Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > > John Jolet wrote: > > > >> yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you > >> can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta > >> have SOME

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 02:56 -0300, Fernando Canizo wrote: > El 31/ago/2005 a las 00:23 -0300, Nick me decía: > > 2. Fernando might like to note that the way to introduce a patch to a > > package (rather than an amendment to the ebuild) is to use the epatch > > command. Commonly the line looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 17:28 Alex написал(a): > On Saturday 27 August 2005 20:57, Roman Makurin wrote: > > What I need to do ? :-) > > I've been looking for the same thing for some days now... The good thing I > just found a solution (well at least it worked for me :) ) > You ha

[gentoo-user] OT: font management software

I admit - I'm adicted to fonts. Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? I need to see what the fonts look like and be able to install what's not installed. I found Fontlinge which isn't in portage and consists of a gazillion dependencies. Any more?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

El 31/ago/2005 a las 00:23 -0300, Nick me decía: > 2. Fernando might like to note that the way to introduce a patch to a > package (rather than an amendment to the ebuild) is to use the epatch > command. Commonly the line looks like this: You're saying that i can emerge mutt, run epatch command an

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: > Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your > PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm surely going to translate to spanish and put it in my blog, maybe i would add so

Re: [gentoo-user] acpid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried looking at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ ? It might give you some hints with the same (or similar) laptops. To see if you have working acpi support check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state They should tell you mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:28:37 +0200 Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > Recent ALSA versions do softwaremixing using the DMIX plugin per > default. Older versions can do it by creating an soundrc file. > > Unfortunately this does not help with legacy applications which still > use OSS or the ALSA

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:56:50 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > For ages under 2.6, all that's needed is > > make > make modules_install > make install or manual copy of the kernel to /boot yep, and if you forget what is what, there is always make help -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, John J. Foster wrote: > The initial "Starting local" is displayed as the system boots, but > that's all that happens. If I do a /etc/init.d/local restart, all is > well, and all is logged. > > Am I once again missing the obvious? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:26:30 -0500 Roy Wright wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > >Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. > > > >The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all > >goes into it. > > > >/etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gate

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 04:25, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), > so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel > source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: > "make bzImage mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

Harry Putnam wrote: Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all goes into it. /etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not getting set on bootup. I can ifconfig and route it

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:36:57 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > Fernando Canizo schreef: > > Hi all, > > > > I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and > > the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this > > patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

Antoine wrote: > When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for > a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Add the following line into prefs.js of your Thunderbird profile: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox"); I believe Thunderbird has chang

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

Daevid Vincent schreef: > Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), > so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source > was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: > "make bzImage modules modules_install" OK, don'

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:42:38PM +0200, Jarry wrote If you have a problem with users having access to certain email, then don't let them access that email at all. That is the only way. > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their > $HOME/.procmailr

[gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all goes into it. /etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not getting set on bootup. I can ifconfig and route it into place of course b

[gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: "make bzImage modules modules_install" Copied and renamed the bzImage file over

[gentoo-user] Re: Quicktime for Java

Oh, there isn't even one for Linux. Nevermind. Justin On 8/30/05, Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, is there an ebuild for Quicktime for Java? > > -- > Justin W. Hart > -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Quicktime for Java

Hey, is there an ebuild for Quicktime for Java? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

From the looks of the script you aren't testing for a "regular file", hence "-f" doesn't work. I tested it on my machine WORKS: ACTION=add DEVICE=/tmp/testfile DOESN'T WORK: ACTION=add DEVICE=/dev/sda1 SCRIPT: #!/bin/bash if [ "${ACTION}" == "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ]; then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

I don't think LVM2 cares about partitions. AFAIK you only use fdisk (marking partitions as 8e? for lvm2) to be polite to other OSes that don't auto-detect like Linux does. I'm not exactly sure what's happening to you, but try this: vgchange -a y; vgchange -a n vgchange -a y; vgchange -a n emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Fernando Canizo schreef: > Hi all, > > I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and > the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this > patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot > erase it. > > What i would like to know is how c

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

On 8/30/05, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good evening all,I figured it was about time to start the Guarddog firewall scriptautomatically, instead of always typing /etc/rc.firewall. The obvious thing to do was add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start. Easy enough. But itdidn't start. OK, let's

[gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

Hi all, I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot erase it. What i would like to know is how can i do this i a 'gentoo way'. I have lis

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 01:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: > > While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package > > systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to > > make choices when the "syste

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

Good evening all, I figured it was about time to start the Guarddog firewall script automatically, instead of always typing /etc/rc.firewall. The obvious thing to do was add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start. Easy enough. But it didn't start. OK, let's put a few logger commands in there and see where

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

Answering self: 1) fdisk didn't seem to work 2) cfdisk did - Mark On 8/30/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it > inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in > partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup

[gentoo-user] acpid

I got acpid emerged, started, and added to run level, but when I go into gnome and mouse over the battery (the default applet) it says: System is running on battery power 0 minutes (0%) remain the laptop is plugged into the AC. John D emerged with +acpi -apm ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on > > > LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt > > > are bound to directories in /usr.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 23:39, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a > tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program > seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to > recover almost all my work after

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on > > LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt > > are bound to directories in /usr. I kow I could put / on LVM, but > > that requires an initrd, w

[gentoo-user] How do I get LVM2 off a drive?

I did an experiment with LVM2 to see how it worked, but I put it inside of partition 3. I then wanted to remove it and put it in partition 4 instead. (More like Neil's setup.) However, the system keeps finding the old vg1 volume group. I went so far as to remove all partitions, put on a new partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. S

[gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into cervisia

Re: [gentoo-user] two(related?) sound problems

On 8/30/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > From the boot console: > > * Restoring Mixer Levels > /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:994: bad > control.7.value type > No state is present for card UART !!! This says that the /etc/asound.state file is not correct for th

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Varner wrote: I believe that you are running into bug #90680 Maybe not. I tried again while running "top" and memory usage din't go over 4.8%... Thanks, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:45 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for > good measure. > > $ equery depends vim > [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

Thanks Neil On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:50:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm > > wondering a couple of things: > > I've ben using LVM2 on my AMD64 box since I built it. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

John Jolet wrote: yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

Yeah, I decided to go for the Universal install since it has stage files. Seemed that the Minimal didn't. I'd forgotten that. The AMD64 will be nicer to install from. I'm getting 65MB/S DMA on the hard drive whereas the x86 Universal didn't have the right chipset stuff and I was only getting 2.5MB

[gentoo-user] two(related?) sound problems

Hello everybody, >From the boot console: * Restoring Mixer Levels /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:994: bad control.7.value type No state is present for card UART !!! Sound still works but about 1/2 an hour after having started realplayer sound stops withou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

Michael Mauch schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those >>dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to >>take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don't seem to. They do, >>however, take named colors (orange, Medi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

well, not sure what stage files, if any that one has on it. I used the universal installer. On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. I'm buring a copy of the minimal install for AMD64 now. Cheers, Mark On 8/30/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, there's a 2005.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

Thanks. I'm buring a copy of the minimal install for AMD64 now. Cheers, Mark On 8/30/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, there's a 2005.1 amd_64 universal install. I know, because I > just used it to set up 4 servers :) > On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > John,

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage transfer is very slow

On Tuesday 30 of August 2005 15:21, Miroslav Flídr wrote: > Michal Kurgan napsal(a): > > Exactly this is the problem... so sync every sector. > > I have one question, how this work earlier? With sync i know when files > > where copied in realtime, not after the umount command (there is info > > tha

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

Yeah, there's a 2005.1 amd_64 universal install. I know, because I just used it to set up 4 servers :) On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: John, As per a thread over the last couple of days I was planningon using the 2005.0 CD that I've used for a number of other machines, but

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > $ emerge -ep system | genlop -p > [...] > Estimated update time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. whoa! that is scary. 2 hours 30 minutes is barely enough for me to emerge gcc and glibc. > > $ emerge -ep world | genlop -p > [...] > Estimated

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

John, As per a thread over the last couple of days I was planningon using the 2005.0 CD that I've used for a number of other machines, but that CD doesn't have any 64-bit stuff on it. If there's a 64-bit install CD then I'll go look for that. Thanks for the info! With best regards, Mark On

[gentoo-user] Re: Finding other machines on the network

Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > > add

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I > can't find anything in Google about it, either). > > This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those > dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to > take hex c

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels

> Does anyone know what I can do to achieve the same effect in gentoo > that I get when using "sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4" in FreeBSD, > thereby allowing 4 virtual channels for my dsp device, and stopping > those annoying "Device in use" errors when trying to open 2 or more > sound related progra

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

Antoine schreef: > Hi, > When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for > a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? > Cheers > Antoine Perhaps Firefox is no longer set as your default browser (it must be reset after an upgrade)? Maybe Thunderbird is trying to open l

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Holly Bostick wrote: It's all about the ruleset. In this case, it looks like this option is involved: [...] Thanks. This seems like it would do the trick. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

Hi, When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

They are syncing from the same mirror. I haven't tried changing mirrors though. If it helps, when I read the kernel logs I notice that during the time it's syncing, I see a lot of readlink() failed: I/O error for files in /usr/portage. I've run fsck on the disk and it detects no errors. All ot

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

Joshua Armstrong schreef: > Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time > I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: > some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've > tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage bu

[gentoo-user] rsync problems

Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage but to no avail. I know it isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote: > thanks for the response > > So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put > it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a > default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean > ought not to have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > address of the machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

On 30 August 2005 15:28, Holly Bostick wrote: > Nagatoro schreef: > > Matt Randolph wrote: > >> I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is > >> different enough to warrant a new thread. > >> > >> I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm > >> prod

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

there is an actual one on the 64-bit universal install cd which install cd did you download? On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > Unless I missed it this page doesn't seem to indicate which one to use > for an AMD64 processor. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbo

[gentoo-user] AMD64 - which stage3 file for new install?

Unless I missed it this page doesn't seem to indicate which one to use for an AMD64 processor. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 So, is it: stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz or is there an actual AMD64 stage file somewhere on the net I should

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

Hareesh Nagarajan: > Hi All: > > Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? I don't know ;-) But I can notice: > > > ... > [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls > ^ > -

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

Hareesh Nagarajan schreef: > Hi All: > > Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls No, it doesn't *need* it-- but do you see that +eds with a star? That's the new USE flag which pul

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:53 -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi All: > > Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls > -krb4 -nas +nls +perl -silc +spell +tcltk 5,979 kB See +eds*??

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

Alle 19:53, martedì 30 agosto 2005, Hareesh Nagarajan ha scritto: > Hi All: > > Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? No! You have probably the gnome flag set. #emerge -pv gaim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-im/

[gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-crypt/opencdk-0.5.5 -doc 322 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libtasn1-0.2.13 -doc 855 kB [ebuild N] net-libs/gnutls-1.2.3 +crypt -doc +zlib 2,389 kB [ebuild N] net-libs/libsoup

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:51, Holly Bostick wrote: > bshlists schreef: > > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get > > gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the > > bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. > > Now I remember seein

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings

On 8/29/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. > I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I > close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save > mozilla and close

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: > While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package > systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to > make choices when the "system can't figure it out". It seems like > etc-update (and friends)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:06, Eric Crossman wrote: > While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other > package systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I > only have to make choices when the "system can't figure it out". It > seems like etc-update (and friends) sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness [SOLVED?]

Moshe Kaminsky schreef: > Hi, > > * Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [30/08/05 17:30]: > >>Hi all, >> >>I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of >>the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to >>explain): >> >>I use Openbox, and I finally ju

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

Have a look at the comp.unix.shell newsgroup. There are some insanely talented people in there dispensing free advice. bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/ba

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:42:38PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox > format). After logging there I get either message "No mail", or > "You have new mail". But I do not get any similar message on my > Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activate

Re: [gentoo-user] To emerge -e world or not to emerge -e world?

$ emerge -ep system | genlop -p [...] Estimated update time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. $ emerge -ep world | genlop -p [...] Estimated update time: 14 hours, 40 minutes. But genlop is entitled to make mistakes. Those did seem like rather small numbers to me. What would be more realistic? 100 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

On Monday 29 August 2005 01:59 am, A. Khattri wrote: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: > > Why not use dispatch-conf instead? > > Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to > etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features > added to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:46 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Jerry Turba schreef: > > As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files > > provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for > > myself to determine how to handle these new files. > > > > 1. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

On Mon August 29 2005 04:19 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > > And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox > > format). After logging there I get either message "No mail", or > > "You have new mail". But I do not get any similar message on my > > Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activ

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness

Hi, * Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [30/08/05 17:30]: > > Hi all, > > I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of > the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to > explain): > > I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting it up to us

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

bshlists schreef: > On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>bshlists schreef: >> >>>Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up >>>and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up >>>some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I

[gentoo-user] [OT]Creating new named colors

OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I can't find anything in Google about it, either). This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Holly Bostick wrote: [snip] >>Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux >>that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), > > > Please anybody, correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik, this assumption that > there are multiple firewall programs in the

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > bshlists schreef: > > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up > > and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up > > some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing > > so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the solaris or sunos machine... On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:12, Chr

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Nagatoro wrote: [snip] > > Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux > that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), > that is is there a program that can block foo from web access but allow > it to imap and at the same time allow bar web acces

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

Dienstag 30 August 2005 16:51, Andrew Lowe: > Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of > the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other > end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a > range and reporting what addresses responded? if i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:51 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC > box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, > which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

emerge nmap On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP >

Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

bshlists wrote: I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/bash if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ] then rmmod garmin_gps chmod 666 $DEVICE fi $ man te

[gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless w

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

bshlists schreef: > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and > running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 > the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere a change > to a config file which would change when

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

Jerry Turba schreef: > As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files > provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for > myself to determine how to handle these new files. > > 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file > to

[gentoo-user] what is wrong with script

I've been trying run this script on my gentoo laptop, but for some reason it does not work. If you see what is wrong could you email me. Thanks. #!/bin/bash if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ] then rmmod garmin_gps chmod 666 $DEVICE fi -- DWW -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

On August 23, 2005 04:25 am, Nagatoro wrote: > Hi, > > I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like > no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 > resolution. > > At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play > nicely):

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

On 30/08/05, Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files > provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for > myself to determine how to handle these new files. > > 1. If I made a change to a file I will never

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Nagatoro schreef: > Matt Randolph wrote: > >> I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is >> different enough to warrant a new thread. >> >> I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm >> product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach

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