[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 12 March 2006 01:20, Walter Dnes wrote: >   Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2?  Or > emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)?  After the > "ipv6" fiasco, I began USE with "-*", like so... I think we are seeing a misinterpretation/bug. Apache2 fl

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Alan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > I'm having a problem with dvdrip. I emerged it and when I try to run it > it just says: > > [filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode... > > but it never actually does anything. That message will stay ther

[gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to particular bugs in the packages? Regards, and thanks, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Bind Questions...

2006-03-12 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi All,   I am facing one problem. Here is a message log from server1(Master DNS) and server2(Slave DNS) on domain guru.com   =SERVER1.GURU.COM=== Mar 12 15:40:57 server1 kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0366c20(lo) Mar 12 15:40:57 server1

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [SOLVED] reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

2006-03-12 Thread Peter
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:14:51 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do): yes >>> Oh yes, Ryan was not splitting hairs. "Yes" must be entered just like it >>> asks. Capital Y e s. >>> >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With vhost.conf apache2

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Haim, Thanks for the help. That is now working :-D Haim Ashkenazi wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:33 +, Tito Valentin wrote: Hello All, I am trying to get apache to work with a few vhost. The problem is that when I hit www.domain.com it shows the apache page rather than the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless machine

2006-03-12 Thread Mattias Merilai
Stefan Istvan wrote: Hello! I've tried to setup a diskless environment based on this howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml When the client starts booting and try to download the kernel, it says that it is not a valid image. Why? Thank you for your help in advance, Istvan

[gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Hello All, Does anyone know why when I go to my website and click on the links within my site the url still stays the same? For example: if I go to www.my_web_site.com and click on the link "messages" within my site, the url is still www.my_web_site.com rather than www.my_web_site.com/phpbb

[gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test but I get the following error messages: ssh: connect to host lkd5f port 22: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: er

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: > Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of > switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to > particular bugs in the packages? > No. Gentoo's "stable" and "testing" refers to the /ebuilds/, not the packages. I'm not a dev, but

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Paul, You could try it like this: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test -e ssh lkd5f:/test Also, make sure that your other machine allows you to connect via ssh ...hope this helps Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command: rsync -Cav --delete --progr

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:20:38 -0500 Tito Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why when I go to my website and click on the links > within my site the url still stays the same? For example: if I go to > www.my_web_site.com and click on the link "messages" within my site, t

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 12 Mar 2006 13:06, Tito Valentin wrote: > Paul, > > You could try it like this: > > rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test -e ssh lkd5f:/test > > Also, make sure that your other machine allows you to connect via ssh > ...hope this helps I tried it as you suggested but get the same errors.

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Does the machine belong to you? If so check if sshd is running like "ps -eaf | grep ssh" If not, you may need to check with the Admin of the machine. Also, your ip might be listed in the /etc/hosts.deny files to reject any unrecognized ip's. You might need to be added to the hosts.allow.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, > > Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy of > > switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due to > > particular bugs in the packages? > > > No. Gentoo's "stable" and "testing" refers to the /ebuilds/, not

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Tito Valentin
Hans, It is showing a framset in my page when I view page source. How would I be able to correct this? If I hit the test site I can see all the paths but when I host it live I CANNOT see the paths in the url. Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:20:38 -0500 Tito Valentin <[

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 12 Mar 2006 13:30, Tito Valentin wrote: > Does the machine belong to you? If so check if sshd is running like "ps > -eaf | grep ssh" If not, you may need to check with the Admin of the > machine. Also, your ip might be listed in the /etc/hosts.deny files to > reject any unrecognized ip

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
060312 Marco Calviani wrote: > At the root of my question there was the need to understand > why kde 3.5.1 packages are still testing > even if there aren't critical bugs at bugs.gentoo.org My experience is that the Gentoo KDE devs are rather conservative & tend to leave versions in 'testing' a bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Reasons for testing or stable of kde packages

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Marco Calviani schreef: > Hi Holly, and thanks for your clear explanation, > >>> Hi list, i would like to have clarification regarding the policy >>> of switching packages from testing to stable. Is this policy due >>> to particular bugs in the packages? >>> >> No. Gentoo's "stable" and "testin

[gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Keats
Hi, here is my problem : i have acces to my remote server and i want to install gentoo on it. the problems are : -during the install process i can only boot in a rescue mode with 32bit linux 2.4 kernel -my remote processor is a xeon with 64bits if during the installation i choose to use s

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 157182712 Tito Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans, > > It is showing a framset in my page when I view page source. How would I > be able to correct this? If I hit the test site I can see all the paths > but when I host it live I CANNOT se

[gentoo-user] Re: Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread james
Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > The whole point behind "-*" is to prevent future "surprises". > Yesterday it was emboss and ipv6. Today it's apache2. What's next; and > when? One reason I'm using Gentoo is because I want the maximum control > over my machine that's possible without going

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sunday 12 March 2006 17:02, Keats wrote: > Hi, > > here is my problem : > i have acces to my remote server > and i want to install gentoo on it. > > the problems are : > -during the install process i can only boot in a rescue mode with 32bit > linux 2.4 kernel -my remote processor is a xeon with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Keats
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:38:21 +0200 Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Have you tried booting with install-ia64-minimal-2006.0 CD ? it's 56 MB. > Afterwards you could use "stage3-ia64-2006.0.tar.bz2". > HTH.Rumen > i can't boot on a medium it's a remote server, i can't physicaly acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 161979872 Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if i choose to boot a stage3-x86 and do my install wwith it... when > i'll reboot, i ll not be able to make an upgrade to 64bit api cause > my kernel will be in 32 bits... > > is there any solution ? th

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Paul Stear wrote: In KDE I can copy files using Konqueror to lan://pc2/ which shows my device.homenet.com. If I then click on the device I get 3 icons NFS SMB HTTP If I click on SMB the location changes to smb://device.homenet.com and I can copy any files I want - even link

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type

2006-03-12 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 147007040 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows > under Wine if there is no app under linux. > > Thanks, > > Jim FYI, this did not work :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

[gentoo-user] Evolution mail sorting

2006-03-12 Thread Ash Varma
Hi. I would like to configure Evolution to sort mail similar to GMail.. ie. Threaded, but if a message arrives as part of a thread, it is promoted to the top of the mailbox.. Is this possible ? Thanks Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 01:45, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': > Another thing (issue) is with virtual/x11. > Had to put "virtual/x11-6.8" in package.provided to be able to emerge > again. Rumen That's a work around for the trans

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 02:43, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help': > A couple of options. > > - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or | emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)? Uh, USE flags are not packages. You're misunderstanding how USE flags work. Adding apache2 an

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:51, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 "Walter Dnes" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or > | em

[gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges: Operation not permitted 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished, exiting If I run it as root m

[gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-12 Thread Mick
Hi All, Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: > > ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs > > at boot time, I get this error message: > > > > 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root > > pri

[gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread michael
hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? Here is the dmesg usb section. The mice are usb 3-1 and usb 3-2: ehci_hcd :00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 ehci_hcd :00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned b

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > hiya, > > I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no > /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? If you're using udev, the devices should be found in /dev/input/mice. At least that's where mine is. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse detected, but no /dev/mice

2006-03-12 Thread michael
There they are, and they both work. I feel so dumb. Thanks very much Holly, Michael On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: hiya, I have two USB mice. Dmesg shows them being detected, but there is no /dev/mice nor /dev/mouse. Any suggestions? If you're using

[gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread JimD
Hey group, My trusty old computer died tonight :( I am stuck with my winders laptop for a few days until I can get in a new mobo and processor. I am looking at getting something like an AMD 64 or a Pentium D dual core. I can get one of the two models below for a really good price on newegg.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great euse tool) euse -D . Or, for those type A personalities out there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. Another tool is ufed (use flag editor). Nicely combines flag name, set state, a

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-12 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting" for you. Just tried acidrip which is mplayer bas

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 23:23 -0500, JimD wrote: > Hey group, > > My trusty old computer died tonight :( I _wish_ mine would die, then I could justify an upgrade ;) Maybe it will have an ... accident! > Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual > Core,EM64T Processo

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:43, David Corbin wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: > > > ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs > > > at boot time, I get this error message: > > > > > > 12 Mar

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
Roy Wright wrote: > > This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use > flags. I'd like > to know: > > * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have > installed. > * Which use flags are deprecated. > * Which use flags are new. > > Ideally I'd just add this

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread JimD
Iain Buchanan wrote: I wish mine would die, then I could justify an upgrade ;) Maybe it will have an ... accident! Just spill a little coffe and you should be all set :) I just bought an Pentium D 830 (Dual core 3.0 GHz, seems nicely fast :) for a friend's upgrade. It went with an Asrock 77

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 00:59, "JimD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination': > > Whatever you do, don't go HT. It's not worth the effort. > > By HT do you mean AMD 64 Hyper-Transport or Pentium Hyper-Threading? Hyper-Transport = the shit [1] Hyper-Threading =