[gentoo-user] How many days have elapsed?

2005-02-07 Thread Stroller
Hihi, I needed just now to count today how many days have elapsed since the 3rd of January. Rather than reach for a calendar and count days arduously, I figured this was a task very suited to a computer. I'm sure, however, my solution took me longer than the manual one would have - can anyone s

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems on Dell Inspiron 3000 (2.6 kernel)

2005-02-07 Thread michael
Worth a try - thanks for the tip! Michael On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Kumar Golap wrote: I don't know if its similar problem to yours...my USB stick/ camera use to work in kernel 2.6.5 but stopped working (or working erratically) with 2.6.6 till 2.6.9... Recently i updated to 2.6.10-r4 and it works, fine n

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems on Dell Inspiron 3000 (2.6 kernel)

2005-02-07 Thread Kumar Golap
I don't know if its similar problem to yours...my USB stick/ camera use to work in kernel 2.6.5 but stopped working (or working erratically) with 2.6.6 till 2.6.9... Recently i updated to 2.6.10-r4 and it works, fine now. Kumar On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:34:01 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread PK
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:48:32 -0600 Kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PK wrote: any idea what I am supposed to do to get it working properly? IIRC there are two main gotchas 1. kernel stuff. Assuming you're using 2.4 you need to have Packet Socket and Socket Filtering compiled in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yes, it was. CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y Thanks. On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le dimanche 06 février 2005 à 12:17 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb a écrit : Tried them and they work - but I wonder what's wrong with my system in that it won't mount a dos floppy. Ext2 floppy works fine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Bingo -. Now to find out what I did differently on each system. Thank you. messages:Feb 6 11:56:55 gandalf FAT: codepage cp437 not found messages:Feb 6 11:57:26 gandalf FAT: codepage cp437 not found On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Mariusz [iso-8859-2] Pêkala wrote: don't you have to give a default codepage

[gentoo-user] SoundCard Issue

2005-02-07 Thread Ian K
Hi. My laptop has a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 soundcard, but the appropriate drivers will not recognize it. It says the device is not found or busy. I AM SURE my soundcard is this, I checked my computer's specifications. I enabled the appropriate kernel options in the 2.6.10 kernel, and compiled and such.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC path...

2005-02-07 Thread Mike Flippin
Jerry McBride wrote: Are there specific steps that have to be followed when upgrading from gcc-3.3.x to say gcc 3.4.3? I've been doing little tests with 3.4.3 ever since it appeared in portage and I think I'm ready to try to compile an entire system with it So... is it as easy as emerge -e

[gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC path...

2005-02-07 Thread Jerry McBride
Are there specific steps that have to be followed when upgrading from gcc-3.3.x to say gcc 3.4.3? I've been doing little tests with 3.4.3 ever since it appeared in portage and I think I'm ready to try to compile an entire system with it So... is it as easy as emerge -e world? My reason f

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Graphics Card?

2005-02-07 Thread Piotr
Dnia wtorek 08 lutego 2005 03:38, Rick van Hattem napisał: > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 03:52, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > I'd like to upgrade my system with a more powerful graphics card. > > Presently, I have a VT8375 Video Card built into the motherboard. As > > far as I can tell, this does no

[gentoo-user] What does invalid preprocessing directive #warn mean?

2005-02-07 Thread Mike Flippin
When I try to compile anything that uses opengl on my system I get the error "invalid preprocessing directive #warn" how do I get around this? Do I need to upgrade from GCC 3.3 to 3.4? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Invalid preprocessing directive #warn

2005-02-07 Thread Mike Flippin
When I try to compile anything that uses opengl on my system I get the error "invalid preprocessing directive #warn" how do I get around this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Graphics Card?

2005-02-07 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 03:52, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I'd like to upgrade my system with a more powerful graphics card. > Presently, I have a VT8375 Video Card built into the motherboard. As > far as I can tell, this does not allow any accelerated graphics > processing capability, so I'm left w

Re: [gentoo-user] Static USE-Flags

2005-02-07 Thread Tres Melton
Captain Fantastik, Static linking will consume vast amounts of memory and is generally a bad idea. It is used primarily to distribute pre-compiled binaries to ensure that the target system has all of the needed libraries. This was common with programs that used the Motif libraries on prop

[gentoo-user] Which Graphics Card?

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I'd like to upgrade my system with a more powerful graphics card. Presently, I have a VT8375 Video Card built into the motherboard. As far as I can tell, this does not allow any accelerated graphics processing capability, so I'm left with basic software graphics support for games like Quake2, and

[gentoo-user] hardened-dev-sources does not support SATA drives

2005-02-07 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Everyone, Along with your help I have been fighting with a software RAID1 issue on my Dell PowerEdge server. All along I believe I have been doing everything right except that the kernel did not support SATA. I have been working with hardened-dev-source which yields into a 2.6.7-hardened-r9 kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] bittorent and distfiles

2005-02-07 Thread John Myers
On Monday 07 February 2005 17:32, Charles Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:39:54 +0800, William Kenworthy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a guide to setting up portage to use bittorent to fetch > > distfiles? Is it worth it for an adsl (512k up/down) connection? > > > > BillK > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Static USE-Flags

2005-02-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 07 February 2005 07:41 pm, "Captain FantastiK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I don't have a Good experience about USE-Flags but I wanted to know if > its a good idea to compile my packages with static support. Does it > optimize ? This just makes your programs statically linked.

[gentoo-user] Static USE-Flags

2005-02-07 Thread Captain FantastiK
Hi I don't have a Good experience about USE-Flags but I wanted to know if its a good idea to compile my packages with static support. Does it optimize ? cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK _ MSN Calendar vous aide à vous organiser et simplifie la pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc Recompile after Linux-headers change

2005-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Kathryn wrote: I've always been instructed to rebuild glibc after changing the headers. Of course, nobody that has told me this has ever really given me a good reason to either. So I am too wondering if it's really a necessity On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:21 -0500, Captain FantastiK wrote: Hi I would

Re: [gentoo-user] bittorent and distfiles

2005-02-07 Thread Charles Pittman
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:39:54 +0800, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a guide to setting up portage to use bittorent to fetch > distfiles? Is it worth it for an adsl (512k up/down) connection? > > BillK > I was thinking about this just this weekend... Although I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc Recompile after Linux-headers change

2005-02-07 Thread Kathryn
I've always been instructed to rebuild glibc after changing the headers. Of course, nobody that has told me this has ever really given me a good reason to either. So I am too wondering if it's really a necessity On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:21 -0500, Captain FantastiK wrote: > > Hi > > I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Sarpy Sam
I just bought a Maxtor external hard drive the other day, hooked it up and it works fine. It's a simple drive and not one of the one touch backup models. I am using 2.6. kernel so I can't speak for 2.4 kernel. As soon as I plugged it in it was recognized as sda and I was able to mount it and us

Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:10, Derrick Hendricks wrote: > A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, > before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I > thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the > question. Does anyone know if

Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Smith
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:10 -0500, Derrick Hendricks wrote: > A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, > before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I > thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the > question. Does anyone know if

[gentoo-user] Glibc Recompile after Linux-headers change

2005-02-07 Thread Captain FantastiK
Hi I would like to be informed if I MUST recompile Glibc after changing linux-headers ( Actually I have the 2.4) and wanted to switch to 2.6.8) Thanks cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK _ Des mécanismes de contrôle parental puissants permettent à vo

[gentoo-user] Unresolved Symbols on Nvidia Driver

2005-02-07 Thread Captain FantastiK
Hi I have nvidia kernel & glx 1.0.6111-r1 and Nvidia GeForce 2 MMX 400. When I switch to this driver and exec startx I received the message: Unreseolved symbols: Here's the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log: *** X Window System Version 6.8.0 Release Date: 8 September 2004 X Protocol Version 11, Revi

[gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Derrick Hendricks
A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the question. Does anyone know if the Maxtor OneTouch USB 2.0 drive is compatible or for that matter,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do i force squirrel to use ssl?

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:47:29 +0100 Martin Kanich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > I have squirrelmail set up on my gentoo server. the webserver is apache. > > > > At present the webserver responds to http on port 80 and https on port 443 > > (as usual). Squirrelmail works under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do i force squirrel to use ssl?

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Smith
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 23:47 +0100, Martin Kanich wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > I have squirrelmail set up on my gentoo server. the webserver is apache. > > > > At present the webserver responds to http on port 80 and https on port 443 > > (as usual). Squirrelmail works under either scheme. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Smith
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:21 -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Dabi wrote: > > > unsuscribe > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > Send an email to the below address from your subscribed address. Next > time it would be wise to visit the subscription site, read the email > h

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:48:32 -0600 Kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PK wrote: > > any idea what I am supposed to do to get it working properly? > > IIRC there are two main gotchas > > 1. kernel stuff. Assuming you're using 2.4 you need to have Packet > Socket and Socket Filtering compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Dabi wrote: unsuscribe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Send an email to the below address from your subscribed address. Next time it would be wise to visit the subscription site, read the email headers, or otherwise do the leg work. ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems on Dell Inspiron 3000 (2.6 kernel)

2005-02-07 Thread michael
To answer my own question (sort of) I added coldplug and yet no difference. Another thing: My BIOS Setup has no entry for USB. All other computers I've used have a USB section if they have a USB port. Is this suprising? Michael On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, Hotplug yes; co

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap

2005-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Paul Worrall wrote: 3. install phpldapadmin on the machine running the ldap server, this gives you a gui interface accessible from any machine via a web browser. (I've not used it much though so can't say how useful it is) Is gentoo at 2.2.x now as its stable version, or is it still sitting

[gentoo-user] Re: How do i force squirrel to use ssl?

2005-02-07 Thread Martin Kanich
Nick Rout wrote: I have squirrelmail set up on my gentoo server. the webserver is apache. At present the webserver responds to http on port 80 and https on port 443 (as usual). Squirrelmail works under either scheme. I want to leave apache responding on port 80 for general use, as people shouldn'

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CPU and/or motherboard for a gentoo system

2005-02-07 Thread bergeron
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:50:34PM +0100, Michele Alzetta wrote: > A few days ago I started having problems with my BIOS and I thought it > was my motherboard (a while ago the inbuilt ethernet broke and I had > to pass to another card - luckily I already had a second one installed > - so something

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Kashani
PK wrote: any idea what I am supposed to do to get it working properly? IIRC there are two main gotchas 1. kernel stuff. Assuming you're using 2.4 you need to have Packet Socket and Socket Filtering compiled in under Networking. If you don't have these I think the dhcp daemon will bitch about it

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:59:42 +0200 Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when I type /etc/init.d/dhcp start > > I get an error saying > > setting ownership on dchp.leases[!!] > starting dhcp [ok] > from man dhcpd.leases: When dhcpd is first installed, there is no lease database. Ho

RE: [gentoo-user] mod_perl 1.27 and apache 1.3

2005-02-07 Thread Covington, Chris
> Did you run this command as the mod_perl package instructed? > ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-perl/mod_perl-1.27-r4/mod_perl-1.27-r4.ebuild No I didn't see that and thank you! Chris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread PK
Kashani wrote: Paul Kain wrote: its not in portage ISC DHCP is in portage because that's what actually comprises the dhcp package. So you're already got it installed. * net-misc/dhcp Latest version available: 3.0.1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded

[gentoo-user] How do i force squirrel to use ssl?

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
I have squirrelmail set up on my gentoo server. the webserver is apache. At present the webserver responds to http on port 80 and https on port 443 (as usual). Squirrelmail works under either scheme. I want to leave apache responding on port 80 for general use, as people shouldn't have to use h

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Kashani
Paul Kain wrote: its not in portage ISC DHCP is in portage because that's what actually comprises the dhcp package. So you're already got it installed. * net-misc/dhcp Latest version available: 3.0.1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 828 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_perl 1.27 and apache 1.3

2005-02-07 Thread Kashani
Covington, Chris wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install mod_perl 1.27-r4 on the latest 1.3.33 build of Apache in order to use Request Tracker. While everything emerges properly including rt, I don't have anything on my filesystem named mod_perl.c or mod_perl.so (there's a new libperl.so but that's it

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap

2005-02-07 Thread Paul Worrall
On Monday 07 February 2005 02:01, Nick Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:19 +, Paul Worrall wrote: > > On Sunday 06 February 2005 21:29, Nick Smith wrote: > > > every how-to i have read about on openldap also wants you to > > > authenticate against it. i just want to use it for a global

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh & rsa only authentication

2005-02-07 Thread Vittorio
Alle 18:13, lunedì 7 febbraio 2005, Nick Rout ha scritto: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Already the way you suggested but it doesn't work: I can still connect by > > userid and password. > > Any other suggestion? > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > did you restart sshd aft

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems on Dell Inspiron 3000 (2.6 kernel)

2005-02-07 Thread michael
Hi Bob, Hotplug yes; coldplug no. Is it needed as well? On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: I'm running Gentoo 2.6.9-gentoo-r8 on my old Dell Inspiron 3000. It's mostly ok (except for sound but that's a lower priority issue) but for USB. I'm able to see the USB controller: Do you have coldplug a

Re: [gentoo-user] Downdating?

2005-02-07 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Karsten, Monday, February 7, 2005, 7:06:53 PM, you wrote: KB> Create /etc/portage/package.mask and add lines like: Thank you very much. Just got to backup my email base, restore my Acronis image, make the changes you suggest and I'll try again. -- Tony. The Bat! 3.0.2.10. Gentoo. Registe

[gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-02-07 Thread Dabi
unsuscribe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mod_perl 1.27 and apache 1.3

2005-02-07 Thread Covington, Chris
Hello, I'm trying to install mod_perl 1.27-r4 on the latest 1.3.33 build of Apache in order to use Request Tracker. While everything emerges properly including rt, I don't have anything on my filesystem named mod_perl.c or mod_perl.so (there's a new libperl.so but that's it) and there's no change

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Paul Kain
its not in portage On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:28:38 -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > > > I much prefer isd-dhcp. Take a look at that if you want. I find it > > more robust and quite configurable. > > > That is 'isc-dhcp'. > > > -- > Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I much prefer isd-dhcp. Take a look at that if you want. I find it more robust and quite configurable. That is 'isc-dhcp'. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Paul Kain wrote: when I type /etc/init.d/dhcp start I get an error saying setting ownership on dchp.leases[!!] starting dhcp [ok] I much prefer isd-dhcp. Take a look at that if you want. I find it more robust and quite configurable. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4

Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail

2005-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
David Corbin wrote: I have squirrelmail emerged (w/apache 2.0), but it won't work. There doesn't appear to be anything in the apache configuration that allows it run php, instead of just returning the source. Pointers? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Put -PHP4 in your apache con

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:15:05 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:44:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the > > middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a > > windows exper

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems on Dell Inspiron 3000 (2.6 kernel)

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Sanders
> > I'm running Gentoo 2.6.9-gentoo-r8 on my old Dell Inspiron 3000. It's > mostly ok (except for sound but that's a lower priority issue) but for > USB. I'm able to see the USB controller: > Do you have coldplug and hotplug emerged? And have they been added appropriately - rc-update add co

Re: [gentoo-user] what is i686-pc-linunx-gnu?

2005-02-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 07 February 2005 10:35 am, Vitaly Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is meaning i686-pc-linux-gnu? That's, roughly, the compile specifications for native binaries on your system. The format is --- (roughly). An Opteron would be x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, PPC machines are ppc64-...-li

[gentoo-user] USB problems on Dell Inspiron 3000 (2.6 kernel)

2005-02-07 Thread michael
Hi, I'm running Gentoo 2.6.9-gentoo-r8 on my old Dell Inspiron 3000. It's mostly ok (except for sound but that's a lower priority issue) but for USB. I'm able to see the USB controller: $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/90

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Paul Kain
when I type /etc/init.d/dhcp start I get an error saying setting ownership on dchp.leases[!!] starting dhcp [ok] On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:19:03 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Kain ha scritto: > > >Hi All > > > >I am setting up aserver according to this gui

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/bin/mysql_config

2005-02-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 07 February 2005 20:27, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Please can someone that has dev-db/mysql-4.0* installed remember me > if /usr/bin/mysql_config exist ? > If the answer is yes do you remember when it was added ? > > tia > Francesco Riosa on 21 January! [20:42] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/mysql_config

2005-02-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Please can someone that has dev-db/mysql-4.0* installed remember me if /usr/bin/mysql_config exist ? If the answer is yes do you remember when it was added ? tia Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CPU and/or motherboard for a gentoo system

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Sanders
> > > If I ever wanted to change CPU, would a 64 bit amd cpu work on this > system, or would I have to mount the system from a live CD and rebuild > it from scratch, or else rebuild it from scratch with -mcpu before > changing cpu ? > Well, I just went through this - 2P Athlon Mp motherboard die

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Bastian Balthazar Bux ha scritto: Paul Kain ha scritto: Hi All I am setting up aserver according to this guide http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server#Configuring_dhcp Unfortunately it gets to a part where it says rc-update add dhcpd default and I get an error saying /etc/init.d/dhcpd no

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Qian Qiao
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 21:06:34 +0200, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am setting up aserver according to this guide > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server#Configuring_dhcp > > Unfortunately it gets to a part where it says rc-update add dhcpd default > > and I get

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Paul Kain ha scritto: Hi All I am setting up aserver according to this guide http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server#Configuring_dhcp Unfortunately it gets to a part where it says rc-update add dhcpd default and I get an error saying /etc/init.d/dhcpd not found should be # net-misc/dhcp

Re: [gentoo-user] Downdating?

2005-02-07 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Boom wrote: | Hello gentoo-user, | | How do I run emerge update World so that files only get updated with | newer versions instead of downdated with older versions? Create /etc/portage/package.mask and add lines like: For example: echo "> /etc

[gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?

2005-02-07 Thread Paul Kain
Hi All I am setting up aserver according to this guide http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server#Configuring_dhcp Unfortunately it gets to a part where it says rc-update add dhcpd default and I get an error saying /etc/init.d/dhcpd not found can anyone point me in the right direction pl

[gentoo-user] Downdating?

2005-02-07 Thread Tony Boom
Hello gentoo-user, How do I run emerge update World so that files only get updated with newer versions instead of downdated with older versions? I just updated world and instead of having Gimp 2.2 that I started with I now have Gimp 2.0 and a host of other older downdated files. MNI TN

[gentoo-user] changing CPU and/or motherboard for a gentoo system

2005-02-07 Thread Michele Alzetta
A few days ago I started having problems with my BIOS and I thought it was my motherboard (a while ago the inbuilt ethernet broke and I had to pass to another card - luckily I already had a second one installed - so something definitely HAS happened to the mobo). The BIOS problems seem to have dis

Re: [gentoo-user] So depclean *is* dangerous after all!

2005-02-07 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jim Hatfield ha scritto: if you can boot from cd AND you have an athlon you can do this: boot from rescue, mount your hd root # wget http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/old/acl-2.2.27.tbz2 # tar -C /mnt/gentoo -jxvf acl-2.2.27.tbz2 where "/mnt/gentoo" is your hd root mount point Well it seem

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:15:05 +, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:44:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the > > middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a > > windows expert

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:44:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the > middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a > windows expert, so I don't have a clue what the file was. So, I was > left with the convenience of g

Re: [gentoo-user] So depclean *is* dangerous after all!

2005-02-07 Thread Jim Hatfield
>if you can boot from cd AND you have an athlon you can do this: >boot from rescue, mount your hd root ># wget http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/old/acl-2.2.27.tbz2 ># tar -C /mnt/gentoo -jxvf acl-2.2.27.tbz2 >where "/mnt/gentoo" is your hd root mount point Well it seemed to like that - now it

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh & rsa only authentication

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Already the way you suggested but it doesn't work: I can still connect by > userid and password. > Any other suggestion? > Ciao > Vittorio did you restart sshd after changing the config file? > :-- Messaggio originale -- > :Reply-To: [

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh & rsa only authentication

2005-02-07 Thread Brett Curtis
This is my config, works well over here. # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.68 2003/12/29 16:39:50 millert Exp $ # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See # sshd_config(5) for more information. # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin # The strategy u

Re: [gentoo-user] So depclean *is* dangerous after all!

2005-02-07 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:32:10 - , in local.gentoo.users you wrote: >if you can boot from cd AND you have an athlon you can do this: >boot from rescue, mount your hd root ># wget http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/old/acl-2.2.27.tbz2 ># tar -C /mnt/gentoo -jxvf acl-2.2.27.tbz2 >where "/mnt/gen

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-07 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:51, Nick Smith wrote: > you need one of those 'live windows cd's' or i think M$ calls it the > pre-installation environment cd, a mini windows run totally from cd just > like the linux kinds, will let you move anything around on the disk and > even delete files (system vol

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerged world, now can't su

2005-02-07 Thread Mike Payson
Mike Payson wrote: I just ran 'emerge -u world' for the first time in about three weeks, and ran dispatch-conf to update my config files. Now, when I try to su to root, I always get permission denied. I'm certain that I'm typing the password, but to be safe, I have reset the password twice now w

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh & rsa only authentication

2005-02-07 Thread v . demartino2
Already the way you suggested but it doesn't work: I can still connect by userid and password. Any other suggestion? Ciao Vittorio :-- Messaggio originale -- :Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:54:53 -0500 :From: Brett Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Reply-To: Brett Curtis <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] So depclean *is* dangerous after all!

2005-02-07 Thread Jim Hatfield
>Try to run "revdep-rebuild" to remerge the missing dependencies. It >should bring your system back to normal. Also consider using the >dep-script (see below for URL) made by ecatmur instead of the broken >emerge --depclean. > >URL: http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/my-bin/dep revdep-rebuild inv

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh & rsa only authentication

2005-02-07 Thread Brett Curtis
just make sure all other auth methods are set to 'no' UsePAM no PasswordAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no and such On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:52:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I succeeded in setting up sshd to work with a public rsa key put on the > server in /r

[gentoo-user] ssh & rsa only authentication

2005-02-07 Thread v . demartino2
I succeeded in setting up sshd to work with a public rsa key put on the server in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. And now I can access the server remotely by means of BOTH rsa authentication giving the passphrase AND the more conventional userid & password. I would like to disable the latter in order

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Smith
> YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the > middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a > windows expert, so I don't have a clue what the file was. So, I was > left with the convenience of getting half the space freed quickly and > the inconvenienc

Re: [gentoo-user] "Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer"

2005-02-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:20 +0100, Mariusz PÄkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-02-06 20:19:58 + (Sun, Feb), Martin Scharrer wrote: > > On Sunday 06 February 2005 17:53, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > [...] WinXP in its great > > > wisdom (NOT) puts the Windows Swap file right in the mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

2005-02-07 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le dimanche 06 février 2005 à 12:17 -0500, Brett I. Holcomb a écrit : > Tried them and they work - but I wonder what's wrong with my system in > that it won't mount a dos floppy. Ext2 floppy works fine. Is your kernel compiled with the following option ? File systems -> Partition Types

Re: [gentoo-user] what is i686-pc-linunx-gnu?

2005-02-07 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vitaly Ivanov wrote: | Hello all | | What is meaning i686-pc-linux-gnu? The CHOST, in other words the target architecture for which gcc is compiling your stuff. | Can I replase pc with server or home_router? You sure can, but don't be surprised if anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] what is i686-pc-linunx-gnu?

2005-02-07 Thread Steven Susbauer
No. That is telling GCC what type of box it is compiling for. It's best to leave that where it's set unless it's not an i686. Vitaly Ivanov wrote: Hello all What is meaning i686-pc-linux-gnu? Can I replase pc with server or home_router? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- This site

Re: [gentoo-user] openldap

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Smith
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:56 +0300, Alexander Zubkov wrote: > > > > im very new to openldap so im not quite sure how to set it up, i can > > just emerge it and then start adding people? and also, is there a file i > > can edit and put all of them in there or do i have to run that command > > every

[gentoo-user] what is i686-pc-linunx-gnu?

2005-02-07 Thread Vitaly Ivanov
Hello all What is meaning i686-pc-linux-gnu? Can I replase pc with server or home_router? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Sanders
> > Now, I know this is about the most vague question I can ask, but > does anyone have any suggestions on likely places to start looking? > I haven't changed any hardware, so I'm guessing that it's a software > issue. I have no idea what is causing the lockup. > Typically it's the graphics driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-07 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:15:25 -0500, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very few retail stores that sell brand name computers have limited if > any understanding of computers, IMHO. I don't really think you need the folks at the retail store to understand anything about computers. If you d

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything (seems to) has disappeared from Thunderbird

2005-02-07 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:07:23 -0600, Kathy Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at your screenshot, it shows a little box that looks like a > folder at the right hand corner of the pane where your folder listing > should be. What does clicking on that do? Nothing! What I did was: 0. I rename

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnucash error

2005-02-07 Thread Helder Lima
Thanks! Now it owrks On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:36:57 +, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:31:32 +, Helder Lima wrote: > > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/ > > bin/ld: cannot find -lgwrap-glib > > collect2: ld returned 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with Asus A7V333 and USB2.0 working?

2005-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I recently posted about some problems I was having with my USB ports and an ACER memory stick. After doing some tests, I discovered that the stick works perfectly when plugged in a USB 1.1 port (this mobo has both USB1.1 and USB2.0 ports), but fails miserably wh

[gentoo-user] Re: dd as backup?

2005-02-07 Thread Remy Blank
David Corbin wrote: This seems like a GREAT thing to have written up as HOWTO... Well, yes... Next time I have to do it, I'll write down all the steps precisely, so that the HOWTO doesn't become an "approximate-HOWTO"... Where's the best place to store such a document? gentoo-wiki.com? -- Remy Re

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnucash error

2005-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:31:32 +, Helder Lima wrote: > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/ > bin/ld: cannot find -lgwrap-glib > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status (re)emerge dev-libs/g-wrap -- Neil Bothwick Redmond, WA, Dec. 15, 1998 -- Microsoft announce

Re: [gentoo-user] reboot failure

2005-02-07 Thread Michael Nygard
This happened to me once when I had a BIOS utility swapping the first & second hard drives. On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:45 -0800, John Patrick Coder wrote: OK I have checked the fstab file and it seems ok, Aafter I run "grub-install ..." it ends with "..." "(FD0) /dev/fd0" "(HD0) /dev/hda" u

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnucash error

2005-02-07 Thread Helder Lima
Neil I cut the two lines above error. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lgwrap-glib collect2: ld returned 1 exit status On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:26:00 +, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:06:55 +, Hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Phil Sexton wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 06:57, Holly Bostick wrote: My suggestion: Avoid such places. BYOB (Build your own box). Then you KNOW what you have in it. Of course, having said all that I said, I remembered this is a laptop, which is somewhat more difficult to build from scratch (but

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs crash after RAM upgrade on laptop!

2005-02-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Phil Sexton wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 06:57, Holly Bostick wrote: It being Circuit City (perhaps not the most expert shop known to (wo)man), this may not be much help, but it's worth a shot. Take them a memtest86 floppy or bootable CD with memtest86 and let them run that and see that is is bad

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