Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but "rules" seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb maxim wexler: > > Can you post the relevant lines from 10.local.rules. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10* > BUS=="ide", KERNEL=="hdc", SYMLINK+="cdrom", > GROUP="cdrom" > BUS=="ide", KERNEL=="hdd", SYMLINK+="dvd", > GROUP="cdrom" > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread Francisco Rivas
Johannes, It is a good idea try with other version of the xorg. please post something about your experience. On 5/11/07, JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Johannes Skov Frandsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-11 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, 1 Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007, 13:39:21 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:43 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > > Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: > If I can't get this > working, I'll have to go back to sendmail, which I > know it works with... I use Postfix and it plays nice with Mailman. I'd highly recommend it! R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread JD
-Original Message- From: Johannes Skov Frandsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X Francisco Rivas skrev: > Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so > much

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Francisco Rivas skrev: Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so much...I have to thank you to all for this experience... Well we got a lot of work to do for help Johannes. You fell confortable installing the ati-drivers manually?, if your aswer is Yes, then: 1.- Dis

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but "rules" seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
> Can you post the relevant lines from 10.local.rules. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10* BUS=="ide", KERNEL=="hdc", SYMLINK+="cdrom", GROUP="cdrom" BUS=="ide", KERNEL=="hdd", SYMLINK+="dvd", GROUP="cdrom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ see http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 11 May 2007 12:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2007, Mick wrote: > > Also noticed that OpenOffice fonts look odd, but I think these are > > Gtk controlled? > > No, Open Office uses it's own font rendering engine Thanks Alan, Would the OOo rendering engine work with freetyp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:43 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > > > > On Tue, 20

RE: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Öhler , Alessandro
Hi I follow this treat now for a while, but something is still missing here. RPM is not just a Binary Package. I agree most of them are. Some of the RPM´s also have some scripts embedded which are not handled if you convert it with rpm2targz or simular. For example i still look for an way to c

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but "rules" seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb maxim wexler: > Problem is persistent-CD.rules that keeps getting > re-written every boot. Hmm that's strange. Doesn't happen on my system(s). > I've already written a > 10-local.rules to handle my _one_ CD, /dev/cdrom-> > /dev/hdc and _one_ DVD, /dev/dvd-> /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread kashani
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it...

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is >> for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, >> so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... >> > > I

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
What do I need to do to set up mailman to work with exim? I have a test list called phantom that I tried to send a test message to from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: exim_main.log:2007-05-11 11:47:37 H=adsl-70-234-122-248.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (baby.espersunited.com) [70.234.122.248] sender verify fail

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 May 2007, Martin S wrote: > That works yes. > A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first > doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Make it a shell function if you need it often. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but "rules" seem correct-FIXED-or, not

2007-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
> And if you use the new one, you have to be aware > that it is attached to the > SCSI subsystem now. This means that you have to > enable SCSI as well as > support for SCSI disks (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y) and > SCSI cdroms > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m => sr_mod.ko), just as you > would do with SATA. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: > Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the > problem in a glance). > > > Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 OK, you seem to have run into the "Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and replace it with ATA" thing that happened in 2.6.18... In me

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - A serious problem with my exim configuration

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk GROSSE OSTERHUES
On 11/5/07 15:35, Michael Sullivan wrote: > [...] > domainlist local_domains = @ espersunited.com : Try it with a ":" after the "@" ;) > baby.espersunited.com : localhost > domainlist relay_to_domains = > hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : > 70.234.122.248 : 70.234.122.250 : 70.234.122.251

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 11 May 2007 16:39, David Harel wrote: > lilo is double checked. Below the relevant section. > > > boot=/dev/sda > root=/dev/sda1 > read-only > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-r8.v0 > > label=SDA1-20-r8.v0 > append="root=/dev/sda1" This last line, written this way, looks wrong or at l

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:39:57 +0300, David Harel wrote: > Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 > > Attached the panic message: > > > VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) > > please append a correct "root=" boot option. > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on u

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread David Harel
Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the problem in a glance). Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct "root=" boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to m

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Martin S writes: Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan suggestion. You could use a little shell function like this one. Add it to your ~/.bashrc or somewhere like that. locatecd() { oldIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' results=( $( locate "$1" ) )

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:53:42 +0200, Martin S wrote: > Forgot you're still toppost sensitive in this group. And always will be, once oyu've seen the one true way you don't change :) > Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan > suggestion. You could use a script. e.g.

Re: [gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Turi Tropea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Naga ha scritto: > > emerge sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 and gcc-3 will go away :) Worked very well!!! now i can emerge my kde without any interruptions :) (ehm...i hope) thanks thanks thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) C

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Martin S
2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:29:03 +0200, Martin S wrote: > A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first > doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Or type "cd " Forgot you're still toppost sensitive

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:29:03 +0200, Martin S wrote: > A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first > doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Or type "cd " PS - please don't top-post. -- Neil Bothwick Two is not equal to three, even for larg

Re: [gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Naga
On Friday 11 May 2007 14.54.51 Turi Tropea wrote: > Hi people :) > > why on a fresh install of 2007.0 (using the minimal cd and the > official howto) when i try to emerge kde-meta is required gcc-3.3.6 > that does not support my cflags (pentium-m) emerge sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 and gcc-3 will go

[gentoo-user] OT - A serious problem with my exim configuration

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On my new exim install on my server box, I have a serious problem. It will accept mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the relevant portions of my config: domainlist local_domains = @ espersunited.com : baby.espersunited.com : localhost domainlist relay_to_domains =

Re: [gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 May 2007, Turi Tropea wrote: > Hi people :) > > why on a fresh install of 2007.0 (using the minimal cd and the > official howto) when i try to emerge kde-meta is required gcc-3.3.6 > that does not support my cflags (pentium-m) > > this is a little bit of emerge kde-meta kdm [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Martin S
That works yes. A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Martin S 2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: > Just recently tried using > > lo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is > for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, > so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... If the OP doesn't need any bind-specific featur

[gentoo-user] OT - !!! An error occured while trying to send logmail:

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
Since I installed an exim server on a couple of my machines yesterday I have been getting this error when I try to emerge anything: !!! An error occured while trying to send logmail: {'root': (501, ': recipient address must contain a domain')} I have the domain name set in the DNSDOMAIN variable

[gentoo-user] new install 2007.0 and gcc-3.3.6

2007-05-11 Thread Turi Tropea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people :) why on a fresh install of 2007.0 (using the minimal cd and the official howto) when i try to emerge kde-meta is required gcc-3.3.6 that does not support my cflags (pentium-m) this is a little bit of emerge kde-meta kdm These ar

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: > Just recently tried using > > locate foo.conf | cd > > to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf > Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf > > I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name f

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 11 May 2007 14:34, Martin S wrote: > Just recently tried using > > locate foo.conf | cd > > to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf > Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf It would not have worked anyway, since cd does not read its input f

[gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-11 Thread Martin S
Just recently tried using locate foo.conf | cd to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of locate. I did a brief google on locate, but didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb ext David Harel: > After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config > file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only > new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the > original config file however, at bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: > Greetings, > > > After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config > file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define > only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the > original config file howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop

2007-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Mick wrote: > Also noticed that OpenOffice fonts look odd, but I think these are > Gtk controlled? No, Open Office uses it's own font rendering engine -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread jarry
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > Would you use djbdns for this? > > It would be a more secure choice than bind :) Well, I do not know djbdns well so I can not compare djbdns/bind, but I think bind security is not so bad: it can run as non-root user now, moreover bind supports chrooting "right out the

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:46 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: > > That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary > > packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary, > > which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /. > > > Portage binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Friday 11 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: > > Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a > > tar.gz, > > Use rpm2tgxz to do that. > > > then use "emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz". (IIRC that's a way > > you can

[gentoo-user] Problems recieving digest

2007-05-11 Thread burlingk
What format is the digest usually sent in? I got an email that seems to be a bunch of attatchements that had been stripped from the message. Is there a way to set my settings so that I get a text only digest? Most lists I am on, that is the default, so I was surprised. Please respond to this one d

[gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-11 Thread David Harel
Greetings, After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot time I got panic halt on root mount st

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: > Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a > tar.gz, Use rpm2tgxz to do that. > then use "emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz". (IIRC that's a way > you can install a binary package...). That should make portage aw

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get > an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some > links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have > moved. > > Anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Florian Philipp
> quoth the Florian Philipp: > > Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference > > between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to > > convert them? > > Another thought: > > Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM > f