Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/11/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Question about duplicate lines in file

2006-06-12 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/12/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried this: uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort I think that you need to run sort on the file first, then uniq. HTH, Matt --

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl Geo-IP

2006-06-04 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/4/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to compile dev-perl/Geo-IP and I got the following message: Did you try searching bugzilla? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123546 HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage

2006-06-02 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/1/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that just takes up space, such as /usr/portage. Depending on how much free space you have available, you could send a copy of the portage tree along with the binary

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I get java compiler without x11?

2006-05-22 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get the java compiler without installing x11? Try adding -X to your USE flags. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Matthew Cline
I am not a portage expert, but would it be possible to re-tar the fixed source, then re-generate the ebuild digest using: # ebuild path to ebuild digest Then you should be able to continue with the emerge? HTH, Matt On 5/23/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/9/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want the juicy ones. The ones that tell me to take further action. Is there a setting to tailor this? I can think of two things off the top of my head: 1) In the unstable version of portage, there is a feature called elog that is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On 5/7/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile the portage xorg maintainers have decided that they are not going to reinstate 1.0.2-r3, not even hard masked, which means that, unless 1.0.2-r4 decides to work for me second time round, I'm stuffed. I think that you should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP

2006-05-05 Thread Matthew Cline
There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that explained the different options for the net scripts. However, I cannot seem to locate it anymore. Matt On 5/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to go about doing this? I would prefer to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP

2006-05-05 Thread Matthew Cline
Ahh, here is the relavent section on dhcp: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=3#doc_chap3 On 5/5/06, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that explained the different options for the net scripts. However

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, portage niceness and distcc

2006-05-04 Thread Matthew Cline
One solution to this issue is to use the faster server as a binary host for the slower one. I was able to do something similar with a slow laptop and a fast desktop machine. I'm not in front of my gentoo machine right now, so I can't provide the exact details, but it goes something like this: On

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6629? was: modular Xorg made it to ~x86

2006-03-28 Thread Matthew Cline
On 3/28/06, Chad Feller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an old nVida card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15) and am using the 7174. GLX, DRI it all works well. I've been putting off upgrading to modular X on this box until I knew that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Matthew Cline
On 2/23/06, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use xpdf, because acroread takes ages to load. For this to work I added xpdf as handler for the application/pdf MIME-type to the list of helper applications. It should be somewhere in the preferences. I can't seem to find this option in

Re: [gentoo-user] Asking dhcp for a static address

2006-01-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On 1/6/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address. I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using Any hints? I know that you can do this with udhcpc using the -r option: -r ADDRESS, --request=ADDRESS Request IP address

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r4/nvidia

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Cline
I think you are having the same problem that I did: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112976 HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-03 Thread Matthew Cline
On 12/3/05, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. I don't know what the exact format of your

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2 blocking subversion

2005-09-30 Thread Matthew Cline
Hi All, Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ? Is there any reason to do this ? Do you have the apache2 USE flag enabled? HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation

2005-09-15 Thread Matthew Cline
My partner's computer is running the 1.0.7174 drivers, the latest that work with the TNT2 card, on gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r1 with no stability problems. It also worked fine on later the 2.6.12 revisions. That may indicate that the fault is elsewhere in your setup, or it may mean that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation

2005-09-15 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/14/05, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/portage/package.mask: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 In /etc/portage/package.unmask =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 Thanks for the help. So the atoms in package.unmask are evaluated after the atoms in package.mask? Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing portage in my LAN without rsync?

2005-09-15 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/15/05, aka Sevein Jes__s Garc__a Crespo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Was Portage developed to work with a /usr/portage directory mounted from another computer with NFS or SMB? I did it and it worked. I thought this way could be easier than rsync when you have maybe two or three computer

[gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation

2005-09-14 Thread Matthew Cline
I've been having serious problems with newer versions of gentoo-sources (basically 2.6.12-r9 and 2.6.12-r10), so I have downgraded to 2.6.12-r4, which is rock solid for me. So, I thought to add something like this atom to /etc/portage/package.mask: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken build of grass

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/6/05, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package grass seems to be broken (emerge): Did you try searching bugs.gentoo.org? There are several bugs about this issue, including: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27915 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Make a running process nohup?

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/7/05, Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible make a running process nohup so that I can leave it running after I logout without interrupt it? How about disown, a bash built-in? $ disown -h job number HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package

2005-08-23 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/23/05, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be installed by a package without installing it? IIRC, it is not possible to get a complete file list without actually compiling the package, because

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

2005-08-18 Thread Matthew Cline
Mark Knecht wrote: It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it, the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this. On 8/18/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ emerge -avt unison

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy (http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the webapps/ directory, as it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Take a look here http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/server.html. Ok, I changed the debug attribute to 9 and restarted tomcat, but the log file still looks the same. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only taking up 9mb (when gzipped). Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped

[gentoo-user] OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-16 Thread Matthew Cline
I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy (http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the webapps/ directory, as it should according to the Tomcat documentation. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash details

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/12/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I cannot seem to find detailed document/manual on using bash robustly in a programming environment. Let me be the first of many to point you to the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ HTH, Matt --

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the MythTV-Users list I've seen people talking about using NFS devices but recommending that they be set up with TCP instead of UDP. So far I haven't yet found any Gentoo docs on how to do this. IIRC, there is also a kernel config

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize option is being used? Thanks, Mark Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used. Matt --

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ssh-client?

2005-07-26 Thread Matthew Cline
On 7/26/05, Oscar Carlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone :) I'm currently at work (in a drug store, or whatever it's called in english (: ), using a public computer, and I don't think I dare to download and run putty on this machine... So I'm out looking for a web based ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Matthew Cline
What would be the easiest way to somehow map a network drive on my Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH? Could you try something like WebDAV? It should be easy to forward the necessary port over ssh to a web server on your Gentoo box. Plus, XP has built-in support

Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc

2005-07-11 Thread Matthew Cline
On 7/12/05, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working on: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html Comments, etc are welcome. I think this is very good. I liked the discussion on user privilages, but maybe it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew Cline
Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from /etc/inittab with a respawn action? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Latitude D610

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/21/05, Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had success installing Gentoo 2005.0 on a Dell Latitude D610? Specifically I'm worried about getting the ATI RADEON X300 video card and the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 working. I don't foresee any problems with the Sigmatel sound,

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/21/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my systems, since they are frontend only, this might work but I don't know how to do it. Can someone point out basically how to try? Also, what user account would be used if mythfrontend was started this way? Maybe that will be apparent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Alienware laptop

2005-06-16 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/16/05, Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten Gentoo to work on a Alienware Area-51m 7700 or Sentia? I am leaning towards the Sentia since I still get performance and mobility without the bulk of the Area-51m 7700. Have you seen this:

Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?

2005-06-15 Thread Matthew Cline
is there a way to display images directly in links? i think it is possible, but could not find any option to turn it on, any ideas? Have you tried running links with the '-g' option? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?

2005-06-15 Thread Matthew Cline
the links2 -g -driver fb works. i tried links2 -g before, but it stops responding. the -driver option is not mentioned in the man page. so... there might be tips somewhere i dont know.. I think that if you just specifiy the '-g' option, links is supposed to auto-seach for an appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-15 Thread Matthew Cline
lspci -v reveals: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22 I/O ports at e000 Capabilities: [c0] Power

Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?

2005-06-15 Thread Matthew Cline
x, svgalib, sdl What USE flags did you use for links? (I think) you need to include fbcon and/or directfb in order to use links with the framebuffer. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Matthew Cline
echo dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask echo =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99 /etc/portage/package.unmask What's the difference between sun-jdk and

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

2005-06-13 Thread Matthew Cline
I assume either xterm or utempter is requiring ssmtp, but I don't understand why. Any ideas? Looking at the ebuilds themselves, neither ebuild has a dependency upon ssmtp or an other mta. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/8/05, Marchal Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another solution could be to run distcc in colinux on your Windows box, that's I do home. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/colinux-howto.xml Just be sure to have Windows XP Pro edition, Windows XP home doesn't work for me...

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Matthew Cline
Hi, Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the partition

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LayeredTech.com not Gentoo friendly

2005-04-28 Thread Matthew Cline
On 4/28/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to sign up with LayeredTech.com but they are rabidly refusing to go through the: 1. boot to LiveCD 2. start networking 3. set passwd 4. start sshd If there is already a Linux distro installed on the system, you could use the

Re: [gentoo-user] No MySQL 4.1 Support ?

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Cline
Gentoo must be the only distribution on the planet that doesn't have support for MySQL 4.1, what's up with that ? Actually, Debian stable only includes 3.23 Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find something that interacts with something else that you've already done that makes what you've already done irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all through the

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
probably that you forget 50% of the times the # mount /boot ;) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I seem to recall that the make install script will spit out an error if it doesn't find grub or lilo in /boot, which would