Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk
(off topic) John P. Burkett... I knew I recognized that name... it's on my schedule for the fall. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall
Please excuse my possible lack of coherency; I have yet to have any coffee, and I just mediated a battle on IRC, so mehhh I had a very similar experience a few weeks back. There's that problem with the thing where the thing is like hey, Imma use this random port and then the other thing is like oh no you diint. So then they fight about it. I have debian boxes (against my wishes) and gentoo boxes in my mix. The following article was of great use to me: http://wiki.debian.org/SecuringNFS -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system
snip VFS: Cannot open root device sda1 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) /snip (hey, I remembered not to top post for once!) Not that this hasn't been said, but this is almost definitely a device driver issue. In my experience (and I've had this and similar errors on many systems), when it's a file system problem (i.e. having the correct FS driver compiled in), you get unknown-block(x,y) where x,y are both nonzero. That said, something definitely needs to be changed with your kernel config. I run several vmware servers (the free server), and have gentoo VMs on those. If you'd like, I can post my .config for you to compare. Or I could just look through the scsi options I have configured. When I configured my VMs, I remember reading the following article: (along with some trial and error, of course.) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP#Kernel_Configuration -- Greg Postscript: As this is an error mouting your root file system, the fstab, which is stored on the root file sysem, doesn't matter at this point in the boot process.
Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin
You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;) --Greg On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses interface, but not pidgin. There is no pidgin binary! Have I missed out some necessary USE flag perhaps? $ pidgin -bash: pidgin: command not found # ls -la /usr/bin/pidgin ls: cannot access /usr/bin/pidgin: No such file or director # emerge -pDv pidgin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-im/pidgin-2.2.1 USE=dbus gstreamer ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc problem
Every seen this error? # gcc-config -l * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! [1] i586-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 Here's what I get when I run gcc-config-l: wheeljack firewall # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.2 * The * indicates that this is my active profile. I see that when you list your profiles, none of them is marked as active. It sounds to me like your current profile is a profile that is not available to you. To replicate your error, I modified /etc/env.d/gcc/config-i686-pc-linux-gnu: #CURRENT=i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.2 CURRENT=invalid To fix your problem, you need to set your profile to one of the profiles you have available. To see your choices, list /etc/env.d/gcc, then use gcc-config to set your profile: wheeljack firewall # ls /etc/env.d/gcc config-i686-pc-linux-gnu i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.2 wheeljack firewall # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.2 * Switching native-compiler to i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.2 ... Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... [ ok ] * If you intend to use the gcc from the new profile in an already * running shell, please remember to do: * # source /etc/profile
Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files
Hi, Those dates are in a format called unix timestamps, which represent the number of seconds since the unix epoch (Jaunuary 1st, 1970). You can get the current unix timestamp via the date command (date +%s). As far as any command-line utility to convert them,I leave that to Google. However, most programming languages provide functions to convert between timestamp formats. -- Greg On Jan 27, 2008 4:54 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am sure that someone has asked this before, but a cursory look doesn't bring anything up. I am going through some logs and I cannot understand what the time was when certain events took place: [1200806556] SERVICE ALERT: router.xxx [1200806576] SERVICE ALERT: router.xxx [1200806891] HOST ALERT: router.xx [1200806891] Could you please tell me how to interpret/parse these so that they show time in hrs:min so that I can understand it? (anything I could feed to less would be grand). -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
I'm using ssmtp to send mail on several boxes. One of the boxes is running a real MTA and acts as the hub for the other boxes. Check /var/log/mail*. I'm assuming you set mailhub=foo in your ssmtp.conf, which means you're using the box foo to relay your mail. It's possible that the hub is refusing to send the mail. That would look something like: Jan 17 15:44:59 starscream postfix/smtp[8356]: 24E2D4AC9: to= [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=:25, delay=15, delays=0.1/0.01/15/0.1, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host xxx said: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied (in reply to RCPT TO command)) At any rate, if there's an error anywhere along the way, it should show up in one of the mail logs. On Jan 22, 2008 11:19 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. No fail. Worked like a charm... I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e At the top, is MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] My user belongs to cron group: groups wheel cron users mykhyggz Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron 5068 root 18 0 3072 692 552 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 cron 1508 * * *echo hello world should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or so I believe, but didn't. What else can I check? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
