[gentoo-user] Compiling kopete without Video4Linux webcam support?

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! I'm trying to compile kopete, but this failed: * To support Video4Linux webcams in this package is required to have * =x11-libs/qt-3* compiled with OpenGL support. * Please reemerge =x11-libs/qt-3* with USE="opengl". !!! ERROR: kde-base/kopete-3.5.3-r2 failed. Qt3 is installed with th

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Stefán István
szerda 26 július 2006 08.21 dátummal Donnie Berkholz ezt írta: > Stefán István wrote: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 USE="bitmap-fonts dlloader ipv6 > > nls opengl pam truetype-fonts type1-fonts xv -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -dmx > > -doc -fon

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Stefán István wrote: > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 USE="bitmap-fonts dlloader ipv6 > nls opengl pam truetype-fonts type1-fonts xv -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -dmx > -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers -minimal -mmx* -nocxx -sdk -sse* -static > -xp

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Stefán István
kedd 25 július 2006 22.43 dátummal Richard Fish ezt írta: > On 7/25/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Meanwhile I was able to install the ati-drivers by adding > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to emerge and install the latest version in portage. > > But now X doesn't start, and I find the

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird dependencies

2006-07-25 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zac Medico wrote: > gentuxx wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm trying to run a routine `emerge -DuatvN world' and am getting > some > >> funky dependency errors. Here's the error I get: > >> > >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-java/kaff

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] How packages becomes stable?

2006-07-25 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:48:17 -0700 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RF> On 7/25/06, Robert Cernansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RF> > How the developers are informed about packages that should go to RF> > stable? Is there posibility for developers to easily find these RF> > packages or get

Re: [gentoo-user] Install CD sees 2 ethernet ports

2006-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:08:19PM -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote > >I think eth0 is your FireWire port (IEEE 1394). > > > >You did the right thing already (taking eth0 down). Now you can > >install Gentoo and unless you configure support for Ethernet over > >FireWire (or something similar) in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

2006-07-25 Thread Nadav Horesh
> How about ~/.xsession-errors?It is empty (0 bytes)Nadav

[gentoo-user] trouble with bcm43xx

2006-07-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I followed the instructions from the forum (listed below) I built the driver and networking code as modules as specified. (I also tried building them into the kernel with essentially the same bad results). I would appreciate any help. Details follow. allan The guide recommended wl_apsta.o for fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Dale
Zac Medico wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> That was for future reference. If in the future you are seeing it copy > >> the install over and power fails, then you may need to re-emerge it and > >> be ready for "issues". I'm not really sure what those would be > though. > >> It may work just fine, it may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd [solved]

2006-07-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:11:50 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 25 July 2006 01:37, Nick Rout wrote: > > Audio is now working with PVR-150. Thanks, Nick, for all your input. > > Problem is, I don't know why and I hate it when magic is part of IT. ;-) > > The whole difference between yesterday and tod

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: > That was for future reference. If in the future you are seeing it copy > the install over and power fails, then you may need to re-emerge it and > be ready for "issues". I'm not really sure what those would be though. > It may work jus

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick schrieb: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: Grant schrieb: >> > I thought this >> > thread was saying using SMTP was optional. >> >> You misunderstood. This thread was about, *WHERE* SMTP is used. >> IMO, it's wrong that portage even CAN use SMTP. But nearly always, >> y

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages becomes stable?

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/25/06, Robert Cernansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How the developers are informed about packages that should go to stable? Is there posibility for developers to easily find these packages or get some notification about it? Developers are generally expected to keep track of the packages th

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/25/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Meanwhile I was able to install the ati-drivers by adding ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to emerge and install the latest version in portage. But now X doesn't start, and I find the following in the log file: Do you have the dri use flag set for xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/25/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven! >> > ;-) >> > >> > Cheers all, >> > Mark >> >> Keep in mind that when it is compiling that it is done in a temporary >> location. Af

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Grant schrieb: > >> > I thought this > >> > thread was saying using SMTP was optional. > >> > >> You misunderstood. This thread was about, *WHERE* SMTP is used. > >> IMO, it's wrong that portage even CAN use SMTP. But nearly always, > >> you'

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 20:35, Stefán István wrote: > kedd 25 július 2006 21.28 dátummal Mick ezt írta: > > Also, if you have "userpriv" in your FEATURES= in /etc/make.conf remove > > it > > and > > > then emerge -resume. It may work . . . after that you can re-instate it. > > Thanks, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird dependencies

2006-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gentuxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run a routine `emerge -DuatvN world' and am getting some > funky dependency errors. Here's the error I get: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-java/kaffe-1.4". > (dependency required by "net

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/25/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: > Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven! > ;-) > > Cheers all, > Mark Keep in mind that when it is compiling that it is done in a temporary location. After the compile is done, then it copies it ov

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted files in xorg?

2006-07-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:10, Randy Barlow wrote: > Mick wrote: > > There are some differences with mine there, besides the two corrupt > > files. I'm none the wiser with this problem. :-( > > Mine is different too: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la /usr/lib/X11/ > total 135 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root r

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Stefán István
kedd 25 július 2006 21.28 dátummal Mick ezt írta: > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 19:32, Richard Fish wrote: > > > 8.21.7 seems quite old to me, especially to try and use with a new > > kerrnel. Can you try something more recent, like 8.26.18-r1? You'll > > have to accept the ~arch keyword for this: >

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Stefán István
kedd 25 július 2006 20.58 dátummal Ptitjack ezt írta: > Stefán István a gentiment tapote: > > !!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1 failed. > > Call stack: > > ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_install > > ebuild.sh, line 1013: Called src_install > > ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1.ebuild, li

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Ptitjack
Stefán István a gentiment tapote: > !!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_install > ebuild.sh, line 1013: Called src_install > ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1.ebuild, line 182: Called linux-mod_src_install > linux-mod.eclass, line

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/24/06, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> > What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted >> > fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico >>

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Stefán István
Meanwhile I was able to install the ati-drivers by adding ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to emerge and install the latest version in portage. But now X doesn't start, and I find the following in the log file: Required symbol drmUnmap from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Grant
> I thought this > thread was saying using SMTP was optional. You misunderstood. This thread was about, *WHERE* SMTP is used. IMO, it's wrong that portage even CAN use SMTP. But nearly always, you'll need to use some SMTP server to get your mail out. But with the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface, it

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/25/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:18 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > test and [ are not links to each other as they have different syntax > > (the closing ]), so they cannot be the same command. If they were > > linked, one of them would fail on executi

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Andrew Frink
Hello,is that the newest version in portage? if not i would sujest upgrading as each version of ati-drivers is only good for certian kernelsCynyrOn 7/25/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello!I have a big problem installing ati driver. Please somebody help.When I try to install it I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant schrieb: >> So, the correct entry for your make.conf is: >> >> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" > > I've tried that and it doesn't seem to be working. How is it not working? What's in the logs? There is nothing in /var/log/mail/ and I can't find anything in /va

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:18 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > test and [ are not links to each other as they have different syntax > (the closing ]), so they cannot be the same command. If they were > linked, one of them would fail on execution with invalid syntax errors This

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:52:04 -0700, Grant wrote: > > You need to configure ssmtp. Did you do so? > > Looking over /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, it seems like I need to configure > the mailhub variable? I want to make sure I'm setting up as simple a > system for getting this elog mail out as possible.

[gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Stefán István
Hello! I have a big problem installing ati driver. Please somebody help. When I try to install it I get a huge error message: localhost fglrx # emerge -v ati-drivers Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1 to / >>> checking ebuild checksums ;-) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-25 Thread Jarry
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: This won't work. Apache doesn't have inbuilt chroot facilities, AFAIK. Like most of the other standard internet services. You would have to setup a chroot env (all dependant libraries and stuff) for that. But there's nothing similar to a chroot automatic in apache. BTW,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not starting

2006-07-25 Thread Adrian Vraciu
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 11:37, Richard Fish wrote: man, you are awesome thank you very much. i've re-emerged net-tools and all is perfect nowthank you again!!! > Ok, thanks. > > I've looked through the sources for ifconfig (net-tools-1.60), and > based on the strace output you provided, I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup schemes involving Win XP stored to linux

2006-07-25 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi reader, on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 00:03:45, you wrote: > Three or more windows XP boxes that are devoted primarily to editing > video or graphics in one way or another. The stuff needing backup can > be in really big files but also lots of normal sized still images etc. > > I'm planning to use

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-25 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Paul, on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 10:45:31, you wrote: > My gentoo box is set ok using ethtool. How do I check the setting on the > windows xp box? If the connection has a tray icon, double-clicking that should bring up an info dialog that has the link speed somewhere. Otherwise you'll have to c

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

2006-07-25 Thread Grant
>> So, the correct entry for your make.conf is: >> >> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail" > > I've tried that and it doesn't seem to be working. How is it not working? What's in the logs? There is nothing in /var/log/mail/ and I can't find anything in /var/log/everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Install CD sees 2 ethernet ports

2006-07-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/25/06, louis brazeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/25/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, the X86 minimal install CD sees ethernet ports > according to the startup message. When I ifconfig after booting the > install CD, it shows only eth1. I entered values in

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted files in xorg?

2006-07-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 July 2006 23:04, Mike wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:11 +0200 > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone please post the contents of your /usr/lib/X11/ dir for > > comparison purposes? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la /usr/lib/X11/ > total 164 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] Install CD sees 2 ethernet ports

2006-07-25 Thread louis brazeau
On 7/25/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For some reason, the X86 minimal install CD sees ethernet ports according to the startup message. When I ifconfig after booting the install CD, it shows only eth1. I entered values into both eth0 and eth1 via net-setup. It looks like eth1 is

[gentoo-user] Weird dependencies

2006-07-25 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm trying to run a routine `emerge -DuatvN world' and am getting some funky dependency errors. Here's the error I get: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-java/kaffe-1.4". (dependency required by "net-dns/libidn-0.5.15" [ebuild])

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Um, no. Read my post again. The command 'test' and the command '[' have > *different* syntax so cannot possible be links to each other and still > have it work. if [ $(basename $0) == "[" ] then #parse for trailing ] else

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Um, no. Read my post again. The command 'test' and the command '[' > have *different* syntax so cannot possible be links to each other and > still have it work. The command does behave differently depending on > the name it is called with, but

[gentoo-user] ethereal moved to wireshark

2006-07-25 Thread Daniel Black
As you probably read yesterday in GWN[1], Ethereal is being removed due to security vulnerabilities[2] and replaced with its successor, Wireshark. Ethereal, as far as anyone can tell, is no longer being developed[3] as all the core developers have moved to Wireshark[4]. To make this transition

Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

2006-07-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/24/06, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted > fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico > that suggested a command > > FEATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:18 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > test and [ are not links to each other as they have different syntax > > (the closing ]), so they cannot be the same command. If they were > > linked, one of them would fail on execution with invalid syntax > errors > > This is not 100% t

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:41:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The answer is simple: Maye, but this isn't it. > 'test' is a bash builtin. When a bash script executes 'test', it is > not /usr/bin/test that runs, but a function internal to bash. test and [ are both Bash builtins, but there are also [

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I was disagreeing with the "cant be the same" comment. I know they are > different files, but the slightly different behaviour is insufficient > reason for that. Alexander asked why one was not a link to the other, > I'd like to know too, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:26:52 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > >> > > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is needed >> > > by /usr/bin[ and not by /usr/bin/test >> > >> > It's quite common for a program to change its behaviour according to >> > the name used

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:26:52 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: >> >> > > > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is needed >> > > > by /usr/bin[ and not by /usr/bin/test >> > > >> > > It's quite common f

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 15:41, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The answer is simple: > > 'test' is a bash builtin. When a bash script executes 'test', it is > not /usr/bin/test that runs, but a function internal to bash. > > /usr/bin/test/ is provided for environments that want to run bash > scripts that u

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:26:52 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > > > > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is needed > > > > by /usr/bin[ and not by /usr/bin/test > > > > > > It's quite common for a program to change its be

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:26:52 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is needed > > > by /usr/bin[ and not by /usr/bin/test > > > > It's quite common for a program to change its behaviour according to > > the name used to run it. For example, zcat

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:26:53 +, Hagen Soengen wrote: > > > I wonder where the differences are. I would've expected that test and > > > [ were hardlinks. > > > > # /usr/bin/[ > > /usr/bin/[: missing ']' > > # /usr/bin/test > > > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:26:53 +, Hagen Soengen wrote: > > I wonder where the differences are. I would've expected that test and > > [ were hardlinks. > > # /usr/bin/[ > /usr/bin/[: missing ']' > # /usr/bin/test > > # > > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:00:38 +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... [ is a synonym for the test command, see man test for details. This file isn't normally used, because [ and test are builtins in Bash. -- Neil Bothwick Some day my ship will come in, but wit

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 13:02 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 11:00 schrieb ext Arnau Bria: > >> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > >> [...] > >> > >> does any one know what could it be?¿ > > > > It's the [ from "if [ condition ];

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Hagen Soengen
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:02:48 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 11:00 schrieb ext Arnau Bria: > > > >> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > >> [...] > >> > >> does any one know what could it be?¿ > > > > It's the [ f

Re: [gentoo-user] apache/php: chroot?

2006-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:42:46 +0200 Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now my question is: does apache/php support chrooting too? > > And are there some other services, which can be chrooted > > like bind? > > should work without any problems, like the most of the other > standard internet s

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 11:00 schrieb ext Arnau Bria: > >> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... >> [...] >> >> does any one know what could it be?¿ > > It's the [ from "if [ condition ]; then ...", a shortcut for /usr/bin/test. Nope, not correct. [09:39:58 [E

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/25/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > > Perfectly normal. It is a program that implements bash style tests Not *bash* style tests. bash doesn't have much to do with this. > for script environments tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd [solved]

2006-07-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 July 2006 01:37, Nick Rout wrote: Audio is now working with PVR-150. Thanks, Nick, for all your input. Problem is, I don't know why and I hate it when magic is part of IT. ;-) The whole difference between yesterday and today is that I tried to compile the new kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 (as c

[gentoo-user] Re: strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Marco Costa
Arnau Bria wrote: > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > ... > does any one know what could it be?¿ > thanks in advance. It is the test application/tool. Try 'info test'. Regards, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:36:55 +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: > I have a periodically rkhunter runnig in my system, but I was afraid I > got a corrupted source package... Portage would refuse to install from a corrupted source package, because it verifies the checksums of all files it uses. -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:07, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/24/06, Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes it is just very slow, the mesage stalled keeps coming up and then > > starts again. > > Double check what the connection speed is for XP. You can do the same > using ethtool under Linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
> does any one know what could it be?¿ AFAIK it's a synonym to »test«. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:14:02 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/25/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > > Perfectly normal. It is a program that implements bash style tests > for script environments that don't normally do them.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 11:00 schrieb ext Arnau Bria: > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > [...] > > does any one know what could it be?¿ It's the [ from "if [ condition ]; then ...", a shortcut for /usr/bin/test. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)16

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/25/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... Perfectly normal. It is a program that implements bash style tests for script environments that don't normally do them. For example: if [ -f /etc/passwd ] ; then echo "/etc/passwd exists and

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Dale
Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > > #file "[" > [: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for > GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux > 2.4.1, stripped > > in I can find things like: > [...] > -ot does not

[gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... #file "[" [: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped in I can find things like: [...] -ot does not accept -l %s: unary operator expected %

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/24/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the output of: > > 1. cat /proc/version > 2. gcc -v > 3. gcc-config -l To me everything looks OK, but I'd love another set of eyes to look at my setup. Yeah, it looks sane to me too. The only thing I can think of is a probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not starting

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/24/06, Adrian Vraciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 24 July 2006 19:39, Richard Fish wrote: # strace -f ifconfig -a Ok, thanks. I've looked through the sources for ifconfig (net-tools-1.60), and based on the strace output you provided, I don't see how it can be getting to the "No u

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/24/06, Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes it is just very slow, the mesage stalled keeps coming up and then starts again. Double check what the connection speed is for XP. You can do the same using ethtool under Linux. You should see 100mbit, full duplex on both. One problem coul