Re: [gentoo-user] depclean

> | In general when you do not know what package contains a tool you need, > | how do you discover the package name containing the tool? > > Google it :) I heard a rumour that Marius was working on a program for > centrally tracking 'what everything installs', but I don't think it's > beyond the i

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

quoth the Colin: > Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on > the LiveCD? Also, how do you make the output of ls colored? > > -- > Colin You're looking for bootsplash. Check this out: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-49036-highlight-bootsplash+grubsplash.html Al

Re: [gentoo-user] console switching wierdness

maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Don't even know how to google for this one. Having giving up for now getting a Radeon9250 to work with gentoo. I replaced it with an ATI Rage128 AGP card and referenced the appropriate module, aty128fb, in modules.autoload. Now, even before configuring X somethi

[gentoo-user] trying to compile a 2.6 hardened-sources kernel (moving from a 2.4) -- getting gr_task_is_cabable undefined reference

Hi I am following the gentoo handbook on upgrading to the 2.6 kernel from the 2.4 kernel I had. I am doing a make of the kernel and it fails with the stuff below. I assume there is something in my config that is not selected that needs to be selected but I don't have a clue what... I wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Quicktime movies

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 is media-libs/win32codecs-20050216 emerged with the 'quicktime' use flag set? Ian K wrote: > Hi. > I have a movie "something.mov" which I really want to view under Linux. > Xine wont play it, although it pretends to. Do you know of a program > that wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: > i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system > & i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, What is the world file if not a home made list of the packages you have installed? -- Neil Bothwick -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean

On 04:04 Thu 19 May , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 01:51:23 + (UTC) James > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | OK, but this begs another question. > > No, dammit! It does *not* beg another question. > > Sorry. Pet hate there. > > | In general when you do not know what package

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

On May 19, 2005 11:10 PM, Michael W. Holdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike, > I need advice, And I hope my advice is usefull :) > I have been using Gentoo on 4 machines, anf FreeBSD server for a long > time > now. Now my laptop and I will be working from a remote location 10 > days a > mont

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 03:31, James Hiscock wrote: > > Is it possible to securely access the nfs sharea, and smb shares on the > > bsd machine, or the other linux desktops like I am on teh LAN. Both ends > > use dynamic IP's, so it also has to be compatible with dyndns or > > something like that t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean

David Morgan schreef: > On 04:04 Thu 19 May , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>On Thu, 19 May 2005 01:51:23 + (UTC) James >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>| OK, but this begs another question. >> >>No, dammit! It does *not* beg another question. >> >>Sorry. Pet hate there. >> >>| In general when y

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One of the principle uses of my Gentoo box is to aggregate all of my disparate pop-3 accounts, filter spam and to provide access to the ham from my desktop and laptop using Thunderbird (both, I admit, under Windows.) In the most part I am happy with this setup (postfix, dovecot, procmail, spama

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean

On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:39:00 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Admittedly, some kind of package content search function somewhere | would be nice, but I am not sure it's possible (or somebody would | probably have done it already). It's possible to get pretty good results. It's just

[gentoo-user] Plone

Hi, I can't get plone working, i have installed zope 2.6 and i install plone activate it and restart the zope deamon it won't start there are no errors in my logs PAtrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

Patrick wrote: > I can't get plone working, i have installed zope 2.6 and i install > plone activate it and restart the zope deamon it won't start there > are no errors in my logs Your message is not clear: is Zope up and running and Plone isn't? If so, then: Did you 'zprod-manager add' and add

[gentoo-user] New Kernel

Hi everyone, I installed gentoo for the first time a month ago on my laptop no prob at all. The thing is I'd like to be able to boot on a new kernel (actually I use the 2.6.11r5) Each time I emerge --update --deep world I see that a new slot for a new kernel is available, how can I use it ?

Re: [gentoo-user] New Kernel

Am Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2005 13:41 schrieb ext Yann GARNIER: > Hi everyone, > > I installed gentoo for the first time a month ago on my laptop no > prob at all. The thing is I'd like to be able to boot on a new kernel > (actually I use the 2.6.11r5) Each time I emerge --update --deep world I > s

Re: [gentoo-user] New Kernel

On 19/05/05, Yann GARNIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I installed gentoo for the first time a month ago on my laptop no prob at > all. > The thing is I'd like to be able to boot on a new kernel (actually I use the > 2.6.11r5) > Each time I emerge --update --deep world I see

Re: [gentoo-user] New Kernel

Le jeudi 19 mai 2005 à 13:41 +0200, Yann GARNIER a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I installed gentoo for the first time a month ago on my laptop no prob at > all. > The thing is I'd like to be able to boot on a new kernel (actually I use the > 2.6.11r5) > Each time I emerge --update --deep world

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

Hi Jonathan, I'm in Los Gatos. I'd probably come to a meeting at least once in awhile. - Mark On 5/18/05, Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about > local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests. > > I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

My sentiments exactly! :-) cheers, -AR On 5/19/05, Julien Cayzac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I'm an elite. > I regard sys admins running RedHat with great respect, since this > distro is mush more difficult to maintain than Gentoo :-) They must be > some king of gurus :p > > On

[gentoo-user] New Kernel

Ok thanks guys for your help, now I know where I have to look for and what steps I got to go through... :) Again... thanks Cordialy, Yann Garnier -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] openssl-0.9.7e-r1 / perl / Net::FTP

Good morning, and apologies for the length of the post... I have run into a strange conflict using openssl-0.9.7e-r1 / perl on gentoo. An perl app that uses Net::FTP (amongst others) generates the following error when run: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7: undefined

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:10 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I need advice, > I have been using Gentoo on 4 machines, anf FreeBSD server for a long time > now. Now my laptop and I will be working from a remote location 10 days a > month. We have broadband access on both ends. > > Is it possi

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl-0.9.7e-r1 / perl / Net::FTP

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Christopher Wall wrote: > What is stranger though is when taking the source, running ./config, and > making libssl.so.0.9.7, then copying into /usr/lib the error goes away. > Commenting out Use Net::FTP; also makes that error go away, but breaks the > script. Net::FTP only

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

Walter Dnes wrote: > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other >machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel >[m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/group >wheel::10:root,waltdnes,user2 > > > - there is no /etc/suauth. I cr

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other > machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel > [m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/group > wheel::10:root,waltdnes,user2 What does /e

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl-0.9.7e-r1 / perl / Net::FTP

Yes - both via CPAN and via the perl ebuild (Net::FTP is part of the base perl dist) On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:40 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Christopher Wall wrote: > > > What is stranger though is when taking the source, running ./config, and > > making libssl.so.0.9.7, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Pingveno wrote: > If a Gentoo system uses entirely stable packages, upgrades are a simple > command away. But then you have to wait hours, even days, for much of > the system to be recompiled. It's more than most users would tolerate. > There are reasons many roll their eyes w

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to compile a 2.6 hardened-sources kernel (moving from a 2.4) -- getting gr_task_is_cabable undefined reference

Hi Chad, is your kernel hardened-sources-2.6.11-r12 by any chance? Judging from the error messages it is. You need to use 2.6.11-r13, r12 is buggy. See bug #93022 [1] hth, Max [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93022 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Pingveno wrote: > Bit of a pet peeve here: making things look easier than they really are. > I do quite a bit of emerging of packages that aren't stable yet. I have > an installation of PHP 5 that, if upgraded from its current version > (mod_php-5.0.3-r1) would cause an update

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system >> & i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, > What is the world file > if not a home made list of the packages you have installed? i

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Steve [Gentoo] schrieb: > One of the principle uses of my Gentoo box is to aggregate all of my > disparate pop-3 accounts, filter spam and to provide access to the ham > from my desktop and laptop using Thunderbird (both, I admit, under > Windows.) > > In the most part I am happy with this setup (

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

050519 darren kirby wrote: > $ echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" > ~/.bashrc ? shouldn't that be '>>' ... ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /]

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to compile a 2.6 hardened-sources kernel (moving from a 2.4) -- getting gr_task_is_cabable undefined reference

On May 19, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Max wrote: Hi Chad, is your kernel hardened-sources-2.6.11-r12 by any chance? Judging from the error messages it is. You need to use 2.6.11-r13, r12 is buggy. See bug #93022 [1] Hi Max Yes, thanks. I read the bug and that is it. -r12 seems to still be the default fo

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to compile a 2.6 hardened-sources kernel (moving from a 2.4) -- getting gr_task_is_cabable undefined reference

On May 19, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Max wrote: Hi Chad, is your kernel hardened-sources-2.6.11-r12 by any chance? Judging from the error messages it is. You need to use 2.6.11-r13, r12 is buggy. See bug #93022 [1] Hi Max Yes, thanks. I r

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

Walter Dnes wrote: > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other >machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel >[m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/group >wheel::10:root,waltdnes,user2 > > Did you modify the /etc/group fi

[gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead al

[gentoo-user] Proxy

How I use proxy ISA to install If i use the export the links is unable to use the InterNet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: > 050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: > >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system > >> & i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, > > What is the world file > > if not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

Grant wrote: > Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of > emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in > correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far > enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like > these

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

> > I've finally been able to emerge nxclient thanks to the latest > > hardened-sources update. Can anyone give me any pointers on setting > > up nxserver-freenx? nxclient looks pretty easy, but I can't find any > > instructions on the server and there doesn't seem to be anything > > relevant in

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: > I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo > problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or > has it now. > > I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a > brand new mobo in it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

On Thu, 19 May 2005 07:36:37 -0400 Kirk Lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > > I can't get plone working, i have installed zope 2.6 and i install > > plone activate it and restart the zope deamon it won't start there > > are no errors in my logs > > Your message is not clear:

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run > 'grpconv' afterwards? Normally, one would use "vigr" to edit /etc/group. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: acpi vs apm

A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > > I was just builging a kernel for an intell PIII processor. I > > initially selected 'ACPI' and not 'APM'. The kernel build failed > > with this message: > Just curious: what makes you think APM has anything to do with this? It was a wrong guess. It was the Co

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

> Depends what yardstick you are comparing against - if you've never had to > maintain RH boxes for instance you wouldn't know how much easier Gentoo > really is. Amen to that. That goes double for old hardware. Creighton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 17:31 +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 07:36:37 -0400 > Kirk Lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Patrick wrote: > > > > > I can't get plone working, i have installed zope 2.6 and i install > > > plone activate it and restart the zope deamon it won't start the

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

Grant schreef: > but could you tell me how to see what is in my path and how to add to > it? > To see what your current PATH is: echo $PATH To add to the PATH for the current session: export PATH="/additional/path:$PATH" (I think; make sure that's right-- ok, it is right, but maybe without the

[gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

Hi, Sometimes I need to apply my own patches for a specific package but still using portage advantages, so I have to change package ebuild for that. So everytime I'm going to emerge any of those after an emerge sync, I have to change it again by hand. I'm wondering if there is some better way for

[gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

Check out the prejudice in this one. . . . This guy kashani has a remarkable understanding of linux and networking aside from the current thread. On May 18, 2005, at 6:58 PM, kashani wrote: Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discriminatio

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

On Thu, 19 May 2005, A. Khattri wrote: Did you modify the /etc/group file manually, and if so, did you run 'grpconv' afterwards? Normally, one would use "vigr" to edit /etc/group. Or gpasswd. eg, "gpasswd -a $user wheel" -- That which does not kill me makes me stranger () The ASCII Ribbon Campaig

[gentoo-user] /dev/ataraid under 2.6 kernel and udev

Hi I have been running a 2.4 kernel for my backend java processing box and have a promise raid controller that uses the ataraid device under devfs. It is set to boot off of it and the lilo boot command is something like boot=/dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 This works fine. I have no compiled a 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

to a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was Us long haired Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination OOPS

Sorry list, was sending the thread to a friend who uses linux and is a bit frustrated with his current gentoo install - hit reply instead for forward . . Keith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx setup

> > but could you tell me how to see what is in my path and how to add to > > it? > > > To see what your current PATH is: > > echo $PATH > > To add to the PATH for the current session: > > export PATH="/additional/path:$PATH" (I think; make sure that's right-- > ok, it is right, but maybe witho

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 05:04 am, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On May 19, 2005 11:10 PM, Michael W. Holdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike, > > > I need advice, > > And I hope my advice is usefull :) > > > I have been using Gentoo on 4 machines, anf FreeBSD server for a long > > time > > now. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva wrote: > Sometimes I need to apply my own patches for a specific package but > still using portage advantages, so I have to change package ebuild for > that. So everytime I'm going to emerge any of those after an emerge > sync, I have to change it ag

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:00 -0700, rob3 wrote: > We are a special breed. Much like FreeBSD, but on Torvalds side of the > fence. May peace and a wonderfull feeling of elitism fill your heart. > > Sincerely, Rob. Certainly applies here. I rule. No, WE rule. Us gentooers love our linux brethern/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Tero Grundström wrote: > You can tell them that while a Gentoo user may have to wait some hours for > a new version of KDE to compile, it may be available to Gentoo users > days/weeks/months earlier than to those using other distros. Indeed. You certainly dont see this level

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

You might want to look into using the epatch function from the eutils eclass. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x

Re: [gentoo-user] +confunsub-4f6e380c30eb7d61

If you had the full headers switched on you would see this: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] 1st class documentation & user community

On Wed, 18 May 2005, John J. Foster wrote: > although > Debian did cross my mind Debian is great, as long as you dont mind waiting eons for updates or running the unstable branch instead... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Elite not discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Julien Cayzac wrote: > I regard sys admins running RedHat with great respect, since this > distro is mush more difficult to maintain than Gentoo :-) They must be > some king of gurus :p Most of the time they are very tired. Then one day they decide to install Gentoo... --

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > does bzip2 exist? you could do something like > > bzip2 -cd | tar -f "-" > > or something... Why not just bunzip2 it and then gzip the stage file instead? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Need help with subtitles in dvd-slideshow

I would like to use dvd-slideshow to make a short presentation of some digital pictures from a recent trip. Now, dvd--slideshow, itself, does work on my gentoo box. Where I am having trouble is in adding subtitles to some of the images. I am hoping that someone on this list can help me find

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

Jonathan Nichols wrote: to a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Quicktime movies

Hi, Or use/emerge mplayer with 'real' USE-flag. HTH. Rumen Myk Taylor wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >is media-libs/win32codecs-20050216 emerged with the 'quicktime' use flag >set? > >Ian K wrote: > > >>Hi. >>I have a movie "something.mov" which I really want to view un

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, May 19, 2005 3:37 pm, Philip Webb said: > 050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> What is the world file >> if not a home made list of the packages you have installed? > > it's not home-made, it's system-made: It is home made in that only files I specify to be included in it, by emerging them dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On 5/19/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 3:37 pm, Philip Webb said: > > 050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> What is the world file > >> if not a home made list of the packages you have installed? > > > > it's not home-made, it's system-made: > > It is home mad

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

050519 Tero Grundstr?m wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system -- various snips -- > I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. > At the moment it is a mess because of that *too*. yes, that's a 2

[gentoo-user] mozsvg question...

Hi All- I'm trying to view some SVG files via mozilla-firefox. I have mozilla and mozilla-firefox compiled with USE="mozsvg" and have verified this using `equery uses mozilla-firefox`: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddr4179 # equery uses mozilla-firefox > [ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox...

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

I'm trying to use HAL91 floppy distro. Its tar also doesn't support '-j' option, but has bunzip. So, 1st I bzunipped and the using tar. I'm still in the process of trying to install gentoo... askar On 5/19/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Hello all, > I am setting up a way to have my laptop automatically get a correct ip > address. > > When I am at my office, I have a fixed ip; at home (on a > private network) I use dhcp. > I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

David D. Rea wrote: >On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: > > >>I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo >>problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or >>has it now. >> >>I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop h

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. > > At the moment it is a mess because of that *too*. > > yes, that's a 2nd issue with the current state of things. Not that it matters much unless you spend great amounts of time looking at

[gentoo-user] Managing meetings

Hello, I'm looking for a software that helps managing meeting and tasks. I want it to be light and simple and have a version on both Linux and Windows. Can you recommend such a software. By the way, what is the right word for such a software, calender? organizer? Thanks, Yuval -- gentoo-user@ge

[gentoo-user] Changing user's Java VM

Hey, ho-- So I used java-config to switch the user's (my) Java VM from blackdown to Sun (blackdown is only 1.4.2 but Azureus prefers 1.5). I don't want to change the whole system VM (because I'm a big chicken). But anyway, when I switch VMs with java-config, I get this message: $ java-config -s

[gentoo-user] thunderbird can't open web links on KDE

Hi guys, I have some users using Thunderbird in KDE instead of KMAIl. Well, the problem is that Thunderbird doesn't open any link that comes in the mail message. I've tryed to setup KDE default programs for browser and mail respectively to thunderbird and firefox but even with that changes (I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing user's Java VM

On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:32, Holly Bostick wrote: > $ java-config -s sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.03 > Env files in /home/motub/.gentoo updated. Source these in your > shell's profile. > > Am I the only one who doesn't know quite what to do at this point? > I did figure it out, but I don't find this messa

[gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

Hi, After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to re-emerge some kernelmodules (madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do this emerge removes the module from the /lib/modules/... from the old kernel version. Is there a way to make emerge keep the old version as well so I can boot the old k

[gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do I fix it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird can't open web links on KDE

Claudinei Matos wrote: >Hi guys, > >I have some users using Thunderbird in KDE instead of KMAIl. Well, the >problem is that Thunderbird doesn't open any link that comes in the >mail message. I've tryed to setup KDE default programs for browser and >mail respectively to thunderbird and firefox but

Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers

Hi A., on Thursday, 2005-05-19 at 13:59:38, you wrote: > > I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want something really > > automatic, [...] > > iface_eth0="dhcp" > > ifconfig_eth0=( "dhcp" "194.199.136.151" ) > > [...] > # esearch quickswitch Yeah, I guess he knew that ;-) I'm just wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

> > I've only done the discriminating based on other people's non use of > Gentoo. :-) My brother's father-in-law has just retired and spends all his time in front of his computer. I have tried to get him onto linux but am a little too far away to do it effectively. His son has a mate that i

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

quoth the Philip Webb: > 050519 darren kirby wrote: > > $ echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" > ~/.bashrc > > ? > shouldn't that be '>>' ... ? > > -- > ,, > SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

On Thu, 19 May 2005 13:51:49 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > BTW the response "if you do 'emerge -blah world' everything's hunky- > dory" ignores the fact that some -- most ? -- users don't want to > update 'world', which can take hours, eg if OpenOffice is one of the > pkgs in 'world' (currently ther

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > >> > Well, this is more a repost than an answer ... >> > antonio >> > >> By the way, i'm using gnome-2.8.3 ... > > OK, Ill bite ;-) > > Google really is your friend. > > Apparently, /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 15:41 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > try /etc/rc.conf it is well commented. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

perhaps if you continue to have problems you could give a more thorough explanation of the symptoms. Like, is the clock racing ahead or behind? Is it just set to the wrong time on boot, but goes fine after it is set? On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:03 -0700, rob3 wrote: > David D. Rea wrote: > > >On Th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

--- Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to > re-emerge some kernelmodules > (madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do this > emerge removes the module > from the /lib/modules/... from the old kernel > version. Is there a way to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > > Say you switched from kernel A to kernel B: What exactly is A and what B ? antonio -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > > I fix it? > > > > > Say you switched from kernel A

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:41:26PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? Sounds like something to do more with baselayout than with the kernel. The big qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > perhaps if you continue to have problems you could give a more thorough > explanation of the symptoms. > > Like, is the clock racing ahead or behind? Is it just set to the wrong > time on boot, but goes fine after it is set? > > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:03 -07

[gentoo-user] font parth reference

When starting X I get: Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Why do I get this error message, is it because there are no fonts in those direc

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: >> >> > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking >> > it trying to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:41:26PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > > I fix it? > > Sounds like something to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > >> > >> > I didn't change any

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

> try #env-update and check "/etc/ld.so.conf" > it should be there, if not try to add it manually, run #ldconfig and > reemerge "sys-apps/baselayout". > Also I've heared of problems with this last one lately try to check the > forum ;) Nope, no sigar.. Actually the ldconfig checks the /lib and /u

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: >> >> > On 5/19/05, Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >

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