Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-19 Thread Wes Chow
I've been using the vanilla 2.4.24 kernel with the -uv1 patchset and it's been great: http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.24-updates/00README The -uv series patchset is bug fixes only, no features or optimizations. Wes On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:09:07AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression

2004-01-19 Thread Wes Chow
Oh, another tip... I had some reiserfs issues with a gentoo-sources kernel once when I compiled it with gcc 3.2. I believe that 2.95 is the only officially supported compiler, so if you want to minimize the chance of obscure bugs, use that. Wes On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:18:34PM -0500, Wes

[gentoo-user] uv patchset

2003-12-31 Thread Wes Chow
Does there happen to be an ebuild for James Bourne's -uv patchset? http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/ I looked around on bugs.gentoo.org and the forums, but couldn't find anything. And also, any comments about it? Wes -- http://www.woahnelly.net/~wes/ OpenPGP key = 0xA5CA6644

[gentoo-user] digest problems

2003-12-31 Thread Wes Chow
Is anybody else having digest(ion) problems like: !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 95972eb3fe4f401212a8c6b92aeee824 your file's digest: da6ab4a1126cc412a1bf451345ae00d2 !!! File does not exist:

Re: [gentoo-user] Automagicailly Verify PGP Signatures

2003-09-26 Thread Wes Chow
You could, in theory, write some maildrop filters to perform the pgp verification before it even hits your inbox. Wes On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:50:03PM -0400, Matthew Vaughn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am aware of a package in portage called net-mail/pinepgp

[gentoo-user] system health monitor

2003-09-18 Thread Wes Chow
Is there a program out there that will monitor various loads on a system (cpu load, memory usage, free disk space), check to make sure they don't exceed some thresholds, and send email someplace if they do? I'd rather not write scripts to do this. Wes -- http://www.woahnelly.net/~wes/

[gentoo-user] job posting for tech. oriented hedge fund

2003-08-14 Thread wes chow
Sorry if I'm breaking list etiquette by posting this... My partner and I recently started a hedge fund. We need some help and are looking to hire a hardcore systems guy. (We run Gentoo, of course) If you're interested, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy

2003-08-08 Thread wes chow
I've seen the rotating wheel thing once before on one of my installs. Other than that, there were no problems. To get around it, I simply set a passwd and used a different console. Wes On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating

[gentoo-user] sorry about erratic mail

2003-08-06 Thread wes chow
I've been having problems with my mail server and it may have just spewed out a bunch of old email to gentoo-user. Sorry for filling your inboxes with trash. Wes -- http://www.woahnelly.net/~wes/ OpenPGP key = 0xA5CA6644 fingerprint = FDE5 21D8 9D8B 386F 128F DF52 3F52 D582 A5CA

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

2003-07-31 Thread wes chow
Filesystems that come in mind to offer that functionality are Coda[1] and Intermezzo[2]. Last time I tried Intermezzo (maybe 6 months ago or so), it wasn't working. The kernel didn't recognize the required filesystem type or something. Other users reported it being pretty buggy as well.

[gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-18 Thread wes chow
I've been playing with a multiple ethernet card configuration. There's a lot of info online about how to deal with routing tables, *if the cards are on different networks*. What I'm curious about is if I hook the two cards up to the same switch, with different IP addresses. I'd like to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-18 Thread wes chow
This doesn't exactly answer the question you're asking, but do you know about virtual IP addresses? You can assign as many addresses as you want to a single card, and achieve with one card what you're trying to do with two. Yeah, the reason why I want two network cards is because this

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-18 Thread wes chow
This is probably not the most elegant solution, but here it is anyway: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP -d ! 192.168.0.2 /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -j DROP -d ! 192.168.0.10 I'll try it out. Don't have access to the machines right now, but I'll let you know later this weekend.

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-18 Thread wes chow
Hm, 2 default gateways ... not relevant to your question but I would recommend at least raising the metric on one of them. I didn't think it really mattered because both are pointing to the same gateway anyway. What happens when you d/c eth0, do the pings still reply? Don't have access to

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple ethernet cards

2003-07-18 Thread wes chow
I carefuly read your message, but the aim of your trying is still hiden for me :-(. I explained my purpose in a reply to somebody else that I just sent... If for some reason usage of diferent interfaces is needed, you should split the network into subnetworks (using NETMASK), so every

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system after rsync SIGH

2003-07-09 Thread wes chow
Portage User Guide requires an emerge -u system after each emerge rsync. The User Guide shouldn't require a system update. It should *suggest* it. You don't need to upgrade anything that you don't want to. Gentoo's philosophy is to put as much control in the hands of the

Re: [gentoo-user] hpt372 controller

2003-07-09 Thread wes chow
my hpt372 controller to which my hdds are connected to... i keep getting hdg: lost interrupt error on kernel load. and the kernel never finished loading in several attempts. looking like a driver problem seems i remeber this problem with RH a long time ago on my other machine with

Re: [gentoo-user] arts and kde

2003-07-03 Thread wes chow
IMHO I'd vote against aRts too. I always have it disabled... May be arts has a great support for mixing effects etc etc, but *all* I need is just to hear sounds and nothing more! And basic sound playing with aRts is just terrible -- it skips here and there and everywhere *even* if I give

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/dict/words missing?

2003-06-23 Thread wes chow
sys-apps/miscfiles It's a part of system: kambei root # emerge -p --emptytree system | grep miscfiles [ebuild N ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3 Wes On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Owen Gunden wrote: Hi all, I'm getting errors when trying to emerge ispell and bsd-games, and both of them seem to be

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning a gentoo installation

2003-06-18 Thread wes chow
I haven't tried it, but you should also be able to make yourself your own ebuild that depends on all the packages that you want installed and stick this into all of your machines' overlay directories. For an example, look at the qmail-sumo ebuild. Actually, now that I think about it, this

Re: [gentoo-user] VI issues

2003-06-16 Thread wes chow
No real problem, but hjkl was certainly chosen because of the proximity of those 4 keys on the qwerty keyboard. Wes (in the process of converting to dvorak) On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Owen Gunden wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:23:10PM -0400, wes chow wrote: unless you have a dvorak keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread wes chow
If you don't use xmms-arts, then what might happen is that xmms will lock the sound, and so kde won't be able to output anything until you quit xmms. This is sort of annoying if you have something like an ICQ running and you want to be able to hear message notifications while playing music.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread wes chow
I had a similar problem with booting off my firewire CD-ROM with Gentoo 1.4rc3. I popped in my 1.2 disc and it worked fine. Just be sure that when you're untarring that initial bootstrap to use the 1.4 tarball. Also, the Dell folk swore to me that bootable USB CD-ROM drives were mythical.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bayesian spam filtering

2003-06-06 Thread wes chow
bogofilter might be what you're looking for. I'm using it on my postfix+mailfilter system, but it should work fine with procmail. Wes On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Larry Wright wrote: I am currently running qmail + fetchmail + procmail + spamassassin. Everything works pretty well, but I'm a little

[gentoo-user] artsshell permissions (was Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo)

2003-06-06 Thread wes chow
So, I got it to work with a little hack. Turns out that if I use OSS sound compiled into the kernel, I can suspend and resume, but artsd doesn't handle it very well. If I run artsshell suspend to suspend artsd either before the suspend or after the resume, sound in kde resumes fine. I put

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swapfile more than ever!

2003-06-05 Thread wes chow
I hope I am not being too picky here but it seems to me that swap should not be used at all if there is ANY RAM that can be used in it's place available. Not necessarily the case. A process that is mostly idle should be swapped out to disk, because that means a process that is not idle can

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo

2003-06-05 Thread wes chow
I've got a Dell Latitude X200 which mostly works with Gentoo Linux (have never tried any of the other distributions). The only thing that's really broken (haven't had time to figure this one out yet) is that when I suspend, then resume, sound goes away. Otherwise, everything else works. Wes

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo

2003-06-05 Thread wes chow
Do you have to do anything special to do this? Reload modules or something? Or does it just work? Wes On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Thomas Buntrock wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:30:34PM -0400, wes chow wrote: I've got a Dell Latitude X200 which mostly works with Gentoo Linux (have never

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo

2003-06-05 Thread wes chow
Hmmm... isn't this kind of tough if you use KDE/Gnome (they like to keep control of sound with arts/esd)? If I can get sound compiled into the kernel, will that help? Wes On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Jason Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, wes chow wrote: I've got a Dell Latitude X200 which

[gentoo-user] qmail syslog messages

2003-06-04 Thread wes chow
I've been struggling to get qmail working. I'd like to view error messages, but it doesn't seem that any are getting sent to syslog-ng (or at least, syslog-ng isn't recording them). This is my syslog-ng.conf file: # # Syslog-ng example configuration for for Debian GNU/Linux # # Copyright

[gentoo-user] courier-imap gcc 3.2.2 compile error

2003-06-03 Thread wes chow
I'm trying to emerge courier-imap. I'm getting this error: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-1.7.0/work/courier-imap-1.7.0/maildir' echo '#define MAILDIRSHAREDRC /etc/courier-imap/maildirshared' maildirsharedrc.h echo '#define MAILDIRFILTERCONFIG

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap gcc 3.2.2 compile error

2003-06-03 Thread wes chow
from it. Wes On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Robin H.Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:22:57PM -0400, wes chow wrote: [snip] /usr/include/bits/stdio.h:58: internal error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See URL:http://www.gnu.org

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap gcc 3.2.2 compile error

2003-06-03 Thread wes chow
Do you think that perhaps decreasing the aggresiveness of the CFLAGS might make the system less prone to errors? (though, -mcpu=i586 -O2 don't seem particularly agressive to me) Wes On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, wes chow wrote: Yeah, I agree. After this compile error, I tried again

Re: [gentoo-user] Symmetrical Vs Asymmetrical GPG Encryption

2003-02-20 Thread wes chow
Having known plain text in the data you encrypt significantly weakens your security. If you don't want to deal with appending random data in front of every file you encrypt, you could just encrypt them twice (with different passphrases each time of course). Wes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?

2003-02-14 Thread wes chow
I haven't exactly tried it (and correct me if I'm wrong), but the impression that I got from some document somewhere (probably the portage user guide) was that you could override the variable: SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage (which is usually located in make.globals) in make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] cvs server

2003-02-12 Thread wes chow
Note that the pserver recently had some security issues, so it might be best to do it over ssh. Wes On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a pserver: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#The_Password-Authenticating_Server For accessing your repository via ssh:

[gentoo-user] intermezzo

2003-02-04 Thread wes chow
Does anybody have any experience/comments about the Intermezzo file system? How stable is it? Wes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list