Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Hello, On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan try to use logrotate - app-admin/logrotate and make it an cronjob every night or every week. it will rotate and compress your old logfiles greetz alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:55:56 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: I was going to pipe in about that Neil, but ya beat me to it. I like to shorten it and just type emerge -DNavu world , though. The short options make for easier typing, the long ones for easier understanding. So I use the short options at the command line but the long ones in scripts and examples. -- Neil Bothwick To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:57:31 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot otherwise... -hwh yes true, well that dismisses Chris' theory :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory resident daemons are less favourable). So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports
Frank, You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc. I would also recommend following the other suggestion of emerging the later tools. thanks, joshua p.s. A fellow at Cisco last year wrote an article about NIC negotiation. Apparently the only setting that consistently works is auto. On 10/25/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use "mii-tool" to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/1000 port. Every time I try to force the port using mii-tool, the server port stops responding and I have to reboot the box. Someone mentioned that mii-tool may not be the correct tool and to try ethtool. My question is will mii-tool work with a 10/100/1000 port? Should I be using ethtool under Gentoo and if so where do I get it/install it?I've found that ethtool support more cards than mii-tool. In order toinstall it I'd do the followingecho sys-apps/ethtool ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge ethtoolUsing the unstable version will install ethtool3 rather than 2. 3 is ayear or two newer than 2.kashani--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:53:30 -0500 Chris Cox wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 15:13, Eric Waguespack wrote: apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was curious, is there an unattended installation project for Gentoo? It would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to reinvent the wheel. You could build one system and assuming your other machines are the same then use Partimage to create an image of that system, burn it to DVDR/CDR, restore the image(s) to your other machines. Or boot a livecd, mount an NFS share, restore the image over the network. g4u might also be useful for this. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Libxdiff ebuild
Does anyone happen to have an ebuild for libxdiff (so I can build the xdiff extension for php)? I can write one if need be but wanted to check here first. There isn't one in either portage or bugzilla as far as I can tell. Thanks! -MIke-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:12 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan Hi, Some people prefer the config from hardened project - it logs to more files. HTH.Rumen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Sounds to me like you don't have logrotate installed or the install is corrupt. If emerge --search ^logrotate$ shows it's installed, I would re-emerge it.On 10/25/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stuckedI was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I canreduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.Thanks, Allan--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Hi Allan, use logrotate example - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_cron#Logrotate Tomas 2005/10/25, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..
On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. I'd suggest trying moto4lin -- it's pretty slick. Not too sure about the error messages you're getting, though, so I'm not sure how much help moto4lin'll actually be... shrug -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet
yes, I start run|winipcfg and the ip of win98 is 10.0.2.15 and the gateway is 10.0.2.2 but my ip is 192.168.1.102 and gateway is 192.168.1.1 did it right?2005/10/26, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In windows did you enable the network functions?check the IP address withstart|run|winipcfg(thats in windows)On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:31:50 +0800ÕÔ¹â wrote: i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98.img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user-net but in win98 can;t connect internet did i qemu need some driver to support this function did i need to recompile my kernel and add some new modules to support this function thx --Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USB interface
I've been looking at the 'moto4lin' ebuild on my 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 system, and it seems to be looking for a file '/dev/usb/acm/0' which does not seem to exist on my system: 1.penemunde:mobile/moto4lin-0.3/moto_ui ls -lR /dev/usb /dev/usb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid /dev/usb/hid: total 0 1.penemunde:mobile/moto4lin-0.3/moto_ui ls -lR /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb: total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 23 01:20 001 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 24 02:45 devices /proc/bus/usb/001: total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root usb 43 Oct 25 19:17 001 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root usb 85 Oct 25 19:17 008 The mobile I am trying to talk to shows up fine in /proc/bus/usb/devices. Anyone know if the missing file is supposed to exist, or is this a relic from an earlier instance of the USB driver software? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:44 +, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. The most simple and effective partition setup for a basic install is just boot-root-swap! ie, a /boot partition, a / and some swapspace. Everything else can hang off there. If however, you're like me and you have lots of user downloaded stuff, I would consider either an extra /home partition, or an ftp shared directory where all your vids / music / games / bug stuff can go. Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. Here is what I quickly setup. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm personally I wouldn't bother with usr and var, but many people will disagree. What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like it is on my freebsd system. When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / partition, which I have since deleted. *lol* You've since deleted the / partition? How is that working for you?!! Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, since users are not there by default? you probably made it by mistake when copying stuff from your freebsd machine. I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, maybe shrink a few mb. I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old versions lying around in /boot just in case. /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I have not installed much currently. remember /usr/portage. This can potentially hog a lot of space. I have a final partition (ok I lied about only having boot-root-swap :) mounted as /home/ftp/pub/gentoo, which is mounted again as /usr/portage. This lets me share my distfiles with others, as well as keeping the size of /usr down. If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation would be fine? Anyone confirm? If you want to keep / small, then don't forget about /opt. Quite a few (but getting fewer and fewer) large apps install themselves there. ATM in /opt I have enemy-territory, quake 3, blackdown jdk and jre, vmware, and acrobat 7, as well as some others, totalling 1.1Gb!! Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the default setup for users be located in /usr/home? Would this cause problems? possibly Is it non standard? What standard? The everybody-else-does-it standard, or the LFS standard??!! -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
emerge logrotateit'll let you safely rotate various log files. On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:12, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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[gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???
I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something different with net.ath0, and I don't understand how to create an initscript. I will be using the wireless probably internally, but I wonder if I can use bonding? Actually I have three nics including the wireless. Can anyone point me to TFM on this subject? Alan
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked
I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can
reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng
config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.
For starters:
emerge logrotate
man logrotate
vi /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
Also, if there is a particular message that is filling up your log, you
can filter that out in /etc/syslog.d/syslog-ng.conf. For example:
# The eth reset messages also bug me...
filter not_eth_reset {
not(match(PHY reset until link up));
};
...
log { source(src); filter(not_nmbd); filter(not_eth_reset);
destination(messages); };
...
HTH
-Richard
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[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang
Hi list, I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem, that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2 hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and such problem never happened with OpenOffice 1.x The problem happens on two gentoo boxes and one box running debian. the shares are exported on NFS server as following #/etc/exports /mnt/Docs 192.168.69.0/24(rw,sync,all_squash,anonuid=2000,anongid=2000) the clients mount nfs shares as following #/etc/fstab nfserver:/mnt/Docs /mnt/Docs nfs defaults,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 thanks in advance for any help. yours, kos -- Respectfully, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko Arhont Ltd - Information Security web:http://www.arhont.com http://www.wi-foo.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 (0) 870 44 31337 fax: +44 (0) 117 969 0141 PGP: Key ID - 0xE81824F4 PGP: Server - keyserver.pgp.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???
Am Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2005 09:28 schrieb ext Alan E. Davis: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something different with net.ath0, and I don't understand how to create an initscript. Do the same for each network card (make symlink to net.lo) and adapt /etc/conf.d/net accordingly (read /etc/conf.d/net.example). HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpiEizLrgaBQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:12:34 +0800 赵光 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, I start run|winipcfg and the ip of win98 is 10.0.2.15 http://10.0.2.15 and the gateway is 10.0.2.2 http://10.0.2.2 but my ip is 192.168.1.102 http://192.168.1.102 and gateway is 192.168.1.1http://192.168.1.1 did it right? That looks right. The guest machine gets something in 10.0.2.x and the host machine gets a dummy interface of 10.0.2.2 every time. Try looking at the qemu docs (some in the man page, some online on the qemu web site). With things set up as you describe you should just be able to open a browser in the windows gueat and type an address like www.google.com and it should work. pinging doesn't work well though, for reasons explained in the docs. 2005/10/26, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In windows did you enable the network functions? check the IP address with start|run|winipcfg (thats in windows) On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:31:50 +0800 ÕÔ¹â wrote: i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98.img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user-net but in win98 can;t connect internet did i qemu need some driver to support this function did i need to recompile my kernel and add some new modules to support this function thx -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] korganizer patch
I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376 I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification what did I miss? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 Binary package, nothing to compile, no way to fix broken binaries. =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05 Binary package. =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix any broken binaries you will have to upgrade. =www-client/opera-8.50 Binary package. These are failing for a variety of reasons, which I think are also references to obsolete libraries. The 3 binary packages you listed almost always reference libraries that don't exist. I have the same problem with OOo and opera, both work OK though (not that I actually use opera). -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376 I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification what did I miss? Mike Taking a stab here, but if you changed the contents of the archive from what portage is expecting, that would probably cause the md5 failure. Jason Outgoing mail is Virus Scanned byNorman Data Defense.Inbound Spam reduced 98.2% byVircom Sieve. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification what did I miss? Recreating the digest for the package. Portage uses MD5 checksums to check that files have not been altered, as a security measure. You need to regenerate the digest as you made the changes and want to accept them. Either ebuild /path/to/ebuild digest or emerge --digest --other-options package -- Neil Bothwick Q. What is the difference between Queensland and yoghurt? A. Yoghurt has an active culture. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376 I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification what did I miss? not sure, but surely the better way is to change the ebuild so that it applies the patch? Mike -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376
I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2
Do not change tarballs.
Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild in your overlay, add the
patch to it with PATCHES=${FILESDIR}/korganizer-monthview.patch
or something similar, then make the digest on this ebuild, and
emerge.
Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:27:49 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification what did I miss? Recreating the digest for the package. Portage uses MD5 checksums to check that files have not been altered, as a security measure. You need to regenerate the digest as you made the changes and want to accept them. Either ebuild /path/to/ebuild digest or emerge --digest --other-options package u read the original post again. It's hard to see at a glance as the line of code is not separated, but he clearly says: run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully -- Neil Bothwick Q. What is the difference between Queensland and yoghurt? A. Yoghurt has an active culture. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB interface
Anyone know if the missing file is supposed to exist, or is this a relic from an earlier instance of the USB driver software? It's actually one of the USB modules in the kernel that produces it... Device Drivers - USB Support - USB Modem (CDC ACM) Support -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo. I assume I need to do something different with net.ath0, and I don't understand how to create an initscript. I will be using the wireless probably internally, but I wonder if I can use bonding? Actually I have three nics including the wireless. Can anyone point me to TFM on this subject? Alan Try /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt That's all TFM that you will need. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 7:31am up 37 days, 21:56, 3 users, load average: 0.46, 0.54, 0.46 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory resident daemons are less favourable). So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..
Hi, Thanks - I did home in on that one as it seems to be the only one that explicitly claims to support my model phone. I tried the other options first as moto4lin was masked. As per my recent post, the problem I am having seems to be a mismatch in the USB system on my gentoo and what moto4lin expects. Do you have it working? And if so, which kernel are you using? Is your /dev/usb (which moto4lin seems to use) more populated than mine: /home2/digbyt ls -lR /dev/usb /dev/usb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid /dev/usb/hid: total 0 Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need to do? Regards, DigbyT On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:58:34PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. I'd suggest trying moto4lin -- it's pretty slick. Not too sure about the error messages you're getting, though, so I'm not sure how much help moto4lin'll actually be... shrug -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:51:14 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 and run ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdepim/kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild digest, which completes successfully but when attempting to emerge korganizer again I get !!! Digest verification Failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Failed on MD5 verification what did I miss? Recreating the digest for the package. Portage uses MD5 checksums to check that files have not been altered, as a security measure. You need to regenerate the digest as you made the changes and want to accept them. Either ebuild /path/to/ebuild digest or emerge --digest --other-options package Should this be handled in /usr/portage in any case? Portage is going to overwrite the changed files (the digest) every time a sync is done, isn't it? I wonder if this digest being created in the real Portage tree rather than the overlay tree might not be the problem in the first place-- since changed files in the Portage tree itself 'should' automatically fail, since that's what the check function is designed to keep an eye on. It really doesn't do much good for a file to be changed in the official Portage tree and for Portage to just say OK, that's fine. Suppose you'd been hacked? The overlay tree, on the other hand, is designed to accept modified files; that's what it's for. I'd copy *both* ebuilds to my overlay tree and digest the copies, and see if that helped. Does the digest for the parent application digest the hard dependencies? Silly question, of course it must. So that's what's failing, the korganizer digest of kdepim, not the kdepim digest itself; we never get that far. So korganizer has to be redigested as well. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:44, Holly Bostick wrote: It's worth considering creating such a setting yourself, adding the directories of any additional -bin files you may use (firefox, thunderbird, etc). I should read man pages more often, excellent tip Holly! -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xfce 4.2.2 taskbar button caption oddity
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I made some changes to my xfce-4.2.2 configuration. Everything seemed fine until a few days later (this morning) when I rebooted. Now the taskbar button captions overflow onto the next button (or even farther) if they don't fit, instead of being cut off at the button edge, which I am used to (and would prefer). This makes the text on the following taskbar button(s) almost impossible to read, so I need to rely on the icon and tooltip just to figure out what application that happens to be. I can't remember what settings exactly I changed, but in my attempts to resolve the situation, I fiddled some with the UI, window manager and taskbar settings -- with no luck. Has anyone else experienced this, or can perhaps suggest settings that would be worth trying fiddling with? It is *very* annoying. Thanks in advance. - -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * . No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings . * -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDX3MMdY+HSb3praYRAkqRAKCGimHszquHLV7dDkJ1RcDGrbm6uwCfWizM Kw+VwkzH3PmDKFc+fr6cqgs= =YvmV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used with gentoo :)) -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] esp ghostscript?
Hello. I am using cups and later I installed ghostscript-afpl. And later, I bought a new printer and found later it's not working. By other people's suggestion, it seems that's because I should be using ghostscript-esp but I don't find this package on gentoo! I don't know why qpkg -f -I told me my /usr/lib/cups/filters/pstoraster is a part of ghostscript-afpl but actually it is supposed to be part of ghostscript-esp Any hints on how to get ghostscript-esp working on my box (at least for cups part)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] laptop
I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem
Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez schreef: Hello everybuddy: I've just installed beagle and it just keeps telling me that I don't have inotify in my kernel but /dev/inotify it's there and /proc/config.gz says inotify is there... any hint? Thanks in advance Beagle requires a very specific version of inotify to be active in the kernel in order for it to function. Depending on your kernel version, the kernel may need to be patched to provide the correct version of the inotify module. What kernel are you using? Have you looked at http://beaglewiki.org/Getting_Started ? I think there's also an entry on the Gentoo Wiki as well; I know I had some 5 Beagle-related tabs open in Firefox while installing, but atm can't go back in my history to check what they all were. I will say that Beagle does work (I have it installed from the Gentopia overlay), but it is 'twitchy (as hell)' to get installed. You have to pull a lot of libraries from the overlay that may affect other applications-- mostly ones using or depending on mono-- and if those libraries are updated, as they were a couple of days later on my system, then beagle needs to be recompiled to run again. But that done, it's working fine now. Seems pretty cool and possibly well worth the effort, but I haven't used it much yet. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Tom Eastman tom at cs.otago.ac.nz writes: So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net YES it exist, but, some of the 'old timers' on the list are likely to fall into deep laughter The original *Mail* tool. Note not mail but 'Mail' for example: Mail -s subject $USER body-file body-file to all usernames in the file user-list-file For example: Mail -s paychecks -vt [EMAIL PROTECTED]/var/spool/mail/paycheck_stub It's command line based and very friendly with shell scripts. 'man Mail' should get you started. Lots of newer more sophisticated things exist: 'eix mail' will lists reems of possibilities, but, 'Mail' is dirt simple to use. HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the USB mass-storage driver. You'll need: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) After connecting the disk, check dmesg to see which device has been created. Most probably it's /dev/sda, if you don't have any other SCSI/USB disks. (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used with gentoo :)) Don't worry. gentoo-user is used to it ;-) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: unattended installation
Eric Waguespack ewaguespack at gmail.com writes: would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to reinvent the wheel. You may find some useful ideas and information here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. Seems to me, very small 'n' light is mutually exclusive with grand or under. Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:39, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376
I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2
Do not change tarballs.
Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild in your overlay, add the
patch to it with PATCHES=${FILESDIR}/korganizer-monthview.patch
or something similar, then make the digest on this ebuild, and
emerge.
I know, I know... I just always seem to have trouble with that, nd I just
wqntewd to test the patch quickly...
I will try the correct way today and see if I get anywhere...
Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. Seems to me, very small 'n' light is mutually exclusive with grand or under. well, the under a grand is more important than small n light. :) so really i'm looking for a laptop known to work easily with gentoo, as small as possible. Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? -- -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:54, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. Works well on my 8600, I bought it for 1,105 from delloutlet. But I guess it is hardly light Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs where I find out how to make a video dvd but still not clear what cmdline is required for data dvd. Anyone here know a cmdline for creating a data dvd iso image on disk? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with... Maybe you should take a look at the man page? There is a nice EXAMPLE section... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. growisofs --help give very little to work with but the reference to mkisofs lead me to man mkisofs where I find out how to make a video dvd but still not clear what cmdline is required for data dvd. There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. Just make an ISO 9660-compatible image with whatever data you want (in fact, neither a DVD nor CD needs to contain a ISO 9660 file system at all). I usually do something very similar to: mkisofs -o dvdimage.iso -J -r datadir/ Then you can burn this pre-mastered image using (see growisofs man page): growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvdimage.iso This should be roughly equivalent to: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -J -r datadir/ - -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * . No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings . * -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDX5r0dY+HSb3praYRAtPbAJ4xaRTs/b76skHdmX9+uSVBE25ohQCeMRzu pxvKikNC77DKK4Zr0AW5KxA= =quU+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the USB mass-storage driver. You'll Great! need: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Is there some documentation about it that I should know of? After connecting the disk, check dmesg to see which device has been created. Most probably it's /dev/sda, if you don't have any other SCSI/USB disks. Thanks. Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: laptop
John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? It's easy to get a machine that has updated (newer revisions) of critical chipsets, which may or maynot work with linux drivers. It's best to get a 2005.1 install CD and try to boot the machine up, before purchase. Often I go to a big store and test things out before purchase. You may what to ensure that critical tools 'lspci' and 'lshw' are on the CD before trotting off to the store. Also, if the critical hardware is usb basd, make sure you have the appropriate discovery tools on the CD or a companion CD. Folks at Best Buy (USA) are always curious to let me experiment with their windoz offerings. I've snagged a few gentoo recruits this way. They offer to purchase the CD before I leave, and are quite astonished when it is gifted to them. They look at Gentoo, as a treasure revealing deep secrets about the hardware they are selling. However, more often than not the discounted machine I'm looking at has weird hardware or something that I do not like. For instance using hdparm to profile the hard drive performance is another good idea. Bargain bozes often have substandard HD, or wireless chipssets that are mostly disfunctional, even under winblowz. Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD.Let me know if you find an install CD that has lots of hardware diag tools as part of the CD. I never seem to get around to building a customized CD, just for this purpose, but surely someone else has created a boot/diag/install version of 2005.* HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:04, James wrote: John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? It's easy to get a machine that has updated (newer revisions) of critical chipsets, which may or maynot work with linux drivers. It's best to get a 2005.1 install CD and try to boot the machine up, before purchase. Often I go to a big store and test things out before purchase. That's a great idea. I'll take my knoppix cd. I've never had that fail to work on a strange pc. You may what to ensure that critical tools 'lspci' and 'lshw' are on the CD before trotting off to the store. Also, if the critical hardware is usb basd, make sure you have the appropriate discovery tools on the CD or a companion CD. Folks at Best Buy (USA) are always curious to let me experiment with their windoz offerings. I've snagged a few gentoo recruits this way. They offer to purchase the CD before I leave, and are quite astonished when it is gifted to them. They look at Gentoo, as a treasure revealing deep secrets about the hardware they are selling. However, more often than not the discounted machine I'm looking at has weird hardware or something that I do not like. For instance using hdparm to profile the hard drive performance is another good idea. Bargain bozes often have substandard HD, or wireless chipssets that are mostly disfunctional, even under winblowz. Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD.Let me know if you find an install CD that has lots of hardware diag tools as part of the CD. I never seem to get around to building a customized CD, just for this purpose, but surely someone else has created a boot/diag/install version of 2005.* HTH, James -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack
Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix any broken binaries you will have to upgrade. Also, KDE is (or at least was) slotted, so if you have already upgraded to KDE 3.4.x, you can just prune the old versions away: emerge --prune --pretend kde-base/kdebase kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/kdeadmin ... HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
Budd, Tracy wrote: Ok. I removed the /dev/.devfsd and now UDEV works, but now I am getting an X windows error. ... Screens found but none have a usable configuration. I tried re-emerging nvidia-kernel, and loading nvidia with modprobe prior to startx, but that didn't solve the problem. Any other ideas? TIA -Tracy Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If you need more help, post it here. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
Hi, I run Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p. This is a very nice laptop and very Linux-friendly. HTH, - AR On 10/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll beputting gentoo on it.Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n'light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)?I'm currently using a dell inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily.Oh,and they want it a grand or under (us dollars).Thanks.--John JoletYour On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729www.jolet.net[EMAIL PROTECTED]--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- The absence of war does not mean peace.
Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Frank, You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc. I would also recommend following the other suggestion of emerging the later tools. What Joshua says. I missed that in the original email. Linux more so than Solaris, which isn't that great either, seems to go out of it's way to get the wrong setting when you hard set a switch port to full duplex. Don't know if that's a switch thing or a Linux thing. Setting auto negotiate works best these days though there is quite a bit of documentation that says the opposite from 4-6 years ago when that wasn't always the case. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk Box 3.5 (CHD3U), together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I worry about drivers? (Sorry for the OT'ness, but it _is_ to be used with gentoo :)) This is how I make my backups currently, and it works perfectly. One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will result in disk read and write errors. So I highly recommend a chassis that uses a power supply that provides separate 12V and 5V inputs. Judging from the pictures of the CHD3U I found, it seems to support this, so it should be a good choice. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg Issues
Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to startx as root, but not as a normal user. This seems like a permissions problem to me. However, I have not found anything on Google to point me in the write direction. Please find attached my X11 start up log from my regular user account. Hopefully someone can help. Thanks, Mike X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux fuckaduck 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 24 06:28:38 PDT 2005 i686 Build Date: 24 October 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Oct 25 14:50:13 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/CID/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/lib/X11/rgb (**) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/modules (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 Using vt 7 (--) using VT number 7 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7190 card 15ad,1976 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7191 card , rev 01 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card 15ad,1976 rev 08 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card 15ad,1976 rev 01 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card 15ad,1976 rev 00 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card 15ad,1976 rev 08 class 06,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 15ad,0405 card 15ad,0405 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:10:0: chip 104b,1040 card 104b,1040 rev 01 class 01,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1022,2000 card 1022,2000 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:12:0: chip 1274,1371 card 1274,1371 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0080 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (--) PCI:*(0:15:0) VMWare Inc unknown chipset (0x0405) rev 0, Mem @ 0xfa00/24, 0xf900/24, I/O @ 0x1460/4 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xf400 from 0xf7ff to 0xf3ff (II) Active
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues
Your problem is related to your mouse. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure a mouse (usually /dev/psaux) is set. Also make sure your regular user can access it. The easiest way to test that is as your user run cat /dev/what ever your mouse is then move the mouse around. You should see stuff appearing on the screen as you move it if everything is all right. Michael Shaw wrote: Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to startx as root, but not as a normal user. This seems like a permissions problem to me. However, I have not found anything on Google to point me in the write direction. Please find attached my X11 start up log from my regular user account. Hopefully someone can help. Thanks, Mike X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux fuckaduck 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 24 06:28:38 PDT 2005 i686 Build Date: 24 October 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) No core pointer registered (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Keyboard0 (type: KEYBOARD) No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Issues
Michael Shaw wrote: Hi all, I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage system is excellent. Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to startx as root, but not as a normal user. This seems like a permissions problem to me. However, I have not found anything on Google to point me in the write direction. Please find attached my X11 start up log from my regular user account. Hopefully someone can help. ... (**) Option Device /dev/mouse (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Mouse0 Here is the problem. This path should probably be /dev/input/mice -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But this is not the same as the SCSI emulation used for IDE drives. Is there some documentation about it that I should know of? There's not much more to know about setting up a USB disk. Enable the options mentioned above in your kernel config and attach the disk. Feel free to post again if you experience problems. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions
Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant table and create a new table for my data with the proper name, username, and password. Does that sounds right? Does the emerge --config command take you through any of that or do I need to figure out (remember) how to do it manually? In it's older (and deprecated) form was ebuild path/name.ebuild config . Basically it run the pkg_config() function inside the ebuild itself. Specifically MySQL pkg_config() actions are the following: - check that no mysql server are running on the box or die - check that datadir (/var/lib/mysql) is empty or die - ask for a password - install the databases (mysql test) - fill the help tables for command line client - fill the timezone tables - set the _mysql_ root password Nice, I was using the database named mysql for my data so that fits like a glove with the other software that accesses mysql. The grant tables are in the mysql database, so passwording that database secures my data and the grant tables right? Is it OK to leave the test database as is? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:26:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Michael Thinkpads: my experience was good for linux. I had an X20, which is really slim (CDROM and Floppy were both external), and Mandrake ran beautifully on it. It eventually died when I tried to put OpenBSD on it (I don't know if that was fixed or not, but a BIOS issue in the thinkpads 4 years ago would kill it immediately if you format the disc for the BSD native format). One of my friends, however, has a T series thinkpad, and it runs Gentoo fine, except that no matter what she does it would refuse to boot into a 2.6 kernel. Couldn't figure out why. Dell: works great. My D600 runs Gentoo since the first day I got it. They used to have some BIOS/firmware issues with ACPI, it might be fixed by now. W -- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 4 days, 10:54 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
Michael Crute wrote: On 10/26/05, *Tamer Higazi* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With what? Probably he vanished before having time to tell us what was putting him in danger. Poor Mr.Higazi. We will miss him. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I have got a lot (much more) ps files and PDF files since I start to use Linux. In the past there were mostly doc files but now I always prefer to have a PS or PDF copy to ease the compatibility pain. And looks linux people always prefer to send me a PS or PDF document. Because I always save two copies of every of my document, one in original format (eg. odt) and another in printable format for my colleagues in case they don't have the Linux fonts and software. Here comes the question should I keep a PS copy or PDF copy. I think PDF copy is absolutely the prefered format because: * easier to find acrobat reader; * can be 'Tagged', especially used with OOo; * possibility to 'copy and paste', though format will be lost; * not to take other people by surprise with unfamiliar PS extension; * different quanlity: I can save PDF in very high quanlity that I was told can be taken to press house * easy to convert to PS format when needed. Here comes the question: if the above all stands true, why do I ever need PS format at all? There might be some reasons to keep this format still existing. Perhaps in other areas, other then office work. So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. Now welcome for suggestions. I think the key to this whole story is the second to last line above. for typical office workers says it all. I think you are quite right to say you can forget PS format. You could probably stick with pdf if you only need the documents for 2-5 years. PDF is very much industry standard for archiving, and isn't going away soon. I would *definitely* think about keeping documents (if you are going to go to the trouble of archiving and all that) in text format, probably xml like odt or even m$ xml, because if the data are valuable then finding something to read it in 50 years will probably be difficult. The EU is looking like it will go that way just like Massachusetts - no reason why you shouldn't either. You will ALWAYS be able to find or create a tool to get decently printed and onscreen presentation from well marked up plaintext. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang
On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and suchproblem never happened with OpenOffice 1.x I experienced the same problem while trying to migrate a network share from samba to nfs. Everything else worked fine with nfs. I could even open the OO files in file-roller, for example, with no errors at all. Thus, I was forced to go back and stick to samba. Do you get loads of 'NFS server not responding' messages in your log files as well? -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro - Brazil|
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:04:13 +0200 Antoine wrote: So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. Now welcome for suggestions. I think the key to this whole story is the second to last line above. for typical office workers says it all. I think you are quite right to say you can forget PS format. You could probably stick with pdf if you only need the documents for 2-5 years. PDF is very much industry standard for archiving, and isn't going away soon. I would *definitely* think about keeping documents (if you are going to go to the trouble of archiving and all that) in text format, probably xml like odt or even m$ xml, because if the data are valuable then finding something to read it in 50 years will probably be difficult. The EU is looking like it will go that way just like Massachusetts - no reason why you shouldn't either. You will ALWAYS be able to find or create a tool to get decently printed and onscreen presentation from well marked up plaintext. Don't forget that some documents that a typical office worker wants to archive may not be available as text. They may be scanned or fax documents. Our scanner /printer at the office outputs in .pdf or .tiff. I could build a fax server to receive documents and save them in .tiff or pdf. Suddenly it makes sense to save a whiole lot of stuff as pdf. As you say, it isn't going away soon! Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang
On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bruno Lustosa wrote:On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and suchproblem never happened with OpenOffice 1.x I experienced the same problem while trying to migrate a network share from samba to nfs. Everything else worked fine with nfs. I could even open the OO files in file-roller, for example, with no errors at all. Thus, I was forced to go back and stick to samba. Do you get loads of 'NFS server not responding' messages in your log files as well? in my experience samba works better for that sort of thing anyway. If a server serving an nfs share goes down, all the computers with that share mounted will go nuts, spending 100% cpu trying to get the share back. Samba seems to fail more gracefully under those conditions.-- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Postfix would be _ideal_ except that relayhost is static. I don't believe there is any way to define relayhost to change according to your current ISP. hadn't thought of that, since my home mail server allows authenticated smtp. darn. So if he runs `postfix flush`: - and he has no relayhost defined then some ISPs will reject his mail because it comes from dial-129.crummy.isp.net (AOL like to do this) - and he has his home ISP's SMTP server listed then it will likely fail when sending mail from his office. Apple's email program handles this pretty well, accepting a list of SMTP servers that it'll try in turn, but I don't know about any of the Linux email programs. I would have thought that the ideal solution for the original poster would be to find an SMTP server that he can access from anywhere, probably using authenticated SMTP. If he wants a queue for when his laptop is offline then he uses Postfix locally sets the authenticating SMTP server as relayhost - all messages will be delivered that way when he runs `postfix flush`. I believe that Yahoo! GMail offer outgoing authenticated SMTP services, and if you have a Yahoo.co.uk address this is free. Alternatively he could set up Postfix on his home server relay through that. The final solution (that i can think of) would be to write a dump_all_mail_to script that takes $1 and edits it into the relayhost line of /etc/postfix/main.cf but I'm inclined to think that the other solutions are better because they're more standardised. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..
Do you have it working? Yes. And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need to do? As I said in my reply to your other post, make sure you have USB Modem support in the kernel compiled as a module, and pay attention to dmesg when you plug your phone in -- it'll give you the right device path... just slap that into the configuration for moto4lin, and it should work... (I suspect I also had to change the permissions/ownership of the /dev entry for the USB Modem driver, but that was pretty straight-forward: since I'm working on a single-user system, I did the horribly insecure thing and just chmod 777'd the dev entry... ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
OK,
So what is wrong with this patch:
_
--- /kde-base/korganizer/komonthview.cpp #474283:474284
@ -960,7 +960,7 @
}
} else if ( event ) {
for ( QDateTime _date = date;
- _date event-dtEnd(); _date = _date.addDays( 1 ) ) {
+ _date = event-dtEnd(); _date = _date.addDays( 1 ) ) {
mvc = lookupCellByDate( _date.date() );
if ( mvc ) mvc-addIncidence( event );
}
_
Mike
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:39, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
I applied a patch to korganizer to fix kde bug
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113376
I then rearchive kdepim-3.4.92.tar.bz2
Do not change tarballs.
Instead, put the kdepim-3.5.0_beta2.ebuild in your overlay, add the
patch to it with PATCHES=${FILESDIR}/korganizer-monthview.patch
or something similar, then make the digest on this ebuild, and
emerge.
Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
051026 Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2005-10-26 09:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble digging out of google and growisofs --help how to create a dvd data image. There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. -- useful advice snipped after archiving -- see growisofs man page 2 simple follow-up questions (I'm thinking of getting a DVD drive): (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Well, yes, the USB mass-storge driver emulates a SCSI disk. But this is not the same as the SCSI emulation used for IDE drives. Is there some documentation about it that I should know of? There's not much more to know about setting up a USB disk. Enable the options mentioned above in your kernel config and attach the disk. Feel free to post again if you experience problems. Thanks again. Next step is buying the thing. Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] external conceptronic box
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: One thing: you must be very careful of the power supply and requirements of the HD. I have several models of external chassis that provide 12V 1.7A of power, and this is insufficient for modern (and _large_) disks, and will result in disk read and write errors. So I highly recommend a chassis that uses a power supply that provides separate 12V and 5V inputs. Judging from the pictures of the CHD3U I found, it seems to support this, so it should be a good choice. You mean 12V and 5A, right? I've been to the shop and the case doesn't supply any info about delivered power. It does say it supports hds up to 400GB, though. (I'm planning to buy a 250GB Samsung, which seems to have a good capacity/price ratio.) The Conceptronic site is not more helpful. I suppose it will be buy and try. Cheers, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang
On 10/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in my experience samba works better for that sort of thing anyway. If a server serving an nfs share goes down, all the computers with that share mounted will go nuts, spending 100% cpu trying to get the share back. Samba seems to fail more gracefully under those conditions. Weird thing is, the server hasn't come down. It was still up. However, I don't know why the client was reporting those messages. Perhaps it was failing intermitently, and OO has an issue with this and other apps don't, because the second after OO failed to open the file, I was able to open it in file-roller without a problem. Isn't nfs supposed to be THE network filesystem for unix machines? Using samba between unix machines when there's no real need seems a bit controversial for me :)-- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Developper | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro - Brazil|
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
OK,
So what is wrong with this patch:
What is the error message? :)
What I normally do is: unpack the affected tarball, copy the
affected files to .orig versions, make the necessary changes,
create a patch from above the topdir with 'diff -u' between the
orig files and the changed files, stick that patch in the
${FILESDIR} in the overlay, and add its name to PATCHES.
The patch you show isn't one created with 'diff -u', 'patch' may
simply not recognize it.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Postfix would be _ideal_ except that relayhost is static. I don't believe there is any way to define relayhost to change according to your current ISP. If you use dhclient as your dhcp client, you can write up a /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks to read the smtp-server option given by the DHCP server, and modify any necessary configuration files as necessary with sed/grep/etc... I do this currently to modify my samba configuration to dynamically take advantage of WINS servers. Of course, if the DHCP server doesn't provide the smtp-server option, well, you can always set it based on the domain-name option... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] korganizer patch
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 17:27, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
OK,
So what is wrong with this patch:
What is the error message? :)
What I normally do is: unpack the affected tarball, copy the
affected files to .orig versions, make the necessary changes,
create a patch from above the topdir with 'diff -u' between the
orig files and the changed files, stick that patch in the
${FILESDIR} in the overlay, and add its name to PATCHES.
The patch you show isn't one created with 'diff -u', 'patch' may
simply not recognize it.
I shall try it.
Mike
ps.
* Applying korganizer-monthview.patch ...
* Failed Patch: korganizer-monthview.patch !
*
( /usr/local/overlays/kde-base/korganizer/files/korganizer-monthview.patch )
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
*
/var/tmp/portage/korganizer-3.5.0_beta2/temp/korganizer-monthview.patch-25061.out
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Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? Yes it is. 1X on a CD is 172KB/s, 1X on a DVD is 1385KB/s. So 8X DVD is equivalent to around 64X CD writing. It still takes longer to write a DVD than a CD on most drives, but nowhere near seven times as long. -- Neil Bothwick Nymphomania-- an illness you hear about but never encounter. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:20:39 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no drivers for the built in wireless. Im guessing this is with Airport Extreme rather than plain ole Airport? (I have a friend running Debian on his iBook quitw happily). Yes. The iBook G4s have the Airport Extreme. There is a thread on the forums about using Mac-On-Linux to run the AE and tunnelling everything through that. I haven't tried it yet. -- Neil Bothwick There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] advice for an ipod-like device?
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:00PM +, b.n. wrote: Hello, I'd like to have an Ipod-like mp3 player, something with at least 4-8 Gbyte of storage. To avoid any compatibility issue, I'd like something that works just like most USB-pen mp3 players (mine included): I stick it in my PC, I download files on it, it plays the audio files I downloaded on it. The ability to read .ogg files would be a plus. What is your advice? Thank you, m. If you value ogg compatibility, I suggest http://www.jetaudio.com/ I own a M3, it was 30 dollars cheaper than the equivalent iPod (in terms of storage size) when I bought it, and has served me well. the JetAudio/iAudio also has a considerable linux userbase, AFAIK, (almost) all their products can be mounted as USB mass storage devices, and firmware upgrades requires copying a file to the right directory on the device. They also have nice user forums, where the company would post instructions (like a miniHOWTO for updating firmware using linux and such). HTH, W -- I just got a physical and asked, Well Doc, how do I stand? He said, That's what is puzzling me. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 4 days, 14:46 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg-x11, why hath thou forsaken my 2nd screen?
In a haste to get the latest gnome-light packages, I ran ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -Duva world without thinking about the consequences and ended up running an 'unmasked' system. Now, this is okay. I'll just wait till said packages go into the stable depository or downgrade or something. In the meanwhile, it'd be really grand if I could use my 2nd screen. Running etc-update and scrolling through the 50 or so new conf files, I was careful enough not to have my xorg.conf overwritten; one moment it's working, a quick reboot later (revealing a whole bunch of other cock-ups I might spend another email detailing) and only my main screen starts up. Now, this is baffling. Opening my xorg.conf shows me my xinerama, dual screen setup clearly detailed the way I like it. Nothing has changed - yet no errors show up when starting X, no confusing flickers of the 2nd monitor, no hardwarming hard crashes, nothing. It's as if it just forgot all about that silly mess and went on with it's life, making me use my main screen as if nothing ever happened. Any suggestions or places I should look in? (yes, xinerama is a use flag I use)
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: Do you have it working? Yes. That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Ok, hopefully my 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 is close enough to not make any difference. Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need to do? As I said in my reply to your other post, make sure you have USB Modem support in the kernel compiled as a module, and pay attention to dmesg when you plug your phone in -- it'll give you the right device path... just slap that into the configuration for moto4lin, and it should work... (I suspect I also had to change the permissions/ownership of the /dev entry for the USB Modem driver, but that was pretty straight-forward: since I'm working on a single-user system, I did the horribly insecure thing and just chmod 777'd the dev entry... ;) You were right - my initail problem was having omitted the cdc_acm driver from my kernel config. Now that I have rectified that oversight I seem to get a little closer, but something is still going wrong. Plugging in the phone now results in the following messages: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 cdc_acm 1-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device The last message is encouraging, but the preceding error '-71's are worrying. The /proc/bus/usb/devices entry for the phone has the correct driver indicated: T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=22b8 ProdID=4902 Rev= 0.01 S: Manufacturer=Motorola Inc. S: Product=Motorola Phone (C380) C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 20mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=02 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_acm E: Ad=89(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=10ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_acm E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms And /proc/usb now contains 1.penemunde:/proc/bus/usb ls -l /dev/usb total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 acm drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid 1.penemunde:/proc/bus/usb ls -lR /dev/usb /dev/usb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 acm drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid /dev/usb/acm: total 0 crw--- 1 root root 166, 0 Jan 1 1970 0 /dev/usb/hid: total 0 But when I try moto4lin I get [info] Phone pluged as AT Try to connect [error] Unable to connect [info] Phone is unpluged and the following system messages are generated usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-1: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 5 but max is 2 usb 1-1: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 6 but max is 2 usb 1-1: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 8 but max is 2 usb 1-1: config 1 has no interface number 0 usb 1-1: config 1 has no interface number 1 usb 1-1: config 1 has no interface number 2 Any ideas what you are doing differently? What do your system messages look like? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2 simple follow-up questions (I'm thinking of getting a DVD drive): (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? Its in /usr/portage/app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
051026 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:01:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: (1) which package is 'growisofs' in ? app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools (2) is the actual writing speed faster with DVD's than CD's ? they hold a lot more data, but is writing-time proportional to content ? Yes it is. 1X on a CD is 172KB/s, 1X on a DVD is 1385KB/s. So 8X DVD is equivalent to around 64X CD writing. It still takes longer to write a DVD than a CD on most drives, but nowhere near seven times as long. Thanks: that's very useful will be archived for when I get a DVD drive. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Works fine on IBM X31 and T42. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
Note: mkisofs (in cdrtools) is what you create the ISO with, growisofs is what you use to write the iso to DVD with. Yeah, I think growisofs is a confusing name, too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:51 pm, James wrote: So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' ...I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net YES it exist, but, some of the 'old timers' on the list are likely to fall into deep laughter The original *Mail* tool. Note not mail but 'Mail' ... 'man Mail' should get you started. Lots of newer more sophisticated things exist: I don't see how that permits the OP to choose his mailserver. Either I'm reading the original posting quite wrongly (and I concede that this could easily be the case) or you haven't read it at all. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Generate data dvd iso image with growisofs or other
Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] There is nothing special about a DVD ISO. Just make an ISO 9660-compatible image with whatever data you want (in fact, neither a DVD nor CD needs to contain a ISO 9660 file system at all). I usually do something very similar to: Well that piece of info greatly simplifies things... thanks. And for the example command lines too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:57 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:20:40 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: Seems to me, very small 'n' light is mutually exclusive with grand or under. Unless you're interested in running GentooPPC on an iBook? Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no drivers for the built in wireless. This would incline me towards an IBM Stinkpad. Lots of cheap ones about now that IBM have sold the brand to Lenovo they still seem just as well constructed. I believe Centrino is supported by Linux, and I wouldn't expect any major problems with a Thinkpad apart from wireless. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email
On Oct 27, 2005, at 12:01 am, Elliott Clark wrote: I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some kind of gentoo community run mx backup web. Something were users get 2 backup servers and they are a backup server for two others. However this would require some trust and a lot of programing to get a utility to create configs for all of the different mail servers out there. I posted on the forums but didn't get any real response so looks like the flaws are too great. But the idea still kinda stands find someone else who needs a mx server and exchange. You be their backup and they be yours. I posted here for DNS secondary volunteers a year or two back, and found a guy to host my secondary DNS for me. He seemed very reputable, having written computing books being referenced in Unix mailing lists 10 years old but he fell off the internet without telling me. According to a friend of his he's not dead, just quit all internet use completely. From this experience I'd advise you not to trust anyone with your secondary unless you're paying them to maintain it. I have friends locally who run their own servers and although I trust them to get me home when I'm drunk, on reflection I wouldn't trust them with a favour like this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were just to forget they were hosting my records when they reinstalled their server, and in things like this you only find out about it when you actually NEED the backup. $10 a year seems very cheap for such a service, IMHO - you'd spend more than that thanking your friends with beer. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adsl, rp-ppoe and new IP assignment
Title: Message Greetings to the group, First, if this is not the first time you've seen this I apologize. I lost all of my last 24hrs of email. And, I didn't see this on the reflectors. So,I appreciate your patience - thank you. I have been running pppoe by roaring penguin for a couple of years now. Everything works fine when I bring up the network (myinterfacecomes up, an ip is assigned, my firewall is configured, and dns2go is fired up). This runs fine as long as my ISP doesn't change my IP address. I have a file called ip-up.local in the etc/ppp directory that coordinates all of this, so I think the if-up.local is working. Once my ISP changes my IP, my network is hung (meaning I can't get out and routing is messed up).If I type "route" I don't have a default route anymore. If I run adsl-status, it'll tell me that it's up. However, I'm not so sure it is. What I have to do is run adsl-stop, adsl-start, than the iptables configuration. What is different here, then at startup? Any advice? Thank You Sean
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Stroller wrote: Set relayhost on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate do SSL but it's easily done. Stroller. Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my LAN, but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning how to set up SMTP authentication. Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug my laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
James wrote: YES it exist, but, some of the 'old timers' on the list are likely to fall into deep laughter The original *Mail* tool. Note not mail but 'Mail' for example: Mail -s subject $USER body-file body-file to all usernames in the file user-list-file Not sure... do you just mean 'mail' from the mailx package? I like 'mail' for quickly throwing off emails from programs and such, but I don't think it fills this particular niche. - something that emulates 'sendmail', so that mutt, pine, or any other email client that doesn't do SMTP can use it. - dumps the email into a queue to be flushed next time I'm online. - I can flush the email to whatever SMTP is appropriate when I plug in. In fact, looking at the man page, it would appear that 'mail' *uses* 'sendmail' to deliver. So I don't think it can replace it. Or are you speaking of a different program? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James wrote: Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD. I was suprised to find lspci on the latest LiveCDs so I guess this is improving all the time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Yes, Thinkpads run well with Linux (there is a web site and mailing list dedicated to Linux on TP). However, IBM (like Sony) are a bit overpriced IMHO. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Hey there, you could try postix: 1. use it's sendmail binary so you don't have a daemon ruuning 2. take a look here about how to configure postfix to defer delivery: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#dialup 3. write a short script, call it, say, dumpmail, called with dumpmail ispname dumpmail does the following: 1. looks up ispname in a table and from that table discovers the smtp server to use (ispname doesn't have to be an isp of course, it could be office, bills_office, clientx_office etc) 2. runs postconf to change the relayhost in /etc/postfix/main.cf then runs postfix reload to load the new config 3. runs sendmail -q to dump the mail to the smtp server of choice. You can run it manually when you plug into a network, or with a bit more work you can make it run automatically when your interface comes up. On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:15:08 +1300 Tom Eastman wrote: Stroller wrote: Set relayhost on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate do SSL but it's easily done. Stroller. Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my LAN, but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning how to set up SMTP authentication. Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug my laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
I get around this problem by running a zebedee tunnel on the laptop to my home server using imap: the tunnel surfaces inside my home LAN which is heavily firewalled, but unauthenticated internally. Avoids a whole lot of issues running public servers, as well as simplifying laptop setup. BillK On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:15 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: Stroller wrote: Set relayhost on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate do SSL but it's easily done. Stroller. Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my LAN, but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning how to set up SMTP authentication. Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug my laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..
That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? Razr V3 - it's a pretty sweet phone. ;) You were right - my initail problem was having omitted the cdc_acm driver from my kernel config. Excellent. I like it when I'm right - it happens so infrequently... :) cdc_acm 1-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device Now _that's_ what I was expecting you to get -- the rest of the messages are gibberish to me, though... :( But when I try moto4lin I get [info] Phone pluged as AT Try to connect [error] Unable to connect [info] Phone is unpluged Did you specify the correct device for moto4lin? Should be /dev/ttyACM0. Also, check the permissions on /dev/ttyACM0 -- by default, they're too restrictive. If you run moto4lin from a terminal, it spits out a bit of debugging info that might help too, that looks like this: snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ moto4lin Form1 PhoneMan New mode: 1 doActConnect doActConnect P2kProc::doConnect() sh: /dev/ttyACM0: Permission denied /snip ...so I changed the permissions, and tried clicking the Connect/Disconnect button again, and go this: snip doActConnect doActConnect P2kProc::doConnect() New mode: 2 doActConnect Filelist received: 527 /snip What do your system messages look like? When I first plugged in the phone, I got this: snip usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices usb.agent[24980]: Keeping default configuration with /sys//devices/pci:00/:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2 cdc_acm 4-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device usbcore: registered new driver cdc_acm drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.23:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters /snip After fixing the permissions on /dev/ttyACM0 and clicking the Connect/Disconnect button in moto4lin, I got this: snip usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 4-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 5 but max is 2 usb 4-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 6 but max is 2 usb 4-2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 8 but max is 2 usb 4-2: config 1 has no interface number 0 usb 4-2: config 1 has no interface number 1 usb 4-2: config 1 has no interface number 2 /snip ...which looks pretty much the same as yours, but everything works the way it should after that, so the only thing I can think of is the permissions thing. shrug Any ideas what you are doing differently? Well, it's a slightly different configuration from the default: I've got the Settings - Preferences - File Manager - Load File list on connect option selected, the ACM Device pointed at /dev/ttyACM0, and read-write permissions for everybody on /dev/ttyACM0... I suspect I may have also gone into the Preferences - Connection section, and clicked the Update List button, selected my phone from the list of devices, and clicked both the Set As AT Device and Set As P2k Device as well, since I've got the right Vendor/Product IDs set, as well... Anyway... hope _something_ in there helps... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar: Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate. Thanks, Allan -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
