Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange UDP port activity
fluffy wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:48 +0300, Peter wrote: nmap -sU -sV -p- 127.0.0.1 Try tcpdump -ni lo. You will see, that it is nmap listening on that port for comming back udp port xxx unreachable. THANK YOU I had a number of responses to this telling me it was nmap, but no-one else could provide with a method so I could check for myself. Never heard about netstat? :-o netstat -lnp | grep nmap will give u an answer too (while running nmap, of course) noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qmail config problems
Rumen Yotov wrote: ... snip ... So in short my question is: which way to choose: deal with my current setup, do the setup by the lifewithqmail-docs or a mixer of both? PS: also will appreciate any comments on installing qmail. TIA Rumen emerge qmail, modify files in /var/qmail/control (follow life-with-qmail) check /service for following symlinks: qmail-send - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send qmail-smtpd - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd start qmail: # /etc/init.d/svscan start and it should work, I do not remember any troubles :-) ggle for document qmail on gentoo, which can help u too noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get bit errors infomation from hard disk?
Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to write a script to get infomation about the stability of my IDE hard disk. I want to know how many bit errors have occured and corrected. I think it maybe can be retrieved from S.M.A.R.T so I emerge'd ide-smart, but the output of ide-smart looks like a mess for me. How can I tell the bit errors infomation from the following? Or I -snip- emerge -C ide-smart emerge smartmontools smartctl -a /dev/hda and don't forged RTFM ;-) hth noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging two versions of the same software
Chris Frey wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:16:56PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: -snip- IMO u can't do it portage clear (let me know if so), but u can use this (common/simple) trick: -snip- No need to reinvent the wheel. :-) The package stow is meant to do just that for packages in /usr/local. The technic I described is so simple to apply that I never searched a tool implementing it, (bash scripting is not a problem 4 me) therefore I didn't know stow exists. Thanks, although I am not sure if I use it sometimes, because rtfm is much harder as retuning of script already done :-). noro PS. I am surprised why somebody decided to use perl for such a trivial task, i.e. made it perl dependant. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Lucent Winmodem driver for 2.6 kernel
Jernej Zidar wrote: The ltmodem driver for 2.6.x kernel can be found at this site: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/ltmodem-2.6-alk-v00.tar.gz Read the README file inside the archive. Thanks for link, did u test it ? I have very bad experinence with ltmodem under 2.4. kernels, because it breakes CUPS printers connected to std serial ports ... it tooks me a while to identify it. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail aliasses
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck with procmail, i have one email account and several mail aliasses at my ISP. I use fetchmail in a cron on user level to get my emails. I whan't now mails that are for a mail alias (other to address) deliverd to another local .maildir. The problem is that they are pickup by the fetchmail script of my main user. I don't know of it is possible with procmail to point to a different home/.maildir but even then the uid would be worng of that email. Whats the best way to deliver those emails? The problem is more complex as it looks like, because one thing is mail header item To: (which always should stay in header) and another thing is header item RCPT TO: sended to MTA during mail transport (which is usually stored to item Delivered-To:) Non equal To: and rcpt to: are used e.g. in this ML - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Now it depends on ISP's MTA, what will happen next. i.e. if rcpt to: mail addres is stored to mail header or not. I have bad experience using procmail on ISP's side, because it must be used with preline (to prevent adding Delivered-To: item witch causes mail bounceing by your MTA) and therefore original address RCPT TO: is lost. (I don't remember it exactly, so may be wrong.) But back to your problem ... open fetched mail in source view to check if u can find original address ... if yes, it's simple ... just write a rule for procmail based on the item u find, can look like this ... :0 * ^some-item: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .path/to/users/maildir/ HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail aliasses
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck with procmail, i have one email account and several mail aliasses at my ISP. I use fetchmail in a cron on user level to get my emails. I whan't now mails that are for a mail alias (other to address) deliverd to another local .maildir. The problem is that they are pickup by the fetchmail script of my main user. I don't know of it is possible with procmail to point to a different home/.maildir but even then the uid would be worng of that email. Whats the best way to deliver those emails? TIA The problem is more complex as it looks like, because one thing is mail header item To: (which always should stay in header) and another thing is header item RCPT TO: sent to MTA during mail transport (which is usually stored to item Delivered-To:) Non equal To: and rcpt to: are used e.g. in this ML - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Now it depends on ISP's MTA, what will happen next. i.e. if rcpt to: mail address is stored to mail header or not. I have bad experience using procmail on ISP's side, because it must be used with preline (to prevent adding Delivered-To: item witch causes mail bouncing by your MTA) and therefore original address RCPT TO: is lost. (I don't remember it exactly, so may be wrong.) But back to your problem ... open fetched mail in source view to check if u can find original address ... if yes, it's simple ... just write a rule for procmail based on the item u find, can look like this ... :0 * ^some-item: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .path/to/users/maildir/ HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail aliasses
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck with procmail, i have one email account and several mail aliasses at my ISP. I use fetchmail in a cron on user level to get my emails. I whan't now mails that are for a mail alias (other to address) deliverd to another local .maildir. The problem is that they are pickup by the fetchmail script of my main user. I don't know of it is possible with procmail to point to a different home/.maildir but even then the uid would be worng of that email. Whats the best way to deliver those emails? The problem is more complex as it looks like, because one thing is mail header item To: (which always should stay in header) and another thing is header item RCPT TO: sent to MTA during mail transport (which is usually stored to item Delivered-To:) Non equal To: and rcpt to: are used e.g. in this ML - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Now it depends on ISP's MTA, what will happen next. i.e. if rcpt to: mail address is stored to mail header or not. I have bad experience using procmail on ISP's side, because it must be used with preline (to prevent adding Delivered-To: item witch causes mail bouncing by your MTA) and therefore original address RCPT TO: is lost. (I don't remember it exactly, so may be wrong.) But back to your problem ... open fetched mail in source view to check if u can find original address ... if yes, it's simple ... just write a rule for procmail based on the item u find, can look like this ... :0 * ^some-item: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .path/to/users/maildir/ HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] scandisk
Nick Smith wrote: what program can i use to check for bad sectors on a harddisk? Something much better than manual bad sector hunting exists! It's called S.M.A.R.T. (Any modern (S)ATA HDD features it.) emerge smartmontools Allow it in BIOS and start smart demon (rc-update add smartd default). RTFM smartctl to learn how to (use it)/check results. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging two versions of the same software
Yuval Scharf wrote: Hello, Can I emerge two versions of the same software? How do I do that? For example, I want to emerge two versions of games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.6.f I think u mean to versions like 0.9.6. and 0.9.5. which are not slotted. IMO u can't do it portage clear (let me know if so), but u can use this (common/simple) trick: emerge old_version and move all files to dir old_version emerge new_version and move all files to dir new_version Prepare script, which will switch versions, by making symlinks for every file from it's new place to original one (where installed) depending on needed version. It shouldn't do troubles to portage, if correctly done. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ISP blocking smtp
Kashani wrote: Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Perhaps you could find/set up an SMTP server that will just relay for you. Set it to listen to port 26 (instead of 25). A friend of mine who runs a small ISP has basically set this up as a permanent solution for his customers who are being blocked by their local ISP's. I'd recommend choosing a port greater than 1024 as some ISP's have specific allow statements for ports less than 1024. It's not a common practice, but it may save you from having to change things later if your ISP decides to go crazy on the security front. kashani I met also a problem if Solaris is on other side ... try echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving e-mail
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I followed a virtual mail server howto in the forums, fetchmail - procmail - courier -imap - postfix - squirrelmail and it works perfect. The only question i have is, i'm gathering mail for years with sylpheed-claws in a maildir, it are several thousend of mails in sub dirs. How do i get them into the new mailserver, the server has also a .maildir but the filename of the emails are different. TIA Patrick I use qmail ... copying/renaming messages from dir to dir is safe, if names differ. (I can safely rename any message to e.g. my_mesg_1, nothing breaks.) I doesn't have any experience with postxif, but expect the same behaviour. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org Radeon Driver Ebuilds
Justin Hart wrote: I was wondering if an X.Org Radeon Driver ebuild was yet available. hmmm ... I use(d) x11-drm for radeon 7500. It worked fine under xfree (tested by Quake3) and therefore I thought, it's still properly working under xorg-x11, because it's not masked. A minute ago I started glxgears to check it. After few seconds system froze totally (probably when the fps result should be printed). Is it a known problem ? (There is nothing unusual in Xorg.0.log) noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Custom Bootable CD
David Corbin wrote: Yep. I'm going to try to convert from LILO to GRUB. The last time I tried GRUB wasn't pretty :). OK, in this case nearly any bootable linux CD is all u need. IMO Knoppix is the best choice ... I use it in inhospitable/(linux less) environment and also as an install/rescue CD (not only) for Gentoo linux. It's also very helpful if solving most of windblowz troubles ... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda is my favorite command. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org Radeon Driver Ebuilds
Manuel McLure wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Justin Hart wrote: I was wondering if an X.Org Radeon Driver ebuild was yet available. hmmm ... I use(d) x11-drm for radeon 7500. It worked fine under xfree (tested by Quake3) and therefore I thought, it's still properly working under xorg-x11, because it's not masked. A minute ago I started glxgears to check it. After few seconds system froze totally (probably when the fps result should be printed). Is it a known problem ? (There is nothing unusual in Xorg.0.log) Don't use x11-drm if you have a 2.6 kernel - instead select the DRM driver in the kernel configuration. Also, don't install ati-drivers for a 7500 - it only supports the R200 chipset (Radeon 8500) and higher, while the 7500 uses an R100 chipset. Using the in-kernel DRM driver and the radeon driver from xorg-x11 *should* work fine. Ok, I still use 2.4. kernel, yes I knew, my radeon 7500 (RV200 QW chipset) is not supported by ati proprietary driver. Thanks for tip ... it's the frist real reason to probe 2.6 kernel ;-). noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booteable cd
Jadex wrote: Hello gentooers: I googled around searching some info about how to make a booteable cd (or a live cd) and... nothing worked... any hint??? It's absolutely trivial ... 1 - prepare bootable floppy and test it 2 - copy the floppy to file: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.image 3 - add -b boot.image to mkisofs command HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling bootup info
Sevak Avakians wrote: Anyone know how to disable the text output in the bootup and startup portions? I'd like to replace it with a nice graphic if possible. switch monitor on 2 minutes after PC :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: 3.I need a solution, which allows me to connect to these intranet devices from Internet (all the world) using browser only. It must be possible to connect even from another firewall/proxy server protected network, so it can't use ports connection which will not pass through. How should this work? There were some java applet ssh clients already mentioned in this thread, but you told it's not what you're looking for. But, then, what are you looking for? I think you've got to set up a proxy on that firewall on standard http port to tunnel through the firewall to the telnet servers. The only other possible solution would be a application server running on the firewall (otherwise you couldn't establish a stateful connection to the telnet server) always serving a screenshot of that application. I don't know of such a solution as it's a stupid idea to use HTML for telnet presentation. OTOH, you can setup a proxy on port 80 and live happily with any thinkable telnet client that is capable of using proxys (and SSL, preferably). HWH How it should work I already explained in start mail, but I'll explain it again (4u): I need an applet communicating with server/servlet behind http port on firewall. No other tcp/udp connection is allowed, only to port 80. Therefore terminal applet have to send/receive all(!) data using (encrypted) tunnel (which can be made by http protocol encapsulation). Your proposition is really stupid, because: - if http proxy (squid) is between u and firewall it fails - u lost the possibility to run http server on firewall (it's a must in my case) noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Matthias Winkelmann wrote: I just joined the list so I haven't read the first messages, but you might want to take a look at http://www1.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/natural/add_ons/ term_emul.asp Entire Connection is a terminal emulation software that connects Windows users to various host applications... It's a very bad joke! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Hi, I need to solve this problem: 1.I have Gentoo based firewall :-) 2.On intranet (behind Gentoo) are some devices to which only telnet access is possible (SCO crappy server, routers ...) :-( 3.I need a solution, which allows me to connect to these intranet devices from Internet (all the world) using browser only. It must be possible to connect even from another firewall/proxy server protected network, so it can't use ports connection which will not pass through. My idea is, that on firewall I will run a servlet (on Tomcat or JBoss), client will be browser (Mozilla) with java/applet support. Browser connects to servlet and downloads/starts applet. Servlet connects to a device. Applet-servlet (encrypted) communication will run only on regular http connection... Any hints ? noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Heinz Sporn wrote: I'd say there are a couple of options. One that I would choose is OpenVPN. OpenVPN ? No, everything must be done on server/firewall side, without any touches to existing network configuration elsewhere. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Vahur Jesalu wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: | Hi, | | I need to solve this problem: | | 1.I have Gentoo based firewall :-) | | 2.On intranet (behind Gentoo) are some devices to which | only telnet access is possible (SCO crappy server, | routers ...) :-( | | 3.I need a solution, which allows me to connect to these | intranet devices from Internet (all the world) using | browser only. | It must be possible to connect even from another firewall/proxy | server protected network, so it can't use ports connection | which will not pass through. | | My idea is, that on firewall I will run a servlet (on Tomcat | or JBoss), client will be browser (Mozilla) with java/applet | support. | Browser connects to servlet and downloads/starts applet. | Servlet connects to a device. | Applet-servlet (encrypted) communication will run only on | regular http connection... | | Any hints ? | | noro | | -- | gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list | | I have used a product called mindterm. This looks like exactly what you described. http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/index.php All the Best, Vahur Thanks for the answer ... I just read tons of buzzwords in PDF document on that link and tried a demo applet. It makes terminal emulator/ssh client from java enabled browser - really not what I am looking for - it makes connection from client to port 22 of server. It's really not ready to use solution, but yes, MindTerm library can be helpful, while writing it myself, thanks. noro PS. MindTerm demo is also in portage (mindterm-bin). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Am Donnerstag, den 20.01.2005, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Norbert Kamenicky: Hi, I need to solve this problem: 1.I have Gentoo based firewall :-) 2.On intranet (behind Gentoo) are some devices to which only telnet access is possible (SCO crappy server, routers ...) :-( 3.I need a solution, which allows me to connect to these intranet devices from Internet (all the world) using browser only. It must be possible to connect even from another firewall/proxy server protected network, so it can't use ports connection which will not pass through. My idea is, that on firewall I will run a servlet (on Tomcat or JBoss), client will be browser (Mozilla) with java/applet support. Browser connects to servlet and downloads/starts applet. Servlet connects to a device. Applet-servlet (encrypted) communication will run only on regular http connection... Any hints ? noro Thomas Heinrichsdobler wrote: Have you considered using webmin for that? Thomas No, I didn't know it, but tried it few minutes before ... it looks to be a good tip :-) thanks, but it doesn't work yet ... I installed/started it, connected to port 1 and run module SSH/Telnet Login. (Later I plan to install usermin for apache compatibility.) In Module config I set up ssh connection to 127.0.0.1, and tested it. Login pop up window showed, but after putting proper name/password, only SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1 appears on the screen (three times) and it freezes. If I put wrong password, the output is the same, but terminal window closes and pop up window reappears. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] fom command line works properly. I'll check tomorrow what's going wrong. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT web based terminal emulator
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 20.01.2005, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Norbert Kamenicky: Hi, I need to solve this problem: 1.I have Gentoo based firewall :-) 2.On intranet (behind Gentoo) are some devices to which only telnet access is possible (SCO crappy server, routers ...) :-( 3.I need a solution, which allows me to connect to these intranet devices from Internet (all the world) using browser only. It must be possible to connect even from another firewall/proxy server protected network, so it can't use ports connection which will not pass through. My idea is, that on firewall I will run a servlet (on Tomcat or JBoss), client will be browser (Mozilla) with java/applet support. Browser connects to servlet and downloads/starts applet. Servlet connects to a device. Applet-servlet (encrypted) communication will run only on regular http connection... Any hints ? noro Thomas Heinrichsdobler wrote: Have you considered using webmin for that? Thomas No, I didn't know it, but tried it few minutes before ... it looks to be a good tip :-) thanks, but it doesn't work yet ... I installed/started it, connected to port 1 and run module SSH/Telnet Login. (Later I plan to install usermin for apache compatibility.) In Module config I set up ssh connection to 127.0.0.1, and tested it. Login pop up window showed, but after putting proper name/password, only SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1 appears on the screen (three times) and it freezes. If I put wrong password, the output is the same, but terminal window closes and pop up window reappears. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] fom command line works properly. I'll check tomorrow what's going wrong. noro No, it doesn't fit to my demands, because if terminal module is used, it makes new connection from applet to port 22/23 on server. I really doesn't understand who needs such feature, I happily use ssh for it. noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I set the .maildir for virtual users with qmail
Jan Meier wrote: Hi, I read the following HOWTO: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml and installed qmail and vpopmail. Everything works great and I added some virtual domains and virtual users. My problem is that I want to set the maildir for the virtual users. I want relate some virtual users to the system users and set the virtual users .maildir to an users home. How can I handle that? Should I edit the mysql created by vpopmail and change the pw_home? How can I realize the permission problems, I am using ACL's. Thanks in advance. Jan PF 2005! I've been using qmail for years ... qmail + vpopmail + procmail + qmail-scanner (with SA + clamav) + courier-imap + qmail-autoresponder + sqwebmail + ... and like it very much Qmail delivers to maildirs, if /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery contains something like this:./.maildir/ Note the ending slash! It's very important! If it's true, qmail should deliver to virtual maildirs too. (If properly installed with vpopmail.) Mail for all virtual accounts is delivered under vpopmail user. Therefore virtual maildirs are not directly accessible by local users due to permissions problem. It have to be accessed via POP3 or IMAP. I recommend to use only virtual mail accounts (also for local users), because it's more secure/flexible. It can be done very easy ... just put your local domain to /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains U will be able to access your mail account from any MUA (including webmail) and have no troubles if like to switch from e.g. mozilla to kmail (even can use them simultaneously!). (I really can't see any advantage, to use local mail account.) I do not have so much mail accounts (20) to use mysql. HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ps2 / usb mice
LoneStar wrote: OK, let's see someone nail this one I built a Gentoo system using a ps/2 mouse. When I set the machine up where it's going to live, I connected a usb mouse to it. I reconfigured X and gpm to reflect the new mouse and all is well . EXCEPT .. When I remove the ps/2 mouse from the system (unplug it), the keyboard no longer works. Plugging it back in restores kb fuctionality, so both mice have to be plugged in for it work. :-/ I met the same problem, it seems to be a gpm bug, because keyboard freezes only if gpm is running. U have to reconfigure gpm to use usb mouse too. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kong cache
Chris wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 10:02 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: Chris wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 09:16 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: Don't cross post. wasnt trying to it went to the gentoo list cuz i entered the wrong email add the first time around It's ok. Just wait a few days next time, and if you don't get any answers, then post to the other list ;-) Regards, Norberto can do Ok boys, to answer your question is so easy, that probably every KDE user knows the answer, but just laugh while saw it ... (me too :-) ) Short answer: kong is konqeror, a part of KDE ? If so, it will be sure somewhere in $HOME/.kde/share/ directory (I am lazy to search it ...) Better answer: If u like to find some new file somewhere on system which will be created in the future by some application u are going to run, use find -newer command: 1. $ touch foo 2. open/download some new document in konq 3. $ find $HOME /tmp -newer foo 4. rm foo If the document was cached, for sure u'll find it, but it will have same strange name, so u have to look inside. RTFM for find, please! noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Starting Mozilla Mail question
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Kindly advise how to start 'mozilla mail' directly instead of via mozilla browser; edit - preferences - aperance noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 16:33, LoneStar wrote: Alex Volkov wrote: Hi everyone, I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in nano and paste it into links or other program. I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. It helps a lot if you have gpm installed so you can use your mouse in the console. If so, click and drag the text you want and press ^K (ctrl + k). This will cut the text, but if you ^U (ctrl + u) it puts it right back but will remain in the clipboard (buffer). The procedure is the same if you do not have gpm running, but you can only do one line at a time. Then you can ^v (ctrl + v) or use the Edit menu to paste it into the other program if that program supports pasting. Actually, you can select anything you want with nano using ^^ (ctrl + ^) - once to mark the beginning of the selection and again to mark the end. Regards, Jason Stubbs Interesting, I get also to troubles using nano during installation of my Gentoo ... because I didn't open built-in help too. emerge vim solved my nano trouble forever :-) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k
Grendel wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Matt Garman uttered the following immortal words, snip Again it is a myth that windows is not secure as linux, I bet if you take the bug reports of the systems and componenets (linux+apache+ssh etc vs window and components) you will probably find the same number of bugs. Grendel, AFAIK the total amount of applications/sources available for linux users is about million times higher then those from company of your dream. If I adopt your jerky theory to practical life, old Trabant is today much safier as new Volvo, because total amount of people killed in accident is lover (ask for statistic results at local PD). So even if total bug count is the same, for me it only means, linux and OSS is million times more secure. Who else disagree ? You forgot about the fact, on Linux we have minimum half a dozen applications for the same purpose in average ... Also if shell, Apache, Mozilla, kdm or sendmail are very common/widely spread, it doesn't mean it's the only choice (on M$ u have to buy it from another company, usually). So nobody is forced to use it, if it's known to be vulnerable. e.g.there are minimum 10 MTAs which are secure (and some of them always were i.e. qmail) and the only one is crappy for a long time, etc. noro PS. It's not a myth are just kidding ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k
Arne Vogel wrote: snip Hi Arne, I have the same opinion and agree with you. :-) To support it, I added some comments ... I've never taken the people seriously who claim that OSS is full of stolen code, simply because a) Closed source is typically quite hard to get. b) Source from other projects is often quite a hassle to integrate. Just write it yourself will not only save you legal trouble, but also work. Indeed, from my experience ... a team worked on a CSS project for half a year, finished it (and forgot). After one year some new functionality had to be built in. The same team started to work on it, but after three months recognized it's a blind way. They started from scratch, changed programming language and platform (to Linux of course :-) ), and after 6 month happily finished. The only exception is, if some strict OOP language (i.e. not C++) is used and all project/classes very well designed. But in this case the old code is visibly encapsulated/separated so everybody can recognize stolen code immediately. c) It's damn silly to do this because chances are that you *will* get caught. Yes, if of course publicity is not what u love ;-). d) If there was such a lot of stolen code in OSS, well, CSS companies can verify this simply by downloading the source and comparing it against their own repositories. We would see a lot more SCO-like cases (and we would actually see SCO win their lawsuits ;-) ). Yes, usually OSS programmers work, because they like to. They are mostly fanatics and are very proud of their fruits of pleasure. I know a lot of them ... a friend of me is earning money on bookkeeping written on his own database engine (and language of course) ! For such guy to write clean own code is not only a question of honor, but let say religion. OTOH, I've seen rather lax handling of GPL'ed software in CSS projects myself. I suspect stealing GPL'ed code for inclusion into proprietary software (that is actually distributed) is *very* common, and counts as something of a peccadillo (well, they're not getting money for it anyway...). Of course, if some guy is an employee, he is under the force, stress, schedules and will etc. of his employer ... he works for money and only if has a luck also for pleasure. :-( Once I had to setup commercial web server (Netscape iPlanet) on Solaris to work as (FQDN based) virtual web server. All the documentation was only about GUI config tool, but no note about the possibility to setup virtual server anywhere. Just for fun I opened config files and learned, my knowledge about apache config is very useful here ... I set it up using undocumented (i.e. apache) directives and the job was easily done. Server worked properly, but GUI config tool was totally upset :-). I think no more comments are not necessary ... noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More nVidia Stuff...
Grendel wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Brendan Sullivan uttered the following immortal words, Somehow I prefer the virgin nvidia.com 5336 package over the builds, I just download it and run the .run file and it installs beautifully. This I would never recommend to anybody, since smart guys from nvidia are probably testing their driver only on RH (or another commercial linux), but never heard about gentoo. What's worse the driver is written in windblowz way ... no output about what it is doing, no warnings if something will be overwriten etc., simply junk. ebuild is tested and patched by gentoo devs, so the risk of troubles is reduced to minimum. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading kernel
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:55:47 +0600 (LKT) Grendel | BTW I wonder if the windows code that has leak would have the source | for the NTFS file system, that would go a long way to develope a API | and then improve the kernels ntfs module. | | People dont realise that this code leak is a blessing, we can analyse | and figure out previously hidden/unknown API's from the source code. Heh, now I know for sure that you're a troll. Let him do his job, please (doesn't matter for whom he works). To read his answers/recommendations is a lot of fun for me ... he becomes better then Radio Tirana or famous Radio Jerevan. Guys from East Europe sure understand me. :-) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Odd graphics card recommendation
Joel Palmius wrote: Can anyone recommend a gentooable graphics card which: * Is possible to insert in a PCI slot (no agp on mb) * Works with gentoo * Works on an opteron system running 64 bit * Is reasonably fast * Supports DVI-I * Does *not* require proprietary vendor-specific binaries If it contains a working TV-tuner too, I shall be really happy, but this is not a requirement. :-) I have no opteron experience, but I would try some older ATi or Matrox cards, but the card witch fulfill all your conditions is probably only a dream ... noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to define shell aliases?
Sven Köhler wrote: i remember a distro where /etc/portage included some file like /etc/aliases which containes the common aliases like alias ls=ls --color /etc/aliases contents user aliases for sendmail :-) (other MTA can use it as well). I have them in /etc/profile.d/aliases.bash (avilable for all users) and I source it from .bashrc. In this way it was used on RH ... noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine
Laurent Duperval wrote: When I try to ping the desktop I get this: ping 192.168.1.10 20 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 19014ms Desktop rejects icmp_echo packets, which can be done in different ways ... 1. by writing to icmp_echo* files in /proc dir 2. by firewall rules (iptables) Some amateurs think, their system is much more protected if doesn't replay to icmp, which is not true. What's worse, lot of them use it as the only protection. :-) More u can find here: http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/ noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages
Dave Knopp wrote: How does one catch the important messages from portage at the end of emerge operations -- withOUT all the build information messages? I saw this question the other day - but without a satisfactory answer. Try this: emerge pkg 21 | tail -200 logfile noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents
Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: snip All your questions were answered in this ML before. Just shortly: emerge gentoolkit epm esearch RTFM for qpkg, epm and esearch noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to my 'clean' font?
gabriel wrote: your question was given by Andrej Kacian and answered alredy ... search the archive -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Catching Important Portage Messages
Dave Knopp wrote: emerge pkg 21 | tail -200 logfile However, when doing something like: $ emerge -u --deep world Grabbing only the last few lines would only apply to the last package. Yes, it's true, but IMHO it's quite sufficient, because normally u need to read it only in case of error, which is at the end AFAIK. If u really like to play with such script, u can run emerge -p world first and then atomize it into particular pkgs. Another way is to pipe output to grep with -A and/or -B switches, but I really don't know the pattern which should be searched :-(. If u know it ... noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop on wireless network cannot see other machine
Laurent Duperval wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Desktop rejects icmp_echo packets, which can be done in different ways ... 1. by writing to icmp_echo* files in /proc dir 2. by firewall rules (iptables) RIght. But I also cannot access the Web server on that machine, nor the ssh daemon. So it's more than an icmp issue. Are u sure u haven't set some proxy variables on the notebook? ( Check using env | grep -i proxy ) Are u sure u not made some monkey things with desktop? (Maybe u have IPs from the same network on eth and wlan ifaces or u have broken routing table or ...) If u are sure everything should be ok, let's check if it is problem of broken arp broadcast: From desktop start pinging your notebook and let it run. While ping runs try to connect to different ports on desktop from ntbk, the best using telnet desktop port command. If desktop recives echoes and u can connect to desktop, arp is broken and that's the problem. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?
Nickolay Savchenko wrote: Hello. I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and it works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80 or to the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows stealth status). I've flushed all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network services, tried to change webserver (tried boa and apache), but my port 80 still isn't opened. Thanks in advance. Run ifconfig and check your IP. Run tcpdump port 80 as root (emerge tcpdump) Try to connect from outside to your web server from browser or u can use telnet IP 80 If tcpdump doesn't show arriving packets, and your firewall is down, http incoming traffic is blocked by your ISP. If it shows them, something is wrong with your webserver ... use can openner to open it :-). noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?
yvind, in my country (former soviet republic) all ISPs, but ISPs that provide dial-up, are monopolists. So they can do what they want, because 256 kbit/s is better than 14400 bit/s, so users are glad, and don't resent. It's typical behavior of the former citizens of USSR. PS. The name of my country is Ukraine. You probably never heard about it. It's located between Poland and Russia. Not only u have monopoles, our beast is called Slovak Telecomunist co. It has absolute power/authority protected by law. Doesn't matter our constitution declares democracy and equal rights for everybody. Doesn't matter the owner is Deutche telecom (from Germany). They really can do, what they like to, because they own also complete wired network across the country. No competition = no problem = gold mine ! And therefore we have probably the most expansive Internet in Europe (if I not count Albania). noro PS. U forgot to mention, Ukraine is only twice so big as Poland :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] install problem
Jérôme Bouat wrote: snip If any ethernet adapters were detected at boot, they should be auto-configured if DHCP is available on your network. Type net-setup eth0 to specify eth0 IP address settings by hand. Maybe should, but I always have to put the relevant eth module into /etc/modules.d/my_eth like this: alias eth0 NICmodule so try it, and don't forget to run modules-update after that. U can also load it by hand using modprobe to check if it works. (I never used Gento live/install CD.) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?
Grendel, be so kind and do not start new topic in the middle of another one, please!!! i.e. Do not start new thread by replaying another and changing header. noro PS. This is the 2.nd time u does it today. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
Ted Ozolins wrote: It would be really nice if those individuals requesting confirmations of mail receipts would stop. Why would anyone use that on a list? You are not conversing with a single end user,so why do you need confirmation??? This practice sucks!! I disabled confirmation in MUA by default, so it can't poison me. IMHO bigger problem are individuals which like to start new thread by reply of another one. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild /etc/pam.d
Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: Some files seem to have been damaged in my /etc/pam.d directory. How can I rebuild the files that are in here? Remerging pam and baselayout don't seem to do the trick. Thanks, Try this: emerge $(epm -qf /etc/pam.d) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?
LoneStar wrote: I tried installing it on a PIII system from both the i686 and pentium3 live CDs and all I could get was seg faults when trying to untar the stages (I tried all 3). Check RAM with memtest86. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices
Michael Peppler wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:07, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Michael Peppler wrote: Hi, I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database server. On RH these devices are created by default, but it seems that with the default gentoo install (or at least the one that I've built :-) I don't have these devices. Normally devices are created by mknod, if devfs is in use (gentoo default), they are created by kernel itself. I used a work-around and created them in /etc/conf.d/local.start for now (I also need chown the device files so that user sybase has read/write access...) I am not familiar with Sybase, but can u send ls -l of relevant devices from RH ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -l rawctl crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 0 Apr 11 2002 rawctl [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -l raw/raw? crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 1 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw1 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 2 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw2 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 3 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw3 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 4 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw4 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 5 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw5 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 6 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw6 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 7 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw7 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 8 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw8 crw-rw1 sybase sybase 162, 9 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw9 I don't know if there is some feature in the kernel that I haven't seen that will auto create these files/devices for me - but like I said I've got a workaround, and that's good enough for me. Michael OK, those are standard Linux raw devices, I also don't know about some switch in kernel config to give them up in /dev automatically ... So u have to do is put these command to rc.local: mknod /dev/rawctl c 162 0 mkdir /dev/raw mknod /dev/raw/raw1 c 162 1 etc. for next devices chown sybase:sybase /dev/rawctl /dev/raw/raw? And then u have to assign some block device to raw device using raw command, i.e. if your database sits on /dev/hdc6 u have to run: raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/hdc6 noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?
LoneStar wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: LoneStar wrote: I tried installing it on a PIII system from both the i686 and pentium3 live CDs and all I could get was seg faults when trying to untar the stages (I tried all 3). Check RAM with memtest86. The RAM that was in the PIII system is now in the Athlon system I'm installing on. Even if the DIMM modules are working on P3 board, it doesn't mean it must work on Athlon (or another board)!!! I remember a problem specially with Athlon XP board, I had to increase ram bus voltage about 0.2 Volts in BIOS to get it work properly ... memtest86 helps me a lot. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lockups with New Seagate HD, 2.6.2-mm1
Michael Reid - CSCI/P2003 wrote: snip Right now I'm using the generic PIIx chipset driver, should I be using a different IDE driver? Does anyone else have this laptop that can post their kernel config (preferably a 2.6.x config)? Which IDE driver to use, depends on IDE chipset on your MB, but not HDD. So, why u should change the driver? If it worked perfect with the old HDD, it should work the same way with new one. (Another thing is, if it worked optimally, i.e. if achieved data transfer is on HDD's maximum.) Check the output of hdparm -t /dev/hda, transfer rate should be cca 15 MB/s. If it is significantly lower, check if DMA is used. To check if hdd is OK, go to BIOS and enable S.M.A.R.T., then boot gentoo and run this: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1000k Reboot again. If SMART status of your HDD becomes bad, u have to replace it. The same u can do after emerge smartmontools and RTFM. (Google the ML, I described the procedure here some months ago.) It was not written exactly, but I thing u extended also RAM. This can be also the problem, therefore emerge memtest86, add it to boot loder and run it! If no problem until now, u probably is something wrong with your FS. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] telnet setup
David Obwaller wrote: hi, my isp disables me in using ssh, so I'm forced to use telnet to remotely access my computer. I'll try to change this, but for now I want to set up telnet. It's absolutely unprobable ... until they are not diletants. Lets check with tcpdump if ssh packets are arriving. If not, check firewall on local PC. Check the output of ssh -vvv your_host on remote PC. If ssh is really blocked, run sshd on another port (i.e. 23). Do not start telnet daemon !!! (If they really blocked your ssh, they wait for your passord.) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KMail delete mails fails
Christian Bartl wrote: Hello Gentoo Users, When I delete a Mail from a mbox with KMail (1.6, KDE 3.2.0) the mail is not really deleted from the mbox but only from the index-files generated by KMail (.inbox*). Also compacting the mailbox doesn't help. try Compact All Folders (I use maildirs, and it works.) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] telnet setup
Arne Vogel wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: David Obwaller wrote: hi, my isp disables me in using ssh, so I'm forced to use telnet to remotely access my computer. I'll try to change this, but for now I want to set up telnet. It's absolutely unprobable ... until they are not diletants. Actually, some ISPs do impose a firewall on their customers. It can be hardly called firewall, if ssh is blocked, but telnet allowed. This can be really done *only* by diletants. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mailing rotated logs
Aaron Walker wrote: A few days ago I finally finished setting up my old P233 to act as a firewall for my home LAN. I am using metalog for the logger and have it filtering all netfilter logging into /var/log/iptables, and rotating the file daily. I already have postfix and everything set up so that any mail to root on the firewall gets relayed to my mail server on the local network. I know metalog has a command directive, but that calls a command for each entry. Is there anyway to mail the most recently rotated log each day? cron demon is your friend just write a command which sends file e.g.: mail -s iptables log /path/logfile to crontab in /var/spool or better to /etc/cron.daily/iptables.mail (U can find some examples in that dir.) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a domain member on a Win NT network
Mark Knecht wrote: I'd really like to dump XP Pro but don't think I can solve this sort of stuff on my own. I'm not an IT guy, but we're a small company and I have control of the NT servers, so I can do what I need to do on both ends to make it work, short of getting rid of the NT servers. I am just courious, if you are small company, what for u need NT or windblowz shit? Are u running some proprietary SW which can't be replaced by Open Source SW on (Gentoo) Linux ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown video card on Acer Aspire 1350
Jose Gonzlez Gmez wrote: Hi there, I also have problems with my video card on my Acer Aspire 1350 (yes, I'm the same guy with the APM/ACPI dilemma). Following the specifications in the Acer web page, my laptop should have an S3 Savage or an ATI Mobility Radeon, but whenever I run a lspci | grep VGA I get the following: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7205 (rev 01) No, it's not S3 nor ATI, but as lspci says, it's VIA. Device 7205 is KM400. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] font too large
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Hi guys, i fiddled around with freetype, (unmerged and merged again) and after the last re-emerge, all of my fonts got really big! That includes mozilla fonts, k3b and kdevelop fonts, the xfce4 taksbar fonts, right-button-desktop-click menu fonts, basically about all of my system fonts. Can anyone help me get them smaller again? Use DisplaySize adjustment in XF86Config. Go back in ML to see an example, I attached my config yesterday or so. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices
Michael Peppler wrote: Hi, I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database server. On RH these devices are created by default, but it seems that with the default gentoo install (or at least the one that I've built :-) I don't have these devices. Normally devices are created by mknod, if devfs is in use (gentoo default), they are created by kernel itself. I am not familiar with Sybase, but can u send ls -l of relevant devices from RH ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mailing rotated logs
Aaron Walker wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:33, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: cron demon is your friend just write a command which sends file e.g.: mail -s iptables log /path/logfile to crontab in /var/spool or better to /etc/cron.daily/iptables.mail (U can find some examples in that dir.) noro Yes I am aware of this, howewver, the name of the logfile changes daily, since with metalog, the rotated file is named by date ie. log-2004-02-10-22:10:05 Still not a problem at all ... if u are only a little familiar with standard unix commands :-). Replace the name of logfile by: $(ls --sort=time /path_to/log-*|head -1) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown video card on Acer Aspire 1350
Jose Gonzlez Gmez wrote: Ok, you have impressed me, but... how the $#@ do you know this device is the KM400 chipset? I really would like to know :o) The trick is to put about three words to ggle :-). This URL occured: http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=648 Do you know which settings should I use to properly use this video card, or must I stick to the vesa driver? Since I never played with it, I can just give u an advice: Visit www.via.com.tw (look for linux drivers). VIA is taking much more care about linux users as other chinese co.'s, so 4 sure u'll find relevant info. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 02:28, Stroller wrote: ...Which will give best bang-per-buck..? - 64Mb ATI 7000 DDR with TV/Out for £23 - 64Mb ATI Radeon 7500LE SDR AGP TV Out for £30 - 128Mb ATI Radeon (Sapphire) 9200SE Tv/Out for £35 you may want to read this: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp_oct03.html the 7000 and 7500 are real old. And they were slow, when they were new. So I would not touch them. Hi Armin, I had the same feeling as u :-), but feeling is not certainty ... I didn't read given link yet, but I use 7500 (it is not 7500LE) and had one 9200LE (light edition ?) two weeks ago for testing. 1.Compared cards: Saphire/ATi Radeon 7500 64MB DDR V/D/VO id vendor 0x1002 id device 5157 (CRT out) RV200 QW (R7500) Saphire/ATi Radeon 9200 128MB DDR V/D/VO id vendor 0x1002 id device 5961 (CRT out) RV280 Ya (R9200LE) id vendor 0x1002 id device 5941 (DVI out) 2. Drivers and glxgears results: Radeon 7500 64MB DDR + xfree-drm-4.3.0-r7 1152x864 24 bit default 8167 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1633.400 FPS full screen 1023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 204.600 FPS no screen 27739 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5547.800 FPS R7500 is not supported by ati-drivers. Radeon 9200LE 128MB DDR + ati-drivers-3.2.8 1152x864 24 bit default 6366 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1273.200 FPS full screen 1010 frames in 5.0 seconds = 202.000 FPS no screen 12931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2586.200 FPS R9200 is NOT supported by xfree-drm !!! Both cards were tested on the same machine (i865PE, Xeon @1.6GHz, 2x256MB DDRAM CL2) 3. Summary IMHO 9200 card is worse, because it is not faster, and supported by proprietary drivers only. For me that means also in case FPS results are identical, I prefer 7500 (since it's cheaper). R7500LE is probably little bit slower as 9200 (I didn't test it). If somebody interested, I can send used XF86Config's and logs. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...
Grendel wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Manuel McLure wrote: I would definitely go for a NVIDIA card as NVIDIA has better support for linux :-) Grendel It's a question what u mean by support. If by support u mean delivery of crappy proprietary closed code drivers, u are right. IMHO support for Open software system (as Linux is) means open drivers documentation. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5: depmod gives unresolved symbols on misc/svgalib_helper despite the module exists
Calyth wrote: Here's the problem. I got a new sound card, and was recompiling the alsa-drivers. Granted, I gotta alter the cettings in /etc/modules.d/alsa, and then run modules-update. Then it says depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22-gentoo-r5/misc/svgalib_helper.o The module exists in the said directory, and I tried going to the kernel source directory, do make mrproper, put the same settings back, go make dep make clean make modules modules_install, and the system still have the same problem. Anyone got a clue why? If u don't need the driver, simple remove it from /lib/modules ... run depmod -a and be happy :-). noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...
Pawel J Maczewski wrote: I'd like to see your X config file... Here it follows: # Radeon 7500 + Eizo F56 + Genius Netmouse Pro + xfree-drm Section ServerLayout Identifier radeon + netmouse + eizo Screen 0Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPathunix/:-1 EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loadextmod Loadfbdevhw Loadglx Loaddri Loadrecord Loadfreetype Loadtype1 EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us,sk_qwerty Option XkbOptionsgrp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol NetMousePS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Eizo F56 VendorName Eizo ModelName F56 HorizSync 27.0-86.0 VertRefresh 50.0-160.0 DisplaySize 315 235 Option dpms Modeline 1152x864 110 1152 1240 1324 1552 864 864 876 908 Modeline 1024x768 98.9 1024 1056 1216 1408 768 782 788 822 -HSync -VSync Modeline 800x60060.75 800 864 928 1088 600 616 621 657 -HSync -VSync EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 7500 Driver radeon VendorName ATI Radeon 7500 BoardName ATi RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] Option AGPMode 4 Option AGPSize 64 Option AGPFastWrite on EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device ATI Radeon 7500 Monitor Eizo F56 DefaultDepth24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...
Grendel wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, The Norbert Kamenicky commented thusly, Grendel wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Manuel McLure wrote: I would definitely go for a NVIDIA card as NVIDIA has better support for linux :-) Grendel It's a question what u mean by support. If by support u mean delivery of crappy proprietary closed code drivers, u are right. First of all, let me illustrate the fallacy of the above comments. 1. Crappy?? Well dude the last time I checked NVIDIA linux drivers frame rates are equivalent to the windows drivers. The same game sometimes gives better frame rates than the windows version. Also the stability is excellent, I have been playing neverwinter nights with full detail on for I have seen a lot of nvidia stability related problems in ML's. And personally had problems to make nvidia to work on VIA chipset using proprietary drivers. 12 hours continously, of course I took a trip to the loo in between ;-) but the game was running for 12 hours continously without a single crash or lockup. Hmmm ... I never had troubles with xfree-drm and Radeon 7500. IMHO NVIDIA provides the best support for linux 3d hardware accelrated cards. Just see how difficult it is to setup 3d under ATI cards. It depends, if u know it, it's really easy :-). Its the opensource nvidia (nv.o) drivers which are crappy and have poor 3d support, with poor 3d features. Fine, but it's only a logical result of fact, nvidia hide documentation. IMHO support for Open software system (as Linux is) means open drivers documentation. I am sure RMS (Richard Stallman) would be happy with a fanatical disciple of free software like you. It has nothing to do with fanatism, but security ... I have lot of experience with proprietary software, and can say in many cases code was stolen from Open source, but badly implemented. Today are 3D drivers very sophistcated, but if sources are open mistakes can be easier patched and deceptions easier discovered. (nvidia likes to do it, check google for nvidia benchmark scandal) Probably everybody knows about microshit XP remote supervision feature. Would u like to have an OS, which is totally under the control of microshit stuff, government, secret services and/or mafia ? I would not be surprised if herd of trojan horses or some security holes are discovered in nvidia drivers. Lets face the real world, I want good performance out of my 3d card and I dont care even if it is a propritary driver, whats difference does it make to me, I am not going to get my computer blessed for running 100% free software by St ignucius (RMS) am I? If the open source driver is better than the propritary one then by all means I will use the opensource driver, otherwise I will stick with nvidia.com. It's fine, u can make a choice ... IMHO. At least they are decent enough to support linux in this way, so be thankful, there was a time when 3d card companies couldnt care about linux at all. This is only a question of linux spreadness. If linux comunity has 50% OS installed, am am sure all producers have to support it (or they lose the market). Grendel noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo - general questions
Alexandre Aractingi wrote: - I have been a (very happy) Mandrake user for some time now, and I particularly like their PLF site (rpm repository of legally Most of us switched to Gentoo, because we are expecting much more Mandrake can offer, but this is payed by little bit less comfort. Do not expect Gentoo has GUI to setup every piece of sw and/or it will run just after installation. If u are really very happy with Mandrake, and do not like to learn lot of new things, stay with it. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...
Grendel wrote: But how were the frame rates in 3d when compared with windows versions of the same application. This I really don't care, since I haven't any copy of that M$ shit. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Graphics cards recommendations...
Grendel wrote: the reason they arent open sourcing is that they are (justifiably) afraid that ATI will have a look at their driver interface to the card, then they (ATI) can figure out the current wekneses of NVIDIA cards and improve there ATI's based on that. Its not that they dont like the linux community, if that is the case they wouldnt even bother about releasing even a closed source driver. Now I definitely know u are nvidia employee, but nevertheless did u hear about reverse engineering? It's not a problem to disassemble the super fantastic nvidia driver and spy the ultra top secret inside. And if some company is very interested, they does it already. But what for u need to plagiate driver if u have different HW ? I would say nvidia is worry about the same thing as microshit. If they open the sources, a lot of programmers will die. 50% will die on terrible smile disease reading it. 50% will catch an infarct, if they recognize their Open source code, which was stolen and diletantly used. Just get realistic and tell me does nvidia make a profit by writing a driver for linux, no way at all, the windows market for nvidia cards is much greater than the linux desktop market which is very small. So they For sure they earn money from it, if not today, they are just looking forward. Who needs a card without driver ? Me sure not ! are doing a service and if you dont like what they are producing then instead of grumbling just use any other driver you like. Even if they open sourced it, it would probablky take years for people to figure out how the code works, remember that 3d cards are really rocket science. U must be very well informed, have u got actions of nvidia? Remember, intel declared 386 cpu so sophisticated, nobody in the world can clone it. Few months later it was cloned in East Germany. I am sure next cpus are clonable as well. And if it is really true, than progress can be achieved only by opening the sources, 'cause no company has so big programmer's power as linux has. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] debug script
Paul Stear wrote: bash -x script Thanks Norbert, thats just what I was looking for. Where did you find it? I thought I had checked all docs, perhaps I was asleep I don't know, I learned it some years ago probably from man sh on another unix. If u can't find it in man bash it's probably because of fact that programmers commonly hate to write/update manuals :-(. Sometimes it's worth to read/compare manuals on another unix systems. Some of them are really fine and web accessible. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy mp3's via wireless connections...
If I unplug the Orinoco and plug into the network viat cat5e, playback is perfect, no drop outs or any problems... I would say it's because of WLAN bad connection/signal quality, Lets check it by this command: root# ping -f -c1 -s1400 IP_of_mp3_server Lost/dupplicated packages count and time delays should tell u a lot. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an mtools for USB
Rob2 wrote: I ask because the Dell 8600 ships with a USB floppy drive. The regular mtools won't work. IMHO mtools should have it's config file somewhere in /etc to map M$hit stupid device name a: to /dev/fd0 or so. Did u modify it ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] debug script
Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am working on a backup script but have some problems. How can I step through a script? bash -x script -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?
Mark Knecht wrote: How about just unmounting the disk and trying: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso perhaps? That'll give you an exact (and burnable) copy of the disk. Not a happy dd process... Gentoo2 root # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso dd: reading `/dev/cdrom':Input/oupuut error 3304+0 records in 3304+0 records out It fails for some of these reasons: 1. broken CD 2. end of CD (to check it, mount cd, run df and compare sizes) 3. copy protected CD. It can be a problem to differentiate reasons 1.and 3. because some manufacturers probably use the same copy protection method as used on floppies in old times ... some theory follows: Sector on CD is 2352 Bytes, 2048 for data, the rest is for headers and CRC. Normally every sector's CRC is calculated from sector's data (IMHO calculated by CD burner itself). In this way it's possible to read a CD even if reading of some bits fails (for different reasons). Sector intentionally burned with broken CRC and/or header (yes, it's possible to do!) can be used as copy indicator, because on original CD read error occurs (data still can be read OK), but on copied CD the error is corrected. dd command will fail with broken sector msg or so. U can still read it using this command: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror bs=1k count=[size shown by df] The problem is to burn the image now, because if u burn it in usual way, CRC/header of the broken sector will be burned properly. There are for sure other possibilities how CD's can be copy protected and still readable by dd without any error ( e.g. info from CD's header can be checked etc.) I don't know about linux SW, which can clone such CD's, but I heard clonecd or nero for micro$hit should do it. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1
Tommi Pirinen wrote: snip For me this bug has appeared on nvidia drivers as long as I can remember, and I did start using nvidia in version 0.9-something. The bug occasionally changes from displaying textual carbage to graphical garbage, and it occasionally locks up keyboard as well. Last time I asked about it someone informed me it was a thing with Via's AGP system or something similar which will probably never be fixed, I don't know though if there are similar bugs appearing on other hardware as well. Hi Tommi IMHO, it is really VIA + nvidia problem, I met it on VIA chipset boards too (see my previous [EMAIL PROTECTED] ML) What chipsets u have on mainboard/VGA ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More problems installing gentoo
riki wrote: And now it's kernel panicking... U probably forgot to modify /etc/fstab /dev/ROOT must be changed to device where /root is, the same u have to do with BOOT, SWAP ... let boot from CD, mount and repair it :-) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] centrino kernel compile question
Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: Which processor type am I supposed to select when building a kernel (vanilla 2.4.24)? I assumed pentium4, but read somewhere it was supposed to be pentium3. Thanks, I have been using Xeon with pentium4 setup (both in kernel and CFLAGS) more than one year without any issues ... noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: I'd like to make an update to the original question about speed: I just tested the 4496 driver and the 5336-r1 driver, and the 5336 is a LOT faster. (Tested with wine and half life, warcraft 3, on a 2.6.1) Do u remember the nvidia benchmark tests scandal ? They probably repeated the old trick again :-). noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1
Jakub Krajcovic wrote: No, actually i haven't even heard about it. Could you send me some reference regarding this (e.g. link) Do u remember the nvidia benchmark tests scandal ? They probably repeated the old trick again :-). noro sorry, I haven't it in my bookmarks, but u can google for nvidia benchmark scandal, or search the archive on root.cz (in czech language) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables tables 'filter'
Neil Rachynski wrote: Greetings, I have just finished a GRP installation on a box I was intending to use as a router/firewall for my home computers. However, once I reboot the system after the installation is done and emerge iptables (1.2.8-r1), I can not add, list, or do anything to iptables itself. The error I receive is : iptables v1.2.8: can't intitialize iptables table 'filter': Tables does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. When I went to view the file 'rules-save' in /var/lib/iptables, the file was completely blank (explaining why it can't find the filter table). At that point, I copied rules-save file from another working PC to this one. However, it would then give me an error when restoring the ruleset (always the line containing '*filter'). The working one is running iptables-1.2.9 so I'm not sure if that'll make a difference with the rules-save file. I was hoping to be able to get iptables up and running before connecting to the internet and doing an 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -u world'. I have been through the gentoo user forums but the only suggestions I could find there were to either re-emerge my kernel and/or iptables. I've done so several times and have built iptables support right into the kernel as well as as modules. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. Neil Rachynski What is lsmod |grep ipt saying ? U must see minimum ip_tables module, but I have about 15. Look to /lib/modules/./netfilter/* for all available modules. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Peter Wu wrote: Guy, tell me why unix users don't do that ? (working as root) snip Because most Unix users have good computer knowledge while most Windows users do not know how computers work at all. This is total demagogy ! AFAIK *nobody* is borning as linux guru and every user has to pass beginners days. I am not familiar with situation in other countries, but in Slovakia M$hit becomes official state religion. (Our government signed some stupid agreement with M$hit Big Devil last days.) Windblowz users are trained at schools and nearly every employee is training its stuff as well. AFAIK Linux users are trained mostly themself. howgh, noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Andrej Kacian wrote: AFAIK Linux users are trained mostly themself. And *that's* precisely why linux users have better computer knowledge - most windows users only know how their favorite application works and *refuse* to look under the hood of the computer, unlike average linux user. Andrej, can u tell me, how long time it takes to average linux beginner to become linux guru if he is learning himself only? I would like to say few weeks, but I am afraid I have to say some years! Reading this ML I learned there is plenty of linux beginners, but probably no one of them has virus infected linux account. So let me make a conclusion ... If viruses can/can't infect users account is not a question of users education, but application weakness. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Games Suggestions
Wayne Oliver wrote: Hi All Can anybody suggest anything from portage ??? my sons likes to play bzflag, before they played quake3 and dozens of other games (I don't care) ( windblowz is prohibited at my house :-) ) IMHO there are tons of good games in portage ... I prefer brain breakers (sokoban, atomix ...) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB camera - almost
gabriel wrote: do yourself a favour and go down to radio shack and blow $20 on a usb card reader. it mounts rediculously easy and all you need is usb mass storage support. yes, but it can happen, he will have to unsupported devices :-( because not all card readers are supported under linux at first he should check if everything is set up correctly, google about cannon support ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and mail
David wrote: What ebuild(s) do I need for cron to mail its output (locally) to root? any MTA should do it, the simplest is probably ssmtp try emerge ssmtp maybe, some configuration is needed (I didn't try it.) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -C glibc
Ben Anderson wrote: I posted a few months ago about my boot process stopping at: mounting proc at /proc I finally realized what was wrong when I chrooted in and mount produced an error like GLIBC no good. So I emerge -C glibc, with intentions of reemerging. Obviosly, as I realized seconds later, this was a very bad decision by Ben. Does anyone know if I can recover from this? I think I'll just start gentoo over again. But seriously, why did Gentoo screw up my boot process (glibc) in the first place. Perhaps I'll try Debain. Thanks, Ben I never had such problem, but I would try to repair it using this scenario: 1. boot from gentoo live cd 2. make mountpoint for broken gentoo 3. mount broken gentoo 4. copy glibc library from live CD to broken gentoo (list of needed files is in /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc*/CONTENTS it's plenty of files, but lot of them is not needed yet) 5. chroot to broken gentoo 6. source /etc/profile 7. emerge glibc (in chroot) HTH noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and mail
Stroller wrote: On Feb 1, 2004, at 8:48 pm, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: David wrote: What ebuild(s) do I need for cron to mail its output (locally) to root? any MTA should do it, the simplest is probably ssmtp try emerge ssmtp maybe, some configuration is needed (I didn't try it.) snip ssmtp is a send-only sendmail emulator... It accepts a mail stream on *STANDARD INPUT* with recipients specified on the command line and synchronously forwards the message to the mail transfer agent of a mailhub for the mailhub MTA to process. Sorry, I appologize for this mistake. I didn't know ssmtp is not full MTA, but send-out only one. I unmerged it during installation of my gentoo box (probably lot of users do so) because I installed my prefered MTA, which is qmail. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Peter Wu wrote: Guy, tell me why unix users don't do that ? (working as root) Because most Unix users have good computer knowledge while most Windows users do not know how computers work at all. Do you admit this fact? Not at all, I personally maintain some Linux PCs, where users know nothing more as to use mail client, OOo and bookkeeping programs. Still no virus problem. I really doubt switching to Linux can stop virii from spreading. Ok Tom, how many viruses have been infecting your linux box ? I only read about them. Because those viruses were written specially against Windows. Well, you would say 'because Windows is very vulnerable'. I have been using Windows and Linux/FreeBSD for more than 10 years, Windows being my major working operating system at office while Linux/FreeBSD is my leisure hour hobby. I have never had any virus ruining my Windows box. Common, u have them, but they were hidden :-). Windows and Linux both have vulnerabilities and it is the appropriate administration that helps avoid disasters. Yes, I agree, but u must be blind if not see these facts: 1. It's much easier to search vulnerabilities in source code like to debug application/system. 2. If one small vulnerability on Linux occures (no exploit yet) there are found minimum 10 fatal vulnerabilities on M$hit (exploits widely spreaded already). 3. Patches on Linux are available very soon, M$hit patches after some months if ever. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] changing bios time without rebooting
LJN wrote: how'd i change the bios time without rebooting? date MMDDhhmm hwclock -w -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pop3vscan + aveserver + avpd
Vito Pascali wrote: Vito http://www.lnksystem.com Tel +39 051 3140537 Fax +39 051 3140489 Please start a new thread. Reply with changing the content just breaks up the message order. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] disc free space
Paul Stear wrote: I can get the disc size so all I need is to calculate the used size and then subtract. Or is there an easier way? rtfm df -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Peter Wu wrote: Well, some of the recent worms are activated by end users open an attachment, which could be an vbs or an executable. It is the executable that infects the system as most Windows users log in as an Administrator role. Fine, if it is a problem of the last windblowz version, I say OK, but AFAIK it's a problem of all M$hit versions ... Do you know, *.DOC file can contain any executable ? It is executed if text file is opened ... Do u know about something more stupid/dangerous ? Guy, tell me why unix users don't do that ? (working as root) What if root on a Linux box open an attachment to a mail he receives today and that attachment happens to be some executable that can ruin the system? Let's try it, and u'll see it's easy to say, but hard to do. If u open infected attachement in good written application nothing happens. If u save it to file, u have to set up exec permissions before running it. Do you thing, some diletant is able to make it ? I think not. U must be pretty skilled admin to setup everything let some virus in attachement is activated by opening the email. (FYI on qmail root have no maildir/mbox.) I really doubt switching to Linux can stop virii from spreading. Ok Tom, how many viruses have been infecting your linux box ? I only read about them. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] YOU HAVE A BROKEN PYTHON/GLIBC
raptor wrote: emerge automake Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 to / !!! YOU HAVE A BROKEN PYTHON/GLIBC. !!! You are most likely on a pentium4 box and have specified -march=pentium4 !!! or -fpmath=sse2. GCC was generating invalid sse2 instructions in versions !!! prior to 3.2.3. Please merge the latest gcc or rebuid python with either !!! -march=pentium3 or set -mno-sse2 in your cflags. i have gcc3.2.3-r3, plus I rebuild python with -mno-sse2 ... but still get this i want -march=pentium4.. This I get from my system: $ grep CFLAGS /etc/make.conf CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -O2 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -pipe $ epm -q gcc automake gcc-3.2.3-r3 automake-1.7.7 I remember some problems during last massive updates, but do not remember if it is automake related. Let's try my CFLAGS ... u'll see :-). noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts
Nicholas wrote: On Friday 23 Jan 2004 10:44 pm, you wrote: - snip - I believe metrics refers to measurements of one or more glyphs, whereas kerning refers to adjusting the spacing between pairs of glyphs which should fit more closely than the rectangular boxes that can enclose their extremities. Although I haven't used pfaedit (or any other font editor), I had hoped that the word 'kerning' would help you find the relevant part of the manual/menu, if that is what you mean. - snip - Hi, Nick :-) Yes, I was not familiar with terms (therefore it was explained in brackets) and it's also possible I missed the sense of your answer. Thanks again, I'll try to find kerning relevant part in docs of pfaedit, if I am in good condition to do so :-). noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to find the dhcp server?
fisch wrote: hi, i have a problem in my network - there is a dhcp-server. How can I find out the IP/MAC of that dhcp-server. I tried dhcpd -d eth0 but only my IP/MAC were shown. please help fisch run dhclient if it went ok, u'll find all u need somewhere in /var/???/dhclient-eth0.leases MAC to any IP on LAN can be find easily by arp command (ping to IP may be needed, because it's cleaned periodically) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to find the dhcp server?
lukas wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2004 20:45, fisch wrote: Just do a broadcast ping (ping -b BROADCASTIP) in your network and then type arp -a. Now you should see all IPs/MACs in your network. :-) Good advice, but how can u ping your network broadcast address if u don't know it ? (Because, e.g. your dhcp client is not installed/broken ...) U have to use ping -I eth0 -b 255.255.255.255 instead, but it can happen not only DHCP server answers ... noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Fails at 2GB Limit
Eric Paynter wrote: Anybody have any alternate server suggestions? Server not, but u can easily split (man split) big file into parts. Client will do cat a b c complete_file This simple way allows also old ftp clients to use it. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Drive Boot Problems
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 12:24, Dwight Frye wrote: snip Maybe 2.4.22 is better with SATA now, but when I tried to do this on 2.4.22 earlier I had trouble and ended up using a 2.4.23 version. I can provide you with a kernel config for that if it helps. No problem with SATA (intel ICH5) here, on 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 (it worked on previous gentoo kernel perfect too) U probably used genkernel, am I right ? If so, then probably .config was replaced by some stupid one. Run genkernel (or your preferred method) to configure kernel again and check support for your HW in ATA/IDE ... section. I give u an advice: Archive your .config files. It's very easy to find where the problem is using diff command :-). noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia performance so bad...
Sensei wrote: Redeeman wrote: emerge the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel, and then run opengl-update nvidia I gave it a try... but nothing happens... always ~5 fps. Moreover... those packages are just the same package from the nvidia official site, with a patch for via chipsets --- maybe the 4x patch ;) Check, if u have everything in XF86Config as described on http://www.gentoo.org Anyway u had more luck as me ... I tried to setup FX5200 + nvidia proprietary drivers on VIA P4PB400 main board with no success. I configured the same card on i865 main board before, so I just repeated the same steps copied config files. In the rest I made it work on xfree-drm drivers. (It seems that VIA + nvidia is not a good choice.) *WARNING:* I strongly recommend to use nvidia proprietary drivers *ONLY* from portage tree (using emerge). (I tried to install manually drivers downloaded from nvidia web site, and learned it's made by some diletant, because not even it doesn't work at all, but it breaks a lot of things as well. Thanks a lot to gentoo developers !) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Checking a CD
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I ordered a loop library that arrived on a CDR type disk. I'm having a bit of trouble with the disk. How can I test the CD get a definitive answer about exactly what's wrong? run this test on minimum 5 different CD drives: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null bs=2048 If it fails on all of them, CD is sure wrong. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
