Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-14 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sonntag, 15. April 2007, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: The mailing list is still active, but the lack of a current release seems to indicate that the Gentoo project is no longer truly active. Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse a) gentoo is not about

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessibility, or, Purple writing on black is a REALLY BAD idea.

2007-04-01 Thread Thomas Wouters
the question if you know what accessibility is. If the answer to that question is no, then stick with the term usability. some guidelines to get the website more accessible: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Greetings, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN and DHCP

2007-03-19 Thread Thomas Rösner
to filter spoofed packets out, though. It's more easy and faster to stick with Layer3 vpn, though. Regards and HTH, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
(I use it for sa's internal rules and SARE), ruledujour is just another rule set. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Rösner
Aggelos schrieb: May I never get support from this list if all other users are like those. PS: Which I believe is not true. Leave please. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how does one temporarily disable a firefox plugin (SOLVED)

2007-02-26 Thread Thomas Rösner
. And in the same vein, I'd like to know how I can disable flash for my liferea-profile. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.

2007-02-26 Thread Thomas Rösner
with a normal checkout. Plus: you get a full history of your work. Minus: you get a full history of your work (space on server) and if it grows to large have to create a new repo/fiddle with svnadmin. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-24 Thread Thomas Rösner
Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2007-02-24, Gyuszk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear gentoo users, As you all know, Firefox 2.0.0.2 is stable on x86 in Portage. When one emerges it, Gnome menu call, and the software calls itself (in about box) Bon Echo (the codename of Firefox 2 development tree).

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
/index.xml Hope this helps. Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer problems

2007-02-11 Thread Thomas Kear
=0x31B splash=verbose,theme:echoes video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap initrd /boot/initrd-fbsplash (I chose the easy method and put my splash images in an initramfs file, but if you've added yours to the kernel that should work fine too) --Thomas pgp5B5IIB4RLB.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
to do encrypted file systems on Linux, but don't know of a way to do it under Windows that would be compatible. Something with AES256 or better would be preferable. Mac compatibility is not too much of an issue at the moment, but I do plan to buy one in the future. Thanks much. Thomas -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
. Thanks! Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
utilities for that. Something you can put on a bootable CD or floppy. Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFuOdIUej1z0ta0fkRCCYuAJ96Faf8h2LSZ6icqB9JBm6IKyZ3QwCfUceR t4ml8r+okhEfW0TD4uq9mQ0= =7VZt

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Kear
to the inside of your printer). More than one envelope sitting in the manual feed slot at once though? this I have not tried. --Thomas pgpskTlU9BauI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-24 Thread Thomas Kear
be able to make one yours for under USD$200. --Thomas On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:33 am, Carl Adams wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations

Re: [gentoo-user] init script from user

2007-01-23 Thread Thomas Buntrock
Ilya Hegai wrote: Hello, list. Is it possible to run init script during boot from normal user, but not root? With a little trick... im my conf.d/local.start snip sudo -u bunti -H fetchmail /snip Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL5 and Innodb not working

2007-01-18 Thread Thomas Balthazar
Hello, Thanks for your answer! I've re-formatted the whole server and I'm re-installing Gentoo 32 bits instead of 64 bits. I want to see if I face the same problem. I'll keep you posted. Regards, Thomas. On 1/18/07, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Balthazar wrote: Hello, I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL5 and Innodb not working

2007-01-18 Thread Thomas Balthazar
I've re-installed a 32 version of Gentoo, installed the same components, and it works now. Maybe it was a problem with the 64 bits version. Thanks to everybody for the support. Thomas. On 1/18/07, Thomas Balthazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks for your answer! I've re-formatted

[gentoo-user] MySQL5 and Innodb not working

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Balthazar
? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance, Thomas.

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL5 and Innodb not working

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Balthazar
Hello, Thanks for your answer. You'll find my mysqld.err in attachment. I must admin that I don't undersdand what all that mess mean. Do you understand anything? Thomas. On 1/17/07, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 on a x86_64 Intel(R

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL5 and Innodb not working

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Balthazar
Hello, Thanks for your help. I do appreciate. When I try : # emerge --update --newuse --deep world I get the following message : [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.18.1) How can I go further. Thanks, Thomas. On 1/17/07, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Problem installing mod_proxy

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Balthazar
would be much-much-much appreciated! Thanks in advance, Thomas.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing mod_proxy

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Balthazar
mod_proxy_html.c failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. -- end error -- Any idea? Thanks in advance, Thomas. On 1/16/07, Matthias Guede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first week with Gentoo. I'm running Gentoo Base System version

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing mod_proxy

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Balthazar
for your help! Thomas. On 1/16/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:25, Thomas Balthazar wrote: Thanks for your help. I did what you advised, and get the following error : [SNIP] /usr/portage/eclass/apache-module.eclass: line 275: /usr/sbin/apxs2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing mod_proxy

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Balthazar
Hello, It seems that it isn't installed for me :-/ ls -l /usr/local/apache/modules total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8504 2006-06-14 10:50 httpd.exp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19921 2006-06-12 11:08 mod_suphp.so On 1/16/07, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Balthazar wrote: So it looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing mod_proxy

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Balthazar
The apache installation I was using is a custom one, provided by ovh.com. I have uninstalled it, and I'll try to install a brand new apache version with emerge. Thanks to everybody. Thomas. On 1/16/07, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:01, Thomas Balthazar

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqtFkUej1z0ta0fkRCMMTAKCM61IGDuf4rQZgyQLtHqCRZJfeGgCfRyxA Az/lP6UnXA8eOQ+M3MS3SEo= =81WU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines.

2007-01-12 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
Dale wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Dale wrote: Hi I have done this before. Maybe something has changed because I can not get it to work now. My main rig is called smoker. The second rig is currently booted off the CD. I plan to use my main rig to sync and get distfiles off of. This

[gentoo-user] Native 64-bit Intel Core Duo 2 system?

2007-01-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Is there any documentation on setting up a native system on my 64-bit Intel Core Duo 2 system (E6600)? I note there was mention of new compiler options to build for core 2 duo, but I haven't seen anything specific for a new install. Thanks, Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Important security update for GnuPG!

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
qfpvajdy wrote: Hello, [...advisory..] Could the maintainer please update to gnupg version 1.4.6? Currently the Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution delivers version 1.4.5. Then how did I get this? Installed versions: 1.4.6 Regards, T. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Mailing Lists [Was: [gentoo-user] wrong subscription]

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, rage who subscribed to this list as [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Idot! /rage How did this get through the confirmation step? BTW, how/why was an ezmlm-clone chosen over Mailman for the gentoo lists? Performance? I wonder everytime I see a unsubscribe-Message on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Important security update for GnuPG!

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
qfpvajdy wrote: Maybe have I to do an emerge -uD ? because I do only emerge --update ? Yes. Or use glsa-check. Regards, T. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Important security update for GnuPG!

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Nelson wrote: This is strange, I just made a emerge sync and then a emerge --update world. I have still version 1.4.5. I use x86 (no ~x86). [...] Maybe have I to do an emerge -uD ? because I do only emerge --update ? I don't think that's the problem. To my knowledge the -D means update

Re: Mailing Lists [Was: [gentoo-user] wrong subscription]

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Crayon wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 18:26, Thomas Rösner wrote: BTW, how/why was an ezmlm-clone chosen over Mailman for the gentoo lists? Performance? Possibly because mailman has had a fair number of security issues over the years whereas qmail/ezmlm had practically none

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Rösner
Graham Murray wrote: Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if it's only used by the bayes engine. I'd like to know, though, so why don't you ask on a Spamassassin ML and report back here

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Rösner
Thomas Rösner wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if it's only used by the bayes engine. I'd like to know, though, so why don't you ask on a Spamassassin ML

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor - learning

2006-12-31 Thread Thomas Rösner
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've set up spamassassin + razor on one host, which is accessed from some other host via spamc. Is it possible to learn/report-to razor via spamc, too ? Spamassassin has an autolearn hook, but I don't know if the razor/pyzor/etc. plugins use it, or if

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Tuttle
window manager? Check the contents of ~/.xinitrc. It should say exec fluxbox; at the end. How did you configure your window manager before? --Thomas Tuttle pgpa4vVIXEtZw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Tuttle
. This sounds like a good idea. You should start an article on Gentoo-Wiki.com if nobody else has. --Thomas Tuttle pgp8NrsGOvBGJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Rösner
? Maybe this is an answer to EnterpriseDB/Postgres? But EnterpriseDB at least is quite clear about what they add. Regards and Happy Holidays, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Radeon 7000 Dual Head (one card two different screens)

2006-12-20 Thread Thomas Buntrock
anybody help me? I am using the driver radeon, since fglrx does not start X (No Device found). Thomas # lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 7000/Radeon VE Flags: bus

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Radeon 7000 Dual Head (one card two different screens)

2006-12-20 Thread Thomas Buntrock
Ed Santiago wrote: You might find this useful: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors In particular, the above page links to this sample xorg.conf: http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf Perfect! Thanks, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: avoiding pdf print restrictions

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Rösner
james wrote: It worked for the first 4 pages Um, I had to grab a copy of the file from /tmp then it worked beautifully. Hehe. You had no print restrictions, you had a half-downloaded PDF... Regards, T. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Rösner
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 02:28, Thomas Rösner wrote: Mick wrote: How do you set dvd::rip to end up with a 16:9 aspect avi file taking up close to (but no more than) 4.7G? It's really pretty unusual to make avis that large. Are you using XviD? There is a maximum

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.16 and FAM

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Rösner
Fredrik Tolf wrote: I just noticed that Gnome 2.16 wants Gamin instead of SGI FAM. I don't, though, since I use NFS and, last I looked, Gamin doesn't support monitoring NFS exports, unlike SGI FAM. AFAIK it polls. Does anyone know if it's really necessary to use Gamin instead of SGI FAM

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.16 block by non-installed blocker

2006-12-11 Thread Thomas Rösner
Allan Gottlieb wrote: My normal emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world showed that gnome 2.16 is now stable. The output starts with These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip

2006-12-11 Thread Thomas Rösner
Mick wrote: How do you set dvd::rip to end up with a 16:9 aspect avi file taking up close to (but no more than) 4.7G? It's really pretty unusual to make avis that large. Are you using XviD? There is a maximum quality you can achieve with each codec. With 4.7 GB target size, you could as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
while adapting the gentoo config file copy. See below for our (working) config, note the similarity of IP and port... ;-) Regards, Thomas VirtualHost 88.198.12.136:443 ServerName issues.serverkommune.de DocumentRoot /var/www/www.serverkommune.de/htdocs/trac IfDefine SSL SSLEngine

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
both are SSL. Yes. Thats right below the etc pp part :-). Do you have a namevirtualhost directive for :443 somewhere in your configs? Do you have one for :80? Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-12-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
?). Not to convince you no matter what, just for completeness. Happy surfing, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eix double naming with colon?

2006-12-08 Thread Thomas Rösner
Mark Knecht wrote: Why is a package now shown as ~2.6.19-r1:2.6.19-r1 instead of just ~2.6.19-r1 It's showing you the SLOT the package is in. *-sources have the version as slot, allowing you to install them in parallel, so in that case it's not very informative. Try eix -e qt, there it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-08 Thread Thomas Rösner
). domain but not for another, and you need both of the domains to function under SSL? Is multiple IPs the only way? YES. What would you do if you needed a certain Location block for one Or multiple ports. Or make a certificate for multiple domains. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-12-08 Thread Thomas Rösner
/?2006/03/15/100-why-you-should-try-epiphany-as-your-default-browser-with-gnome-214 Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DVD drives

2006-12-06 Thread Thomas Kear
Well you're not going to get something that isn't dual layer any more, so that's not a factor. LG drives are good if you suspect you might ever use dvd-ram discs, since most of their models have the capability. NEC, Pioneer and I think ASUS all use the same hardware, they will only differ in

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - gnome-panel notification area applet

2006-12-06 Thread Thomas Rösner
the respective calls should be enough. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fine grained net dependancies

2006-12-06 Thread Thomas Rösner
RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc? Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-24 Thread Thomas Rösner
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0800, Penguin Lover W.Kenworthy squawked: I recently had cause to use less from a real console, not an xterm and found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an xterm - how do I turn it on? man isnt being very

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Thomas Kear
to go there. Your life will also be made a lot easier if you install kdebluetooth or gnome-bluetooth to get a frontend for configuration, device searches, file transfer (if you have a bluetooth phone also), etc. --Thomas pgpN596I1AHpg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Nick Rout wrote: which leads top the point that if you update a daemon like sshd, yopu need to restart it, or else you are still running the old daemon. And ... if the startup scripts change or a major version bump occurs, a clean shutdown should happen BEFORE the new package is installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:18:38 -0700, Grant wrote: I've never used a switch before. Is there any proprietary software to configure (like with a router), or is it just a button or two? Just one button, the power switch :) Sometimes two ... if you attempt to use

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-thunderbird and local mail [maildir]

2006-09-25 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Stuart Howard wrote: Hi folks Does anyone know if Thunderbird can be configured to read /home/user/.maildir ? Not to my knowledge, but you could setup an IMAP client on your box (wu-imapd, courier-imap, etc) that can [obviously] read this directory and then have Thunderbird make an IMAP

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-24 Thread Thomas Kear
On Monday 25 September 2006 4:40 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Please advise which package shall I installed? $ equery belongs `which dig` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dig in *... ] net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.2-r3 (/usr/bin/dig) Hope that helps pgpVFUvb4Q0aU.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-09-19 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Neil Bothwick wrote: Have you set the dns_domain in conf.d/net? I have tried this and it does NOT work. I'm afraid it gives nothing! It sounds like dns_domain is not set. Considering that I have tried it ... I know it not to work, so I have little doubt

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 --

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

2006-09-16 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
How is it that the baselayout has changed and now the domainname script is missing from /etc/init.d and all sorts of other ramifications because of this? It makes very little sense to ditch the unix norm of setting a systemwide domain name in favor of doing it per interface! Now I see that

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

2006-09-08 Thread Thomas Kear
it uncompress itself. Try app-arch/cabextract. A considerable number of windows format installers that aren't .zip archives are .cab instead. I looked at linuxprinting.org and saw '0/3 paperweight' for the FX-10 [1], didn't hold high hopes. Hopefully you have some luck with yours. Thomas Kear [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Emerge PHP or Apache

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, I've been trying to install Apache and PHP. With the installation of apache, the install has been failing when the system tries to download net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1. After trying in vain to connect to several servers the system finally does succeed when connecting

[gentoo-user] AMD64 Stability?

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of ports in the portage tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective responses, but I am interested in them all.

[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
work normally. As you say that the bug report seems to be heading in the right direction, but take in count when it was opened, and today it hasn't been fixed yet, so maybe we have to make a bigger effort to fix it. Thank you, Rafael Fernández López. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Dale wrote: Since this is a major upgrade you may want to reconsider. So I guess it depends on how much risk you want to take with it. If anything, at least do a emerge -e system. That should get you booted even if the GUI fails for some reason. Dale :-) :-) As has always been the

Re: [gentoo-user] initng or runit?

2006-08-22 Thread Thomas Kear
://svn.initng.org/initng-ifiles/trunk/initfiles/system/modules.ii). I've never tried RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, haven't used sysvinit at all in 9 months. -- Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] +6421996486 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mainboard Suggestion Intel Core 2 Duo

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Harold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used MSI. I'm shopping for a board, too but for AMD processor and my choices are 1. Gigabyte first 2. Asus next - I used Asus some years ago and still have one dual PIII 933 in service. However, their quality on new and exchange went bad so I stopped using

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Kear
. My xorg.conf has this, works fine: Option BlankTime 0 Option StandbyTime 0 Option SuspendTime 0 Option OffTime 10 -- Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] +6421996486 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? I haven't seen nettop mentioned yet. It's more of a traffic flow tool showing the bits/sec and packets/sec in a tree format. Works in a terminal window (all

[gentoo-user] DSPAM?

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
What experiences have users had with using the DSPAM ebuild? I notice that all versions of the ebuild are marked as ~x86, so I thought I would followup. Thanks, Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM?

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:04:44 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: What experiences have users had with using the DSPAM ebuild? I notice that all versions of the ebuild are marked as ~x86, so I thought I would followup. I've been using it for a while, nearly two

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Cort
a lot of developers use irssi. On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:09:50 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc client under Gentoo. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary

Re: [gentoo-user] REMOVE

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Witt
On 7/20/06, Nunya Bidness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REMOVE You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution

2006-07-18 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Makara wrote: Hi all, I'm from Cambodia. I'm a new gentoo user and a new member also. Could anyone tell me how to create my own linux distribution? I have tried LFS but it's not what I need it just tell how to build linux from scratch. I tried to search on google but I got nothing. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-16 Thread Thomas Kear
# echo www-client/mozilla-1.7.13 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided # emerge -C mozilla # emerge seamonkey Should do it. If you're attached to mozilla just add seamonkey to package.provided instead in the same manner. -- Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] +64211031910 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Thomas Cort
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, where can I read about it? http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/messages/index.html pgpGHgEziCyN1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers ebuild?

2006-07-08 Thread thomas blomme
the new drivers solve the nvidia problems with newer kernels tooOn 7/8/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Alan E. Davis wrote: I haven't noticed this ebuild before.I am seeing a new ebuild in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Can someone explain this?I can only hope this is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from X to a VT

2006-07-07 Thread Thomas Kear
xorg.conf options relating to that: (ServerFlags section) Option DontVTSwitch boolean This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Fn sequence (where Fn refers to one of the numbered function keys). That sequence is normally used to switch to another virtual terminal on operating systems

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng + automatic respawn of target programs

2006-07-05 Thread thomas blomme
http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/expanded-syslog-ng.conf look at the above link, it contains all functions syslog can have On 7/5/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/4/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, could anyone give me a quick hint how to tell syslog-ng to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Cort
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I check which ports are open? nmap can do this. Just `emerge nmap` and run `nmap yourdomain.com` Below is what the output looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nmap cs.ubishops.ca Starting Nmap 4.01 (

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Cort
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:56:02 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Cort
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:43:57 +0200 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's going on here? Please provide more details. What filesystem does the server use (ext2/3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ...)? Are you using nfs, shfs, afs, smbfs, ...? What are the hardware specs for the server? How much

Re: [gentoo-user] auto login

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Cort
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:49:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine. I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it to work. You can use gdm. Just `emerge gdm`, set DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm in /etc/rc.conf,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas G. Willis
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas Cort
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:27:31 -0400 Thomas G. Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerging (1 of 112) x11-libs/libX11-1.0.1-r1 to / checking ebuild checksums !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/x11-libs/libX11/libX11-1.0.3.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas G. Willis
I've been syncing for 3 hours. guess I'll wait until next month.thanks for the bug ref. I added my bit to it.On 6/30/06, Thomas Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:27:31 -0400 Thomas G. Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerging (1 of 112) x11-libs/libX11-1.0.1-r1 to / checking

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Bob Young wrote: Depends on what you consider sufficient. Although what the page recommends was misquoted, it actually suggests: emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world emerge -e world That's probably is a little bit excessive, but the reason for doing the two emerge -e systems is so

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Bob Young wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1 On 6/7/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chain. At the

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Maybe winscp is a better idea? It behaves like most windows ftpclients but uses scp to connect to your box with all the ssh goodness for security.. http://winscp.net/eng/index.php Default configuration of SSH on Gentoo will not allow a user to leave their home

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [OT] which forum app to use?

2006-06-05 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 5 3:20, Andrew Gaydenko (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Thanks! - I'll see them. It is interesting, they are not present in the portage tree. I find that odd myself, but at least they're very easy to install. Glad I could help - I think you'll like those forums. Tom --

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] which forum app to use?

2006-06-04 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 5 1:51, Andrew Gaydenko (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I have found Gentoo team uses phpBB forum app. OTOH, this app is masked in portage: phpBB has had a lot of security problems, but the Gentoo folk use a highly modified version that fixes security issues and adds some

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange ALSA issues (emu10k1)

2006-06-04 Thread Thomas Kear
=MIXER,name='Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack' To enable the control, run # amixer -c 0 cset numid=216 1 with the numid= value you got above -- Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] +64211031910 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 2 20:21, Mick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: What's the best way to find out what -meta packages exist eix 'kde.*-meta' and what they contain? The KDE website is pretty good for that - see here: http://kde.org/whatiskde/project.php#distribution Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On May 31 16:28, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. Just a quick note in addition to the good advice given in the rest of the thread. One of the Gentoo devs (I forget which, but I'm sure someone knows) keeps a bunch of

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