Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Heniz, On Fri, February 11, 2005 12:59 am, Heinz Sporn said: Just out of curiousity - have you ever thought of allowing ssh only over a VPN? Like say OpenVPN? No, I haven't played with that idea yet as I haven't yet played with vpn stuff. Will take a shot at it this weekend. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Thanks Stoian I never even thought of this. Will definitely try it. Seems the easiest way. Will also try to implement openvpn as pointed by Heinz. -R'twick On Fri, February 11, 2005 3:59 am, Stoian Ivanov said: You could sing in for a free shell account (www.rootshell.be), and allow access

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: squirrelmail and huge message folders

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Andreas, On Thu, February 10, 2005 11:43 am, Andreas Vinsander said: Now I have started playin with squirrelmail, and found out that I get a timeout when trying to access folders with many messages (typically this list's folder). Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

[gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, Recently I'm receiving a lot of failed ssh login attempts on my box for user root as well as a whole lot of other users which doesn't even exist. I'm getting tired of blocking these IPs manually everyday. Is there any software that can look in the logs and put these IPs in iptables to drop

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
: No chain/target/match by that name iptables: No chain/target/match by that name Any recommendations to fix this? Thanks R'twick On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:52 +, Michael Thompson wrote: R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Hi all, Recently I'm receiving a lot of failed ssh login attempts on my box

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 03:02 +, Michael Thompson wrote: Sorry, should have looked before posting! I dont block any more, no point. The IP's change so frequently, I have never seen the same IP in any multiple attempts. Yeah they change but they continue till I block them

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 03:16 +, Michael Thompson wrote: R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Can you post a line from your log so I can see what it looks like. That code works fine on syslog-ng and the latest SSHD. Make sure that you change Your ip address in what you post. Feb 9 10:35:36

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Mike, On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:22 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: | Hi all, | Recently I'm receiving a lot of failed ssh login attempts on my box for | user root as well as a whole lot of other users which doesn't even

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-10 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Michael, On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 03:35 +, Michael Thompson wrote: Try running this on your log by hand and see what you get back, if it works Ok, just modify it to fit in to the script. grep Failed password for illegal user /var/log/messages | sed -e 's/.*user [^\ ]\+ from //' -e 's/

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers fglrxinfo/glxgears etc hanging

2005-01-23 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
support Xorg 6.8. Although these are still unstable the feedback is quite Ok. Am Sonntag, den 23.01.2005, 01:24 -0500 schrieb R'twick Niceorgaw: H all, my configuration: xorg 6.8.0 gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r5 ati-drivers 3.14.6 no dri support in kernel. agpgart is a module

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers fglrxinfo/glxgears etc hanging

2005-01-23 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Tony, On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 17:09 +, Tony Boom wrote: Hello R'twick, Sunday, January 23, 2005, 5:00:39 PM, you wrote: RtN I had to disable RtN Composite extension to get DRI :( How exactly did you do that? I'm having terrible trouble with my 9600xt card. I had a section in

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers fglrxinfo/glxgears etc hanging

2005-01-23 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 22:01 +, Tony Boom wrote: Hello R'twick, Sunday, January 23, 2005, 9:23:18 PM, you wrote: RtN Commented out all three lines and restarted X. Didn't have them at all but thanks anyway. then you don't have the same problem as mine.. may be posting the erro

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers fglrxinfo/glxgears etc hanging

2005-01-22 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
H all, my configuration: xorg 6.8.0 gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r5 ati-drivers 3.14.6 no dri support in kernel. agpgart is a module. problem: when I enable dri in xrog.conf, fglrxinfo/glxgears/glxinfo all are just hanging .. no output. If I disable dri, then they are atleast showing something.

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP blocking smtp

2005-01-20 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Thu, January 20, 2005 12:52 am, Nick Smith said: my ISP just started blocking smtp from any domain not theirs, as per a supervisor @ comcast they are blocking all mail sent from their clients that are running a mail server and their outgoing email address is not a comcast.net address, they

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer background image

2004-01-12 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Hi, I am using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 and the following grub config kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768 where /boot/initrd-1024x768 was generated using

[gentoo-user] CUPS printing problem with windows share

2003-12-08 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi All, I'm trying to setup cups printing with a windows printer share. However, I'm getting an error like cli_session_request failed message. I had it setup fine with my laptop running gentoo sometime back but now with my gentoo desktop can not set it up. I have also installed suse 9.0 as well

Re: [gentoo-user] no devfs in basic install

2003-11-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Sumeet, Sumeet Singh Parmar said the following on 11/11/2003 4:24 PM Friends, I am emerging 1.4 RC4, I was pained to see that the stage1 uses MAKEDEV in /dev instead of devfs - what's up with that! I'll be sure to rm -rf /dev/* once emerge is complete. Sheesh. -Sumeet Even though I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Binary Packages - Help?

2003-11-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi, rd said the following on 11/11/2003 4:50 PM I am supporting 5 gentoo boxes. Presently I emerge to each box independently. Very time consuming -- even though I am using DISTCC for distributed compiles. Is anyone successfully compiling/emerge'ing to one box and then creating binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating

2003-11-07 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Kevin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 11/7/2003 3:37 PM Hi all. I have one system I'm trying to bring up to date via emerge, and am getting the following error. Any suggestions? gcc -o start-stop-daemon start-stop-daemon.o start-stop-daemon.o(.text+0x98): In function `main': :

Re: [gentoo-user] How to connect broadband automatically at booting

2003-10-20 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Stephen Liu said the following on 10/20/2003 1:24 PM Hi all folks, Each time after booting I have to issue # adsl-start on Konsole window to connect broadband Kindly advise how to configure the OS to have ISP/broadband connected automatically at booting. Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu put adsl-start

[gentoo-user] OT recover disk after mke2fs -j ?

2003-10-17 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, by mistake I did a mke2fs -j on my home partition:( is there any way I can recover the data ? I haven't written anything on it yet. R'twick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT recover disk after mke2fs -j ?

2003-10-17 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the reply. Jeffrey Smelser said the following on 10/17/2003 2:20 PM you might get a few utilities, but I did that not to long ago, and it was just faster to use my backup and restore it, only took about 5-10 mins to get home back since I back the entire thing up.. Btw, I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT recover disk after mke2fs -j ?

2003-10-17 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Jeffrey Smelser said the following on 10/17/2003 3:00 PM yeah, I thought there might be some kind of vendor doing it. I just don't think there are any 'linux' utils native that do it.. I don't know anything above X in linux as I have yet to venture that way besides a few times I have grown

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking setup

2003-09-25 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Kasper Rönning said the following on 9/25/2003 2:33 PM Hello! I've been an occasional Linux user, and now I've decided to really start learning Linux by installing Gentoo on my Apple iMac. I contemplated writing to either gentoo-ppc-user or gentoo-osx but I'm not sure my problem is platform

[gentoo-user] Please discard. Testing subscription

2003-09-16 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
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Re: [gentoo-user] HDs dying. please save me

2003-09-12 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
mathieu perrenoud said the following on 9/12/2003 8:59 AM I don't have any info on your problem, however, when starting a new topic, please start a new thread (compose a new message) instead of replying to an existing thread and changing the subject line. R'twick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] HDs dying. please save me

2003-09-12 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
mathieu perrenoud said the following on 9/12/2003 11:50 AM Sorry, my mistake. I didn't know of any header added to the mail that referred to the thread. I tought that threads were followed by title only. I use Mozilla and it has a nice feature to sort by thread (which I believe sorts by

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I completely remove gnome ?

2003-08-15 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 15 Aug 2003 at 19:52, Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:02:30 -0400 R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, is there any way I can completely remove gnome form my machine? I use kde always and just to try installed gnome but now unmerged every thing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - How do I get around a 'block'?

2003-08-14 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 13 Aug 2003 at 10:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm seeing in my xterm, along with the little bit of the man page on emerge that seems to apply, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Good NFS for laptop?

2003-07-31 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 31 Jul 2003 at 9:20, Paul K. Dickson wrote: Or hell, just schedule an rsync push/pull based on time intervals and system events. forget the whole nfs deal. How about using unison ? I use it to sync my home dirs on my desktop and laptop and so far it's serving the purpose :) -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] perl emerge problems

2003-07-29 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:29 pm, Alberto Bert wrote: Hi, I've update perl but emerge don't want do it. bash-2.05b# emerge -pv perl These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B] dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg

[gentoo-user] distcc and openoffice 1.1 now working ?

2003-07-24 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi, has any one managed to compile openoffice 1.1 beta with distcc? I can compile it fine without distcc. However, with distcc on, I always get this error -

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam Query

2003-07-23 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 23 Jul 2003 at 22:05, Angel Gabriel wrote: Over the ast few days, I have been getting a lot of messages, which are spam, posted to my lycos email address, the one I use here, adn for other mailing lists. This is begining to annoy me, occasionally, I'd get about two or three a day, now,

[gentoo-user] can not start apache - undefined symbol: Perl_Ipatchlevel_ptr

2003-07-21 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
I recently did a emerge -U world and after that I can not start apache (1.3.27) .. it gives me this error Syntax error on line 60 of /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf: Cannot load /etc/apache/extramodules/libperl.so into server: /etc/apache/extramodules/libperl.so: undefined symbol:

Re: [gentoo-user] can not start apache - undefined symbol: Perl_Ipatchlevel_ptr

2003-07-21 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 21 Jul 2003 at 4:12, Ryan Phillips wrote: Most likely reason is that perl was upgraded... try remerging apache. -ryan Tried emerge apache mod_perl same problem emerge unmerge perl emerge perl emerge apache mod_perl Again same problem Any other ideas ? * R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] synaptics driver (tuxmobil) problem with clevo/sager/pro-star etc laptop

2003-07-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, I have installed the synaptics driver from tuxmobil with 2.4.21-ck3 kernel and xfree 4.3.0 on a prostar 5634 laptop. Now when I start X, mouse just goes to the top left corner and sits there. ANy one using this driver with such a laptop and willing to share their xfree config with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging GNOME

2003-07-03 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 3 Jul 2003 at 5:09, Sean Bossinger wrote: Good morning (afternoon, evening, or whatever time it may be in your part of the world): I'm attempting to emerge GNOME onto my system, and I'm receiving errors. My system was built using the stage 3 tarball from the Gentoo 1.4 RC4. The

[gentoo-user] modprobe and QM_MODULE: function not implemented

2003-07-02 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi, I have compiled development-sources 2.5.73 but, when ever I try to do a modprobe/insmod/lsmod, I get a QM_MODULE: function not implemented message. Any one faced this? Or has a fix? Thanks R'twick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe and QM_MODULE: function not implemented

2003-07-02 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On 2 Jul 2003 at 12:24, Kurt Bechstein wrote: Yes, if you want to use the development kernel you will need to emerge module-init-tools. Thanks Kurt, I'm emerging it now R'twick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins compile problem

2003-06-25 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, I'm getting problem in compiling gst-plugins. Compile error is as follows === grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory libtool:

[gentoo-user] Sync KMail dir/address/identity/filter rules between desktop and laptop

2003-06-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, is there any easy way to keep Kmail (all mail Folders/Filter rules/Address/Identities etc) in sync between two systems (both running gentoo with KDE 3.1.2) apart from copying all folders and rc files across the machines ? Regards R'twick

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync KMail dir/address/identity/filter rules between desktop and laptop

2003-06-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
rules between desktop and laptop On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 17:27, Arnold Krille wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2003 17:58, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: is there any easy way to keep Kmail (all mail Folders/Filter rules/Address/Identities etc) in sync between two systems (both running gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] Dual boot gentto and W2k form grub ?

2003-06-09 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
You might want to change 'rootnoverify' to just 'root', that's what works for Me Kent I had it just root as specified in gentoo install doc and when it didn't work, I tried to google and found few mentioned to make it rootnoverify. Do you have Windows on NTFS or FAT32 partition ? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory

2003-06-09 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
: [gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 June 2003 15:59, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Hi all, is there any way I can mount two partitions (in two separate disks) as a single directory ? That depends on what you want

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory

2003-06-09 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Sigurd Stordal wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 15:59, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Hi all, is there any way I can mount two partitions (in two separate disks) as a single directory ? That depends

RE: [gentoo-user] Dual boot gentto and W2k form grub ?

2003-06-09 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Message- From: Sven Blumenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot gentto and W2k form grub ? On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:37:31 -0400 R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have Windows on NTFS

[gentoo-user] Problem with xinetd / proftpd ?

2003-06-08 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi, my gentoo desktop was working fine for quite sometime. I used to ftp from outside as well as from inside my firewall. But, recently I did an emerge -u world and after that I can not connect via ftp. I'm using proftpd with xinetd. When I run it thru xinetd and try to connect, I get ftp

[gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory

2003-06-06 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, is there any way I can mount two partitions (in two separate disks) as a single directory ? Regards R'twick

[gentoo-user] can I unmerge these duplicate pkgs ?

2003-06-06 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi I just ran qpkg --dup -v and got the following list. Is it safe to unmerge all older versions leaving just the latest version installed or will it give me any problems ? regards R'twick # qpkg --dups

[gentoo-user] starting sshd while on wireless or ethernet

2003-06-03 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi all, I have a laptop which has a wireless as well as ethernet connection. But most of the times it is connected to net either via wireles sor ethernet. Now when I start sshd, if ethernet is not connected then it tries to start it but when ethernet fails to connect, it doesn't start sshd.

[gentoo-user] GUI for oracle ?

2003-06-03 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi does any one know any free or cheap gui front end thruough which I can connect to a remote oracle server and basically be able to run queries or create/modify /run procedures for oracle like SQl-Programmer or SQL Navigator on windows ? Regards R'twick