-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mike Williams -- I've replaced qmail-smtpd with qpsmtpd, a drop in perl replacement. It's so cool to be able to change *anything* I wish with minimal effort. Want to allow one host, or mail to one user to bypass max file size? 2-3 lines of perl and your done (well, I

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2004-01-10 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Paidhi -- Servus aus Wien (Vienna, Austria) Sers Meista ;) -- I've figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically, we become a family of traveling acrobats. -- Homer Simpson Dog of Death -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin doesn't want to learn anymore

2003-12-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, since my upgrade from SA version 2.55 to 2.60-r1 I cannot sa-learn anymore. With the previous version I could do a $ sa-learn --dir --spam /path/to/mail/cur and got a learned from xxx message(s). But after the upgrade, I get a Learned from 0 message(s) (193 message(s) examined). when

Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server

2003-12-29 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Roger -- I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? PLS advice. Some discussion about this topic can be found on list archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userr=1w=2 HTH!

[gentoo-user] finally...

2003-12-24 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, just wanted to whish you nice christmas and happy holidays! I will go now and see if there is something more than my computer... ;) Greetings, Matthias -- Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere? -- Homer

Re: [gentoo-user] search the maillist

2003-12-10 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting SMS WebMaster -- anyone know how to search the maillist (I know about google :) ) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userr=1w=2 -- There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service. But those were all

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XPDF will not run anylonger.

2003-12-09 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Joshua Banks -- Whats strange is that I was able to simply single left mouse click on any *.pdf file and it would be opened with Xpdf. Now when I click on any given pdf it does absolutely nothing. If I right click on the given pdf and choose to open with KGhostView,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.

2003-12-09 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Joshua Banks -- 1) Can I just follow the same instructions within the Intial Gentoo Install guide to get this Second card to work and, yep, should be pretty straight forward. shutdown, insert NIC, boot, compile NIC drivers (say: kernel modules, make modules

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XPDF will not run anylonger.

2003-12-09 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Joshua Banks -- As root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin # /usr/bin/xpdf /home/jbanks/501302.pdf /usr/bin/xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This file belongs to package openmotif. I would suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.

2003-12-09 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Joshua Banks -- Thanks Matthias. you're welcome ;) please report if you succeeded with your 2nd NIC! Greets, Matthias -- I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in. -- Homer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XPDF will not run anylonger.

2003-12-09 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Joshua Banks -- Matthias, I did an emerge sync and then emerge -uD x11-libs/openmotif It's emerging 6 pkgs. So this is going to take alittle bit on Dial-up. ok, good luck ;) Please teach me what you did here: This file belongs to package openmotif. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] twinview with geforce2 mx 400

2003-12-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Chris Bare -- [ snip ] Option ConnectedMonitor crt,crt I use a CRT and TV out and had luck with this line: Option ConnectedMonitor AUTO,AUTO HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: I keep hearing this horrible irregular thumping noise. Pump

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?

2003-12-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Oliver Lange -- Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? you can update your portage tree (list of installable packages) with $ emerge sync and you can upgrade the program rsync with $ emerge net-misc/rsync HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- I wore my extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting brett holcomb -- Gee, I thought there was a new program in portage! There is also dosbox which is another emulator. I've been playing with both trying to get some old DOS stuff running. And did it work? -- Oh, cruel fate. Why do you mock me? --

Re: [gentoo-user] running a cron job more frequent than one hour

2003-12-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Aaron Walker -- I am trying to run a cron job more frequent than one hour, but that's as small as it goes in /etc/cron.* I read both the cron and crontab man pages but neither says anything about the /etc/crontab format. I couldnt tell just by looking at it..

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- Some clear signs of a mailinglist newbie: * Top mailing. * Never tidying up a RE: message. * Lot of OT stuff. And? You got born as a mailinglist expert super pro? Sorry, this isn't ment as offensive as it might look, but I don't like this

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge OpenOffice.org fails

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting s -- anyone have any ideas how I might get this app installed? I saw the warning about cflags, but mine are conservative. Sorry, I can't help you with this, but have you tried searching on bugs.gentoo.org? Enter an ALL openoffice -- there are tons of bugs, maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- No, I am sorry, i know I was not being polite. After a few weeks reading this list I got kind of frustrated by all these top-postings, they make me dizzy and confused...:o| I am on your side, I don't like them either. And I also think that one

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Spider -- Okay, bringing this back On Topic, i'm not sure how many of you played the original, but I know it made a nice impression on me when I was in the age of such games. (that and the much later RayMan ;) And now I'm rummaging around for some

[gentoo-user] terragen on linux?

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, there are still some moments when I miss my old dual-boot setup (win2k kicked after a virus). This time, I restarted my attempt to bring terragen to life under Linux, unfortunately with no luck so far. I tried with wine, but it seems this is an unlucky plan. I don't want to use VMWare

Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Redeeman -- just to do as you do, :) but i like to write stuff in the top of the email! then do so ... I think no one will ever shoot you because of top quotes ;) -- Why did this have to happen now, during prime time, when TV's brightest stars come out to shine?

Re: [gentoo-user] my ls.so.conf is missing

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Helder Rossa -- how can I regenerate my ld.so.conf?? can someone be kind and email me a working ls.so.conf?? I think it should be enough to run env-update. HTH! Greets, Matthias -- D'oh! English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England. Come on, let's smoke.

Re: [gentoo-user] which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-27 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Norbert Kamenicky -- Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I have a question to all of you: What do you think, which would be the best, ie. most secure access to a webserver, so that users can update their sites? Use jail (chrooted environment) + ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] compile on other computer, emerge on mine

2003-11-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Adrian Pirciu -- I have a pretty slow computer, p3/700, and i can use a P4 to compile my packages. Given that on the P4 there's gentoo installed, how can I compile the packages I need on the P4 then merge them on my gentoo on P3 ? There must an easy way to do this.

[gentoo-user] searching for website manager

2003-11-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I am searching for a website manager with the following features: *) GPL-based *) Perl, PHP, ... everything would be ok *) support for more than one user / website *) support for uploading one or more files / directories *) support for changing file mode (like chmod command) *) password

Re: [gentoo-user] silly question about installation.

2003-11-24 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- i like to install sysklogd only. #rc-update del syslog-ng and #rc-update del metalog and #rc-update del msyslog can solve this problem? That should do it. If not, you can go to /etc/runleveles/default and remove the syslog-ng, metalog and

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on temporary partition.

2003-11-24 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Tom Eastman -- Can anyone see any other potential tripfalls I haven't thought of? I *think* you could use rsync, but look at man rsync before for right command line switches. I guess you can ignore /dev and /proc. Don't forget to compile with the right gcc options in

[gentoo-user] SMTP proxy for spam filtering

2003-11-23 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have the following configuration: Internet -- Linux firewall -- DNAT (25) -- MS Exchange server In words: All mails arriving on this domain are port forwarded via a Linux iptables firewall to an Exchange server. Now I want to insert SpamAssassin to this queue and thought of some

Re: [gentoo-user] SMTP proxy for spam filtering

2003-11-23 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Chris Carter -- Have you had a look at ASSP? http://assp.sourceforge.net Yeah that really looks great, I'll check it out! Greets and thx, Matthias -- Oh, honey, I didn't get drunk, I just went to a strange fantasy world. -- Homer Simpson

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean Hard Drive

2003-11-23 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Raquel -- What's the best way to proceed? Get the Slackware boot and root disks, download a Gentoo stage image? I'm kind of lost here. I would suggest you try this link here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690 HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- Could this be

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-20 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Luke Scharf -- Darnit! Oh well -- back to running Sendmail (and typing sendmail -q0 ; sendmail -bp) for me. :-) If you don't want to hack cryptic config files, I suggest you give Postfix or Qmail a try. Last one is a bit strange, but if you got it, it's extremly

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-18 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Sergey V. Spiridonov -- Hi, 1. Is Gentoo commercial or non-commercial organization? 2. Is there Gentoo project leader, like in Debian? How is it elected? 3. How key decisions are done? Is there voting system? 4. Can Gentoo maintainers correct the Social Contract?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IE on Linux

2003-11-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Rick [Kitty5] -- Same here, but as a web developer I cannot afford not to test in what my clients will be using, or what the majority of their customers will be using. Does that mean I take it out onto the net, hell no! Yep, that's exactly the point. And I don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-11-15 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting keanu -- On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:16, Ian Truelsen wrote: Has anyone managed to get Internet Exploder to install under Linux? I want to be able to test web pages without booting into Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files created by Apache (2.0.48)

2003-11-10 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jose Gonzalez Gomez -- Setting UMASK in the apache user environment? I want to do the same with Apache 1.3 and mod_dav. How can you set another UMASK value for Apache? Greetings, Matthias -- I know you're mad at me right now, and I'm kinda mad too ... I mean, we

Re: [gentoo-user] which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Daniel Wood -- What about WEBDAV on over https? Lock it down by 'Require User' or by IP or by any other apache authentication scheme? You can even use apache 'ALIAS' to create locations to directories which are not strictly speaking under your docroot. Everything

Re: [gentoo-user] stupid newbie question on where network interfaces are defined

2003-11-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC -- On debian it is in /etc/network/interfaces on FreeBSD it is in /etc/rc.conf What about gentoo? /etc/conf.d/net That's one of the few things I don't like in the Linux world, every distro puts it's config stuff into different

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Tiago Lima -- Does anyone know how to make (or force) 'emerge' in recompiling every installed package? try $ emerge -p world HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: Boy, you don't have to follow in my footsteps. Bart: Don't worry, I don't even like using the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Thomas T. Veldhouse -- I don't think so folks; [EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy]# emerge -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! I do think so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haim $ emerge -p world These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jeffrey Smelser -- My answer would be, if the person doesn't realize this, then he/she has some things to learn. its not that hard to figure out that -p is us just telling you to make sure your getting what you want and we answered the questions correctly. thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jeffrey Smelser -- now try emerge -ep world and see what you get. yep, you're right. Thank god I don't have to do this now, there are at least 99 packages, that I would have to recompile :) -- Marge, try to understand. There are two kinds of college students:

[gentoo-user] which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a question to all of you: What do you think, which would be the best, ie. most secure access to a webserver, so that users can update their sites? To be more specific: I can't allow ssh login for most of this users for several reasons, that's why I set /bin/false as login shell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Björn Lindström -- Use ssh with a restricted shell. Restrict them to sftp only. Firewall How can I restrict SFTP access to user's home dir? How can I disable normal SSH access, but enable SFTP? issues? Fix the firewall. Unfortunately, I have no admin rights on this

Re: [gentoo-user] which type of access to a webserver?

2003-11-05 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting SN -- First SSH would be the best and most secure solution, you setup Apache so that each user has his site in his homedir, and set the chroot for each user is his home directory, they can update their site easily with scp through ssh or with a windows scp client

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with qmail an vpopmail...

2003-11-04 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Johannes Findeisen -- could someone tell me whats wrong here? the authentification works now but the server said that the password is wrong... but i'ts the right one... If you have problems with auth., then best would be to check vchkpw. I had similar problems with

[gentoo-user] how to make own version of LiveCD?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, would it be possible to make an ISO of the Gentoo LiveCD, mount this ISO in some way, add some contents to it and burn it to a CD, so that it is still bootable and I can install from it, plus have all my added tools on this CD, so that I can copy them to the new system after

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