Re: [gentoo-user] Stabilization of netifrc-0.2.2, extra testers wanted
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:30:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote I don't think you should really expect anything, it's just that we have no intrested in breaking peoples networking... Personally I'm worried about users with alternative /bin/sh symlinks, pointing to something else than bash, like to dash, but that worry could be misguided too. That sounds worrisome. There's no such animal as sh anymore, just a symlink to whatever. Wouldn't it make sense to explicitly specify #!/bin/bash, rather than #!/bin/sh and hope+pray that /bin/sh symlinks to something bash-compatable? Or if bash is too heavyweight, howsabout explicitly specifying #!/bin/busybox ash and making sure that scripts run properly under it? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Snort handbook is out of date
Hello list, I just wanted to save some time and confusion for anyone wanting to dip a toe into the muddy snort waters. As part of preparing my LAN server for exposure to the big bad world, I wanted to make it reasonably secure, and one tool for that seemed to be the snort IDS. So I installed it via portage and tried to follow the snort section of this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?style=printablepart=1chap=13 It refers to lots of rules in the /etc/snort/rules directory, but that's empty. (Apparently it's where you put any rules you write yourself.) So I just copied the snort.conf.distrib file to snort.conf and used that. To my surprise, I only had to comment out the blacklist and whitelist entries and it started up straight away. Takes a while on this little Atom box, but it does appear to run. Now to watch the logs, and maybe write a logrotate script for snort. HTH someone. -- Regards Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Snort handbook is out of date
On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:25:31 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I just wanted to save some time and confusion for anyone wanting to dip a toe into the muddy snort waters. You can file a bug to have the page update or be marked as outdated. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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Hello, The following page describes kernel, VIDEO_CARDS, and portage settings for nvidia video cards: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers Is there a similar page for Matrix MGA G200 video card? In particular, I would like to know: 1. What kernel settings should I use? 2. What VIDEO_CARDS setting should I use? 3. Which packages should be emerged? Thank you, Chris
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Emerge jbig2dec-0.11-r1
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Willie Matthews matthews.willi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2014 17:35:06 Willie Matthews wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2014 00:14:52 Willie Matthews wrote: I have been trying to emerge jibeg2dec-0.11-r1 for months now. Anytime I need to do an system update I have to upgrade everything else by running emerge -av1 with all the package names that are in the list that needs to be upgraded. This is the output when I run emerge -av1 jbig2dec http://pastebin.com/dxBXLZtS This is the output of /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/jbig2dec-0.11-r1/temp/aclocal.out http://pastebin.com/gNecjMzd Any help is greatly appreciated. Willie Matthews It complains about aclocal: == * Running aclocal ... [ !! ] * Failed Running aclocal ! == So you may want to remerge sys-devel/automake-wrapper as a first step? emerge -1aDv sys-devel/automake-wrapper Then try to emerge --update world. Oh my god. Thank you for your help. I have been struggling with this for a long time. I tried to reinstall so many other things that I thought had to do with the problem. Never did I once think to reinstall the wrapper itself. Thanks again for your help Willie Matthews You're welcome. Instead of re-installing packages blind, here's an idea to point you to the package that the offending file belongs to and start from re- installing that. You can use equery or qfile to guide you: $ which aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal $ qfile belongs /usr/bin/aclocal sys-devel/automake-wrapper (/usr/bin/aclocal) which points at sys-devel/automake-wrapper -- Regards, Mick I will make sure I try that next time I run into a problem like this. Thanks for the tip, Willie Matthews After two days I finally have my computer completely updated. I appreciate you help Mick. Thanks again, Willie Matthews
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On 04/08, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, The following page describes kernel, VIDEO_CARDS, and portage settings for nvidia video cards: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers Is there a similar page for Matrix MGA G200 video card? In particular, I would like to know: 1. What kernel settings should I use? 2. What VIDEO_CARDS setting should I use? 3. Which packages should be emerged? Thank you, Chris No wiki pages for Matrox G200 (a.k.a. mga) AFAIK. Maybe you could write one :) You may want to have these kernel configuration * CONFIG_AGP (if that video card is APG) * CONFIG_DRM * CONFIG_DRM_MGA which could be found in menuconfig Device Drivers --- Graphices support --- * /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) * Direct Rendering Graphices (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) --- * Matrox g200/g400 and put 'VIDEO_CARDS=mga' in make.conf which will automatically emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga when you do next emerge x11-base/xorg-drivers. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
