[gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-05 Thread Thufir
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:10:40 -0800, Grant wrote: Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? Would this work? http://homepage.mac.com/jrc/contrib/tzones/ Or, would there be driver issues? -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as a modem? Would this work? http://homepage.mac.com/jrc/contrib/tzones/ Or, would there be driver issues? That kind of thing would work, the tricky part is making it work while traveling internationally. You basically

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Billy Holmes wrote: Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer what is 0.1 ? is that your router? as in a gentoo system acting as a router? Have you tried temporarily disabling the firewall on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer what is 0.1 ? is that your router? as in a gentoo system acting as a router? Yep, Gentoo system acting as a firewall/router/print server. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer what is 0.1 ? is that your router? as in a gentoo system acting as a router? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache loading mod_php?

2007-12-05 Thread James
Hello, How do you test apache (2.2.6) to see which modules (in particular php) are loaded? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't see how that could be because I was able to log in when the system was freshly booted yesterday. I'll grab a monitor and keyboard from the garage, have a look, and report back here. when I have problems with ssh, I run another instance in debug mode:

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:28:27 +, Mick wrote: Question re. step 2: Does /dev/sdc1 *have* to be added (vgextend) to the same VG_old as /dev/sda5, or could it be added (vgcreate) to a new VG_new? It has to be added to do a pvmove. If you want to create a new volume group, you may as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on this and would not like to mess it up: I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have also created a new PV which contains /dev/sdc1. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
I don't see how that could be because I was able to log in when the system was freshly booted yesterday. I'll grab a monitor and keyboard from the garage, have a look, and report back here. when I have problems with ssh, I run another instance in debug mode: In one terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints INIT: cannot execute /sbin/shutdown. I'm going to do a hard reset and we'll see what happens. That's very strange. Memory test? Can you read the logs when it comes back up? -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
I don't see how that could be because I was able to log in when the system was freshly booted yesterday. I'll grab a monitor and keyboard from the garage, have a look, and report back here. when I have problems with ssh, I run another instance in debug mode: In one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints INIT: cannot execute /sbin/shutdown. I'm going to do a hard reset and we'll see what happens. Since it's acting as your firewall, there's a very large possibility that your machine was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Billy Holmes wrote: Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't see how that could be because I was able to log in when the system was freshly booted yesterday. I'll grab a monitor and keyboard from the garage, have a look, and report back here. when I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:24 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on this and would not like to mess it up: I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have

[gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
Hi All, Could you please hold my hand sorting some LVMs - I have no experience on this and would not like to mess it up: I have create a PV which currently contains /dev/sda5. I have also created a new PV which contains /dev/sdc1. I want to move /dev/sda5 (11.9G) to /dev/sdc1 (150G) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints INIT: cannot execute /sbin/shutdown. I'm going to do a hard reset and we'll see what happens. Since it's acting as your firewall, there's a very large possibility that your machine was compromised. That doesn't mean

[gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
I just tried to log into my local Gentoo router/firewall system and I got this: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host From Google, It looks like it's a problem caused by too many ssh connections, but that system should only ever be logged into by me, and I hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer what is 0.1 ? is that your router? as in a gentoo system acting as a router? Have you tried temporarily disabling the firewall on 192.168.0.1 and checking the tcpwrappers for any deny all directives which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-05 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 5 Dec 2007, at 08:53, Grant wrote: That kind of thing would work, the tricky part is making it work while traveling internationally. You basically can't bring a cell phone to a place like Costa Rica (for example), you have to buy/rent one there. Did you read the fine print when you signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache loading mod_php?

2007-12-05 Thread felix
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:52:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +, James wrote: How do you test apache (2.2.6) to see which modules (in particular php) are loaded? You can do it from the command line -- apache2 -t -D DUMP_MODULES Hmm,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you tried temporarily disabling the firewall on 192.168.0.1 and checking the tcpwrappers for any deny all directives which knock your client out when it tries to connect? I was about to suggest that. if you can ssh to localhost via 0.1, then it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
That kind of thing would work, the tricky part is making it work while traveling internationally. You basically can't bring a cell phone to a place like Costa Rica (for example), you have to buy/rent one there. Did you read the fine print when you signed up for the temporary Costa Rican

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-05 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 5 Dec 2007, at 15:56, Grant wrote: 802.11 wireless is the primary connectivity. It used to be a huge pain finding a wireless signal but then I built a WokFi antenna. A wifi USB adapter, mesh cooking utensil, tripod and usb extension cable can be sourced for the price of a day or two of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Billy Holmes wrote: [snip...] maybe use portage to check that all the binaries on your computer match to what portage thinks it should be. How do you do that? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
I'm on the box now and it's quite non-functional. ctrl+alt+del prints INIT: cannot execute /sbin/shutdown. I'm going to do a hard reset and we'll see what happens. Since it's acting as your firewall, there's a very large possibility that your machine was compromised. That doesn't mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:28:27 +, Mick wrote: Question re. step 2: Does /dev/sdc1 *have* to be added (vgextend) to the same VG_old as /dev/sda5, or could it be added (vgcreate) to a new VG_new? It has to be added to do a pvmove. If you

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Qusetion: amd64 + apache2 + mod_extract_forwarded

2007-12-05 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Solved. Steps: 1stI downloaded this stuff: http://www.openinfo.co.uk/apache/extract_forwarded-2.0.2.tar.gz 2ndCommented out this, as you can see: //#define USING_proxy_http_module 1 3rdCompiling apxs2 -c -i -a mod_extract_forwarded.c 4thLoadModules in httpd.conf LoadModule

[gentoo-user] bonobo, nautilus and mplayer

2007-12-05 Thread Thufir
I've only done the most cursory search on the following error: Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error. Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting to locate the factor.Killing bonobo-activation-server and restarting Nautilus may help fix the

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving LVMs around

2007-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:31:35 +, Mick wrote: This is a data partition, so if I unmount it I guess I can vgrename it? Do I need to run vgchange -a n first? It wouldn't hurt. I've only done this with VGs that contain system partitions, so I always used a live CD to do it. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:35:05 +, Mick wrote: maybe use portage to check that all the binaries on your computer match to what portage thinks it should be. How do you do that? equery check cat/pkg -- Neil Bothwick It's not a bug, it's tradition! signature.asc Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't run binary packages

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
I've emerged firefox-bin and skype successfully, but neither will run with very similar errors: $ firefox-bin /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 368: /opt/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client: No such file or directory Unknown error 127 from mozilla-xremote-client /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher:

[gentoo-user] Qusetion: amd64 + apache2 + mod_extract_forwarded

2007-12-05 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, I have a webserver with a lighttpd proxy and apache2 behind the proxy. My problem is, in my apache2 log the client IP address is always the proxy's IP. I would like to see in my logs the client's real IP, instead of the proxy's IP. Just for fun, the proxy and the apache are on two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: If I wasn't hacked, this kind of strange behavior would have to be a hardware or filesystem problem right? What are the best ways to check for that? Just fsck? You can also boot the gentoo live CD into the memory test. At the beginning when it prompts you for which kernel, you

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache loading mod_php?

2007-12-05 Thread James
felix at crowfix.com writes: How do you test apache (2.2.6) to see which modules (in particular php) are loaded? apache2 -M Yep that works! However I do not see php? Any ideas? (note, I'm not very swift at web administration and the recent changes make trying to use wikis a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Apache loading mod_php?

2007-12-05 Thread Jason Carson
Here is my apache2 -M and PHP doesn't show up but it still works fine. Do you have -D PHP5 in /etc/conf.d/apache2? ... Loaded Modules: core_module (static) mpm_prefork_module (static) http_module (static) so_module (static) actions_module (shared) alias_module (shared) auth_basic_module

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice 2.3.0 compile error - Firefox

2007-12-05 Thread Julian Simioni
On Nov 28, 2007 11:56 AM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I decided to compile openoffice 2.3.0 but I run into an error. The compilation error is this: checking whether to enable build of Mozilla/Mozilla NSS-using components... yes checking whether to build Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice 2.3.0 compile error - Firefox

2007-12-05 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 12. 6, csütörtök keltezéssel 00.02-kor Julian Simioni ezt írta: Are you by chance using Firefox beta 3? Hi, Thank you for your interesting! No, I use normal firefox, at this moment the version is 2.0.0.11. + My openoffice cannot detect any java environment. Yesterday I spent