Re: [gentoo-dev] (no subject)

[Sebastian Werner]

Am 14.02.2002 23:40:17, schrieb Trinity <seemant@××××××××××.com>:

Mails with no subject are not nice!
and it's nicer to split each content in a seperate mail!


>Hi,
>
>I do wish to apologise in advance for posting to both lists.  I had
>posed this question on gentoo-user but received no response.  So, I
>shall ask again, here, with hope for better feedback.  During bootup,
>at depscan.sh step, I get the error which looks like: depscan.sh: awk:
>command not found.  I was wondering if this is subtly dangerous or not,
>and what the fix to this might be.
>

cp /usr/bin/awk /bin...
I haven't this message.. hmm


>The second issue concerns mc/mcedit.  I have mcedit set up as my editor
>in mutt.  But, when I save a message I get the following, everytime:
>
>load_client_codepage: filename /usr/lib/codepages/codepage.850 does not
>exist.

This seems to be a warning because the samba supporting part of midnight commander 
doesn't find a code page. You need samba for correct chars if you use the samba
browsing feature in mc.

>
>Again, I do not know what this is all about.  While we are on the
>subject of mail. I have installed postfix, and set it up, per the
>website's instruction guide, to use /var/spool/mail.  I sent mail to
>myself, but I am unable to delete that mail, because the mailbox is
>readonly, for some reason.  Also, I am having some trouble sending
>mail.
>
>The biggest issue of concern today, though, is glibc2.2.5.  I tried to
>emerge it earlier today, and towards the end of the install process I
>got an error which repeated itself hundreds of times that libdl.so.2
>was missing.  It is, in fact, not missing.  Anyway, my box was left
>useless, and I ultimately had to unpack a slack.tgz for glibc-2.2.3
>onto the root of my gentoo partitions (followed by ldconfig -r -- I
>have a feeling that I may not have needed to unpack the tgz, come to
>think of it).  That allowed me to boot, and then I tried to emerge
>again. Same error.  Eventually, I simply emerged 2.2.4 back on here,
>and things seem to be in order.  Funny thing is that Matthew Kennedy,
>one of the gentoo ebuild contributors emerged 2.2.5 with no hitches
>whatsoever, and we are running almost identical systems.  Any ideas why
>my system did not like it?  Also, why is ssmtp part of emerge --world
>update?  I already have postfix installed as my mta..
>
>
>Thanks so much for all your time, and my apologies again for posting to
>both lists -- I do realise I am being somewhat rude in doing that.  My
>intention is not to spam, but rather to get some help, which my
>spamming may not aid, because some people may get annoyed --- I am
>getting dizzy with this line of thinking...
>
>Anyway, thanks,
>
>Seemant

Greetings Sebastian


>
>
>PS.  My congratulations to Mr. Robbins and the developers - Gentoo is
>what I have been looking for in a distribution.  Thank you for
>providing it.
>
>=====
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>
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