[gentoo-user] Emerging asterisk-addons loops endlessly

2006-07-04 Thread Todor Pirov
Hello, I'm trying to emerge asterisk-addons-1.2.1 with the h323 flag but after some compiling it begins to output Waiting for chan_h323.o.lock to be removed Waiting for ooCmdChannel.o.lock to be removed Waiting for ooh323cDriver.o.lock to be removed Waiting for chan_h323.o.lock to be removed

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

2006-07-04 Thread Roy Wright
I just read this in the developer's guide: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html |~app-misc/foo-1.23| Version 1.23 (or any |1.23-r*|) is required. I was wondering if this would work in package.keywords, package.mask, etc. so tried it. It does appear to work...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PORTDIR_OVERLAY being ignored (was working fine)

2006-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:48:32 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: on closer inspection, it's not being ignored, but I'm just not getting the [1] /usr/local/portage message anymore... It appears here, but only when using -v. -- Neil Bothwick Old hitchhikers never die-they just throw in the towel.

Re: [gentoo-user] auto login

2006-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:57:43 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: You can use gdm. Just `emerge gdm`, set DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm in /etc/rc.conf, make it start at boot with `rc-update add xdm default`, and then start it up and configure it with `/etc/init.d/xdm start`. In one of the configuration screens you

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-04 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 20:48, lunedì 03 luglio 2006, John J. Foster ha scritto: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:28:23AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/3/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your xorg.conf for the following: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Or for a bit better

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-04 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, 4 July 2006 1:58, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/3/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your xorg.conf for the following: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Or for a bit better security: Section DRI Group graphics Mode 0660 EndSection And then make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange messages at boot

2006-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:38 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: emerge ifplugd. that's it, you don't need to configure it or add it to a runlevel, in fact you should not do so. The Gentoo net scripts detect the presence of ifplugd and use it to do what you want. They do? I emerged it a while ago

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/3/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FEATURES= ... confcache ... confcache has also been known to cause strange problems and in fact is currently package.mask'ed. Yes, as I now notice: it was testing when I set it up a few days ago. Thanks (and to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack?

2006-07-04 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 06:10, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I was following the recent thread about libpng oscillating between versions, and was preparing to apply the fix that was reported to work, but got stopped when suddenly there's more, probably related to the fact I emerge sync in a cron job.

Re: [gentoo-user] auto login

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:49:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine. I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it to work. Can Anyone help rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you only want one X program

[gentoo-user] hotplug doesn't.

2006-07-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
hotplug doesn't hotplug! At least for my 1394 video camera. If I plug the camera in at boot, kino can see it and capture from it (and control the AVC), but if I plug it in after boot, kino can't even see it. I've tried removing and re-adding the module, I tail the logs, I even turned on some

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

2006-07-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:50:12 -0500 Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read this in the developer's guide: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html |~app-misc/foo-1.23| Version 1.23 (or any |1.23-r*|) is required. I was wondering if this would work in

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

2006-07-04 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:21, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Good find.  I saw some posts here using it and wondered why the same typo appeared.  I just checked the portage man page, which describes the various package.* files, and this usage of `~' is not documented. Should I file a documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

2006-07-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:09:35 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:21, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Good find.  I saw some posts here using it and wondered why the same typo appeared.  I just checked the portage man page, which describes the various package.*

[gentoo-user] Re: hotplug doesn't.

2006-07-04 Thread James
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: hotplug doesn't hotplug! At least for my 1394 video camera. If I plug the camera in at boot, kino can see it and capture from it (and control the AVC), but if I plug it in after boot, kino can't even see it. I've tried removing and re-adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblem with dvd+rw-tools

2006-07-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Porblem with dvd+rw-tools Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 05:57:39 +0200 Enabling UDF results in the problems... sigh... I mailed the author of dvd+rw-tools but no reply until now. I subscribed to the cdwriter-mailinglist. The

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
060704 Philip Webb wrote: So having dropped Confcache, I'll try the whole exercise again. FEI I've successfully updated to GCC 4.1.1 , Glibc 2.4 KDE 3.5.3 . The only problem is that Krusader fails, but there's a thread on Forum it is predicted that a new version now in CVS will solve things.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-04 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:37:45 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NR NR On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 NR Graham Murray wrote: NR NR Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal NR of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages NR which it

[gentoo-user] Xorg modules problem

2006-07-04 Thread Mick
Hi All, I've gone through the big Xorg update, copied back my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf, changed the rgb path in line with a previous post because it gave me an error and now it fails like so: == (EE) Failed to load module bitmap (module does not exist, 0) (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-04 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:29, Robert Cernansky wrote: Hmm, it can be done with garbage collector principe. Each package will have counter which increases when some package which depend on it is installed. Decreased, when the package is uninstalled. If counter is zero, dependency package can

[gentoo-user] screen balnking and box shutting down

2006-07-04 Thread gentoo
This is what I got Thanks to the help I got on auto-login my box login with a user and starts a signal X11 related program Oxine but after 5 min the screen goes blank. (It's hard to watch a movie then this happens.) Oxine is run from .xinitrc thanks again to all those that hepled me with

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:29 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: NR new system, no gui installed. NR NR I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency. NR NR I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg, NR because it is already installed. NR NR I decide I do

Re: [gentoo-user] auto login

2006-07-04 Thread gentoo
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 07:21, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:49:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine. I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it to work. Can Anyone help

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Did you authenticate propery @smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk ? I believe so. There's nothing in the logs to indicate that I haven't, and the user:pass in /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd is correct, Is there any note that it even tried to authenticate ? snip I

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc - texinfo dependency

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Just checked and it's rather a DEPEND dependency not RDEPEND. Means texinfo is needed only for building GCC, not for running it. So, I can simply remove it by hand after building gcc. IIRC currently portage doesn't support removing DEPEND deps

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng + automatic respawn of target programs

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, could anyone give me a quick hint how to tell syslog-ng to automatically respawn target programs if they die ? I've read it quite a while ago, but I can't find it now. thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT

Re[4]: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-04 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AM On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:29 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: AM AM Hmm, it can be done with garbage collector principe. Each AM package will have counter which increases when some package which AM depend on AM it is

Re: [gentoo-user] screen balnking and box shutting down

2006-07-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I got Thanks to the help I got on auto-login my box login with a user and starts a signal X11 related program Oxine but after 5 min the screen goes blank. (It's hard to watch a movie then this happens.) Oxine is run from

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblem with dvd+rw-tools

2006-07-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:28, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Porblem with dvd+rw-tools Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 05:57:39 +0200 Enabling UDF results in the problems... and do you have udf in the kernel? hm - mailserver

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade

2006-07-04 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Notice anything there? Dale :-) :-) OK, something that got re-emerged seems to have fixed it. Emerge -ev world is not finished but OpenGL is now working. I would have to assume since no one else had this issue that it was something I did or misconfigured somewhere. I'm

[gentoo-user] problem w/ portage tmp on nfs

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, my gentoo-driven notebook has just a small harddisk, so moved /var/tmp/portage to an nfs volume (directly mounted there). This produces really strange problems, if the directory is empty: portage cannot create the directory ../$pkg/temp, but $pkg/ and several things beyond are

[gentoo-user] File manager via Web Browser

2006-07-04 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list, Does someone can tell me a good tool to install on my server which permit a user (local user) to manager him file via a web browser? Such as remove, create, upload and so on. I don't want to give ssh access to all users, just the basic operations over their files. Thank you, Leandro

[gentoo-user] 2006.0 - no universal anymore? (use LiveCD?)

2006-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I am moving my son from FC2 to Gentoo today. I went to get an up to date universal CD and it seems that there isn't one. Is the preferred stage 3 method of install these days to use the LiveCD and then just go to the console and work like the old days? Currently I'm ssh-ing off all his

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg modules problem

2006-07-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: Hi All, I've gone through the big Xorg update, copied back my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf, changed the rgb path in line with a previous post because it gave me an error and now it fails like so: == (EE) Failed to load module bitmap (module does not

Re: [gentoo-user] problem w/ portage tmp on nfs

2006-07-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/4/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, my gentoo-driven notebook has just a small harddisk, so moved /var/tmp/portage to an nfs volume (directly mounted there). This produces really strange problems, if the directory is empty: portage cannot create the directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg modules problem

2006-07-04 Thread Mick
On 04/07/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal server error: Unable to load requried base module, Exiting... Sounds like you also have a ModulePath line in xorg.conf. Delete it. Wey, hey! :-) That fixed it! Thank you, thank you, thank you, . . . . Blimey! Am I developing

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 00:20, martedì 4 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys Comment all of these out, I did it, no changes in output (same for setxkbmap too!)

Re: [gentoo-user] File manager via Web Browser

2006-07-04 Thread Mick
On 04/07/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Does someone can tell me a good tool to install on my server which permit a user (local user) to manager him file via a web browser? Such as remove, create, upload and so on. I don't want to give ssh access to all users,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ImageMagick Strange Behaviour

2006-07-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: When I right-clicked on the graphic that I wanted to edit and chose open with and display, ImageMagick didn't launch, but the configuration screen for KRandRTray Hmm... it does that here too. Typing, instead of 'display', things like 'background', 'desktop' or 'mouse'

Re: [gentoo-user] File manager via Web Browser

2006-07-04 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
2006/7/4, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/07/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Does someone can tell me a good tool to install on my server which permit a user (local user) to manager him file via a web browser? Such as remove, create, upload and so on. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] File manager via Web Browser

2006-07-04 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 21:58, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi list, Does someone can tell me a good tool to install on my server which permit a user (local user) to manager him file via a web browser? Such as remove, create, upload and so on. I don't want to give ssh access to all users,

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:59:17PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts installed. 2 things here. First, I'm not sure why added SOLVED to the subject. I just know how

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges gnome which first emerges X11 back again. Except i this example you are likely to install GNOME

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error: Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct followed by about 10 million of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Looks like I'll be masking =evolution-2.6.0 /rant http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241 Masking the following fixed it for me =x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 - no universal anymore? (use LiveCD?)

2006-07-04 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I am moving my son from FC2 to Gentoo today. I went to get an up to date universal CD and it seems that there isn't one. Is the preferred stage 3 method of install these days to use the LiveCD and then just go to the

[gentoo-user] Re: File manager via Web Browser

2006-07-04 Thread Mick
On 04/07/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give me more details, how can I setup this? Sorry, I've only used cPanel and Plesk GUIs to control virtual websites, as well as webDAV to access files on a server, but never had to set it up myself. -- Regards, Mick --

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's common practice to use the existing 'video' group for this. As opposed to making a whole new graphics group. No objection to using an existing group. But in fact, I have both video and graphics groups, and I didn't create

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Try installing the fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of caution in light of recent experiences (smile), I didn't try 'kdehiddenvisibility', but may have a look at that too later. Anyone have thoughts/experiences to offer ? I am using it without any issuesalthough I don't know that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng + automatic respawn of target programs

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, could anyone give me a quick hint how to tell syslog-ng to automatically respawn target programs if they die ? ??? From 'man syslog-ng.conf', I don't see where syslog-ng actually has the ability to spawn target programs in the

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc - texinfo dependency

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: I don't need info pages at all, is there any useflag to completely disable the whole info stuff ? Um, for many (most?) GNU programs, the info documentation is the only sane documentation. Or are you saying you don't want any

[gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Grant
It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have time to get too crazy

[gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote hosted

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-04 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 01 July 2006 17:10, David Corbin wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:45 pm, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/23/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? My first guess is MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge --oneshot kdebase. If that doesn't help,

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-04 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:28, martedì 4 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: Okay. What says 'grep -A2 Option /var/log/Xorg.0.log' ? - -- (**) Option CoreKeyboard (**) Keyboard1: Core Keyboard (**) Option Protocol standard (**) Keyboard1: Protocol: standard

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking closer, my original copy of the error wasn't very complete. There are screenfuls of undefined references to various std:: symbols. Clearly my C++ library is messed up. How do I fix it? Can you post some of that output? In particular,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 - no universal anymore? (use LiveCD?)

2006-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/4/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I am moving my son from FC2 to Gentoo today. I went to get an up to date universal CD and it seems that there isn't one. Is the preferred stage 3 method of install these days

Re: [gentoo-user] erratic touchpad

2006-07-04 Thread marco restelli
Hi list, upgrading to the 2.6.16 kernel solved the problem :-) Best Marco On 6/24/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/06, marco restelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard, thank you for the suggustions, but it does not work. Those two errors are still

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Ryan Tandy
Grant wrote: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have time to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Cort
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I check which ports are open? nmap can do this. Just `emerge nmap` and run `nmap yourdomain.com` Below is what the output looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nmap cs.ubishops.ca Starting Nmap 4.01 (

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Cort
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:56:02 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to

[gentoo-user] iptables wiki

2006-07-04 Thread james
Hello, I'm attempting to follow this wiki to build a test firewall running iptables: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_for_newbies#QuickStart Kernel is 'hardened' with netfilter et al activated. It looks reasonable and is suppose to be up to date. My nics are set up in /etc/conf.d/net

[gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-04 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Okay so, I'm a wireless idiot. I've found the wiki that outlines the use of wireless-tools or wpa-supplicant. However, my problem is that I don't know where to begin. My wireless adapter for my notebook is a Linksys WPC54G. I think that I have to use ndiswrapper in order to install the

[gentoo-user] Cannot access external network

2006-07-04 Thread Raj Swaminathan
Hi, Im a gnu/linux newbie and have 2 problems 1. At boot, i get net-mount failed on eth0 I am unable to ping machines not listed on /etc/hosts. Can anyone help me -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

2006-07-04 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, My purpose here is to put this thread to bed. Plus, I think it's rude when someone goes to the trouble of responding and then has the response ignored. So, Richard, I apologize for the tardiness of my response. Richard Fish wrote: On 6/24/06, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] Cannot access external network

2006-07-04 Thread Raj Swaminathan
Hi, Im a gnu/linux newbie and have 2 problems 1. At boot, i get net-mount failed on eth0 and ifconfig does not list eth0. So i manually tried ifconfig eth0 up and eth0 is then listed. Next I am unable to ping machines not listed on /etc/hosts. My /etc/conf.d/net has entries for

[gentoo-user] auto startx after login

2006-07-04 Thread Shaochun Wang
Every time I login, I input startx to start the X Window working environment. Now I am tired of this typing, so I add the following to my $HOME/.bash_profile file: pgrep X /dev/null || exec startx I works as I hope! But I still wonder whether there exits another way to do it. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges gnome which first emerges X11 back

[gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-04 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote

Re: [gentoo-user] File manager via Web Browser

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:58:16 -0300 Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi list, Does someone can tell me a good tool to install on my server which permit a user (local user) to manager him file via a web browser? Such as remove, create, upload and so on. I don't want to give ssh access to all

[gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-04 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 - no universal anymore? (use LiveCD?)

2006-07-04 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/4/06, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I am moving my son from FC2 to Gentoo today. I went to get an up to date universal CD and it seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Cort
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:43:57 +0200 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's going on here? Please provide more details. What filesystem does the server use (ext2/3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ...)? Are you using nfs, shfs, afs, smbfs, ...? What are the hardware specs for the server? How much

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for any other IO. I'm playing an mp3

Re: [gentoo-user] auto startx after login

2006-07-04 Thread Norman Rieß
Shaochun Wang schrieb: Every time I login, I input startx to start the X Window working environment. Now I am tired of this typing, so I add the following to my $HOME/.bash_profile file: pgrep X /dev/null || exec startx I works as I hope! But I still wonder whether there exits another

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-04 Thread A. R.
So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred) wpa-supplicant? Is there anything else I have to do or install? Regards, Colleen Hello, May I suggest that you try first with wireless-tools? Things you need

[gentoo-user] problems with revdep-rebuild after the modular X upgrade

2006-07-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
If anyone is having problems with revdep-rebuild after the modular X upgrade, check out bug #137313 (I have one of 3 systems so far with this problem) Billk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 05:43, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux