On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Ian K wrote:
Michael Sullivan wrote:
While we're on the subject of VB let me ask a question. I'm curious:
Is there a clone of VB6 for Gentoo? I know about Gambas, but Gambas
doesn't have a lot of the features I've grown used to in VB over the
past several years, and I don't
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone point me in the right direction to finding the fix for getting
the
modules to compile.
Error messages are always helpful. Usually kernel build problems are a
result of dependency errors. You didn't include an option that's required
for the
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Schafer Frank wrote:
What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would it
be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? I'd
like to have my initscripts #!/bin/sh.
Is that the only reason you want a SysV init? A bit odd, especially given:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Ric Messier wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Schafer Frank wrote:
What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would it
be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? I'd
like to have my initscripts #!/bin/sh.
Is that the only reason you want
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, David Hart wrote:
and further down the GPL:
^ 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
^ except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise
^ to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will
^
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Scharf Yuval wrote:
No Ric,
Identity theft is not stealing. It is a term made up by the american media.
Still, it is a horribe crime.
Oh, I understand now. You're an idiot. Try telling your little tale above
to someone who has been through it. It is not a term made up
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, David Hart wrote:
FUD FUD FUD FUD NONSENSE and more FUD!!!
Show me where it says in the GPL that if you infringe you have to open
up closed source?
Hmm ... let's see. Wasn't hard. It's in the Preamble.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program,
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Collin Starkweather wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] olsonco $ ls -al /dev/sound
total 0
drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] olsonco $
Where do I go from here? I'm
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ian Truelsen wrote:
Excuse me for interrupting, but does it make a lot of sense to be
benchmarking what is essentially a development kernel? I would think
that when they are in the single digits in releases, they are simply
trying to make sure that everything works. Once
and
forgot to rc-update add sshd before I left so I could get back in to
check after the reboot. Will know when I return at lunch, though.
Ric
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Wazow wrote:
Ric,
Ric Messier wrote:
Sort of. Depending on the driver you are using, the init software
looks in different places
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rob Barnett wrote:
I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount
/boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage?
bzImage is in /usr/src/linux/boot/arch/arch or something like that. You
can also do a make install and have it put everything into
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Wazow wrote:
Yeah, That is what I meant. It took me a couple of hours of damn work a
month ago :) I think this section is actually pretty well hidden in the
jungle of comments and many people overlooks it...
Agreed. I don't remember having to take that block out
Hey,
What would be the location for wireless settings with a Prism2 pcmcia card and the
kernel drivers? Setting them in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts hasn't gotten me anywhere. I
still need to set them by hand.
Thanks,
Ric
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Wazow wrote:
This seems to work for me. I set KEY=... in
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts/. Perhaps you forgot to comment out the first
entry which matches anything, end prevents the case from proceeding in
further branches? Does your card work in non-encrypted mode? Is that
only the keys which do
Wazow wrote:
I do not think the problem you have is driver related, as you write that
it works when set up manually (iwconfig?). Looks like something wrong
with hotplug/pcmcia setup. Are you on 2.6.2? I heard some rumours that
PCMCIA support in this one does not quite work. I am on 2.6.1 at
, 11 Feb 2004 22:16:02 +0100
Ric Messier wrote:
I don't think the problem I have is driver-related either. Clearly
the drivers work because I can pass traffic. The problem I have is
not knowing where I need to put the configuration information.
Different drivers look in different places
You've bound it to the localhost interface on port 23 not your external interface on
port 23. You need to bind it to your 192.168.x.x address.
Ric
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No on binary. If you don't know yet, portage is a source-centered
package manager.
Except that there are plenty of packages that rely on binary distributions for a
variety of reasons.
Ric
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Alan Ianson wrote:
I would like to get pine working to send/fetch mail, can anyone give me
pointers on what I need to emerge once gentoo is up and running? TIA.
In what way are you extracting mail? POP3? IMAP? Pine is easy to configure for either.
Google'ing has always refreshed my memory when
Not sure why they would allow telnet and not ssh. However, since I assume they are
accomplishing this with port blocking, you can get around it by getting ssh to listen
on the telnet port. Or, if you are using a cable modem/firewall, you can do a port
forward. :-)
Ric
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Alan Ianson wrote:
Looks like Pine will grab my mail from the pop3 server without any other
software like fetchmail or exim? I should have looked into that a long
time ago.. thanks.
Yep. Didn't used to be that way. In fact, it even allows you to pull mail with a
different username from the one
Uh, I have no idea. I don't use X-windows.
Please note I said I think and I believe. If my understanding is
flawed I'd be delighted if you could post some references to simple
explanations.
Only issue I had with what you said (since I don't use Macs) was your comment that the
transparency
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
I seem to recall that ebuilds exists for this project. However, doesn't
work with the NVidia binary drivers :(
Yes, but does he have a useable NVidia driver like XFree?
Ric
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Frank J. Mattia wrote:
cheers,
Frank J. Mattia
i think thats the first time ive ever used cheers in a salutation. and
if anyone knows of a better name for the closing part of a letter (other
than salutation) - please, for the love of rediwhip... tell me. i've
been racking my brain -
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From: Jeff Smelser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] quote from distrowatch weekly
Not much different than Debian, RH, etc.
Actually no, rh keeps you at certain versions. We
Rex Young wrote:
I vaguely remember from my days as a Win2K admin that it was
available.
However, I never installed it or used it. We used NFS to
from DOS (yes, DOS)
to VMS to move data from a gauging system. When we went to
Windows the
vendor updated the DOS to use MS
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Oliver Lange wrote:
I have a .bash_profile, but i'm not sure if and which shell i'm using.
I can only say this: i've installed gentoo. How can i fugure out which
shell is set for my user and for the root account ?
Yep. Which again leads me to believe that somehow you
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, David Gethings wrote:
As you rightly pointed out neither .bashrc nor .bash_profile are
executable. For the line in your .bash_profile to include your config in
.bashrc make it executable (chmod u+x .bashrc).
No, you don't need to do that. The . tells it to be parsed.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Oliver Lange wrote:
Mike Williams wrote:
One of the first things I do on a new install is copy the contents
of /etc/skel to /root
I'll always do that in the future.
Better solution is to never login as root. Use sudo.
Ric
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Frank Lugo wrote:
yeah I tried to ping www.yahoo.com but I cant ping anything outside my private IP
address And no the routers are not dns caching.. Got any other ideas?
I may have missed something. Can you ping the nameserver? Can you ping any
IP outside of your
What do you have set for your shell?
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Oliver Lange wrote:
Hello everyone,
Does anyone know how to use ssh in a way that ~/.bashrc is
executed at logon ? Currently, I need to start a bash right
after logging in, then must enter 'exit' twice to log off..
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Eric Paynter wrote:
When you initiate an interactive session, the shell chooses an
initialization script to run based on how you started the session.
If you use bash, it may run ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.
Gentoo by default sources .bashrc from .bash_profile which is,
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a
couple of times with NTFS.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, daniel wrote:
you'd be surprised at what mozilla would support. you just have to get
mozilla to tell the site it's talking to that it's actually inernet exploder
running on windows xp ;-) i use this trick to do much of my online banking
'cause i know damn well that
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
What?
I'm pretty sure I was never given that option!
Would have been during the install.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/newinstallation.asp
My XP is swedish, but it can't be about that, can it?
I
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
OH SHT!
I didn't know of that!
convert works well. been a while since i've used it. requires a reboot
since it won't convert a live filesystem (needs to mount it read only to
convert, iirc).
Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
Cool, that did it. Any kind of GUI out there or command that will show
all the groups I belong to?
grep username /etc/group
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Martin Horak wrote:
Even better is IMHO courier. It's based on qmail's idea, but is a little
bit normalized.
I've had problems with courier in the past but I can't remember off-hand
what they are. The best one I've seen for ease of use and maintainability
is postfix.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Selentek 24331-03 wrote:
Hello,
I run xdm to enter xfree.
1) Is where any way to execute my own WM (for example icewm)
without changing /etc/rc.conf (only for my user).
Create a .xinitrc file where you can execute your window manager as well
as other applications you
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Martin Horak wrote:
That's very bad for me... :-( How do you find package, which offers
libsomething.so.1 then?
Aren't there any plans for search engine similar to rpmfind?
I don't understand why that's bad for you. What problem are you having
that you need to know
Is it still ~ masked? If you ACCEPT_KEYWODS=~x86 emerge -pU postgresql
does it pick it up?
-Original Message-
From: Jeff MacDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yeah, i see it there now in my portage tree, but for some
this is probably caused by them being larger than about
300MB. Mine's about
a gig.
Hmm, one of mine just grew over 300m.. I really hate Microsoft and their
programmers
Well, I typically have them around 500M with no problems at all. My wife
runs just below 2G and the only time she
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
It works fine with startx. I change rc.conf for XSESSION to XFCE4 if I
That was the bit I was wondering. I tried it last night by starting it
with startxfce4 just to get it running and never got around to
trying to set the XSESSION var.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ian Truelsen wrote:
Mine reads:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime1 1
/dev/hda2 none swap noatime 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0
First, some of us brought up fstab because the problems you are
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
i'm just wondering the correct way to approach this from the gentoo
social structure.
I wouldn't worry about niceties.
do i : 1 make the ebuild my self and contribute it
Depends on your purpose. If you want it for yourself, hack the ebuild. If
As I am seeking help, I'll comply with your wishes, but this whole
top-posting vs bottom-posting, vi vs emacs, gui vs cli (...) shit has
got to go. It's a matter of preference and perspective.
I'm with you. I prefer in-line posts but I HATE HATE HATE having to scroll
way down through a
Having a hard time getting Gnumeric to build (either 1.2.0 or 1.2.1). I
get this error:
failed to load ./gnumeric_splash.jpg: Couldn't recognize the image file
format for file './gnumeric_splash.jpg'
It loads fine in Mozilla so I'm not sure what the issue is and Google
turns up nothing.
Ric
I guess it's interesting to me that you require answers that are based on
philosophy of the people involved in the project rather than on technical
details of the project. Strikes me as a bit backwards but what do I know? I
use operating systems because they do what I need them to do.
Ric
Before I decide, if I want to use a distribution, I want to know
something about it. Here are my questions and I need answers to draw a
conclusion.
I'm willing to bet that most people choose a distro based on install
ease, choice of packages, built-in tools, and so on -- NOT the
Well, it is a good reason for a user (for this reason a lot of users use
MS Windows and MS Office).
A lot of users tend to ignore GNU philosophy and interpret _free_
software as in free beer, not as in freedom.
Yep. I think that's always been true, probably because in some areas of the
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ian Truelsen wrote:
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I just installed gentoo on my desktop and all went well until I rebooted
my system. It gets all the way to the point of checking root filesystem,
reports that /dev/hda3, which is my root filesystem, is clean. Then it
tries to remount the root
Taking a look at xfce4 just to see whether it's faster and at least as
useful as Gnome. Question is whether it will work in /etc/rc.conf to use
with startx or do I need to write a .xinitrc to get xfce to run when I
launch X? Or just startxfce4?
Ric
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I've no idea what Windows doesn't treat time correctly means. I've been
dual booting for years and only have problems when I do something dumb
on the UNIX side (like not setting the /etc/localtime link) or
sometimes under OpenBSD but I forget what the problem there is/was.
Ric
On 2003.11.17
On 2003.11.18 10:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
It means that in my experience, if you don't have time set to UTC in
Linux, every time you boot Windows it will mess your time up.
I've never set my time to UTC under linux and Windows never messes my
time up. Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP
I believe Mozilla (and anything else based on its core libraries, e.g.
galeon) has monstrous memory leakage. Just exit completely from
Mozilla/whatever periodically.
If it were leaking memory, would it be taking up an enormous percentage of
RAM? When I run
top to check its memory
On 2003.11.17 19:43, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I thought memory leaks were just bugs in the code where memory that
was allocated for something isn't allocated when its done...something
like:
for(i=0;i100;i++) {
void *mem = malloc(1024);
// I don't feel like deallocating this memory so I'll
On 2003.11.15 22:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
OK, I'll bite. How?
My work box is locked in a closet. The monitor, keyboard and mouse are
available. The screensaver is locked. I've turned on DontZap and
DontVtSwitch. I hand you the keyboard and mouse. What can you do?
Would depend on how interested I
On 2003.11.16 03:13, Mario Udina wrote:
So, what works well with gentoo (802.11b wise)?
Cisco Aironet 350 works perfectly.
Only if you are running an outdated firmware version.
Ric
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On 2003.11.15 20:07, David A. Bandel wrote:
Why server rooms are locked restricted areas (or should be).
Absolutely. But he was concerned about someone being able to Ctrl-Alt-
Bksp into a console prompt which meant physical access to the system.
The correct answer, though, is not to leave a
Always good to know context when you're talking about security. :-) As
others have pointed out, running {x,g,k}dm is a good thing. Even if they can
break out of X somehow, it dumps them to a login screen. Just another
precaution.
Ric
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Mozilla has long been notorious for having serious leakage problems. Odds
are it's leaking resources (and probably memory as well).
Ric
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 3:58 PM
To: Gentoo User
My main Gentoo box
Bit of a red herring, actually. If I can walk up to your system, it won't
matter whether I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to get into your account or not. If I
have physical access to your box, I own it. Period.
Ric
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From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday,
Used to be the recommended way of removing a user from your system was to
change the username (user becomes _user for example). That way you can
retain all the privs, etc in case you want to grant the account to someone
else later (like the person's replacement in a work environment).
Ric
On
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote:
I've never had to generate my keys for ssh. Under Slackware this is done
the first time you boot into a fresh install. Under Gentoo this was not
done. Now I'm not sure if this is something I've messed up or is there
some step I've overlooked.?
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Chase Jeffery D wrote:
single machine. This is going to be installed on my firewall
machine..
What's your goal in installing a network IDS?
Ric
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Chase Jeffery D wrote:
Just would like to see if/when someone is trying to hack me
So, what do you plan to do if/when someone tries to hack you? What sort of
rules are you interested in implementing? Are you planning to do
real-time monitoring of your IDS (you
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote:
Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
Gentoo runs this the first time you run the SSHD daemon.. So it wasn't overlooked.
I'm definately still in the dark then. I've rebooted this system but
there was no keys generated. running sshd results in:
crash root # sshd
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote:
I knew I had overlooked something! Thanks Ric, that did it. One other
question then, if I want apache (apache2ctl) started at boot what would
be the add statement rc-update add apache2ctl default?
No prob. And no, the service is called apache2.
On 2003.11.07 15:08, Jacob Smullyan wrote:
Yes, I did do a real emerge sudo. If I had installed it manually, I'd
be *really* surprised that it knew about /var/tmp/portage!
Didn't mean installed manually. You can effect the same as an emerge by
doing a series of ebuild commands.
Ric
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On 2003.11.06 18:49, Collins Richey wrote:
Looks like you haven't created the /etc/sudoers file. Mine looks like
this:
It actually looks like sudo believes its configuration files are in the
location where the package was built. I assume you did a real emerge
sudo?
Unfortunately, creating an
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
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The part I find the funniest is:
6. IANA Considerations
This document defines the behavior of security
elements for the 0x0 and 0x1 values of this bit.
Behavior for other values of the bit may be
defined only by IETF consensus [RFC2434].
That part had me rolling out of my chair. :-)
that's what su is for
Ric
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From: William Hubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Gentoo Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] sudo not running a shell as a login shell
Hi all,
is there a way to get sudo to run a shell with the
sudo wasn't designed to do that. your original post indicated that you
wanted sudo to execute a shell, which is what su does. your problem is that
you are attempting to execute something that isn't in your path. since you
aren't actually running the command as root (ie, there is no login context),
As always, the first question to ask is what am i protecting against
before you can evaluate how secure something is. Security is a process,
New Jersey is a state.
Having said that, http://www.openssh.com/security.html since I assume you
are using OpenSSH as opposed to SSH Communications SSH.
From an OpenBSD system:
$ printenv
PATH=/home/kilroy/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/loca
l/sbin:/usr/games:.
$ sudo printenv
PATH=/home/kilroy/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/loca
l/sbin:/usr/games:.
Debian may be an abberation and I'm not convinced
Having stability problems with a 2.5.66 kernel and a Cisco AiroNet card.
After working through several nuances of the new 2.5-series configuration, I
have my system working (except that it complained about not finding RTC and
ide-cd modules ... when i compiled an ide-cd module despite not having a
I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as well (funny to
mangle broken into borken because of bork bork bork).
Ric
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From: brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jargon
is a coincidence.
Well that was diverting. We now return you, er, me to our regularly
scheduled round of DBI programming. Whee.
-m
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:50:12PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote:
Doesn't mean that the mangling wasn't originally inspired by the Swedish
Chef. :-)
I think
Does anyone have a Cisco AiroNet card working with Gentoo on a laptop? I did
up until a week or so ago when it just stopped working for no particular
reason. I get a high beep when pcmcia loads and then it is shortly followed
by a lower beep. The syslog shows the following:
Mar 23 21:48:37
I've been seeing a lot of errors recently with Portage (right up through the current
stable version (portage-2.0.47-r7). Here are a couple of examples:
emerge'ing ncurses on sparc (I think):
open_wr: /var/cache/edb/mtimedb
chown: /var/cache/edb
chown: /var/cache/edb/dep
open_wr:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:00:15 +0100
Sigurd Stordal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had this type of errors too, but it ended telling me it was a sandbox access
violation. I think it will be solved if you have userpriv in your FEATURES.
or maybe you need usersandbox too.(in /etc/make.globals or
No luck. I'm still getting ACCESS VIOLATION errors attempting to open_wr
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs
Ric
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