Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still
I have attached fstab. It has the paritions configured with root = /dev/dha7 ext3, which is correct. I ran the e2fsck (because it said that is had been over 12000 days since the last test, due to not resetting the clock), and it reported no problems, 1.1% fragmentation. What should I be using instead of devfs? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load the root filesystem. You shouldn't use devfs. It's obsolete. Which liveCD / stage are you installing from? Which profile are you using? warning, no fsck.ext3 found. Error: mounting an ext2 partition failed on /dev/hda7 (a little different wording), Bad superblock, etc type cntrl-D to cancel, or enter root passwd to fix: and it is frozen (no keyboard recognised) There is a copy of fsck.ext3 on /sbin/, so I think that it is not in the initrd. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is /dev/hda7 an ext2 partition? Are you sure you have your partition numbering right and that your fstab reflects your partition layout? -Joe -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list could this be caused by my PRAM battery being DEAD (is says the year is 1904) thanks, nick Also, I configured in both EXT2 and EXT3 kernel support... # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.18.4.1 2005/01/31 23:05:14 vapier Exp $ # # noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail / tail freely. # # See the manpage fstab(5) for more information. # fs mountpointtype opts dump/pass # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda7 / ext3noatime 0 1 /dev/hda6 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) shm /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still
On 28 Oct 2005, at 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I be using instead of devfs? udev - I'd expect the newer profiles to use this by default... The battery on my iMac is stuffed as well. However when the system is shutdown it syncs the time with the h/ware clock so it's not too far out when it comes back up again. A swift ntp sync sorts it out. OS X on the other hand (at least 10.1.5 which is all I've got on that machine - dunno about 10.3 as it won't install)... OS X on the other hand insists on thinking it's 1970 or some such... (Not too much useful info but...) Rod -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] top for disk access
run 'vmstat 1' On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have no idea why. Any ideas? thanks, -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix nbsmtp)
I don't understand why you would need to do this? If you need a MTA and a MUA, why would you bother with a MUA? All of what a MUA can do is in the MTA - postfix On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Covington, Chris wrote: Hi all, I'd like to have both nbsmtp and postfix, so that I can run an MTA and use an MUA independently of each other. Although the two can co-exist peacefully, the combo seems to upset portage: videodrome ccovington # emerge -pvDu world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] mail-mta/nbsmtp (is blocking mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5) Is there something I can do? --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang
Make sure all nfs services are running on client and server. OR you have iptables running and you are blocking random nfs service ports. Check both client and server. run rpcinfo -p on each machine to see what ports need to be open. It might be better to just allow anything to go between server-client and client-server. On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko wrote: As discussed in this thread http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=54586 QTE ++ 1 On certain Linux machines, file locking is known to fail due to the NFS lock demon not running. 2 On certain other Linux machines, it appears that file locking fails due to some other, not yet analyzed reason. + UNQTE I guess my machines fall into the second category. yours, kos Billy Holmes wrote: Konstantin V. Gavrilenko wrote: Apparently you need to disable file locking by commenting out the following lines: either that or run lockd... -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm sure this has come up several times but finding the correct search string is proving to be a problem. How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in? For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have no mkfs.xfs. I find these in my portage tree: sys-fs/xfsdump and xfsprogs. Neither sound like they would contain mkfs.xfs. But if they do, how can I determine that? I see no list of files or the like in their prospective directories and no commandline flags for esearch that look like they do that either. The package database listed on gentoo home pages appears to be laid out in some unfathomable and non-searchable way. I see no infomation about how to use it there at all. you can try to use equery on suspect packages you find with emerge --search... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] top for disk access
Hi, thanks for your reply, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 00:05 -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? run 'vmstat 1' that doesn't seem to tell me what processes are running, only what the system totals are. I wanted to see a top like output, eg process1 xMb/s process2 yMb/s etc thanks, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.
!!! Failed to complete python imports. There are internal modules for !!! python and failure here indicates that you have a problem with python !!! itself and thus portage is no able to continue processing. !!! You might consider starting python with verbose flags to see what has !!! gone wrong. Here is the information we got for this exception: No module named fcntl It seems you just lack that fcntl module. Can't you find what module it is and if you can just install and copy it, before messing with the whole python installation? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:42:25 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: Thats what wasn't clear to me. I assume this is a special case in that an 'update world' won't install new kernel sources by default? It will, provided the existing kernel sources were emerged. Portage only tracks software installed by itself. If you set the symlink USE flag, it even creates a new /usr/src/linux symlink for you. -- Neil Bothwick Are you sure this isn't the time for a colorful metaphor? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:28:59 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Yeah I would suggest doing a emerge package and then CTRL-C'ing it and copying the url that it was attemping to download it from. That way you make sure you get the right sources for your current portage tree. but only for the first package in the list. Use --pretend --fetchonly with emerge to get a list of the files it wants to download, as has been covered many times on this list before. It will all be in the archives. -- Neil Bothwick And God said Let there be light and there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it better. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains NAME uninstalled tool
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:00:06 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: How can a user tell which package an uninstalled tool is in? Asking here is one way. For example. I want to make an xfs file system. It turn out I have no mkfs.xfs. I find these in my portage tree: sys-fs/xfsdump and xfsprogs. It's the latter. Neither sound like they would contain mkfs.xfs. But if they do, how can I determine that? I see no list of files or the like in their prospective directories and no commandline flags for esearch that look like they do that either. Because the files installed by a package depend on the USE flags and platform, it is not possible to produce a definitive list of what each package installs, unlike with a binary distro. You can search http://packages.debian.org or http://rpmfind.net to see which package includes the file on other distros . That should give you a good idea of where to look. -- Neil Bothwick Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't., signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] top for disk access
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:16:54PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? run 'vmstat 1' that doesn't seem to tell me what processes are running, only what the system totals are. I wanted to see a top like output, eg process1 xMb/s process2 yMb/s etc I dont think you can get that out-of-the-box. I have not played with accounting stuff (sar etc) so that might be able to do something like this for you but AFAIK then vanilla kernel wont try to track this. The reason is that short-lived processes might die before their disk request gets to the block layer, making accounting impossible. A bit more farfetched you might picture PID wrap and get disk access accounted to the wrong process. I am not an expert on this so I am happily corrected. For disk IO I find iostat to be better than vmstat. Its part of the sysstat package. Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...
Stroller wrote: Can anyone explain to me how to use this, please? Try as I might I don't seem to be getting it right. Seems to be a bug in lspci. It works here like it should. I have tried this on a couple of machines. The output produced by `lspci -x` _looks_ reasonable - I've attached foo.txt. The difference to my output is the leading zeros. :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) ^ The following will work: $ lspci -x | sed 's/^://' foo.txt $ lspci -F foo.txt Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates
Digby Tarvin schreef: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:25:52PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: 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 .config, and then run make oldconfig -- it'll prompt you for any changes made in the new kernel, and dump any invalid options... Thanks James and Qian, But doesn't this conflict with the advice given in kernel-upgrade.xml, which says: The only situation where this is appropriate is when upgrading from one Gentoo kernel revision to another. For example, the changes made between gentoo-sources-2.6.9-r1 and gentoo-sources-2.6.9-r2 will be very small, so it is usually OK to use the following method. However, it is not appropriate to use it in the example used throughout this document: upgrading from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9. Too many changes between the official releases, and the method described below does not display enough context to the user, often resulting in the user running into problems because they disabled options that they really didn't want to. 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. (top posting fixed) Maybe not, but it does make it easier-- there's no reason you can't do a make oldconfig to get the basic settings that you want/need (for example, my kernel is set up for the ATI fglrx driver install and fbsplash, and I want those settings copied over), and then do a make menuconfig and go through the kernel settings manually to see what's new. For the most part, the kernel help is extremely informative, and I recommend that one do a make menuconfig every so often anyway, just to *look* at the kernel, and read the Help for any options you don't understand. For a major kernel revision jump (and often even a minor one) I usually do that, for the reasons mentioned in the docs, but having done a make oldconfig first (or copied over my config to the new kernel) at least ensures that certain basics will be set up without me having to remember the labyrinthine collection of dependencies that results in the Enable framebuffer splash setting to even appear in the config, leaving me free to focus on the new options and decide how I want to handle them. Holly. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...
Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...
Christoph Gysin schreef: Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Why search Google and not b.g.o itself, or packages.gentoo.org? Either manually or-- if you use Firefox-- using the Firefox b.g.o search engine? Seems like a waste of effort to have to filter irrelevant hits from Google when one already knows that the status of the issue will be recorded on b.g.o (if a bug was filed and resolved) or packages.gentoo.org (in the Changelog for the revision/update to pciutils). Just wondering. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...
Holly Bostick wrote: Why search Google and not b.g.o itself, or packages.gentoo.org? Either manually or-- if you use Firefox-- using the Firefox b.g.o search engine? Seems like a waste of effort to have to filter irrelevant hits from Google when one already knows that the status of the issue will be recorded on b.g.o (if a bug was filed and resolved) or packages.gentoo.org (in the Changelog for the revision/update to pciutils). Because this is a pciutils issue, and has nothing to do with gentoo. The Changelog will only report a revision bump. Actually I did search b.g.o first, but there were no relevant results. Google turned out that debian had patched this some time ago, and now it is already included upstream. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates
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 good starting point, and it does make it easier. If you're at all worried about it, though, follow the guide's recommendation. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is left in the log files. How can I find the reason? -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1 Thunderbird! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=183 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?
Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I tried to add it to package.unmask, but that didn't help. -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?
On 10/28/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package isin /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editingpackage.mask?Thanks,jules Hi, yes, you should not change /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but instead add the package you want to /etc/portage/package.unmask in the same fashion as you use for package.keywords. After this, you package is no longer hard-masked, but you may still need to add it to package.keywords.. HTH, Fernando
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:17 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I tried to add it to package.unmask, but that didn't help. OK, solved. I thought that package.unmask should be in the same directory as package.mask. Sorry for the noise, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?
Hi Jules; there is a lot of documentation about masked packages on gentoo.wiki.com and on gentoo-handbook but if you want to unmask this package you can edit the file /etc/portage/package.keywords and insert the line =media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10 ~x86 if x86 is your machine arch ... good luck. On 10/28/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:08 +, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package is in /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editing package.mask? I should add that I tried to add it to package.unmask, but that didn't help. -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
I used mknod in local.start. That seems to have fixed the problem. Side note: a 2.1.11 kernel that I had lying around created the devices correctly. I only had to do this for 2.1.13. Thank you all. -Tracy -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:46 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:43:27 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote: I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was Failed to initialize NVIDIA kernel module. I forgot to check dmesg. I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module seems to load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev for nvidia. You need these lines in /etc/modules.d/nvidia # Nvidia drivers support alias char-major-195 nvidia alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 Then run modules-update -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kudzu-knoppix (is blocking sys-libs/libkudzu-1.1.62-r1)
On 10/28/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting an error:sys-apps/kudzu-knoppix (is blocking sys-libs/libkudzu-1.1.62-r1)Does anybody knows how to fix it?kudzu-knoppix - appears to be blocked.Just unmerge kudzu-knoppix, and you should be able to emerge libkudzu without a problem. I have already unmerged kudzu-knoppix, but as for the emerge, there are some big packages before libkudzu (like glibc, which it's finishing in a few minutes). Hope it works..-- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administrator/Web Developper | ICQ: 1406477Rio de Janeiro - Brazil|
[gentoo-user] Intel Wireless networking with kernel 2.6.14.
Hi, I never did get Intel wireless networking working with 2.6.13.x. I just tried with kernel 2.6.14, and I get compilation errors when I try to emerge ieee80211. It complained about lots of incompatible ieee80211 filles in the Linux kernel sources, but still failed when I removed the complained-about files by hand. The most recent error messages looked like this - Checking in /usr/src/linux/ for ieee80211 components... make -C /usr/src/linux M=/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3 MODVERDIR=/var/tmp/portage/iee #undef CONFIG_IEEE80211 sed: can't read /usr/src/linux//build/.config: No such file or directory make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14' CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/ieee80211_module.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/ieee80211_tx.o In file included from /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/ieee80211_module.c:54: /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/net/ieee80211.h:724: error: redefinition of `is_broadca include/linux/etherdevice.h:73: error: `is_broadcast_ether_addr' previously defined here In file included from /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/ieee80211_tx.c:46: /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/net/ieee80211.h:724: error: redefinition of `is_broadca include/linux/etherdevice.h:73: error: `is_broadcast_ether_addr' previously defined here make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/ieee80211_module.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3/ieee80211_tx.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2/work/ieee80211-1.0.3] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14' make: *** [modules] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3-r2 failed. !!! Function linux-mod_src_compile, Line 505, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux all. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Are any versions of the Gentoo packages iee80211, ipw2100 and ipw2100-firmware expected to work with kernel 2.6.14? Or is a different approach required? It does seem odd to have to delete an ever-increasing list of vanilla kernel files that someone has worked to provide. I also tried building the ipw2100 without first building ieee80211, but that build failed like this. Looks like you forgot to remerge net-wireless/ieee80211 after upgrading your kernel. Hint: use sys-kernel/module-rebuild for keeping track of which modules needs to be remerged after a kernel upgrade. !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r3 failed. I obviously don't know what I'm doing, so any guidance would be welcome. Meanwhile, it's back to 2.6.12.6 for me. TIA, John Green -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:46:11 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote: I used mknod in local.start. The only problem with that is that the devices are created well after the module is loaded. With the settings in /etc/modules.d/nvidia, which is part of the nvidia-kernel package, the devices are created immediately. -- Neil Bothwick I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix nbsmtp)
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:21:17AM -0400, gentuxx wrote: I believe adding the mailwrapper USE flag will give you what you want. According to [1] this flag allows multiple MTAs. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Yeah this works. It has a side effect of clobbering the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary installed by postfix with its own version, but other than that it works. Thanks! --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] having a real mta + virtual one (ie postfix nbsmtp)
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:10:48PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: What exactly are you trying to acheive? I want to run mutt without it using my installed postfix, but another dedicated, external SMTP server instead. I use postfix on the box to test things out (like dspam, RBLs, various policy servers content-filters) and I don't want to have to adjust postfix parameters or rely on it to be running just to be able to send email with mutt. Another scenario (that doesn't apply to me but could apply to others) would be that I want to use my ISP's mail server for my email reading program, and I also want to be able to use postfix for internal LAN use. I wouldn't want to run 2 postfix instances or configure postfix to use my ISP as its relayhost which would interfere with other functionality as well as be overly complicated. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: top for disk access
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? bonnie and bonnie++ might help eix bonnie Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have no idea why. Lots of possibilities on these sort of questions. There is a fantastic network monitoring tool that monitors all sorts of system performance issues, call 'jffnms'. It's in portage, but, masked at the moment. It's a bit daunting to get happy, but well worth the effort. I'm waiting for it to stablize on gentoo. It was very difficult to get happy under debian, the last time I hacked at it for a client. http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is left in the log files. How can I find the reason? Could be hardware problem. You can boot a LiveCD and run the memtest to check your RAM. I would also check your CPU is cooled properly when under load (check fans are working, etc). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...
On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:44 am, Christoph Gysin wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: Nonetheless this seems like a bug and should be fixed. Could you file a bug and reference it here? Searching google turns out that it has already been fixed. Update to the latest pciutils will fix the issue. Hi, Do you have any references on this, please? I'm obviously using different search terms from you, because I can't find anything about this bug on Google. I've just run esync am only offered the same version of pciutils that I already have - 2.1.11-r5. If you can provide a link to the pciutils bug then I'll request a version bump with b.g.o. (I'd also like to know more about this so I can advise my customers, should I request a `lspci -x` output from them). Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your rules you have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet your specific needs. Not sure where this script came from - it doesn't come with iptables. You are right, as it seems a very common name used for the rules scripts. Maybe it's a ipchain vestige. I'll just ignore this... Not much to it. Make your rules and use /etc/init.d/iptables save to save 'em. When you restart iptables it will automatically load them from /var/lib/iptables/rules-save if it finds that file. OK If you need any help, post on this list. OK thanks for the clarifications... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD. I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint reader... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is left in the log files. How can I find the reason? Better get all the stuff backed up... Could be a hard disk failure coming your way! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?
On Friday 28 October 2005 10:11, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the machine, therefore no error message is left in the log files. How can I find the reason? Better get all the stuff backed up... Could be a hard disk failure coming your way! sounds like a heating issue, maybe too. Although, if cpu usage is high, mayb ememory is, too. if you've got a bad spot on the disk where swap is, you'll get that behavior. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help, Marvell patched sk98lin for livecd 2005.1
I am installing gentoo on a new machine with an onboard Marvel 8E8053 Gigabit LAN controller. However, LiveCD 2005.1 can not detect this controller, both sk98lin and skge don't work. After googling, I find this artical http://pavuk.7gods.org/notebook.html#network and know that I must patch the kernel and recompile it. But the LiveCD minimal has no gcc built in. I tried patch and compile in my working laptop, and insmod sk98lin.ko in the livecd environment, it tells me the kernel versions don't match: 2.6.12-suspend-r6 preempt PENTIUMM gcc-3.4 versus 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 SMP perempt 586 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 It seems gentoo-sources-r6 has been removed from portage currently. How can I do? Or, could anyone send me a patched sk98lin.ko which is insmod-able in LiveCD 2005.1 environment in private mail? Thanks a lot! -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1 Thunderbird! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=183 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb `lspci -F` question...
Stroller wrote: Do you have any references on this, please? I'm obviously using different search terms from you, because I can't find anything about this bug on Google. search term: bug lspci -F : ... brings us to: http://www.google.ch/search?q=bug+%22lspci+-F%22+%22%3A%22+ ... where hit number 3 leads us to: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/pciutils/pciutils_2.1.11-15.1/changelog ... which says: * fix lspci -F for new or old lspci -x format (closes: #261536) based on patch by Ben Pfaff ... where #261536 is a link to: http://bugs.debian.org/261536 I've just run esync am only offered the same version of pciutils that I already have - 2.1.11-r5. If you can provide a link to the pciutils bug then I'll request a version bump with b.g.o. (I'd also like to know more about this so I can advise my customers, should I request a `lspci -x` output from them). The newest release is still masked by keyword. To unmask: # mkdir -p /etc/portage # echo sys-apps/pciutils ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge -avt sys-apps/pciutils Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] local portage server
Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get rsync: link_stat /metadata/timestamp.chk (in portage) failed: No such file or directory (2) 2005/10/28 17:18:57 [1266] rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(513) in my rsync log on the server. where is that timestamp file supposed to come from? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:23:08 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the
rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get
rsync: link_stat /metadata/timestamp.chk (in portage) failed: No
such file or directory (2)
2005/10/28 17:18:57 [1266] rsync error: some files could not be
transferred (code 23) at main.c(513)
in my rsync log on the server. where is that timestamp file supposed
to come from?
You should have got that when you synced the server with one of the
Gentoo mirrors. the file is at ${PORTDIR}/metadata/timestamp.chk
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Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server
On Friday 28 October 2005 12:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:23:08 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the
rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get
rsync: link_stat /metadata/timestamp.chk (in portage) failed: No
such file or directory (2)
2005/10/28 17:18:57 [1266] rsync error: some files could not be
transferred (code 23) at main.c(513)
in my rsync log on the server. where is that timestamp file supposed
to come from?
You should have got that when you synced the server with one of the
Gentoo mirrors. the file is at ${PORTDIR}/metadata/timestamp.chk
should have been loaded in with an emerge --sync? or an rsync of the whole
tree from one of the mirrors?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help, Marvell patched sk98lin for livecd 2005.1
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 23:49 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I am installing gentoo on a new machine with an onboard Marvel 8E8053 Gigabit LAN controller. However, LiveCD 2005.1 can not detect this controller, both sk98lin and skge don't work. After googling, I find this artical http://pavuk.7gods.org/notebook.html#network and know that I must patch the kernel and recompile it. But the LiveCD minimal has no gcc built in. I tried patch and compile in my working laptop, and insmod sk98lin.ko in the livecd environment, it tells me the kernel versions don't match: 2.6.12-suspend-r6 preempt PENTIUMM gcc-3.4 versus 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 SMP perempt 586 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 It seems gentoo-sources-r6 has been removed from portage currently. How can I do? Or, could anyone send me a patched sk98lin.ko which is insmod-able in LiveCD 2005.1 environment in private mail? Thanks a lot! -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1 Thunderbird! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=183 Hi, Could try the *universal* install-2005.1 CD, it includes all the sources ebuilds. Or the Beta-LiveCD-2005.1 with a graphical installer (don't know if it also has the sourcesebuilds - check). HTH.Rumen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] evolution, aspell and multilanguage support
I've recently switched to evolution for writing and receiving mail. As German is my mother language I write German e-mails in regular intervals. So I thought installing app-dicts/aspell-de would be a good idea. However, I'm not able to select a German dictionary in evolution. Last but not least some information on my system which might be relevant: app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4 app-text/aspell-de-50.2 mail-client/evolution-2.2.3-r3 $ equery uses evolution ... + + spell : Adds dictionary support ... Maybe someone here can help me ... Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] network questions
1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP
10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4
connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5
{LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.0.5]
Is it possible to set up routing from .5 to 10.0.0.0/24 (lan)? If so
than how to set routing tables? Can I change .4 ip to .3?
Where can I find more info about this?
2. Can I have two network cards connected to the same lan with same
network mask? Can I set same IP for them?
Thank you in advance for any answers.
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Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:14:33 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
You should have got that when you synced the server with one of the
Gentoo mirrors. the file is at ${PORTDIR}/metadata/timestamp.chk
should have been loaded in with an emerge --sync? or an rsync of the
whole tree from one of the mirrors?
emerge --sync
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[gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash
Good Day.Guys i wanna configure so i can see a beautiful background when my machine is upload it..I'm using the gensplash in 5 easy steps to do this, but there are something that i wanna know.. For example i'm using the 2.6.13-r6 Sources Kernel , i remembered that i active the framebuffer support, so i suppossed that i don't need to reconfigure and compile the kernel again..If not please let me know. Anyway i wanna know a way of to know if i need reconfigure the kernel again..i've emerge splashutils and also livecd 2005.1 bootsplash theme the which is the one that i wanna configure, i did #mount /bootlater this Create an initramfs image for fbsplash: # splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 -r 1024x768 emergenceand also this# splash_geninitramfs -v -g /etc/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1 -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.1But whichever command do i used i received the same error or warning o creating directory structure..o copying /sbin/splash_helper..o copying themes..- emergencewarning: config file for theme 'emergence' , resolution 1024x768 does not exist! o creating initramfs image..-o creating directory structure.. o copying /sbin/splash_helper.. o copying themes.. - default warning: config file for theme 'default' , resolution 1024x768 does not exist! o creating initramfs image..I have in /etc/splashthe folder livecd-2005.1 and the emergance tooCould somebody please help me??RegardsI'm reading right now http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplashBut i cannot find help-- We must agree that the beauty of a work of art will always remain a mystery, in other words, we can never be absolutely sure 'how it's made.' We must at all costs preserve this magic which is peculiar to music and to which, by its nature, music is of all arts the most receptive.-Claude Debussy-
Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Dependencies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if PostgreSQL server is on another machine why must I install it locally for postfix/cyrus-sasl to use it? Wasn't there talk awhile ago about some libpq package that should be used instead? I'm confused. I also don't want to have to put the postgresql full package on this server (it should run email stuff only). So what to do? Gentoo doesn't have a libs build for Postgres or Mysql so you get the whole package. There has been talk of doing a client install, but I don't know if any progress has been made on that. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD. I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint reader... This is a very interesting product and I am glad that you mentioned it. However, I think I would rather use a cheap thumbdrive, strong passwords, and a Knoppix CD. Total cost = ~$30. If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a Knoppix CD and you have the same functionality as this device. Except the BlackDog only has a 400MHz PPC CPU and 64MB RAM. This is probably slower than the host computer will be and it probably has less RAM too. Also, everything like networking, video, and disk activity must be squeezed through the USB bus when you use this device. With Knoppix, you use the PCI and AGP busses of the host computer for these things. Knoppix should be much faster than this device for most purposes. Although this is an interesting product, I don't see how someone would use it as a Wearab le computer. It requires a host computer to provide input and output devices as well as to provide electricity. The only heads-up display glasses I know of have to be connected to a VGA, NTSC, or PAL video source. It doesn't look like this device can produce these signals. If you wanted to wear this, you would need to connect it to a sub-notebook running Windows or Linux and carry them both around. But then why not just put Gentoo on the sub-notebook instead? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Dependencies
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:36 -0500, kashani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if PostgreSQL server is on another machine why must I install it locally for postfix/cyrus-sasl to use it? Wasn't there talk awhile ago about some libpq package that should be used instead? I'm confused. I also don't want to have to put the postgresql full package on this server (it should run email stuff only). So what to do? Gentoo doesn't have a libs build for Postgres or Mysql so you get the whole package. There has been talk of doing a client install, but I don't know if any progress has been made on that. kashani Hi, This is the answer i have too. Checking courier-authlib ebuild shows it DEPENDS on postgresql (if USE flag is ON) and *only* RDEPENDS on db,gdbm ...BEGIN... DEPEND=virtual/libc gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm ) !gdbm? ( =sys-devel/autoconf-2.5 sys-libs/db ) =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6 pam? ( =sys-libs/pam-0.75 ) mysql? ( =dev-db/mysql-3.23.36 ) ldap? ( =net-nds/openldap-1.2.11 ) postgres? ( =dev-db/postgresql-7.2 ) RDEPEND=virtual/libc gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm ) !gdbm? ( sys-libs/db ) ...END... Conclusion it's only needed for building courier-authlib not for running Also remember such talks HTH.Rumen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend
el Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:28:17 +1000 Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip i understand dvdrip is a front-end to transcode and it's good to rip dvds, and re-encode them to burn to a cd. to backup a dvd in dvd format the best application i know is dvdshrink. it's free (as in beer), it's a pity it is only for windows, and i've never seen anything as good for linux. it's the only reason i installed wine in my desktop, and that i never wiped out the windows that came with my laptop... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network questions
capsel wrote:
1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP
10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4
connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5
{LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.0.5]
Is it possible to set up routing from .5 to 10.0.0.0/24 (lan)?
Yes
If so
than how to set routing tables?
On gentoo:
route add -host 10.0.0.5/32 gw 10.0.0.4
On .5:
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.255
route add -host 10.0.0.4/32 gw 10.0.0.5
route add -net default gw 10.0.0.4
If .5 isn't a Linux box, well, you'll have to translate the above to
whatever OS it is running.
Then you just need to enable IP forwarding on the Gentoo box.
Can I change .4 ip to .3?
Possibly, but I never tried. You can try:
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.255
route add -host 10.0.0.5/32 dev eth1
Where can I find more info about this?
man ifconfig
man route
And a good IP networking book! (sorry, I don't have any recommendations
here)
2. Can I have two network cards connected to the same lan with same
network mask?
Yes.
Can I set same IP for them?
No. The network (specifically, the ARP protocol) is going to become
very confused if you have cards on the same ethernet segment with the
same IP address.
HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash
Grimaldy Soto wrote: Good Day. Guys i wanna configure so i can see a beautiful background when my machine is upload it.. I'm using the gensplash in 5 easy steps to do this, but there are something that i wanna know.. For example i'm using the 2.6.13-r6 Sources Kernel , i remembered that i active the framebuffer support, so i suppossed that i don't need to reconfigure and compile the kernel again.. It depends. If you just want a nice splash screen while the init scripts are running, you should not need to recompile, as long as you have framebuffer console support enabled. In this case, you can add quiet to your kernel command line options to supress the kernel messages, so you have a couple of seconds to look at Starting Linux before the splash screen appears. Note that you do _not_ need an initramfs for this work, just a usable framebuffer device, resolution, and bit-depth. The rc-update -a splash boot step should give you a splash screen at this point. FYI, I have found that 32-bit depths work best. If you want the splash to appear as early as possible (while the kernel is initializing), you first need to determine which sources you are running. Vanilla-sources does not contain the fbsplash support that is required, so you may need to reconfigure/rebuild with gentoo-sources or suspend2-sources. This is also the case where you need the initramfs. The important kernel options are: CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y (if you want vesafb-tng, which I highly recommend) CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=y Someone else will have to help with the initramfs errors. I had to build my initramfs manually for reasons not related to fbsplash. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a Knoppix CD and you have the same functionality as this device. Except the BlackDog only has a 400MHz PPC CPU and 64MB RAM. This is probably slower than the host computer will be and it probably has less RAM too. Also, everything like networking, video, and disk activity must be squeezed through the USB bus when you use this device. With Knoppix, you use the PCI and AGP busses of the host computer for these things. Knoppix should be much faster than this device for most purposes. Not trying to knock what you're saying but in terms of requirements, both a Knoppix CD and a Blackdog box require a host computer of some kind. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash
On Oct 28, 2005, at 8:34 pm, Grimaldy Soto wrote: Anyway i wanna know a way of to know if i need reconfigure the kernel again.. i've emerge splashutils and also livecd 2005.1 bootsplash theme the which is the one that i wanna configure,... bootsplash != splash. Bootsplash was depreciated quite quickly, I think, and the current splashutils are based on framebufferTNG in current kernels. You want splash-themes-gentoo splash-themes-livecd. I think the error you're seeing may be because you're trying to run splash_geninitramfs on the wrong kind of source files? I'm afraid I'm struggling to read your message well, BTW. It would help enormously if you said I have followed precisely the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash and step 2.4.x works great but at step 2.4.y I get this error. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network questions
On Oct 28, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Richard Fish wrote:
capsel wrote:
1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP
10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4
connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5
{LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.0.5]
Is it possible to set up routing from .5 to 10.0.0.0/24 (lan)?
Yes
If he can, I think he'd be better off having the second nic and the
other box on a different subnet. makes things a lot simpler. I'm
reading this as the two computers are connected directly with a
crossover cable.
If so
than how to set routing tables?
On gentoo:
route add -host 10.0.0.5/32 gw 10.0.0.4
On .5:
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.255
route add -host 10.0.0.4/32 gw 10.0.0.5
route add -net default gw 10.0.0.4
If .5 isn't a Linux box, well, you'll have to translate the above
to whatever OS it is running.
Then you just need to enable IP forwarding on the Gentoo box.
Can I change .4 ip to .3?
Possibly, but I never tried. You can try:
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.255
route add -host 10.0.0.5/32 dev eth1
Where can I find more info about this?
man ifconfig
man route
And a good IP networking book! (sorry, I don't have any
recommendations here)
2. Can I have two network cards connected to the same lan with same
network mask?
Yes.
Can I set same IP for them?
No. The network (specifically, the ARP protocol) is going to
become very confused if you have cards on the same ethernet segment
with the same IP address.
HTH
-Richard
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[gentoo-user] test. please ignore
dyndns.org changed their setup, or my dynamic dns service expired. At any rate, checking to see if mails are making it around ok since I fixed the dyndns.org acct and pings are moving okay. jason. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Video iPod
Hi there, Has anyone gotten videos transferring to the new iPod yet? -- Cheers,Ian
[gentoo-user] Test, please discard.
Testing.-- Cheers,Ian
[gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console
For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole. Rectangular frames are absent, columns don't line up, the wrong character disappears when I hit backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable. Any ideas? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Test, please discard
Hi there. This is a test.-- Cheers,Ian
[gentoo-user] Java with Firefox not recognized
I have Java installed blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 on my system and it is enabled in Firefox. However, when I try to view some pages that need Java it keeps complaining about missing plug-in Java Runtime Environment and it is not available when i try to install it, even though I have Java installed and enabled. I have an Axis Camera and can not view one setting that require Java. But it works with Firefox and Windows Java (why they alway have to better :-/ ) What am I missing? Why my Java is not recognized by Camera. Axis Cameras use Linux OS. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java with Firefox not recognized
Joseph wrote: I have Java installed blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 on my system and it is enabled in Firefox. However, when I try to view some pages that need Java it keeps complaining about missing plug-in Java Runtime Environment and it is not available when i try to install it, even though I have Java installed and enabled. I have an Axis Camera and can not view one setting that require Java. But it works with Firefox and Windows Java (why they alway have to better :-/ ) What am I missing? Why my Java is not recognized by Camera. Axis Cameras use Linux OS. this might help you http:/http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q2.2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java with Firefox not recognized
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 22:40 -0600, George wrote: Joseph wrote: I have Java installed blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 on my system and it is enabled in Firefox. However, when I try to view some pages that need Java it keeps complaining about missing plug-in Java Runtime Environment and it is not available when i try to install it, even though I have Java installed and enabled. I have an Axis Camera and can not view one setting that require Java. But it works with Firefox and Windows Java (why they alway have to better :-/ ) What am I missing? Why my Java is not recognized by Camera. Axis Cameras use Linux OS. this might help you http:/http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q2.2 They are talking about compatibility between Firefox dependency on correct gcc and Java environment. But in out case it is not applicable since we are compiling everything so the same gcc is used to compile Firefox and Java; currently gcc-3.3.6. What I'm thinking that it might be more compatibility problem between blackdown-jdk vs. sun-jdk (I'm not sure). Many pages I visit on the net keep asking for Java plug-in as the one I have installed is not recognized. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:03 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: For some reason (probably a careless etc-update) ncurses based apps (e.g. mc and kernel make menuconfig) have started looking really ugly when displayed in a text console, but look fine in xterm and konsole. Rectangular frames are absent, columns don't line up, the wrong character disappears when I hit backspace, and so on, to the point of making the applications unusable. I've had that issues with the kernel configuration too at times. What are your locale settings? (LC_ALL and LANG) If you're using UTF-8, are you sure that you have UNICODE=yes in your /etc/rc.conf? Hope this helps. --Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
