Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-22 Thread Eric Martin
Matthias Guede wrote: Make sure your working directory is in the path: PATH="${PATH}:./" ./python /usr/bin/emerge python !!Big security hole!! ./ is purposely left out of the path so people can't sneak fake programs in there. ~eric -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash 2.2.3 build not finding libguile-ltdl*

2008-02-22 Thread Eric Martin
Alma J. Wetzker wrote: environment is huge, not sure what you want. I emerged the latest guile (1.8.3) after the first error, then I looked at the build description of fixes and emerged slib (3.1.5-r1), then I reemerged guile. I still do not have libguile-ltdl*, and libqthreads* anywhere that I

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Martin
Grant wrote: I'm hoping to use the vpn in three few ways: 1. imap and smtp between my laptop and the mail server 2. ssh from my laptop to the remote server 3. cups printing from the remote server to the print server I don't think you need a VPN to SSH from your laptop to the remote s

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP -> Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: > I still can't send mail though, with or without > authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: > > 25/tcp filtered smtp > > Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or,

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-01 Thread Eric Martin
Dan Farrell wrote: You might consider building packages but not installing them -- I think could use --buildpkgonly (aka -B) to achieve this end. If the world emerge with a -B flag finishes successfully, I think that means all packages were built and you are ready to emerge world with --usepkgon

Re: [gentoo-user] Ant-Core Failed Build due to Sun-SDK?

2008-01-31 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith R. wrote: Emerging (1 of 32) dev-java/ant-core-1.7.0-r1 to / > > /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.04/bin/javac: error while loading shared > libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory ... Failed compiling Ant classe

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James Ausmus wrote: Portage *does not* look at CFLAGS in determining what to rebuild (even with -uDN) - portage only looks at USE flags and dependency upgrades/versions. Mike is correct in saying that, for packages to be recompiled with the ne

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Martin
Stefan Onken wrote: Hello, I am running a x86 gentoo box as a nfs server. As a filesystem I am using XFS on a 3ware Raid system. The 3ware systems seems to be quite quick, although access via NFS seems to be very slow. Any ideas how I can improve speed ? I was expected a speed only limited

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-15 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: to build other distros. It is not suitable for newbies (disregard the occasional newbie that does get it right, that's a minority and very atypical), and one really does have to have moved beyond the "Oh, look! Shiny installer!" mentality to appreciate it. When you get to t

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Martin
Michael George wrote: > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a > minute for X to start now. > > I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the > same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as > expected. Booting back to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: > Previously I had a problem with hard drive that turned out was a > faulty IDE controller, not the drive, not the cable. > > Now I can't use /dev/hdb but /dev/hdc is OK. So my set up is > /dev/hda(WinXP) and /dev/hdc(gentoo), ie, W

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-11 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin > Shrdlu squawked: >>> The question: >>> >>> Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort >>> of compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-09 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 »Q« wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote: >> >>> We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek >>> first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem. >> Why not? Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Martin
James wrote: > Shawn Haggett podgeweb.com> writes: > > > >>> In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: >>> CLOCK="local" >>> TIMEZONE="America/New_York" >>> CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" >>> > > >> Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: >> > > >> $ cp /usr/share/zo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Pretty short, if you ask me ;) >> What? >> Pardon? >> Exactly. >> That's too basic. People asking that kind of question shouldn't be >> administering a system. >> See howto. >> They don't belong toge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:18:47 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > >> if I remember correctly, and it has been quite a while, vgscan >> only works if your lvm.conf is intact. > > You remember incorrectly. lvm.conf is not needed to us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Partition type does iPod Nano use

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
On 10/12/07, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:16:12 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > > > > The Nano get recognized but not it's Partition type (it works OK on a > > Wintendo box). Someone know which partition type an iPod Nano uses? > > Doesn't Apple use HFS+? > > Depends o

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. > I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way: > they seem to have an existing file system on them, > but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. > So are there any standard recommendations for formattin

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
On 10/26/07, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since you didn't specify how you determined that it > > has only 131G, > > perhaps you should check with fdisk to see what the > > actual capacity > > is? > > > > The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for > that drive: Maximum Cap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo still not up -- now no kbd driver

2007-09-02 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 230 kB > >> # equery check x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > > -bash: equery: command not found > > emerge gentoolkit -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs -o gid=users,umask=0227 > > If you'd like R/W acccess to it you need to emerge captive-ntfs, I did > a search and all I can find is ntfs-3g. Does anyone know if captive > turned into this? I did a quick search on the we

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: >> (I have not get help in native language list :(. And, sorry for my English) > > No worries. :) > >> I have windows & Linux installed on the same hard disk. >> In Linux I've set

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Martin
> And NFS, well, it's NFS. I don't love it, but I've used NFS exports from a > 14.k modem... So... maybe > he is having internet issues, router issues, firewall issues, compilation > issues... but OpenVPN and > NFS, given a relatively good network environment, work more than OK. I would still use

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Vaio vgn fe21b screen output on vga

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Martin
> > i ve got a Sony Vaio vgn fe21b notebook where i would like to be able to > clone my screen out on the vga device but i have no clue how to start > solving this problem since i dont really know what parts play a role. > I found an i810 ( intel chipset ) switching tool what doesnt work for me > b

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Martin
What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages... On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use wpa_supplicant with madwi

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Martin
The 401 unathorized errors make me think your subscription might have ran out...but I thought it was a different error. Check when you subscription expires and let me know. On 8/20/07, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in not working

2007-08-15 Thread Eric Martin
in firefox, goto about:plugins this will tell you what plugins are in use by firefox. if the mplayer plugin isn't listed you're not using it. On 8/13/07, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:17:50 -0400 > Phil Sexton wrote: > > > Arnau Bria wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behavior when booting with softlevel=single

2007-08-15 Thread Eric Martin
have you tried appending 1 to your boot parameters in grub? On 8/12/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. When I boot using softlevel=single -- what seems to be happening > is that it runs the default level and then stops all of those > processes since there is actually nothing in t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-14 Thread Eric Martin
One DVB card? How do you manage? I have one dual-tuner card and one single tuner card in my mythbox! hardware encoding / decoding. The biggest thing that slows my box down is mysql. On 8/9/07, Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, 9. August 2007, Eric Martin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
I haven't tried any of those, but I love my Hauppauge Win-PVR 350. it makes a Cel600 w/312MB of ram an amazing mythbox On 8/2/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:18:16 +0200, pat wrote: > > > I want to buy DVB-T USB tuner. I'm thinking about "MSI DigiVOX A/D II"

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with ssh login

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Martin
Are you trying to authenticate via public keys or passwords? This seems like a problem with pub keys but I don't see a -i (identity file) for ssh. Are you using an agent? On 7/31/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi lists, > >i'm trying to remotely login to a Gentoo box via ssh. Howe

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic package updates

2007-07-30 Thread Eric Martin
enable crypt in the use flags for mozilla-thunderbird On 7/29/07, Kevin Lacquement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I use Mozilla Thunderbird along with the enigmail plugin. Whenever I > update world, it updates Thunderbird, which then tells me to manually > re-install enigmail. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Eric Martin
what does ls -l /etc/fstab show? On 7/27/07, Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/27/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Post the content of your /etc/fstab. You should be able to do that as a > > normal user. > > > Nope. I am denied access to /etc/fstab. Could th

Re: [gentoo-user] post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Martin
also, if/when you change useflags, and --newuse so it picks stuff up. Personally, I just emerge -uDav --newuse world to upgrade my system (upgrade, deep, ask, verbose, newuse). On 7/26/07, Samir Faci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if you've just completed a proper install from the handbook (presu

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