Daniel Iliev wrote:
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I hope this email gets to the list. My last post didn't. This is
semi-urgent. Over the past year I've been developing a PHP-based web
interface for my college's music festival. This web interface would
allow participating directors to enter all
Did you try to export the display manually?
I also got some problems using -X but it works perfect by using
export DISPLAY=your ip:0
maybe that helps.
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become almost
a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and roll your
own (raid users excepted of course)
Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple of
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:50:54 +0200, Aggelos wrote:
there is another difference: The killing of those dolphins. each year,
in the numbers seen on the video, may be a threat to nature's ecological
system.
It may,m it may not, that is open to debate. What is not in doubt is that
this has
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 03:23 -0600, Dale wrote:
That I can understand. I sometimes want someone to tell me something
good to use so I can get a unbiased opinion.
Yeah except a) opinions *are* biased and b) one's opinion was never
asked and c) I've observed
Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC.
I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot).
# lspci reports
:01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11
net-wireless/ralink-rt61 was masked so I added to
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, kashani wrote:
Contrary to Eric Raymond's How to Ask Intelligent Questions it is
actually very hard to ask good questions or even search about a
subject you do not fully understand.
That's an easy one.
If you really don't know the subject or how to search for
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
That would be true except I've beeen setting loop to M since many
kernel versions back. I actually suspect it's more a udev thing,
there has been a lot of activity and changes with
On Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:23, Richard Watson wrote:
Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC.
I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot).
# lspci reports
:01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11
Thanks to all. Now it cleaner to me :-)
Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can compile
SATA support directly to kernel and it will be still OK ???
Once again thanks a lot.
Pat
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
On Thursday 22 February
# modprobe rt61
FATAL: Module rt61 not found
Is 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 the kernel you are currently running? It sounds
like /usr/src/linux is pointing to the wrong kernel source.
# ls -la /usr/src/linux
/usr/src/linux - linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8
Yes it's pointing to the correct kernel source - Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Aggelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 February 2007 18:23
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan
-snip-
I would not define such a mail as spam.
Aggelos
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failed to load
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extentsions/libGLcore.so
failed to load module GLcore (loader failed, 7)
failed to load module VESA (module does not exist, 0)
failed to load module kbd (module does not exist, 0)
failed to load module 'mouse (module does not exist, 0)
No Drivers Available
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:41, pat wrote:
P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-|
Any modules or userland utilities needed to mount your '/' filesystem, plus
all the libraries and other utilities they depend on, plus a linuxrc or
init
script that will actually do the
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:39, pat wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote
initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile
everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind
of raid), or people too stupid to build their
On Thursday 22 February 2007 02:53, Richard Watson wrote:
(I'm just going to assume you've got the right package / module; I don't
know
anything about it particular hardware and your choices seem appropriate.)
So I
# emerge ralink-rt61
# slocate rt61.ko
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you could dp it the way Boyd does it - with his / on an lvm group. To
do that he needs an initramfs which has drivers for at least his disk
bus, his disk adapter, the filesystem on / and lvm before his kernel
can access /. Genkernel
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:45, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re:
[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
First, I think the OP is confused between ramfs and
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working
rather
than an initramfs -- the whole chroot/exec vs. pivot_root vs. switch_root
step always failed for me when using an initramfs (and the very same
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working
rather
than an initramfs
[snip]
At least, that's been my experience, others may have found the
process easier.
No you are not alone. I eventually found proof
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:10:59 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
On Thursday 22 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can
compile SATA support directly to kernel and
Hi people,
I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am
having problems.
I dropped the ebuild into /usr/local/portage/kde-misc/foo-1.2.3-r4.ebuild and
have also set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf.
I have chown'd portage:portage everything
Is anyone using X-Forwarding over a local wireless connection? I'm
forwarding a couple of light apps and they work fine with -Y but -X is
unusable.
Not sure why it would work with -Y but not -X, but in any case if it
works with -Y why not just use that?
But yes, I do use X11 forwarding over
On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:01, Peter Lewis wrote:
I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am
having problems.
Ah... solved it. The thing needs to be in:
/usr/local/portage/category/packagename/ebuild
I'd missed out packagename.
Sorry for the noise... :-)
The post that I made was satire. Its porpoise was to inspire a laugh, a
chuckle, at most a humorous response. Not a debate. Debates are for
serious people.
Look the fact is every day:
* A dolphin is killed
* A cow is killed
* Someone litters
* Someone is killed/tortured
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote:
I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead
of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it
feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via
X-Forwarding.
Could be bandwidth. Wifi, as
On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge
hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of
(-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but
whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just manually rm -rf the
old sources in /usr/src. I guess
So there we have it. Experienced users don't want to play twenty
questions and inexperienced users
don't know what information is relevant to the problem. Sort of a
Catch22, though this is one of
the better lists in all respects. However to new users more info is
almost always better than
less,
cd /
rm -rf *
I tried that and rebooted and It launched Windows 3.1
What Gives
(Tong firmly in cheek)
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On 2007-02-22, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote:
I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead
of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it
feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running
I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead
of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it
feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via
X-Forwarding.
Could be bandwidth.
More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to
On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote:
More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require
a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of
a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link,
even if the bandwidth is the same:
Where do you get
On 22 February 2007 17:05, Grant wrote:
I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead
of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it
feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via
X-Forwarding.
Could be bandwidth.
On 2007-02-22, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead
of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it
feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via
X-Forwarding.
Could be bandwidth.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 15:16:20 Grant wrote:
On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge
hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of
(-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but
whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just
On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote:
More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require
a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of
a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link,
even
On Thursday 22 February 2007 04:45:02 Scott W. McMikle wrote:
Here are the errors I receive when I attempt startx;
failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extentsions/libGLcore.so
failed to load module GLcore (loader failed, 7)
failed to load module VESA (module does not exist, 0)
failed to
I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports
about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my
firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu,
except for listing each of my machines in my LAN in the
accepted_hosts.conf file. I also
Aggelos ha scritto:
I would not define such a mail as spam.
Don't care if you have a special vocabulary. It is spam.
Post your spam elsewhere.
m.
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On 20/02/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:44:21PM -0500, Henk Boom wrote:
Hi, I have just done an emerge -uDNav world, and when I hibernate
(suspend2) with the 'hibernate' script, it no longer displays the
progress bar showing how long it
Scott W. McMikle ha scritto:
Forgive me, but I will need step by step instructions to recompile with
the necessary driver.
Never ask for step-by-step instructions.
Ask for where to find information and how do things work, so you can
actually *learn* by yourself what you are doing (instead of
OK, I will consider myself duly chastised. ;-)
On 2/22/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scott W. McMikle ha scritto:
Forgive me, but I will need step by step instructions to recompile with
the necessary driver.
Never ask for step-by-step instructions.
Ask for where to find information and
On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports
about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my
firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu,
except for listing each of
Scott W. McMikle ha scritto:
OK, I will consider myself duly chastised. ;-)
I didn't mean to be rude :), of course if you need specific help you are
more than welcome. And if you *really* need step-by-step directions, we
can point you to the right page.
However getting directions and then
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Also, I've always heard that you shouldn't
have any ports open on your machine unless you have some server bound
to that port because hackers can get in through unbound open ports.
Is this true? If so, how does it work?
That sounds
On Thursday 22 February 2007, b.n. wrote:
Aggelos ha scritto:
I would not define such a mail as spam.
Don't care if you have a special vocabulary. It is spam.
Post your spam elsewhere.
OMFG, don't you heretics comprehend what you have done!!!???
The dolphins are being massacred. We
-Original Message-
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2007 17:33
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack
attacks and dealing with them
By far the most common attack vector is weak user
Hi,
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 + (UTC)
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote:
More likely it's latency. Most modern X apps seem to require
a lot of round-trips between client and
Actually, I'd be pretty interested in what you have to rant about PHP.
I run apache with php_mod installed and have the http port open. Is
there a security risk I should be aware of?
Thanks
On 2/22/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an
initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports*
initrd format, even if initramfs is preferred now.
It does, I have a system that boots 2.6.20
on 02/21/2007 07:48 PM Aggelos wrote the following:
www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin
www.petitiononline.com/golfinho
I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for
this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it
here. If I had posted it to a
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:42:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The dolphins are being massacred. We need them:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix dolphin
* kde-misc/dolphin
Available versions: (~)0.8.1
Homepage:http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de
Description: A file manager
-Original Message-
From: Aggelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2007 18:20
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan
on 02/21/2007 07:48 PM Aggelos wrote the following:
www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 03:49 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports
about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my
firewall. I've stuck with
Aggelos wrote:
I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for
this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it
here.
If you don't care about the other subscribers here, I suggest you to host
your own mailing list, i.e.
on 02/22/2007 08:30 PM Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote the following:
I don't see a problem with OT posts that have some vague relevance e.g: List
policies, Linux security issues (for example OT - Some miscellanous
questions about hack attacks and dealing with them). By your logic people
Can you, please, continue this discussion in your private emails?
Thanks!
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on 02/22/2007 08:48 PM Ralph Seichter wrote the following:
Aggelos wrote:
I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for
this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it
here.
If you don't care about the other subscribers here, I suggest you
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:20:28 +0200, Aggelos wrote:
I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for
this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it
here.
What outstanding arrogance!
This list is primarily a vehicle for peer support. You total
His arrogance is a desperation signal. He, in fact, knows and are
conscient of his mistake and because of a lack of justification to
give due to what he did, he act like this.
I suggest to ignore such users and do what Neil said: wait for this
user need to use the list for its write propose and
... for its **right** propose ...
2007/2/22, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
His arrogance is a desperation signal. He, in fact, knows and are
conscient of his mistake and because of a lack of justification to
give due to what he did, he act like this.
I suggest to ignore such users
List members -
I am running the Postfix MTA on my gentoo server. Postfix is
receiving mail for multiple domains using the virtual_mailbox_domains
directive. I was wondering if it was possible to use procmail to
sort and deliver mail to my virtual_mailboxes. If so, any suggestion
or
Hello, List --
I may just posted with a problem backing out of DHCP configuration. (I found
the offending line in /etc/conf.d/net. So, now I get my IP address assigned,
I can ssh to the machine again. Great.)
Now, /etc/resolv.conf has three lines like: nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.x
I can ping the
on 02/22/2007 09:14 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:20:28 +0200, Aggelos wrote:
I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for
this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it
here.
What outstanding arrogance!
Hi.
I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8. I
re-encoded several files and several filenames. But my man-pages are
still displayed with bad characters ('á' is 'á') in console even in X
terminal emulator. I unmerged
Hello, list --
I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and attempted
to configure the interface manually.
However, somewhere in my configs dhcp client is still called. How do I fix
this?
Also, I'd tried
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:50:20PM -0500, James Colby wrote:
List members -
Hi
I am running the Postfix MTA on my gentoo server. Postfix is
receiving mail for multiple domains using the virtual_mailbox_domains
directive. I was wondering if it was possible to use procmail to
sort and
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and
attempted to configure the interface manually.
How? We can't guess at what changes you made.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, list --
I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the
package and attempted to configure the interface manually.
However,
-Original Message-
From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:40 PM
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address.
I don't want to do like this anymore,
Dan Cowsill wrote:
Actually, I'd be pretty interested in what you have to rant about PHP.
I run apache with php_mod installed and have the http port open. Is
there a security risk I should be aware of?
It really depends on how badly the PHP application you're running has
been written.
On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding':
Hi.
I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8.
But my man-pages are
still displayed with bad
Hi All,
I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough to
help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some relevant
links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a console?
A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 07:34 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Look the fact is every day:
* [some things happen]
* and someone hijacks a thread.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled mailing list, already in
progress...
Ob-Linux: If you use the forcedeth ethernet driver then I'd advise you
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:22:16 +0100
Roman Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, please forgive this most probably very simple question, but I
cannot find the correct configuration file to enable routing...
I have two PCs, one HAS a internet connection to the internet-proxy,
the other one
The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly
disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did
configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of
using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home Router Guide. I'm
also running PenguinTV (a
Am Donnerstag, den 22.02.2007, 15:30 -0800 schrieb Grant:
On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge
hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of
(-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but
whenever new kernel sources are
On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote:
On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge
hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of
(-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but
whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800, Grant wrote:
It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access
to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the
contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks. Does that sound like a
possibility?
Not unless you have the vmware
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:20 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote:
How can I see which versions of hardened-sources portage thinks are
currently installed? I guess I should manually unmerge old sources as
above instead of using rm -rf.
- Grant
Yes, you can:
$ equery list --duplicates
Aggelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever,
for this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I
posted it here.
That bit of brilliant thinking could be used to justify posting
absolutely anything to any list, since you
Thread re-named to reflect topic-drift
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at times, and
otoh one can miss the really useful stuff
I wouldn't mind terribly if it was actually usable. I'd like to be
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Walter Dnes wrote:
Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor version
bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)? I suppose I
should try to slap together a script that's run after emerge. It would
run the find
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a):
On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding':
Hi.
I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8.
But my
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +, Mick wrote:
I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough
to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some
relevant links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a
console?
A
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an
initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports*
initrd format, even if initramfs is
On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
It's also faster to rm -fr the directories before unmerging. You'd
have to do it afterwards anyway, to remove the files that portage did
not install (unless you run make mrproper) but doing it first speeds
things up a lot as it avoids portage
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