[gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

2005-10-24 Thread Martins Steinbergs
hi, i run into this problem, calling for shutdown or restart wont work, and cant find any logs on that. when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev

[gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer to send me a PS or PDF document. Because I always

[gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Jochen Schalanda
On 10/22/2005 05:31 PM, Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe

[gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread Mark
I followed the instructions on the Gentoo wiki about configuring VNC server, but I am not able to connect either inside the LAN or from the outside, despite having port forwarding enabled for it on my firewall. I went through the instructions twice, and everything is as listed. Anybody know if

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

2005-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 00:28 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i run into this problem, calling for shutdown or restart wont work, and cant find any logs on that. when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont

[gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process

2005-10-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I wrote a script to read a smbfs mounted filesystem and make symlinks to the files locally. The script appears to run fine interactively and fine most of the time when run by cron. I run the script every half hour. Over the course of a week or so, 15 - 20 defunct sh processes show up in the

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:31:32 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set

[gentoo-user] #emerge asterisk ::: giving me an error

2005-10-24 Thread Widyachacra Rajapaksha
dear friends, i just try to emerge asterisk for my gentoo box. unfotunatly it stopped by giving me an error. pls help me to emerge it. #emerge info Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo-r2-AIT-v3.53 i686)

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-vfs

2005-10-24 Thread Csanyi Andras
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:57:40 +0200 -kor Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] irta ezt: sayusi bundi # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.6 * Scanning libtool files for hardcoded gcc library paths... This is where you wen't wrong. If you need to run the script with further parameters, the usage is: Usage:

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:32AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Gordon
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 01:31 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium

[gentoo-user] [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-24 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, I have a setup Gentoo on a Box with a onboard ATA Raid controller (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). At the moment I am only using one ATA-Disk on this controller (this is the only disk in the system). Now I want to add a second Disk to this system and setup a RAID-1

[gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer user in CVS so I cannot upload. If I fill in a bug for uploading ebuilds (is the right way)

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rafael Fernández López wrote: I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer user in CVS so I cannot upload. If I fill in a bug for uploading ebuilds (is the right way) I've created a patch

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Bill Roberts, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: On 01:31 Sun 23 Oct , Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe With a 2.13Ghz pentium-m, I

[gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box,

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:10:55 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the instructions on the Gentoo wiki about configuring VNC server, but I am not able to connect either inside the LAN or from the outside, despite having port forwarding enabled for it on my firewall. I went through

Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend

2005-10-24 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Antoine: Hi, I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip a couple of clicks, legal (in France it is even LEGAL to copy rented dvds!!!) backup of dvd. Why are things

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
[This is the third time sending this post because it doesn't seem to be showing up on the list. Sorry if it ends up being a duplicate (or a triplicate).] Thank you everyone! I have now discovered that my problem was that I still had some monolithic kde packages hanging around alongside the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- gcc .o linking and undefined references

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Dan wrote: The bit that makes me think I'm stupid is that it seems that neither gcc or I can find the source (.c) or compiled binaries (.o) which implement the structures and functions defined in ldap.h. What am I doing wrong? Where are the .c and .o files supposed to be on a regular linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

2005-10-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:07:42 +1000 Andrew Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
Thank you everyone! I have now discovered that my problem was that I still had some monolithic kde packages hanging around alongside the metapackages (e.g. kdeedu instead of kdeedu-meta). I think I'd been unmerging them one at a time and didn't get around to finishing the job. Now that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:39:42 +0200 Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer

Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend

2005-10-24 Thread Dan
Antoine wrote: Hi, I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip a couple of clicks, legal (in France it is even LEGAL to copy rented dvds!!!) backup of dvd. Why are things so

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Bill Roberts
On 01:31 Sun 23 Oct , Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe --

[gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On one machine of mine, and only one machine, bash completion is not working for my user account when I try to complete a path. I hit tab and nothing happens. Bash completion is working for files though. I can do bash completion in my home directory and get a list of files, but if I try to

[gentoo-user] OT -- gcc .o linking and undefined references

2005-10-24 Thread Dan
Hi everyone, I'm doing something really obviously wrong, but I don't know what. I can gcc -c -o file.o file.c and get a binary object. I do this for the main and two helper .c files This works, then I get a bunch of .o files. then you usually do gcc -o final executable name main.o

[gentoo-user] Wired font problems in gtk applications:

2005-10-24 Thread Stoian Ivanov
Since recently i began to see some wired font problems here are some screen shots: i tried reemerge xorg xfontconfig freetype but no success. I haven't notice the problem in KDE programs. So what should I do (reemerge?) some additional info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery list xorg [

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:08:47 -0700 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On October 22, 2005 04:38 pm Dave Nebinger was like: I think at this point you'll have to post some of the output generated when the ebuild fails before we'll be able to help you any further... Well here

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote: Hi everyone After my kernel loads i get the message INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot

[gentoo-user] Firefox search/toolbar washout

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi people I have been suffering from the bug at the link below for quite some time, in fact I have given up on firefox and moved to Opera. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274823#add_comment That said I hate to leave anything undone, so on the off chance that anyone on this list has

[gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo user using FC2 on his test machine hits an unfathomable VFS Panic!

2005-10-24 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, I installed FC2 on my test machine, to test my kernels and I keep hitting the following VFS panic error: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/vfs-panic.png My grub.conf looks like this: snip default=1 timeout=10 title FC2 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro

[gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo user using FC2 on his test machine hits an unfathomable VFS Panic!

2005-10-24 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, I installed FC2 on my test machine, to test my kernels and I keep hitting the following VFS panic error: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/vfs-panic.png My grub.conf looks like this: snip default=1 timeout=10 title FC2 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi Richard, I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe You may look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Splash Image.

2005-10-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Is this your own splash image that created or are you using the default one? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Splash_image_in_GRUBOn 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Daer all, when i set the path in grub.conf to splashimage, while booting my screen will blurred, then i can see

[gentoo-user] IPv6, now what?

2005-10-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I recently got an IPv6 address for my small server (or perhaps I recently got a lot of IPv6 address, I cannot tell) from my ISP. This is what I did in attempt to activate this address (all following exactly what is written on the ISP's manual) server root # ip addr add

[gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. When I connect the phone, I see the following in /var/log/messages: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: device descriptor

Re: [gentoo-user] amanda client

2005-10-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote: Since google is your friend, if you had searched for gentoo amanda-client, you would've found some more information. amanda-client as your only search keyword returns some distros that have seperate server/client packages (like Debian, FreeBSD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Newcomer: Nvidia from GRP and MX4000

2005-10-24 Thread Ian Porter
Hi On Sunday 23 October 2005 02:55, Alan E. Davis wrote: On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card. I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far. Trying to configure Xorg, after installing nvidia-kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Newcomer: Nvidia from GRP and MX4000

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Shields
What does lsmod | grep nvidia return?On 10/22/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On AMD64 system with an MX 4000 video card. I have made it through an installation, installing everything from the Packages (GRP) disk. This has been a no-net install so far. Trying to configure Xorg,

[gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

2005-10-24 Thread Wes Gray
Started getting this problem when I try to emerge sync: receiving file list ... 129008 files to consider metadata/ recv_generator: mkdir /usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files failed: Permissio n denied stat /usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files failed: Permission denied metadata/timestamp.chk

[gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Faulknor
Hi everyone After my kernel loads i get the message INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT:

Re: [gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process

2005-10-24 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 07:36 -0700 schrieb Drew Tomlinson: I wrote a script to read a smbfs mounted filesystem and make symlinks to the files locally. The script appears to run fine interactively and fine most of the time when run by cron. I run the script every half hour. Over the

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Richard Fish
Robert Persson wrote: On October 22, 2005 04:38 pm Dave Nebinger was like: I think at this point you'll have to post some of the output generated when the ebuild fails before we'll be able to help you any further... Well here goes... ... UnixMain.o ../../../../src/wp/ap/libAp.a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox search/toolbar washout

2005-10-24 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 16:34 +0200 schrieb Stuart Howard: Hi people I have been suffering from the bug at the link below for quite some time, in fact I have given up on firefox and moved to Opera. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274823#add_comment That said I hate to

Re: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ] mail-mta/qmail-1.03-r16 (is blocking net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.30)

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart Howard
I had same block yesterday, below is what I did worked a treat for me -snip- 555 emerge -aDuv world {block showed up here} 556 emerge -aCv qmail 557 emerge -av qmail -snip- stu On 23/10/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 October 2005 00:18, [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Newcomer: Nvidia from GRP and MX4000

2005-10-24 Thread Alan E. Davis
It was installed at the time I posted this problem; however, I have now removed nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, and generated a new xorg.conf. The system is working now, using nv as the driver. Next, I guess I'll install nvidia-kernel, etc., and see if it works this time? Thank you very much for

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
For remote access over the public Internet I usually use ssh. With the '-X' option it gives you secure encrypted port forwarding to your local X server, which appart from a speed hit is functionally pretty close to having a directly connected X terminal. Of course if you are trying to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/23/05, Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01:31 Sun 23 Oct , Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Petteri Räty
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, I've created an ebuild for tkgate (http://www.tkgate.org). It is very frustrating because I cannot see how to upload it or whatever. I'm not a developer user in CVS so I cannot upload. If I fill in a bug for uploading ebuilds (is the right way) I've created

[gentoo-user] Connecting a Motorola C380 mobile via USB

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi, My post from yesterday seems to have disappeared into the ether, so I'll try again - appologies if this is eventually repeated... I would like to connect a mobile phone (Motorolo C380) with USB connector to my gentoo system so as to give me both mobile Internet access and also the ability to

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread 赵光
CFLAGS=-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe i prefer this2005/10/23, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:32AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, On one machine of mine, and only one machine, bash completion is not working for my user account when I try to complete a path. I hit tab and nothing happens. Bash completion is working for files though. I can do bash completion in my home directory and get a list of

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi again, I filled it in, and it is uploaded. I'm gonna work with wxmaxima too, and create a new ebuild for it (http://wxmaxima.sf.net). I'd like to know if there is any posibility of becoming a Gentoo Dev, I'm offering as a developer, and I'd like to know what I've to know or study before it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Wes Gray wrote: What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? This would be the first thing I would try. Also check dmesg. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Splash Image.

2005-10-24 Thread Gentoo Voyager
I'm using default splashimage.. On 10/24/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this your own splash image that created or are you using the default one? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Splash_image_in_GRUB On 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daer all, when i set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading ebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rafael Fernández López wrote: I filled it in, and it is uploaded. I'm gonna work with wxmaxima too, and create a new ebuild for it (http://wxmaxima.sf.net). I'd like to know if there is any posibility of becoming a Gentoo Dev, I'm offering as a developer, and I'd like to know what I've to know

[gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection

2005-10-24 Thread Gentoo Voyager
Dear all, My home gentoo box dos't have a internet connection, but i need to install Sendmail on my PC( for testing perposer), any one know how to do it without internet cennection.. thanks.. Suranga-- Try tobe a Buddhist..!!

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 10/23/05, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/22/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a coupleof hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdripa couple of clicks, legal (in France it is even LEGAL to copy renteddvds!!!) backup of

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
first make sure vnc is actually running and listening. when you start the server, it should tell you what address and X display offset it's using. Make sure with netstat -a that it really is listening there. Second, are you running iptables on that box? as a quick test, if you are, shut

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 10:17 schrieb ext Glenn Enright: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote: Hi everyone After my kernel loads i get the message INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: Id c6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, My home gentoo box dos't have a internet connection, but i need to install Sendmail on my PC( for testing perposer), any one know how to do it without internet cennection.. You need to find a gentoo box on an internet connection and

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 24 October 2005 08:33, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Um, ps is itself proprietary. Technically, adobe still owns the patent, don't they? Take a look at this... PDF is the proprietary modification of ps, added some tags and some compression (that can easily be repeated with lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 10/24/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 08:33, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Um, ps is itself proprietary. Technically, adobe still owns the patent, don't they? Yeah, my mistake. Still, postscript was always more portable than pdf (IMO). Take a look at this...

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
In general, I think it is pretty straight forward to go from PDF to postscript, and PDF seems easier to access for Windows users, so if you can store a PDF file as your displayable format then I don't think you need to also store the postscipt. There are occasions, however, when PDF output isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Shields
Vnc (I've only dealt with tightvnc, can't speak for others) is pretty easy to use/start. After you've emerged tightvnc, simply type xvncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 from a shell and it will setup a vnc server. From there you can use a vnc client to connect to the server, using this

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread David Helstroom
Digby Tarvin wrote: snip Does anyone know if gs or something similar is available for windows? You could try googling for gs windows. Check out: http://www.google.com/search?q=gs+windows HTH, Dave. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Mark
Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we use will host the

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
Two things, well several things, really. You need more than one mail server, or you need a store-and-forward mx in case your mail server goes down. Second, I'd make sure you put antivirus and spam guards on the mail server, and that it's beefy enough to handle the traffic. A good split is to

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:29 -0400, Mark wrote: Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 24 October 2005 10:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:29 -0400, Mark wrote: Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark wrote: Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we use

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Mark wrote: Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you advertise it.. I have been running a mail server on my home system ever since I got my DSL connection at home. It is where I normally direct mailing list traffic and

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-24 Thread Rafael Fernández López
On 01:31 Sun 23 Oct , Richard Watson wrote: I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe --

Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty

2005-10-24 Thread Glenn Enright
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on. If this was the case, how could init be executed, or even read inittab? it is possibly on a separate partition. -- I want

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
On October 22, 2005 11:53 pm Richard Fish was like: Could you post the output of gcc -print-search-dirs? Particularly, I am looking to see something like: libraries: =/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/... I think the libstdc++ library in this directory contains the gxx_personality_v0

Re: [gentoo-user] Script Run From Cron Sometimes Leaves Defunct sh Process

2005-10-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/24/2005 1:04 AM Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 07:36 -0700 schrieb Drew Tomlinson: # Create symlink from original file to $newfile in $local_dir # specified above. ln -s $original $local_dir/$newfile Just a suggestion: insert a minimum of

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
Digby Tarvin wrote: It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you advertise it.. That's fine for outgoing mail, but unless an MX record exists for the internal server on a domain/subdomain, it's difficult to

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Monday 24 October 2005 11:36, John Jolet wrote: Two things, well several things, really. You need more than one mail server, or you need a store-and-forward mx in case your mail server goes down. Second, I'd make sure you put antivirus and spam guards on the mail server, and that it's

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread kashani
John Jolet wrote: Two things, well several things, really. You need more than one mail server, or you need a store-and-forward mx in case your mail server goes down. Second, I'd make sure you put antivirus and spam guards on the mail server, and that it's beefy enough to handle the traffic.

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Persson
On October 23, 2005 02:39 am Hans-Werner Hilse was like: What you cited then looks like the final linking step. My first guess is that the ebuild doesn't list all dependencies of abiword that it actually has and in your case you're missing one. Check the -lx lines (libraries) if something

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/24/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, On one machine of mine, and only one machine, bash completion is not working for my user account when I try to complete a path. I hit tab and nothing happens. Bash completion is working for files though. I can do

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 . d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 .. your root directory should NOT have these perms. try: # chmod 0755 / -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/24/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 . d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 .. your root directory should NOT have these perms. try: # chmod 0755 / Thanks Billy. That appears to have solved my issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Billy Holmes
Mark Knecht wrote: I wonder how it ever got that way? I don't know what a trailing 't' even means, much less put it there on purpose! Well, you have been tinkering with things lately. It's possible you ran an funky install script that had a space between a pathname / var/tmp. To be safe,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-24 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 23 October 2005 15:53, Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, I have a setup Gentoo on a Box with a onboard ATA Raid controller (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). At the moment I am only using one ATA-Disk on this controller (this is the only disk in the system). Now I want to add a

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:05PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: That's fine for outgoing mail, but unless an MX record exists for the internal server on a domain/subdomain, it's difficult to 'direct' traffic from the outside in. The only other way I can think off is to test the server

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Gottbrath
I am not 100% sure but I seem to recall someone telling me that pdfs embed any fonts that are used, whereas ps files expect the fonts in question to be on the machine that you look at the ps file with. This could be a strong argument in favor of pdf files if you are sending the files to

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6, now what?

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:46 am, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I recently got an IPv6 address for my small server (or perhaps I recently got a lot of IPv6 address, I cannot tell) from my ISP. This is what I did in attempt to activate this address (all following exactly what is written on the

[gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0

2005-10-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
updated a couple of machines to 2005.1+ sometime in the past month. Everything went fine or so I thought. Had to reboot one of the machines today. It wouldn't boot. Everything started okay or so it seemed except eth0 wasn't present. The module was compiled in the kernel, the configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0

2005-10-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400 Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem was /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.lo were the same. The net.eth0 code was overwritten with the lo code. This happened on two machines and I'm wondering how it happened? Did something go

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Marshal Newrock wrote: I'd like to disagree with a couple points on here. First off, a secondary MX is not necessary. If an email can't get through due to a server being down, it will be retried and get through later when the server is up. That is true, if the down time is short in

Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0

2005-10-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400 Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem was /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.lo were the same. The net.eth0 code was overwritten with the lo code. This happened on two machines and I'm wondering how it happened?

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
kashani wrote: 1. Block mail up front. Use greylisting as it stops spam before it enters the MTA's queue. This keeps 90% of my spam from even entering the more resounce intensive filtering processes. This is a very effective filter. However, it does greatly slow down delivery of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 24 October 2005 19:28, Francesco Talamona wrote: The most difficult thing was making disc naming sticky, I have a ASUS A8V with a Via and a Promise controller, and the disk naming was so sloppy that if sda failed all other disks were renamed to accommodate in the free namespace, not

[gentoo-user] unattended installation

2005-10-24 Thread Eric Waguespack
apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was curious, is there an unattended installation project for Gentoo? It would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to reinvent the wheel.

[gentoo-user] module-rebuild script

2005-10-24 Thread John Green
Hi, The Gentoo newsletter mentioned the new module-rebuild script, so I emerged it and ran it with the following results. # module-rebuild list ** Packages which I will emerge are: =media-libs/svgalib-1..21-r1 =net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2

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