Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-10-16 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 16 October 2005 15:44, Jonathan Wright wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > >>Basically I have a network back home with a couple Gentoo systems > >>connected and I'd like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from > >>my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

2005-10-18 Thread John Jolet
ory > `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make: *** [all] > Error 2 > > !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 83, Exitcode 2 > !!! compile problem > > > > > > > > > > > Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? add -radius to your USE flags? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread John Jolet
you have received this communication in error, > please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately." > > Is this even legally binding? I have a hard time believing that I can't > disclose something someone sent *me* if I didn't sign anything. > Also, every email

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

2005-10-20 Thread John Jolet
mount: /dev/sda3: not mounted > > Also, with this method of test, can I test mounting swap from > /dev/sda2? In my existing fstab sda2 is mounted to "none". Does it > make sense to do the following?... > > /dev/sda2/mnt/gentoo/swapswapsw0 0 > > > Thanks, > > Ian -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

2005-10-20 Thread John Jolet
okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab? On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:05, Ian Brandt wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > what does "cat /proc/mounts" say? > > # cat /proc/mounts > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 > none /dev devfs rw 0

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

2005-10-20 Thread John Jolet
mtab has the entry that's blocking youwonder if you can just copy /proc/mounts over /etc/mtab.. On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:51, Ian Brandt wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab? > > Not exactly: > > # cat /proc/mounts >

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
ould be looking at? Thanks! > > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
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Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 24 October 2005 09:22, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 10/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 24 October 2005 08:33, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Um, ps is itself proprietary. Technically, adobe still owns the patent, > > don't t

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
(MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in place, but this > is the first step we've taken toward making anything available inbound, so > I'm cautiously optimistic. > > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- John Jolet Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread John Jolet
n our cable Internet goes out. I pay $99USD a month > for cable Internet with a static IP and the cable usually goes out for a > couple of hours on the weekends (grrr). Other than that I haven't > really had any problems with it... this might be a little off-topic, but zoneedit.com will

[gentoo-user] module-rebuild script

2005-10-24 Thread John Green
-r3 So I ran # module-rebuild rebuild and it seemed to rebuild the three packages in question. As a check, I then ran module-rebuild list again, and it listed the same three modules as before. Am I missing something obvious? Fortunately, everything is still working. John Green -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] translucency bork

2005-10-24 Thread John Myers
On Friday 14 October 2005 01:34, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Anyone knows a workaround? (Don't tell me to file a bug, because I don't > know how to do that...) Um, file a bug! You must learn! hint: http://bugs.kde.org/ pgpa5x3I12ODn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread John Jolet
Anyone confirm? > Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the > default setup for users be located in /usr/home? > Would this cause problems? > Is it non standard? > > Thanks >

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
e this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng > config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. > > Thanks, Allan -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop i

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/i

[gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
ll inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:04, James wrote: > John Jolet jolet.net> writes: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' light laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bruno Lustosa wrote:On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Elliott Clark wrote: I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some kind of gentoo community run mx bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: internet/lan access control

2005-10-27 Thread John Jolet
gt; your network again, with a variety of tools, to ensure robust content > control and sufficient security. > > I'll assume you want the easy, minimal_pain route to controlling your > networks, so I'll let the others pitch easy solutions, that allow > use of software packag

[gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

2005-10-27 Thread John Jolet
ssh authentication, and ssh as the transport. Thanks. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

2005-10-27 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 27 October 2005 09:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:06:43 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > We're trying to set up a local portage repository for our webservers to > > use, as we'd like our webservers to NOT have compilers and other dev > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Veritas Backup Exec 10d

2005-10-27 Thread John Jolet
5629-0 > librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by VRTSralus-10.00.5629-0 > > So, My question is - Can I install the above and would this work or am I > on a loosing battle here... > > I guess I would just download the RPM's for the above and install - > right ? > > Anyone else using BEv10d and has had the same problem ? > > Thanks > > Mal -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread John Jolet
> > > > HTH. > > > > -- Joe > > > > -- > > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: > > Those who can count, and those who can't. > > > > Money can't buy everything. > > Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Digby R. S. Tarvin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

2005-10-27 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 27 October 2005 16:43, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses > > from the command line rsync --rsh="ssh -l username" server::module/files > > successful

[gentoo-user] Intel Wireless networking with kernel 2.6.14.

2005-10-28 Thread John Green
- I obviously don't know what I'm doing, so any guidance would be welcome. Meanwhile, it's back to 2.6.12.6 for me. TIA, John Green -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
ould be a hard disk failure > coming your way! sounds like a heating issue, maybe too. Although, if cpu usage is high, mayb ememory is, too. if you've got a bad spot on the disk where swap is, you'll get that behavior. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
ome files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(513)" in my rsync log on the server. where is that timestamp file supposed to come from? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 28 October 2005 12:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:23:08 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the > > rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get > > " r

Re: [gentoo-user] network questions

2005-10-28 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 28, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Richard Fish wrote: capsel wrote: 1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP 10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4 connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5 {LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.

[gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new kernel, I know that there are certain packages that will not come back, and need to be re-emerged on the new kernel. Is there a way to setup a list of these based on what I have installed on my current Gentoo kernel to ma

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
JD -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 1:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler schreef: > I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new >

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
riginal Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler schreef: > >> John Dangler schreef: > Holly Bostick schreef: > >> I'm trying to

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
day, October 30, 2005 3:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: >Holly~ > >Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this, >I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-30 Thread John Jolet
ne another, not be miss manners. > In otherwords..."don't top post and trim your replies". > > -Richard -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread John Dangler
Original Message- From: Roy Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: >hrmm... >I recompile the new kernel, before rebooting, I run module-rebuild list... >and get

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-31 Thread John Dangler
Yes, it is. JD -Original Message- From: Qian Qiao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates On 10/30/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy~ > Thanks for the reply. I a

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-31 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 28 October 2005 14:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:14:33 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > You should have got that when you synced the server with one of the > > > Gentoo mirrors. the file is at ${PORTDIR}/metadata/timestamp.chk > > > > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ethereal weirdness

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Monday 31 October 2005 07:43, James wrote: > "unset: adns snmp and kerberos" are all in blue. Does this mean > they are optional? I have not found documents on this color > coding with various gentoo tools. Any documental wisdom on > discerning these various color coded words in a terminal sess

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:19, Fernando Meira wrote: > So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't > know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was > running, but how can I fix this? Should I reemerge some packages? If so, > which ones?

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-11-01 Thread John Dangler
ally resolved for me regardless of the kernel generation method chosen. JD -Original Message- From: Roy Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: >Roy~ >Thanks for t

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG in glibc????

2005-11-01 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 30 October 2005 13:54, capsel wrote: > is it a bug in glibc or in my code? Probably not a bug in glibc. I'm 99% sure that there are no bugs that obvious in printf or strcmp. glibc is absolutely the most tested code in a GNU/Linux system, aside from the kernel itself, seeing as it is use

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread John Jolet
s and > take appropriate actions on change of IP. man dhcpcd. there's a .cache file and a .info file...I think in /var/lib/dhcpc > > -- > Jorge Almeida -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread John Jolet
x27;ve entered the realm of religious viewpoints. I prefer clamav. > > Many thanks > Robert > -- > Robert Persson > > "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." > (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT D

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL issue

2005-11-03 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 07:49 am, C. Beamer wrote: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) I googled for this and gather that it has something to do with the placement o

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:13, Denis wrote: > Running "df" shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, > running "du" gives more input/output errors... First, I would back up all your data immediately. You have filesystem corruption or hardware failure. And if you have hardware failure

[gentoo-user] Problems with Intel wireless networking and kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread John Green
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0 Is the warning about versions 19 and 17 significant? It seems to come from iwconfig, which is part of wireless-tools. I have version 27-r1 of that package, which is the latest available. Thanks in advance, John Green -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Intel wireless networking and kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-05 Thread John Green
Hi, > Richard Fish wrote: > >John Green wrote: > >I still cannot make my Intel wireless card work under > >kernel 2.6.14. Wireless works fine with 2.6.12.6, but not > >with 2.6.13.x or 2.6.14. > >Here are the relevant outputs from dmesg. > >2.6.1

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-06 Thread John Green
perience? >> >>Jarry >> >> >> >> >Same here just a bit ago. I did not use the du -s thing though. It >stayed around 50% for a while. > >What happened? Anybody know? > >Dale > > > > Same here too. No idea why. John Green -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem

2005-11-06 Thread John Jolet
-- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem

2005-11-06 Thread John Jolet
that's one of those things that you can stare at ALL day and ever see the missing "s". I usually call another admin over after 30 minutes of that sort of thing. :) On Sunday 06 November 2005 17:09, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:30, John Jolet wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-06 Thread John Green
puzzling. I now think the variation (with this version of portage) simply reflects whether the "emerge sync" changed anything or not. If nothing changed, the cache rebuild is quick. If something changed, the rebuild is slow and hangs around for a long time at 51% or 52%. John Green -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread John Jolet
ctly > entitled to stick to your no-so-bright way, but you can't stop us > thinking that defending those *wrong* ways are somewhat arrogant. > > Again, good luck with your server maintenance. > > -- Joe > > -- > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: > Those who can count, and those who can't. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-08 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 12:33, Michael Shaw wrote: > What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for > something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. acutally, vim will do php and perl syntax highlighting. > > Thanks, >

Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

2005-11-11 Thread John Jolet
areChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread John Jolet
0/24. And simply set > gateway on 3-5 to point at the gentoo box. Then setup IPtables to > prevent those machines from talking beyond local lan in or out. > > Something like deny everything, then allow only a list of `safe' IPs > on the local lan. > > So again: > Can I do all this without hardwiring 3-5 direct to the Gentoo box. > That is, just by setting it as gateway on each of them. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread John Jolet
On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:56, Harry Putnam wrote: > John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. > > look at the schedule setups. set them up only to be able to access > > the internet for, say a second

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread John Jolet
> 1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) > server(good with gentoo). > > > > -- > ... > "The future lies ahead." > ___ > < Have you mooed today? > > > \ ^__^ > \

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-13 Thread John Jolet
is one's a bitummm...graphic? > "Lagrangian Mechanics with Differential Equations is like masturbating. You > do what works and what makes you feel good." > ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21:59 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Detecting local host firewall

2005-11-13 Thread John Holden
note, you may want to make sure you're scanning the machines external IP address and not "localhost", as some software uses TCP ports (bound only to the loopback address) for interprocess communication. - John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread John Jolet
you don't even need to chroot. just mount / on /mnt/gentoo, etc should be there, edit the file and sync;unmount; reboot On Nov 14, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Mark wrote: I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) wi

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Mark wrote: Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls all I see is boot and lost+found you sure /dev/hda3 is your correct partition? Did I make a bigger mess than I

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: (I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you new install). So instead of mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo you need mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo where

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-14 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 14 November 2005 16:54, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the John Jolet: > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > > (I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) > > > > > > I looks as though you had /boot on a separat

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-15 Thread John Jolet
not after that search engine crud they pulled a few years ago. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-15 Thread John Jolet
t and Thawte are the best known (but I don't say they > are the best). ha! verisign bought thawte a few years ago... > > You may try using self-signed certificate, or get one from cacert\ > free of charge: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_cacert.org_SSL_certificates > > Jar

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-15 Thread John Jolet
Thanks! > > > > You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then > > execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another > > editor if you like. > > > > Regards, > > Petteri -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?

2005-11-18 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one > program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone > is using it by: > > ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0 > > Is there a utility or other

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-18 Thread John Myers
On Friday 18 November 2005 10:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Being fairly inexperienced with C++ I have no idea what this means. Is > this a problem with my program or with my system. Is there a way to fix > it? Can anyone at least explain to me what it means? Probably an error in your program. C

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the s

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: > Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that could > not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I am > having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. > Usually I have to go to a Window

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread John Jolet
come home and ssh in to restart > > > everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. > ifplugd works, at least at the ethernet level. > > > many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to > > connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you

Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question

2005-11-29 Thread John Jolet
ount to any of them > gives me "not a valid block devices". > Cheers > Antoine -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-11-30 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Mick wrote: Guys, this is ridiculous! Every time I want to print something from my main Linux machine I have to physically disconnect the printer from the second box and connect it to this one. The way this is going I will soon need to buy another parallel po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:28 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thanks John, Let me understand this right: Have you installed cups on the laptop? Any printer drivers? When you run localhost:631 in a browser on your laptop, what do you see under printers when the laptop is connected to the mac and what

Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
silly question, but...any firewalling on the host? or client for that matter? On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thank you Holly, -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2005 13:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RE: Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
allow port 631tcp and udp. On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Mick wrote: Richard Fish wrote: First, let me say that I don't have this setup, but based on /usr/share/doc/cups-1.1.23-r4/html/ipp.pdf, you should have something like: ipp://192.168.0.3/printers/Compaq-HP Wey-hey! It WORKS! :-D Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Add subject to mails CLI Postfix

2005-12-03 Thread John Jolet
mail -s On Dec 3, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, I'm using Postfix on my PC. Some of my programs send mails to me. For example Cron and Smartd. Cron mails have subject, but smartd try to use sendmail -s but sendmail says it is invalid argument. How can I send mails with subject

Re: [gentoo-user] "check for update" option greyed out for firefox1.5

2005-12-03 Thread John Holden
escription: Firefox Web Browser Found 2 matches - John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
getting this to work?John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been

[gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-05 Thread John Blinka
ing directory `/var/tmp/portage/pdflib-5.0.4_p1-r1/work/PDFlib-Lite-5.0.4p1-Unix-src/progs/pdflib' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../libs/pdflib/libpdf.la', needed by `pdfimpose'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pdflib-5.0.4_p1-r1/work/PDFlib-Lite-5.0.4p1-Unix-src/progs/pdflib' Any suggestions about what to do now? Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-06 Thread John Blinka
Bob Sanders wrote: emerge --resume --skipfirst etc-update/dispatch-conf reboot emerge pdflib Thanks, Bob. I was uanaware of those emerge options; this is an answer that is worth keeping. But what does etc-update/dispatch-conf do? John -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-06 Thread John Blinka
John Blinka wrote: does etc-update/dispatch-conf do? Never mind. Sheesh... I didn't know about dispatch-conf and initially thought the / had something to do with a file system path. Brain cells aren't firing properly in this cold weather. Thanks for enlightening me about dis

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread John Jolet
ugh, so depending on your workload, your milage may vary. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux laptop. It's a gateway model M1675 laptop It has fairly standard hardware, all of which

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
that no longer exists.at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch.On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a "win4lin

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal i

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-11 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side I've not used others, but i've been using teamspeak with a co-worker

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

2005-12-13 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:26 +0100, PayPal Security Service wrote: Dear valued PayPal member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your acc

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Blinka
ht hand side does pop up larger pictures for me. I've enabled javascript & java in firefox's edit->preferences->web features menu. For what it's worth, I'm using blackdown java. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On 12/18/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1) ja

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plowing thru the piles of documentation on gentoo.org looking for something that tells me where initrd's come from and how they are built. Amid the litterally thousands of hits

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