I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely to
gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where I hope to
transfer my gentoo). However, my brother has been downloading some torrents
for weeks on end, and their sessions have been left alive in the
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Grant wrote:
Use SSH if you need a quick ad-hoc connection or something
temporary. Use OpenVPN if you need something more permanent that is
always prsent and just works.
I need temporary, but automated. Can an ssh tunnel be set up in an
automated way?
Of
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your statement it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better
for security than running SSH on a non-standard port is
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote:
but I am still getting WEXT errors.
Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0
...
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not
supported [ ok ]
th param 5 value 0x1 -
*
Any ideas?
No.But do you also see this without X running, without most daemons running,
in single user mode...?
On Monday 11 February 2008, James wrote:
Hello,
One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below
1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that
'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody
doing anything).
On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao
squawked:
TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough,
ecatmur
isn't listed. I think I've used it beore on layman though, so I
James R. Campbell jamesc at reliant-data.com writes:
What processes have the most on cpu time as reported by a 'ps ax' ?
not certain what your are asking. Here is the result of ps ax:
# ps ax
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ?Ss 0:00 init [3]
2 ?S 0:00
Strange it took almost a day before I could see my post! Guess I was
moderated...
Hi Mick,
Thanks for the reply. I've gone through about 4 kernel recompiles,
each time wondering with question marks over my head, sure I had
everything compiled in... I ended up adding pretty much anything
Henry Gebhardt hsggebhardt at googlemail.com writes:
Any ideas?
No.But do you also see this without X running,
Yep, same load with X killed off
without most daemons running,
Yep
in single user mode...?
I did not try this. what's the option to boot into single user mode?
What
Grant wrote:
I'm hoping to use the vpn in three few ways:
1. imap and smtp between my laptop and the mail server
2. ssh from my laptop to the remote server
3. cups printing from the remote server to the print server
I don't think you need a VPN to SSH from your laptop to the remote
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Dale wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It turned out to be a simple matter of cycling the various
modem/router PC s in the right order. Once I got the help desk it
took about 2 minutes to get things resolved. It was setup right just
needed to recycle the Modem
This One Time, at Band Camp, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue,
Feb 12, 2008 at 03:06:13PM -0500:
On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wael Nasreddine wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 11 February 2008, Simon Turner wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble installing gentoo on my old laptop... It says it
can't find the interface eth0. I believe it has to do with the fact I
have a pcmcia card with usb ports on which a usb2eth adapter is
plugged.
On another system I
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:42:44 +0200
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about having ssh, imap, smtp, cups, and possibly a non-standard
https port all hidden within a VPN? Should that be considered a
benefit of running a VPN?
One other thought about ssh+vpn, if you have VPN
Hi,
Some updates.
with the help of following links,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647273highlight=b43
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=649038
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit
machine
I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I
guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Perhaps confusingly, ssh itself can be used to create openVPN-like
VPNs (actually, much simpler), using the -w option and a couple of
tun (or tap) interfaces on the connected computers.
hehehe, I'd forgetten about that one for a bit :-)
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat and other distros. There are all
the same
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Grant wrote:
Even if you just want to encrypt some clear-text protocol that
doesn't have an encrypted equivalent, a vpn is still overkill. For
that you use ssh tunneling (which is essentially the same thing as
an encrypted version of a protocol). 'ssh -X' is
On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wael Nasreddine wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version -
Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops
below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did
notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is
quiescent (nobody doing
Wael Nasreddine wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version -
Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible.
Best place to check is Intel's website -
dell core2duo wrote:
No, its not due to proxy.
See the output below.
--
flukebox driver # wget yahoo.com
--2008-02-12 22:30:56-- http://yahoo.com/
Resolving relproxy.iitk.ac.in...
Hi,
I complied the kernel buitin broadcom drivers. So now, I have a interface
named wlan0_rename.
But things are still not working for me.
flukebox flukebox # iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Short answer: according to Changelog, use USE=doc for iputils until
next version of iputils comes out (but be prepared to pull in *lots*
of stuff meanwhile).
Somewhat longer answer: read
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158660
Hi,
No, its not due to proxy.
See the output below.
--
flukebox driver # wget yahoo.com
--2008-02-12 22:30:56-- http://yahoo.com/
Resolving relproxy.iitk.ac.in... 172.31.1.233
Connecting to
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yup, it does seem way over the top. Surely though there is some
rhyme to the reason. Man pages are such a large part of the very
essence of unix. It seems a serious shame that a user is better off
googling for `linux man ping' than the
Your statement it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better
for security than running SSH on a non-standard port is
non-sensical. From a security and encryption perspective, ssh and
OpenVPN are exactly the same thing - stuff wrapped in an encryption
layer provided by ssl,
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your statement it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better
for security than running SSH on a non-standard port is
non-sensical. From a security and encryption perspective, ssh and
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping? I know I've looked
up things in man ping in the past, maybe quite far in the past and
possibly even on a different distribution, but still I thought maybe
my man page setup was borked but
Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping? I know I've looked
up things in man ping in the past, maybe quite far in the past and
possibly even on a different distribution, but still I thought maybe
my man page setup was borked but looking at:
equery files net-misc/iputils (which contains
dell core2duo schrieb:
Whenever I am trying to do ssh/telnet/emerge --sync in root mode it gives
me error saying Connection Refused: Forbidden. while same works fine in
user mode.
Below are some examples .
[...]
flukebox flukebox # wget yahoo.com
--2008-02-12 19:50:15-- http://yahoo.com/
Hi,
Whenever I am trying to do ssh/telnet/emerge --sync in root mode it gives
me error saying Connection Refused: Forbidden. while same works fine in
user mode.
Below are some examples .
--
--
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:18:50PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dan Farrell squawked:
I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to
my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid
myself of this nonsense.
Don't assume DSL will be better. They often
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext James:
I did not try this. what's the option to boot into single user mode?
No need to boot, just telinit 1 from a running system. And later switch
back to normal with telinit 3.
HTH...
Dirk
--
Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234
Dale wrote:
443-653-1569 wrote:
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
atop 3
filter by p
WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've
seen. Why haven't I heard more about it?
Bill Roberts
What package provides that command?
Dale
:-)
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
443-653-1569 wrote:
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
atop 3
filter by p
WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've
seen. Why haven't I heard more about it?
Bill Roberts
What package provides
443-653-1569 wrote:
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
atop 3
filter by p
WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've
seen. Why haven't I heard more about it?
Bill Roberts
What package provides that command?
Dale
:-) :-)
--
Miguel Peña Gomez mpena at linuxhelp.cl writes:
atop 3
filter by p
ATOP - galiot 2008/02/12 14:49:183 seconds elapsed
PRC | sys 0.01s | user 0.09s | #proc130 | #zombie0 | #exit ? |
CPU | sys 1% | user 3% | irq 0% | idle197% |
This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue,
Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from
migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've never
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your statement it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better for
security than running SSH on a non-standard port is non-sensical.
From a security and encryption perspective, ssh and OpenVPN are
exactly the same thing - stuff wrapped in an
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Grant wrote:
I still can't send mail though, with or without
authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap:
25/tcp filtered smtp
Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port?
It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall
Hi
We were able to install the cross compiler binary packages. The commands
used were as follows:-
$ echo cross-${CTARGET} /etc/portage/categories
$ emerge -k binutils
$ emerge -k gcc
$ emerge -k glibc
$ emerge -k linux-headers
The above series of commands installs the cross compiler packages
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version -
Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible.
Best place to check is Intel's website - here's what I found:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:32:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
You forgot to reboot to run the new kernel
That shouldn't be necessary. You can install and compile a new kernel
then re-emerge nvidia-drivers before rebooting. The drivers are built for
the kernel linked from /usr/src/linux, not the
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Grant wrote:
I don't think you need a VPN to SSH from your laptop to the remote
server -- SSH is already encrypted.
For sure, but it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better for
security than running SSH on a non-standard port or even port
knocking. If I
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from
migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've never
owned/worked on a 64bit machine before so excuse my lack of knowledge
:)
Please stop using the x86_64
I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to
come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent
provider and rid myself of this nonsense.
Don't assume DSL will be better. They often block ports too
(as you said, it's well within their service agreement to do
Grant wrote:
I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to
come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent
provider and rid myself of this nonsense.
Don't assume DSL will be better. They often block ports too
(as you said, it's well within their service
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
atop 3
filter by p
El lun, 11-02-2008 a las 19:49 +, James escribió:
Hello,
One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below
1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did
I don't think you need a VPN to SSH from your laptop to the remote
server -- SSH is already encrypted.
For sure, but it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better for
security than running SSH on a non-standard port or even port
knocking. If I need to set up a VPN for printing,
I still can't send mail though, with or without
authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap:
25/tcp filtered smtp
Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port?
It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall without
that port open?
My local network firewall
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:12:47AM -0500, Andrey Falko wrote:
On Feb 12, 2008 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping? I know I've looked
I have a ping manpage.
There is a -doc use flag, which if problably disabled by default.
USE=doc
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
sigh Code like this makes me want to vomit. The
OS-that-shall-not-be-named pulls stunts like this, I really think FLOSS
stuff should be better.
So, I have to emerge an entire sgml kit to generate a man page. Wow.
Especially since last time I
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:23:15 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wanted to try to gauge if there was much of a noticeable
difference with the two IP connections. And it would be handy to
just step through the links changine the GW intermittently.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 07:55 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext James:
I did not try this. what's the option to boot into single user mode?
No need to boot, just telinit 1 from a running system. And later switch
back to normal with telinit 3.
Just to
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