Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 12:36 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: Alright, if that is the case I have it installed already. The questions is, why doesn't a related document class show up in LyX? A friend of mine told me there should be a beamer class. The latex-beamer package includes a

[gentoo-user] Copy untained files from a corrupted (ntfs) partition

2006-09-18 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Good morning, I try to rescue files from a corrupted ntfs partition. I don't care about the corrupted files, but I would like to rescue the untained files. Is there a way to instruct cp or tar to skip corrupted files? Or is there a tool under GNU/Linux which can simply delete the broken files?

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot package

2006-09-18 Thread Daniel Iliev
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Gentoo amd64 Gnome-light Screenshot does not come with gnome-light. Please advise which package shall I emerge. TIA B.R. SL If you have media-gfx/imagemagick installed, you could use a bash script like this: #!/bin/bash # I am /bin/print.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot package

2006-09-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Daniel, Tks for your advice. If you have media-gfx/imagemagick installed I don't have it installed. I tried to do it on M$Windows way by pressing [PrintScreen] and paste the image on .doc or on Gimp, but following warning popup There was an error running gnome-screenshot: Failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot package

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:43:42 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Liu wrote: I tried to do it on M$Windows way by pressing [PrintScreen] and paste the image on .doc or on Gimp, You do take screenshots in GIMP. but following warning popup There was an error running gnome-screenshot: Failed to execute child

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs and samba doesn't mount at boot

2006-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 September 2006 17:46, Pawel K wrote: Hello NFS and SAMBA doesn't mount at boot: 1. NFS I receive the following message at boot: Sep 15 14:34:34 [rc-scripts] ERROR: cannot start nfsmount as net.eth0 could not start Sep 15 14:34:35 [rc-scripts] ERROR: cannot start netmount

Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file

2006-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:36, rob wrote: What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 Not to be pedantic, but it's '0 1' for the / partition :-) Others have referred you to the man pages that describe these settings, but what isn't obvious

[gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
I've seen somewhere a '*' in the password field of non-human users. I think this is supposed to mean that user can't login. However, I didn't find anything like that in gentoo's /etc/passwd (e.g., for user cron or user sshd). Can someone comment on this matter? Is * deprecated? Of course, these

[gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi all, I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? Forgive me this OT, I wasn't able to find a suitable list. Thanks for replies.

Re: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:09:03AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I've seen somewhere a '*' in the password field of non-human users. I think this is supposed to mean that user can't login. However, I didn't find anything like that in gentoo's /etc/passwd (e.g., for user cron or user sshd). Can

Re: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Matteo Pillon wrote: From shadow(5) manpage: If the password field contains some string that is not valid result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use a unix password to log in, subject to pam(7). OK, thank you. The * should appear in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Roman Zilka
I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? I'd say it's not a matter of how Linux treats directories (putting aside the problem

AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Hi, the question is, what is a file? I would say; a file is an object related to a specific inode. So a directory would be a file as well as FIFOs, unix-sockets, char, block-devices, symlinks and of course regular files. The problem is, that not each kind of file is threaded the same way on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 18. September 2006 11:10 schrieb ext Matteo Pillon: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. It's not Linux, but the applications. For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Two systems or one?

2006-09-18 Thread Dale
Drew wrote: Yes, but does it run Gentoo? ;) Maybe not Gentoo specifically but it runs a linux kernel inside. :) Hence the 'L'. -Drew Makes me wonder what the G stands for?? Gentoo maybe?? O_O Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to get Java 1.3 SDK ebuilds...

2006-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, According to eix -I sdk only SDK versions from 1.4 upwards are available for installation. I might need 1.3 SDK variants too for maintenance of old product versions (it is not THAT simple to get a customer to upgrade :-), so - are there some ebuilds for 1.3 JDK versions around? Ciao, Wolfgang

AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Noack, Sebastian
The second field in /etc/passwd stands also for the password hash. But since storing passwords in /etc/passwd is deprecated, it should ever be an invalid hash like x or * for example. Regards Sebastian Noack OK, thank you. The * should appear in /etc/shadow, not in /etc/passwd. -- Jorge

[gentoo-user] Can't get ULI-Raid1 to work

2006-09-18 Thread Roman v. Gemmeren
Hi, i already searched all over the internet, but couldn't find anything yet... I'm having a hard time getting my onbard raid1 back to work with a new mainboard. The old one had an nforc4 chip and worked fine, but the new one (Asus A8R-MVP) has an ULI m5288 chipset. I can use both SATA drives,

[gentoo-user] Is there an ebuild for exifautotrans?

2006-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I discovered (some time ago) the exifautotrans tool. Basically this is a program which can read EXIF data and *lossless* rotate images which are marked as rotated via EXIF (not all image viewers are EXIF capable). This tool also fixes the EXIF tag, so that all viewers will display the image

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get Java 1.3 SDK ebuilds...

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:17:10 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: According to eix -I sdk only SDK versions from 1.4 upwards are available for installation. The -I option restricts eix to currently installed packages. It shows what is installed, not what is available for installation. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ebuild for exifautotrans?

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:19:00 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Is there an ebuild around containing this tool? media-libs/jpeg -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? I'd say it's not a

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Noack, Sebastian wrote: But independent from this aspect, a file refers in its inode to a chunk of storage on the hard disk (or other storage medias), which contains its data. But some files like directories don't contain data. A directory IS like

AW: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Noack, Sebastian
Hi, interesting. You are right. But so it would be (maybe not the most usable but) the most consequentially solution to dump the data of the directory on read(). Regards Sebastian Noack -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matteo Pillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 18.

RE: [gentoo-user] How to get Java 1.3 SDK ebuilds...

2006-09-18 Thread Liebich, Wolfgang
Hi, From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:17:10 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: According to eix -I sdk only SDK versions from 1.4 upwards are available for installation. The -I option restricts eix to currently installed packages. It shows what is installed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-18 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 September 2006 20:02, Alexander Skwar wrote: Well... But what Mick showed was the expected behaviour. He has NOT set a domainname - at least not the domainname that the domainname command would return. I just can't get it. :-( When I logon I can see in the console: This is

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Noack, Sebastian wrote: The second field in /etc/passwd stands also for the password hash. But since storing passwords in /etc/passwd is deprecated, it should ever be an invalid hash like x or * for example. Yes, but that holds for normal accounts as well as for service

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Roman Zilka
Hm, this is all pretty weird. I cut'n'pasted and compiled your piece of code and again got the same results under Linux and FreeBSD: no output at all. I don't know if some local FreeBSD admin hacked/patched the kernel source to make its syscalls behave Linux-alike, but it's very unlikely.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 18. September 2006 15:04 schrieb ext Roman Zilka: Hm, this is all pretty weird. I cut'n'pasted and compiled your piece of code and again got the same results under Linux and FreeBSD: no output at all. I don't know if some local FreeBSD admin hacked/patched the kernel source to make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:47:03 +0100, Mick wrote: When I logon I can see in the console: This is lappy.(none) (Linux i686 2.6.7-gentoo-r8) 13.31.51 Where is this (none) being read from? As in which files and which particular entry in that file? /etc/issue sets the login output. A \o in

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 September 2006 14:52, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Noack, Sebastian wrote: The second field in /etc/passwd stands also for the password hash. But since storing passwords in /etc/passwd is deprecated, it should ever be an invalid hash like x or * for example.

[gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hi folks, As soon as I upgraded my system to new gcc and glibc, I started to get a very weird problem at boot time. I'm using libnss-mysql to authenticate users, and my nsswitch.conf is set to check files first, then mysql. At boot time, /usr is not yet mounted, and as such, anything that would

[gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Grant
I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Two systems or one?

2006-09-18 Thread Grant
I tend to disagree with that :) If power bills are your concern, get a small low power board to be your firewall. A small Linksys WRT54-GL flashed with DD-WRT makes a sweet little firewall for home use. :-) Yes, but does it run Gentoo? ;) It needs to. :) I'll probably separate them and

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Grant wrote: I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? - Grant Some stuff is not available for the 64 bit arch, for example you have to use a 32 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Roman Zilka
Hm, this is all pretty weird. I cut'n'pasted and compiled your piece of code and again got the same results under Linux and FreeBSD: no output at all. I don't know if some local FreeBSD admin hacked/patched the kernel source to make its syscalls behave Linux-alike, but it's very

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems just define

[gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Alon Keren
Hi, I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). The little documentation online regarding such a feat, along with my little experience with Portage, means that I would have to go

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? None if you don't need Flash. On the other hand, I needed and used integers 32

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody implemented it for most

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot package

2006-09-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Neil, but following warning popup There was an error running gnome-screenshot: Failed to execute child process emerge gnome-extra/gnome-utils Added following tools Applications -- Accessories -- Dictionary and Take Screenshot Applications -- System Tools -- Floppy Formatter Tks B.R. SL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-18 Thread Sigi Schwartz
Hi. Ryan Tandy wrote: the command should be: dnsdomainname (or hostname -d) Now, I have a question to that: How or when do new settings apply? Even though I use DHCP I understand that one can override the results from that. For testing purposes I'd like to use that. But I can change the setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ULI-Raid1 to work

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Roman v. Gemmeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So i was wondering if anyone else got it working or has any suggestions to get it working? Can you use mdadm to create a linux software raid volume instead? Then it will keep working forever, no matter how many different systems you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get Java 1.3 SDK ebuilds...

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, According to eix -I sdk only SDK versions from 1.4 upwards are available for installation. I might need 1.3 SDK variants too for maintenance of old product versions (it is not THAT simple to get a customer to upgrade :-), so - are there

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:30:52PM +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get Java 1.3 SDK ebuilds...

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:43:21 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: You can pull the ebuilds out of /var/db/pkg/ on your old system and put them in your local overlay. Be aware that /var/db/pkg only contains the ebuilds, not any other files needed from /usr/portage, such as patches, so this only works for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:13:11 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? Try vim . or, better view . It was mentioned before that applications have support for reading directories. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:05:21 + Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). Hm, that's what portage does, anyway... So what exactly do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, because nobody implemented it for most filesystems. Most filesystems just define generic_read_dir as handling function for readdir. generic_read_dir always returns -EISDIR. sorry short correction, should read: ... as handling function for read. readdir of course should be implemented for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Ryan Tandy
Matteo Pillon wrote: For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? I don't know why, but I do know that you can do 'less .'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-18 Thread Ryan Tandy
Sigi Schwartz wrote: So, how do I make new (testing-)settings apply without reboot? /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart and wait a few seconds for your resolv.conf to be updated. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Grant
I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to caculate very large numbers, like encryption

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 September 2006 17:05, Alon Keren wrote: Hi, I'm considering using Portage to build a Linux From Scratch system (LFS basically means building a completely customized Linux machine, using a toolchain). I'm not sure why you want to do this or what your line of reasoning is. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, As soon as I upgraded my system to new gcc and glibc, I started to get a very weird problem at boot time. I'm using libnss-mysql to authenticate users, and my nsswitch.conf is set to check files first, then mysql. Can you post your

[gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Grant
I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for interference problems? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Brian Davis
Yes, don't do it. Grant wrote: I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for interference problems? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-18 Thread reader
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard what do you make of the fact that I cannot connect to cups with the normal http://locahost:631? Actually, you connect to it fine, it just has nothing to show you... Will get a connection, but in the past a simple: http://localhost:631 was

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for interference problems? Probably not. I use a wireless mouse with my laptop all the time and notice no problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Grant
I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for interference problems? Probably not. I use a wireless mouse with my laptop all the time and notice no problems. Does it operate on 2.4Ghz RF? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 September 2006 08:08, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 12:36 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: Alright, if that is the case I have it installed already. The questions is, why doesn't a related document class show up in LyX? A friend of mine told me there should be a beamer

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 9/18/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post your nsswitch.conf? I don't normally use nss_mysql, but I just installed it on my box to see what an strace ls would reveal, and it does not show libmysql being accessed when files appears first for passwd, shadow, and groups.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a look over there, and udevd doesn't start. An strace shows it trying to open libmysqlclient on /usr, and as it's not mounted, it fails with that Inconsistency detected error. Well there is a known issue [1] with udev and rules that

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it operate on 2.4Ghz RF? Hmm, I thought so, but I just double checked, and no, it operates with 2 channels at 27.045Mhz. Sorry, not much help here... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Grant wrote: I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for interference problems? Are you sure that the keyboard is 2.4GHz? Most do not operate in this frequency. Tom Veldhouse --

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency.Am I setting myself up for interference problems? Probably not.I use a wireless mouse with my laptop all the time and notice no problems.Does

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Montag, 18. September 2006 16:18 schrieb Grant: I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? - Grant Hi I have a 32 bit version and a 64 bit version of

[gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Willie Wong
Where does emerge --info retrieve compiler information? I am in the middle of trying to upgrade to gcc-4.1.1, and wanted to file a bug report on some packages that is failing (which worked with gcc-3.4.6), and I did emerge --info and saw: Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-18 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 September 2006 14:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:47:03 +0100, Mick wrote: When I logon I can see in the console: This is lappy.(none) (Linux i686 2.6.7-gentoo-r8) 13.31.51 Where is this (none) being read from? As in which files and which particular entry

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:08:53 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where does emerge --info retrieve compiler information? I am in the middle of trying to upgrade to gcc-4.1.1, and wanted to file a bug report on some packages that is failing (which worked with gcc-3.4.6), and I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 9/18/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well there is a known issue [1] with udev and rules that contain non-local or undefined users/groups. If your friend's machine is stable only, then it probably has udev-087, and it looks like 098 should have a fix. So your friend might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:18:09PM -0300, Penguin Lover Mauro Faccenda squawked: Why doesn't it say gcc-4.1.1? had you defined that you want to use gcc-4 with gcc-config? of course. That is what I did: 1) gcc-config 6 (after which gcc-config -l shows that [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 *

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:18:09PM -0300, Penguin Lover Mauro Faccenda squawked: Why doesn't it say gcc-4.1.1? had you defined that you want to use gcc-4 with gcc-config? of course. That is what I did: 1) gcc-config 6 (after which gcc-config

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:43:31PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: You really should follow the gcc upgrade guide [1], which tells you to: source /etc/profile I did follow the guide and did source /etc/profile. I just forgot to type that step in in composing the e-mail. And I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did follow the guide and did source /etc/profile. I just forgot to type that step in in composing the e-mail. And I have a .bash_history to back me up ;p Sorry, although we aren't psychic, so we can only base responses on what you _actually_

[gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry. This has got to be me just not seeing the right way about this. What do I have to do on my Gentoo AMD64 machine with a working CUPS printer to share it with other Gentoo desktop machines here at home? I have a working CUPS printer on my machine. I want to print to it from my wife

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs and samba doesn't mount at boot

2006-09-18 Thread Claudinei Matos
It looks like an dependency problem on your init scripts.Did you tried to run depscan.sh? it should fix init.d dependencies.Claudinei MatosOn 9/18/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and inspect the output closely,Thanx for an answer.Yes I can start /et/init.d/net.eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

2006-09-18 Thread Sarpy Sam
On 9/18/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry. This has got to be me just not seeing the right way about this. What do I have to do on my Gentoo AMD64 machine with a working CUPS printer to share it with other Gentoo desktop machines here at home? I have a working CUPS

[gentoo-user] Help, iptables logging to current console

2006-09-18 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm temporarily on dialup after my ADSL router/modem died. The ADSL router/modem used to drop all the garbage aimed my ports 135, 445, 1434, etc. Iptables never saw it. Now that I'm on dialup, iptables does see the garbage, and so do I, on my current console... IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=

[gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg

2006-09-18 Thread Statux
Hello all. I am building a system which has the Unichrome Pro IGP video chipset (Via P4M800 Northbridge) and I cannot for the life of me get the via driver for Xorg 7.x to work. In fact, all I really need (as this system will be my mother's when I'm done with it) is a simple 2D display with 16bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Wu
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:50:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 17:05, Alon Keren wrote: Please CC me your replies as I'm not subscribed to messages from this list Nope. Asking that is exceptionally rude. I wade through 200+ messages per day looking for places I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/18/06, Sarpy Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Maybe port 631 will work here, I have it set to Listen *.631 Changed it to Listen *:631 and restarted CUPS on the server. SNIP On the client mahines you want to comment out the listen localhost:631 line in cupsd.conf. Then you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 9/18/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 604: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)-r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed! In the past, glibc wouldn't complain to leave things unresolved. The problems started now that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

2006-09-18 Thread Sarpy Sam
So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not available. Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS manager on the client? I never tried to print a test page from the client CUPS

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:57:34PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: eselect compiler should not work *anywhere* as eselect-compiler is currently package masked for everybody [1]. Ah, I got it on my system before the pmask, and never did realize that it was masked. Now I've unmerged

[gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've been writing a modest amount of HTML/XHTML by hand with vim for some time because a) MSWord results are just too ugly to countenance b) OOffice output, while better is still ugly and behaves badly around style sheets. c) I can. I'm about to write a bunch more, and I'm hoping there's a Linux

[gentoo-user] How to I stop ath0 if I have eth0

2006-09-18 Thread Daevid Vincent
Is there a way to stop ath0 from starting and connecting to anything if I have an eth0? That is, if I'm plugged into the wall, I don't want a slower wireless connection. ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-18 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia wtorek, 19 września 2006 04:38, Kevin O'Gorman napisał: I'm about to write a bunch more, and I'm hoping there's a Linux product that works reasonably well with CSS style sheets. Anybody know of one. Free is good, cheap is acceptable. Look at: app-editors/nvu Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Drew
As for speed: boy, those new processors (an amd 3800 x2 in my case) are fast... as are their 32 bits equivalent. Considering the 3800+ x2 (ditto here) runs at a real speed of 2GHz vs the 1.8GHz my old Athlon XPm2500+ did in stock configuation, I'd say so. Of course tweak the XPm to a real

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 18. September 2006 16:51 schrieb ext Roman Zilka: Hm, this is all pretty weird. I cut'n'pasted and compiled your piece of code and again got the same results under Linux and FreeBSD: no output at all. I don't know if some local FreeBSD admin hacked/patched the kernel source

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia poniedziałek, 18 września 2006 17:49, Richard Fish napisał: You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to caculate very large numbers, like encryption keys and certain scientific apps. Everything else will basically run just as fast in 32-bit mode as it will in