[gentoo-user] nxclient unmasked, servers masked..?

2005-01-09 Thread fire-eyes
how I get nx working in gentoo? -- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nxclient unmasked, servers masked..?

2005-01-09 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:22 +0100, meax wrote: Greetings, I dont' kow if this helps (haven't played with nx myself), but did you look at the gentoo guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nx-guide.xml HTH max Wasn't aware of this, thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nomachine: nxclient / nxserver-freenx

2005-01-09 Thread fire-eyes
able to get nxserver-freenx and nxclient going? -- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stop Posting GMAIL Trash Here [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts]

2005-01-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:27 +0100, Maarten wrote: Can we please cease this Gmail invite thing / kill this thread ? It is the new spam, every list gets flooded by it...! Maarten Strongly agree. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop Posting GMAIL Trash Here [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts]

2005-01-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 04:55 +0100, Martoni wrote: Can we please cease this Gmail invite thing / kill this thread ? It is the new spam, every list gets flooded by it...! Maarten Strongly agree. Perhaps a thread is marked OT for a reason? Peerhaps, since it's OT, it shouldn't

[gentoo-user] Enemy Territory / Punkbuster issues

2005-01-15 Thread fire-eyes
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[gentoo-user] enemy-territory: Error: No running window found.

2005-01-15 Thread fire-eyes
I got past the punkbuster lameness (home dir can't be mounted noexec...), however when I get the game going, connect to a server, it downloads the maps, then pauses, and dies. On STDOUT is: Error: No running window found. It did it to me three times in a row. Anyone know what's going on here?

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 01:57 +, Nick Smith wrote: has anyone made a decent how-to to keep the time straight in gentoo? i just installed ntp, ran it, and my EST time was right on track, 30 mins later, its almost an hour offand on top of that, my clock in flux says 1:56am and the date

Re: [gentoo-user] Rsnapshot question.

2005-01-24 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:13 +, Mal Herring wrote: Hi Gentoo-User, I'm looking to use rsnapshot to perform a FULL backup on a daily basis of a production server to another server off-site. My question is - Do I understand that rsnapshot can be used for this task ? And which directory's

[gentoo-user] Repeat errors when backing up via rsync to an rsync server

2005-01-27 Thread fire-eyes
I'm getting errors when backing up one of my servers to an rsync server using rsync. I am backing up four servers to this one rsync server. Two of them are gentoo. The only one having problems is the one system i'm talking about. On the client side I see this error, after it's gotten well into

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, who do I have to thank? (WARNING TO THOSE ABOUT TO EMERGE)

2005-01-27 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:20 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: Who do I have to thank for the recent x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.1.902-r1 ebuild and it's nested spawning of bash processes grinding my systems to a total halt? I'd really like to thank him/her/them because now I have to drive out to reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-10 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:21 -0800, David Busby wrote: I don't want this to turn into one of those ext3 vs xfs conversations. I want to know which filesystem is a better choice for having lots (4billion) directories. The dirs will be in tree format, so at the root will be 256 dirs, each

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 05:32 -0500, Bradley Serbu wrote: My flags tell me that I have a hyperthreading capable processor, which is new to my knowledge. I am curious if the output is garunteed correct before I compile the dual-processor options in my kernel. I have a Mobile Intel(R)

[gentoo-user] Evolution 2.0.3 ; Changing text size does not actually change text size

2005-02-14 Thread fire-eyes
? This is in both gnome and KDE. -- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:44 -0200, Raphael Melo wrote: Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by one is not viable.

[gentoo-user] enlightenment-cvs?

2005-02-14 Thread fire-eyes
an enlightenment 0.16. ebuild, which fetches from cvs, but it fetches from an e16 module not e17. Anyone know what this is, and if there's a way to mess with e17 cvs using portage? -- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment-cvs?

2005-02-14 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:24 -0700, Eric Thompson wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:11:32 -0500, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember last year, or maybe earlier, there was an enlightenment-cvs ebuild. With this you could grab the latest E17 from cvs. That ebuild has been gone

[gentoo-user] FYI: One Week With Gentoo Linux Article

2005-02-15 Thread fire-eyes
If this double posts sorry, not sure if I should post to @lists or @robin so I did both. Not sure if this is a postive article or not, I like to be neutral http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=806 - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Assistance? Kernel 2.6.10-as2-grsec-20050124: proftpd segfaulting (11 / SIGSEGV)

2005-02-16 Thread fire-eyes
(I sent this to grsecurity mailing list as well, i'm desperately seeking input. Yes, I run gentoo) I'm running kernel 2.6.10, with the as2 patch, with grsecurity 20050124 patch. I've been thrilled with it using it here on a server, except for one problem i've run into. Proftpd keeps segfaulting

RE: [gentoo-user] Assistance? Kernel 2.6.10-as2-grsec-20050124: proftpd segfaulting(11 / SIGSEGV)

2005-02-16 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:34 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: Now, does this mean grsecurity sent that signal? Or is this just the signal logging? Grsecurity is sending the signal. Segment violations are usually culprits of bad pointer referencing, not that it would help identify why grsecurity

[gentoo-user] perl: ithreads USER flag?

2005-02-16 Thread fire-eyes
Is anyone using ~x86 perl with the ithreads USE flag? Using an SMP (not HT) system, and thinking that could help things out. Looking for reasons not to, first... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Solved: proftpd 1.2.10(-r1,-r2) segfaulting due to mod_delay, excessive delays

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
. At this time I don't think running grsecurity had anything to do with the issue, as I see it both on 2.6.10 and 2.6.10-as2-grsec-20050124. -- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] proftpd 1.2.10: mod_delay disabling

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:33 +0100, Stefan Onken wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 17:09 schrieb fire-eyes: clients (nasty with IE). IfModule mod_delay.c DelayEngine off /IfModule http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_delay.html Yep, that didn't work. See my later

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with apache2 setup

2005-02-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:12 -0800, Ian Truelsen wrote: I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am doing something wrong. I am trying to setup apache2, but I cannot get access from outside my machine. I have it set to listen on port 8000 and have that forwarded from my router, however, I

[gentoo-user] The robin Business: Please Take It Off List

2005-02-21 Thread fire-eyes
All this mucking about over robin is populating the list with a lot of things that clearly don't need to be here, could you people please take it off list. Regardless of who is right and who isn't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Many Errors at My MTA From robin.gentoo.org (SMTP protocol violation)

2005-02-23 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using exim 4 for my mta, and I am seeing a lot of these in my logs: exim[18750]: 2005-02-23 13:34:36 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from H=robin.gentoo.org [140.105.134.102] It's not every message, but it sure is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:09 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that popped up; say a

[gentoo-user] Reinstall Toolchain From avenj's Rescue Bins - How?

2005-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
I am having various major problems, summed up basically by the fact I get unrepeatable segfaults left and right. It's gotten to the point where it is not possible to merge medium to large software. Now, I already suspect my hardware. However I'd like to rebuild my entire toolchain, because I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Control windows from Linx

2005-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:37 +0100, Khan wrote: Hello, I have Linux network in my small home office + one windows 98 (don't ask why). That windows has to use it's own modem to connect to another modem and then use some primitive software for some calculation... etc. I would like to move

[gentoo-user] Shifting CFLAGS In the middle of emerge -e system

2005-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
I'm about to do an emerge -e system. I have -fstack-protector in my CFLAGS. however the gcc version it would build during that time fails to build with that flag, but I want all the other things buit with -fstack-protector. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Shifting CFLAGS In the middle of emerge -e system

2005-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:07 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: I'm about to do an emerge -e system. I have -fstack-protector in my CFLAGS. however the gcc version it would build during that time fails to build with that flag, but I want all the other things buit with -fstack-protector. Any ideas? Oh

Re: [gentoo-user] Shifting CFLAGS In the middle of emerge -e system

2005-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:13 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:11:53 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: emerge gcc first, with suitable CFLAGFS. then do emerge -e world. When it fails on gcc, do emerge --resume --skipfirst to continue with the rest of the packages. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shifting CFLAGS In the middle of emerge -e system

2005-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:44 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:25:08 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: No problem. But you hit on something that I knew about, but never used, and that's resume. I assumed it wouldn't work on -e , but I tried it, and it does in fact resume

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging glibc-2.3.4

2005-03-25 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:21 -0500, Covington, Chris wrote: Has anyone seen this? I get the same error on 4 different Compaq server boxes. It looks like the compiling finishes but then it has troubles install the man pages: make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal Server with Gentoo?

2005-03-26 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 11:40 +0100, Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi all, I want to do a terminal server with about 40 thin clients using Gentoo. All thin clients will be able to boot PXE, boot image(s) on one server. Clients will only connect to the server using XDM, desktop will be KDE.

[gentoo-user] Strange errors when posting to gentoo-user

2005-03-28 Thread fire-eyes
I'm getting this error when I post to gentoo-user, though my posts are making it. Anyone else get this? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2.1.1: Font size switching between local session and VNC session

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using xfce4-4.2.1.1, and I sure like it. However when I use a local session, I set my fonts up the way I like them etc. When I go elsewhere, I close that session, and start up tightvnc. This calls it the same way: startxfce4. However when I connect to this session, all my fonts are changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4-4.2.1.1: xfcedesktop arsing

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 10:04 +0200, Botykai Zsolt wrote: just take a look at this init scripts: ${HOME}/.config/xfce4/xinitrc /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc If they contain the xfdesktop line, then while it's should be a problem with your saved session, so then try: 1./ login to xfce 2./ with

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution leaving behind processes

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:53 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: evolution --force-shutdown That did exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Though I don't quite understand why that's not done when I exit the program. Especially them not dying when going to single user mode, that's really irritating. --

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2.1.1: Font size switching between local session and VNC session

2005-03-29 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 09:05 -0800, John Myers wrote: I bet it has something to do with the fact that the tightvnc X server doesn't know the physical size of your monitor. Fonts of a particular 'point size' should theoretically be the same physical size, no matter what hardware you use to

[gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?

2005-03-30 Thread fire-eyes
I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a single disk, even though it's several disks. I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only probe an individual array. How might I do this? --

Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?

2005-03-30 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:26 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Well, you could put the controller in JBOD mode and use software raid. Linux has rock-solid software raid, at least for what I have used it for, and it doesn't seem to take a lot of CPU power, even in RAID5. It will consume a heck of lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5

2005-04-02 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:11 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv] Error 2 NVIDIA: left KBUILD. nvidia.ko failed to build! make[1]: *** [module] Error 1 make: *** [module] Error 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowell johnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest

2005-04-03 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:22 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: Am I the only one seeing these? Nope. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Enemy Territory and Punkbuster

2005-04-04 Thread fire-eyes
I've installed Enemy Territory 2.60. When I try to connect to a server, it says I need punkbuster enabled. It has an option to turn it on. I choose that, try to join again, and i get booted for the same reason, with the same option to turn it on. What's going on? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Enemy Territory and Punkbuster

2005-04-04 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 18:49 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I've installed Enemy Territory 2.60. When I try to connect to a server, it says I need punkbuster enabled. It has an option to turn it on. I choose that, try to join again, and i get booted for the same reason, with the same option to turn

[gentoo-user] Time one hour off every time I start

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
We just had our bi-yearly annoying time change where I live. Each time I boot up my system, the system time has returned to what it was before, that is to say, it's exactly one hour early. I do an ntpdate and it's corrected. I reboot or power down, come back up, and it's set back to the wrong

[gentoo-user] Annoying vim / keyboard behavior

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
My editor of choice is vim. I administer about 5 systems. On one of these, the following behavior happens. Before i decide to go into append or insert mode, I want to go to the end of a line. I hit the END key. The cursor flashes, and if there is a letter underneat it and it is lowecase, it's

[gentoo-user] rkhunter / php 4.3.10

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
I just ran rkhunter -c on my system, and it is saying php 4.3.10 is vulnerable. I'm running an x86 system. Doing an emerge -pv php shows the same version, no upgrades. Is rkhunter crazy, or did I miss something? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gigabit 64-bit NIC's in 2.6 kernels?

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm running a 2.6 kernel, and have free 64-bit slots. I'm looking for a Gigabit NIC. Any recommendations? I hear Intel's are well regarded. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabit 64-bit NIC's in 2.6 kernels?

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:33 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Intel e1000 chipset. IBM make very good cards that use this. Good to hear, I was already leaning in this direction. Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody happen to know? 3C996B-T 3C2000-T -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please

2005-04-05 Thread fire-eyes
I get home and more than half the posts are people complaining about the dupe posts. The effect of which is far worse than the dupe itself was! And of couse my whining only makes it worse.. Please, let's tone it down. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:49 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody happen to know? 3C996B-T 3C2000-T 3c996b-t works here, don't know about the other. Great to hear, thank you for the input. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Shared ftp directory?

2005-04-06 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm trying to come up with a way for two seperate users logging in via FTP to have a location where they can share files back and forth. That is to say, user A and user B would both be able to get to this, write to it, delete files even if they were put there by the other user etc. The