Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x kernels

2003-03-23 Thread Mike Williams
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:34, Collins Richey wrote: > And I presume the module-init-tools dependancy > >=sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r1 > must be non-fatal, right? IIRC it's only a minor downgrade, isn't it? Not caused any problems on either of the machines I've use 2.5 on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-23 Thread Mike Williams
#x27;s, lib locations (ld.so.conf), and other cool stuff) *shrug*, reading documentation is the last thing I do (if at all) -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Make Errors Help Needed

2003-03-23 Thread Mike Williams
fig, if you copy a .config from a older/newer configured kernel, edit it (bad things can easily happen from manually editing), run 'make oldconfig' first, then menuconfig if you wish to check things over (I always do, and generally find something I missed/could use) -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x kernels

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Williams
rs for 2.5.x, but I'm not interested if it screws up my > 2.4.x setup. The only issue I hit was snd-pcm-oss not loading automagically, like it does with 2.4. Otherwise I can currently boot 2.4 or 2.5 with no issues. -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ----> /etc -config updates needed

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Williams
hope), just scan for ._cfg00blahblah > but on the other side how do you just update the ones you want out of > the config list > > example /etc/X11/app-defaults/._cfg_pickme for updating? Do it manually, or run etc-update and pick it from the list shown (each is numbered for that re

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution freeze problem

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Williams
y. Give a vanilla, or gentoo kernel a go, without low latency or pre empt a go (I was never able to notice any real performance, or latency gain anyway) -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] MD RAID install

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Williams
t to > /dev/md0 (). > > Maybe see if any device names are thrown to dmesg that could give you a > clue as to what the array is named. For the promise raid controller there is a specific kernel module (pdcraid). From the kernel help page: This driver uses /dev/ataraid/dXpY (X and Y nu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Williams
as "certified for RedHat"! Linux, is Linux. Have you tried a bastardised redhat kernel? It's masked, but there. -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] php with pspell ???? install

2003-03-27 Thread Mike Williams
s grep spell -rni /usr/portage/dev-php/ shows you need to add 'spell' to your USE, and re-emerge. -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-user] OT: Log into remote X server via kdm

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Williams
creen. From there give me the option on what server to login to. Yeah, I could use VNC, but having to log into one, to ssh into another to run a command, to log in again is... messy... Ideas? Cheers -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to find document to setup/configure iptables

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
ave fwbuilder on my laptop, creating the rules which I scp over to my test firewall. The iptables init script will handle the saving/restoring of the setup. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mOJ8InuLMrk7bIwRApDtAJwOefPwyEmBBOoeH

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree wants to install...

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
7;s no security risk, and useful for running GUI apps over ssh etc (the libs are required on the remote end). - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mONjInuLMrk7bIwRAge3AKCR3EPtF5P+6zNmj3nYJUZVxji+igCcDEh0 1/gNGEJ7ZtUInmoc7AhTO+8= =OGa7

Re: [gentoo-user] Save jobs over reboot?

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
am running a parallel > job on another server, but it is very annoying. If this is one looong jobs, and not hundreds of little jobs like compiling, have you considered a simple mosix cluster? If you have another machine you can migrate the job over to it while you reboot, then migrate it ba

Re: [gentoo-user] php-nuke and mysql

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
ser is > in anyway related to actual logged in users of the system? mysql -u root -p USE mysql; SELECT * FROM USER; UPDATE/INSERT blah blah blah; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Or install phpmyadmin, or mysqlcc, or anyone of the, no doubt dozens of, mysql GUIs.

Re: [gentoo-user] replication of the gentoo box

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
ond/third/forth/... machine at the first by setting this in /etc/make.conf SYNC="rsync://first.host/gentoo-portage" - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mSczInuLMrk7bIwRAt7NAKCQdfopttACjtY4Hqp26O9MkodxEgCgmDYS 7cetWaLWb9gePPvBQ1xX

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to find document to setup/configure iptables

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 October 2003 19:36, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Have you tested 'shorewall'? If YES what is your comment on it compared > with 'fwbuilder' Nope, sorry. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.0-test6

2003-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
toload.d/kernel-2.6, and the modules for 2.4 into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 The init scripts will pick them up accordingly. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mSfWInuLMrk7bIwRAqNHAKCOZRDOlJZtEBYByAxUJlja4lSkqQCgiIWr ZnRAQn7HdYSOdS0SbVpbKkU= =RzvR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question

2003-10-25 Thread Mike Williams
> > As USER > bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then . /etc/profile fi in .bashrc - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mk

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9000 problem

2003-10-26 Thread Mike Williams
d mm patches now, after troubles I had) sys-kernel/development-sources Genkernel is a great tool, for years I've done kernels by hand, but 'genkernel - --config' gives you all the flexibility of doing the configuration by hand with the bonus of a good starting point, and it does al

Re: [gentoo-user] I did it...almost

2003-10-26 Thread Mike Williams
install services when you want to. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/nDujInuLMrk7bIwRAktUAJ0RCYWkDMmSbcJPtKNRvltrma9XpACgnG4t Lo8sjvfZrNnojwRvaa03htc= =qMWq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Rogue dhcp server

2003-10-27 Thread Mike Williams
im in the shins :) If the clients can all talk directly to each other (i.e. not though a router) then you'd have to firewall each and every client. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/nQSyInuLMrk7bIwRAuh6AJ0UOSI+9WO1osNH0vOdnO4n/ANVo

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS and Gentoo linux

2003-10-27 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 October 2003 03:04, Joshua Banks wrote: > To Mike Williams, > > You said that I need TinyDns configured to achieve dns caching and > forwarding. This is totally untrue. If you're unsure of an answer to a > question pl

Re: [gentoo-user] DJBDNS and Gentoo linux

2003-10-27 Thread Mike Williams
to do with my setup. > > My apologies. It you were female I'd suggest we kiss and make up, but shall we just manly hug and make up? :o) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/nZ4sInuLMrk7bIwRApm7AKCm+62nQiqWCvl2zE0emffhpudM1gCfW

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge failed: Address family not supported by protocol

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
80... failed: Address > family not supported by protocol. > Retrying. Someone, I forget who (sorry), had this, or a similar, problem a few days ago. He had compiled wget with ipv6 support, and wget can only support ipv6 OR ipv4 at anyone time. There was a patch mentioned too to fix t

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
IE, Office, Quicktime, Media Player and a few other things running nicely. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oCFEInuLMrk7bIwRAtV9AJ9sxWRldAQw9SPst5/+qayH+RI7TACcCfWk rVnta41O/9gykf2raN2rNR8= =RDZ3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] squid

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
by default, don't you just love it? :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oCpvInuLMrk7bIwRAiMiAJ9Q49cesrLZ5+SnfNMfWO2x3Iek6ACdFd4O PER+jL/wB0NOnPyzylQjcjA= =HTDq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
ocation for IE is on your setup? The Crossover Office setup whatnot creates shortcuts in the KDE menu for me, my IE one runs this: "/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine" "C://Program Files//Internet Explorer//IEXPLORE.EXE" or from a console /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine .cxoffice/dotwine/fake_wi

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
ly use it for Excel[1], Word[2], and testing sites which don't work with either Konqy or Moz. [1] spreadsheet with vbs macros [2] funky, overly complicated word doc, stupidly with revisions left in - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/L

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 October 2003 22:46, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > What can't Openoffice do that Office 2000/XP can? Cos Microsoft won't tell them how? :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from RH9 to gentoo

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Williams
nel (I wouldn't count on it though) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oFCFInuLMrk7bIwRAohdAKCZwD+GD8VGSHyaRR7wgPznbDmlYACaAs8F 3HW9Yrr89LWxKJmj4FpzpLs= =oQub -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Williams
ectory would do much since > i had the exact same error with root and root didn't have a .kde until i > tried this, this afternoon. If you lost your panel with root and non-root BEFORE emerging kdelibs then deleting .kde won't do any good. Deleting/moving .kde/share/config/kickerrc

Re: [gentoo-user] secure live cd?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Williams
cd and want to login > over ssh and then do the install. all unneeded ports have to be > closed. so ssh and rsync open. maybe http. ssh in. rsync http out. > what do I need to do to achieve that? thanks in advance! Isn't a password enough for the relative short period of insta

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
o 25 in > make.conf but I still get the same error. GENTOO_MIRRORS is where portage will download source tarballs from SYNC is where portage will sync from (the default is just fine) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
; > How did I mess up the command in linking these and how do I do it > correctly. > > Thanks and looking forward to updating! If /etc/make.profile really is a file (ls -lh /etc/make.profile), then delete it (rm /etc/make.profile) and redo the symlink. - -- Mike Williams -B

Re: [gentoo-user] Question About Iptables Script and Sound

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
e a Soundblaster Live sound card. I plan to use alsa for > sound. Do I need to emerge emu10k1 along with the alsa? Nope. You can optionally set ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 in /etc/make.conf so alsa-driver will only compile the emu10k1 driver, can save quite a bit of time. - -- Mike Williams

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
et NAT working? Any thoughts, anyone? Thanks. You need way more than that. Select 'IP tables support (required for filtering/masq/NAT)' then scroll down to and select the NAT option and it's options. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
the symlink down and delete a small part of /usr/portage/profiles/, so I'd still rm /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4 rm -rf /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 /etc/make.profile - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
ackages I need and use them > also on other pc's. I'd like to update the packages once in a week. But I > don't like to recompile all of them, but only the packages for which a new > version is available. emerge -k package Remember that the PC need to have at least the same CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
u = upgrade b = buildpkg k = usepkg No upgraded package, does nothing Upgraded package which doesn't exist as a tarball, compiles and makes a tarball. Upgraded package which exists as a tarball, use tarball, no compile. HTH - -- Mike Williams -BEG

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
is on) and run 'kdeinit kded' 'kdeinit kwin' one will attempt to start the other I think. > As well which logs would tell me possibly why this happened? dmesg, or /var/log/messages *might*, but I doubt it. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
m) should die, leaving you with a fresh session once X has respawned. Quite annoying if KDE has frozen, cos you'll lose any unsaved work/pages/sessions/etc - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p9eNInuLMrk7bIwRAjnLAKCVLK7r+adnJ+ji

Re: [gentoo-user] Video 4 Linux in kernel?

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
--config' and poke about. The option selection is the default config, so there is no need to worry about sorting the rest to suit your machine. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qBWqInuLMrk7bIwRArv+AKCgL3tEfxCQjBYVSpHy99mLnon4uACgluGZ 3w/FsJ9nIAqSqEGjHao0ReE= =D7SJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Williams
/usr/src/linux then run make menuconfig and select the options > from there. Use the install instructions for a non-genkernel to build your > kernel. genkernel --config punts you into menuconfig. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmyfirewall

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
should use rc-update: rc-update add iptables default Admitedly, all it does is create the symlink and rescan the init dependency cache, but hey. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qLeaInuLMrk7bIwRAg9/AJ9a6fzmtcaYAWNY9s/MV85ajpxtB

Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
. This is impossible with lilo. And if you fat-finger it, you can hit e at the boot menu and edit the boot line. Saved me a few times that! - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qLhrInuLMrk7bIwRAuKPAJ4qeGEEn2IsFC/2PZ2LzsuGOWE

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and Gnome

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
main window manager. > > Gentoo is the first distro where I've had to even think about it. :-) Gentoo isn't a distro where you have to think about it :) Just install the applications you need, portage will take care of the rest. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
ny help you can give me! I'd go for a different cable firstly. Quite a few times before I've had machines working perfectly well with one hub/switch, but won't work with a faster hub/switch. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qPN

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
s. A stock genkernel config includes shed loads of modules, as it has to, really. The kernel is creates does need to work on virtually every possible configuration. Busybox does seem to take a fair amount of time, probably not quite as long as the kernel. - -- Mike Williams ---

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and Gnome

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
.which specifically expluded Gnome. > > I'll go through the docs this weekend..and fill in the gaps.but > I'm trying to make some progress in the meantime, too. > > Thank you - everyone - for your patience and help. I know newbies can be > a pain. Especially

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
minutes. It's to be a firewall/router, so only has 2-3 packages more than system installed tho :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qXLtInuLMrk7bIwRAsrCAJ0baMnkDjLbpcnAsmmooNvdPFaXLwCfYn8w nVKIOnFNLjuk4MdcN13c8so= =MyWt -END PG

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:49, Mike Williams wrote: > Busybox does seem to take a fair amount of time, probably not quite as long > as the kernel. Maybe it's just my slow celery 650 then, if Chad's take no time at all :) - -

Re: [gentoo-user] (RESOLVED) Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.

2003-11-06 Thread Mike Williams
y is *definitely* something to be said for buying proper patch cables! :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qiAhInuLMrk7bIwRAsOcAKCk4ENfpUmbIxNhZOWezPoxziYODQCfQOS1 quoP/Gz6rX01CPD4XF8X/tI= =CPkg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
ssword format breaking all current clients. Simple start the server with --old-passwords, or something similar. No stability problems, but I rarely use it. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/q/uAInuLMrk7bIwRAtPgAJ9uhCgt5bA6pBn5RvjI242zqU9OMA

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 ebuild?

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 November 2003 20:17, Luke Davison wrote: > Couldn't you just run the /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables script to fix > the passwords? Nope, 4.1 uses a different/better encryption method. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PG

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
don't have to enter my password. How do I do this? emerge keychain add the following to your .bashrc if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa . ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh fi Works perfectly for me. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 November 2003 00:10, Mike Williams wrote: > emerge keychain > > add the following to your .bashrc > > if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then > keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa > . ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh > fi >

Re: [gentoo-user] boot time - fsck.xfs not found message

2003-11-08 Thread Mike Williams
; > What script file is executing that causes this, and how do I go about > fixing it? (I know nothing about the boot process really.) Sure you haven't got your root set as xfs in fstab? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rQ

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for gentoo for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Mike Williams
aniel Robbins which should clarify. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rsvTInuLMrk7bIwRAmOXAJ4lDDXb5lNrKvKrPb9WvxBJtCqLywCffmf+ MTus1O0RclUu0eI99HpRWlI= =wpRP -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- Begin Message --- I should have posted this to gent

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Williams
file scp remote:file localfile # user will be the user being used scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file scp is part of openssh. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r3YKInuLMrk7bIwRAsTBAJ486Ra6PYtekdj8YbvuFqFrtG5wSQCfbPXt 6WrqQCoK1

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
zilla with a plugin or something, but since i > use konqueor, i've never tried to figure it out. Konqy uses mozilla/netscap plugins, so mplayerplug-in should work. But kmplayer works nice here, it's a frontend and plugin. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

[gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
Should I be worried about downgrading? Cheers - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sSMbInuLMrk7bIwRAv6gAJ9Q/i5pMHjB9jbVxPjkgxG2K7cJGACfc6d6 VbxK6JXz1RrNsi5kCwdpzSM= =CJVb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cd-writing, spam assasin and date/time

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
wouldn't type "6", but "06". ntpd (ntpupdate) or rdate are better options :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sUL5InuLMrk7bIwRAooAAJ9OAgeA6yJMaPB32IXVifIzNfUuGwCgqifM o/ZBdHfFke6J/CjfXuRY16w= =zm/n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
g below those versions is going to break the dependencies, surely. I don't want to much about with a portage overlay. Doing the downgrade, unless it will break the system is the only real option. Or more importantly, the only option I wish to take :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP S

Re: [gentoo-user] scaredy cat glibc/downgrade question

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
employees) with 1 sysadmin (me!). glibc is only a minor release change, so I'm going for it. I have all the binary packages for the currently installed versions anyway. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sUgXInuLMrk7bIwRAsplAJ96bgQjFxuR0P

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Binary Packages - Help?

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Williams
he boxes, their USE flags, and CFLAGS are practically identical then emerge on one using the -b option, copy the resultant tbz2's to the other hosts (/usr/portage/packages/All) and 'emerge -k {world,system,packages}' - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP S

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP - MySQL - OT

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
at all. > > What is the command to change the password for user "pmt" without > knowing the correct password. If you have "root" access to mysql then you can simple UPDATE the user table in the mysql database. UPDATE mysql.user SET password = password("newpa

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation woes

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
you've got the path to the splash image slightly wrong in grub.conf. Done this myself a couple of times. The screen isn't exactly readable. The reason you have to press enter might be down to the default 30 second timeout on grub. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Williams
y box with media player installed is running KDE CVS in which plugins are slightly broken at the moment :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s1TPInuLMrk7bIwRArweAJwPGItU6FocvAZdpjsDgtxu4sZ1HACgk5Cu 3Q/rhI2f1RS83529o3Do+G8= =ZAVj --

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub RAID0 Serial ATA amd64 question

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
will be hd. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tLKmInuLMrk7bIwRAkPLAKCe1phbbrxmoUJ8AWfEv6MSnNSkCACfXaW2 4I8TtYN8s7vzQ0iee8yxrPE= =Lmbi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile power ?

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
ed to just 1 or 2 threads. Mahooosive difference in compile time. * Damn I wish! - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tLOZInuLMrk7bIwRAmGFAJ9xqaOlspSz8ejrbF3qghxIYCPpPwCfQdNm QxKR1kW72W1YsDa1qtC938s= =qyOx -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
-f `which krfb` kde-base/kdenetwork-5 * KDE $PV - network apps: kmail... [ ] I don't see why not, portage will pull in all the required dependencies. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tQP8InuLMrk

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and mirroring

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
t > the chance to turn it back). > I've seen this stuff done with Veritas, and I'd be cool to have it on a > Free Linux box. What do you mean by 'upgrade', swapping out a disk for a bigger one? I suppose just removing the old disk would disable it, and putting a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and mirroring

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
vices. So, in theory you could RAID5 3 DRBD devices and LVM your partitions on top. I have had LVM on RAID5, and now have LVM on RAID1. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tQjmInuLMrk7bIwRAlLCAJoDtB2bfVQS8ITujl4vTAZ+q+MYHgCeO2A6 RE7FK8GbG0xk9JGf5HQYBOQ= =bOvC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads closed in evolution

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
other things, drove me to Kmail months ago. I'm still there and have no intention of going back. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tQksInuLMrk7bIwRAiLyAJ41l2zTEI5aAPhFnVxuI+je8AAP0gCgmtWc ukBEDAv/XxWiVNjL3xqKs0o= =VPRi -END

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
ike $ du -hsx /usr/kde/cvs/ 233M/usr/kde/cvs That's with lots of other KDE stuff. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tQ0DInuLMrk7bIwRAhleAJ9Rb5fgzsFUggCe2xh4zjeJA25UrgCgn7Qg sJx3atdS/IokA5687Zem8Y4= =pcFq -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
r + ssh tunneling in > > order to have a secure way of connecting to remote desktops > > easily, maybe I > > send it to the newsletter team. > > Send me a rough draft, on list of off, so I can test it, OK?!? :-) Mark, search portage for rfb :) - -- Mike Williams -BEG

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and mirroring

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
when ATA66 was top of range fast, given me years of faultless service. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tTE5InuLMrk7bIwRAigEAJ41Te+i4rDCZwJdJtE1PrtMdFfxBgCZAS2j djWeoXCgdjDTp9GesbEG4aw= =iqPi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting two computers with a X-over cable

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Williams
pollute TCP or IP. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tTGyInuLMrk7bIwRAq72AJ0Q0uLo0AW92g0YtGf4Z4cOGLKrrACgqQ7f f//mezcC18AqkRitAw3AdtM= =RxIL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless keyboard and mouse system

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Williams
x27;s one? Or maybe with any > other cordless-desktop-system not so expensive as logitech's? Wireless keyboard and mice are no different to the computer than the wired kind. They talk to a box which plugs into standard USB/PS2 ports. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa & Kdemultimedia

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Williams
;s not being maintained. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39574 Perhaps slackware uses the old, depreciated alsa 0.5. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tp7wInuLMrk7bIwRAnAQAJ9yQNUUhk3iz/ucPtpzrGsQ22O4LACgqF84 jsObnJf0gG4SUKMMR3iWwCQ= =TbOs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Runnig an X Application without using the X-Server ?

2003-11-15 Thread Mike Williams
Gnome or > KDE, or put together by a "user friendly" distro like Mandrake, before > it trickled down to Linux at large. It might be a real feather in > Gentoo's cap if "we" did it first. Proper fast user switch would be such a killer cool app, I hope you do it. -

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Williams
have had to do lots of partition moves, rsync is the perfect tool for it. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/t1HYInuLMrk7bIwRAoQWAJ4w1D1ha2LXmPcxeDTQtiAN0JTZYwCgr8hd HPMFqXO0KbaqxaXflTosZoc= =87og -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Williams
ample: > Gentoo box > IP: 192.168.0.2 > File /user/Download/AAA > > I want to copy AAA to > RH9 > IP: 192.168.0.1 > folder /user/Temp > > What shall be the command line issued on RH9 Konsole window. scp 192.168.0.2:/user/Download/AAA /user/Temp - -- Mike Williams --

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to new partition

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:27, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:30:47AM +0000, Mike Williams wrote: > > I have been playing with LVM, and installing a new drive in my > > fileserver, so have had to do lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Williams
with the same password it fails. It does work with SSH keys, and keychain/ssh-agent holding the passphrase, though [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike $ scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:sync [EMAIL PROTECTED] sync 100% 1348KB 0.0KB/s 00:00 - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] apache 2 userdir access

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Williams
. I know, sounds odd, but because other users are members of the same group they will be denied access on a group basis before the system even gets to checking world access. Execute permissions on a directory will allow a user into that directory, but will not allow them to see the files in

[gentoo-user] PCSC smartcard reader

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Williams
some of our servers. I have one here, and to be honest, I have no idea if it's working or not, or if it's me just not using it correctly, or using the right tools. There doesn't appear to be any useful documentation what so ever. Cheers - -- Mike Williams <-- smartcard n

Re: [gentoo-user] Tk for Python

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Williams
g with python USE=tcltk emerge python - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uldPInuLMrk7bIwRAgkwAJ9jhSCHIx2VLAE+276JZnn7K/zC6QCfYT37 aAeA6zWcxwZO8KoaE8ys6mM= =jqYK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PCSC smartcard reader

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Williams
You may have a look at these sites: > > http://www.opensc.org/ > > http://www.linuxnet.com/ Those are the 2 sites I have been frequenting, fruitlessly :( - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uniiInuLMrk7bIwRAtpKAJ95Ivj/IjTNUIsyWlzNl

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use userpriv?

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
is a miniscule chance that a trojan could get implated into the source of a package, without root privs it can't do too much. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u0wcInuLMrk7bIwRAlbZAJ95dYTssv0FUoKeKLFs7EOaqbI6AgCgh2FF CYgX3kXbkZhY6Go8rt

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world error

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
t be installed on the same system together. > !!!        Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. > > Then I ran: > > emerge --pretend kde But you ran a world update, not a kde install :) emerge world -up - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
e odd, because I bought a second hand/returned ultra160 scsi card from Insight over 2 years ago. It had been returned cos it was the mac version, yet has worked faultlessly in my athlon fileserver. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u07BInuLMr

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing binaries from grp-installation

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
ements. You should be able to jump a through hoops to get > it to use your packages though. Look at the following example. emerge package1 package2 package3 ... -pk You'll either get [ebuild . or [binary . I think you can point emerge directly at the binary, like with ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net & virtual ips

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
f on a SuSE server, where each interface is defined in a separate > config file.. It's documented in the config file. # For adding aliases to a interface - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u2UoInuLMrk7bIwRAmydAJ9OIs/439ktNJKJL

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS font cache

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
l show up in KDE and Gnome ... I often find looking at the init scripts very helpful, and in this case it is. Looks like upon starting it will scan the font directories for changes, and update as needed, if you have SETUP_FONTDIRS=yes in /etc/conf.d/xfs - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] djbdns setup questions

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
x27;t be fulfilled) and I've got apache set up to give me a domain back > (it works on another hosted domain that uses an external authoritative > dns server for discovery). > > Does anyone have a clue as to what could be the problem? Any h

Re: [gentoo-user] djbdns setup questions

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Williams
or > helpful with diagnosing." > > Yeah, I get that. But the app is great from what I hear...and I love > QMail, so I can't say much bad about the guy. :-) Steep learning curve, but an immense sense satisfaction when you are there :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Williams
cause you contributed The SRC_URI should list the postgres servers, so portage would eventually get to trying to get it from the source once all the mirrors had failed. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Williams
pt once, then '/etc/init.d/iptables save'. The next time iptables is started the rules will be restored. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/vUj5InuLMrk7bIwRAvLwAJ9eVwYJLaiLxJ14+YWCO7rUL3ID7wCeIXWT NoX5+KkGfZcdCzLZLfAyJpo= =Vn55 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fwbuilder question

2003-11-21 Thread Mike Williams
ables without arguments for full help There must be: redshat root # /etc/init.d/iptables save * Saving iptables state... [ ok ] redshat root # qpkg -v -f /etc/init.d/iptables net-firewall/iptables-1.2.8-r1 * - -- Mike Williams -B

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