Re: [gentoo-user] missing default route

2004-02-04 Thread Andrew Ross
Sorry to reply to myself, but I just thought of something else. Have you tried configuring the interface using dhcpcd from the command-line (ie. disable the Gentoo net.eth* initscripts)? Andrew Ross wrote: When using DHCP, you shouldn't have to set the default gateway (either using route

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world ??

2004-01-23 Thread Andrew Ross
You are better off using usechange (http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~danderse/www/usechange). Of course, a forum search (as Brian suggested) would have found this anyway! Cheers Andrew Brian wrote: emerge -e world will rebuild everything. If you just want to rebuild some that the flags changed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer without X

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Ross
Try USE=-* emerge -pv mplayer On my server the results are: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-lang/nasm-0.98.38 -doc -build [ebuild N] media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8 [ebuild N] media-libs/xvid-0.9.1 [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] Files in /etc/pam.d

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Ross
Short of something like emerge -eD world and rebuilding everything, you could try to parse the output of usechange (http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~danderse/www/usechange). Hope this helps Andrew Scharf Yuval wrote: Anyhow, How do I tell portage that I've changed a USE flag and want it to rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for flexlm

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Ross
FLEXlm license manager and utils 9.0.0 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23221 Hope this helps Andrew Valmor de Almeida wrote: Is there an ebuild for flexlm? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Files in /etc/pam.d

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Ross
Scharf Yuval wrote: When I look at the filed in /etc/pam.d using qpkg -f I can see that some of them came from ebuilds and some of them not. That's strange - a quick check of my /etc/pam.d shows 14 files, all belong to either shadow, openssh, or squid. Perhaps you could supply us with the

Re: [gentoo-user] su issues

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew Ross
Your user account needs to be a member of the group wheel (gid 10 under Gentoo Linux, gid 0 under FreeBSD) in order to su to the root user. You can check group membership this using the id command. This is an additional security measure taken, I believe from *BSD (I might be wrong about that).

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash Scripting - pipes, quoting stuff

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew Ross
You are erroneously escaping the shell variables on line 61 of your script: cat $1 | $MAKEMIME -c \$TYPE\ -e \$ENCODING\ - Change it to this: cat $1 | $MAKEMIME -c $TYPE -e $ENCODING - and it should work (or at least, it did for me). Cheers Andrew Stroller wrote: I start to write a little

RE: [gentoo-user] no libstdc++

2003-12-27 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi, I have installed gcc-3.3.2-r4, and now I no longer have libstdc++.so.5 anywhere. It broke many of the programs. When I try to run g++ or c++ I get the message Can't locate/run g++ (I don't know who emits this message; I don't think it is the shell). Anyone knows what's going on?

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry

2003-12-27 Thread John Ross Hunt
I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? Look for a file named -MERGING* in your /var/db/pkg path. I'm going from

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread John Ross Hunt
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote: happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message. Protocol dose not support. anyway, when are you coming here for the evening of drinking disgusting amounts

RE: [gentoo-user] vncserver + gnome setup problem

2003-12-05 Thread John Ross Hunt
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:09, Shane Bouslough wrote: Hi All, I'm using a GRP 1.4 install, and I did an emerge of tightvnc. When I start a vncserver session and then connect remotely via a vnc client, I always get the typical X gray background as if twm was started. My

RE: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?

2003-12-04 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... why is this obsoleted?

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world

2003-12-04 Thread John Ross Hunt
Patrick Börjesson wrote: So how can i emerge updates for everything installed on my box ? emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you currently have installed. *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p

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

2003-12-02 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi all. emerge openoffice.org fails with the following message: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/ openoffice-1.1.0-r2/work/oo_1.1_src/basctl/source/basicide !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 471, Exitcode 1 !!! Build

RE: [gentoo-user] rebuild all

2003-11-20 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hello everyone, Is there an emerge option for rebuilding the whole box (assuming all emerged source tarballs still present) ? It's the -O3 issue... Try this, it works better than emerge -e because it rebuilds the currently installed packages only (no upgrades or downgrades). qpkg -I -nc

RE: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-20 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hello everybody, I'd like to change the /home /var location to newly added harddisk partitions, so i need the correct cp command phrase which regards all and every link permission issue, like: cp -??? /mnt/gentoo/var /mnt/gentoo/newvar (booted from gentoo-basic without chroot) Sorry

RE: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.7

2003-11-09 Thread John Ross Hunt
Halo i have a problem i updated openssl form 0.9.6 = 0.9.7 gnome crashed i found that # revdep-rebuild will help but when i run it there is problem with kde-base, that wants sun-jdk but i have blackdown-jdk. what to do? than ypu ! miks Perhaps injecting sun-jdk will

RE: [gentoo-user] vncserver + gnome setup problem

2003-11-09 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi All, I'm using a GRP 1.4 install, and I did an emerge of tightvnc. When I start a vncserver session and then connect remotely via a vnc client, I always get the typical X gray background as if twm was started. My ~/.vnc/xstartup file just contains #!/bin/sh exec

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware config script

2003-10-10 Thread John Ross Hunt
Hi, When i try to boot up and run vmware the system tells me that i need to run the vmware-config.pl script. I do this and everything works just fine. However, if i reboot my machine i need to run it again. Everytime. Any idea's. ? Thanks. ps: I was converted from FreeBSD/XP to

[gentoo-user] Submitting ebuilds

2003-09-25 Thread Ross
Hi, Just a quick question about ebuilds - I want to make and ebuild for a closed-source program, and hopefully one day have it added to portage - would it being closed-source prevent it from being added? thanks, Ross. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Submitting ebuilds

2003-09-25 Thread Ross
Thanks. The software is freely available from their site - as both a linux and windows binary - and they have no problem with it being distributed, they just don't want to release the source. On Thursday 25 September 2003 10:21, donnie berkholz wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 03:34, Ross wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] stage1,2,or 3 install

2003-09-22 Thread Ross
Sounds like an interesting idea/project... now if only it it were possible to install Gentoo on my ZX Spectrum! :P Ross. On Monday 22 September 2003 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe that's due to my non-recent hardware: PIII 733, 256MB ram, VIA M/B chipsets. Are you serious? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] what program plays avi's

2003-09-19 Thread Ross
I use Xine - it's played everything I've need it to, so far (except for DVDs). See http://xinehq.de for more info, or just emerge xine-ui Ross. On Friday 19 September 2003 12:16, Davide Brini wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:42, Joshua Banks wrote: If your running KDE it comes

Re: [gentoo-user] private rsync mirror ?

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
for trying *noob* :) Ross On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:04, raptor wrote: hi, I read the etiquete page about becoming portage-rsync mirror I'm interested in making local portage mirror for my internal machines, they grow constantly :). I'm interested in the tehnical part

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
*agrees with brett* if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up to etc-update :) it isn't much effort looking out for the 4 or 5 files you need to worry about. Ross. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:33, brett holcomb wrote: If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Mice

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
Surely it's handled at a hardware level, and treated as a normal mouse? Gentoo shouldn't even need to know it's wireless. Ross. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:40, brett holcomb wrote: I've acquired a MS wireless mouse (it was free G) and wondered if anyone had used a wireless mouse

RE: [gentoo-user] joystick

2003-09-11 Thread John Ross Hunt
[snip] I managed to get something to happen. I emerged alsa-utils. I did 'alsactl store', edited the file /etc/asound.state to enable the joystick, and then 'alsactl restore'. I then did 'modprobe analog' and 'modprobe joydev'. I get these lines in my dmesg but still no /dev/input/js0:

RE: [gentoo-user] joystick

2003-09-10 Thread John Ross Hunt
[snip] I recompiled my kernel so that ns558, analog, and joydev are modules. I have the ALSA driver for my Ensoniq 1371 built into the kernel. I think the gameport driver is part of the es1371 driver. I tried adding analog and joydev to my /etc/modules.autoload. They load just fine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Jordan
with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones. http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html -Ross -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, my RAID array is screwed (was df != fdisk)

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Jordan
Note that the TX4 RAID card, is essentially a *software* raid card (i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones. http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html -Ross Do you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Java-Station

2003-07-20 Thread Ross Jordan
Hi, did anybody manage to get gentoo installed (via nfs of course) on a Java Sta- tion? I am currently trying this. Yes, I did manage this. It is a slow process =) Mail me offlist and I can send you the fs image. -Ross -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Burning CDs with CD Bake Oven

2003-07-20 Thread Ross Jordan
I've tried seems to not be able to have some major flaw or not be able to do something at all (like not burning data CDs that aren't ISO images). What's wrong with burning ISOs? mkisofs + cdrecord. It does everything you need. -Ross -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Problems - Reboot on Load

2003-07-11 Thread Ross Jordan
= compilation problem but i don't know the solution. Sounds like you didn't compile VGA support: Console drivers/VGA text console CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE = y -Ross -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA-RAID

2003-06-23 Thread Ross Jordan
(not hardware raid). Cheers, Ross -- Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread John Ross Hunt
Partition Image for Linux might be useful. http://www.partimage.org/ Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be

RE: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-17 Thread John Ross Hunt
Partition Image for Linux might be useful. Oops, should have included: [ Results for search key : partimage ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/partimage Latest version available: 0.6.2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 652 kB

RE: [gentoo-user] Memory problems (compiling on a different machine)

2003-06-14 Thread John Ross Hunt
You might want to give this a try on the broken machine: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ (BadRAM: Linux kernel support for broken RAM modules) -jrh Hiya. My brother's computer (with Gentoo on it) has some memory problems quite probably caused by the motherboard