Re: [gentoo-user] freetype2 blocking mozilla - any news?

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
I did emerge --sync this morning, and this is from the output of emerge -up system: <<< [blocks B ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) >>> But I guess mozilla 1.7.8-r1 is fine, I will try that. Thanks for the info, Catalin What are you talking about??? I have freetype-2.1.9-r1, xorg-x11-6.8

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype2 blocking mozilla - any news?

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > Hi, > > I know there is a known issue about freetype-2.1.9 blocking > mozilla-1.7.3 in the current portage tree due to some compilation > problems (and xorg depends on freetype 2.1.9, so it's like xorg is > blocking mozilla). What are you talking about??? I have fr

[gentoo-user] ssh problem (No such file or directory)

2005-06-14 Thread Travis Osterman
On my recent gentoo install, I can't get past the password prompt when trying to log into the box via ssh. $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] (password: and hangs) $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] bash --login --noprofile -i (works) /var/log/messages Jun 14 20:13:37 spot sshd[10366]: error: openpty: No such file or

[gentoo-user] freetype2 blocking mozilla - any news?

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Hi, I know there is a known issue about freetype-2.1.9 blocking mozilla-1.7.3 in the current portage tree due to some compilation problems (and xorg depends on freetype 2.1.9, so it's like xorg is blocking mozilla). Does anybody know when this problem is going to be fixed in portage tree? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Rumen Yotov wrote: >A strange thing though, yesterday emerged 'new' util-linux-2.12q-r1 >(~x86) and saw that it fetched some version of loop-aes, file: >loop-AES-v3.0c.tar.bz2. Haven't looked at the ebuild. > > If you have USE=crypt, the new ebuild applies the appropriate loop-AES patches for y

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: >CONFIG_KMOD=y > > > Yep, you need that, and also an appropriate alias entry in /etc/modules.d/*. Something like 'alias block-major-7 loop' should do it. Also the loop devices /dev/loop[0-9], /dev/loop/0 need to exist permanently. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [Solved] Re: losetup Encryption not working - Was [Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick]

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: >Finally found out I didn't modprobe cryptloop >Works Now. > >Now, can anyone tell me if this will slow down disk access and by how >much? (I'm doing it on a file so, I can't do a hdparm on the file.. or >can I?) > > I can only speak to loop-AES, not crypto loop, which for me

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Holly Bostick wrote: >OK, I'm following both of you so far. Yes, I do have 'multislot' for >binutils. I admit it was just guesswork on my part; I read the USE flag >description, thought about automake and autoconf, thought that binutils >sounded like the kind of system utility that might need simi

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > >>The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a >>reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. >> >>I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was >>l

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Nick Rout wrote: >The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a >reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. > >I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was loaded >either on boot or automagically when needed. I am unsure

Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a > reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. > > I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was > loaded either on boot or

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are these modules loading?

2005-06-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 14:25 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > I have ieee1394 stuff compiled in the kernel as modules: > > > > [Sun Jun 12] edj:~$ grep 1394 /usr/src/linux/.config > > # IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support > > CONFIG_IEEE1394=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Bottom line: that solved it. Thanks. ++ kevin On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Varner wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > >>Except I didn't report a delay -- I reported outright failure. I very > >>quickly get a dialog reporting > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> >>>I got Java 1.5 to install. Now the nifty new tools (thanks for eix!) >>>tell me that 1.5 is all I have. Of course, when I look in /opt, I get >>>a different impression of things. Am I r

[gentoo-user] Re: email sending problem

2005-06-14 Thread askar ...
I forgot one more thing. In providers email below written: - The name server reports that it is having technical problems.Attempting SMTP connection to [eu-bomca.org : 25] A-record resolution of [ eu-bomca.org] in progress (DNS Server: 85.115.195.3)...D=eu-bomca.org TTL=(1440) A=[ 193.220.173.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Paul Varner wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>Except I didn't report a delay -- I reported outright failure. I very >>quickly get a dialog reporting >>"Alert -- Error trying to validate certificate from >>sofrwarereg.sun.com using OCSP - directory lookup failur

[gentoo-user] email sending problem

2005-06-14 Thread askar ...
Dear all!I have one question not related directly to gentoo, but concerning mail and dns.At office we're using dial-up connection. Our mail server located out of office.Domain name is, below shown as eu-bomca.org. For incoming server we use, of course, eu-bomca.org's pop3 server and for outcoming

Re: [gentoo-user] new base layout and linuxant driverloader problems

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Gill
> Jonathan Gill wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Anyone else seeing problems with the new baselayout scripts and > > linuxant's driverloader? > > Any reason you can't use ndiswrapper? I used to use linuxant before I found > out about ndiswrapper (but unfortunately after I paid them $20 to use it :/)

[gentoo-user] Gnome-config question

2005-06-14 Thread Tres Melton
I'm trying to port plextor-tools.ebuild from ~x86 to ~amd64 and have encountered a problem. The Makefile sets CFLAGS=`gnome-config --cflags applets` $(SCFLAGS) but "gnome-config --cflags applets" returns "Unknown library `applets'" even though I have gnome-base/gnome-applets installed.

[gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

2005-06-14 Thread Nick Rout
The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was loaded either on boot or automagically when needed. I am unsure when it changed, but pr

[Solved] Re: losetup Encryption not working - Was [Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick]

2005-06-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:13 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:42 -0700, Kiawud wrote: > > Excerpt for file based crypto: > > > > 7. Using a file instead of a partition > > > > You can then create the encrypted file system within this

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Except I didn't report a delay -- I reported outright failure. I very > quickly get a dialog reporting > "Alert -- Error trying to validate certificate from > sofrwarereg.sun.com using OCSP - directory lookup failure." > > I guess it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> > >>>I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > >>>deal with a certificate > >>>it gets. Try the "login" li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > I got Java 1.5 to install. Now the nifty new tools (thanks for eix!) > > tell me that 1.5 is all I have. Of course, when I look in /opt, I get > > a different impression of things. Am I right in surmising that

losetup Encryption not working - Was [Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick]

2005-06-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:42 -0700, Kiawud wrote: > Excerpt for file based crypto: > > 7. Using a file instead of a partition > > You can then create the encrypted file system within this file, > similar to the way it is done above: > > losetup -e aes-2

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+-2.6.4 automake missing

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
stefan riha wrote: > Hello! > I tried to emerge gimp, causing the following error > message: > > Unpacking gtk+-2.6.4.tar.bz2 to > > /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work > Unpacking gtk+-2.6-smoothscroll-r2.patch to > > /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work > unpack gtk+-2.6-smoothscroll-

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>>I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot >>>deal with a certificate >>>it gets. Try the "login" link on >>> http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 >>>or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I got Java 1.5 to install. Now the nifty new tools (thanks for eix!) > tell me that 1.5 is all I have. Of course, when I look in /opt, I get > a different impression of things. Am I right in surmising that > I have all those old versions, and I just need java-config

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > > deal with a certificate > > it gets. Try the "login" link on > >http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 > > or any of the other fora. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thaks, all -- I now have a new Java, and know about a few new utilities. But I'm probably still in trouble. The rest at the bottom. On 6/14/05, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:21:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout update blasted my wireless networking

2005-06-14 Thread Bill Rucker
I apologize for not having the text of this thread. My hosting company blew away my email and the list unsubscribed me. I tried the modules_eth1=("ifconfig" "iwconfig" "dhcpcd") in the /etc/conf.d/net file. There is no change. The same thing happens. Following is the messages in /var/log/messag

Re: [gentoo-user] Application to capture Digital Video

2005-06-14 Thread Nick Rout
kino good summary of its abilities here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7779 (not sure if you need to be a subscriber, my browser logs me in automatically) On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:00:52 +1000 Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I have a PC with an IE13944 interface. Can anyone recommend an > app

[gentoo-user] gtk+-2.6.4 automake missing

2005-06-14 Thread stefan riha
Hello! I tried to emerge gimp, causing the following error message: >>> Unpacking gtk+-2.6.4.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work >>> Unpacking gtk+-2.6-smoothscroll-r2.patch to /var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.6.4-r1/work unpack gtk+-2.6-smoothscroll-r2.patch: file format not recognized. Ignorin

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez
ok, with the nw802 driver i have this error when try to access to /dev/video0 with media-video/camorama : /usr/local/src/nw802/usbvideo.c: nw802 on /dev/video0: canvas=320x240 videosize=320x240 /usr/local/src/nw802/usbvideo.c: usb_submit_urb error (-1) /usr/local/src/nw802/u

Re: [gentoo-user] Application to capture Digital Video

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I have a PC with an IE13944 interface. Can anyone recommend an > application to capture and edit Digital Video from a Sony Digital camcorder? > -- > Thanks, Richard > > I don't have a DV camcorder but I would like to :-). AFAIK kino is supposed to be good for that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez
thanks.. I doesn't try that before because the example was with an usb memory stick.. now i have no error with dmesg, but the webcam is not working.. i'll try now with the nw802 webcam driver( with a kernel 2.6 patch) that is unsupported now, but.. if there is nothing more... thanks again... :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:52:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Checking GLSA 200506-01 > The following updates will be performed for this GLSA: > sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 (2.16.1) > > which it has already re-emerged twice, and yet still reports the same > vulnerability-- and more importantly,

[gentoo-user] Application to capture Digital Video

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have a PC with an IE13944 interface. Can anyone recommend an application to capture and edit Digital Video from a Sony Digital camcorder? -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.3/15 - Release Date:

[gentoo-user] new kernel now no MythTV - problem with v4l

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've started having trouble with MythTV. I built a new kernel to add 1394 support and put a 1394 card in the system. Now MythTV's log file complains about /dev/v4l/video0 not existing, but it does: dragonfly ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Jun 14 16:19 . drwxr

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > Yep, that's probably it. I ran into this a while back. Unfortunately > > equery is unreasonably slow with such queries. The fastest way I've > > found: find /var/db/pkg -path '*DEPEND' | xargs grep virtual/mta > qpkg is orders of magnitude faster than

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:16:20 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>1) trim out a bunch of binutils slots that I may or may not need (and >>therefore whose loss may break unknown applications), so that glsa-check >>(which is apparently broken with respect to binutils compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez wrote: > someone can show me the way to have working a Mustek WCam 300 on gentoo? > i have kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 with VideoForLinux support and udev. > when i do "dmesg": > usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 > usb 2-2: device descriptor r

[gentoo-user] Using Mustek Systems, Inc. WCam 300 in gentoo..

2005-06-14 Thread Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez
someone can show me the way to have working a Mustek WCam 300 on gentoo? i have kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 with VideoForLinux support and udev. when i do "dmesg": usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 with lsusb: Bus 002 De

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:16:20 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > 1) trim out a bunch of binutils slots that I may or may not need (and > therefore whose loss may break unknown applications), so that glsa-check > (which is apparently broken with respect to binutils compiled with the > multislot USE flag)

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: >> Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >>So my questions are: >> >>1) Am I supposed to have 4 versions of binutils in the first place? >> >> >> >> > Do you have USE 'multislot' or 'multitarget' for binutils? If so, then > looking at /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Plugin Classpath

2005-06-14 Thread Justin Hart
Good call. Thanks. Justin On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Hart wrote: > > Under which directory can I find tha classpath for the java plugin. I > > tried the following, but it did not add the classes that I desired to > > my classpath. > > > > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSP

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Plugin Classpath

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Justin Hart wrote: > Under which directory can I find tha classpath for the java plugin. I > tried the following, but it did not add the classes that I desired to > my classpath. > > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH: > firefox & > > This did not add the desired classes to my classpath, when operating

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Matthew Cline
> > 2) How do I get this GLSA to actually apply, or know that it's applied, > or whatever? IIRC, glsa-check has an 'inject' option for just this purpose. If you run glsa-check without command-line parameters, it should print out a usage message. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Holly Bostick wrote: >Hi, > >So my questions are: > >1) Am I supposed to have 4 versions of binutils in the first place? > > Do you have USE 'multislot' or 'multitarget' for binutils? If so, then looking at /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-binutils.eclass it seems that binutils becomes a slotted

[gentoo-user] Java Plugin Classpath

2005-06-14 Thread Justin Hart
Under which directory can I find tha classpath for the java plugin. I tried the following, but it did not add the classes that I desired to my classpath. export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH: firefox & This did not add the desired classes to my classpath, when operating under FireFox. It appears to work

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Rumen Yotov wrote: >Hi, >First thanks. >It's not mine, just trying to get it to work. >Here's the line: >... >. ${ROOT}/etc/portage/bashrc-modules/core-functions.bmod || bashrcdie >"Failed to load core-functions module" >... >Looked at all opening/closing signs ('|") all is OK, so think about >"fu

[gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi, I've been running a little scriptlet to test whether I could get mail sent to my ISP inbox. The full script runs esync and glsa-check, but naturally I didn't want to sync 700 times, so I just ran the glsa-check section. To my surprise, I had an open GLSA (I just fixed everything a couple of d

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? I linked to this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_everywhere/189360.html I mentioned that because a few p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge errors (can't emerge a damn thing) :)

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
reg hughson wrote: > Would someone help me out? I have looked in the forums (found one > similiar but still unsolved occurence - my link to /usr/src/linux is > fine) but still do not know why emerge is failing. The same errors > occur no matter which package is attempted to be emerged. Google is n

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge errors (can't emerge a damn thing) :)

2005-06-14 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I got this yesterday after updating the world on my ~x86 machines. It is a problem with binutils. Try the following as root. # /usr/bin/binutils-config -d i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 This is if you have binutils-2.16.1 anyway. There is a bug on bugzilla in binutils that explains better. Mike On

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, First thanks. It's not mine, just trying to get it to work. Here's the line: ... . ${ROOT}/etc/portage/bashrc-modules/core-functions.bmod || bashrcdie "Failed to load core-functions module" ... Looked at all opening/closing signs ('|") all is OK, so think about "function/s" as it's used as a mo

[gentoo-user] emerge errors (can't emerge a damn thing) :)

2005-06-14 Thread reg hughson
Would someone help me out? I have looked in the forums (found one similiar but still unsolved occurence - my link to /usr/src/linux is fine) but still do not know why emerge is failing. The same errors occur no matter which package is attempted to be emerged. Google is no help either. >>> emer

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Quick question: is "functions" a reserved keyword/word in bash (ver.3)? > Looking at a strange error about missing " ' " | unexpected EOF. > The bash-script is loaded in vim and "functions" is colored as a keyword. > Could look at it myself but will take too much time (ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular >>ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. > > > Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as > mailx). As far as sending t

Re: [gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Willie W. Wong
What is your script? "function" (singular) is a reserved word. I don't think "functions" is. W On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:59:36PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Quick question: is "functions" a reserved keyword/word in bash (ver.3)? > Looking at a strange error about missing " ' " | unexpecte

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:37:36 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > 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 I do emerge --sync && emerge world -f from a cron script, so I don't have to download anything wh

RE: [gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
> > i don't see any messages in the log file ?! > Which log file? tail -f /var/log/mail/current > You might want to try tail'ing the log file and then sending through > OutLook and seeing what is reported in the logs. That's exactly what I'm doing (and 'not seeing')... -- gentoo-user@gentoo

[gentoo-user] bash question

2005-06-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Quick question: is "functions" a reserved keyword/word in bash (ver.3)? Looking at a strange error about missing " ' " | unexpected EOF. The bash-script is loaded in vim and "functions" is colored as a keyword. Could look at it myself but will take too much time (have to look at bash !!!). Than

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > deal with a certificate > it gets. Try the "login" link on >http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 > or any of the other fora. > > If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox p

[gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers - solved!!! argh!

2005-06-14 Thread Antoine
Hi, Well I was told by the techie today that we have just purchased a two-year extension to mdaemon+worldclient... and seeing as the boss is a big richard, he is not going to change any time soon. So much for wanting to save the company money! Thanks to everyone Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection intermittent on one machine

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Trifu
Try moving it closer to the access point, if possible, and if it still fails from time to time; if it does there might be a driver or hardware problem Catalin Grant wrote: >I have 3 Gentoo systems connected to my wireless network. 2 of them >have Netgear PCMCIA wireless cards and the third

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set my ethernet card in promisc mode.

2005-06-14 Thread Andrej Moravcik
Hi all, I have different problem - I'am wondering why all of my vlan interfaces are by default in promisc mode :-( Is it configurable or it is needed for 802.1q functionality? This didn't helped: for i in `ifconfig | grep eth | awk '{print $1}'`; do ifconfig $i -promisc; done Kernel is 2.4.30-gr

Re: [gentoo-user] stop emerging world

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Fernando Meira wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Provided it is not at the stage of installing files, just press Ctrl- > > > C. If you are still seeing compiler output, it is safe, if you see > > > lots of lines starting with >>, installation is almost complete, be > > > patient. > > ok.. though

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > >>yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off >>qmail and postfix. > > > Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is > better than package Y - most of us are just s

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: The "usual" clamav + spamassassin combo. If you do decide to go the exim route, there are two ways to interface spamassassin to it. One is now built in called exiscan. The other is called sa-exim and, the reason I am mentioning this, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular >>ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. > > > Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as > mailx). As far as sending t

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: > From some reading this looks like it would fit the bill. Do you know of > any helpful howtos for this or similar combos? You could look at lifewithqmail.org or google for "qmail toaster". We are using a custom build with almost everything hooked into MySQL da

Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Beber [Gentoo]
It is written on http://www.gentoo.org since 2 days ;) On 6/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: > http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 > > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:47 AM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - mos

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off > qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what works well for "us".

Re: [gentoo-user] updating sysvinit coreutils and baselayout broke some locales/letters

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
sIbOk wrote: > splashutils didn't solved the problem and come with a few bugs > > 2005/6/13, sIbOk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>before posting i reemerged kbd and didn't help. I don't use the >>console on these Pc cause it's my daughter's Pc so i don't have >>consolefont in any runlevel, but that's n

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. > > Has anyone had good luck with mod_perl and Apache 1? *NOT Apache 2 - I > cannot upgrade to Apache 2* The ebuild looks like it builds as a DSO (this is the default for most Apache module

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change volume when using dmix?

2005-06-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > I am using the alsa-dmix plugin since ages and have and > > had always  the same problem: > > > > in alsamixer/kmix/kamix etc, I am not able to influence > > the (pcm) volume anymore. > > > > Sure, I can chnge the 'master' but this does not help > > much, when civclient is damaging my ears, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular > ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email, you will have to edit /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daevid Vincent wrote: > i can send mail using 'pine' from the server to anywhere. > > i don't see any messages in the log file ?! Which log file? You might want to try tail'ing the log file and then sending through OutLook and seeing what is reported in the logs. -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, not so much to go off on a tangent (even though I am, so I split > this off the original thread), but this brings me to another question > that I've been meaning to ask. I want esync to be a cron job, and mail > me the list of new and updated package

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change volume when using dmix?

2005-06-14 Thread A. R.
Hi, I do not know if this would be of any help, but my alsa dmix configuration is located in /etc/asound.conf and it is pretty similar to your .asoundrc, here it is: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer" } pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave {

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Stuart Howard wrote: >Thanks for the suggestions, the self code sounds like a fun project >but I suspect my manager will want an off the shelf solution. >So it seems like Adobe will be receiving some of our hard earned cash. >[suspected it would go there] >I agree with your point about organisatio

Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: >http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 > > > I just love all the 'Linux/open source is doomed' comments. How people can be so clueless is beyond me... Anway, best of luck to DR in his new job. Hopefully his contributions

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
loving the barcode suggestion Though I accept that simply someone taking the time to rewrite the text is impossible to stop, I just want to make it harder than "click forward" for them to get around. I was a little misleading with "web" in the subject I was more refering to electronic transmissio

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Joseph
It happened to me recently as well so I'll explain you the problem and solution. First check if you have "cookies" set to : - Allow site to set cookies - ask me every time so you keep collecting the cookies; it appears to me that Firefox has some kind of limit as to number of cookies it can accept

Re: [gentoo-user] Reboot when GRUB starts

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: > Two commands inside a GRUB shell doesn't sound too bad. Still, I > think I should work on getting that stage1.5 file working. > > Do you think the file might have been damaged somehow? Maybe it just > didn't like my CFLAGS? Well, the grub ebuild ignores (unsets, actually) whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: > Arrrgh, everytime I hit or an > the find dialogue opens and > Im knocked out of this text window. > Firefox v.1.0.4 That's not normal. If this is on Linux, possibly an extension you have installed is a problem, or there is some breakage in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file? Someth

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Strangeness

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Fish
Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to get my usbdrive to appear in its own fixed /dev entry > but I cannot get the same to happen for my camera. It seems the udev > rule seems to get ignored. Any idea why? > > # My pendrive > BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="USB DISK Pro ", KERNEL="sd?1", NAME="%

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Colin
Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! Viewing / reading implies that the information has already been transferred (downloaded and rendered) to a client browser. So I don't think that you could totally prevent information extraction on the client side. Even if you prevent people from copying and pasting, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread William Meertens
Hi there, Same for me. It took longer to load the page then normal expected. I tried it a couple of times, of which several times would scare me. The delay can reach more the 60 seconds. So there's only one thing to say. "BE PATIENT" Have fun, and don't let one page scare you away from Firefox

[gentoo-user] Wireless connection intermittent on one machine

2005-06-14 Thread Grant
I have 3 Gentoo systems connected to my wireless network. 2 of them have Netgear PCMCIA wireless cards and the third has a PCI card that is a Netgear of the same series (if you know what I mean). That desktop is the farthest away from the access point, but it has had a rock-solid connection for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot > deal with a certificate > it gets. Try the "login" link on >http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 > or any of the other fora. > > If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox

[gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble with the Java Forums site, because Firefox cannot deal with a certificate it gets. Try the "login" link on http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57 or any of the other fora. If somebody can point me to the place to report Firefox problems, I'll tell them too... ++ k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Shields
Yeah, that's one way Thomas, but in both Firefox and IE, you just right-click the page and click "view background". On 6/14/05, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * On Jun 14 9:46, Heinz Sporn (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > > 2. Convert the information to a graphic format and u

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 14 9:46, Heinz Sporn (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > 2. Convert the information to a graphic format and use that as > background image. No browser is able to directly download background > images (in the moment). Not true - any Mozilla-based browser can do it rather easily. On

[gentoo-user] Re: DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jun 14 8:47, Paul Kain (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > Also bear in mind he worked for MS prior to starting on gentoo -> Not the same Daniel Robbins. They'll have rather different jobs, too :) Tom pgpz2ctuA1FOr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't install Xosview

2005-06-14 Thread askar ...
Thanks, I'll try! > > I can't guarantee that this will work since your error is different from > the errors I received. Try adding -DHAVE_SNPRINTF=1 to your CFLAGS > entry in make.conf and re-emerging xosview. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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