On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:31:21 +, Graham Murray wrote:
That is as long as the hardware has graphical capabilities. A text
(curses) based installer would also allow installation on systems with
serial consoles (like traditional *nix system). A well designed curses
application is just as easy
Hi folks, here comes an interesting little problem.
I have two boxes, A and B, both running gentoo. Box B has got a full portage
tree, box A has none but nfs mounts it from B. This has worked for me for
several years.
Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:06:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything
else) from B. NFS mount is broken. I know that emerging nfs-utils will
cure the problem. On the other hand, I can not emerge nfs-utils on A
without nfs working. Hic
On 09 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:06:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything
else) from B. NFS mount is broken. I know that emerging nfs-utils will
cure the problem. On the other hand, I can not emerge
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:27:54 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Alternative, and less kludgy, solution. Tar up /usr/portage on B,
unpack it on A.
Too big a thing for A. There is a reason why it doesn't have its own
portage tree. ;-)
You could get away with copying only the directories you need. Or
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:30:24 -0600
»Q« wrote:
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote:
We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek
first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem.
Why not? Gentoo is aimed
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:21:36 -0500, David Relson wrote:
Some efforts were also made with the command line installer. My
problem there was typing and overlooking details. If I mistyped
something (or forgot to enter needed info) and went on to the next
screen, there was no way to go back and
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:21:36 -0500, David Relson wrote:
Some efforts were also made with the command line installer. My
problem there was typing and overlooking details. If I mistyped
something (or forgot to enter needed info) and went on to the next
screen, there
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»Q« wrote:
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote:
We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek
first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem.
Why not? Gentoo is aimed
Hi All,
now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11
console which can display images intermingled in the normal
text flow.
The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png
.
That is, I'm looking for a terminal emulator
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:45 +0100, Matthias Kramm wrote:
Hi All,
now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11
console which can display images intermingled in the normal
text flow.
The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of
transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage,
memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic,
etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can hook into
and http traffic
Hi,
I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
On machine A I have in ssh_config:
ForwardX11 yes
I can ssh from A to B without problems but when I try to start a
simple application:
B ~ $
2007-11-09 - Hard Drive Failure
I would like to appologize about the recent down time over the last 2
days, the hard drive on the primary wiki server died. The hard drive
has been restored and everything is back to normal. Later today or
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071109 Matthias Kramm wrote:
I'm looking for an X11 console which can display images
intermingled in the normal text flow.
The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png
Not what you asked for, but 'feh' (Portage) is an
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:52 -0330, Roger Mason wrote:
Hi,
I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
On machine A I have in ssh_config:
ForwardX11 yes
I can ssh from A to B
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:08:05AM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Ok so a long time ago there were these things called (text) terminals
that were inherently text-based. Then along came these whiz-bang
things called X terminals which were like the other terminals but could
display graphics.
Looked over the directory structure in the tftp directory compared to
what was setup in the ltsp directory.
Found some differences.
Copied over a directory called 2.6.17.80ltsp-1 which contained all the
needed files in proper placement to tftp under the same original name.
Adjusted some conf
Why not? Gentoo is aimed at more experienced users, Linux novices are
already amply catered for by other distros. I would never recommend
Gentoo to a new Linux user, in the same way that I wouldn't recommend
a Ferrari to a learner driver.
I don't necessarily agree. I've recommended Gentoo
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007, Daniel Iliev wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:23:51 +0200
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote:
All,
I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following
statistics every second:
- CPU Usage
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:06 +
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Decided to order a diskless workstation from
http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of
the ltsp project.
why would you do that? Coudn't you build an excellent diskless host
for less than they cost?
one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode:
/usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d
then in another terminal
ssh -p 23 $host
once you quit that session, your sshd process will terminate
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Hi James,
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I I re-emerge 'timezone-data' and just wait until spring to see if there
is a problem?
Here is the procedure I used last spring (you'll need to set the
TIMEZONE according to your location:
(1) Sync. (perhaps not required if portage is fairly up to
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:06 +
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Decided to order a diskless workstation from
http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of
the ltsp project.
why would you do that? Coudn't you build an excellent diskless host
for
Most of you can stop reading right now ;-)
I can see that people seem to like Gentoo for different reasons. Here's
what attracted me go Gentoo:
I'm not a Windows convert. I started using Linux before Windows really
made its mark. I remember when most people ran 1 or 2 Windows apps and
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:52:14 -0330
Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
running an X server.
...
did you ...
- restart the ssh server?
- try the -Y option to ssh?
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On 11/7/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thoughts?
I'm no expert in the field, but since dmstat was mentioned, this might
be useful:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Detecting_your_Hardware#dstat_.2F_vmstat_.2F_free
Regards,
Liviu
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It's a bit off-topic, however I have no other place to ask this question:
Which online forum systems offer bi-directional gateway with email system.
Examples:
* user posts on forum - email is being sent to subscribers (that one almost
any forum out there has out-of-the-box)
* user replies to
On Friday 09 November 2007, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:21:36 -0500, David Relson wrote:
Some efforts were also made with the command line installer. My
problem there was typing and overlooking details. If I mistyped
something (or forgot to enter needed info)
Hi list,
The situation:
I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of
string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was
not, but the change
Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now
forces string matching, as with the
On 9 Nov 2007, at 15:22, Roger Mason wrote:
...
I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
On machine A I have in ssh_config:
ForwardX11 yes
I can ssh from A to B without problems but
An esync and emerge resulted in 62 out of 113 packages failing emerge
with errors about no write access to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. This
is a dual opteron system, ~amd64, with both kernels 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
and 2.6.23-gentoo-r1. This particular esync began fine, 113 packages
to build. The
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An esync and emerge resulted in 62 out of 113 packages failing emerge
with errors about no write access to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. This
is a dual opteron system, ~amd64, with both kernels 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
and 2.6.23-gentoo-r1.
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:08:53PM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
...
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
--- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
---
LOG FILE =
Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode:
/usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d
then in another terminal
ssh -p 23 $host
Your suggestion gave me the idea to run sshd with strace, the output
of which lead me here:
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
or some other access error. But I don't
have anything else to go on.
As for portage,
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1,
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:51:55PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
or some other access error. ?But I don't
have anything else to go on.
As for portage,
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 21:55:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ok ] ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
...
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
--- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
--- LOG FILE =
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you mean what emerge --info reports, that too was in my original
email:
oops...
here is a bug that sounds exactly like your problem :
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509
you can add yourself to it or post a me too ;)
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On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
Any idea how to actually do that, since the bug prevents me from
upgrading? Is there
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 21:55:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ok ] ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
...
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
--- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any idea how to actually do that, since the bug prevents me from
upgrading? Is there some temp hack I can edit or patch to get around
the problem for now? The bug itself isn't described very clearly, not
the comments with it.
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:09 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
[...]
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
-r2 is bugged too:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509
BTW I was not able to reproduce #19850 on ~x86.
-a
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Hi,
I observe that syslog-ng is flooded by BANDWIDTH_[IN,OUT] log messages. I've
shorewall installed and I did not specified there to log any bandwidth log
messages. Can somebody point me to the right place where I can turn off this
log messages?
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Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
my
On Saturday 10 November 2007, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote:
Hi,
I observe that syslog-ng is flooded by BANDWIDTH_[IN,OUT] log messages.
I've shorewall installed and I did not specified there to log any bandwidth
log messages. Can somebody point me to the right place where I can turn off
this
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
Any idea
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:09 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
[...]
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
-r2 is bugged too:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509
BTW I was not
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Samstag, 10. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:11:23AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Samstag, 10. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007
Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium
Dual E2160
Currently I use
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
as I moved the system over from a Pentium 4 (which just crashed).
Things work fine so far, I checked google and
On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:13:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just tried and got this:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.
and the log file says
gcc-config error:
On Nov 10, 2007 12:19 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium
Dual E2160
Currently I use
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
as I moved the system over from a Pentium 4 (which just
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:28:36AM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:13:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just tried and got this:
? ? checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for
On Saturday 10 Nov 2007 00:30 in article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of linux.gentoo.user, Stefan G. Weichinger([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium
Dual E2160
Currently I use
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
as
Willie Wong writes:
The situation:
I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of
string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was
not, but the change
Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now
forces string matching,
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote:
If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins
had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very
issue. An awesome collection of techies does not gravitate users
to join the ranks of distro users. A (easy) graphical
It has been a long since my last update to the system, found lots of weird
problem today,
1. the worst among those was that I could not emerge anything now, the
build.log for portage as an example:
Unpacking source...
Unpacking portage-2.1.3.16.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-
Am Samstag, 10. November 2007 schrieb fei huang:
It has been a long since my last update to the system, found lots of weird
problem today,
1. the worst among those was that I could not emerge anything now, the
build.log for portage as an example:
Unpacking source...
Unpacking
hey all,
Recently, I set up a local news server and want to fetch news by using
vixie cron. For security, I want to drop root to news ( only news and
root can run fetchnews). So I add one line in crontab by using
crontab -e:
*/5 * * * * news fetchnews
Actually, I just follow the examples from
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