[gentoo-user] [OT] DVD-writer testing tool

2005-09-22 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Is there some kind of such tool? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail-1.05 ebuild

2005-09-22 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:23:30 -0400 Brian Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy Gentooers. > > I've created a relatively simple ebuild that strictly follows Dave > Sill's "Life with qmail" instructions found at http:// > www.lifewithqmail.org. I'd be happy if a few other folks could test

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this with GNUPLOT?

2005-09-22 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 9/22/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the problem needs to be specific because I have no idea what you are > thinking of: So I have the following files: rate1.txt, rate2.txt, ..., rateN.txt rate1.txt has the following contents: 0 5 1 10 2 11 3 12.5 ... ... rate2.txt has the follo

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
I agree: I have a Dell720 - a re-badged lexmark thrown in when I bought a laptop. A real pain to set up, had to get a propriety driver but is now working and windoze ipp prints to it using the adobe postscript drivers. One (and only one!) doze machine will only print greyscale tho! Unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] USB modem

2005-09-22 Thread Thanasis Papakonstantinou
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: Googling around once you set your eyes on a particular USB modem usually provides some useful clues. Also reading /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/acm.txt might be useful. i found this list http://free

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:21:56 -0300 Norberto Bensa wrote: >Try to stay away from Lexmark printers. > > -- Ironic. IBM spin off Lexmark in 1991 IBM subsequently become big Linux supporters. Lexmark don't give a toss about linux. Such is life, thank goodness for HP. Oh and I also notice that

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > Linux? HP or Epson. Try to stay away from Lexmark printers. -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:17:54 -0400 John J. Foster wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:34:13AM -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > > Linux? > > > > HP Deskjet 5550 works just fine I'll just weigh in here f

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:58:06 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: > >> We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only > >> offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! > > > > So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? > > Sorry, Willy, but for as l

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Thanks to all that responded. Sean -Original Message- From: Bryan Whitehead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
Thank you to all that replied! I although it isn't resolved, I know were to turn and I'm sure I'll get it. Thank you Sean -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:54 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-22 Thread Qiangning Hong
Heinz Sporn wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 16:26 +0800 schrieb Qiangning Hong: >>Isn't CIFS considered as a better SMBFS? > > It's been said. Still - do you have both SMBFS and CIFS support built > into your kernel, or just CIFS? If the later is true I would include > SMBFS as well and tr

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? Sorry, Willy, but for as long as Nick has been posting I would just assume he was having a bad moment

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd

2005-09-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:13:38 -0600 Hani Duwaik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I've installed gentoo on an old Ultra 10. I installed the standard | 'sparc-sources' kernel (2.4.31) and tried to manually configure it, | but the kernel kept crashing on boot. So I installed genkernel and | copied the conf

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-22 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes > the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. > What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything >

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/22/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes > > the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. > > What is 'wa'? I searched through t

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:11:41 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > Why did you think the profane language you used was called for? The > worst case scenario in these things are the other poster and I making > fools out of ourselves at large when the OP replied that he doesn't > see any USE flags. We only su

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-22 Thread David Helstroom
Grant wrote: Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on it? If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not download Flash, everything is fine. As soon as I download Flash, it starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file. Flash is working fine he

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:05:27 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: > I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from > memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this. They > installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and > exercised it extensively. They the

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes > the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. > What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything > about this. Waiting. I

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 07:05 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from > memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this. They > installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and > exercised it extensively. They then

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-22 Thread Grant
> > Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on > > it? If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not > > download Flash, everything is fine. As soon as I download Flash, it > > starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file. > > > > Flash is working fine her

[gentoo-user] What's my architecture ? - was System update problems

2005-09-22 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
I was having a problem updating my system, but I think I have a more fundamental problem. I'm not sure what my architecture is! Sorry for the dumb question. uname -a, gives the following Linux fluffy 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 09:57:23 UTC 2004 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 250 Authe

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Cups does not see devices

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Paweł Madej wrote: Hello, I got problem with my FreeBSD box. I installed cups cups-base and other stuff for it and when i try to add printer via webinterface it don't see any device (like parallel, usb, http and so on).

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this. They installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and exercised it extensively. They then did the remove everything based on atime that hadnt been touch

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
No. Look into a split DNS setup: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2001/00288013.html On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Mark wrote: Can I specify different DNS servers for each of my two physical interfaces to use? One nic is configured for DHCP, and the other is static. The DHCP enabled NIC gets its

[gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd

2005-09-22 Thread Hani Duwaik
I've installed gentoo on an old Ultra 10.  I installed the standard 'sparc-sources' kernel (2.4.31) and tried to manually configure it, but the kernel kept crashing on boot.  So I installed genkernel and copied the config file from the livecd. FYI: The Ultra 10 uses IDE harddrives, so the root/boo

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:56:37AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 > Willie Wong wrote: > > > The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't > > run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide > > the maildir patch for pine.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Cups does not see devices

2005-09-22 Thread Paweł Madej
Nick Rout wrote: http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/ What is the result of running: lpinfo -v /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (and the other scripts in the same directory, of course the directory could be elsewhere under freebsd) lpinfo -v shows nothing and directo

[gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything about this. I'm suspecting that this machine has stopped being able to keep up w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Cups does not see devices

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/ What is the result of running: lpinfo -v /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (and the other scripts in the same directory, of course the directory could be elsewhere under freebsd) On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:10:35 +0200 Pawe³ Madej wrote: >

RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-22 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
Thanks. > 3. follow the 2005.1 handbook to expand the initial portage base into your > root filesystem. By this do you mean downloading, unpacking and installing the thing called "stage tarball"? Regards, Rupert > -Original Message- > From: Dave Nebinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Cups does not see devices

2005-09-22 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, I had a situation when I was trying to get my Laser Jet printer recognized. I was fine with the ink jet, which was connected via usb, but the laser was connected to a parallel port. I had to recompile the kernel and select Device Drivers --> Parallel Port Support --> <*>Parallel Port S

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/22/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dragonfly ~ # uname -a > > Linux dragonfly 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #3 Thu Aug 4 06:43:20 PDT 2005 i686 > > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > dragonfly ~ # > > > > myth14 ~ # uname -a > > Linux myth14 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #2 Tu

[gentoo-user] [OT] Cups does not see devices

2005-09-22 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, I got problem with my FreeBSD box. I installed cups cups-base and other stuff for it and when i try to add printer via webinterface it don't see any device (like parallel, usb, http and so on). Anybody got idea what could cause it? And how to resolve that problem? Thanks for any help

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this with GNUPLOT?

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
This is a bit offtopic... maybe the gnuplot mailinglist? http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/info/gnuplot/gpltinfo_1.html On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi All: Suppose I have 2 files, the first file's contents are (0, 100) and the second file's contents are (0, 50). Now, c

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE4 problem when using package CD installation

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
run revdep-rebuild to find broken libraries/programs. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, HG wrote: Hi, All, I am a pretty new user to Gentoo and I like it! I am trying to install XFce4 by gentoo 2005.1 package CD. But each time when I do "startxfce4", it always gives me a error message "error when loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Many ISP's route all outgoing port 25 traffic to a black hole (as in they drop the packets not going to their smtp servers). You just need to configure postfix to push all your mail to your ISP's mail server. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Po

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't > run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide > the maildir patch for pine. For heaven's sake read the goddamned ebuild! (see the message I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:17:32 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: > You're looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and a > maildir-based tool (postfix). > > > > I'm not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default > behaviour, but you could try "-mbox maildir" in your

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:29:53 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: > > > > I already did this. There you can specify what files/packages to > > remove. my intention is to know every file that can be removed. > > Well the .spec files for the minimal install cd gives you quite a few > clues. Specifically:

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Sean Lester wrote: > Greetings, > I have a partially working Postfix installation. It delivers > messages on the localhost. It'll receive messages from the internet. > But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet. I've > checked my ip

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-22 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Tamas The emerge --sync did the trick, everything is working fine now. Thanks for your help. Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide the maildir patch for pine. If not: you can use another client (mutt comes to mind), or you can modify the configuration in /etc/postfix/main.cf You are looki

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-22 Thread neil
Martin S wrote: it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :( Anyone else seen this? No. Not at all. In fact, I have never seen Firefox crash. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do this with GNUPLOT?

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Suppose I have 2 files, the first file's contents are (0, 100) and the > second file's contents are (0, 50). Now, can I make GNUPLOT plot a > graph with the average, i.e. (0, 100+50/2)? > > Sure, I could create a third file which

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Title: Message Your ISP may be blocking port 25 outside of their own network.   Most likely you need to configure postfix to relay mail through your ISP’s mail server rather than just use your own.   A lot of ISP’s do this so they don’t have to handle complaints about spam originating

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Title: Message You’re looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and a maildir-based tool (postfix).   I’m not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default behaviour, but you could try “-mbox maildir” in your USE flags and re-emerge both.   Personally ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Sean Lester wrote: Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation.  It delivers messages on the localhost.  It'll receive messages from the internet.  But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet.  I've checked my iptables and port 25 is

[gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
Title: Message Greetings, I have a partially working Postfix installation.  It delivers messages on the localhost.  It'll receive messages from the internet.  But, it will not send messages to any hosts on the internet.  I've checked my iptables and port 25 is open both ways.  Also, eac

[gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
Title: Message Greetings, I've installed Postfix.  But when I try to use Pine as a mail client, I can't seem to read an inbox.  It looks like Pine is trying to use an "inbox" which is a file, and Postfix delivers things as individual messages to a folder.  Can I configure Pine to read m

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you for the feedback.. > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu PM 02:26:23 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For RAID I'

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you for the feedback.. > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu PM 02:26:23 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For RAID I'

[gentoo-user] XFCE4 problem when using package CD installation

2005-09-22 Thread HG
Hi, All, I am a pretty new user to Gentoo and I like it! I am trying to install XFce4 by gentoo 2005.1 package CD. But each time when I do "startxfce4", it always gives me a error message "error when loading shared libraries". Did I miss anything during the installation? Here is what I did to ins

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 22 September 2005 19:26, Ron Bickers wrote: > > For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 > > combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. > > I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about > it. If you're planning on doing it in

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Eric Crossman
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:43 -0400, Mark wrote: > Can I specify different DNS servers for each of my two physical > interfaces to use? One nic is configured for DHCP, and the other is > static. The DHCP enabled NIC gets its DNS server list automatically > and updates (overwrites) /etc/resolv.conf. H

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:00 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: > > no > > > > what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs > > etc? > > I realy know what will run on such a system. Think of a router, or a > datacollector. Pleas tell me what is cro? > > > look at catalyst, it is t

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Brian Downey
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:06 PM, gentuxx wrote:Name resolution is name resolution, whether on the static line orthe dynamic line. What difference does it make? If they are on different networks, one interface may not be able tosee the other interface, therefore not the name servers either.Is that true?

RE: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > > > Name resolution is name resolution, whether on the static line or > > the dynamic line. What difference does it make? > > > > If they are on different networks, one interface may not be able to > see the other interface, therefore not the name servers either. But if one /etc/resolv.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Name resolution is name resolution, whether on the static line or > the dynamic line. What difference does it make? > If they are on different networks, one interface may not be able to see the other interface, therefore n

RE: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Name resolution is name resolution, whether on the static line or the dynamic line.  What difference does it make?   -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:44 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] speci

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> dragonfly ~ # uname -a > Linux dragonfly 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #3 Thu Aug 4 06:43:20 PDT 2005 i686 > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > dragonfly ~ # > > myth14 ~ # uname -a > Linux myth14 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #2 Tue Aug 2 16:31:31 PDT 2005 i686 > Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz G

[gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Mark
Can I specify different DNS servers for each of my two physical interfaces to use? One nic is configured for DHCP, and the other is static. The DHCP enabled NIC gets its DNS server list automatically and updates (overwrites) /etc/resolv.conf. How can I point my static IP NIC to a different DNS serv

[gentoo-user] Can I do this with GNUPLOT?

2005-09-22 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi All: Suppose I have 2 files, the first file's contents are (0, 100) and the second file's contents are (0, 50). Now, can I make GNUPLOT plot a graph with the average, i.e. (0, 100+50/2)? Sure, I could create a third file which stores the average (0, 75) and I could just plot the third file usi

[gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, After months of working really well I've just recently started having trouble with our MythTV setup. I'm looking into what's gone wrong. The symptom is that recordings periodically look like you're hitting fast forward. Both audio and video are messed up in the same way. All machines are Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 > combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about it. > Filesystem of choice is XFS but wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-22 Thread Martin S
I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything at all lately. it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :( Anyone else seen this? MArtin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

[gentoo-user] Re: idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 22 September 2005 15:33, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Besides cron jobs and associated executables, there's files which are > accessed intermittently and written/read from even more sparsely. > Unless you somehow log the file paths for all such interactions how > will you ever know what to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-22 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 9/22/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash onit?  If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to notdownload Flash, everything is fine.  As soon as I download Flash, itstarts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file. Flash i

[gentoo-user] netqmail-1.05 ebuild

2005-09-22 Thread Brian Downey
Howdy Gentooers. I've created a relatively simple ebuild that strictly follows Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" instructions found at http:// www.lifewithqmail.org. I'd be happy if a few other folks could test it out as well. From the web page: "qmail mail server software, installed and pat

[gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-22 Thread Grant
Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on it? If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not download Flash, everything is fine. As soon as I download Flash, it starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] USB modem

2005-09-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Googling around once you set your eyes on a particular USB modem usually > provides some useful clues. Also reading /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/acm.txt might be useful. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sascha Lucas wrote: > I realy know what will run on such a system. Think of a router, or a > datacollector. You might want to look at GNAP from the Embedded Gentoo project - it sounds close to the minimal setup you are looking for. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl: target a signle disk of a scsi raid array, not the raid array?

2005-09-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid > array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire > array, not an individual "disk". You have hardware RAID right? I think 3Ware is one of the RAID controllers that

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:15:04 -0500 John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboo

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Randolph
Dave Nebinger wrote: Also, check that the environment in the cron script is correct. It does not execute with the environment that you sit down at a terminal with, in particular $PATH. Another tip RE: environment variables & cron, if you submit the job via at (sys-process/at), it will creat

Re: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-22 Thread Richard Fish
Rupert Young (Restart) wrote: Thanks. Unless anyone else has any suggestions I will try it. Can anyone else confirm this is the way to go before I try? Regards, Rupert Well, since the library that the gcc build is complaining about is libc, I might suggest: emerge --oneshot sys-libs/

[gentoo-user] smartctl: target a signle disk of a scsi raid array, not the raid array?

2005-09-22 Thread fire-eyes
How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire array, not an individual "disk". -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] kde-meta won't emerge

2005-09-22 Thread henkg
Hello, I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. Before I have removed about every kde package to start as clean as possible. The merge fails here: >>> Applying xdelta: kdeaddons-3.4.0-3.4.1.tar.xdelta ... /usr/qt/3/bin/moc ./kfile_cert.h -o kfile_cert.moc /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --t

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:34:13AM -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > Linux? > HP Deskjet 5550 works just fine -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a clearer picture of reality th

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Paweł Madej
John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:51, Dave Nebinger wrote: I'd add here, though, that almost no lexmark inkjets are supported. I would not agree with it. Try install gimp-print with +ppd use flag there are some of them supported. The only problem with my Lexmark Z53 which I

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:51, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > > Linux? > > You can pretty much go with any printer. Cups supports a wide range of > printers. If you're worried about a particular product, the cups site can

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:34, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > Linux? > > Thanks in advance, > > Mauro I have an hp 3740 that works great. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Paweł Madej
Mauro Faccenda wrote: Hi all, Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with Linux? Thanks in advance, Mauro I recommend http://linuxprinting.org site for looking at. There are many printers described with support for them. As you got many drivers such as hpjs c

RE: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? I don't think it stands a snowball's chance in ... Well, you get the idea. Sascha, I'm thinking that if you start with a bare-bones handbook install you'll have a minimum system, at least for gentoo support. It won't have X, desktop

RE: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? I don't think it stands a snowball's chance in ... Well, you get the idea. Sascha, I'm thinking that if you start with a bare-bones handbook install you'll have a minimum system, at least for gentoo support. It won't have X, desktop

RE: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Sascha Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 September 2005 13:01 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo > > > > no > > > > what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs

RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Rupert Young (Restart) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 September 2005 12:25 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems > > > Thanks. Unless anyone else has any suggestions I will try it. > > Can anyone el

RE: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with > Linux? > You can pretty much go with any printer. Cups supports a wide range of printers. If you're worried about a particular product, the cups site can help you... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gmail

2005-09-22 Thread danielhf
well, if you need one, tell me your address. On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:16:31PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I am in need of a gmail account, > anyone have one to give? > > Mike > -- > > Michael W. Holdeman > > > ___

[gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Hi all, Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with Linux? Thanks in advance, Mauro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Sascha Lucas
no what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs etc? I realy know what will run on such a system. Think of a router, or a datacollector. Pleas tell me what is cro? look at catalyst, it is the tool for building custom gentoo installs. I already did this. There you c

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update world build problem

2005-09-22 Thread John Jolet
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:36 +0200, Tamas Sarga wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > > > > I'm having a problem doing an emerge --update world OR system on a new > > system, just set up today using the minimal boot cd, downloading the > > latest stage3 file for pentium 4, and the lat

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution 2.4 inline pgp sign/encrypt support ?

2005-09-22 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:11 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > I used to be a die-hard evolution user, but then something I emerged > and/or updated broke all of the icons in the display, so I stopped > using it. (Seems fixed now, though, I just checked ;-) ) Anyhow, I > suspect that this is more likely a f

RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-22 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
Thanks. Unless anyone else has any suggestions I will try it. Can anyone else confirm this is the way to go before I try? Regards, Rupert > -Original Message- > From: Dave Nebinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 September 2005 20:12 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject:

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
My moterboard (Tyan Tiger) does nto have SATA support so I need a separate card. For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [gentoo-user] GenUX

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Looking breifly at the Gentoo Developer conference. I came across GenUX (actually I have now downloaded and had a quick go at it). It seems to me that they have put pre-built binaries on a LiveCD with a GUI front end for their installer. Haven't tried it yet (downloading now), but it kinda jus

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID

2005-09-22 Thread brettholcomb
Thank you both for the comments. This helps. > > From: Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 01:42:20 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way: > > 1) install everything you need > 2) note current system time > 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo > 4) remount with noatime > 5) find all

Re: [gentoo-user] samba

2005-09-22 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I keep getting this error, error libsmb programs must not be setuid root? This after upgrading samba. The config seems alright, I just can't mount any shares due to this error. Mike Check out the Gentoo forums. I had this same problem and found a fix there. -- Ed

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