Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hahah I get batted by my friends regularly about using Gentoo and not Suse and such. Apparently it requires to much constructive work to keep it running or get it running for that matter but then they dont understand anything about keeping your system uptodate with and emerge --synce emerge --world

[gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
hi all Does anyone have any suggestions or such on how to go about browsing a network? A command line app or gui either will do... Currently I have the IP and folder name that I want to mount. Others have mentioned using smbclient to access the dir but I really would like to be able to browse...

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsing Network

2005-05-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I want to browse the "network neighbourhood" (excuse the windows terminology). I use ROX and mc however I do know that you can use smb:// in konqueror. On 5/22/05, Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:00:18PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
There are 3 common ones to chose from: wine - free etc the usual story also xwine (gui) cedega - directx 9 capable used for games, afraid you have to subscribe for a fee to use it :( crossoffice - used to run msoffice programs etc and as far as i know it also requires a subscription fee. So I am a

[gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

2005-05-27 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi I am looking for a compression program that covers creating and extracting archives including .zip , .tar , .tar.gz , .tar.bz2 etc. I am using fluxbox with rox. Thanks Rav -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

2005-05-27 Thread Ryan Viljoen
jf archive.tar.bz2 -C > > Extracts from the archive > > > > If you change the j parameter to z ( i.e. tar -czf), you will use the > > gzip program. > > > > For zip files, emerge zip and unzip. Since bzip2 is much better than > > zip, I rarely use it and

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA broke WINE build?

2005-05-28 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Yeah I am having the same problem: [quote] In file included from /usr/include/alsa/asoundlib.h:48, from alsa.h:23, from audio.c:63: /usr/include/alsa/conf.h:189: error: parse error before "struct" audio.c: In function `wodPlayer': audio.c:1720: warning: no return

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-28 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Take a walk over to http://www.linuxprinting.org/ it will answer every question you have... I am feeling helpful this evening so here: 1. Your printer should work perfectly http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_722C 2. Cups guide: http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.h

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
or change it to http://localhost:631/printers/DeskJet722C On 5/29/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > > > > None of the other logs have anyhting that jumps out at me, but this would > > imply that cupsd is dying because my machine is naming itself "tux" a

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI events config file

2005-05-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
etc/init.d/hotplug restart fi - On 4/6/05, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ow Mun Heng, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 00:51 +, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > &

[gentoo-user] Suspend to Ram not waking up properly!

2005-05-30 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi I am trying to get some for of suspend to ram or suspend to disk working on my notebook. I have got standby working nicely on my notebook. I tried to sleep (suspend to mem) it seems to suspend (shutdown as such) but than I cant seem to bring it out of the sleep state. When I press the power but

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

2005-05-30 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I tend to agree, I also tried to get a setup similar to what you have or want up and running. I got bout 3/4 of the way there and no further :( I havent had a chance to setup my firewall since than but shorewall is definately going to be my choice when I get round to it :P Its interface is a lot ea

Re: [gentoo-user] error "}." trying to migrate from r6 to r9 kernel

2005-05-31 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hey Rob Did you use "make oldconfig" when compiling the r9 once you copied the .config over from r6? Also I gather you changed /usr/src/linux to point to r9's directory? If not: ** cd /usr/src rm linux ln -s ./ ./linux ***

[gentoo-user] udev + usb support.

2005-06-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I just upgraded to udev from devfs by following this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml Now from what I understand all usb devices ie: digital cameras (sony cyber shots), flash drivers etc should show up as ub* for udev. While sd*

[gentoo-user] Re: udev + usb support.

2005-06-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Panic over, problem resolved well there wasnt really a problem: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources/issues-current.htm#2.6.9-ub It would seem the above is not related to udev and devfs. On 6/12/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded to udev from

[gentoo-user] NAT and Masquerading problems

2005-06-14 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ok I have got an old P1 with gentoo 2005.0 installed. I am trying to get the internet shared so that the rest of the clients can use it. The only service of interest will be the rp-pppoe that runs at startup to bring up the connection. Servers hostname is o_O and all outputs shown is from the serve

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I know when I had dial up I prefered doing a emerge --sync && emerge -f --world during the evening when it was cheaper to be connected than during the day I just CTRL+ATL+F1 and did an emerge --world and left it to do its own thing with out requiring a connection. Other than that if I need some mor

[gentoo-user] Re: NAT and Masquerading problems

2005-06-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
-issues.html So it would seem the fix (hack) is this iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu On 6/14/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I have got an old P1 with gentoo 2005.0 installed. I am trying to > get the internet shared so that

[gentoo-user] Line numbers in nano

2005-06-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Is it possible to get nano to display line numbers? -- "When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices... that's nothing - when you play it forward it installs Windows" Are you fearing my mouse? <:3___) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

2005-06-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
eth0 - connects to the lan # Set up IP FORWARDing and MASQUERADING iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface eth0 -j ACCEPT echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward4 That should do the job. Just make sure that all the necc

Re: [gentoo-user] Line numbers in nano

2005-06-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
rs for programming or for log view (or > not), for that, vim was my choice, if you wish to try it, the man > pages are very good. > > I was told emacs do it also. > > On 6/21/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to get nano to display

Re: [gentoo-user] Line numbers in nano

2005-06-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
a perfect :D o/// Thank you Norberto cheers Rav \o/ On 6/22/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > Is it possible to get nano to display line numbers? > > does "nano -c" help you? > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> My problem is that I assume that the new configuration replaces the > previous one. So, I would need to replace all files. You dont need to replace your old kernel files you can simply copy them over to /boot under a different name so use: My previous kernel has: /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r10

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
found (1) > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(1,0) > > > > I will need to use the livecd to fix the prob.. after I find what's going > on... > > > > > > > > On 6/22/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > w

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
ay that it is the current one (so that I just need to > focus in what I need to add/remove/change) than always have to look each > detail. If somebody could confirm me that.. it's better to know! > > Thanks! > > > On 6/22/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!

2005-07-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I like browsing through it and reading any topics that interest me. I am all for an email saying there is a new release. I dont mind since I chose which mail I chose to read and which I dont. On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:54 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] best download manager in gentoo

2005-07-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
axel for command line - it multithreads your download and allows you to resume downloads, I use this instead of wget for emerge. Its much quicker. aria for gui - havent really tried any others but this does the trick and works nicely. On 7/6/05, simply change <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! dea

Re: [gentoo-user] Using TV

2005-07-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I dont know who much you know but have you tried: ps aux | grep kdetv or just a simple ps aux and than find the process number and use kill I prefer tvtime, its a really good program and I have little trouble with it. Cheers Rav On 7/7/05, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > I

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox Menu Problem

2005-07-11 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am having a problem with my fluxbox menu. At random intervals right clicking the does not display the fluxbox menu although right clicking on the toolbar and windows bars brings up their menus. I have a shortcut key set to bring up the menu but this doesnt work either (if the right click doesnt).

[gentoo-user] OO icons in app have black background!

2005-07-16 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am currently having a problem with Open Office. All the apps have black backgrounds for their icons. I am running fluxbox using fbsetbg to set the background and with a theme. I have tried reemerging OO with out succcess. Any ideas? http://babbage.ee.wits.ac.za/~viljoenr/OOerror.jpg -- "When

Re: [gentoo-user] OO icons in app have black background!

2005-07-16 Thread Ryan Viljoen
#x27;s lots affected so hopefully it will be fixed soon. In the > meantime roll back to previous xorg and mask the current one out. > > BillK > > > > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 10:08 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > I am currently having a problem with Open Office. All the

[gentoo-user] Webmin + Net-SSLeay >:(

2005-07-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi all I am really in need of your assistance and knowledge. I am trying to emerge webmin. emerge starts of by trying to emerge Net-SSLeay which fails with the following error: Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6j or 0.9.7b or newer... You have OpenSSL-0.9.7e installed in /usr *** Could not figure out whi

[gentoo-user] Re: Webmin + Net-SSLeay >:(

2005-07-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
SOLVED! HAHAHAHA Found the problem! The time and date on the pc had been reset, I suspect a dead cmos battery or who knows. So there was a problem with the perl versioning. :D once that date had been reset it all worked! On 7/20/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all

Re: [gentoo-user] P4P800 - Intel ICH5R - data recovery?

2005-07-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
This has been a really interesting topic. I also have a P4P800 which I suspect is also on its way out and was wondering the exact same thing the other day. And I have no chance of backing up all my data there is just to much of it. Thanks Jose. Cheers Rav On 7/21/05, José Pedro Saraiva <[EMAIL P

[gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...

2005-07-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i given size. I have tried find /home -type d -size +5k and find /home -type d -size +5k -iname "*" Both without much success... Any help will be :D Cheers Rav -- "When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> KISS - keep it short and simple. Doesnt that also stand for "keep it simple stupid"!? You can also use port knocking for additional security for SSH. I dont know anything about VPN so I wont comment. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "When you say "I wrote a progr

Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet

2005-12-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
tive mail. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
move all the mail that is flagged as spam to the users spam folder and let them sort it out but in a school environment /dev/null is a lot more suitable. Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gent

[gentoo-user] Routing I think

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
addition the access to the net is through 192.168.1.4 (proxy server). Now on the previous server the teachers could get the mail and browse the net from the 192.168.4. network. Could someone advise me on how to go about doing this on the new server. Thanks Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
older once they find it rarely contains anything of > interest. Again some kids dont check their mail and dont bother to maintain their inbox so putting the spam in a seperate folder would just allow it to accumulate. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but st

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing I think

2006-01-15 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> IP forwarding must be enabled on your new server: > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > That is assuming you are using IP version 4. Great thanks Uwe, I thought I might have forgotten something as simple as this. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Fac

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net config syntax

2006-01-16 Thread Ryan Viljoen
done a etc-update since your last emerge sync && emerge world? 2. Is your net.eth0 linked to your net.lo? 3. Similarly with you net.eth1? -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Wifi Monitor

2006-01-16 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi all Could someone suggest a descent wifi monitor preferably one that fits in the taskbar. I am using the following: Fluxbox Torsmo So anything that fits in with those 2 will be great. Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are

[gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-18 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. Anyway any help would be appreciated. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. Anyway my 2cents. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server related issue

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
hough something along the lines of this is discussed in the Security Guide. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
complete). This is Gentoo... YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE! :D -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] python: stack smashing attack

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
pilers are the same and that you are not emerging critical packages. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. KDE, Fluxbox, Gnome, et al. Bleh! -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo

2006-01-21 Thread Ryan Viljoen
the network dont also require a password to access the shares? -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
-- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-23 Thread Ryan Viljoen
monolithic ebuilds are all > in the same category, kde-base. How does the removal of such modules occur if one uses the split ebuilds, surely it becomes that much more difficult? (93 messages later, come on all this and we dont hit 100?) -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts ar

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
s. I would be quite interested. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Belkin F5D8010 Wireless Card

2006-02-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
? Cheers Rav -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Sotware Suspend v2 + gentoo-sources

2005-05-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi I am using gentoo-sources on my notebook and would really like to get software suspend v2 working. The only problem is there is no patch for the gentoo-sources. I tried the software-suspend-2.1.8-for-2.6.11 patch with the following problem: [quote]ziig linux # /root/software-suspend-2.1.8-for-

Re: [gentoo-user] Sotware Suspend v2 + gentoo-sources

2005-05-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Thanks all that worked perfectly, now just to setup my hibernate.conf file and test it :D Cheers Rav On 5/7/05, Cliff Rowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very cool. This is the next thing on my list of things to do to my > Gentoo install on my laptop ;-) > > Has anyone tried patching the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-03 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Joseph could you direct me toward a how to on how to set that up, please. Raphael have you gone through http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/index.xml it has some good points and worth going through and ticking off each one. Cheers Rav On 8/3/05, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-03 Thread Ryan Viljoen
[quote] Let the world know that you run on Gentoo Linux. Put a Powered by Gentoo image on your Gentoo powered web sites or use a Gentoo Badge on your web page, blog, forum signature or elsewhere and link back to http://www.gentoo.org - help us spread the word! Tell others how happy you are with Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? You never asked a stupid question? No I thought not. Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... *sigh* On 8/4/05, Chris Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 06:20 pm, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > [quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
of the world? Each to their own I guess. On 8/4/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote: > > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
The original point of this was to promote Gentoo. You guys and gals are all so proud of it but want to keep it to yourselves. When a mate asks me what OS I am running I say Gentoo Linux. If he or she wants a copy I gladly give it to them and help them out cause someone awhile back took the time to

Re: [gentoo-user] playing the "Go Open Source" movies

2005-08-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
You are all going to hate me for this but I had no luck in Linux, you need to get the AAC codec working which I wasnt successfull at doing. If you have access to a windows machine than download VLC media player, its the only player that I found to work. The linux version of VLC requires you to emer

Re: [gentoo-user] playing the "Go Open Source" movies

2005-08-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I was chatting to a friend on IRC and he got them to play in mplayer by editing the mplayer ebuild: [12:58] [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb +divx4lin

[gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi Could anyone tell me how I go about setting the default MTU of my pppoe connection. I am using rp-pppoe to bring it up. It currently sets it to 1432 and I need it to be 1352. Thanks Rav -- "When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices... that's nothing - when you play

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
ditor and edit pppoe.conf > > go all the way to the bottom and add this line > > mtu="1352" > > > save. > > On 8/6/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Could anyone tell me how I go about setting the default M

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Yeah I was hoping it wouldnt come to adding it in there paul. Looks like I am going to. James I grep'd all the files in /etc/ppp/ for 1432 with out any success. On 8/6/05, James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how I go about setting the default MTU of my > > pppoe conn

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> Yeah I was hoping it wouldnt come to adding it in there paul. Looks > like I am going to. The only problem with this is that if the connection drops than the MTU will return to 1432. -- "When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices... that's nothing - when you play it forw

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Perfect thanks James. That worked perfectly... Hmmm never throught to look in the connect scripts. Cheers Rav On 8/6/05, James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James I grep'd all the files in /etc/ppp/ for 1432 with out any success. > > Sorry -- it's been a long time since I've fiddled wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-08 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Found an easier way to do it instead of editting the adsl-connect script, for future reference. In /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf there is the following line: PPPD_EXTRA="" (round line 136) you can list any extra arguments here that you would like to pass to pppd, like: PPPD_EXTRA="mtu 1352 mru 1352 logfd 1"

[gentoo-user] pppd Disconnection Logs - What do you make of them?

2005-08-12 Thread Ryan Viljoen
What do you guys make of these disconnection messages if anything? Especially the first one. I am still getting constantly disconnected so trying to work out what the problem is. [quote]Aug 10 09:51:28 [pppd] No response to 3 echo-requests Aug 10 09:51:28 [pppd] Serial link appears to be disconnec

[gentoo-user] Strange udev Error on boot

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi I am getting a strange error on boot when udev runs. Could anyone give me some insight as to what the problem is? Aug 24 12:08:49 [kernel] end_request: I/O error, dev nbd76, sector 4294964992 Aug 24 12:08:49 [kernel] nbd76: Request when not-ready Aug 24 12:08:49 [kernel] end_request: I/O erro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange udev Error on boot

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Yeah *blush* in a moments stupidity it would seem that I had compiled it into the kernel. As for suspecting it was udev well that was a wild guess as well as seeing the dev part and the errors occuring after it was started hehe. Anyway I have recompiled the kernel with it removed and its all sorted

[gentoo-user] Squid - http_access deny all not working

2005-09-09 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hey all I have a curious problem with squid. At my old high school they have to machines. Machine A - Mail, file, et al server. It has squid running but deny's all access except to those fortunate people (IP's). Running red hat (dont ask not my baby). 192.168.1.3:3128 Machine B - Proxy server. It

[gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some "new" pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are mounted once the user has logged on and authenticated... nothing out of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
there should be 100 or so computers. How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on?On 9/24/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote:> I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Ryan Viljoen
If you do a: du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles and a du -hs /usr/portage You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the distfiles. This is where emerge stores all the packages that it downloads when installing them on your system. To decrease the size of the directory you can go throu

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Sorry forgot to add, yeah its pretty much normal, my results: du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles = 1.9Gb du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles/portage = 2.4Gb Cheers Rav On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs insize.  Is this about n

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox Desktop Icons

2005-10-02 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am currently setting up some linux pc's for my old high school. I am running fluxbox and have a default user account which fluxbox loads from so no configs are saved to the home directories. This also prevents the users from changing menu options, backgrounds and such permently. What I am aimi

[gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod

2005-10-19 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ok here is what I am wanting to do: I windows when you connect your IPod it autodetects it and brings up itunes, then you can do the whole safely remove hardware blah blah. After you have done that you no longer have the DO NOT DISCONNECT screen on the IPod but it continues to charge. I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod

2005-10-19 Thread Ryan Viljoen
The eject doenst work unfortunately, the IPod is detected as /dev/uba.On 10/19/05, David D. Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:16 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote:> Ok here is what I am wanting to do: >> I windows when you connect your IPod it autodetects it and br

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Splash Image.

2005-10-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Is this your own splash image that created or are you using the default one? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Splash_image_in_GRUBOn 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Daer all,   when i set the path in grub.conf to splashimage, while booting my screen will blurred, then i can see any

[gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.

2005-10-27 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ok I am in need of some serious help well my home server is: After emerging python (with distcc running and attempting to do a cross compilation) I get the following message when I try run any program associated with python: o_O / # env-update

Re: [gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.

2005-10-27 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Already tried that. I get the same error.On 10/27/05, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/27/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Ok I am in need of some serious help well my home server is:>> After emerging python (with distcc running and attempting to do a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection

2005-10-27 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Yeah I would suggest doing a emerge and then CTRL-C'ing it and copying the url that it was attemping to download it from. That way you make sure you get the right sources for your current portage tree.On 10/27/05, Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Michael Crute wrote:>> O

[gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am wondering what the difference is between using LTSP and Diskless Nodes is for creating a thin client network. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml#doc_chap3 What would be the advantage of using LTSP. From what I have read (bearing in min

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Thank you both Bob and Uwe that gives me something to think about. Uve I am from South Africa. Summer is going to be a scortcher I am fearing December January. Back on topic, I am helping out my old High School and they are wanting to setup thin clients in all the class rooms for the teachers.

[gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I cant seem to get eterm to emerge and I really need/like Eterm please dont make me use xterm or aterm :( Quote: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O3 -pipe -march=pentium-m -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=pentium-m -L/usr/lib -o Eterm -rpath /usr/lib:/usr/lib/Eterm main.o libE

[gentoo-user] Re: Eterm not emerging

2005-10-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Ok it emerged now, I did a emerge --newuse world and it seems to have worked :/ odd...-- "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Is that better? And while we are on the matter what is top posting? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Ryan Viljoen
ou do it. I > just like the top so that I don't have to scroll down. My mouse wheel > leaves a little to be desired. > > Dale > > Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > >Is that better? And while we are on the matter what is top posting? > > > > > > > -- > g

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 10/30/05, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, i top post, just for you, :) You can post how you like. Please dont change your ways on my accord. > > Imagine someone who wasn't following the thread need to do to pick up this > thread: > 1. Scroll all the way to the bottom, read Ted's mes

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-31 Thread Ryan Viljoen
What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving say 50 odd thin clients? -- "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] -mtune for P4M (dothan)

2005-11-01 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> Hi, > > Trying to install gentoo on a notebook with a P4M (dothan), wondering > what -mtune should I go for, the GCC manual says: > > pentium-m > Low power version of Intel Pentium3 CPU with MMX, SSE and SSE2 > instruction set support. Used by Centrino notebooks. > > pentium4, pentium4m > Intel P

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing usb mp3 player

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
What is the command that you use to mount it? -- "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing usb mp3 player

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 11/4/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb > > aha! > > when I use -t vfat I see 'em. Thanks for the hint. > > But shouldn't I be getting a "wrong fs" error for > usbfs? > Sure no problem, enjoy! :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] setup samba server

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
> Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a samba server on my gentoo system to share a few > different > directories. I want user authentication, so I can say user A has access to dir > nr.1, user B to dir nr.1 and nr.2 etc. and appropriately set permissions on > the > gentoo server. > > I started by using

Re: [gentoo-user] setup samba server

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/6/05, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had an instance where I needed to use smbpasswd -a user_name to add > a user to Samba. And I they don't need to be a member of the "samba" > group. In my Samba setup experiences anyway. > > Hope this helps. Yeah sorry, I checked up on my suggestio

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys are still awake!?!? > > When I signed up (about half an hour ago) I was the only one in San > Francisco! What's up with that? > > What a great idea, b.n.! Thanks! > > Michael > > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, b.n. wrote: > Yup currently I

Re: [gentoo-user] setup samba server

2005-12-06 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/7/05, David Obwaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:15:08PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > On 12/6/05, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had an instance where I needed to use smbpasswd -a user_name to add > > > a user t

[gentoo-user] Firefox toolbar font size

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the application font sizes? What I mean by this is the font sizes used to display the menus in firefox, open office and other programs. I run fluxbox. Currently they are quite large and I would like to decrease them. Thanks Rav -- "When you say "I wrote

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