Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Nate Duehr
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Nate, Of course he could have also just piped tar though ssh too... into a tar on the opposite side. This works fine to move a few files too. Interesting .. snipped examples of the question of how to do it... There's a number of ways it can be done, here's one

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH

2003-11-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Of course he could have also just piped tar though ssh too... into a tar on the opposite side. This works fine to move a few files too. You could do it with a bunch of things, actually -- ssh connections make nice machine-to-machine pipes. Nate Hall Stevenson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading emails from both Gentoo Linux and MS Win

2003-10-23 Thread Nate Duehr
Hall Stevenson wrote: I'm guessing the OP uses a regular ISP like most people. I'm pretty sure we can't get them to switch to IMAP for e-mail... :-) Yes, I understand that it's possible to setup a personal IMAP server that fetches your mail from your ISP and then access it via IMAP, but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Reading emails from both Gentoo Linux and MS Win

2003-10-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Sami Salonen wrote: This was exactly what I was looking for - I would like to be able to see my local folders in Windows too. Now I'm just wondering whether this can be accomplished with KMail and any Windows mail client? There is another very sane option... switch to IMAP, keep all the mail

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Nate Duehr
Eric Livingston wrote: For example, an administrator who runs 100% linux at home, but works in both Linux and Windows server at work would not be 100% Linux by this definition. Nor would an admin that has 100% Linux servers, but also admins 10 Windows-based client machines in his office. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Nate Duehr
Stephen Liu wrote: I was Windows + Mandrake then Windows + Redhat and am now turning to Gentoo. I never run Debian before. I am interested to know what is the difference between Gentoo and Debian. Debian - mainly a binary distribution with source packages available for rebuild of anything

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Nate Duehr
Hall Stevenson wrote: Newbies (or people who don't RTFM) do *not* go over well on Debian's user mailing list. Don't expect much help there especially in cases where --help or man command fully explain things. debian-user usually isn't too bad about flaming people. debian-devel... definitely.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-17 Thread Nate Duehr
NFS is a perfectly valid way to do this, but you end up with at least three boxes... a highly redundant NFS file server and mail servers tied to it. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-17 Thread Nate Duehr
upgrades between major releases. Exim is very rarely attacked by script kiddies and it's fast and easy to add on things like scanners and system filters. Unless you need virtual domains, it's a very good design choice. Otherwise I'd use qmail and vpopmail. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail or Postfix Cluster -- how?

2003-10-17 Thread Nate Duehr
understand. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to try it out on a brand new Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago. Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair with the reiserfs tools. I don't shut it off improperly or anything like that, and have been doing admin work for

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
with Linux boxes, the last thing I want to do is mess around with repairing a ReiserFS filesystem. Not worth messing with, IMHO. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
on a number of people's machines and the NFS maintainer just blowing people off and telling them to use hard mounts. Sheesh. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs corruption likelihood?

2003-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
you money (or time), you takes you chances. Pretty wise viewpoint, I'd say. And basically what I was trying to get across. If you value your data, don't use filesystems that have regular reports of eating other people's data for lunch. :-) Boring, I know... but safer. (GRIN) -- Nate Duehr

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo / 2.6.0 Kernel / Hyperthreading / Stuff

2003-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
that there are two CPU's present in a single CPU box, I saw in some of the documentation. I'm just beginning to play with it, so my knowledge is weak. It's probably not an issue at all for someone not setting up a cluster. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo / 2.6.0 Kernel / Hyperthreading / Stuff

2003-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
and figuring out what works the very fastest, if you're into speed. The average user will find more performance gains out of adding RAM to just about any system/platform than they'll see out of compiling for the architecture, though. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird

2003-09-24 Thread Nate Duehr
Alexander Plank wrote: Thunderbird doesnt open a browser when links are clicked. I find this odd. Does anyone else have this problem? Right on their website it says it won't open URL's under Linux (yet). From: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/todolist.html We need a linux guru to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS

2003-09-23 Thread Nate Duehr
Mike Williams wrote: I whole hartedly agree with your comments, and those of Caleb. If gentoo were to just blindly follow the FHS, or anyone with anything for that matter, things wouldn't change for the better. So the model of follow the FHS and then work to change the FHS itself wouldn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] nothing to do with gentoo, but a problem for me

2003-09-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Charlie wrote: Salut, here you see my diskspace made with df -h , the problem is my /root it shows me only 18M available, but with 'du' it must be about 300 M, I made it the 'du' also for the other partitions and it is OK. Has anybody a hint for me. I logged in with a Knoppix and can't find

[gentoo-user] really dumb emerge question

2003-09-18 Thread Nate Duehr
... emerge -u net-www/apache-1.3.28 Doesn't work. What'd I miss...? -- Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] really dumb emerge question

2003-09-18 Thread Nate Duehr
Thanks for all the replies... it all makes sense now. ;-) Nate Duehr wrote: Setting up a gentoo box for the first time here, and don't want to use apache2. Reading the docs, it says you can give the group-name/program-name to emerge to force an emerge of an older version, but it's not liking