Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2008 schrieb maxim wexler: At the end of an emerge process I saw two recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact name escapes me and I can't find it in the logs. It seems pretty significant with 100+ updates pending. Do you recall the full name? cfg-update, maybe? So far the best Gentoo config file updater I've used. HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
Rumen Yotov pisze: On (01/02/08 23:44) Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Total: 246 packages (201 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 38 new, 6 in new slots), Size of downloads: 1,047,420 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] PS: Gentoo is only known by me distro that survives this operation ;) (emerge -uvaD World) without issues. Congratulation great job! Keep it up! Keep Your fingers for me ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Hi, Good luck, try to get the fetch-restricted package first. Put it in /usr/portage/distfiles and run for 'world'. Don't forget: etc-update, revdep-rebuild tools. HTH. Rumen Nothing like Gentoo ;). Good update, god! ;). Everything is OK ;) as usual ;). Great work 4 all'ya! THX for best distro ;). PS: portage wrote message to fetch java from SUN page - only java SDK (because of NetBeans installed). If anyone can read then anyone can do update ;). Three nights and system up and running ;). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can I get help here for portage on Sabayon?
Sabayon uses gentoo's portage with overlays and I am having difficulty with portage conflicts. I will include details if this is the right list. If not would someone direct me to the right list? Thank you. Bob
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On Sunday 3 February 2008, Grant wrote: OK, port knocking is going back on the todo list. Note that I'm not claiming that portknocking is the solution to every security problem. Only that it has its uses in certain scenarios. A drawback of portknocking is that it requires modified clients (==knock-aware) for the services, so I think it's not suitable for your remote printing case. It can, however, be useful in other situations. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get help here for portage on Sabayon?
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Sabayon uses gentoo's portage with overlays and I am having difficulty with portage conflicts. I will include details if this is the right list. If not would someone direct me to the right list? Thank you. Bob Lots of people here know portage, so I see no harm in posting your question, especially if what you really want to know is how do I make portage do what I want it to do? If you are running into a Sabayon weirdness with a buggy overlay, there might be a better list, but no harm in asking general stuff here. Post the full output of the emerge -pv command you are using -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt printer. What have I missed? Run hp-setup You'll probably need to rework your cups config files if you've retained them from the broken install. hp-setup should enable local printing OK. And if it still gives you problems, delete /etc/cups then reemerge cups. I had to do that last part too. The problem is that my printer is on the LPT port (/dev/lp0), and hp-setup does not find it. In fact it has an option for LPT printers, but it is greyed out. The printer is really there: I can print by cat printme /dev/lp0 with a suitably formed printme file (lines need CR, file ends with ^L^D). Hmmm. Digging slightly deeper, I found the /usr/bin/hp-probe program. It lets me specifically request a probe of LPT, but finds nothing there. The printer remains attached. I'm even more deeply stumped than before. Try: hp-setup -i /dev/parport0 See if that helps. Try hp-setup -hfor other options. I take it that your kernel has parallel port support generated, and that you have file permission to access /dev/lp0 ? It runs, but only gives me options for usb and net. This makes some sense since there are no /dev/parport* entries in my system. Nevertheless, I have parallel port support as I understand it. From my kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r6) .config file: # # Generic Driver Options # CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set # CONFIG_CONNECTOR is not set # CONFIG_MTD is not set CONFIG_PARPORT=yparallel port CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y PC style # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is not set Your kernel set-up looks reasonable to me. I don't have parallel port support generated into my system, as I don't have a parallel printer. On a Centos host with parallel port support, 2.6.18 kernel: CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA=m CONFIG_PARPORT_NOT_PC=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=m ls /dev/par* shows: /dev/par0 /dev/parport0 /dev/parport1 /dev/parport2 /dev/parport3 Do you have a standard parallel port, or a special IO card? Have you modified /etc/udev.d rules? I have these (unmodified) entries: rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==lp*,NAME=%k, GROUP=lp rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==parport*, NAME=%k, GROUP=lp I'm puzzled by this, as your /dev/lp0 print test worked. The only other suggestion I have would be to try: hp-setup -i /dev/lp0 Don't know if hp-setup will accept this, might be worth having a go. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Dynamic HTML to PDF
I'm currently printing a dynamic HTML web page via firefox, but I'm trying to switch to a method that will allow me to print across the internet in an automated fashion with lpr. I've tried printing a static HTML file with lpr, but it comes out in raw code. I think I need a way to convert a dynamic web page to a static HTML file and then convert that HTML file to PDF for printing. I'm having trouble getting my mind around how to convert the dynamic HTML web page to a static HTML file, but I think going from HTML to PDF is best accomplished with htmldoc. How would you guys do this? - Grant Does the dynamic content not show on your printouts? It does when I print through firefox. I think I have 2 options here. I can convert these dynamic HTML pages to static as needed, and then convert those static pages to PDF for printing. Alternatively, Is there any way to print parsed HTML with something like lpr? The other option would be to build the PDFs directly from my data with something like PDF::Create or PDF::API2. Has anyone used a perl module like that? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been wanting to do this for months now, but failed to write up a coherent message to the list. Now I can finally reboot with ease and walk away, without having to mess with quickly switching grub (being impatient and having a short attention span, similar as they may be, are, in conjunction, quite an obstacle for multi-booters ;) ) I was thinking, though; wouldn't it be possible to just switch back and forth each boot? Have grub set windows as the default when it boots linux and linux as the default after booting windows, and you can just switch back and forth by rebooting - no grub-set-default required. However, this would be appropriate only for people who want to reboot into the other OS every time they reboot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting trusted traffic. I have seen one deployment where it seems passably inconspicuous, at least. Alternately, if you run SSH on an unusual port, you're unlikely to see much Bot traffic. I would recommend this, if you're concerned, above port knocking myself -- relying on a complicated pre-authentication method rather than / in addition to a remote admin tool like SSH seems to be asking for problems. Do you mean problems in the form of hassles? So you're saying ssh running on an unusual port is good enough? As for printing from lpr to cups across the internet, I should be encrypting that data shouldn't I? Nothing too sensitive but it sounds like a good thing to do. It looks like cups can use ssl but I don't see any mention of it in man lpr. SSH Tunneling and VPN come to mind too, but I must ask - what good is printing a physical document across the net, unless the printer is still only a little way away, and if so, what is it doing behind a public network? I am curious about this deployment. I'd be happy to tell you more but I'm not sure what you mean. Still only a little way away? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:27:24 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting trusted traffic. I have seen one deployment where it seems passably inconspicuous, at least. Alternately, if you run SSH on an unusual port, you're unlikely to see much Bot traffic. I would recommend this, if you're concerned, above port knocking myself -- relying on a complicated pre-authentication method rather than / in addition to a remote admin tool like SSH seems to be asking for problems. As for printing from lpr to cups across the internet, I should be encrypting that data shouldn't I? Nothing too sensitive but it sounds like a good thing to do. It looks like cups can use ssl but I don't see any mention of it in man lpr. SSH Tunneling and VPN come to mind too, but I must ask - what good is printing a physical document across the net, unless the printer is still only a little way away, and if so, what is it doing behind a public network? I am curious about this deployment. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Dynamic HTML to PDF
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:42:05 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently printing a dynamic HTML web page via firefox, but I'm trying to switch to a method that will allow me to print across the internet in an automated fashion with lpr. I've tried printing a static HTML file with lpr, but it comes out in raw code. I think I need a way to convert a dynamic web page to a static HTML file and then convert that HTML file to PDF for printing. I'm having trouble getting my mind around how to convert the dynamic HTML web page to a static HTML file, but I think going from HTML to PDF is best accomplished with htmldoc. How would you guys do this? - Grant Does the dynamic content not show on your printouts? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:27:12 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting trusted traffic. I have seen one deployment where it seems passably inconspicuous, at least. Alternately, if you run SSH on an unusual port, you're unlikely to see much Bot traffic. I would recommend this, if you're concerned, above port knocking myself -- relying on a complicated pre-authentication method rather than / in addition to a remote admin tool like SSH seems to be asking for problems. Do you mean problems in the form of hassles? Yeah, hassles and potential misconfiguration, because if anything goes wrong (rookie admin messes up knocking, for instance, on the server/firewall) you can't log in from home and fix it, you have to drive all the way out there to get in from the other side. Port knocking seems like a decent security method to me, especially if it was running on the firewall and opened ports only to the knocking IP -- in that case, it certainly wouldn't be obvious to any other computer that the port had been opened. However, I tend to think it is more trouble than it's worth, and has a tendency to make people think that they can be lazy about security because 'intruders would have to port knock anyway'. I tend to prefer strong firewalls, strong passwords, and, potentially, RSA certs or something to _really_ make sure. So you're saying ssh running on an unusual port is good enough? I'm no expert, but from my logs: SSH attempts (from bots in Shanghai and the like) on port 22 number in the thousands, unexpected SSH attempts on the nonstandard ports I run SSH on (actually it's firewall-level port forwarding) have not yet been logged. It's kind of an obscuring for security argument, but I think it's a good balance between goofy port knocking setups and just running plain old SSH on 22. Of course, Nothing is a replacement for strong password enforcement, and if the systems are important, I would probably require certificates as well. And again, I stress that I'm no expert. I have been using nonstandard ports and the Bots seem none the wiser, but I can still log in on those ports from any computer without having to aquire and configure port knocking clients. As for printing from lpr to cups across the internet, I should be encrypting that data shouldn't I? Nothing too sensitive but it sounds like a good thing to do. It looks like cups can use ssl but I don't see any mention of it in man lpr. SSH Tunneling and VPN come to mind too, but I must ask - what good is printing a physical document across the net, unless the printer is still only a little way away, and if so, what is it doing behind a public network? I am curious about this deployment. I'd be happy to tell you more but I'm not sure what you mean. Still only a little way away? Thinking of all the times I printed something, I cant think of many situations when I didn't have to walk over to the printer after printing, grab the printout, and carry it to the intended destination. I can imagine situations where you'd want to print invoices and the like at front offices or even remote storefronts and locations, but wouldn't you want a VPN up between your remote offices anyway? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
Grant wrote: I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past, and never had a problem. This is just my little experience, of course. OK, port knocking is going back on the todo list. I don't free as strongly as Alan, but I've never been overly impressed with the idea of port knocking. Mostly because any monitoring of services would be a total nightmare. And troubleshooting it would suck. Is the service down? Is it the knock? and so on. What I do like is openvpn. Script kiddies don't look for it and I prefer to have full access to my home boxes rather than having to mess with port forwarding. As far as complexity goes its easy to setup in an afternoon and there are clients for Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, etc. kashani -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting trusted traffic. I have seen one deployment where it seems passably inconspicuous, at least. Alternately, if you run SSH on an unusual port, you're unlikely to see much Bot traffic. I would recommend this, if you're concerned, above port knocking myself -- relying on a complicated pre-authentication method rather than / in addition to a remote admin tool like SSH seems to be asking for problems. Do you mean problems in the form of hassles? Yeah, hassles and potential misconfiguration, because if anything goes wrong (rookie admin messes up knocking, for instance, on the server/firewall) you can't log in from home and fix it, you have to drive all the way out there to get in from the other side. Port knocking seems like a decent security method to me, especially if it was running on the firewall and opened ports only to the knocking IP -- in that case, it certainly wouldn't be obvious to any other computer that the port had been opened. However, I tend to think it is more trouble than it's worth, and has a tendency to make people think that they can be lazy about security because 'intruders would have to port knock anyway'. I tend to prefer strong firewalls, strong passwords, and, potentially, RSA certs or something to _really_ make sure. So you're saying ssh running on an unusual port is good enough? I'm no expert, but from my logs: SSH attempts (from bots in Shanghai and the like) on port 22 number in the thousands, unexpected SSH attempts on the nonstandard ports I run SSH on (actually it's firewall-level port forwarding) have not yet been logged. It's kind of an obscuring for security argument, but I think it's a good balance between goofy port knocking setups and just running plain old SSH on 22. Of course, Nothing is a replacement for strong password enforcement, and if the systems are important, I would probably require certificates as well. And again, I stress that I'm no expert. I have been using nonstandard ports and the Bots seem none the wiser, but I can still log in on those ports from any computer without having to aquire and configure port knocking clients. Sounds like I should forget port knocking and set up RSA certificates. As for printing from lpr to cups across the internet, I should be encrypting that data shouldn't I? Nothing too sensitive but it sounds like a good thing to do. It looks like cups can use ssl but I don't see any mention of it in man lpr. SSH Tunneling and VPN come to mind too, but I must ask - what good is printing a physical document across the net, unless the printer is still only a little way away, and if so, what is it doing behind a public network? I am curious about this deployment. I'd be happy to tell you more but I'm not sure what you mean. Still only a little way away? Thinking of all the times I printed something, I cant think of many situations when I didn't have to walk over to the printer after printing, grab the printout, and carry it to the intended destination. I can imagine situations where you'd want to print invoices and the like at front offices or even remote storefronts and locations, but wouldn't you want a VPN up between your remote offices anyway? That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. I would speculate that a VPN for one service might be overkill, if that service is easy to secure. It is also a transparent mechanism for encryption over the net that would work with other services too (email, http, and the like). If you are likely to set up these services, you might consider a VPN to make your life easier in the long run. But if printing is the only thing you need to do, you might want to avoid the configuration of a VPN and just set up SSL. Encrypting your print data, in my opinion, is a very good idea. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:06:47 -0800 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past, and never had a problem. This is just my little experience, of course. OK, port knocking is going back on the todo list. I don't free as strongly as Alan, but I've never been overly impressed with the idea of port knocking. Mostly because any monitoring of services would be a total nightmare. And troubleshooting it would suck. Is the service down? Is it the knock? and so on. What I do like is openvpn. Script kiddies don't look for it and I prefer to have full access to my home boxes rather than having to mess with port forwarding. As far as complexity goes its easy to setup in an afternoon and there are clients for Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, etc. kashani Another openVPN vote from me. Makes deployment across geographically distinct network much easier, and good security too. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:16 -0500 Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will appreciate it if you don't respond to unrelated posts. Many mail browsers (my own included) organize by the in-reply-to header (at least I think that's the one): In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have probably organized your post in the middle of a VMWare discussion, just as mine has. Thanks in advance! I recompiled nvidia-drivers, for one thing, I don't think you should have had to recompile the nvidia-drivers for the update, you're moving from two nvidia cards that are both supported by the same (most recent) version of the driver from what I can tell on nvidia's site. The same driver can drive both cards. You would want to recompile if you changed Secondly, you might want to try upgrading the drivers, as the 8600 is a more recent card than the 6600 and you might need new drivers. Just make sure you did an emerge --sync some time recently and that shouldn't be a problem. And finally, it's not really a 'recompile' (even though we _both_ called it one) because the nvidia drivers are binaries - nvidia hasn't released open sources for them. but when I tried running X, I got a blank screen. You might need to reconfigure the Devices section of X. In my mind, the best way to do this is to run X -configure from ~/ and then copy-paste the relevant section of the new file (configured for your new 8600) to the old file (replace the 6600 device lines with those for 8600). Couldn't get back to the console. I assume Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] didn't help you. If not, it almost sounds like X is locking up. reminds me of this[1] release highlight (this driver came out 1/21/08): Fixed a bug that caused the X driver to crash if the X.Org GLX extension module was loaded intead of NVIDIA’s. Fixed a bug in the Linux/i2c algorithm driver implementation that prevented core transfer types from succeeding. Best of luck to you! [1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:56:22 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found... You might try a no-cd crack, if this is indeed caused by copyprotection as I suspect. I think they're legal to use (if you have a license for the game, of course) and to write/download, although there's no guarantee that you'll download the right thing and not a virus, or that it will actually help. I run all the games I can with nocd cracks anyway, so that I don't have to put in the CD. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:32 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Could you elaborate on your configuration? Are you... - relaying mail to a specific domain (or group of domains)? - forwarding all mail the box receives to another computer (a bad idea) ? - sending local mail as an MX Host / Mail Hub for a local network? - something else? Every time I write address different then local server (postfix) returns info 5.7.1 (some address): Relay access denied. What should I do? I don't know is it forwarding or relaying. What is wrong? It sounds like a fixable problem, but I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve. Want to post your main.cf? Greet's, Mateusz Mierzwinski -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network setup
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:50:51 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:18 +0100, Stefán István wrote: can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get any, it sets up with a fixed address? How can I set up this in the /etc/con.d/net? config_eth0=( dhcp ) fallback_eth0=( aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd ) fallback_route_eth0=( blah ) See /etc/conf.d/net.example As I understand it this only allows for one fallback type of address (e.g. 192.168.0.0). If you connect to different routers which have different LAN address (192.168.0.0, 192.168.2.0, 10.10.10.0, etc.) then I guess you'll need some sort of additional script? That appears to be correct, according to net.example only one fallback route can be accepted. You might try a postup function that checks to see whether dhcp is successful and, if not, sets your additional routes manually. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On 2008-02-03, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying ssh running on an unusual port is good enough? For some value of good enough, yes. I'm no expert, but from my logs: SSH attempts (from bots in Shanghai and the like) on port 22 number in the thousands, unexpected SSH attempts on the nonstandard ports I run SSH on (actually it's firewall-level port forwarding) have not yet been logged. I usually run ssh on non-standard ports. It does cut down a lot on breaking attempts. It's still an open port, and you still need to make sure ssh/openssl is kept updated. Blacklisting a source IP after multiple failed attempts within a time period is probably a good idea regardless. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! I just went at below the poverty line! visi.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On 2008-02-03, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can imagine situations where you'd want to print invoices and the like at front offices or even remote storefronts and locations, but wouldn't you want a VPN up between your remote offices anyway? That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? It sounds like the right thing to do to me. Once you've got a VPN set up, then everything else just works. You'll probably end up spending less time seting up one well-secured general-purpose connection (VPN) than you would futzing around with various security wrappers and kludges for various clients/servers. I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. Once it's up, they're be other things you'll use it for. :) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! I want my nose at in lights! visi.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
I here use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. I just change /etc/dispatch- conf.conf to the following: use-rcs=yes and diff=colordiff -Nu %s %s | less --no-init --QUIT-AT-EOF which requires rcs and colordiff to be merged. It's fantastic for updating the conf files. Regards, Saffi On 2/2/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you grep all the files in /var/log/portage/elog/ as well? That's where such notifications are normally stored. Some more likely candidates are gcc-config, java-config, perhaps python-updater or maybe one of these: nazgul ~ # ls -al /sbin/*update /usr/sbin/*update lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root14 Nov 2 09:55 /sbin/modules-update - update-modules -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5546 Jan 17 22:33 /sbin/rc-update -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30356 Nov 2 10:00 /usr/sbin/conf-update lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root29 Feb 1 20:14 /usr/sbin/env-update - ../lib/portage/bin/env-update lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root29 Feb 1 20:14 /usr/sbin/etc-update - ../lib/portage/bin/etc-update -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1873 Jan 10 15:14 /usr/sbin/texmf-update nazgul ~ # ls -al /sbin/*config /usr/sbin/*config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53788 Nov 1 22:24 /sbin/ifconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71460 Nov 5 14:42 /sbin/iwconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 564648 Nov 2 08:00 /sbin/ldconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4412 Nov 1 22:24 /sbin/plipconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26020 Nov 2 08:00 /usr/sbin/iconvconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4171 Jan 2 13:48 /usr/sbin/paperconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10284 Nov 1 22:24 /usr/sbin/pci-config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18563 Nov 7 23:25 /usr/sbin/pwmconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3084 Nov 5 13:27 /usr/sbin/ruby-config -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get help here for portage on Sabayon?
Thank you. I'll post using a different thread that reflects the issue. Bob On Feb 3, 2008 11:24 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Sabayon uses gentoo's portage with overlays and I am having difficulty with portage conflicts. I will include details if this is the right list. If not would someone direct me to the right list? Thank you. Bob Lots of people here know portage, so I see no harm in posting your question, especially if what you really want to know is how do I make portage do what I want it to do? If you are running into a Sabayon weirdness with a buggy overlay, there might be a better list, but no harm in asking general stuff here. Post the full output of the emerge -pv command you are using -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage issue
I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. When I run emerge --sync, it claims that there is an updated version of portage, and I should run emerge portage before updating any packages. When I run emerge -pv portage I get: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.18.1] 232 kB [0] [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] USE=-bindist -gmp -test 151 kB [0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) Total: 4 packages (4 upgrades, 1 block), Size of downloads: 3,306 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage When I try an emerge --pv world I get a lot of blocked packages: snipped... [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) [blocks B ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5) [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) [blocks B ] dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2) [blocks B ] sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/udev-118-r2) [blocks B ] sys-apps/setarch (is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.13.1) [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) [blocks B ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util- linux-2.13.1) [blocks B ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) [blocks B ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) Total: 616 packages (569 upgrades, 5 downgrades, 33 new, 9 in new slots, 13 blocks), Size of downloads: 2,090,644 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon What can be done to resolve these problems so I can bring my system up to date. Thank you, Bob
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:44:26 + Robert Stockdale IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. When I run emerge --sync, it claims that there is an updated version of portage, and I should run emerge portage before updating any packages. When I run emerge -pv portage I get: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.18.1] 232 kB [0] [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] USE=-bindist -gmp -test 151 kB [0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) Total: 4 packages (4 upgrades, 1 block), Size of downloads: 3,306 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage When I try an emerge --pv world I get a lot of blocked packages: snipped... [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) [blocks B ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5) [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) [blocks B ] dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2) [blocks B ] sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/udev-118-r2) [blocks B ] sys-apps/setarch (is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.13.1) [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) [blocks B ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util- linux-2.13.1) [blocks B ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) [blocks B ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) Total: 616 packages (569 upgrades, 5 downgrades, 33 new, 9 in new slots, 13 blocks), Size of downloads: 2,090,644 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon What can be done to resolve these problems so I can bring my system up to date. Thank you, Bob Well first off setarch was replaced with util-linux, so you can nuke setarch. Same case with mktemp in that coreutils replaced it. The others I'm not positive of. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
On 09:28 Sun 03 Feb , Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2008 schrieb maxim wexler: At the end of an emerge process I saw two recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact name escapes me and I can't find it in the logs. It seems pretty significant with 100+ updates pending. Do you recall the full name? cfg-update, maybe? So far the best Gentoo config file updater I've used. HTH... Dirk I've tried all the updaters and I also recommend cfg-update. Bill Roberts pgpMBuHUneBXV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plus I mask x86 only in portage because says masked by: missing keyword while emerging, it means that the packages isn't available for your architecture yet, i.e. you are running x86_64 and the package has for instance x86 keyword only. If you really need that package, then you can try: echo category/package x86 ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords to override it for package in a category. (Note: I've used the unstable ~x86 since the rest of Sabayon is running with unstable keywords anyway). As Gentoo is source based there's good chance of package compiling and working without modifications. 2nd solution is to emerge autounmask and use it for every single package 3nd remove packages not familiar how they work 4nd the book says : Invalid method (DO NOT USE) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gnome-extra/gdesklets-core , so this has to be done x86 any way, 5nd Usage: flagedit atom -- +keyword, for example flagedit dev-util/libconf -- +~x86 When I try an emerge --pv world I get a lot of blocked packages: snipped... [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl* 361 kB [0] *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE=nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla 2,564 kB [0] [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) [blocks B ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5) [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) [blocks B ] dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2) [blocks B ] sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/udev-118-r2) [blocks B ] sys-apps/setarch (is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.13.1) [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) [blocks B ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util- linux-2.13.1) [blocks B ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) [blocks B ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) Total: 616 packages (569 upgrades, 5 downgrades, 33 new, 9 in new slots, 13 blocks), Size of downloads: 2,090,644 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon What can be done to resolve these problems so I can bring my system up to date. Thank you, Bob Well first off setarch was replaced with util-linux, so you can nuke setarch. Same case with mktemp in that coreutils replaced it. The others I'm not positive of. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFHpi5WtULuSOPDqjERAnFXAJ4hFSjs87A9/O8UT588EnWsmptk+ACTBNEn cO0FTBDMzIxVyeUCaYkang== =LV0j -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Line drawing characters in Konsole
Somehow, I've lost my line drawing characters in Konsole. Applications like alsamixer show up with letter characters instead of neatly outlined boxes. I've tried changing fonts and encoding with no effect. Loading the program in another console displays correctly. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
I can imagine situations where you'd want to print invoices and the like at front offices or even remote storefronts and locations, but wouldn't you want a VPN up between your remote offices anyway? That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? It sounds like the right thing to do to me. Once you've got a VPN set up, then everything else just works. You'll probably end up spending less time seting up one well-secured general-purpose connection (VPN) than you would futzing around with various security wrappers and kludges for various clients/servers. I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. Once it's up, they're be other things you'll use it for. :) Ok, no RSA certs, no non-standard port numbers, just use openvpn? So I would set up openvpn on my remote server and connect to it from: 1. my local print server for printing 2. my laptop for ssh and imap Could I also only allow access to my website's admin pages through openvpn? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? And when I turn of Keyboard Layouts and press magic combo CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC, run again KDE by startx then everything is OK, but until I choice PL Keyboard Layout and press Apply. After that My keyboard is going insane. :/ Any bug? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync, there is a later version of portage in the tree that bash does not block [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) You cannot use these together. libdca-0.0.5 will not emerge if any version of libdts is present. The descriptions indicate they do the same thing so figure out which you don't need [blocks B ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5) device-mapper wants to be installed before udev is updated. emerge udev first, then device-mapper [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) ksync is a meta kde ebuild, kdelibs is monolithic. These two cannot be used together. See the KDE howto [blocks B ] dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2) Don't know what portato is... [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) mktemp is now in coreutils. emerge -C mktemp [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) update gst-plugin-ugly first to 0.10.6-r1 [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) update baselayout first. if this doesn't work, unmerge makedev, update baselayout then put makedev back. DO NOT unmerge baselayout. [blocks B ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util- linux-2.13.1) Dunno :-) [blocks B ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) Dunno :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering if there are any 'better' ext2/3 drivers for Windows XP and Vista? I'm looking at this one http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html but don't feel I know what makes one good or bad so maybe someone here has experience they could share? I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: {Disarmed} [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Robert Stockdale IV wrote: I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. Sabayon creates a complete mess. You have 3 alternatives: 1. Wait for the next Sabayon release and install that. 2. Remove Sabayon and install Gentoo. 3. Spend weeks trying to turn Sabayon into Gentoo. It can be done in days if you really know what you are doing but it's a lot of work. Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync, there is a later version of portage in the tree that bash does not block [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) You cannot use these together. libdca-0.0.5 will not emerge if any version of libdts is present. The descriptions indicate they do the same thing so figure out which you don't need [blocks B ] sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5) device-mapper wants to be installed before udev is updated. emerge udev first, then device-mapper [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) ksync is a meta kde ebuild, kdelibs is monolithic. These two cannot be used together. See the KDE howto [blocks B ] dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2) Don't know what portato is... [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) mktemp is now in coreutils. emerge -C mktemp [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) update gst-plugin-ugly first to 0.10.6-r1 [blocks B ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1) update baselayout first. if this doesn't work, unmerge makedev, update baselayout then put makedev back. DO NOT unmerge baselayout. [blocks B ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util- linux-2.13.1) Dunno :-) [blocks B ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) Dunno :-) Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync emerge pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings happend, wrote here. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
Was it dispatch-conf by any chance? It does the same thing as etc-update. 100+, WOW. he he he Now that I've thought about it more I recall it didn't specify a command, what it said was something like there are n files in /etc that have changed then something like see man emerge for further details Then on the next line was a similar warning, but for a different /dir which I mismember. Why would they use dispatch-conf if it's the same thing as etc-update I looked in /usr/lib/portage/bin; if it's anywhere, it'll be in there, but I didn't recognize it. Oh well, I'll know how bad things are the next time I reboot I'm not going to tell how many times I hit the tab key when trying to type in those commands. ;-) What do you mean? I just overwrite most of them automatically except for those few I need to keep the same Maxim Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)
On Feb 3, 2008 4:27 AM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt printer. What have I missed? Run hp-setup You'll probably need to rework your cups config files if you've retained them from the broken install. hp-setup should enable local printing OK. And if it still gives you problems, delete /etc/cups then reemerge cups. I had to do that last part too. The problem is that my printer is on the LPT port (/dev/lp0), and hp-setup does not find it. In fact it has an option for LPT printers, but it is greyed out. The printer is really there: I can print by cat printme /dev/lp0 with a suitably formed printme file (lines need CR, file ends with ^L^D). Hmmm. Digging slightly deeper, I found the /usr/bin/hp-probe program. It lets me specifically request a probe of LPT, but finds nothing there. The printer remains attached. I'm even more deeply stumped than before. Try: hp-setup -i /dev/parport0 See if that helps. Try hp-setup -hfor other options. I take it that your kernel has parallel port support generated, and that you have file permission to access /dev/lp0 ? It runs, but only gives me options for usb and net. This makes some sense since there are no /dev/parport* entries in my system. Nevertheless, I have parallel port support as I understand it. From my kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r6) .config file: # # Generic Driver Options # CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set # CONFIG_CONNECTOR is not set # CONFIG_MTD is not set CONFIG_PARPORT=yparallel port CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y PC style # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is not set Your kernel set-up looks reasonable to me. I don't have parallel port support generated into my system, as I don't have a parallel printer. On a Centos host with parallel port support, 2.6.18 kernel: CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA=m CONFIG_PARPORT_NOT_PC=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AX88796 is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=m ls /dev/par* shows: /dev/par0 /dev/parport0 /dev/parport1 /dev/parport2 /dev/parport3 Do you have a standard parallel port, or a special IO card? Have you modified /etc/udev.d rules? I have these (unmodified) entries: rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==lp*,NAME=%k, GROUP=lp rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==parport*, NAME=%k, GROUP=lp I'm puzzled by this, as your /dev/lp0 print test worked. The only other suggestion I have would be to try: hp-setup -i /dev/lp0 Don't know if hp-setup will accept this, might be worth having a go. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically made the printer work locally. That's enough for now. I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. I think I've got cron backing up to that USB drive nightly -- using rsync it takes about an hour for all partitions, unattended. Beats the blazes out of hovering over the DVD drive. And i'm pretty sure I won't end up in the same fix again. But I've still got to get the LPD service going, not to mention apache, vmware, ntp and gaim/pidgin. And I have a day job. I'll get around to it. Real Soon Now. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? You aren't going to get any /var/logs for a failed program like Pidgin. Try starting it from a terminal, where you should get output. Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)
maxim wexler wrote: Was it dispatch-conf by any chance? It does the same thing as etc-update. 100+, WOW. he he he Now that I've thought about it more I recall it didn't specify a command, what it said was something like there are n files in /etc that have changed then something like see man emerge for further details Then on the next line was a similar warning, but for a different /dir which I mismember. Why would they use dispatch-conf if it's the same thing as etc-update I looked in /usr/lib/portage/bin; if it's anywhere, it'll be in there, but I didn't recognize it. Oh well, I'll know how bad things are the next time I reboot They have two because a lot of people like dispatch-conf. It archives old configs just in case something . . . well. . . screws up badly. I'm not going to tell how many times I hit the tab key when trying to type in those commands. ;-) What do you mean? I just overwrite most of them automatically except for those few I need to keep the same Maxim If you are in a console and type in eme then hit the tab key, it will fill in the rest of the command emerge for you. Saves you from typing the whole thing. You can do the same when changing directories and such too. Saves you a lot of typing but when you are typing in a email, it doesn't fill it in for ya. Then you have to backspace and fill in the whole thing yourself. Try it sometime. It'll grow on you. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: I've installed cups and hplip I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a Postscrpt printer. What have I missed? hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i got it back from the DiskSavers, along with the data on a new USB external drive. Copying over the cups config files just magically made the printer work locally. That's enough for now. I'm still struggling with a host of issues, so I'm going to ignore the fact that I have no idea what keeps my CUPS working. I think I've got cron backing up to that USB drive nightly -- using rsync it takes about an hour for all partitions, unattended. Beats the blazes out of hovering over the DVD drive. And i'm pretty sure I won't end up in the same fix again. But I've still got to get the LPD service going, not to mention apache, vmware, ntp and gaim/pidgin. And I have a day job. I'll get around to it. Real Soon Now. Glad to hear that you're up and running, and thanks for the timely reminder to do a backup! 8-) Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip The contents of /etc/hp/hplip.conf and the output of: hp-check - and - hp-probe -bpar would also be interesting. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
2008/2/3, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering if there are any 'better' ext2/3 drivers for Windows XP and Vista? I'm looking at this one http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html but don't feel I know what makes one good or bad so maybe someone here has experience they could share? I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Hi Mark, I'm using that driver on windows vista from some weeks ago till now and it seems to give no trouble... You can see your linux partition just as an ordinary windows partition... Apart this i don't know if this could be considered a good/bad driver... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. Does anybody want to help me guess? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync emerge pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings happend, wrote here. Mateusz M. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list renaming .gaim to dot.gaim makes no difference. I did not re-emerge it, but found that it works if I'm the root user. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
On Feb 3, 2008 4:13 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 PM, Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, I'm using that driver on windows vista from some weeks ago till now and it seems to give no trouble... You can see your linux partition just as an ordinary windows partition... Apart this i don't know if this could be considered a good/bad driver... -- Thank you sir. I shall consider that a good enough recommendation to give it a try. Hey, nice. Less than 2 minutes later I'm listening to music under Windows playing off of my ext3 music partition on this machine. I set up the driver as read only until I get more confidence with it. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 PM, Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/3, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering if there are any 'better' ext2/3 drivers for Windows XP and Vista? I'm looking at this one http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html but don't feel I know what makes one good or bad so maybe someone here has experience they could share? I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Hi Mark, I'm using that driver on windows vista from some weeks ago till now and it seems to give no trouble... You can see your linux partition just as an ordinary windows partition... Apart this i don't know if this could be considered a good/bad driver... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Thank you sir. I shall consider that a good enough recommendation to give it a try. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
On Feb 3, 2008 3:26 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800
Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated.
I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to
start it silently fail.
I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing.
Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing.
Does anybody want to help me guess?
You aren't going to get any /var/logs for a failed program like Pidgin.
Try starting it from a terminal, where you should get output.
Brian
Starting from a terminal also dies silently.
I tried running it under strace(1), and it appears that it's doing a poll(6,
...) followed by a read(6, ...)
on a socket, and the read errors out with EAGAIN. Pidgin promptly dies
without a message. Pidgin
had written to this socket, but it was binary and I don't recongnze the
contents. The last few:
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0%\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {\35\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb69c2000, 16944) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {\36\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0\'\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {\37\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb69b5000, 8400)= 0
munmap(0xb69b2000, 8364)= 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0(\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {!\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb69ae000, 12772) = 0
munmap(0xb69aa000, 12616) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0)\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {#\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb6819000, 96672) = 0
munmap(0xb69a6000, 12552) = 0
munmap(0xb69a2000, 12616) = 0
munmap(0xb681, 33468) = 0
munmap(0xb699e000, 12584) = 0
munmap(0xb680d000, 8396)= 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0*\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {)\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb67fa000, 76400) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0+\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {*\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb67e6000, 79420) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0,\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {+\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb67e2000, 12836) = 0
munmap(0xb67ac000, 218892) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0-\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {,\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb6791000, 107488) = 0
munmap(0xb678d000, 12592) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0.\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {/\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb678a000, 8676)= 0
munmap(0xb6831000, 250056) = 0
...
gettimeofday({1202082681, 583620}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1202082681, 584464}, NULL) = 0
writev(6, [{l\1\0\1#\0\0\0/\0\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre...,
144}, {\36\0\0\0im.pidgin.purple.PurpleServi..., 35}], 2) = 179
gettimeofday({1202082681, 585299}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1
read(6, l\2\1\1\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0=\0\0\0\6\1s\0\4\0\0\0:1.3\0\0\0\0...,
2048) = 84
++ kevin
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
On Feb 3, 2008 4:16 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 3:26 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800
Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated.
I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to
start it silently fail.
I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing.
Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing.
Does anybody want to help me guess?
You aren't going to get any /var/logs for a failed program like Pidgin.
Try starting it from a terminal, where you should get output.
Brian
Starting from a terminal also dies silently.
I tried running it under strace(1), and it appears that it's doing a
poll(6, ...) followed by a read(6, ...)
on a socket, and the read errors out with EAGAIN. Pidgin promptly dies
without a message. Pidgin
had written to this socket, but it was binary and I don't recongnze the
contents. The last few:
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0%\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {\35\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb69c2000, 16944) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {\36\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0\'\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {\37\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb69b5000, 8400)= 0
munmap(0xb69b2000, 8364)= 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0(\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {!\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb69ae000, 12772) = 0
munmap(0xb69aa000, 12616) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0)\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {#\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb6819000, 96672) = 0
munmap(0xb69a6000, 12552) = 0
munmap(0xb69a2000, 12616) = 0
munmap(0xb681, 33468) = 0
munmap(0xb699e000, 12584) = 0
munmap(0xb680d000, 8396)= 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0*\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {)\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb67fa000, 76400) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0+\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {*\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb67e6000, 79420) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0,\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {+\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb67e2000, 12836) = 0
munmap(0xb67ac000, 218892) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0-\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {,\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb6791000, 107488) = 0
munmap(0xb678d000, 12592) = 0
writev(6, [{l\4\1\1\4\0\0\0.\0\0\0w\0\0\0\1\1o\0\36\0\0\0/im/pidg...,
136}, {/\0\0\0, 4}], 2) = 140
munmap(0xb678a000, 8676)= 0
munmap(0xb6831000, 250056) = 0
...
gettimeofday({1202082681, 583620}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1202082681, 584464}, NULL) = 0
writev(6, [{l\1\0\1#\0\0\0/\0\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre...,
144}, {\36\0\0\0im.pidgin.purple.PurpleServi..., 35}], 2) = 179
gettimeofday({1202082681, 585299}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1
read(6, l\2\1\1\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0=\0\0\0\6\1s\0\4\0\0\0:1.3\0\0\0\0...,
2048) = 84
++ kevin
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
More info: pidgin works fine if I'm the root user. How that fits in with
socket ops I do not know.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue
On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? A GUY who lost his ` -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] constantly restarting esd
Hi all, This seems to happen only with rhythmbox, not with mplayer or totem (although I don't use totem much, and mplayer mostly for video): After playing 3 or 4 songs, at the beginning of a song rhythmbox will refuse to play anything. When I press the play button, the play-pause indication toggles, but the current song positions stays at the beginning. Rhythmbox outputs: (rhythmbox:26642): RhythmDB-CRITICAL **: rhythmdb_entry_get_string: assertion `entry != NULL' failed on the terminal. To fix it, I have to kill esd, and restart it. Then I can press play and everyone's happy. Until it happens again... This seems to be more prevalent if I skip forward through a few songs. I'm using the latest unstable everything (~x86). Maybe the un before stable is a clue :) However this behaviour has been going for a while. Any hints? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Isn't air travel wonderful? Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in Brazil. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:32:47 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My keyboard is OK because in commandline everything is OK. Any suggestions? No, just questions: 1) what kind of keyboard do you use 2) what kind of keyboard setting do you use at the console 3) What is your keyboard setting in X Can you answer these? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:27:50 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark If you want to get files to windows hosts that aren't running (dual-boot), you can do so with ntfs-3g which is a FUSE filesystem that can write to NTFS. If the systems are running alongside the linux, use SMB/CIFS -- serve on windows if you don't want those 'filesystems' to access your linux. I don't trust SMB shares either, but putting data from linux onto them is no different than putting files on there with a flash drive or disc. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:25:25 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would set up openvpn on my remote server and connect to it from: here's a few ideas about the subject, some options to think about. 1. my local print server for printing Look into routed vpn networks. If I were in your case I would probably set up a VPN server on (one of) my firewall(s) and then either route/allow :641 traffic to the remote print server through the VPN or simply redirect :641 connections through the VPN, just like port forwarding for NATed servers behind firewalls. in this configuration, the remote print server is really a VPN client rather than a server. 2. my laptop for ssh and imap I like to allow myself, with my laptop, to connect to my SOHO-sized server setup through a VPN. To this end I tell the gateways on select subnets to route throught to the VPN, and tell the VPN server to route to those subnets' gateways. That way I can configure any computer (through the vpn, of course) without having to worry about opening it to external connections. If you wanted to make the VPN transparent, you could NAT the VPN traffic instead, and make it look like it came from the VPN server itself. I cringe at the idea of having to use a VPN for imap, however. Could I also only allow access to my website's admin pages through openvpn? You could, but it might be a little tricky, depending on your setup. If it were my goal, I would probably put the server pages in a directory and control access to that directory to only VPN addresses (Again, this assumes a routed vpn). Or you could put it on a different server entirely. However, I would do no such thing. I would want to use an entirely different access scheme for website admin, using a user login to perhaps an ssl protected webpage, or if I were really concerned, HTTP authentication. . I would not want my web admins, who likely enjoy the ease with which they can manipulate their web pages, to be allowed on the VPN, and wouldn't want to set it up on their computers or worry about them getting viruses and the like. It's hard for a virus to transmit in a meaningful fashion over FTP and access to webpages, but trojans on a VPN client give the trojan controller the same access to the VPN -- and a copy of the client's certificates. I am not quick to pass out trusted certs for my vpn. In short, better uses of the VPN in this case would probalby be remote access to the corp. network from your laptop and secure access to remote print servers from whatever the number of hosts. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
On 2/3/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering if there are any 'better' ext2/3 drivers for Windows XP and Vista? This will not give you information much different to that already presented, but could still take a look here [1]. Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Lightweight_package_selection_(using_Xfce_and_suitable_for_office_usage)#Choosing_the_filesystem -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
