Re: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question

2007-05-29 Thread Galevsky
Hi, you can learn the xml concepts at http://www.w3schools.com/. Then, depending on the language you choose, there is lots of libs to deal with xml in many languages. Though you always have two different ways of parsing your xml file: a SAX parser approach, that runs on an element-by-element

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question

2007-05-29 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Galevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question Hi, you can learn the xml concepts at http://www.w3schools.com/. Then, depending on the language

[gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2)

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to

[gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: An XML Question

2007-05-29 Thread Galevsky
Well, a man libxml2 gives you all that you need: Documentation for libxml is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/ ;o) Gal' 2007/5/29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Galevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29,

[gentoo-user] Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
Calculating world dependencies - !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist: net-analyzer/ntop net-www/gentoo-webroot-default media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi net-analyzer/bwm-ng virtual/x11 media-video/came media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist

2007-05-29 Thread kristian
From: Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 01:37:20 -0700 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist Calculating world dependencies - !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all

RE: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist

2007-05-29 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for the following packages are either all masked or don't exist Calculating world dependencies - !!! Ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay

2007-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 May 2007, p014r834r wrote: Hi all. I am just about to use vmware overlay, and I was wondering if anyone had any problems/issues using it. Yeah, one issue: Why isn't vmware-workstation-6.* in the portage tree yet? OK, I'm just kidding (there's testing to be done).

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 10:32:23 Daevid Vincent wrote: * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay

2007-05-29 Thread p014r834r
Alan McKinnon escreveu: On Monday 28 May 2007, p014r834r wrote: Hi all. I am just about to use vmware overlay, and I was wondering if anyone had any problems/issues using it. Yeah, one issue: Why isn't vmware-workstation-6.* in the portage tree yet? OK, I'm just kidding

Re: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2)

2007-05-29 Thread Randy Barlow
Daevid Vincent wrote: [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that vixie-cron is the issue, or kdegraphics is the issue? Being reverse order,

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay

2007-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:50:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: OK, I'm just kidding (there's testing to be done). Generally it works fine, but right now I can't get vmware's modules to load and work right. Dunno why. Previously the ebuilds worked well. The modules ebuild is for WS5. There's a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Test!

2007-05-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: dark85x [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:06 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Test! On Monday 28 May 2007 19:04:16 Tobias Heinlein wrote: Hi

[gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Denis
I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world? Should one do this

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Test!

2007-05-29 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Ryan Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:40 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Test! On 5/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: dark85x

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world? Should one do this once a week? Once in two weeks? How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and system tool chain? As soon as new things

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:01 -0400, Denis wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by daily server. Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:01:39 -0400 Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine [SOLVED]

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew Lowe
Grant Edwards wrote: However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if the remote SSH server daemon has set its X11Forwarding configuration setting set to yes (otherwise, it is really a bit harder and not

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:48 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:01 -0400, Denis wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say.

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Roy Wright
Daniel Iliev wrote: I have a daily cron job containing: === emerge --sync \ emerge -DuNf world \ glsa-check -t all 21 | mail -s GLSA report root === In other words it syncs the tree, fetches all the new packages and then checks for security vulnerabilities. If glsa-chack says This

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Ralf Stephan
You wrote How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world? Should one do this once a week? Once in two weeks? I have settled to a 5-day routine, when I sync, update completely the system target, and go through the listing of changes to world, where

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 16:01 schrieb Denis: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread kashani
Denis wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world?

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Denis
All these responses are very helpful - thanks for taking your time to reply! Yea, my needs are pretty simple - just maintaining computational workstations (one at home, one at work) - I am the primary user. I am not running any servers on either box. I've never used cron - I haven't felt the

[gentoo-user] Can't see windows servers on network from gnome

2007-05-29 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hi Are there some special actions I need to take to be able to browser/see my windows servers on my lan in gnome. I can ping the machines and mount shared folders with smb from the commandline so I know they are there and can be accessed but it could be nice if they ware browserable from within

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see windows servers on network from gnome

2007-05-29 Thread Francisco Rivas
Good day... These two programs are a gui, test it. http://jags.sourceforge.net/ http://www.rt.mipt.ru/~ivan/TkSmb/ The second it's not pretty... :P I hope this help you... On 5/29/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Are there some special actions I need to take to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see windows servers on network from gnome

2007-05-29 Thread Francisco Rivas
Another tow tools: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyneighborhood/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/linneighborhood/ Have a nice day... On 5/29/07, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Are there some special actions I need to take to be able to browser/see my windows servers on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls / ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return? Both of them should look like: drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 29 04:40 / drwxr-xr-x 56 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:04, Paul Varner wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls / ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return? Both of them should look like:

[gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-29 Thread Lutz Schönemann
Hi, I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events coming from this keyboard. I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:04, Paul Varner wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls / ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return? Both of them should look like:

[gentoo-user] OT - spamassassin not rewriting subject headers

2007-05-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm having a problem. I'm running spamassassin with exim: baby ~ # emerge -pv exim spamassassin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.67 USE=exiscan exiscan-acl ldap mysql pam perl sasl ssl syslog tcpd -X

[gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-05-29 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm trying to switch ISPs over to Bell South. I can not get it to connect up though. I have tried wvdial and Kppp with no luck. This is what I am getting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # wvdial WvDial*1: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56 WvDial*1: Initializing modem. WvDial*1: Sending: ATZ

[gentoo-user] Mail server Active Directory authentication

2007-05-29 Thread Kacper Goc
Hello, I'm looking for a solution to intergrate mail server like qmail or postfix with AD for user authentication. I tried google but didnt found anything about it. Please help. Thanks in advance. Kacper Goc -- Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail server Active Directory authentication

2007-05-29 Thread kashani
Kacper Goc wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a solution to integrate mail server like qmail or postfix with AD for user authentication. I tried google but didn't found anything about it. Please help. Postfix - LDAP - AD That would be the setup I'd use. You'd need a how-to for exporting AD to

RE: [gentoo-user] wifi statup backgrounds

2007-05-29 Thread Adam Carter
When i start my wifi network (with wpa_supplicant in debug mode) it backgrounds and I cant see the rest of the debug messages. How do i stop the backgrounding? Make sure of two things: 1. At /etc/conf.d/net, you add the -d to the line wpa_supplicant_wlan0=whatever -d I already

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Tim Allinghan
Denis wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world?

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Denis
On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv -uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :) I'm sure that makes for particularly sweet dreams ;-) One thing I've wondered about... When you update X or

[gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-29 Thread Mat Harris
Hi All, I found Gentoo a couple of weeks ago after using redhat and debian for a while. So far I love it, I've managed to get everything configured the way I want and it seems so much more stable. My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread maxim wexler
m450 backups # ls -al / total 72 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Apr 29 13:38 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Apr 29 13:38 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 10:36 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 17 18:07 boot drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 13460 May 25 14:39 dev drwxr-xr-x 57 root root

[gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find exact packages? [Bug: 180307]

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
Is this a known issue with a fix coming or is this by design (which seems shockingly short-sighted). I searched bugs.gentoo.org for quite a while and didn't see anything like this amongst the bajillion other portage bugs, so I added a new one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180307 Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-29 Thread sean
Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2007 14:36, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-29 Thread sean
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-29 Thread sean
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her. Not

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv -uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :) I'm sure that makes for particularly sweet dreams ;-) One thing I've

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:20 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote: On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv -uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :) I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Denis
On 5/29/07, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig' consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel in Oh neat-o! I didn't know there was a copy of the running config in /proc... Does this basically just insert the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-29 Thread sean
Mark Kirkwood wrote: sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her. Not having much luck, would anyone have any

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go through kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that takes some time. I guess one can reuse the old .config file, but I understand it's not always a safe thing to do. Is it reasonably ok

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 06:51:12 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 10:32:23 Daevid Vincent wrote: * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:01:39 Denis wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. In server-land I would perform all upgrades on a test system

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Denis
While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as warnings or valuable tips. However, if emerge is processing several packages in a chain, it