Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
OK, thanks I will try that and see what it does. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update -

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
eader -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip" on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
ev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6 USE="..." > > That goes for both stable and ~arch portage. > > > -- > Bo Andresen -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] unable to merge courier-authlib-0.58

2007-01-13 Thread John covici
e, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread John Blinka
s. It's been grinding away most of today in insn-attrb and has accumulated a couple of hours of cpu time in the process. It'll probably be done by Monday or Tuesday. Just start the emerge then go away and ignore it. It'll finish eventually. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/HTML-Tree-3.1901.tar.gz' Resolving www.cpan.org... 66.39.76.93 Connecting to www.cpan.org|66.39.76.93|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 06:59:55 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download 'HTML-Tree-3.1

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
OK, that did it -- I put it in my gentoo mirrors as well. on Wednesday 01/17/2007 Kent Fredric([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On 1/17/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. I am having difficulty emerging this package which is needed for > > spamassassin and othe

[gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
h file `lftp-3.4.6.tar.gz'. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
I just resynced this morning, so I didn't figure on that. on Tuesday 01/16/2007 Randy Barlow([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:42 -0500, John covici wrote: > > No such file `lftp-3.4.6.tar.gz'. > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
Except that this time its not in distfiles.gentoo.org -- it tried that first. on Wednesday 01/17/2007 Kent Fredric([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On 1/17/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I try to emerge lftp I get > > Connecting to lftp.yar.ru|193.233.4

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
is 3.5.7 or something like that. > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:42:20 +0100, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I try to emerge lftp I get > > Connecting to lftp.yar.ru|193.233.48.66|:21... connected. > > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! >

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 01/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:24, John covici wrote: > > Except that this time its not in distfiles.gentoo.org -- it tried that > > first. > > Except is is. You must have typoed. What did you set y

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 01/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:32, John covici wrote: > > It is GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles > > ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo"; but neither place has it. >

[gentoo-user] ckermit version

2007-01-17 Thread John covici
on is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ckermit version

2007-01-17 Thread John covici
OK, that worked except I had to do a digest command and gentoo actually had no 211 at all -- it had to get it from columbia. I will file a bug later. on Thursday 01/18/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Thursday 18 January 2007 00:05, John covici wrote: > > Hi. Wh

[gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread John covici
base version specified. So in the above example, we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're

[gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
ame to the fully qualified name using the hostname command, but gentoo still says unknown domain name when I log in, so I am not sure this is correct. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it?

[gentoo-user] single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot

2007-01-21 Thread John covici
on Sunday 01/21/2007 »Q«([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > In <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before > > the runlevel default started by adding single to my b

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
located in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1, not in /usr/lib. Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix my system? (Other than put in soft links to the needed libraries.) John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the .la files or create symlinks. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 So, how does one edit a .la file? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
they contained mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@ Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character on the left wil

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually convert your binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that your *main* machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU power. That implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
one called "poke" and "peek"works on all unixes i've found so far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch, and the "poke" part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a particular argument to share the :0 display. On Dec 29, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up" | dd of=target.tar.gz tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the use of dd. All you n

[gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480. So I ran xorgconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:40 AM, C. Beamer wrote: John Jolet wrote: Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-sta

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 31, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: tar outputs to stdout by default, Not always. From man tar -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout) So "-f -" is unnecessary, but

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread John Jolet
The file /etc/default/tar contains a list of tape devices. So on Solaris 2.8 if -f is not specified and $TAPE is not set, which it isn't by default, then tar will use a tape device *not* stdin/stdout Steve -- Thanks, Steve. This is the point I was trying to make, but I'm at home with on

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote: Before I submit a bug report, has anyone had a similar experience ? Does anyone have anything to suggest to try first ? I did an emerge kdebase-startkde and didn't see any errors, but the kicker doesn't seem to exist...so maybe it failed and I j

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi

2006-01-03 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netr

Re: [gentoo-user] cron help

2006-01-03 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Let's play everyone's favorite game, "What did Kris do wrong"? ;-) I've been working on a set of scripts to utilize Mark Lyon's gml (Google Mail Loader), a tool to upload email to GMail for easy storage and searching. So far, the scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have to set yourself up to be able do shutdown and reboot if desired. Do this in the sudoers file. I don't have my setup where I can reach it at this moment but if you need I can post it later tonight. what you wanted was %whe

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as vukyou want to replace vuk with root. There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what I got in the e

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-04 11:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't seem to have opened any obvious other security holes. well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your box..

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, > however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I have now > removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But since I don't > have any updates to d

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:03, darren kirby wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, > and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I > seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but I do not remember the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:18, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:04 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:50:31 -0800 > > Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > One other thing - if you're using a 64-bit machine, you'll need > > to run - mplayer-bin test

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:05, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as > > Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an > > xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happe

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 17:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: > can eix do the following (taken from esearch --help) Yep! -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgp0Vwl6JMMo0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:50, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: > While were on the subject: > > is there something like esync for eix? > (show me the differences after a emerge sync/eix-update?) eix-sync -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgpSfs72pn0qp.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread John Jolet
what are the permissions on the su binary? On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
27;t pick this one) nis or YP is another I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are fairly non-trivial depending on your experience level. maybe there's a way to do it with sama as well? > > Thanks! > Matt > > -- > Matt Garman > email at: http://raw

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
in your environment, despite the security issues, because if you make ALL of your machines nis slaves, and have them authenticate to themselves, if you nis master goes down, you can still get on the other boxes. Or you could just use rdist to fan out your /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files ;) >

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86 2005.1. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > > I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and > > 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find > > RO

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
> > do you have a SATA cdrom drive? > Cynyr. no. it's ide. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:54, Dale Kirkley wrote: > " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 > Relaying denied. Please > verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try > again." Sounds like you need to check your SMTP Authentication

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:21, Dale wrote: > John Myers wrote: > >On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:54, Dale Kirkley wrote: > >>" An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 > >> Relaying denied. Please > >>verify that y

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: > Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes > up is... > > If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will > the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the programs I > have are co

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 02:04, Zac Medico wrote: You can boot off of the cd and build a kernel immediately or you can copy the cd's kernel. When booted from the cd, the kernel is found at /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo-em64t and corresponding

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I don´t know if this is a valid question, or I am making a big mess, but I was wondering witch autentication method is better, ldap or pam. I would like to know too if is possible to use bouth. ldap is one of the methods that can (p)

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
w is the authentication method of last resort. so pam is a framework into which multiple authentication methods can snap. On 1/13/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I don´t know if this is a valid question, or I am mak

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:2006/1/13, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:> thanks. I believe I am starting to understand this.>> I was seeing that ldap can authenticate in a lot of types, like ,> dat

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 07:45, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Tom Smith wrote: > > Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes > > up is... > > > > If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will > > the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Som

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 14:24, Trenton Adams wrote: > On 1/12/06, John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: > > > Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes > > > up is... >

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 19:00, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/13/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [pid 3564] open("/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE > This is making me think there is some kind of java or plugin problem, > since .jar files are essentially java libr

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-14 Thread John Jolet
. rsyncing /etc/passwd and /etc/ shadow is probably going to be sufficient for a very small network. beyond 5 or so computers, the other methods start to earn their way. no matter what, though, pam stays in the soluution stack. On 1/13/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Stroller wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, at 10:15, Ryan Viljoen wrote: What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned tha

Re: [gentoo-user] email within a LAN?

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Dale wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 06:38, Dale wrote: OK, some of this is getting out of order here. I changed the flag in my USE to -ipv6. I then recompiled the programs that it changed on. It was Mozilla and a couple others as well that Mozilla uses. I

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:23 PM, kashani wrote: Mike Williams wrote: Yesterday an IBM ServeRAID decided to mark it's 3 SCSI disks as defunct when they are all in fact perfectly fine, giving me a 4am finish this morning after the major hassle of rebuilding, so I'm now heavily biased against ha

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jarry wrote: John Jolet wrote: I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partitionor has that need been alleviated? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-20 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 20, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Midnight Toker wrote: Neil, Thank you, looks like this could be the thing i'm looking for. Midnightoker. me, too, just hadn't gotten around to asking :) On 20 Jan 2006, at 09:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 +, Midnight Toke

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-22 Thread John Jolet
This error is returned consistently: E [22/Jan/2006:11:53:45 -0700] StartListening: Unable to find IP address for server name "sarawak" - Unknown host if sarawak is the name of the box in question, adjust the line in / etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1 to include sarawak. but cupsd.conf defaults to loc

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Tom Smith wrote: I use Kermit 95 to connect to my server. When I run "pstree" from an SSH session, I get the following type of output: pcadobe ssh # pstree initqwqaacraid tq2*[agetty] tqcron tqevents/0 tqkhelper tqkhpsbpkt tqkjourn

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. This

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Antoine wrote: Personally I use ext3 for everything except windows partitions. I have 3 NTFS-partitions, and one FAT32 partition. The freeware read/ write ext2-driver for Windows doesn't work with Windows 2003, so I have to use FAT32. Especially because captiv

Re: [gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Antoine wrote: Hi, Until now I have been able to chmod halt to let me halt/reboot as a normal user and my last big emerge -uDNav world put a stop to that - any ideas? Cheers Antoine and using sudo is out of the question? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Sean wrote: I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often gets a recommendation. Would anyone recom

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.c

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | s

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
Well, perhaps "old school" has different meanings to different people. :-) I was referring to the UNIX "tools" philosophy in which each program has a very specific use, similar to qmail (the original, unmodified qmail, that is). And this is usually the direction I take when looking for "tools"

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Jeff wrote: This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty well. I guess my main concern was with tar - would it be able to handle a filesystem this large? Myself, I haven't seen or heard any scary stories thus far. Anyone shed light on tar limitati

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the comma

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread John Jolet
I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with compressing already co

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:58 AM, James wrote: Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org

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

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:25 PM, James wrote: Devon Miller gmail.com> writes: Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP & UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcm Well my firewall should allow outgoing initiated sessions from the ntpd (internal) server. From wh

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

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:18 PM, James wrote: James tampabay.rr.com> writes: John Jolet jolet.net> writes: But now when I run 'ntpq -p' I get: ntpq: read: Connection refused is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I can'

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem

2006-02-02 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use as recipients of all backups. This will mostly consist of rsnapshot created files. And a number of tar.gz and other compression type files maybe some ISO type files etc. I'm bac

[gentoo-user] ImageMagick -contrast-stretch

2006-02-02 Thread John Green
Hi, The ImageMagick option -contrast-stretch is not recognised in my installation (6.2.5 01/31/06 Q16). The option is documented on the IM web-site. If the option exists on your installationi, or you have any insights, please reply here with your version, so I can decide whether and where to fi

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick -contrast-stretch

2006-02-03 Thread John Green
Martins Steinbergs wrote: >On Friday 03 February 2006 09:51, John Green wrote: > > >>convert input.jpg -contrast-stretch 10% output.jpg >> >> > >my installation is working with this > >media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.6.0 USE="X jpeg mpeg perl pn

[gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, permission denied".

Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:22 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wro

Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
somehow is corrupted How should that be fixed? not necessarily. make sure mysql is not running. check for the existence of /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock...if it exists, delete it. it shouldn't exist with mysql not running. Fredrik - Original Message - From: "John Jole

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems

2006-02-07 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Ernie Schroder wrote: I updated firmware on my linksys BEFSW11 router yesterday and I cannot receive email, nor access the email provider's website. I've spent about 3 hours on the phone with less that competent tech support people at #1 ntplx.net (email provi

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to a WEP Airport router

2006-02-07 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 7, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Grant wrote: Hello, my housing complex just switched to an Airport router and I can't seem to connect. They are supposedly using WEP. There was a 5-character psk at first and wpa_supplicant told me it was an invalid key and it had to be at least 8 characters. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Faxing in Gentoo with Digital Phone Line

2006-02-08 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:11 PM, C. Beamer wrote: Hi Guys: I'm a little fuzzy here, so I'm asking for help. I recently subscribed to my local cable company's digital phone service. Now, I would like to send a fax from my computer. Is rp-ppoe what I need (and of course a fax client) to do this?

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