Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and no worthy mechs found

2005-11-30 Thread James Hiscock
warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found Authentication failed: cannot SASL authenticate to server smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.229.41]: no mechanism available This seems to imply that the problem's with SASL, and not postfix. I've edited main.cf and added the

Re: [gentoo-user] courier problems

2005-11-23 Thread James Hiscock
ive been trying to setup a mail server following the how-to at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Hosting_Server#Virtual_Mail_Hosting and everything seems to have been setup correctly, but i keep getting these errors and cant login I know I had to reduce the set of authentication

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-02 Thread James Hiscock
I've just tried to use moto4lin with a Motorola Razr. It starts as with yours, but when I click Switch to P2K, /dev/ttyACM0 disappears! nothing works after that until I disconnect and reconnect the phone, at which point I am back in AT mode and it all starts again. That's what was happening

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-02 Thread James Hiscock
Thanks for going to all the trouble of testing out the phone operation on your SuSE machine. I havn't had any breakthrough yet, but your help has given me the confidence to persevere.. No problem -- I'm a software tester in Real Life (tm), so stuff like this bugs the crap out of me. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-01 Thread James Hiscock
...I keep thinking that I've forgotten about something that I did in moto4lin to get it to work, but I can't for the life of me remember what that was... maybe I'll try installing it on my laptop, and see if I can reproduce what I did on my desktop once I get home from work this evening...

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-28 Thread James Hiscock
As I am going from 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 to 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, which is more than just a revision change, it would seen that 'make oldconfig' is not recomended. Recommendations are just that: recommendations. You can take them or leave them. :) And I have to agree with Holly on this one: it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-27 Thread James Hiscock
Looks like the main clues are the error messages produced when I plug in: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread James Hiscock
I gather one cannot just copy the .config file for this much of a jump, so I guess the best thing to do is a simultaneous 'make menuconfig' in both old and new kernel using two different windows so that I can be sure to copy each of the current settings across. Easier solution: copy the

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. I'd suggest trying moto4lin -- it's pretty slick. Not too sure about the error messages you're getting, though,

Re: [gentoo-user] USB interface

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
Anyone know if the missing file is supposed to exist, or is this a relic from an earlier instance of the USB driver software? It's actually one of the USB modules in the kernel that produces it... Device Drivers - USB Support - USB Modem (CDC ACM) Support -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
Do you have it working? Yes. And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need to do? As I said in my reply to your other post, make sure you have USB Modem

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread James Hiscock
That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? Razr V3 - it's a pretty sweet phone. ;) You were right - my initail problem was having omitted the cdc_acm driver from my kernel config. Excellent. I like it when I'm right - it happens so infrequently... :) cdc_acm

Re: [gentoo-user] root (/) read-only?

2005-09-27 Thread James Hiscock
On 9/27/05, glumtail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens offen in my system. My root filesystem is reiserfs and /home is ext3, when i extract tar packages it says it is a readonly filesystem. Fix your /etc/fstab - it thinks your root partition is xfs, when it isn't. You either: a) didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] properly repartition a windows XP disk?

2005-09-25 Thread James Hiscock
The system rescue disk has nfstools in it and a nice gui interface called qtparted I think. That is how I did the repartition on my laptop. QTParted is also included in Knoppix, and I've successfully used it to resize 2000/XP NTFS partitions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd - apache module

2005-09-06 Thread James Hiscock
Is there an apache module for apcupsd or is it installed during emerge apcupsd? Add the cgi USE flag, and re-emerge. It'll get installed automagically.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-06 Thread James Hiscock
Could anyone tell me how I go about setting the default MTU of my pppoe connection. I am using rp-pppoe to bring it up. It currently sets it to 1432 and I need it to be 1352. It's buried in the rp-pppoe config file (can't remember what the name of the option is, but if you look for 1432, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-06 Thread James Hiscock
James I grep'd all the files in /etc/ppp/ for 1432 with out any success. Sorry -- it's been a long time since I've fiddled with rp-pppoe. The setting's actually buried and hard-coded in /usr/sbin/adsl-connect... around line 223 (PPP_STD_OPTIONS)... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread James Hiscock
Sounds like a forgotten make mrproper or make clean before a full build? Aren't they for 2.4.x kernels? I'm using a 2.6.11. You need to rebuild the kernel proper - it's responsible for loading and unloading modules. Rebuilding just the modules won't help you. And no, those make commands

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread James Hiscock
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA ' Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412' Revision : '1015' Device seems

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-21 Thread James Hiscock
My question to anyone who can advise is this: do I just unplug the CRT plug in the LCD ? will it work so simply ? In most cases, yes, but you'll need to restart X if you do the swap while it's running. The horysontal sync and vertival refresh rates aren't likely to be the same, so you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-20 Thread James Hiscock
Hi James Just for clarification, I'm not the one trying to resize an ext3 partition: Bruno is... snip You can make your ext3 an ext2 partition by removing the has_journal feature (tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/partition). /snip ...and your advice was similar to the advice I gave him (but

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-19 Thread James Hiscock
i think the line Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can desable ? I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now. ...but, you may want to pay attention to that

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread James Hiscock
On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. 1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs: tune2fs -C ^has_journal partition 2) Resize using parted 3) Add the journal back using tune2fs: tune2fs -j partition

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP Odd Error

2005-07-06 Thread James Hiscock
But it only happens when I run php as a user, not when I run as root. My emerge world is up to date, should a normal user need to write there or what other thing do I switch to turn this off. I personally just got rid of the snmp flag for the php ebuild. PHP (the command-line version)

Re: [gentoo-user] Syncing data between servers

2005-07-02 Thread James Hiscock
I've got all access but i can't change anything, the both servers are 'snap aplience' it has a Linux version 2.4 on it, you administrate it by a webinterface, its got ssh, but no scp even no cron. Its 'forbidden' to install anything on it. You don't even get a root password even if you by it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-07-02 Thread James Hiscock
Is there any way to *not* receive mail from specific cron jobs, while leaving the rest of the mails intact? I looked at man cron and man crontab, but they seemed to indicate that it's kind of an all-or-nothing deal. It's not an all-or-nothing deal, depending on how you create the cron job:

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-07-02 Thread James Hiscock
PartitionMagic is the best for this, but at $70 it is a bit pricey. There may be free programs to do this, but I have no experience with them. QTparted: open-source alternative to PQMagic, _and_ it's significantly faster (e.g. resizing a 40GB NTFS partition to 10GB with PQMagic took me an hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-25 Thread James Hiscock
I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? There's a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub prblems...

2005-05-25 Thread James Hiscock
After recent update of the system my GRUB became partially broken. Namely: default saved/savedefault statements stopped working. Is it me or it's a common problem and how do I fix it. I attach my grub.conf for those who might be interested... Once you've managed to boot your system, run

Re: [gentoo-user] vonage and wav files

2005-05-18 Thread James Hiscock
I just got vonage (Voip), and I'm reasonable happy. However, the voice mail messages are in .wav format. I can play cd's on the gentoo system, so I know audio works. What applications are good for playing wav files, particularly with vonage? sox, maybe? It installs a 'play' command, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread James Hiscock
He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the FairPlay DRM. My other iBook, iTunes and iPod-owning friend said he was right. Bollocks. I actually own an iPod (40GB, 4th gen,

Re: [gentoo-user] remote server access?

2005-05-18 Thread James Hiscock
Is it possible to securely access the nfs sharea, and smb shares on the bsd machine, or the other linux desktops like I am on teh LAN. Both ends use dynamic IP's, so it also has to be compatible with dyndns or something like that to find them. Maybe setup a VPN using OpenVPN? Not sure how

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 won't compile...?

2005-05-02 Thread James Hiscock
This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread James Hiscock
That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them in /etc/init.d/local.start. ...actually, you'll probably want to put them in /etc/conf.d/local.start... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread James Hiscock
What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a POTS line? You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Capturing caller id data...

2005-04-18 Thread James Hiscock
Is there a way to throw a modem on my gentoo box in order to capture and log the caller id data? I don't want to set up a pbx or answering machine or anything like that, I just want to capture the incoming caller id info. I suspect you could do that by just setting up vgetty, but never

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread James Hiscock
You might also say equivalent or counterpart ... ...hmmm... Dictionary.com says something else entirely: snip pen·dant1 also pen·dent( P ) Pronunciation Key (pndnt) n. 1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or piece of jewelry attached to a necklace or