RE: [gentoo-user] Style Compile Error

2005-05-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> This thread seems to pertain to emerge compilations rathre than manual > ones. > Next time, please also point to the step as opposed to only the thread. Well, since offering some assistance seems to trigger a rude response from you, perhaps next time we'll let you do your own research rather tha

RE: [gentoo-user] DVD burning with nfs+

2005-05-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Using K3b I can burn it as .img or iso9660, cdrecord-ProDVD now > complains the 'key' has expired and all Mr Schilling's readme pages are > now password/username locked, so I don't know if that has any magic in > it. > All (legal and decent) ideas considered. I use the following script via a

RE: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sometimes there are environmental differences that are not immediately obvious between executing a command at the shell vs. within a cron task. A great hint I saw was to use the 'sys-process/at' package's command to schedule the script to run some time in the future. Then go to the /var/spool/at

RE: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav You cannot mount audio cd's under normal circumstances (there are some exceptions to this general rule, but you normally have to install stuff in order to get that functionality). In the case where you mentioned that you could mount an audio cd, I would

RE: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Trying to remove any MTAs from my system... Normal unix OS's require an MTA to be defined. Portage has virtual mta placeholders that define the MTA that is installed on the system (i.e. I'm using postfix). If you don't have an MTA installed (which you don't), portage knows that the MTA is mis

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> There were some changes to the tool chain which means that distcc wont > work across different x86 archs (e.g., athlon and pentium) and the devs > wont change it (marked as WONT FIX on the bug). Hmm, I haven't heard anything about this and have been using distcc on an x86 & athlon network. Eac

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> read the bug :) - the bug numbers in the email, or search the forums > like I did. What a pain. I'm sure the change was meant to solve another problem, but it's unfortunate that it broke distcc in the process. > Are you sure its building? distcc connects to the machine in question, > but doe

[gentoo-user] OT: Stopping postfix error emails...

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sorry for the OT question, but here goes... I've set up the reject_unauth_destination in the smtpd_recipient_restrictions in postfix.conf because I was getting hammered with incoming mail to invalid users. I figured that by rejecting these messages the spammers on the other end might take the add

RE: [gentoo-user] can't ping myself when iptables running

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I found out that when I run iptables rule below: [snip] > ip address of the nic connected to the modem is not pinged. > But I don't set any restriction for icmp??? Depends upon what your default policy is defined as. If the default policy is DENY then you must specifically include an ACCEPT ru

RE: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). > I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times > before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" and XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf . I'm out of > ideas, bu

[gentoo-user] OT: Mailing list reply to addresses and reporting?

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm running postfix on my local box and recently got pflogsumm running to generate daily postfix reports. It's working really well and I'm getting daily reports on the status of my postfix email system. The only downside is that of the mangled reply to addresses used by the gentoo mailing list.

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
I updated world yesterday which gave me a new com_err release. Saw the notice about running revdep-rebuild fly by when I did it but ignored it because I've never really needed to do this before. Soon thereafter I could not ssh to the box because of the missing libcom_err.so.3 file and realized th

[gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...

2005-06-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I installed kudzu-knoppix some time back (I can't remember why). With the issues yesterday re: revdep-rebuild, r-r wanted to update kudzu-knoppix. Well, kudzu-knoppix failed to build because of issues with the linux headers. Rather than trying to resolve the problem and since I really didn't need

RE: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...

2005-06-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> -Original Message- > From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:49 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove > the package... > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005,

RE: [gentoo-user] Can not reach log in screen in X

2005-07-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Check the output from dmesg; from what I remember failures with the nvidia module will get logged here. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] IPtables statefull connection capable

2005-07-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
> If I'm correct then iptables is statefull connection capable, this means I > should not use rules like: > If state of connection is ESTABLISHED ... > If state of connection is RELATED ... Stateful connection means that you can have a simple rule up front to allow for established and related conn

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
On a run of revdep-rebuild I get the following output: butthead ~ # revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

RE: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use "emerge > > --emptytree --deep --newuse world", and portage won't complain that > > packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly > > in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage > > itself. >

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Try to adjust those variables: > > > > HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history > > HISTFILESIZE=500 > > HISTSIZE=500 > > I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they > were written into my home dir .bash_history, along > with the exit command to get back to user-space. So I > ran

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Then set the same environment variables in your > > current shell and they > > should stick. > > Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of > ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o So if you do "ls -l .bash*" in your home directory, what's the output? -- gentoo-user@

[gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I did a sync last night and gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 wants to be emerged. Got the kernel ok, but it needs genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2. I've searched a number of the mirrors and so far haven't found it. Anyone out there know where I can find it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Thanks! Worked like a charm! The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released before the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... Wouldn't the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild? > Daniel Drake is responsible for the genpatches: > http:

RE: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Dave Nebinger wrote: > > The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released > before > > the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... > Wouldn't > > the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild? > > I alway

RE: [gentoo-user] GENTOO_MIRRORS

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Noodling around I found a gentoo server at: > http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ > > I'm not sure if I can use this in my make.conf file? If it's complete you should be able to use it. If it's not a publicized mirror then there could be many reasons why. For example, they might not s

RE: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> A number of times > that I've looked at change logs it turns out that 3 or 4 of these > changes are to fix things on other architecture while for me they are > just compile jobs. Maybe I'm too cynical or maybe it's from experience but in either case I can tell you as a developer the change log o

RE: [gentoo-user] rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I did not see what determines what (during a 24 hour > period) controls the time the internal rsync mirror > goes out to update the files? Obviously I only > want the rsync internal server to update once a day. Following that document means that you are exporting the /usr/portage directory on t

RE: [gentoo-user] Sound priority @ boot

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> "I notice that on my laptop, my KDE startup sound is quite garbled. > (Only when starting up). Im guessing that this is due to heavy resource > use. I was wondering though, how I could go about giving Arts or whatever > it is, a higher priority at boot so it doesn't sound so bad." I would guess

RE: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working > on: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. While the document is a good and short intro to MySQL, I still have to ask "why?" Aren't there enough similar good short introducti

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey, all. Suffered power outtage yesterday. Not much of a big deal as > the > > ups brought the system down on battery... > > > > That's the good news. The bad news is that, upon system boot, my dhcp- > based > > eth0 interface no

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK on the local rsync server I added this to automate the daily > task of rsync(ing) > # Rsync entries > # > 30 1 * * * root emerge sync Unless you want to receive the daily email full of all kinds of funky characters, I'd redirect the output from emerge to a file. On my boxen I call 'dailysyn

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > and last run this daily on the server to keep it current? > > emerge -uDva world && repcacheman I forgot to mention that if your primary system is using the http replicator then it shouldn't be necessary to run repcacheman after each emerge. Repcacheman will a) ensure that packages retrieved v

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Don't know if the problem you're having is related > to the one I had with 3rd party usb adsl modem init script > but try to add related modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Nope. I consider the networking support critical enough to warrant being compiled into the kernel rather than lo

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCD with rdiff-backup?

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am using rdiff-backup for my full system backups. Of course, it would > be annoying if I had to use it to do a full restore. I would need a > LiveCD with rdiff-backup on it. > > I am assuming the gentoo install cd's dont have this. I have looked at > knoppix, it is not on those. Any ideas? Su

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK but can't I do that with a simple mode to the /etc/crontab ?: > 30 1 * * * root emerge sync 2>&1 > ? Yes, but I do a little more in my script and want the pieces to be synchronized. As you saw in the script not only do I emerge sync but I also update the eix and esearch databases (both are

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I guess I have to run emerge sync and emerge -uD world on each client > still, > but they use the http replicator instead of gentoo servers for both > updating the portage/rsync files and downloading the distfiles (via the > http > replicator)? In the case of distfiles and sync's, you're sti

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I've been considering adding an "emerge --fetchonly" line to the script > but > > don't yet have the warm and fuzzies about the http-replicator script. > > Yes, well I'm going to go slowly with this > until I have the warm feeling and some > happy experience over time. > I'd be interested in k

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What's the dhcp server? A router or a computer? I had the same > problem, my router refused to give me the dhcp response upon reboot, > rebooting the router itself solved the problem, its like the router > refuses to give dhcp right after the lease of the client. > > Maybe check the configuratio

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Thanks for the scripts and help! That's what we're here for ;-) > When I roll out a new TCP/IP based data-logger > (hopefully this fall) it'll take sensor inputs and control a few outputs. > No humans will use the devices for anything other than interfacing > sensors and collecting data. As wi

RE: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Excrement out of luck, but use the standard slang curse word instead of excrement. ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Methinks your indescretions and prejudices against micros, is insensitive > to the future, sensate possibilitys of micros and the things they inhabit. > micros are entering the human body at an alarming rate. Don't you thing > we need mechanisms to keep their interal code robust and current? > Na

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. > How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful > at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other > sytems? /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp contains the timestamp for

RE: [gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
My immediate guess would be a routing issue. What's the routing definition for when eth1 is up vs down? Issue the 'route' command as root and send us the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
/sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > What about routing? As root run: > > $ route > # route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 > eth1 > loopback* 255.0.0.0 U

RE: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Missed the original post but it sounds similar to what I had run into awhile back. Sorry I don't remember what I did exactly but the problem was basically with the fonts, not OO in particular. Now I don't remember exactly but re-emerging the font packages (freetype specifically and possibly fontc

[gentoo-user] Init script dependency creation?

2005-07-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got a Sangoma ADSL card that needs wanpipe to run before starting rp-pppoe. Having seen the /etc/init.d files, dependencies can be declared within the scripts themselves to make sure a dependency is satisfied before the script starts. I want to create such a dependency in /etc/init.d/rp-pppo

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired > automatically by fcron? You missed the message that flew by when emerging fcron... Fcron includes the /etc/cron.* directories but does not install cron jobs for them automatically, and it does not support /etc/crontab (as other crons do). You need t

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > # Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed > # Only generate emails on errors... > !nolog(true) Oops, this nolog bit comes from my crontab and is not normally put in. I added it because I hated getting emails for regular runs. If you choose to include it, add "!reset"

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. > Any suggestions? Your problem is going to be the incremental enabling thing you'd like to do. If you add a new USE flag later on, you need to emerge with the newuse flag which will result in a larger emerge than what you e

RE: [gentoo-user] Digest verification Failed

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Anyone know why the digests are failing so frequently? Are they packaged > poorly? Is it the mirror I'm getting them from? But then that begs the > question, aren't the mirrors synchronized and MD5 verified with each > other? > Shouldn't TCP/IP be safe in that it retries a packet until it gets it

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Success? > > cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README > > > > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. > Last chance to quit, starting real write2 seconds. > cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. > cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty a

RE: [gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...

2005-07-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i > given size. I have tried > find /home -type d -size +5k > and > find /home -type d -size +5k -iname "*" > Both without much success... find will not calculate folder sizes (as you've already seen). You'll need to u

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Well, sarcasm is fine (I deserve it). However, you have helped me uncover > a simple but profound problem. Sorry, James, that was my fault. I had jumped in mid-stream and hadn't realized it was an ongoing thread... Trust me there was no sarcasm intended. As far as the man page for cdrecord, i

[gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan on using as the windows drive. Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding lin

RE: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ Just to be on the safe side I'd try:

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc and iptables

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What is the best way to configure iptables in a way, so that spefic > hosts may connect to distccd ? The following command should do it if you substitute the () with your local values. iptables -I INPUT -i (network interface) -p tcp -s (src ip addr) --dport 3632 -j ACCEPT -- gentoo-user@gent

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc and iptables

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> but distcc doesn't work ... Ah, did you edit /etc/conf.d/distccd to add the --allow and --listen options? If you don't specifically enable them the remote system will not be able to get to distcc on the box. Locally I use a line as follows to enable the internal lan to hit distccd: DISTCCD_OP

RE: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly > is causing the problem? Did you try the revdep-rebuild -p to see if there are any broken dependencies? Did your files in /etc/conf.d get updated? Is your session stuff correct in /etc/rc.conf? Any messages in the syslog or

RE: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Although i do not quite understand what you are saying: (copy from > /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2) -> do you mean,: "copy from /dev/hdb1 that is > mounted on /mountpoint1 to /dev/hda2 that is mounted on mountpoint > /mountpoint2"? > > If that is the case, then a simple: cp -R /boot /new-boot-location

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
James wrote: is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop it and start it again: /etc/init.d/ntpd start fails. "/etc/init.d/ntpd zap" to clear out the invalid status, then do the 'start' again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] stubborn distcc compile on localhost

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
How is it shown file is compiled on localhost despite: halinka ~ # distcc-config --get-hosts 192.168.0.2 Where of course localhost != 192.168.0.2 Any ideas what am I doing wrong ? I think you need to add a line to your compile hosts like: localhost/0 I believe this informs distcc not to try

[gentoo-user] Why does portage want to downgrade?

2006-02-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Here's the skinny: I updated iptables from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 this weekend. Everything's cool. Next 'emerge --update --deep world' wants to downgrade iptables back to 1.3.4. So I add '--tree' to see what package wants it downgraded, and it's shorewall. I opened the shorewall ebuild, and it ha

Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Iain Buchanan wrote: etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' Any ideas? How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Francesco Riosa wrote: How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every corner you could look at it ? How about because that is set from the default installation and that 95% of the folks on this l

Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Rumen Yotov wrote: Or how about the fact that glibc 2.3.6-r3 (as 2.3.6 in general) is masked in Portage indicating that you should expect problems if you're going to build your box on an unstable version of glibc? Please don't scare me, it's in testing (not masked). At least 2.3.6-r2|3. ->*2.3

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work? You don't need to report success. There are teams of folks who 'bless' the packages into unmasked status when they feel they are ready. Your lack of reporting a bug is an indication that there is nothing t

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I hate how emerge / portage calls a missing keyword "masked". It's really not the same thing as being in package.mask (so called "hard-masked"). [snip] Right now, we see package.mask, -*, and sometimes even ~ARCH being used to indicate instability from upstream.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
Uwe Thiem wrote: 3. because it is always better to have too much ram/swap then too little Nnnnot always. There are circumstances when you do not want swap at all. This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. Your example of having a real-time responsive app requiri

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
Richard Fish wrote: On 2/23/06, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. No, it isn't. For my single-user laptop with 2G of RAM, I actually prefer that the OOM kill any runaway process that is gobbling

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
Nick Smith wrote: i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin, and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but how

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you from having to know what's best for you. That's a little harsh, Ciaran. I did the linux from scratch thing. Had a lot of fun with it. Enjoyed being down in the bowels of the linux system and the

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Why should "prozilla or some other tool" make the download be faster? When I download something with wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always maxing out the saturation of the line. On my 1Gig line on my workstation at work it's usually _not_ saturizing the line.

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Harry Putnam wrote: in package.provided: cvs-emacs-24 [snip] emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this just a typo on your part? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron

2006-03-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, i´m trying to automate a proccess with vixie-cron, so I edit the /etc/crontab file, and after run crontab /etc/crontab, i look into the log (/var/log/crond/current) and the following message apears: [cron] (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/crontab) and my task was not exe

RE: [gentoo-user] Installation

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have yet to figure out what the 'topmost build error' is. The > Gentoo website doesn't offer much in the way of error messages. > If someone could post some links/sources for beginners to read, > I would be appreciative. In your output you'll generally see errors generated by gcc or ld, somet

RE: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> #man -k mkdir | sort a | uniq > > mkdir(1) - make directories > mkdir(2) - create a directory > mkdirhier(1x) - makes a directory hierarchy Sure, this kind of thing will work, but there's still a fundamental question at work here... Why does makew

RE: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
My problem with my netgear dsl modem/router is how difficult it is to script against... Even doing simple things like trying to wget the status page in order to determine what my external ip address is a pain in the ass. And you really can't script changes to the thing in any way that I could fig

RE: [gentoo-user] fsck problems

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> If I run 'fsck -n /dev/hda3' I'm told that there are some errors: > > fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > Warning! /dev/hda3 is mounted. > /dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Inode 131170, i_blocks is

RE: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> All I can say is that from my point of view, I haven't done anything > to break it & the man pages are not double installed. Sorry, Maxim, I wasn't trying to infer that you had done anything to make this happen. Same thing occurs on my gentoo boxen. It's only a minor annoyance so I haven't pos

RE: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> # whereis mkdir > mkdir: > /bin/mkdir > /usr/bin/mkdir > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkdir > /usr/bin/X11/mkdir > /usr/man/man1/mkdir.1.gz > /usr/man/man2/mkdir.2.gz > /usr/man/man1p/mkdir.1p.gz > /usr/man/man3p/mkdir.3p.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/mkdir.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man2/mkdir.2.gz > /usr/share/man/man

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the > --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I > dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the > email from cron contains a lot of control codes. Here's how I accomplish

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Is there a way to query my > router for DNS information and use that instead of the > two hard-coded IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf? Here > is the /etc/resolv.conf file on my server box: > > domain espersunited.com > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > nameserver 24.116.0.160 > nameserver 24.116.0.202 >

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I've never looked at this code before, nor this language. So I'm sure I > screwed it up... Well let's get that loaded right into production then ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Here's a good starting reference that might help: http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Here's a good starting reference that might help: > > http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html > > Thanks Dave. Lots and lots of info in that article. MythTV holds up > pretty well from a quick reading. The only thing that I didn't see was a video card recommendation w/ stable and supported vi

RE: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK...This is going to sound like a really dumb question, but I'm really > new at this, but liking it so far... > > I've heard (and believe) that the Mac OS is built on a Linux kernel. > Is this true? If so, does that mean that Macintosh\Apple compatible > software can be installed on a Gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] web-browser out port

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Is there a standard port the web-browser connection is going OUT (to > internet) on? No. Any unprivileged port is available for use as an outgoing connection and they are assigned by the OS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging PHP 4.3.11

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > libtool: link: cannot find the library > > `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' To fix: # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> If I were to buy again I'd probably go for the pvr350 and get the tv > out and hardware mpeg decoder, its worth the little extra money in my > opinon. According to http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html, the 350 is not necessarily worth the cost. Begin quote: Another popular capture card is

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Little update on what I said about the VIA mini-itx boards. Been > looking at them a little. Thie via EPIA SP, one of their newest > boards has a graphic processor with integrated MPEG-2 decoder and > MPEG-4 accelerator, not 100% sure what that is. > http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_sp_sp

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid > module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers. The installation process builds and installs kernel modules under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/... So under r5 it can find the modules,

RE: [gentoo-user] What's with the runlevels?

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Anyways, the question is, how do I make xdm start in runlevel 5 and not > in runlevel 3? I can't even init 3 to exit the X server. I did Your /etc/inittab file probably has runlevels 3 & 5 mapped to default. Create a new directory in /etc/runlevels named console. Do the rc-update to install con

RE: [gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I just can't get my head around why you would want or need to do a total > > rebuild. > I myself can't imagine _wanting_ to do a rebuild, but needing to, yes. > Flood, tornado, theft, etc . > > Users have work to do. Let's see, what's my SAMBA configuration? And > those SQL databases l

[gentoo-user] OT: Capturing caller id data...

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got caller id on my home phone line. Is there a way to throw a modem on my gentoo box in order to capture and log the caller id data? I don't want to set up a pbx or answering machine or anything like that, I just want to capture the incoming caller id info. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

RE: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? > Boot from live cd, mount and execute ch

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending local mail to my server box

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> The computer I use mainly is called baby.espersunited.com My server box > is called bullet.espersunited.com. I don't have any kind of local DNS > for my network, just /etc/host files (each computer has a copy of the > same file) I want baby's local mail to be sent to bullet so that I can > ret

RE: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I love the good old vi Now referred to as 'vim'. Change your script to emerge vim and everything will be back on track. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> emerge -pv vim > > It seems to respond to vi at the command line. I had the same question > a couple of days ago... It only seems the same. There was a vi package (don't remember the origins of it), but it was only a basic vi implementation. Vim is Vi-iMproved and includes all the nice featur

RE: [gentoo-user] tweaking USE settings

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Did I miss something? Nope, you hit the nail on the head. > How do I check (command syntax) that the profile is actually updated ? ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. > How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still > have 2004.x in the path names instead

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> # iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j DROP > # iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT > # iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT I'm still working through my iptables for my home router, but I think you need to

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