funny enough.... might have been added recently....? Will try once I am back on my gentoo box.

I tried this before, and it did not help, as there was no ~-version of libquicktime....
I solved the problem by getting rid of kdenlive, which was the package that pulled the ~-version of ffmpeg in (ultimately). Not very elegant, but as I did not need kdenlive anyway, it's doable.

The error I stated above is still not resolved... and I was not sure what to look for on bugzilla... searching for ffmpeg resulted in a lot of bugs... is there anything I can do about it?

I am having a similar problem and have tried out various masks - but I don't seem to be able to resolve the issue.....

Here's the output from emerge:

Calculating world dependencies -
!!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been
!!! pulled into the dependency graph:

media-video ...

Phew - this has been a long way ago, I have a complete different setup now....
I think what I did is compile the sound drivers as modules, and having them autoloaded. In fact, that's the setup I have now, and I haven't done anything else than following the gentoo ALSA guide....

Sorry for not being ...

I meant the config-files of all the different programs around - they all have standardized formats, placed and meanings and "ways they should be like". What I never liked about SuSE for example is the idea of the overall config-file that sometimes lead these standardized ideas ad absurdum.

I don't ...

Other ideas for hard targets:

- Integrate equery, glsa, esearch, revdep into emerge
- Document USE flags better
- Make it easier to update config files
- Simplify and accelerate the init system
- Merge many small config files into fewer big ones (rc.conf style)


I would not agree to the last ...

Thanks, I understood this part. :)

However, what I still don't understand is how I manage the part with "what happens if the internal server is not running"; DHCP is provided by my router, so that my girlfriend can turn on her pc without thinking about the server (which she - pity! - seldom uses ...

*bump*

Any more ideas? Thanks!

you could always use the external dns server you have and use this option in it's named.conf:

allow-recursion {
192.168.0.0/24;
192.168.1.0/24;
};


changing that to the ip of your router. that way anyone who uses the server can resolve your external hostname, but nothing else, and you can ...

Thanks for this! I therefore have to specify the internal DNS server as nameserver in the router's DHCP settings, right?

However, what if the internal server is not running once? For example, my girlfriend just turns on her windows laptop - what will happen if she tries to surf the internet - there ...

Hi all

I had an idea over christmas how to fix my rather dull and meaningless network setup at home. However, as I am no expert on this topic, I thought I'd share it here, hoping someone could share some thoughts on this.

So, here's the general idea:

I own a domain which is hosted somewhere ...

I have both compiled directly into the kernel (not as modules):

If I use "cifs" instead of "smbfs" in /etc/fstab, I get this error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //server/homeshare,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

cifs is compiled into the kernel, though.... 8O

Same problem here. I found this while googling, maybe it's an upstream bug? However, I could not find anything on bugs.gentoo.org - so I opened one (bug 199450)... hope I did it ok, as I never used bugzilla before (I only cc-ed myself to some bugs...)

Could you paste your postfix config somewhere?

Thanks for the quick reply.

I already own a domain - or three, that is.

My question is more related to "how do I adapt the cited wiki article to fulfill my needs" - or even more general "do I in fact *have* to adapt something?" - as said, I am not (yet) an expert in this...

OK, I found out what the problem was: Apparently, the files were getting too big for the samba share. I don't fully understand this, but apparently, files on the share shall not be bigger than 2GB or so...

Here's my final solution:
#!/bin/sh
cd /dir-with-snapshots
tar -cjf .clientbackup.tar.bz2 ...

Hi all

I just discovered the superb documentation over at gentoo wiki ( HOWTO Email: A complete virtual system ).
I'd like to try this at home, as my home e-mail setup is a little bit.... dirty :)

However, I am a little lost at the moment, because I am not very experienced in this kind of things ...

OK, understood. But - what is the problem? Shall I use two commands, like tar first and then bzip?
Maybe it has to do with the file size - the resulting file is some 2.1GB big (and it's on a Samba share, maybe this does not work?)

Thanks - I found it in the meantime (the signal-list, I mean)

However, I still do not understand the pipe problem - where is a pipe in my script (I mean, it's not even a script - it's more like an MS-DOS batch file....

Thanks guys, so far! :)

I don't understand what SIGPIPE means (btw, man kill does not show the list of signals - but then again, my workstation uses German, so I get the german manpage... I'll look it up on the Internet, then)

Here's the ls for the script in question:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 thomas users ...

Hi all

I am using rsnapshot to backup my client regularly; it writes the snapshot in a separate directory, and after backing up, the plan was to tar everything onto a Samba-share (which itself is backed up regularly).
In order to do so, I wrote a tiny script called "makebackuptar", which is defined ...

With the latest kernels (I think since 2.6.21), it should not be a problem any more - as the drivers for the PATA chip are included in the kernel.

However, it could potentially be a problem with some of the Gentoo live CDs - I do not remember what kernel they boot, but if it is older than 2.6.21 ...

Hi all

On my headless server, I want to run rsnapshot whenever I plug in my USB hdd. I already have set up automount (autofs) so that the HDD is mounted whenever it's plugged in - but as said, I want rsnapshot to perform a backup whenever the HD is present.

What do I need to do? Using HAL? Or ...