Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-20 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: As a clarification, I have the net-dialup/ subtree excluded from portage as described by another thread on this list (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run emerge --ask --verbose - --update

[gentoo-user] Bash + Awk + variable assignation.

2005-09-20 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but it's in-efficient. The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went to get the Last Price now, I would like to add the Day Range last_price() { value=$(lynx -dump $url$symbol | grep 'Last price:' | \

[gentoo-user] kcheckgmail unable to log in

2005-09-20 Thread Philippe Aerts
Hi, I installed the latest (0.5.4) version of kcheckgmail. It appears in my tray but it can't login (login failed, bad username/pasword) I'm sure i entered my credentials correct, and my gmail account is valid any ideas ? Best Regards, Phil

[gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb

2005-09-20 Thread Bob Alexander
Dear friends, trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian. Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2 patches are not at the latest level and I am having problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb

2005-09-20 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2005, 08:12 +0200 schrieb Bob Alexander: Dear friends, trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian. Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches included. The swsusp2

RE: [gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb

2005-09-20 Thread Mal Herring
Q3) When emerging packages I get a message saying something like /etc 42 files need fixing (or similar do not have the machine here to try). What should I actually do ? Why this message ? I'm guessing that you have config files that need updating. etc update is the tool for this or

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:35:59 -0500, kashani wrote: Actually you can't use ssmtp as it can not deliver mail locally and is not an MTA. It can only relay mail off the local box to a real mail server. You can use ssmtp, but you have to set logwatch to send mails to a 'real' mail address and set

RE: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2005 19:48 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and

Re: [gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002

2005-09-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Persson schreef: I would like to run mldonkey with umask 0002. However I cannot work out how to do this. The Gentoo version of /etc/init.d/mldonkey calls start-stop-daemon, but start-stop-daemon doesn't have a umask option. As mldonkey is the only program that runs as user p2p,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails

2005-09-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 08:56 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: mail -a Content-type: text/html; -s Your Daily Stock Quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] filename.html I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing for (FC3), the mail command does not have a -a option. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-20 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/20/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:04:02 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by the system? The world file is for packages you have

[gentoo-user] missing console (was Replacing main harddisk)

2005-09-20 Thread Paul
snip This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix it -- any ideas Hi, Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning message on boot unable to open an initial console, the screen freezes until x is started. The computer then works fine nut on

Re: [gentoo-user] missing console (was Replacing main harddisk)

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:38 +0100, Paul wrote: snip This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix it -- any ideas Hi, Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning message on boot unable to open an initial console, the screen freezes until x is

[gentoo-user] Blocking packages?

2005-09-20 Thread Bruno Lustosa
I'm a bit confused. If Itry to emerge -Dup world, it spits out this: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r1) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r1) [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-20 Thread David Eduardo Gómez Noguera
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:10 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: On 9/19/05, Justin Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, allowing the output to be put in a file. Is there a way to get this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:50:28PM +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: 2) win32codecs was marked to be clean. why? # equery d win32codecs [ Searching for packages depending on win32codecs... ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.0.1-r3 media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 Do

Re: [gentoo-user] missing console (was Replacing main harddisk)

2005-09-20 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 20 Sep 2005 13:47, John Jolet wrote: snip Since using the new disc all seems to be well except for the warning message on boot unable to open an initial console, the screen freezes until x is started. snip This is caused by the fact that, at that time, there is no

[gentoo-user] htaccess file has no effect on apache after upgrade

2005-09-20 Thread Joseph
I'm missing something in settings. After upgrading apache2 to -r31 I can not get the .htaccess file to work. in /etc/conf.d/apache2 I have: APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL -D PHP4 in 00_default_vhost.conf for Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs AllowOverride All What am I missing that

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: One thing to note for anyone that might have the same question/problem in the future: The --tree option appears to only show the closest dependency. Which means that if there are several packages (as in my case) that depend on the one you don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:50:28 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: - I run emerge -pv depclean and I get a list where I find these: These are the packages that I would unmerge: media-libs/libmpeg3 selected: 1.5.2 protected: none omitted: none x11-plugins/e_modules selected: protected:

[gentoo-user] mplayer -- too many video packets in buffer

2005-09-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, mplayer is here! But doesn't work. Fails w/ too many video packets error. According to the FAQ needs the --autosync option. Nope. I think it's got something to do with the audio. The dvd opens with the usual dire warning message then the logo of the production company but then

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
gentuxx wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: As a clarification, I have the net-dialup/ subtree excluded from portage as described by another thread on this list (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run emerge --ask --verbose - --update --newuse --deep world, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash + Awk + variable assignation.

2005-09-20 Thread Jeff Alge
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:56 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but it's in-efficient. The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went to get the Last Price now, I would like to add the Day Range last_price()

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-20 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: One thing to note for anyone that might have the same question/problem in the future: The --tree option appears to only show the closest dependency. Which means that if there are several

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:50:28 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: # equery d libmpeg3 [ Searching for packages depending on libmpeg3... ] app-misc/evidence- What are these versions? Are they CVS installs, or packages installed outside of portage and injected,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-20 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:51:28 -0700, gentuxx wrote: The --tree option appears to only show the closest dependency. Which means that if there are several packages (as in my case) that depend on the one you don't want to install,

Re: [gentoo-user] recording sound from SPDIF port using KDE KRec

2005-09-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
Nice looking sound tools there (http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/) - is there an ebuild? Not that I knew; for building it from source, adjust the path to Qt in the Makefile. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash + Awk + variable assignation.

2005-09-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but it's in-efficient. The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went to get the Last Price now, I would like to add the Day Range last_price() { value=$(lynx

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash + Awk + variable assignation.

2005-09-20 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but it's in-efficient. The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went to get the Last Price now, I

[gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
How do I share a printer between several Linux Desktops and a Linux Server without using samba? My server already has the printer installed locally and working correctly with CUPS. I need to know A) Text configuration to enable sharing to the 192.168.0.0 network B) Text configuration for

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 13:19, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: How do I share a printer between several Linux Desktops and a Linux Server without using samba? My server already has the printer installed locally and working correctly with CUPS. I need to know A) Text configuration to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Time

2005-09-20 Thread Ian Hastie
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:53:58 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Hart wrote: The version of time included doesn't seem to include the -o switch, allowing the output to be put in a file. Is there a way to get this? You want sys-process/time Also time is a builtin in

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:22:14 -0700, gentuxx wrote: Use qpkg -q -I packagename I though qpkg was deprecated. Maybe, but it still works, and several orders of magnitude faster than equery. or equery depends packagename It seems that when I ran this the other day, it wasn't giving me

Re: [gentoo-user] apache upgrade to -r31

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
W.Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am looking the current apache upgrade to -r31. There are a number of MPM (Multi-Processing Module implementing a hybrid multi-threaded multi-process web server) related use flags. I have not seen any discussions on these so is there anyone willing to comment on their

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer -- too many video packets in buffer

2005-09-20 Thread Nick Rout
try -vo xv On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:22:23 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, mplayer is here! But doesn't work. Fails w/ too many video packets error. According to the FAQ needs the --autosync option. Nope. I think it's got something to do with the audio. The dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-20 Thread Nick Rout
HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no samba) and may be able to offer some insights. to allow connection to the printer from your 192.168.0.0 network edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to include the following: Location /printers # # You may wish to limit access to printers and classes,

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:25:14 -0700, Carl Flippin wrote: The trick to getting it all to work together is doing the raid setup first and then using the /dev/md* devices for the LVM2 setup. I did something similar here. By creating the RAID first,

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade / downgrade infinite loop

2005-09-20 Thread Sean Higgins
Hello, Can anybody tell me why portage constantly upgrade and then downgrade GCC (versions 3.3.5 3.3.6) each time I emerge -pvuD world ??? A little trick I do when this kind of stuff happens. In portage, there's a file called /etc/portage/package.mask. You can use it to mask packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Central syslog server and then

2005-09-20 Thread Sean Higgins
Hello Patrick, I'm going to setup a central syslog server for Linux and windows machines, but whats the best program to examin these logs, and send out email alerts to users ? I am currently using two programs to monitor my logs: swatch - http://swatch.sourceforge.net/, which I use for

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
if you set it to broadcast, you won't have to set up the other linux boxes... On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Nick Rout wrote: HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no samba) and may be able to offer some insights. to allow connection to the printer from your 192.168.0.0 network

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-20 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:38 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:25:14 -0700, Carl Flippin wrote: The trick to getting it all to work together is doing the raid setup first and then using the /dev/md* devices for the LVM2 setup. I did

[gentoo-user] loading ohci-hcd causes machine check exception

2005-09-20 Thread michael philetus weller
when I load the ohci-mcd (usb) module I get the following message in the kernel log: ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) PCI: Enabling device :00:03.0 ( - 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:03.0[A] -

[gentoo-user] bad jack(?) performance

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Garman
I installed jack (jack-audio-connection-kit), and configured it, as far as I can tell, correctly. At least I can get multiple audio streams multiplexed together. However, the performance leaves something to be desired: it is *extremely* prone to skipping, if my system is under any kind of load.

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-20 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I am making an ebuild for an egg[1], an egg is an extension to a scheme system called chicken[2]. Ultimatelly this would be an eclass to make ebuild for all the eggs. Chicken comes with a tool called chicken-setup that downloads, unpacks, compiles and installs an egg. With a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge

2005-09-20 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:09 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:53 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am now getting: Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer process. I found the fix here:

Re: [gentoo-user] bad jack(?) performance

2005-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 03:30, Matt Garman wrote: I installed jack (jack-audio-connection-kit), and configured it, as far as I can tell, correctly. At least I can get multiple audio streams multiplexed together. However, the performance leaves something to be desired: it is

[gentoo-user] c-sources, 2.6.13-ck5 corrupt.

2005-09-20 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else notice that the ck5 version of the ck-sources is flawed? Each atempt to emerge it results in a failure at during modules build at: drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c: In function `yenta_probe': drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c:986: error: `KERN_ERROR' undeclared (first use in this

Re: [gentoo-user] c-sources, 2.6.13-ck5 corrupt.

2005-09-20 Thread Erick Michau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else notice that the ck5 version of the ck-sources is flawed? Each atempt to emerge it results in a failure at during modules build at: drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c: In function `yenta_probe':

[gentoo-user] STABLE_LAG=10

2005-09-20 Thread Joseph
There was recently a discussion about latest Apache upgrade witch I invoke: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-382480-highlight-stablelag.html But something really constructive came out of this. Alighieri suggestion: - quote -- I always thought it would cool if one could specify

Re: [gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Persson
On September 20, 2005 03:03 am Holly Bostick was like: Frankly, I avoided the entire 'user p2p' issue by editing /etc/conf.d/mldonkey: # owner of mlnet process (don't change, must be existing) USER=me # home dir of owner (don't change, must be existing) BASEDIR=/home/me I know it probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for eggs.

2005-09-20 Thread Nagatoro
Pupeno wrote: I am making an ebuild for an egg[1], an egg is an extension to a scheme system [] Can you please take a look at it and give me some feedback ? Not an ebuild guru so I'll point you to a good manual instead :) http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ -- Naga --

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Jolet wrote: you'd have to define just plain raid. There is a performance penalty for software raid over hardware raid, but I've not been able to see any performance penalty for lvm over plain filesystem. Note that my testing has been on light-to-moderately loaded