Hi,
I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such
tight situations.
Some
Hi,
# watch ps -C processname v
or
# watch ps -p pid v
v stands for virtual memory.
Otherwise
# watch /proc/pid/statm
This can help you on how to interpret the result:
http://redhat.activeventure.com/9/referenceguide/s1-proc-directories.html
(find statm)
If you want it graphically, I don't
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On 1/22/07, Eric Bohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the US, I'm almost certain you wouldn't be able to get away with
running Gentoo, and more specifically, Portage, the way you
apparently do in a secure govt environment. There's probably a
federal directive or regulation
Hello, list.
Is it possible to run init script during boot from normal user, but not root?
Thank you.
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Ilya Hegai wrote:
Hello, list.
Is it possible to run init script during boot from normal user, but not
root?
With a little trick...
im my conf.d/local.start
snip
sudo -u bunti -H fetchmail
/snip
Thomas
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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:19, Dale wrote:
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
As someone who started out using Mandrake, I have to say that using
Gentoo has been a LOT easier. Yea, I had to learn how to use Gentoo and
it is different from Mandrake by far but it is a whole lot easier to
manage. I
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
Hi,
I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
standards, too, I would like to
Robin Atwood wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
Hi,
I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which
currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the
system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's
Hi.
I'm in bad situation. I have two physical disks. First (DiskA) have
200GB and second (DiskB) have 160GB capacity. On DiskB I have Linux
partitions and some data partitions. On DiskA I had had 40GB NTFS
(Windows) and 160GB NTFS partitions (data), but I already deleted
Windows partition. So, I
Dale wrote:
As someone who started out using Mandrake, I have to say that using
Gentoo has been a LOT easier. Yea, I had to learn how to use Gentoo and
it is different from Mandrake by far but it is a whole lot easier to
manage. I have been using Gentoo for about 2 or 3 years for my desktop
I have an old P2 233Mhz laptop that runs Gentoo. I build the system on a
modern, very fast machine (specifying the right architecture) and then zipped
up the partition up into a tarball. Then boot up the old machine with a Live
CD and ftp over the tarball, unpack it, tweak /etc/fstab, install
2007/1/23, Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
With a little trick...
im my conf.d/local.start
snip
sudo -u bunti -H fetchmail
/snip
Thanks.
One more question. Does conf.d/local.start start before net services?
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:12:07 -0800 (PST), Eric Bohn wrote:
Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe
with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise
your machine.
How so? They'd have to get a compromised source tarball on the distfiles
mirrors
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:15:02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it normal to have been able to compile kdebase and all deps and
never hit an xorg dependancy?
You don't need xorg-server to install KDE, although you may need some
libraries, because you could be running the apps over a network.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:46:50 +0300, Ilya Hegai wrote:
One more question. Does conf.d/local.start start before net services?
It starts last.
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appreciates how difficult it was.
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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:56, Ilya Hegai wrote:
Is it possible to run init script during boot from normal user, but not
root?
There is a chapter about Gentoo initscripts in the handbook including a
section about writing your own. start-stop-daemon has support for running a
daemon as
Timothy A. Holmes ha scritto:
Hi folks:
Ive been using gentoo + fluxbox + audacity for about a year now
recording our church services to wav or mp3 files. Its now upgrade
time
The system is a p3 400 running gentoo and fluxbox - im open to
suggestions on the proper software to use
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 05:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it normal to have been able to compile kdebase and all deps and
never hit an xorg dependancy?
Yes.
KDE and all it's apps are X-clients and so do not depend on an X
server - the server can quite easily be on another machine.
They
On 23 January 2007 09:30, Nikolay Balov wrote:
Hi all
I'm trying to make a web server who will serve may be 3-4 domains. I
need to make a ftp account for every domain, which root is the root of
the apache domain (/var/www/domain1/htdocs must be root for apache and
for the ftp server) so the
Iain Buchanan napisał(a):
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:47 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote:
try these exact searches in google (include the site.. bit)
INPUT_DEVICES VIDEO_CARDS site:http://www.gentoo.org
and
INPUT_DEVICES VIDEO_CARDS site:http://www.gentoo-wiki.org
I visited gentoo.org and skimmed
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:11, jcd wrote:
Hi.
I'm in bad situation. I have two physical disks. First (DiskA) have
200GB and second (DiskB) have 160GB capacity. On DiskB I have Linux
partitions and some data partitions. On DiskA I had had 40GB NTFS
(Windows) and 160GB NTFS partitions
On Mon, January 22, 2007 8:49 pm, Randy Barlow wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:33 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
(presumably good -- only let
memtest run for about 3 minutes)
You should probably test it much longer than 3 minutes before you can be
confident that the 256 MB chip doesn't have
Try fsck --help
then select the options related to recovery and repair the system file
at least twice, then reboot your system with shutdown -b now
Based in my experience this occur after shutdown by power fault and not
by command.
The format must be fsck -p -f /dev/partition_name
the flag -p
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:07:46 +
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:12:07 -0800 (PST), Eric Bohn wrote:
Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe
with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise
your machine.
Alan McKinnon píše v Út 23. 01. 2007 v 16:39 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:11, jcd wrote:
Hi.
I'm in bad situation. I have two physical disks. First (DiskA) have
200GB and second (DiskB) have 160GB capacity. On DiskB I have Linux
partitions and some data partitions. On DiskA I had
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:38:18PM -0500, Penguin Lover Randy Barlow squawked:
Howdy all,
I'm trying to get naim to work, but am having no success so far. When
I type /connect S/N, it asks me to type my password and then hit enter.
I type the password, hit enter, and then nothing.
Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/22/07, Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
So I downgraded to udev-103 again and now I get the error message (on
startup) that /lib/udev/net.sh cannot be executed, because this file
doesn't exist!
I also tried reemerging udev, but it didn't help.
What
Hi,
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:17:58 +0100
jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I copied data from 160GB partition on DiskA to
temporary space on DiskB, then I deleted remaining NTFS partition on
DiskA and created one 200GB ext3 partition (I think so. In cfdsik I
chose partition type '83
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Willie Wong wrote:
That said, if you do find a solution, I'd much appreciate if you post
it here. Also, you could try contacting upstream http://naim.n.ml.org
I hear they are good people and very willing to help.
I'll see what upstream says -
Hi again,
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:38:47 -0300
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Probably not. Since V4L is a kernel interface, you would need a dummy
driver in the kernel. Probably the easiest way to archieve what you
want is to write a module that
Hello,
I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load
the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as
of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but
that doesn't help. This is not the firefox binary ebuild/install but the
Markus Schönhaber wrote:
Mick wrote:
Just upgraded to the latest dbus- and as I ran revdep-rebuild afterwards
this horrible failure occurred:
[...]
!!! ERROR: sys-apps/pmount-0.9.9 failed.
[...]
Any ideas?
Update pmount to 0.9.13. On x86 it's stable already.
BTW:
Markus Schönhaber wrote:
Mick wrote:
Just upgraded to the latest dbus- and as I ran revdep-rebuild afterwards
this horrible failure occurred:
[...]
!!! ERROR: sys-apps/pmount-0.9.9 failed.
[...]
Any ideas?
Update pmount to 0.9.13. On x86 it's stable already.
BTW:
Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
Hello,
I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load
the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea
as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory
but that doesn't help. This is not the firefox
Jan Stępień wrote:
If I understand it correctly, this means that if I want a 3D
acceleration I've got to use closed ATI's fglrx,
No, there is constant development on the R300 front. What versions
of Mesa, x11-drm, and libdrm do you have installed?
For which apps run for sure with 3D accel on
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:36:15PM +, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
Hello,
I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load
the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as
of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but
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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
I thought about this thing. I can't image what you're actually trying
to archieve. Is this for recording? Streaming/broadcasting? Why does
v4l compatibility matter? Maybe mpeg-out would be sufficient, or even a
raw video
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Willie Wong wrote:
That said, if you do find a solution, I'd much appreciate if you post
it here. Also, you could try contacting upstream http://naim.n.ml.org
I hear they are good people and very willing to help.
It seems to be a versioning
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:52, Randy Barlow wrote:
It seems to be a versioning problem. The stable version of naim in
portage is quite outdated (from 2004) and the newest version was
released in October 2006. There is a bug report[1] for the version
bump, and the new version is in ~arch
Is there some approved way to unmask a USE flag that your profile masks?
(Maybe only for certain packages?) I need multilib for
cross-arm-elf/newlib, and x86 profiles have it masked.
(For that matter, arm profiles seem to also have it masked, despite at
least some arm devices having two ISAs)
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 22:28, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
Is there some approved way to unmask a USE flag that your profile masks?
(Maybe only for certain packages?) I need multilib for
cross-arm-elf/newlib, and x86 profiles have it masked.
(For that matter, arm profiles seem to also have it
Hi all,
i solved my problem by the help of the shorewall mailing list.
The shorewall maintainer Tom Eastep helped me with a quick answer.
It has nothing to do with shorewall so there is no file of shorewall
causing this troubles.
When i set up internet connection with pppoe-setup i have
Hello.
Recently after rebooting from Windows to Gentoo, I noticed I had no internet
access.
My router, which is set to give my mac address the same IP (192.168.0.104),
seems to
have decided NOT to do this anymore. Nothing has changed in my settings on
either my computer
or the router. I get the
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 22:28, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
Is there some approved way to unmask a USE flag that your profile masks?
(Maybe only for certain packages?) I need multilib for
cross-arm-elf/newlib, and x86 profiles have it masked.
On 1/23/07, Pierre-Yves Rofes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, January 22, 2007 8:49 pm, Randy Barlow wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:33 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
(presumably good -- only let
memtest run for about 3 minutes)
You should probably test it much longer than 3 minutes before you
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:52:03PM -0500, Penguin Lover Randy Barlow squawked:
It seems to be a versioning problem. The stable version of naim in
portage is quite outdated (from 2004) and the newest version was
released in October 2006. There is a bug report[1] for the version
bump, and the
What kind of router is it?
I'm assuming you are running dhcpd on your router, can you access it
from windows and check if dhcpd is enabled?
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On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 18:51 -0500, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
Hello.
Recently after rebooting from Windows to Gentoo, I noticed I had no
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:47, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Did you reboot between changing the partition layout and creating
that new partition (and moving data)? Otherwise the kernel wouldn't
be aware of the new partition layout. Well, if everything you wrote
is correct, that data should
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 18:05, Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. wrote:
Try fsck --help
then select the options related to recovery and repair the system
file at least twice, then reboot your system with shutdown -b now
Based in my experience this occur after shutdown by power fault and
not by
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