[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread reader
James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 22, 2008 2:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have spoken too soon. Re-installing mysql got me to where I can login to the console but the suggested commands still fail: # mysql -uroot -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor.

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I guess... not surprisingly the bookmark page now works too? One lingering mysql command that is printed when the bookmarks page configuration steps is gone through: From bookmarks page: [...] After completing the configuration, create useraccounts with the

[gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread reader
My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the family to view. When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in quicktime. I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I hate to have to just record it from the screen. I'm pretty sure firefox is

[gentoo-user] [OT] quicktime from linux

2008-01-23 Thread reader
Wanting to be able to see online videos that want quicktime to be installed, what applications do I need to emerge? Googling like: site:gentoo.org display quicktime in firefox Turns up dozens of hits but it appears very many of them are really just showing the USE flag quicktime and not about

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread reader
Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from there. No, but I thought it might be easier to get the file out of wherever firefox does this... is that not

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] quicktime from linux

2008-01-23 Thread reader
Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: net-www/mplayerplug-in Thanks... downloading now -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-22 Thread reader
version: 5.0.44-log Gentoo Linux mysql-5.0.44-r2 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. But when I try to run the command (wrapped for mail): mysql create database bookmarks; ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'reader'@'localhost' to database

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-22 Thread reader
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 22 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this one is easy to fix: login in to MySQL as root: mysql -uroot -p enter your password when prompted That part fails here: # mysql -uroot -p Enter password: root passwd entered

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-22 Thread reader
I may have spoken too soon. Re-installing mysql got me to where I can login to the console but the suggested commands still fail: # mysql -uroot -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 16 Server version: 5.0.44-log

[gentoo-user] Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-21 Thread reader
I'm having a little trouble getting www-apps/online-bookmarks set up. Near as I can tell there is literally no help installed when you install this package A few readmes with a URL to an online help site: http://www.frech.ch/online-bookmarks/installation.php However, I'm not seeing the

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-21 Thread reader
Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may have to emerge php with the apache2 USE flag if it still doesn't work. When I emerged the bookmarks package it pulled in php and I see apache2 was one of the useflags used. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-21 Thread reader
James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haven't used online-bookmarks before myself, but it soulds like Apache isn't configured properly for PHP scripts - try *adding* the following to your /etc/conf.d/apache2 file in the APACHE2_OPTS line (inside the double-quotes): -D PHP -D PHP5 and then

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-20 Thread reader
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-19 Thread reader
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-19 Thread reader
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Part of the problmem might be too many quick+dirty hacks, another part's the philosophy of taking evrything as it comes from the upstream. It's not trivial to get out of this ;-o First off, your comments seem to be some of the more sensible here. Not

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread reader
Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:09:39 +0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What

[gentoo-user] Drafting or simple blue print creation

2008-01-18 Thread reader
Searching with `eix -S draw' Dredges up a lot of hits I'm looking for something to help me draw a simple mechanical drawing. Just a wooden rack for a 5th wheel flat top trailer. The only linux type tool I've ever used for something like that was xfig and that was several yrs ago. Is xfig

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hehe... no if I only knew what ftp/webDav was ... Hehe... now if I only knew what ftp/webDav was ... ^^^ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread reader
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace

[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't know the first thing about emacs, but it may need bringing up a terminal first which in turn runs emacs. You may want to try selecting the Run in terminal or invoke it like so: xterm -e /usr/bin/emacs This should not be a factor with X enabled emacs.

[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Open webpage right click open with... choose kate or any other editor. Well that is at least progress... I can get kate and kwrite to appear but still not emacs. I just get the emacs icon bouncing until it times out. --

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: `Release grml 1.1-rc1 - Codename Skunk' Unless you want to use the baloney bit torrent download What's baloney about a bittorrent download? It's a good way to save on bandwidth for the one, who offers a download. It's also not more insecure

[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Håkon Alstadheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have this same problem on some machines. Notably the ones where I've put the most cruft in .emacs. I suspect that there is some bug that stops garbage-collection from happening during startup so emacs runs out of memory. Somehow having a tty

[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Håkon Alstadheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't know the first thing about emacs, but it may need bringing up a terminal first which in turn runs emacs. You may want to try selecting the Run in terminal or invoke it like so:

[gentoo-user] [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Sorry to pop up something so far off topic but hard to get answers that aren't pretty far from what you are after on other forums at times. I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is

[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-16 Thread reader
Håkon Alstadheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you start emacs without problems from konqueror at right click/open with/ on any machine? I mean without `xterm -e emacs' Not running konqueror here, but yes, emacs would fire up quite reliably when I had it as my source editor in mozilla,

[gentoo-user] [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2008-01-15 Thread reader
I didn't get much of a response on gmane.comp.kde.devel.kfm about this trouble I'm having with konqueror (although I was told on another kde group that was the place for it). I got one post that asked me for certain specific information which I supplied, but got no more replys (near 2 wks now).

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread reader
Anyone talking about grml here know where to download: From grml.org: `Release grml 1.1-rc1 - Codename Skunk' Unless you want to use the baloney bit torrent download it appears none of the servers listed have that version. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-14 Thread reader
-linux-gnu) reader if [[ bla =~ bl ]];then echo MATCH;fi MATCH reader if [[ bla =~ bl ]];then echo MATCH;fi MATCH -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild that installs partprobe

2008-01-14 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a wiki article http://gentoo-wiki.com/PortageFileList which contains a python script, which sends updates from ones personal box to the database server. As this project community dependent a lot of users should help to update the database. That script fails

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread reader
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (or at least go read the 14 pages on the forum and then come back with a clue). Maybe this has already been posted here... but: What 14 pages on what forum? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread reader
After looking at some of the discusion at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html I saw there that gentoo's charter had been pulled. What does that actually mean? And who is such a charter with? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH tunnel With Portage

2008-01-14 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: 2008/1/15, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You do not need wine to run putty on Linux. There's a UNIX port. Just emerge putty and run it. Not that I don't agree it's useless with all the

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild that installs partprobe

2008-01-14 Thread reader
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a wiki article http://gentoo-wiki.com/PortageFileList which contains a python script, which sends updates from ones personal box to the database server. As this project community dependent a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-14 Thread reader
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Over the last week, I read where many folks recommend installing Gentoo using GRML. Since I have a p3 (650Mz) system I'm installing to build a small web server for a friend, I figured I check out installing gentoo via GRML. People should make it a

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread reader
Just butting in here a bit but this discussion has got me somewhat worried. This will probably ramble a bit... but at least that will fit right in in this discussion... hehe. I probably represent about the lowest level of gentoo user so I thought maybe it would be good to speak up a bit here.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Matthias B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:32:46 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think I may just drop ksh93. Unfortunately, I've grown quite accustomed to using `print' instead of `echo -e' so I will have to replace that in a couple dozen scripts...

[gentoo-user] Re: Routing problem ?

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Richard Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand why 2 routers. Maybe I'm missing something. Unless you have 2 networks that need to be separate only one is needed. If you have a wireless router, use it as a wireless access point and not a router. Which means turn off DHCP on the

[gentoo-user] Re: Update After A Year

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will also participate on this thread hijack (but Hal, don't hijack anymore. It makes your mom angry!) I would actually check more than just /etc/pam.d/* if you don't find it there because it's possible for mail servers or web servers to use these

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Matthias B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:18:44 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you say why you think zsh is better? The bugs. I've hit lots of bash bugs in the past and every version seems to fix some bugs and introduce new ones. I'm tired of adding new workarounds

[gentoo-user] Re: Routing problem ?

2008-01-11 Thread reader
Holla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 11, 2008 8:09 PM, YoYo Siska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one other thing, if nat doesn't work, some wireless aps (i'm thinking about the 192.168.2.1) need to have correctly set up default gateway etc... they sometimes try to be to smart and I had sometimes

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-10 Thread reader
Alan, I'll check the links out. As for as unmerging anything else no. Not yet anyway, give me time though. Richard, I recently had that same problem and I notice you are also using the hardened profile. I don't remember exactly what I did but it involved re-compiling gcc and making sure

[gentoo-user] Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

2008-01-09 Thread reader
For a good while now I've had a setting like this in grub.conf: (wrapped for mail) kernel /kernel-2.6.23-r5 root=/dev/hda5 \ vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap I'm not sure any more how much of that is necessary. I have it there to allow console mode to have much larger resolution than

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

2008-01-09 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you posted? (Its not in `man vga') And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it probably also has the decimal equivalents. You can ignore this request... I found a nifty hex to decimal

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

2008-01-09 Thread reader
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During make menuconfig, hit / and enter the text you want to search for (in this case, obviously, it's FB_VESA), and hit enter. It should show you where that particular option is found in the configration. In my case (vanilla 2.6.23.9), it shows

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

2008-01-08 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Can anyone interpret this emerge failure and have some educated guesses what I should do to get it to compile. That message follows the eix output below. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4210019.html?sid=a282fd302189d24b214267ec5b90

[gentoo-user] Re: ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-07 Thread reader
Johann Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Turns up nothing even close. Does it mean I'm still missing something in the kernel build? or is it just baloney or out of date? Hi, you can simply check our kernel config by typing: cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep

[gentoo-user] Re: ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-07 Thread reader
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see: grep -i ^[^#].*conntrack /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=m CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=m CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK=y CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK=y CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS=y CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK=m

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-07 Thread reader
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess it would be harmless to just run the `make modules_intall' part again and catch a list. I think you search for modprobe -l :) Wow... and egad, look at this: modprobe -l|wc -l 945 That is a kernel built with genkernel --

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread reader
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a reason for the existence of genkernel - it's so that you don't have to go through all this pain and suffering, and can instead remove stuff a bit at a time with reasonable confidence it won;t blow up in your face :-) There is a fairly

[gentoo-user] ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-06 Thread reader
I'm working my way thru this document: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_and_stateful_firewalls Somewhere in this part: #Should_I_take_this_tutorial (add it to the above url) Once there scan for the work /proc and a few hits will get you to this line: (emphasis is mine) If you've

[gentoo-user] [OT Konq] setting for view source

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Where in the konqueror browser settings does one set what comes up when you ask to view the source of the page you are on? I've been pounding away here under `Settings/configure Konqueror' and every where else I could think of but not finding it. Apparently some time or other I've set something

[gentoo-user] A pared down kernel config

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Configuring a new kernel is a dreaded task here. It seems I walk through a bewildering array of stuff that when pressing F1 on them I get more bewildering information I barely understand a word of. For 8 or 9 yrs now I've mostly skirted the issue by using defaults. I hnow the shortcoming is

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Konq] setting for view source

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently some time or other I've set something there that is now not available or something becasue I get a long pause and no action when I request to view the source. KDE control center - KDE components - file associations text - plain, and set

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Samstag, 5. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you want to read this: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ Thanks... I'm getting started now. configuring a kernel is a matter of minutes. And seconds, if you just copy over the old config and do

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Konq] setting for view source

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] But apparently there is still some kind of problem. I use emacs for that kind of stuff and it is listed there but when I select it and hit apply the `apply/reset' buttons go dead and never come back on. Ditto for kwrite or any others listed

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is heading in direction different from what I intended. You seem to be arguing that it can be done quickly... I don't disagree with you. If like you say you mostly follow what ever is default unless you know what you are doing. But

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 05 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to de-junk a default config - even if you don't know what you do, is in realm of half an hour to an hour. If you read everything. Do you have a de-junked .config that I can diff against the

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-05 Thread reader
Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Then you are stuck figuring out what on earth a hypervisor is. Alt+F2 wp:hypervisor ENTER Hey thats a pretty neat trick. Now if I wondered if that would be important since I plan to run a vmware application... I will take more

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-05 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like I said in an earlier mail, Do you mean on this thread? If so I must have some trouble with my newsreader threading or something... I don't see it here. Haa I see it now... and it looks like I brought up exactly some of what you covered there (scsi).

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/ echo

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Egad I had

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Use

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could

[gentoo-user] walk thru new ._cfg000 - a rough perl script

2008-01-03 Thread reader
at URL below containing a ready to go sandbox for testing. (Note that I have NOT tested this extensively so use at your own RISK I am using it on my real filesystem now for a couple of weeks) http://www.jtan.com/~reader/updetc updetc*.tar.gz The ready to go sandbox includes an assortment

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-03 Thread reader
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. It uses econf. econf uses EXTRA_ECONF. On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:01:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/portage/env/dev-utils/cvs

[gentoo-user] Re: walk thru new ._cfg000 - a rough perl script

2008-01-03 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've included the bare script in line at the OOps maybe not.. === ./updetc.pl #!/usr/bin/perl ## find /etc -iname '._cfg_*' use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; my $myscript; ($myscript = $0) =~ s/^.*\///; # Variable to create

[gentoo-user] dis-functional error from emerge -vuDN

2008-01-02 Thread reader
An error message I get while `emerge -vuDN world' (following a sync) concerning sys-libs/pam doesn't give me enough information to cure what ails it. Even scanning through the update page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml the error refers me to I end up not really seeing

[gentoo-user] Re: dis-functional error from emerge -vuDN

2008-01-02 Thread reader
Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It never really says where the code it presents is to be found but I'm guessing it would be the files under /etc/security all those files are commented out except namespace.init that has this line uncommented: exit 0 Maybe

[gentoo-user] besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-02 Thread reader
I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. ECONF_EXTRA='--enable-rootcommit' Always needs to be applied to cvs on updates. Where is such a thing kept? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-02 Thread reader
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. ECONF_EXTRA='--enable-rootcommit' Always needs to be

[gentoo-user] Re: No help on annoying `sandbox' error

2007-12-30 Thread reader
Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see nothing really like this on bugzilla although their are other access violations there. I guess it needs to be turned in as a bug but fisrst tell me if its really a bug or something to do with my ill-informed setup. Thanks for noticing my post

[gentoo-user] Re: Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-30 Thread reader
Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I went through the list, and I've unmerged what I could get away with, and reduced the count down from 74 to 53. I don't think I can go much further. Hey Walter just a little aside in case. I discovered that ksh93 depends on version gcc-3* in a brand

[gentoo-user] Which kernel option - PCnet32 driver

2007-12-28 Thread reader
In compiling a kernel for a vmware installation I'm not sure which kernel option (2.6.23) under `Network Device Support' in make menuconfig dialog is responsible for the pcnet32 driver. None of the names there give it away. Dmesg sees it like this: eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A So

[gentoo-user] Re: Which kernel option - PCnet32 driver

2007-12-28 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the closest match I see is: PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help) At least it contains PCI and nothing else seems to. Anyone know if that is it? Never mind... after more digging I found it at: Device Drivers - Network device support ---

[gentoo-user] No help on annoying `sandbox' error

2007-12-28 Thread reader
I'm having a continuing annoying problem from sandbox trying to write out of its crib. I've posted here twice before but caught no ones attention. Possibly this is something screamingly obvious and people just ignored the posts. `sandbox' doesn't like my root .bash_history. ACCESS DENIED

[gentoo-user] ksh(93) emerge failure

2007-12-28 Thread reader
On a new install with profile `hardened/x86/2.6'. I'm finding that ksh will not emerge successfully. The closing error is not very enlightening, at least not to me: * Messages for package app-shells/ksh-93.20040229: * ERROR: app-shells/ksh-93.20040229 failed. * Call stack: *

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Also I am getting a lot of errors and the backup is finishing early and not producing the stats. i.e. rsync: symlink /mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcodes.so -

[gentoo-user] emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread reader
I've pared down my system to a minimal state. emerge --depclean returns no actions needed, but I think it may have gotten a litte too exuberant. revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild python but the emerge fails here: Source unpacked.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've pared down my system to a minimal state. emerge --depclean returns no actions needed, but I think it may have gotten a litte too exuberant. revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild python but the emerge fails here: Source

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * failed to run configure * It seems, your system tries to use a compiler it doesn't have. Run gcc-config -l. Then gcc-config x where x is the number of a working config (most probably 1). Thanks Florian. I'll remember that tip. But I

[gentoo-user] Example Kernel conf for versatile iptables setup

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Where can I see a condensed overview of what needs to be set in the kernel for maximum flexibility using iptables and snort? This google search: site:gentoo.org kernel settings iptables Turns up a number of shortish discussions in the forums but nothing in actual gentoo documentation.

[gentoo-user] Re: Any glaring use flags here

2007-12-26 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:53:10 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This machine is been prepped to be a sort of DMZ machine, but not more wannabe than really since it will not route stuff to my home lan at all... just be the recipient of all blocked stuff at

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-26 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:07:38 +, Paul Stear wrote: --one-file-system Still not sure what the above will produce, I didn't find the man page very readable. Take sys for example, if it is saying that the directory would be created, would I

[gentoo-user] using q commands compared to equery

2007-12-26 Thread reader
I notice that `qdepends pkg' sometimes gives different ouput than `equery depends pkg Which is considered the more reliable? I remember some of those kinds of tools becoming depricated. Maybe the list of `q' commands were among them? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Possible needed lib missing?

2007-12-26 Thread reader
I'm building up a minimal install a bit at a time... Or I should say building down. It was a full install at one point. I'm getting strange behavior in vim when accessing the minimal machine thru ssh from another gentoo box. When using vims search tool on the remote (/) normally you can scroll

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-25 Thread reader
forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something to remember for the future: You can delete entries in the world file Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is already installed, and doing the uninstall the long way. emerge --tree should help some, as well,

[gentoo-user] Any glaring use flags here

2007-12-25 Thread reader
This machine is been prepped to be a sort of DMZ machine, but not more wannabe than really since it will not route stuff to my home lan at all... just be the recipient of all blocked stuff at an upsteam NETGEAR firewall/router. I would like an opinion about the USE flags I keep in /etc/make.conf

[gentoo-user] rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config

2007-12-24 Thread reader
I'm stripping down a former regular desktop setup of gentoo to remove X and any unnecessary services like sendmail samba cups... and more. I've been checking dependences and removing thing in some attempt at sytematically .. but the end its `emerge -vC something' So I now have things set in some

[gentoo-user] removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has

[gentoo-user] Re: rc-update can't fix broken runlevel config

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In /etc/runlevels, there is a directory for each runlevel. That directory contains symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d. Just delete the ones that point to non-existing files (they are usually red in bash, if you have colors). I hope this

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? You could remove the meta-package (the one that

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:56:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first. Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the

[gentoo-user] Why doesn't `sandbox' like /root/.bash_history?

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Any usage of emerge gets: ACCESS DENIED open_rd: /root/.bash_history ACCESS DENIED open_rd: /root/.bash_history if I: mv ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_historyX It works fine. ls -l ~/.bash_history -rw--- 1 root root 1841 Dec 24 12:14 /root/.bash_history I've tried chmodding it

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-24 Thread reader
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a faster and easier to wipe the

[gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread reader
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml That help any? It's not like you are the first to do something like this. LOL Ok Whew.. now recovered portage and re-emerged portage-2.1.4_rc1 using the hand installed portage most

[gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread reader
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is this about? The log cited contains only the lines shown and no other logs are present there http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-625682-highlight-violation+summary+sandbox.html

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with vsftpd

2007-12-16 Thread reader
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Logging in as anonymous ... Login incorrect. Is vsftpd setup for `anonymous' From vsftpd.conf Logging in as anonymous ... # Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you # comment this out). anonymous_enable=NO = I don't allow

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with vsftpd

2007-12-16 Thread reader
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anonymous_enable=YES is set. I won't be able to help beyond that, but I'm sure others will. I remember having a hard time with vsftpd and anonymous too. But it suddenly hit me after messing with it for a good while that I had no need of anonymous since

[gentoo-user] Re: DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-16 Thread reader
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just saw the installation of vmware and the generation of a virtual image as more involved than what I suggest above. Using the raw logs from the router and filtering/sorting these through a spreadsheet would probably make them easier to read. Anyway,

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