Re: [gentoo-user] install from stage1: why gcc-3.3.6?

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
Qiangning Hong wrote: Well, whatever, I add =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4 to /etc/portage/packae.unmask and find that gcc-3.3.6 still is to be emerged: # emerge -ept system | grep gcc [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4 [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] install from stage1: why gcc-3.3.6?

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
Javier Uribe wrote: Hi. you do this echo sys-devel/gcc ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo sys-libs/glibc ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo sys-devel/gcc-config ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords Um, do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:58:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: The problem with using things like USE and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS directly on the command line is that the next time you go to upgrade that package or do emerge -u world, Your package specific USE and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS settings will have been

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT, game-related,long] Changing file dates?

2005-08-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Iain Buchanan schreef: On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:09 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Hi, all-- [snip] [1] There are two ways to install Morrowind. You can install it under Wine or Cedega using the regular Setup.exe, or you can install it via a script found at Loki Installers for Linux Gamers

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-08-02 Thread Fernando Meira
Do: # equery depends kdebase Then: # emerge unmerge package_name to all kde-related packages.. You should then be able to upgrade KDE. Hope that helps, Fernando. On 7/31/05, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently running KDE 3.3.I get the following:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] install from stage1: why gcc-3.3.6?

2005-08-02 Thread adrian
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:25:53PM +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: On 8/2/05, Craig Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qiangning Hong wrote: The gcc version on livecd (2004.3) is 3.3.x, but I want use -march=pentium-m in my CFLAGS and gcc 3.3.x doesn't support it. So I add the following

Re: [gentoo-user] install from stage1: why gcc-3.3.6?

2005-08-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Javier Uribe schreef: El Mar 02 Ago 2005 01:13, Qiangning Hong escribió: Doesn't work. gcc-3.3.6 is still in the emerge list. GCC 3.3.X is necessary to compile GCC 3.4. it follows with confidence greetings In case this is not clear-- --the idea is that you need a compiler to

[gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, if a gigabit ethernet card is set to auto detect speed and duplex mode, how can I find out how it actually connects? I poked around in /proc but didn't find anything useful. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge www-client/mozilla-1.7.10-r1 (kernel bug?)

2005-08-02 Thread Jules Colding
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:24 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Hi Zac, Hi Jules, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I can't emerge mozilla-1.7.10-r1. I don't know if this is just me or if anyone else is seeing the same, but here is what I got. Output and info below. snip (lots of text) What was

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Rhywek
Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, if a gigabit ethernet card is set to auto detect speed and duplex mode, how can I find out how it actually connects? I poked around in /proc but didn't find anything useful. Uwe With normal 100Mbs card I can see the speed and duplex if I do: tail -f

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:42, Uwe Thiem wrote: if a gigabit ethernet card is set to auto detect speed and duplex mode, how can I find out how it actually connects? I poked around in /proc but didn't find anything useful. mii-tool, part of net-tools. And please don't reply to an existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble compiling Xine-lib 1.1.0

2005-08-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Martin Larsson wrote: I'm getting the following error while trying to compile Xine-lib 1.1.0: dsputil_mmx_avg.h:109: error: can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm' Go to http://bugs.gentoo.org/query.cgi and search for the error. You need to get rid of fPIC from USE, or

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2005 11:41, Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:42, Uwe Thiem wrote: if a gigabit ethernet card is set to auto detect speed and duplex mode, how can I find out how it actually connects? I poked around in /proc but didn't find anything useful. mii-tool, part of

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:30:46 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: mii-tool, part of net-tools. Thanks. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to know anything about Gb ethernet. :-( Use ethtool [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-08-02 Thread Kurt Guenther
Christian Floeter wrote: I have problems emerging standard xmms plugins, like xmms-mikmod, xmms-mpg123, xmms-vorbis, xmms-oss, xmms-esd, xmms-alsa and xmms-cdaudio. All of these produce the same error while emerging (the following was produced by xmms-mikmod): Have you tried: #

[gentoo-user] open office icons messed up

2005-08-02 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, The icons on the toolbars of oofice look like crap; mostly black and I can't make anything out of them. I reinstalled oofice and still same problem. Would it help to install from binary package rather than from sources ? Thanks, Catalin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-08-02 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 31 July 2005 23:15, Tony Davison wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:59, Zac Medico wrote: MAKE_OPTS=-j1 -s CFLAGS =-02 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CXXFLAGS= ${CFLAGS} CHOST =i686-pc-linux-gnu Any ideas guys? It's supposed to be MAKEOPTS, not MAKE_OPTS.,

[gentoo-user] Stage 1 install with GCC4

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Is it possible to use GCC 4 to do a stage 1 compile? I kknow its still not stable but I am experimenting with a very old box and would like the extra optimizations that GCC 4 has. Anybody have a clue? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development

[gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and muck things up. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware

Re: [gentoo-user] open office icons messed up

2005-08-02 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 16:54, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, The icons on the toolbars of oofice look like crap; mostly black and I can't make anything out of them. I reinstalled oofice and still same problem. Would it help to install from binary package rather than from

Re: [gentoo-user] open office icons messed up

2005-08-02 Thread Kevin Hanson
Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, The icons on the toolbars of oofice look like crap; mostly black and I can't make anything out of them. I reinstalled oofice and still same problem. Would it help to install from binary package rather than from sources ? Thanks, Catalin There was a

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and muck things up. Most of the

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2005 12:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:30:46 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: mii-tool, part of net-tools. Thanks. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to know anything about Gb ethernet. :-( Use ethtool Thanks! That is exactly what the doctor has prescribed. Uwe --

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Hmm... for some reason when I emerged PHP 5 it built all the extensions into the core and now its running very slow (4 ms for most pages as opposed to .007 ms for the same page under PHP 4) my use flags are... dev-db/php apache2 mysql xml xml2 msession gd bcmath bzip2 calendar curl ftp iconv odbc

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and

[gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I have set up a large NFS mount for use as remote storage for our MythTV server. It works, but since setting it up the mythbackend program has twice shut down in the middle of the night. Prior to setting up this storage mythbackend had never, to the best of my knowledge, ever shut down

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Well grepping that file is a nice trick that I didnt know. Thanks! Thats what I needed to know. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc)

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
When you emerge nfs use the tcpd use flag to get TCP support. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have set up a large NFS mount for use as remote storage for ourMythTV server. It works, but since setting it up the mythbackendprogram has twice shut down in the middle of the

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the MythTV-Users list I've seen people talking about using NFS devices but recommending that they be set up with TCP instead of UDP. So far I haven't yet found any Gentoo docs on how to do this. IIRC, there is also a kernel config

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Fish
Matthew Cline wrote: On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the MythTV-Users list I've seen people talking about using NFS devices but recommending that they be set up with TCP instead of UDP. So far I haven't yet found any Gentoo docs on how to do this. IIRC,

[gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, The ATI FAQ recommends compiling module unloading into the kernel, which I did. Then I tried modprobing the various requisite modules to see what would work, fglrx, radeon, nvidia-agp etc. But I found I couldn't rmmod anything; got FATAL, Module unloading unavailable(something

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Matthew, Michael and Richard, Thanks for the responses. They seem to outline the options pretty clearly. One question - once I get it converted and I think I'm running NFS using tcp, how do I determine that I actually am? Thanks, Mark On 8/2/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2005 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Matthew, Michael and Richard, Thanks for the responses. They seem to outline the options pretty clearly. One question - once I get it converted and I think I'm running NFS using tcp, how do I determine that I actually am? Several

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
I would use 'sudo netstat -lp | grep nfs' to see what nfs is listening on. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, Michael and Richard, Thanks for the responses. They seem to outline the options pretty clearly. One question - once I get it converted and I think I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo icons

2005-08-02 Thread phil
oh bugger sorry was being lazy didnt realise id hijack your thread :-( On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:11 +0100, phil wrote: i dont suppose there is an easy way of using the gentoo icons other than doing each one by hand? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo icons

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
There isn't any other way that I know of. If you do build a gentoo theme with the icons though it would be nice if you would share with us on gnome-look or something. -MikeOn 8/2/05, phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont suppose there is an easy way of using the gentoo icons other thandoing each

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

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Try using 'modprobe -rnv module' and see what errors you get. -MikeOn 8/2/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone,The ATI FAQ recommends compiling module unloading intothe kernel, which I did.Then I tried modprobing the various requisite modulesto see what would work, fglrx,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/2/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would use 'sudo netstat -lp | grep nfs' to see what nfs is listening on. -Mike Thanks Mike, it appears that both ends are currently listening on tcp which is good. However, am I not supposed to also use the tcp mount option on the

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-08-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
Have you tried using 'beep media player' instead? It is a clone of XMMS (which is dead basically). It uses skins and plugins and looks like xmms. -Original Message- From: Kurt Guenther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:49 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo icons

2005-08-02 Thread Holly Bostick
phil schreef: i dont suppose there is an easy way of using the gentoo icons other than doing each one by hand? Well, I feel like I came in in the middle of this conversation, so I may be misunderstanding just which icons you mean, but on the main site there are links to 'Gentoo graphic

[gentoo-user] Changing volume name of a FAT partition

2005-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Is there a way to set or change the volume name of a FAT partition without reformatting it? When using HAL with KDE or Gnome Volume Manager to display icons of USB devices, it uses the volume name, if present, as the icon text, so it would be useful to be able to change this to give a more

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/2/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the tcp flag when you mount should override the default behavior for nfs to use udp. I'm not sure if its strictly necessary but what the heck, it can't hurt. -Mike That's what I thought also. However, even though I can see the

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize option is being used? Thanks, Mark Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used. Matt --

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing volume name of a FAT partition

2005-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
Neil Bothwick wrote: Is there a way to set or change the volume name of a FAT partition without reformatting it? When using HAL with KDE or Gnome Volume Manager to display icons of USB devices, it uses the volume name, if present, as the icon text, so it would be useful to be able to change this

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

2005-08-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using 'modprobe -rnv module' and see what errors you get. dayglo root # modprobe-rnv fglrx rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko dayglo root # modprobe fglrx

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

2005-08-02 Thread Zac Medico
maxim wexler wrote: --- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using 'modprobe -rnv module' and see what errors you get. dayglo root # modprobe-rnv fglrx rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko dayglo

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

2005-08-02 Thread David Morgan
On 12:36 Tue 02 Aug , maxim wexler wrote: dayglo root # modprobe -rv fglrx rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko FATAL: Error removing fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Kernel does not have module unloading support none the wiser :/ Sounds like you

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/2/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize option is being used? Thanks, Mark Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like ethereal? This

[gentoo-user] glxcompmgr

2005-08-02 Thread Justin Hart
Hey, Does anybody have the line on glxcompmgr? I've heard of its existance, and that it was demoed at a convention, but I haven't seen any real proof of these rumors. Can anybody substantiate these rumors at all? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/2/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize option is being used? Thanks, Mark Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like ethereal? This

[gentoo-user] alsa strangeness...

2005-08-02 Thread karlos
Hi, I have just given up on a strange thing with alsa. basically I can plug something into the proper port and hear sound coming out of the laptop speakers, be it a mic or a synth. strange enough, I cannot record these sounds with any of the software, SC3-Audacity(portaudio=v19 and oss and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-08-02 Thread Christian Floeter
Kurt Guenther wrote: Christian Floeter wrote: I have problems emerging standard xmms plugins, like xmms-mikmod, xmms-mpg123, xmms-vorbis, xmms-oss, xmms-esd, xmms-alsa and xmms-cdaudio. All of these produce the same error while emerging (the following was produced by xmms-mikmod):

[gentoo-user] ReiserFS4

2005-08-02 Thread Ryan
Does anyone know of or know where to get the limitations of ReiserFS4? I've looked at the reiserFS4 and it does not list things such as Num. of subdirs that a single dir can have, num. of files a single dir can have, etc. I am looking for something like this: (only for ReiserFS4 instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa strangeness...

2005-08-02 Thread Christoph Eckert
when I open alsamixer I can adjust the levels and everything. What could this be? Any ideas? I guess everything is fine with your setup but your mixer isn't set properly. * Your card has a monitor. Incoming signals are routed back to the outputs immediately. This means that the incoming

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Mark, Here is my suggestion to get the best of both worlds (note my limited knowledge of mythtv). Setup a shell script to copy all your video files from the myth capture directory over to the nfs share and delete the files thus clearing your local space and also allowing you to capture 135 hours.

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

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Maxim: Try this command `cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD`. On my machine (which has module unloading compiled into the kernel) I see CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y -MikeOn 8/2/05, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12:36 Tue 02 Aug , maxim wexler wrote: dayglo root #

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Whitehead
The best way is to ask the portmapper (example below): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 1000241 udp921 status 1000241 tcp928 status 172 udp

[gentoo-user] How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?

2005-08-02 Thread Aaron Nichols
Hello Everyone, I feel like the answer here should be obvious, but either my google skills have deteriorated badly, I'm missing the obvious, or I've just run into a strange problem (which I doubt). I have a Gentoo install with the following filesystem layout (from fstab):/dev/sda2 /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Whitehead
cat /proc/mounts | grep -E 'nfs.*tcp' On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Matthew, Michael and Richard, Thanks for the responses. They seem to outline the options pretty clearly. One question - once I get it converted and I think I'm running NFS using tcp, how do I determine that I

[gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Ian K
HI guys, I have resorted to putting Ubuntu on my friend's laptop. If you remember, it was an evil Panasonic Toughbook, with a Ricoh PCMCIA card slot(?) from hell. If you want a brief explanation, read starting from the 1. If you want to skip to the problem, goto 2. :) 1. Well, I tried everything,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Mike, Thanks for the idea. I like the idea of being able to record locally for 15 hours safely and then just using the new NFS storage for playback only, but I think it won't work from a practical standpoint: 1) MythTV runs in conjunction with MySQL which is managing the data files. If I

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

2005-08-02 Thread maxim wexler
Module unloading support is optional. You want to enable it in your kernel config. See the start of this thread. It *is* enabled Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

[gentoo-user] Safe Cflags for Celeron M340 on a FSC Amilo Pro V2010?

2005-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! In the coming days, I'll get a Fujitsu Siemens FSC Amilo Pro v2010 notebook in which a Intel Celeron M340 1,5 GHz, 400FSB CPU is built into. For this system, I'd like to setup a build host following the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host. Quite obviously, it would be good to

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Whitehead
BTW, it could be you are using NFS v2 which is ONLY 32bit so you have the 4gb filesize limit. run nftstat -s (on the server) and nfsstat -c (on the client) to see what version of NFS you are using (note: what version of NFS you are using is not related to the transport - udp/tcp). I use

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Well if you are a perl or python kinda guy you could write a more sophisticated script to copy the files and update the database so that everything is transparent as far as myth is concerned. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, Thanks for the idea. I like the idea of being

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

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
It would appear that it is not. Double check with my cat grep command and perhaps recompile your kernel. -MikeOn 8/2/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Module unloading support is optional.You want to enable it in your kernel config.See the start of this thread. It *is* enabled Zac --

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm not any kind of programmer. Guitar player actually. I just need stuff to work or I'm helpless! Thanks, Mark On 8/2/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well if you are a perl or python kinda guy you could write a more sophisticated script to copy the files and update the database so

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I think it is much more easy to get NFS working right... ;) Just my 2 cents. On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: Well if you are a perl or python kinda guy you could write a more sophisticated script to copy the files and update the database so that everything is transparent as far as

Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Being lazy I would start with the dead simple route. Boot the ubuntu livecd check out what driver it loads and if the card works, if all is peachy under ubuntu reboot gentoo and modprobe the driver that ubuntu loaded. If all that fails then you need to dig deeper into your kernel config. I could

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

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Sounds like a forgotten make mrproper or make clean before a full build? I'm sure the kernel isn't making this stuff up. :D On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, maxim wexler wrote: Module unloading support is optional. You want to enable it in your kernel config. See the start of this thread. It *is*

Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Rout
or maybe a knoppix disk which is pretty good at detecting hardware. On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:22:37 -0400 Michael Crute wrote: Being lazy I would start with the dead simple route. Boot the ubuntu livecd check out what driver it loads and if the card works, if all is peachy under ubuntu reboot

[gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi there, I was wondering what tools should I use to detect security flaws to my server and a few tips on how to use them. What are the most common forms of attack and how do I avoid being attacked by one of them? The services avaliable are only Apache - SSL and SSH. I've installed an

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing volume name of a FAT partition

2005-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:15:57 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: man mlabel $ qpkg -f `which mlabel` sys-fs/mtools * Aha! I looked in dosfstools but didn't think of mtool. Thanks. -- Neil Bothwick Genius is 99% inspiration and 2% arithmetic pgp7TOTwkv7fs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Peter De Zutter
Hi, 2 tools nmap and nessus for network/port scanning and others. For hardering you could use bastille. Of course all found in portage. PeterOn 8/3/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I was wondering what tools should I use to detect security flaws tomy

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Colin
On Aug 2, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi there, I was wondering what tools should I use to detect security flaws to my server and a few tips on how to use them. What are the most common forms of attack and how do I avoid being attacked by one of them?

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Thanks Peter. I'm just finishing visiting the home page of almost every package on the net-analyzer category. If I didn't have such a short dead line, I'd test them all. ;) 2005/8/3, Peter De Zutter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, 2 tools nmap and nessus for network/port scanning and others. For

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/2/05, Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, it could be you are using NFS v2 which is ONLY 32bit so you have the 4gb filesize limit. OK, I've built the kernels on both machines and have support for both V3 and V3 clients and servers built in. Ethereal tells me now that I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] DELTUP servers

2005-08-02 Thread Alexey Starinsky
Hello, Andrew. Вы писали 30 июля 2005 г., 21:41:14: Andrew Gaydenko It seems like Andrew Gaydenko DELTUP_SERVER=http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/deltup.php; Andrew Gaydenko is under reconstruction (standard Andrew Gaydenko apache page is shown). Are there Andrew Gaydenko other DELTUP servers?

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hey Colin, I was looking at the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and found these: LoginGraceTime 600 MaxAuthTries 6 Is the first one what you meant? The second seems like an attempt to avoid brute force login. Also, does Grub need any kind of password protection? I don't know if it was Grub or Lilo

Re: [gentoo-user] open office icons messed up

2005-08-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
If everybody added there names to the bug so that it gets noticed that many people are affected by this, it might get fixed faster. There's a few already, but the more the merrier ... BillK On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:39 -0500, Kevin Hanson wrote: Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, The

[gentoo-user] Need more help with remote access of local X server

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
Last month I started a thread on this list about setting up an arrangement so that my wife's computer running Red Hat 9 would be able to access my X server. I was referred to the Gentoo LTSP guide. I followed the guide and set it up. It worked great for about a week and then it just kinda

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Colin
On Aug 2, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hey Colin, I was looking at the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and found these: LoginGraceTime 600 MaxAuthTries 6 Is the first one what you meant? The second seems like an attempt to avoid brute force login. Neither is

[gentoo-user] Re: Need more help with remote access of local X server [SOLVED, (for now)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:42 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Last month I started a thread on this list about setting up an arrangement so that my wife's computer running Red Hat 9 would be able to access my X server. I was referred to the Gentoo LTSP guide. I followed the guide and set it up.

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

2005-08-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that it is not. Double check with my cat grep command and perhaps recompile your kernel. bash-2.05b$ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y bash-2.05b$ I knew it was there having just

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

2005-08-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:43:17PM -0400, Colin wrote: Neither is what I was thinking of, but they're quite similar. LoginGraceTime means if nobody logged in within 10 minutes of the connection being opened, then it will be closed. I don't know exactly what MaxAuthTries does, but I

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] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Which IDS system do you recommend? I also need to worry about HTTP auth brute force. Know any way to stop it from happening? I've read about HoneyPots, which I can only assume is a decoy for an attacker. Anyone knows how to set one up? I have a feeling that there isn't much I can do if a pro

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

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Run a make clean on the kernel source tree and then a make make modules_install and see what happens. Perhaps that will solve it. -MikeOn 8/2/05, James Hiscock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a forgotten make mrproper or make clean before a full build? Aren't they for 2.4.x kernels? I'm

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

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:56:14 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: --- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that it is not. Double check with my cat grep command and perhaps recompile your kernel. bash-2.05b$ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD

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

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:18:11 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:56:14 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: --- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that it is not. Double check with my cat grep command and perhaps recompile your kernel.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, I am wondering if it is possible to make it such that when accessing certain webpages, the connections goes through a proxy, and when accessing others, the connections goes out directly to the internet. In particular, since I am a graduate student living off campus, if I need

[gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 800 CERC SATA RAID Controller

2005-08-02 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi Everyone, Is there anyone out there who has installed Gentoo Linux on a Dell PowerEdge 800 system with a CERC hardware RAID controller? If so what drivers are required? Devraj --- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:25:29AM +, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Which IDS system do you recommend? I also need to worry about HTTP auth brute force. Know any way to stop it from happening? I've read about HoneyPots, which I can only assume is a decoy for an attacker.

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Which IDS system do you recommend? I also need to worry about HTTP auth brute force. Know any way to stop it from happening? I've read about HoneyPots, which I can only assume is a decoy for an attacker. Anyone knows how to set one up? I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread kashani
Colin wrote: Want to know how secure your server is? Try and hack it! A good port scanner like nmap should be a basic check of your firewall. I would also set nmap (if it can do this) to perform a SYN flood as it scans, to see if your server can withstand that basic DoS attack.