Haven't tried it, but it seems to be worth a look, so I would add
http://www.zabbix.com/
2005/8/3, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I use Nagios and Cacti with much success.
http://www.nagios.org/
http://www.cacti.net/
-Mike
On 8/3/05, Chris Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to provide wireless connection to the internet for other
laptops at home.
To do this, one laptop is connected via eth0 and wlan0 should work as
AP to all others.
I have been following the
On 8/3/05, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying e17 as well after reading this ;-)
Great Justin :)
I suggest emerging edge before epsilon or you'll get compile errors.
I just finish compiling it and I got no problems (at least that I'm aware of)... so it also works with this sequence
Fernando Meira wrote:
Christoph, I can't find the screenshot I saw and made me think about
moving to E, but this one is also good and has the panel (right under
the IM app) I was talking about:
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~uriel/images/screen.jpg
In the browser window you can see
Fernando Meira wrote:
And in the E docs, there is this sentence:
Note that you should not mix -* and ~x86 ebuilds.
So is it enough that I just change everything to -* and all packages
will be upgraded, or will I need to unmerge every package before?
Just keyword all packages -* and update
Fernando Meira wrote:
Also found other scripts to compile directly from cvs, without using
portage. Can anyone tell me what the advantage of doing so?
I'd suggest using portage since it allows you to uninstall, query information
and doing other nice package managment stuff.
Christoph, is
Michael Crute wrote:
Hmm not to be insulting but:
no, it is not insulting at all. One must always make sure that the
devices plugged into the wall.
* Is NFS Running
on the server and, yes showmount and mounting devices loopback work
* Is there a firewall on either host (and if so are
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote:
Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to provide wireless connection to the internet for other
laptops at home.
To do this, one laptop is connected via eth0 and wlan0 should work as
AP to all others.
I have been following the
Craig,
I'm looking to use Veritas BackupEXEC 10 on several of my servers, and would like to know if anyone knows how to get a backup exec agent to work properly with gentoo. It seems a simple enough question, but I've found nothing useful through the documentation, and their support folks don't
Hi,
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400
Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something
like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA
card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by
Joseph wrote:
I have port knocking installed on firewall, to further protect any SSH
attacks.
So port 22 is closed (in stealth mode) and only opens if it received the
right knock sequence, moreover it is only opened to an IP address from
which received successful knock sequence; all others
This document should give you some info
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking
Peter
On 8/4/05, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joseph wrote: I have port knocking installed on firewall, to further protect any SSH attacks. So port 22 is closed (in stealth mode) and only opens if it received
C.Beamer wrote:
Hi Michael et al,
Michael Crute wrote:
Colleen,
Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you
haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In
theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do
is run Xorg
Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote:
Craig,
I'm looking to use Veritas BackupEXEC 10 on several of my servers,
and would like to know if anyone knows how to get a backup exec agent
to work properly with gentoo. It seems a simple enough question, but
I've found nothing useful through the documentation,
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400
Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something
like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA
card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 03 August 2005 12:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
from /etc/logrotate.conf:
-
# no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
Having recently had hassle with dependencies for Apache2 for my
configuration, I had a sudden thought that I don't really need most of
the Apache features... and there are many http servers available in portage.
I can classify my priorities as essential and desirable:
Essential :
* Must be
Minn M Soe wrote:
Hello,
Is it harmless if we shut down with the command init 0? Are there big
differences between halt, shutdown -r now and init 0?
See the man pages for 'halt' and 'shutdown'.
Unless told otherwise, shutdown operates by signalling init, so
shutdown, halt, init 0, and
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
Essential :
* Must be secure against remote attacks.
* Must support username-and-password based authentication.
Desirable :
* Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address
(NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server)
* As lightweight as
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 06:20 pm, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
[quote]
Let the world know that you run on Gentoo Linux.
Put a Powered by Gentoo image on your Gentoo powered web sites or use
a Gentoo Badge on your web page, blog, forum signature or elsewhere
and link back to http://www.gentoo.org
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
*sigh*
On 8/4/05, Chris Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 06:20 pm, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
[quote]
Let the world
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
*sigh*
I was of course just kidding. I do like Gentoo but hey, it isn't the
Refer to the Elitest Chowderheads thread on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:50 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
*sigh*
On
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
*sigh*
I was of
Chris Frederick cdf123 at cdf123.net writes:
Hi all,
I've been looking for a monitoring app that I can run on my
server/gateway. The more graphical the better
jffnms
http://freshmeat.net/projects/jffnms/
www.jffnms.org
James
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Agreed in all terms!!!
On 8/4/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats
Gentoo was my first serious distribution, I first tried Red Hat and
got completely put off. I was than introduced to Gentoo and have been
there ever since. Putting a Gentoo Badge in your sig or on your forum
will attract both n00bs yes and other linux users alike. Does it
really mean that the end
At the expense of sounding like an Elitist Chowderhead I kind of
agree with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came
from Fedora and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense
and pisses me off far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I
would never recommend
Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions?
I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters (between 2 rooms) is enough.
I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode.
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
lsbcmnds driver present,
Michael Crute wrote:
Init 0 does a shutdown just without the -r now (which you could add).
Here is the line from my stock /etc/inittab l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
Read that entry again, what you said is not correct. For runlevel 0,
init runs /sbin/rc with an argument of shutdown. This
There are three versions of ghostscript inside the portage, they are
`ghostscript', `ghostscript-gnu', `ghostscript-afpl'. In my opinion,
afpl is used more widely, however, the latest version of afpl is not
inside the portage. So, which to choose?
--
Yuan MEI
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing
Hi,
Thanks for the answer. I tried to hack the ebuild too and same result. I
guess
I would have to emerge mozilla too, but I don't like the idea at all.
Perhaps the maintainers will find a solution to get rid of mozilla.
Catalin
Michael Crute wrote:
Nope its required to run
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
At the expense of sounding like an Elitist Chowderhead I kind of agree
with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora
and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off
far
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:15:00AM +0800, Yuan MEI wrote:
There are three versions of ghostscript inside the portage, they are
`ghostscript', `ghostscript-gnu', `ghostscript-afpl'. In my opinion,
afpl is used more widely, however, the latest version of afpl is not
inside the portage. So,
The facts are:
- Internet is powerful.
- Gentoo and internet talk like friends.
- If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program
with a fair documentation and bit of geekness.
- Gentoo is widely documented.
- There's always us to point newbies to RTFM and/or search at Google
:)
I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of her asking me questions
about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could
help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with. Just wanted to share that...
Has anyone else out there put Gentoo on their parents computers?
Hello!
I'm currently cleaning up my make.conf and stumpled upon the line
VIDEO_CARDS=matrox
Sadly, I forgot to add a descriptive comment :( So I know wonder,
which package the VIDEO_CARDS setting influences. Could somebody
please be so nice and tell me?
Further, I'd like to know, which
050804 Chris Cox wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen sighed:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
I was of course just kidding.
I do like Gentoo but
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:22 -0700, Bryan Green wrote:
I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of her asking me questions
about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could
help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with. Just wanted to share that...
Has
Fernando Meira wrote:
Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions?
I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters
(between 2 rooms) is enough.
I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode.
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
Chris Cox wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
*sigh*
I was of course just kidding. I do like
Ok, thanks Christoph.
I'm just trying E17 for the first time now, and the first impression is good.
However, there a weird behaviour with the mouse. The mouse pointer
disappears very frequently, crashing from time to time one application.
xterm blew aways few minutes ago. In fact, this is the
I am pretty sure that x11-drm uses that. The ati cards can also use
rage128 and radeon in that spot depending on the card:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
According to the ebuild for x11-drm-4.3.0-r7
IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS=3dfx gamma i810 i830 matrox rage128 radeon sis mach64
HTH
W
On Thu,
Willie Wong schrieb:
I am pretty sure that x11-drm uses that. The ati cards can also use
rage128 and radeon in that spot depending on the card:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
Okay.
According to the ebuild for x11-drm-4.3.0-r7
IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS=3dfx gamma i810 i830 matrox rage128
Thanks anyway Luke!
This looks like a crazy mouse behaviour... suddenly jumps to another place and open the menu.
I think E17 never crashed (as I said before), but, in fact, what happen
(at least the last time) was that when the pointer jumped away, opened
the menu and (because I was trying to
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:26 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
Thanks anyway Luke!
This looks like a crazy mouse behaviour... suddenly jumps to another
place and open the menu.
I think E17 never crashed (as I said before), but, in fact, what
happen (at least the last time) was that when the
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
The facts are:
- Internet is powerful.
- Gentoo and internet talk like friends.
- If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program
with a fair documentation and bit of geekness.
- Gentoo is widely documented.
- There's always us to point newbies to RTFM
Philip Webb wrote:
Gentoo is for people who want to manage their own machine in their own way
the real bouncer at the door is the DIY installation test.
This thread is a bit more rational, so no Elitist Chowderhead subject
this time. However...
Does this mean now that I've been admining
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hi!
Is it possible to compile the complete system with the
icc from the Intel C++ Compiler?
afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions.
BUT! if you add icc to your USEflags, portage will compile things
with icc
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hi!
Is it possible to compile the complete system with the
icc from the Intel C++ Compiler?
afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions.
BUT!
Yes... that would maybe be good idea.
I'm using now the touchpad instead of the mouse and, until now, no weird behaviours!
Thanks.
FernandoOn 8/4/05, Luke Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should subscribe to the enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net
mailing list and post this same message
The original point of this was to promote Gentoo. You guys and gals
are all so proud of it but want to keep it to yourselves. When a mate
asks me what OS I am running I say Gentoo Linux. If he or she wants a
copy I gladly give it to them and help them out cause someone awhile
back took the time to
Yeah, I think its great! I would buy the t-shirts if I wasn't so far away!
Once you get it well configured, its nice, its fast, its Gentoo!!!
I've been migrating a lot of users after showing my own box to them,
and most say the same, Gentoo is a learning experience, people start
installing it and
nice signature Ryan
http://chill.vault9.net/forums/Ravilj-m2166.html
email me that image please?
thanks :D
On 8/4/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The original point of this was to promote Gentoo. You guys and gals
are all so proud of it but want to keep it to yourselves. When a
Hi all
I've been trying to install Gentoo. I
want to see if Gentoo is for me so I've
kept it simple. My first attempt I tried
a stage1 install, as this failed the
second time I tried a stage3 install, if
it failed less time wasted. Both times I
opted for a genkernel install,
everything
Whenever I run webalizer on my server box I see this:
Error: Unable to open DNS cache file /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db
but that file does exist:
bullet ~ # ls -l /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 69632 Aug 3
09:15 /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db
Why can't
Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd
and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe
check your genkernel command to compile the kernel.
On 8/4/05, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I've been trying to install Gentoo. I
want to
Michael Crute wrote:
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
to put it politely, this how-to is misleading. It should be removed.
problem 1: assumes automounter works. I was not able to get automounter
to function and had to
Stewart Taylor wrote:
Hi all
I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for me so
I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 install, as this
failed the second time I tried a stage3 install, if it failed less time
wasted. Both times I opted for a genkernel
On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:41 pm, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd
and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe
check your genkernel command to compile the kernel.
Whats wrong with compiling a kernel the
Craig Zeigler wrote:
Chris Cox wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status?
You never asked a stupid question?
No I thought not.
Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow...
*sigh*
I was of course just
My girlfriend, who has never used windows properley before, let alone
linux, uses my server to irc with using irssi
no gui, all command line, hardc0re girlfriend... not really but damn I wish...
On 8/4/05, Bryan Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of
Chris Cox wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:41 pm, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd
and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe
check your genkernel command to compile the kernel.
Whats wrong with
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Hey,
I don't believe I can actually answer this one. I'm a noob to Gentoo!
Stewart Taylor wrote:
Hi all
I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for
me so I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1
install,
Catalin Trifu wrote:
Thanks for the answer. I tried to hack the ebuild too and same
result. I guess
I would have to emerge mozilla too, but I don't like the idea at all.
Perhaps the maintainers will find a solution to get rid of mozilla.
Hopefully they will split out the SDK into its
On 8/4/05, Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Crute wrote:
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
to put it politely, this how-to is misleading. It should be removed.
Well, since this is a wiki...why don't you
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:53:38 -0400 Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to
| Linux should turn to?
|
|
| In one word... YES!. If you're going to learn your way around Linux
| well, why not start with something that doesn't
Bingo... edit it please... share your experiences and put down the right way to do it.
-MikeOn 8/4/05, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/4/05, Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
Hi guys!
Im on a Toshiba Satellite A70, and was wondering how to get the suspend
to RAM
working. KDE can initiate a hibernate, which will basically make the
system hang
when it should turn off. Thats ok though, I really only want suspend to
ram working,
and for my purposes, couldn't care less
Walter Dnes wrote:
After a while, it gets old telling etc-update after each emerge update
that no, I do *NOT* want to change...
- my clocktime setting from local to UTC
- my console font from lat0-10 (48 rows with vga=2) to default8x16
(30 rows with vga=2).
- the hostnames of *BOTH*
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:20:42AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote
These machines will also be internet connected and there for will need
some onboard protection beyond my gateway/firewall.
I want to find a packet filter like iptables for use on windows. That
is, a text based/editable driven
Willie Wong schrieb:
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hi!
Is it possible to compile the complete system with the
icc from the Intel C++ Compiler?
afaik, no. Too many things rely on
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