[gentoo-user] kpathsea(latex) search path problem

2006-08-14 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Hi, I've been facing a lot of issues using latex under my user for quite some time and now I (think) finally get to the root of the problem. Using latex under my normal user is s frustraiting, it take about 5 or 6 second *just* to start compiling it. I use to wonder what it was doing all th

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > This was not the first time. It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking at a > new fresh crop. Am I then to understand that none of these messages will > ever be warning ME that

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/14/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore > > it. > Isn't there some way "they" could flag such messages so it doesn't > look like a peremptory command

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Tandy
Jed R. Mallen wrote: hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages inst

[gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-14 Thread Jed R. Mallen
hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages instead of trying to downl

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Tandy
Winston Messer wrote: You may need to enable IPX support or something, but I really don't know much about IPX on Linux. You need IPX support in your kernel (CONFIG_IPX) and net-misc/ipx-utils. UDP in Starcraft works fine for me, however, although this is with regular Wine rather than Cedega.

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Winston Messer
>> What is the game? I think that's the most important information you >> could give. > > > Sorry. The game is StarCraft with the add-on BroodWar. > > > Thanks for the info! > > Cheers, > Mark Mark, I run BroodWar on my Gentoo laptop and it runs like greased magic. I will however say that

[gentoo-user] Re: Force SSH Key Authentication

2006-08-14 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Klitzke wrote: I have an account on a server that lets users SSH in with password based authentication. That is OK, but for my account I would prefer to restrict SSH access to key based authentication. Is there an option I can put somewhere i

[gentoo-user] Force SSH Key Authentication

2006-08-14 Thread Evan Klitzke
Hi, I have an account on a server that lets users SSH in with password based authentication. That is OK, but for my account I would prefer to restrict SSH access to key based authentication. Is there an option I can put somewhere in ~/.ssh/ to enforce this? -- Evan Klitzke -- gentoo-user@gento

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread kashani
Nick Rout wrote: tcpdump or ethereal will allow you to see what is happening on the network before the error message appears. ethereal was renamed to wireshark in portage recently to conform to upstream. I'd probably start with tcpdump as it's less powerful and you're more concerned with know

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:22:56 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game > > installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install > > the updates. However, when we tried to get the Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/14/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/14/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game > installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install > the updates. However, when we tried to get the Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:59:48PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I > suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You > should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and > do the swapon before

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

2006-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:08:48 -0500 reader wrote: > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps > > the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong > > with samba. > > Yes, that was the conclusion I c

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

2006-08-14 Thread reader
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps > the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with > samba. Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm the OP) as well and have now gotten it working. It w

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/14/06, Fredrik Tolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That does lead me to another question, though -- the interface-boundedness of these settings makes me a bit suspicious. Will /etc/init.d/net.* start rewriting /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/yp.conf for me or something like that, and will the NIS d

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game > installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install > the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a > LAN session with the same game running on so

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:14 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > That does lead me to another question, though -- the > interface-boundedness of these settings makes me a bit suspicious. > Will /etc/init.d/net.* start rewriting /etc/resolv.conf > and/or /etc/yp.conf for me or something like that, and will

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-14 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:41, lunedì 14 agosto 2006, Rafael Barrera Oro ha scritto: > Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD using > the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though my xorg > is not modular). The thing is i went to th

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

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/14/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any ideas?? > > Are those options in the correct section ("ServerFlags")? Do you have > 'Option "DPMS"' in your Monitor section? Maybe you should just post > your whole xorg.conf... > > -Richard Oh, that may be it. They may no

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:40 -0500, Paul Varner wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 19:05 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout > > 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. > > > > So, in short: How am I s

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/14/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a LAN session with the same game running on som

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD > using the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though > my xorg is not modular). The thing is i went to the control > center to change my keyboard layout and noticed that there are > none avail

[gentoo-user] Mainboard Suggestion Intel Core 2 Duo

2006-08-14 Thread Helge Kaltenbach
Hey everybody... i'm planning to get a dual core cpu soon, the smallest Core 2 Duo from Intel actually: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 now i'm looking for mainboards..the ones i had in mind so far: Intel P965 Chipset: MSI P965 Platinum: + cheap :) + passive cooling mainboard -> silent - hard to get

[gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a LAN session with the same game running on some Windows machines I got a message about not having a

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

2006-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:00:11 -0500 Roy Wright wrote: > filezilla on sourceforge can do sftp. Used it a lot before switching > workstation to gentoo 1.5 years ago. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ > > > Have fun, > Roy frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should wor

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 19:05 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Hi list! > > I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout > 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. > > So, in short: How am I supposed to set my YP domain name with the new > baselayout? > It

[gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-14 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD using the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though my xorg is not modular). The thing is i went to the control center to change my keyboard layout and noticed that there are none available. At first i thought i neede

[gentoo-user] pygtk emerge emerge fails

2006-08-14 Thread Martins Steinbergs
Hi, im strugling with pygtk emerge, emerge doesnt build pygtk.py and pygtk.pth. Heres message: Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pygtk.py symlink Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pygtk.pth symlink Any ideas whats wrong, bugs.gentoo.org seems doesnt hav

[gentoo-user] Re: update xorg && kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > Well, I would use a system that has a lot of disk space, and make a > chroot build environment for those laptops. With FEATURES=buildpkg, > you can then use a system you have full access to to build binary > packages for the upgrade, and then when you have

[gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi list! I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. So, in short: How am I supposed to set my YP domain name with the new baselayout? Thanks for your time! Fredrik Tolf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

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

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/14/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any ideas?? Are those options in the correct section ("ServerFlags")? Do you have 'Option "DPMS"' in your Monitor section? Maybe you should just post your whole xorg.conf... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] update xorg && kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/14/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. Which should be performed first kde monolithic-->meta or Xorg to Xorg-modular? I don't think it actually matters. 3. Is there any method to streamline/automate these tasks so that the machines compile the new software overnight, unattended? We

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap not starting!

2006-08-14 Thread kashani
Martin Richardson wrote: G'Dayy all, after an upgrade of baselayout, I noticed that courier-imap and courier-imap-ssl was not starting from the init script. I have tracked it down to the init script, as this script points to /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-courier-imap.rc, and I can start courie

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

2006-08-14 Thread kashani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Something like an nfs for windows I guess. I've seen that very thing but it was an ancient non-developed app. I haven't messed with it at all, but supposedly the Microsoft Services for UNIX (SFU) is supposed to have NFS capabilitie

Re: [gentoo-user] update xorg && kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:52 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. > First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith > to kde-meta. [1] > > Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] > > I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on othe

Re: [gentoo-user] update xorg && kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 14 August 2006 16:52, James wrote: > Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. > First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith > to kde-meta. [1] > > Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] > > I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other systems, > some

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:20:04 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > >> Yeah, baselayout was one of the packages updated. > > > > From what to what? genlop will tell you. If it was a path level > > update, it is unlikely anything has changed significantly in the > > configs. > > > - From v1.11.15-r3 to v1.12.4-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:39:07 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > >> Yeah, baselayout was one of the packages updated. > > From what to what? genlop will tell you. If it was a path level update, > it is unlikely anything has changed significa

[gentoo-user] update xorg && kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread James
Hello, Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith to kde-meta. [1] Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other systems, some of which I only get possession of sporadically for

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

2006-08-14 Thread Yann Garnier
On your Windows 2K/XP CD you got an NFS client in the tools directory thus enabling NFS too. Best Regards, Yann Garnier Le 14 août 06 à 15:53, Matthew Cline a écrit : On 8/11/06, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For easy fas

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

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

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

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 14 August 2006 10:24, Dale wrote: > > >> I got mine from xorg.conf.example. It had this in it: >> >>> # Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global >>> # rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS. >>> # It is enabled p

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 missing g++/c++

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> > I don't believe that I included the USE=nocxx variable. > > You can simply check with "emerge -pv gcc". Yes, I must have included the nocxx in my use variable since a re-build of GCC included the g++ compiler. From this point forward all packages using C++ would build with out errors. How

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

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2006 10:24, Dale wrote: > I got mine from xorg.conf.example. It had this in it: > > # Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global > > # rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS. > > # It is enabled per-screen (or per-monitor), and ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Sven Buttler is out of the office.

2006-08-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
Sven Buttler wrote: > I will be out of the office starting 14.08.2006 and will not return until > 28.08.2006. > > Bitte wenden Sie sich an Herrn Drescher (-723). > > > LOL Don't worry, man - we'll cover you! ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap not starting!

2006-08-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
Martin Richardson wrote: > G'Dayy all, > after an upgrade of baselayout, I noticed that courier-imap and > courier-imap-ssl was not starting from the init script. I have tracked it > down to > the init script, as this script points to > /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-courier-imap.rc, and I

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

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Thomas Kear wrote: > > > The problem is the space in the option names. My xorg.conf has this, > works fine: >>Option "BlankTime" "0" >>Option "StandbyTime" "0" >>Option "SuspendTime" "0" >>Option "O

Re: [gentoo-user] Mod4 mapped to wrong keycode

2006-08-14 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:47:02 +0200 Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Cernansky wrote: > > Does anybody know how to activate this "super_win" setting? > > setxkbmap -option altwin:super_win Great, it works! Thank You very much. > On my machine Xorg refuses to recognize mult

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

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Kear
from xorg.conf(5x): SERVERFLAGS SECTION [...] Option "BlankTime" "time" sets the inactivity timeout for the blanking phase of the screensaver. time is in minutes. This is equivalent to the Xorg server's `-s' flag, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1x). Default: 10 minutes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:39:07 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > Yeah, baselayout was one of the packages updated. From what to what? genlop will tell you. If it was a path level update, it is unlikely anything has changed significantly in the configs. > I prefer > dispatch-conf, which I ran. I use a scrip

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore > > it. > Isn't there some way "they" could flag such messages so it doesn't > look like a peremptory command I have to jump up and perform? Removing strict from F

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 14. August 2006 09:10 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: > > >> any idea how I can "freeze" the shutdown process without harming the >> system, so I have time to read those messages. >> > > Try putting a "sleep" somewhere into /etc/init.d/halt.sh. > > B

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 09:10 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: > any idea how I can "freeze" the shutdown process without harming the > system, so I have time to read those messages. Try putting a "sleep" somewhere into /etc/init.d/halt.sh. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 08:59 schrieb ext Richard Fish: > If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I > suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You > should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and > do the swapon before your

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:47:33 +0200 > Am Montag, 14. August 2006 08:30 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: > > > yes I /know/ this, it was simply a mistake, my fault..I am only > > human... ;) > > OK. > > > Int

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/13/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, this looks like a setup I'd be pleased with. Right now I have / /boot swap How much of a pain will it be to implement now? Or will I be better off waiting about 6 months till I get a laptop, and then following the guide at http://gentoo