Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Billy Holmes wrote: Mick wrote: I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random port number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 connections . . . try two things: 1) put your sshd on port 443 if you can. see if you can

[gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Chen Xianwen
Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. Wen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread YoYo Siska
Chen Xianwen wrote: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. bzcat instead of zcat? yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Chen Xianwen
Hi yoyo, Yeah! Bzcat works! Thank you! Wen On 29/11/2007, YoYo Siska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chen Xianwen wrote: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. bzcat instead of zcat? yoyo --

Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Chen Xianwen
Hi Michael, Yes, bzcat works for bz2 compression file. Thank you! Regards, Wen On 29/11/2007, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb Chen Xianwen: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb Chen Xianwen: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. use bzcat instead. use zcat for *.gz bzcat for *.bz2 Wen Regards, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)

2007-11-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Nov, Billy Holmes wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: ImportError: /usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol JVM_GetClassSignature, version SUNWprivate_1.1 not defined in file libjvm.so with link time reference does it really need 1.6? 1.5 and 1.6 aren't always

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Wayn0
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Galevsky
It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what tools do you need ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) linux virtualization some links: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html linux-vserver looks pretty neat, too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer --

[gentoo-user] Gnome fonts problem

2007-11-29 Thread Adam Johnson
Hello all, After updating to Gnome 2.20.1 my fonts became very small and unreadabale. When i try to rebuild any fonts i receive error like this below during emerge. Any suggestion how to fix this ? Emerging (1 of 1) media-fonts/dejavu-2.21 to / * dejavu-ttf-2.21.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Derek Bodner
After having used RHEL/CentOS and Debian in the past (for a binary system, I really like Debian), I'm at the point where I get frustrated working on a non-gentoo server. I had used Gentoo in the past, but in the last 6 months my place of employment has been deploying more and more gentoo servers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Aniruddha
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:53:57 -0500, Derek Bodner wrote: Some sysadmins worry about having a compiler installed on a production system, and there are valid reasons to be concerned, but most of those can be averted with a little extra care. In the end, I think the worry about a compiler is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:56:14 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally net.* is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) That script only calls functions defined

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:19 -0300 Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server

[gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2007-11-29 Thread Grant
My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are VERY long delays in responsiveness. I've run fsck /dev/hda3 but it reports nothing wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this thing to straighten

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2007-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW then do this: check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog if it's dying, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)

2007-11-29 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 27, 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 071127 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I decided that the time has come to switch over to 64bit computing and went with fresh LiveDVD install of gentoo. After doing stage3 install and making syncing portage I'm failing updates on gcc and sandbox - both

[gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread David Relson
$$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//virtual !!! Invalid db entry:

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread ezotrank
On 23:13 Thu 29 Nov , David Relson wrote: $$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] graphviz-2.12 fails to compile

2007-11-29 Thread Andrey Vul
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199831 -- Andrey Vul int i;main(){for(;i[]i;++i){--i;}];read('-'-'-',i+++hell\ o, world!\n,'/'/'/'));}read(j,i,p){write(j/p+p,i---j,i/i);} hail ioccc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:13:10 -0500 schrieb David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: