On a new install I tried to emerge xcdroast but I receive 404 no such
file. Checking for distfiles on various mirrors, I can not find any
trace of it. Has xcdroast been dropped by gentoo?
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Westbank, B. C
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Sorry for the duplicate if you have seen the mail before.
I just want to make the question more specific.
After installing kde through emerge kdebase-meta and test with
startx of no problem, I add xdm to default run-level with modifying
display manager to kdm in rc.conf. However when I reboot the
Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my
Am Samstag, den 27.08.2005, 00:32 -0400 schrieb Michael Crute:
On 8/27/05, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been having alot of luck with openvpn it's ssl based
rather than
ipsec. I have found it to be easier to setup and less
confusing and
Am Samstag, den 27.08.2005, 00:22 -0400 schrieb Ron Bickers:
On Fri August 26 2005 06:36 pm, James wrote:
I've decided to take the plunge and build my first, full featured
firewall on Gentoo.
Any other ideas or recommendations on documents or firewall install
config on gentoo or a
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:20:12 -0600, Joseph wrote:
Is there a way to check what IP the device has on the network?
I know the device MAC address and when I plug it IN, it obtains one of
the IP via DHCP. With
arp -a IP
arp -e
I can only check the MAC address. Is there a way to other way
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:48:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've downloaded todays snapshot of protage and extracted
gimp-perl. Placed it in my portage tree. Then unmasked it with
package.keyword file and ran `emerge -v -p gimp-perl and then without
-p.
The build pulled in 20 other perl
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:41:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
This'll be my first linux install that won't be 32-bit Intel. I've
been reading the AMD64 install docs on the Gentoo.org website. The big
items I've noticed are...
- stick with ext2fs/ext3fs with all other filesystems being unstable
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:29:07 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote:
On a new install I tried to emerge xcdroast but I receive 404 no such
file. Checking for distfiles on various mirrors, I can not find any
trace of it. Has xcdroast been dropped by gentoo?
Which version? i just tried emerge -f xcdroast and
I've used both firehol and shorewall, and they're both great!
But for a more advanced setup, I would recommend shorewall (firehol is a bit
tricky at some points, like port-forwarding), it will save you a lot of time
(setting up a 3 NIC firewall with shorewall takes less than 30 minutes)...
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
That's irrelevant. Portage keeps the ebuilds used to install each
package
in /var/db/pkg. Otherwise updating a deprecated package would be
impossible. The problem is that the ebuild uses an eclass that no
longer
exists.
Bingo.
I had
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
Bad news... my 1.8 ghz P4 died recently and I'm now running on my
emergency backup 6-year-old Dell (450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM).
Let's just say that editing 2560 X 1920 digital photos in GIMP is a
rather liesurely process.
Good
never tried to use lilo on AMD64, since I switched from lilo to grub and
never
want to go back.
I intend to use the following partition layout...
- /8 gigs
a little tiny: your /usr gets very big when you have a lot of programs
(Gentoo
installs everything on /usr by default) and
Or use monmotha and be up an running in a couple of minutes. I am using
3 nics at the moment with it. I did try shorewall, but the setup time
and learning curve was so much greater I dumped it (the complexity
worried me as well - complex means it may be vulnerable to
misconfiguration). Mind
On Saturday 27 August 2005 04:12, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
OK I have read the vpn howto, and tunneling from the howto, and to be
truthfull i am totally over my head.
http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php
As long as the server has a static address, you'll be fine.
Doesn't even
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The build pulled in 20 other perl packages and is running currently.
Should I expect trouble from doing it this way?
Yes, if the dependencies are not in your outdated portage tree, although
it appears you got away with it this time.
Why don't you
On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:27, Harry Putnam wrote:
I would like to see an outline of what it takes to update the whole
system but as I recall its all in gentoo documentation but will
require quite extensive reading.
emerge sync
emerge world -u
etc-update
revdep-rebuild
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On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:27, Harry Putnam wrote:
I would like to see an outline of what it takes to update the whole
system but as I recall its all in gentoo documentation but will
require quite extensive reading.
emerge sync
emerge world -u
Hi,
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :)
http: //www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/
http: //www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html
Nah, don't do that. It will introduce major issues reg. connection
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Well according to the installed docu.. there is supposed to be:
From the `Usage' html page: (Note the last item)
Now run bbgallery to create the galleries. Without any parameters it
will use the following default values:
* Look
Hi,
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my
router/gateway which is dyndns enabled, how do I get to my ip on the server,
set up port forwarding on the router. Most router-in-a-box appliances will
let you
Hi,
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Justin Patrin wrote:
Is there an easy way switch back my reiser4 partition to reiserfs without
reinstalling everything.
I suggest booting from a Gentoo CD. Make a tarball of the entire FS
you want to convert and either pipe it across the network or onto
another
On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
Thanks for the simple outline... That was so encouraging that I'm
going to get this done this morning...
Thanks for the push.
No problem, it really is that simple.
Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months
On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
What does this mean... I though I had just updated portage. Or is a
sync something different than an update?
You just updated the portage tree, not portage the package.
It's suggesting you emerge portage before emerge
Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done!
[blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking
net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00)
However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error:
root # emerge -v -C net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00
--- Couldn't find
On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done!
[blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking
net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00)
However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error:
On Saturday 27 August 2005 14:40, Harry Putnam wrote:
I want to keep the vsftpd package so what needs to happen here?
The version of vsftp you have installed is out of date, the new version wants
to install ftpbase, but ftpbase blocks all versions of vsftp (and proftpd,
and probably pure-ftpd)
Robert Crawford schreef:
On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done!
[blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking
net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00)
However any attempt to unmerge
Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ?
I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ?
10nx
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On 8/26/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
Your friend is not alone in his desires. For the 4 years I've been
doing Linux based audio I've wished, cajoled begged for something to
replace Acid Pro. There is interest but no developer who'd
daniel wrote:
I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it
continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in.
BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as
examples for spamassassin-learning? mbox (all mails in 1 file), or
maildir (every mail
Makurin Roman schreef:
Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ?
I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ?
10nx
Open k3b, choose one of the DVD project types from either
1. The big buttons on the lower half of the main screen
2. The button bar under the menu bar
Thanks to all and esp. Holly for the detailed explanation. Quite a
good setup once one understands the underpinnings.
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Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
Thanks for the simple outline... That was so encouraging that I'm
going to get this done this morning...
Thanks for the push.
No problem, it really is that simple.
Getting it done this morning is
Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes:
I know you mentioned easing the pain, but good old iptables worked for
me - along with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml -
after using that initial setup and becoming somewhat familiar with
iptables, I was able to modify a script to
В сообщении от Суббота 27 августа 2005 18:52 Holly Bostick написал(a):
Makurin Roman schreef:
Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ?
I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ?
10nx
Open k3b, choose one of the DVD project types from either
1. The big buttons
Hello,
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/experimental/x86/hardened/livecd/
is what I'm using to install a base system, later on a complete firewall/router.
The K6 booted find with the grsec-noX option, but it prompts me for
a login and password right off the bat.
These did not work:
Makurin Roman schreef:
Thanks a lot! I found DVD data project, but it accessible only in menu
bar :-)
If you right-click on the lower half of the main screen (where it says
Welcome to K3B, and has the buttons for fast project choice), you can
add and remove buttons; if you go to the
90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and
admittedly myself doing something stupid.
I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running
update.
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which
creates
On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote :
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which
creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
Why not use dispatch-conf instead?
HTH
k.o.schultz
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Joe writes:
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which
overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus
Jarry wrote:
I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it
continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in.
BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as
examples for spamassassin-learning? mbox (all mails in 1 file), or
maildir (every
On Saturday August 27 2005 11:57 am, Kai Ole Schultz wrote:
On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote :
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
Why not use dispatch-conf instead?
First I've
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:29:07 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote:
On a new install I tried to emerge xcdroast but I receive 404 no such
file. Checking for distfiles on various mirrors, I can not find any
trace of it. Has xcdroast been dropped by gentoo?
Which version? i just
I've just completed setting up x server and gnome (why gnome - I'm a relic
of *nix and Motif and gnome sort of reminds me of the older look and feel).
gnome installs mozilla by default, which has browsing, news, and mail. How
does this stack up against Firefox? I've seen a lot of press about
I just found some docs on this that say Large organizations that require an
integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving
towards Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and
Thunderbird.
So, I guess the question becomes, can I unmerge Mozilla and
To me it depends on what you want/need/like. I don't like Mozilla because
it has everything in one package. I like to be able to use Firefox as the
browser and other programs for news and mail.
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, John
Dangler wrote:
I've just completed setting up x server and gnome
Willie Wong wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:26:55AM -0700, Jerry Turba wrote:
On another gentoo newsgroup I made a comment about deleting pam because I
believed it was causing a problem with logins to KDE. I was severely
PAM has been known to cause pain and suffering at unexpected
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
You likely should not have to. The idea of a BLOCK is that the new
package either replaces the functionality of, or includes the
functionality of, the currently installed program.
True
In this case, ftpbase installs the same
Jerry Turba wrote:
Thanks Willie and Marco for the ideas. I got the HOWTO and will read it
and try it out. I wasn't aware that there was a gentoo wiki. Looks like
lots of info there that I need to read.
Thanks for the help.
Hi, just for clarification so there is no confusion, my suggestion
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:47:57PM +0200, Jarry wrote:
daniel wrote:
I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it
continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in.
BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as
examples for
You can unmerge them. I never had Mozilla on my system and Firefox and
Thunderbird work well. If you have some valuable emails in Mozilla's
mailbox be sure you can access them later.
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, John
Dangler wrote:
I just found some docs on this that say Large organizations
Brett~
Thanks for the reply. I did find some additional information about these
that tells me I should be using Firefox and Thunderbird...
The USE flags on portage for thunderbird don't require gnupg, but I noticed
in Mozilla mail that in order to use encrypted mail, Mozilla mail wanted it.
Is
John Dangler schreef:
I just found some docs on this that say Large organizations that require an
integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving
towards Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and
Thunderbird.
So, I guess the question
Holly~
I wish I had know this before emerging gnome... :(
What I may do (just because gnome is such a pig on compilation) is emerge
firefox and thunderbird, and leave it as-is. I may as well explore the apps
that gnome has been so gracious to include, and then, when I've discovered
which are
default gnupg (Enigmail) integration with Thunderbird was removed
recently because of trouble with the build. from the ebuild:
ewarn Enigmail Support has been dropped since it doesn't work on
fresh install.
ewarn The Gentoo Mozilla team is working on making enigmail its
own build,
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:44:47 -0700
David Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A. Khattri wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David Busby wrote:
cdrtx / # fcrontab -e
fcrontab: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot
open shared object file: Permission denied
But libc looks OK to
Myk~
I just got that message... I went to enigmail.mozdev.org
Current version showing release is v0.92.0
There is an article on the right side that says 0.90.2 - Use this with
Thunderbird 1.0.2
The latest stable version of Thunderbird in portage is 1.0.5 ...
hmm...
So, which version should be
Ouch!
I just came across this in the release notes for enigmail...
Enigmail needs to be compiled using the same environment as the Thunderbird
or Mozilla Suite you are about to install it on. This usually means that you
should either use the official binary builds of both (the Mozilla
application
Ok, two combined into one here:
A. Khattri asked if I was logged in as root, yes I am.
and
When I said this:
cdrtx / # ldd /usr/bin/crontab
linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7ec4000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000)
Ian Hastie said:
Hi All!
I`ve got segfaults everytime I trying to play DVD with xine-based dvd players
like kaffeine or xine.
-
I`ve got installed:
media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.0-r1 +X +a52 +aac +aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts
-cle266 -directfb -dts +dvd -dxr3 -esd +fbcon +flac -gnome -i8x0 +imagemagick
+ipv6
After some more reading, I decided to emerge Firefox and Thunderbird
anyway...
It installs fine, except it's really annoying that mousing over a menu
selection turns the colors white on white... (developer's joke, perhaps)
When I go to the extensions dialog, there aren't any. So, I seect Check
David Busby wrote:
I'm trying to get 2005.1 onto this box I was just gifted. It's got a
SuperMicro p4sct+ with a goofy SATA controller. I've got four hard
drives in it, connected to these four SATA connectors (labeled like 1/5,
2/6, 3/7, 4/8). I guess i'm using them in 1,2,3,4 mode. But
You're welcome. I'm not that up on Tbird. I used it briefly a long time
ago on another Gentoo box but didn't like it so I went to Pine and I did
not use encryption either. The only other install has been on a windows
box that I used when both my Gentoo boxes were dead. When I get my main
Thank you, this was already solved.
http://www.edoceo.com/liber/marvell-sata.php
/djb
Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
David Busby wrote:
*snip*
Hi David,
AFAIK ata_piix.c is developed for intel SATA controllers integrated on
PIIX chipsets only.
Why do you expect it should support Adaptec or
Firefox is now crashing whenever I print a page. Firefox gives its
popup showing the status. When the status is complete, everything
vanishes and nothing is printed. The error msg is not very helpful.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/doc $ firefox
No running windows found
(firefox-bin:9293):
I just tried emerging gaim and got this error:
configure: WARNING: Could not find Tcl which is needed for the kadm5 tests
configure: error: Could not find Tcl
!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.1-r2/work/krb5-1.4.1/src/config.log
!!! ERROR:
As regarding the partitioning, I would recommend using LVM2. Then no
matter how you might mess up your partitioning in the beginning you can
change it to suit your needs by resizing it on the fly - live - without
rebooting or even unmounting.
Check the official guide as well as
List,
When I use this Windows based SSH tool to connect to my new dev box with sftp it get's two dialogs about 'enter auth
response' as if the sftp-subsystem is spitting out extra control characters. That's not a real big issue but what is
that jEdit on Win or Lin cannot connect, it says
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months
without an update is likely to put you a long way back, meaning lots
to compile. Thankfully you can just leave it going in the
background. I almost always run
This appears now to
I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using
this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a
moment. Open Office or the Ximianized Open Office. I read that Ximian
was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these two portage packages
I used this setup on a multi-purpose server I built from parts. It
also functions as a ftp, http, sftp, ssh, vnc, samba server. Hey,
have to put it to work somehow.
On 8/27/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes:
I know you mentioned easing the pain,
On 05/08/27 18:35, Harry Putnam wrote:
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months
without an update is likely to put you a long way back, meaning lots
to compile. Thankfully you can just leave it going in the
background. I
I setup gpg and also set up enigmail to use my key and signature.
when I send an email message I get the following:
Error - bad passphrase
/usr/bin/gpg -charset utf8 -batch -no-tty -status-fd 2 -clearsign
-digest-algo sha1 -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] -passphrase-fd 0 -no-use-agent
gpg: skipped [EMAIL
I've never seen one. But there are a couple of options -
Get a DV cam and use it for S-Video input through firewire (much
more than your willing to pay).
Get a used SGI Indy off E-bay or other source, put Gentoo MIPS on
it. They have the VINO (Video In/Out) card working with a
I am an XFCE user. Today I installed skype which use qt as its UI.
However, the UI is ugly (tk-like). I find some very nice qt (or kde?)
themes on kde-look.org, but I don't know how to install them without KDE
Control Center. I don't want to install KDE anyway.
Anyone can tell me how to
Ok. I found out that I have gpg setup right. I also know that if I enable
passphrases for sending mail, and don't use the gpg agent in enigmail, mail
works great!
However, the docs for enigmail also say that you can set no passphrase for
this user and set use gpg agent for passphrase management,
Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome?
Thanks.
John D
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I like gftp...works in kde, too.
On Saturday 27 August 2005 21:05, John Dangler wrote:
Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome?
Thanks.
John D
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On Saturday August 27 2005 9:08 pm, John Jolet wrote:
I like gftp...works in kde, too.
Ditto.
-jm
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Thanks, John. After reading through the plethora of apps and googling til
my eyes hurt, I think it's a good start...
John D
-Original Message-
From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 10:09 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]
ditch etc-update, dispatch-conf has backup features built in
emerge gentoolkit
dispatch-conf
and while you're at it
emerge eix
eix some-package
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Anyone know why Open Office would require USE=”hardened” ?
Or is this here to show that it can be installed in a hardened Gentoo
environment?
I noticed some postings based on people installing it with -hardened (and
having problems), but I don't have a hardened Gentoo install and don't want
On 8/27/05, Alvin A ONeal Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As regarding the partitioning, I would recommend using LVM2. Then no
matter how you might mess up your partitioning in the beginning you can
change it to suit your needs by resizing it on the fly - live - without
rebooting or even
my votes:
wget
ncftp
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 22:22 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
Thanks, John. After reading through the plethora of apps and googling til
my eyes hurt, I think it's a good start...
John D
-Original Message-
From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:20:12 -0600, Joseph wrote:
Is there a way to check what IP the device has on the network?
I know the device MAC address and when I plug it IN, it obtains one of
the IP via DHCP. With
arp -a IP
arp -e
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