[gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Automounting Windows shares with autofs

2007-06-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Good $time :) I'm trying to setup my system so, that it can automount Windows shares. I'd like to have it so, that I do NOT have to specify each and every host and share in the automount configuration; I'd like to have it so, that it's as comfortable as the NFS solution that you can get, if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Math symbols with emerge -C

2007-06-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always stumble around endlessly whenever I attempt to use math symbols in emerge commands. To Neil B and others who have patiently explained this to me on several occasions... I can only plead deep seated idiocy but I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Automounting Windows shares with autofs

2007-06-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'd like to get something like this for Samba hosts as well. As a (dysfunctional :() start, I've hacked up a auto.smb script, which you can find at http://askwar.pastebin.ca/527240. If

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:55, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: and why I'm getting an IPv6 address? Thanks! Every link that is up gets a link-local ipv6 address which is used to find and communicate with direct link partners. It probably starts with fe80::. So don't worry, that's caused by the ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Automounting Windows shares with autofs

2007-06-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'd like to get something like this for Samba hosts as well. As a (dysfunctional :() start, I've hacked up a auto.smb script, which you can find at http://askwar.pastebin.ca/527240. If invoked on the command line, it returns: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -v portage performs sneak attack on emacs-cvs

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 01 June 2007 02:55:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject line is half joke... but I just did an sync and then emerged portage as suggested. After the emerge of portage, emerge process went on and uninstaqlled a couple of versions of emacs-cvs. As you can see in the command

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:10, Mick wrote: You can switch off IPv6 in the kernel. I can, but I don't think that will solve the problem that I'm seeing. Other ideas? -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Oh me of little faith... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Math symbols with emerge -C

2007-06-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 04:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: do you have a gentoo-sources less than 2.6.20-r6 installed? If not, then the output is appropriate (can't unmerge what you haven't merged). Yikes... I think you may have it, since `eix -I' reports: [...]

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

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:25, Dale wrote: 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. [snip] I did a google search and nothing made sense to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] File extensions in Kmail attachments

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 May 2007 21:39, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On 5/31/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that when I open an attachment from within Kmail it adds odd extensions to the file, which are retained when I later on try to save it on the disk; e.g. a spreadsheet opened with

[gentoo-user] Re: Math symbols with emerge -C

2007-06-01 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I want to `unmerge' (-C) versions of gentoo-sources prior to -2.6.20-r6 However this fails: root # emerge -vpC gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r6 These are the packages that would be unmerged: --- Couldn't find 'gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r6'

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:05, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:28:09 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aha! We're getting somewhere. There's no /home/mic specified in /etc/passwd but /: mick:x:502:10::/:/bin/bash What do you make of this?! LART your admin :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge -v portage performs sneak attack on emacs-cvs

2007-06-01 Thread reader
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 01 June 2007 02:55:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject line is half joke... but I just did an sync and then emerged portage as suggested. After the emerge of portage, emerge process went on and uninstaqlled a couple of versions of

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

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:25, Dale wrote: 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. [snip] I did a google search and nothing made sense to me. I did try adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge -v portage performs sneak attack on emacs-cvs

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:06:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens when you have more than one version of a package in the same SLOT which means your system was in an illegal state. It should have left one version still in that SLOT (namely the one with the highest COUNTER which is the

[gentoo-user] Re: [slightly OT] Automounting Windows shares with autofs

2007-06-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Hmm, I guess the output of your script is wrong. Guess so as well :) Put this line into the awk part instead: { if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print \\\n\t/$1\t://host/$1 } Thx. This

[gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I have been using wireless successfully for about a month, until I upgraded madwifi-ng last night. Since then wireless has not worked. I have a netgear wireless router which supplies the wireless signal, and the configuration of this router has not changed. And wireless works fine

Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such

2007-06-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 June 2007, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file permissions of files I've copied so that other users can access them and modify them. Say I have a number of documents in the /root folder which the root user owns. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread Naga
On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I have been using wireless successfully for about a month, until I upgraded madwifi-ng last night. [...] Thanks for any and all ideas. reemerge wpa_supplicant It's in that ebuild... elog save or mail is a good thing (tm) :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [slightly OT] Automounting Windows shares with autofs

2007-06-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Hmm, I guess the output of your script is wrong. Guess so as well :) Put this line into the awk part instead: { if (first) { print

[gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hi Im trying to setup my own mail server... first step is to install postfix. I have installed postfix with the following USE flags: mysql sasl I have modified the config file /etc/postfix/main.cf and added the following lines: myhostname = myhost.mydomain.com mydomain = mydomain.com

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On 6/1/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I have been using wireless successfully for about a month, until I upgraded madwifi-ng last night. [...] Thanks for any and all ideas. reemerge wpa_supplicant I did that. It didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:45:10 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? Errrm... Send a mail? (No, not to this list, at least not,

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? Well, you set up a web server to deliver web content. I'm assuming you're

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread Naga
On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: rc-scripts: WEP key is not set for NETGEAR - not connecting Just a sugestion change the name. There might be other NETGEAR units in the area. /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

[gentoo-user] kde problem after installing xfce

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Prinsier
Hello all, I just emerged xfce4, and when I now log in again under kde, some things don't work anymore. The home folder icon has disappeared from my bottom panel. When I click that icon on my desktop, kdesvn launches up giving an error (why does kdesvn launch up?). Also the start menu has

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Galevsky
Just my two cents: don't forget to use temporary email boxes like yopmail.com, these boxes can be very helpful for the kind of tests you may run. Gal' 2007/6/1, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy,

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:07:33 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I test if postfix actual sends my

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On 6/1/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: rc-scripts: WEP key is not set for NETGEAR - not connecting Just a sugestion change the name. There might be other NETGEAR units in the area. Excellent idea. Try and add proto=WPA or do a scan

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

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login prompt and my system does know what to

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:07:33 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and see if something happens, but how do I

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:56 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I guess I should have expected it to rather simple to test. But I have never tried to configure a mailserver before hence my somewhat naive question. So what I did was to change my smtp server in

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

2007-06-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:54:27 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 May 2007 20:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine before I reboot it? shutdown(8) does this for

[gentoo-user] Epson Perfection and Gentoo

2007-06-01 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, My family is looking to purchase a scanner. It will mostly be connected to my mother's computer running Windows, so linux compatibility isn't the most important criterion. However, it would be nice to have the scanner working with my laptop when I go visit. Currently we are

[gentoo-user] Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-01 Thread James
Hello I ran 'eix app-mobilephone/*' to read the package descriptions. Nothing looks very promising. What I'm looking for is a simple gui to (minimally) copy/edit the stored phone numbers on a motorola Razr phone. Any other features to interact with the phone, would be welcome. Suggestions?

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:05, Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all! I'm having a tough time getting DHCP to work on my wireless card. It's the intel 2200, and I am using wpa_supplicant with it. The contents of my /etc/conf.d/net are: I've filed a bug report about this problem with a few more

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
I can not help you with your problem, but... On Friday 1 June 2007 18:57, Randy Barlow wrote: Strangely, it seems to aquire an ipv6 address. The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC address;

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: The ipv6 address you see is the so-called link-local address, and is automatically constructed by the network adapter based on its MAC address; hence, it's not acquired from some server, and so it's perfectly normal that,

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 17:57, Randy Barlow wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:05, Randy Barlow wrote: [snip...] RX packets:4 errors:1188 dropped:1488 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Prinsier
Randy Barlow wrote: lappy786 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start * Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ok] * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ok] * Backgrounding ... However, it seems to get stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-01 Thread Mark Shields
On 6/1/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I ran 'eix app-mobilephone/*' to read the package descriptions. Nothing looks very promising. What I'm looking for is a simple gui to (minimally) copy/edit the stored phone numbers on a motorola Razr phone. Any other features to interact with

[gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I have a new video card (and a new motherboard + CPU, but I got that to work already), and once again I am having trouble configuring X. It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon

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

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login prompt and my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote: It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X was updated with emerge -uN xorg-x11. You need either the radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP on my wireless card

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 19:28, Alex Prinsier wrote: Randy Barlow wrote: lappy786 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start * Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... [ok] * Starting wpa_cli on eth1 ... [ok] *

[gentoo-user] Re: Math symbols with emerge -C

2007-06-01 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But that's totally irrelevant as to whether you have other versions of gentoo-sources installed. All that probably indicates is that you *had* them installed at one time, and probably unmerged them. The directories likely still exist because other

[gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-01 Thread James
Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes: Have you bothered to look at the app-mobilephone/kmobiletools website, http://www.kmobiletools.org ? It states that it supports the RAZR v3x series. Yes, I installed version '0.4.3.3' But could not get the usb configured. The only doc I found was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-01 Thread Mark Shields
On 6/1/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes: Have you bothered to look at the app-mobilephone/kmobiletools website, http://www.kmobiletools.org ? It states that it supports the RAZR v3x series. Yes, I installed version '0.4.3.3' But could not get

[gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-01 Thread James
Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes: I don't have access to a Gentoo box with X installed, so I can't test it right now, but some phone providers lock their phones (most notably Verizon and Cingular). It's possible your phone may be locked from responding to USB communication. Have you

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

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login prompt and

[gentoo-user] Problems with kde and NIS/NFS users

2007-06-01 Thread Thiago Lüttig
Hi folks. I have an gentoo-desktop box, with kde-3.5.5 running under 2.6.18kernel. Last week, I upgraded the kernel to the 2.6.20 version, and the kde takes a whole eternity to start, and another to run any program. I use nis(ypbind) and nfs(the home folders) to log on my network. The console

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

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 23:24, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Well, that didn't help any. I also forgot to mention that I do have it set up on Kppp to use pap/chap. It doesn't work either. I don't know where LCP came from. Any way to force it to disable that in ppp options? You can use the

Re: [gentoo-user] controlling xscreensaver throttle

2007-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:09 -0500, »Q« wrote: I'm using a laptop, and I'd like xscreensaver to just display a blank screen when running on battery power. The command $ xscreensaver-command --throttle [snip] But when xscreensaver kicks in because of idle time, it's unthrottled no matter

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 15:19 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: I just upgraded my Gentoo server from an old Celeron 1Ghz to a Pentium4 3Ghz (hyperthreaded). [snip] But when I'm in KDE, the little load applet doesn't show two CPUs (should it?). don't know about kde, but have you tried something

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-06-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Daevid Vincent: So why doesn't KDE show it in the little CPU applet? What does: cat /proc/cpuinfo tell you? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and

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

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 23:24, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Well, that didn't help any. I also forgot to mention that I do have it set up on Kppp to use pap/chap. It doesn't work either. I don't know where LCP came from. Any way to force it to disable that in ppp

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge ekiga

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Diehl
Hello all, I'm trying to install ekiga and it won't compile. It's complaining about not having XML::Parser installed. But XML::Parser is installed: === hydra Desktop # emerge -s XML-Parser Searching... [ Results for search key : XML-Parser ] [ Applications