Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup-software for small network

2005-08-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
of Databases (MySQL) * And of course it should be in Portage. At the moment I see two candidates, Amanda and Bacula. Any comments (pro/con) on those two or any suggestion on some other Backup-SW. Regards, -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent modules from loading

2005-08-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
to prevent 8139too from loading without going to the extreme of deleting it. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
on the command line is a very poor idea, use /etc/portage/package.use instead. I forget the specifics, but I have seen a system run into serious problems and library screwups over that. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My understanding is that X searches the path given in xorg.conf irregardless of who starts it but I may be wrong. I use xdm, not gdm. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for xorg.conf

[gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yesterday I removed openafs as I haven't used it for ages. However, now I can not login as and the system won't start properly (netmount and those depending on it don't run). I get messages about not being able to find /usr/afsws/pam_afs.so.1 - shared library can not be found. I've googled

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
. Zac Medico wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yesterday I removed openafs as I haven't used it for ages. However, now I can not login as and the system won't start properly (netmount and those depending on it don't run). I get messages about not being able to find /usr/afsws/pam_afs.so.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
When I was logged in I tried that and it did not work. Said nothing needed fixing. I'm on the LiveCD now so I'll do that with a -p and see what happens. Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2005 01:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: How do I get the system so it's not looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Still broken. I did emerge findutils as it was flagged with the newuse. After rebooting still can't get in. I'll emerge pam under the livecd and then revdep again and see what happens. Zac Medico wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: This is complicated by the fact I have to do it all via

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login - needs pam_afs

2005-07-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
On the reboot I was also told to run depscan.sh - if I can get in I'll try that too. Zac Medico wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: This is complicated by the fact I have to do it all via liveCD as I can't login - nothing is accepted. The following was done after chrooting. There was no afs

Re: [gentoo-user] random, hard lockups

2005-07-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
the night, at work, etc). When the computer goes into this hard lock up state, the monitor is blank (but not in power save mode); the computer will respond to pings; I cannot ssh into the computer. I just ran 14 hours of memtest86+ and found no errors. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Can you just set .xinitrc to loop back (go to) the exec command so if myth is exited it executes it again? On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last

Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???

2005-06-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
:10PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote It was a baselayout change. If you'd checked all the changes you would have seen much of the stuff has moved to /etc/conf.d files. For example, rc.conf is stripped down but the items that were there are now in files in /etc/conf.d. m450 root # man rc.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???

2005-06-17 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
consoles. I am grateful that my current configs weren't overwritten, but I would still like to know what hit me. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
CUPS, restart CUPS, reopen the web interface and reinstall the printer. I can't, cupsd dies quickly. Well, that's a problem. At what point does it die (what are you doing when it dies), and what does it say with its dying breath (error message)? Holly -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
guess I'll wait until 0.85 is unmasked. Hi, Had this problem too, even more clamav (x86) wasn't working with qmail-scanner at all. Went to ~x86 and it works. Maybe 0.85.1 should be made stable, not just as a warning ;) HTH. Rumen -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User

Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I forgot about the thirty day wait. I'll keyword it. On Sun, 29 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:08:53 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yes, I saw that - but it's masked for some reason and I hesitate to install it until it's unmasked as I assume it's masked

[gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
, f-level: 5, builder: ccordes) WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, required = 5 -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date

2005-05-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
improved and the pid and socket files have been moved to a much more logical place. Expect to do a small amount of fiddling. If your life doesn't depend on it, you'd be OK using the latest. I think that you need the latest version to catch all the viri. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
oldconfig usually works for minor version changes - just don't use it to go from say a 2.4 to 2.6. xconfig needs qt installed - I get an error about qt when I try to run it. * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no more. On Tue, 24 May 2005, Johannes Weiner wrote: Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2, due to the heavy use of

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
linux # I've checked that both have v4l support enabled in the kernel. What am I missing on this new machine? I'm sure there must just be some other thign required to get this turned on? I don't seem to be able to configure MythTV without this. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what about the tarball? # Set to yes if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of #

Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Try the tarball no. It may be using the old devfs tarball. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My 2 cents worth. I used RPM for a long time, went to Gentoo about three years ago. This year I had to start using FC2 and FC3. I've been trying to use apt-get and looked at yum. Both of those made me appreciate how good portage is and how many packages we have available. Frankly both

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll look at it. On Sat, 21 May 2005, Felix Tiede wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND

Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
that the setup is aborted. Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin files. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
files to an iso image Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an iso image? There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd rather not go down. Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Great idea. I'll give it a go. Thanks everyone -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he can

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How do I go about keeping the source for later reference of the various packages that I emerge with gentoo. Charles -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
So does mine but you need to sign up for an external service. I'd like to try it without that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rob wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
rm_init error 3) sata_nv - hangs indefinitely This is pretty fun. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Its the equivalent of the windows format c: G. On Sat, 14 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-11 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
. Thanks! - Mark On 5/10/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my hosts.deny and allow set up per the How-To. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # cat hosts.allow portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 lockd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 rquotad: 192.168.1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
say for sure. Sigi Hi, I'm still trying to figure out why my install doesn't execute for normal users. So OO only works for root. Upon the ooffice command a normal user gets a message regarding setup or something like that, then it aborts. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-10 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
should check on please let me know. I'm completely puzzled here. The machine serves as a MythTV backend server as well as a day to day desktop for my wife. It's a great machine in every other respect. I just cannot figure this one out. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

[gentoo-user] MTU for DSL

2005-05-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
/conf.d/local.start but I'm wondering if there is a better place. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you get OpenOffice to run?

2005-05-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
openoffice.org window what error messages do you get? ...Ric I got it working with the ooffice command, but only as root. Doesn't seem to work when as a regular user. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password

2005-05-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
not permitted bash-2.05b$ I repeated to two scenarios above with several different passwords. All attempts failed. So I have a bright shiny new system that I'd just love to be able to get in to. :) Any suggestions? Thanks, Drew -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User

Re: [gentoo-user] libsdl emerge dies

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
? I don't care whether it's a matter of doing a new checksum or bypassing verification. I just want the damn thing to build. I have never fiddled around with an ebuild before, so I need specific instructions if I have to generate a new checksum. This would be my first time. -- Brett I. Holcomb

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers-SCSI Device Support-SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you're booting off of it make sure it's in the kernel. Not there for me. I'm using gentoo-source I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support? -- SOLVED!!!

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/7/2005 7:19 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys goes away

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?

2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Good work Brett! On 5/7/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys

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2005-05-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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RE: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
to, whether you're using the legacy devfs or udev, etc. /dev/hdc will always map to the ide device where /dev/cdrom might be incorrectly configured (i.e. via udev) to not map to the correct device. Dave -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
schrieb ext Brett I. Holcomb: I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? / yes, you'll have to boot with an initrd. /boot depends on the bootloader. AFAIK there is a patch for lilo to make

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? I'm not sure what you mean by making 'compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
/2 keyboard). Does anyone have any recommendations, for or against, KVM switches that play well with gentoo? Thanks, Michael -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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[gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /

2005-05-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages

2005-04-29 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Do you have a portage overlay? From: Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/29 Fri PM 02:45:49 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages For a few packages, currently k3b and koffice, portage is seeing

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop

2005-04-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Frank, do you have info (documentation, etc) on how you got this working. Thanks. From: Adi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/25 Mon PM 05:55:50 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop Luni 25 Aprilie 2005 12:37, Dirk Raeder a scris: Frank Schafer wrote:

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?

2005-04-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the Gentoo udev docs which have links to a couple of good sites that are helpful. From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 02:55:07 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order? Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively,

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse... (fwd)

2005-04-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
-- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:39:10 -0400 From: David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo

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