I have my user mode kernel running on my gentoo box following the gentoo's guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xmlbut can not access the Internet, pinging my host system appears to be no problem though..
my host system has a ADSL connection to the Internet, and eth0 has been assigned with IP
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 17:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating
systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old
games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to
boot into Windows XP
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:35 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks,
About creating /etc/fstab
[snip]
Whether following entries are correct ?
[snip]
/dev/vg/usr /mnt/gentoo/usr ext3 noatime 0 1
This one (and the other 4 LVM entries) should follow this format:
/dev/vg/usr /usr ext3
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 01:52 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
060819 David Corbin wrote:
I emerged a bunch of stuff this morning, and got this:
Gentoo is moving toward common config file for all network interfaces.
I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.example it's woefully unclear
how I port my
On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 13:50 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
I am interested, whether there more speedier methods of copying
/dev/sda to /dev/sdb (both are identical hds -- only the serial #
differs :) as the good old
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=cache size of one hd
dd is
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:42 -0400, Andrew Frink wrote:
Jules,
I think you need to add something like(see below) Read the man page
for that one, or grep usr/portage/
Thanks a lot. 'nomirror' is not in the ebuild man page but there are
plenty of packages that are using it.
Thanks,
jules
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two
alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit?
There's a third option that doesn't involve switching init systems, set
RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=no in
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:58:47 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
Thanks a lot. 'nomirror' is not in the ebuild man page but there are
plenty of packages that are using it.
It's covered in the ebuild HOWTO.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1
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Philip Webb wrote:
060821 Shaochun Wang wrote:
Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory?
It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script,
eg esp during a package update.
I believe it is to do with how tar handles directories. If there are no
files in a dir, tar won't
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:24 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
Would some kind soul save me a bit of research time? Which of the two
alternative init schemes are faster, initng or runit?
There's a third option that doesn't involve switching init systems, set
On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 21 August 2006 08:38, fei huang wrote: did I miss something? or the guide is just incomplete?I see you are directly connecting the real host to the virtual host usingtuntap (eg, you don't use uml_switch).
I would like the most direct and
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:51:27 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
There's a third option that doesn't involve switching init systems,
set RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=no in /etc/conf.d/rc. I saw a significant
speedup when using this, and it is fully integrated into baselayout.
You saw a *speedup* when
I'll throw two chickens in one pot.
I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly
gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great
success. I have never had any wireless problems, using the ipw2200
centrino. I've not changed kernels for a long while,
On 8/21/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect that ubuntu loads firmware that is incompatible with gentoo.
More likely you just don't have the right firmware installed under
gentoo. Check the dmesg output after attempting to load the module,
and look for something about missing
On 8/20/06, Goran Dubajic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/bin/nifd: No such file
or directory (No such file or directory)
Does /usr/bin/nifd actually exist? What does ldd /usr/bin/nifd
report? How about equery check net-misc/howl?
-Richard
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On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 21 August 2006 11:24, fei huang wrote: yep, that's why I get so frustrated, I did exactly the same as what the guide instructs.. any other posibilities that may cause the problem?
Ok, let's see: you say that your eth0 (which I guess is
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I want to install a blog on my web server and was going to install
Nucleus CMS (http://nucleuscms.org/) as I've used it in the past but I
can't find an ebuild. Is there an ebuild or is there a better package
for blogging?
Cheers,
Dave.
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Philip Webb wrote:
060821 Shaochun Wang wrote:
Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory?
It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script,
eg esp during a package update.
I believe it is to do with how tar handles directories. If
I am pretty sure I have the latest firmware installed---several
versions are installed. I'll check whether I am using the package or
the kernel-based firmware. I may upgrade the kernel, also. This will
take a day or so. Thanks (again),
Alan Davis
On 8/21/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world',
packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags
shown. I assume that this is because a USE flag has been removed from
either the ebuild or an eclass used by the ebuild. If this is correct,
it would be nice if
I use the sourceforge ipw2200 stuff - never could get the kernel stuff
to work, even on simple networks.
bunyip ~ # esearch ipw2200
[ Results for search key : ipw2200 ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* net-wireless/ipw2200
Latest version available: 1.1.3
Latest version installed: 1.1.3
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:05 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
· Alan Mckinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Docs on /etc/conf.d/net are about as clear as mud from where I sit. The
last thing I need to figure out is what exactly is the difference
between config_eth0 and iface_eth0 entries?
Oh, that's
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:21 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world',
packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags
shown. I assume that this is because a USE flag has been removed from
either the ebuild or an eclass
On Monday 21 August 2006 10:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAIK, webmin has such a feature, but it seems to me rather
heavy, I would prefer light-weight solution. Any ideas?
I think you have to use a java applet, see for example mindterm [1] or
JTA [2].
[1]
Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear. I upgraded baselayout
then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to
net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing
upG). I then went through the file and found that it appears
still no luck... I tried to build everything in kernel, and later build additional iptable_filter as module, add iptable to my default run level,, neither of them works.. I found there is a warning message after emerge iptables says: ip forwarding is not included in iptables any more. what does it
On Monday 21 August 2006 16:22, fei huang wrote:
still no luck... I tried to build everything in kernel, and later
build additional iptable_filter as module, add iptable to my default
run level,, neither of them works..
I'd try first with iptables filters *disabled*, to make sure it's not a
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:53:52PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked:
I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly
gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great
success. I have never had any wireless problems, using the ipw2200
centrino.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:51:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan Mckinnon squawked:
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:21 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world',
packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags
shown. I assume
On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 21 August 2006 16:22, fei huang wrote: still no luck... I tried to build everything in kernel, and later build additional iptable_filter as module, add iptable to my default run level,, neither of them works..
I'd try first with iptables
On Monday 21 August 2006 17:11, fei huang wrote:
uh, that's a good idea, I'll emege wireshark and see what's happening,
the most annoying thing is that there's no log for troubleshooting, I
wonder why iptable never write anything to syslog? that's wierd.
It will, if you tell it. Look at the
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:11:57 -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
That would be a neat idea. But I don't think that's what the OP
described. Packages shown with R implies it is being re-compiled.
yellow or % USE flags are new ones. If you have already installed the
package once, the USE flags cannot be
I'm using the latest kernel, with the ipw2200 driver it provides (not
the one in portage). Evrything works great in WPA, but I don't use the
-Dipw option of wpa_supplicant; I use -Dwext: the tip is in
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200
I'm using the suspend2 sources, so I don't have
Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com writes:
I am having problems installing Gentoo 2006.0. The computer has partitions and
data I want to save.
Whenever I try to install (using the LiveCD) I get as far as entering
the root password but when the actual installation is about to start
the
JC Denton jcdentonmail at yahoo.de writes:
Hi Group!I was looking for a project that installs Gentoo on a PDA (MDA III or
XDA III) but did not find something useful. Is there such a project? I found the
familiar and xandux project so far but I would like to try Gentoo. Regards
If you do not
I *don't* want to start some flamewar her, I am a newbie in this group,
and I just would like some info on how to do it right, as my extensive
rtfm'ing/googling/etc. has still not given me a satisfying answer.
I started my Gentoo-installation with CFLAGS containing -O3, believing
to do it right
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:51:43 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Now I read about the fact that -O3 results in bigger binaries and isn't
at all guaranteed to give me a faster system. The bigger files result in
more load on IO, so this tells me that it puts the load on the
(relatively slow)
The clients above are java based clients and as such I dont believe
will solve your issue.
Is it that you dont want to open 22 on your server or is it that
work or whereever is locking you out?
if its home then many people leave 22 open quite safely and you can
even move the port to something non
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Michael Sullivan wrote:
[...]
I found this site:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why#Single_disk_installation
It's got my wife's computer doing what she wanted it to now, for the
most part. I should have thought to look at the
On Monday 21 August 2006 17:38, Alexander Skwar wrote:
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
How do I launch a java script at boot time???
By starting it at boot time ;) That's done with an init script, normally.
Other options include to add it to inittab or to /etc/conf.d/local.start.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700
Richard Fish wrote:
On 8/20/06, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :(
Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem.
Either:
a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, JC Denton wrote:
From: JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Gentoo on a PDA (mda III or xda III)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Hi Group!
I was looking for a project that installs Gentoo on a PDA (MDA III or XDA III)
but did not find something useful. Is there such
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think so I am not shure the program was installtd to launch through xdm
as a server for the graphical interface.
It is a Java application then...
I cal login and launch the script
but ti wont auto launch.
Check script permisions and add it to local.start:
El Martes, 22 de Agosto de 2006 00:37, Fede escribió:
Hello i have problems emerging wesnoth.
Error:
configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer
with OGG support
I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg support, USE=ogg emerge
sdl-mixer, but i have the same
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:09:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
Check script permisions and add it to local.start:
chmod +x /path/to/script
echo /path/to/script params /etc/conf.d/local.start
echo /path/to/script params /etc/conf.d/local.start
Otherwise it will block anything set to run
I've followed the steps outlined here to eliminate spam up to the
section on SPF and greylisting on the second page:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus_spam_postfix/
The author is really into greylisting:
If you take nothing else from this article, let it be that
greylisting is
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:37:32PM -0300, Penguin Lover Fede squawked:
Error:
configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer
with OGG support
I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg support, USE=ogg emerge
sdl-mixer, but i have the same error.
USE=vorbis
W
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Grant wrote:
Do you think the reject_rbl_client stuff is safer than greylisting?
- Grant
1. Blacklists have the HIGHEST false positive rate of any anti-spam
technique other than sending all mail to /dev/null. 34%
http://www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html
2. Blacklists block the least
Greetings all;
Emerge is doing some odd things. Most of the time it works, but when I
try to run
emerge -pv world
I get:
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Mon Aug 21 19:47:13
/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
root $ emerge -pv world
These are the packages that would be merged,
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Willie Wong wrote:
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:37:32PM -0300, Penguin Lover Fede squawked:
Error:
configure: error: *** SDL_mixer has no OGG support! You need SDL_mixer
with OGG support
I try to recompile SDL-Mixer with ogg support, USE=ogg
On 8/21/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:27:14 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
So it is not *that* constrained in terms of RAM and disk, I assume.
But I am also ready to go the -Os-way if you recommend/suggest it for my
system.
Many laptops have
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:56 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
I'm not an expert with portage, but the fact that xorg-server is
indented one space from gtk+ means that gtk+ depends on it directly,
doesn't it? If so,
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Adrian wrote:
root $ emerge --ask -v world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3440, in ?
if not
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:09:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
chmod +x /path/to/script
echo /path/to/script params /etc/conf.d/local.start
echo /path/to/script params /etc/conf.d/local.start
Otherwise it will block anything set to run after it.
Thanks Neil :)
On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Acer TM 634
P4-M 1.8GHz (cpu family : 15, model : 2)
512 MB RAM
30 GB 5200 rpm HDD
It's all relative. I have a 2.1Ghz Core Duo with 2G of RAM and a
160Gb HD, so *I* would consider your laptop, um, underpowered. :-)
But I also run
Do you think the reject_rbl_client stuff is safer than greylisting?
- Grant
1. Blacklists have the HIGHEST false positive rate of any anti-spam
technique other than sending all mail to /dev/null. 34%
http://www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html
2. Blacklists block the least amount of spam.
Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on
the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through
the previous day's rotated logs?
- Grant
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On 8/21/06, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Fish schrieb:
or emerge -e world to complete. I would be tempted to just change
the flags and hold off on recompiling everything until the next
version of gcc comes out.
( ... next version in terms of minor- or
Do you think the reject_rbl_client stuff is safer than greylisting?
- Grant
1. Blacklists have the HIGHEST false positive rate of any anti-spam
technique other than sending all mail to /dev/null. 34%
http://www.paulgraham.com/falsepositives.html
2. Blacklists block the least amount of spam.
On 8/21/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on
the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through
the previous day's rotated logs?
Isn't that why logwatch was created?
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