Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet schrieb: On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-20 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gpg --gen-key But you won't be able to use it with the gmail interface. I personally use it with thunderbird (enigmail extension). El Nino wrote: dear friends, can anybody tell me methode to create my own pgp signature? -- -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-20 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: According to the dmesg output you posted earlier, your memory stick is not partitioned. This is ok, some are, some are not. You can confirm this by taking a look at /proc/partitions when it is inserted, or the output of fdisk -l. So, only getting

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the system and the system acts as a consumer (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's the gain - in *THAT* scenario? Learning. The whole

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 abhay wrote: What? What kind of theory is that? Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly. I didn't mean to say that use gnu/linux/oss for the purpose of learning. However you can't argue that one gets to

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
James Colby schrieb: List Members - I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux package anymore. It's been dumped. It's broken. Nobody fixes it. It's been superseded by xvid or ffmpeg. -- Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: So no, I do wish I could agree with you (it would certainly be a more comfortable environment for me than what we actually have in terms of geek-friendliness), but I just cannot. You are probably right... :P - 12 years of

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Colby wrote: Thanks, revdep-rebuild did give me the list of files that would not link, and equery belongs FILENAME tells me that the files are part of the kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 package. Is there a way for me to find out which packages

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: So: Why use PAM on systems that fit to the scenario I laid out? Because, in the very near time, your configuration will be obsoleted by an upgrade, and probably stop working altogether. It's standard already, I guess. - --

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
You're answer was to a different question. Ralph Slooten schrieb: gpg --gen-key Wrong. can anybody tell me methode to create my own pgp signature? That's the question. Alexander Skwar Posting out-of-order makes it easy to follow context. -s -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
El Nino schrieb: dear friends, can anybody tell me methode to create my own pgp signature? The man page of gnupg will tell: man gpg It's also in the help output: LC_ALL=C gpg --help | grep 'make a' Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 20 November 2005 12:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: What kind of nonsense is that? I suppose, that you'd find it appropriate to use LDAP for a 1 user machine? Sorry, but that's absolute bullshit. I don't think it's a good example: you can set up a Samba box, with a LDAP backend with just

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: So: Why use PAM on systems that fit to the scenario I laid out? Because, in the very near time, your configuration will be obsoleted by an upgrade, and probably stop working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Francesco Talamona schrieb: On Sunday 20 November 2005 12:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: What kind of nonsense is that? I suppose, that you'd find it appropriate to use LDAP for a 1 user machine? Sorry, but that's absolute bullshit. I don't think it's a good example: you can set up a Samba box,

[gentoo-user] cisco-vpnclient-3des (4.6.03.0190-r1) and gentoo-sources (2.6.14-r2)

2005-11-20 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, After upgrading to gentoo-sources 2.6.14-r2 and cisco-vpnclient-3des 4.6.03.0190-r1 the cisco-vpnclient installs in the wrong directory. Here is a snippet from emerge cisco-vpnclient-3des # emerge cisco-vpnclient-3des Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: No, it won't, I'd think. But, why DO you think so? Excessive parts of a working system are curretnly opt-dependant on PAM, but most also use PAM to get specific functionality they do not want to provide. It just a guess, but

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: It's standard already, I guess. No, it isn't. Why do you think so? - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT

Re: [gentoo-user] cisco-vpnclient-3des (4.6.03.0190-r1) and gentoo-sources (2.6.14-r2)

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Johansson wrote: /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.o /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.ko /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.mod.c /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.mod.o that 0 in the middle let's check the ebuild. It looks like a

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: No, it won't, I'd think. But, why DO you think so? Excessive parts of a working system are curretnly opt-dependant on PAM, That's wrong. Most support optional PAM support, but for most

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: It's standard already, I guess. No, it isn't. Why do you think so? Standard is something, for which you don't need additional software. For PAM, you need additional software, as PAM is

Re: [gentoo-user] cisco-vpnclient-3des (4.6.03.0190-r1) and gentoo-sources (2.6.14-r2)

2005-11-20 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 20 November 2005 13.58, Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, After upgrading to gentoo-sources 2.6.14-r2 and cisco-vpnclient-3des 4.6.03.0190-r1 the cisco-vpnclient installs in the wrong directory. Here is a snippet from emerge cisco-vpnclient-3des # emerge cisco-vpnclient-3des Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Standard is something, for which you don't need additional software. For PAM, you need additional software, as PAM is already additional software. ? - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: /etc/passwd like on HP-UX 11.00. Ie. no /etc/shadow. /etc/shadow was provided by an additional package and libraries. Just like PAM. Shadow changed from being a security measure to be an auth storage backend. As a storage

Re: [gentoo-user] cisco-vpnclient-3des (4.6.03.0190-r1) and gentoo-sources (2.6.14-r2)

2005-11-20 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 20 November 2005 14.09, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.o /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.ko /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.mod.c /lib/modules/0/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.mod.o that 0 in the middle let's check the

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Standard is something, for which you don't need additional software. For PAM, you need additional software, as PAM is already additional software. ? Optional things aren't standard.

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: /etc/passwd like on HP-UX 11.00. Ie. no /etc/shadow. /etc/shadow was provided by an additional package and libraries. Just like PAM. Shadow changed from being a security measure to

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Alexander Skwar wrote: /etc/passwd like on HP-UX 11.00. Ie. no /etc/shadow. /etc/shadow was provided by an additional package and libraries. Just like PAM. Shadow changed from being a security measure to be an auth storage backend. As a storage

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: You don't need PAM to access /etc/shadow. There are different ways. That's why PAM can be skipped. I know that. Please tell me about the alternatives, as I'm obviously missing important information here. - -- Arturo Buanzo

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Optional things aren't standard. They are optional. PAM is optional. You don't need it - at least not for basic setups. It is NOW optional. I'm sure this will change, that's why I recommend to try it now that there is time

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-20 Thread Alan E. Davis
I think Hans's idea makes sense, since it was the file storm.c that was patched in the first place by others. I'll have to wait, because I've started a new gentoo install due to problems detecting the /boot partition in my machine. I botched an attempt to move data from that partition to the /

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:02:55 -0500 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Okay. My difference is that I see this with apps that I didn't write, | which others don't have issues with. But I haven't seen it in a while, | seems to come and go. Doesn't make much sense, and I have checked my | hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 *** [SOLVED]

2005-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:16:19 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Actually, I solved the error for my situation last night - I just | forgot to write it in as SOLVED. I had created a temporary pointer, | then assigned the temporary pointer to a variable I was planning to | return

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: As you see, all the relevant programs that *can* use PAM (which is *optional*) do *not* do so on my system. I do not need PAM authentication, and I do not use PAM authentication. As far as I know, my system runs fine (or at least has

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: Well, defend it, then :-). :) Why should I-- who has further had (very) bad experiences with the use of PAM, give it another try, when my system clearly runs without it, which suggests I have no need for it? I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Optional things aren't standard. They are optional. PAM is optional. You don't need it - at least not for basic setups. It is NOW optional. I'm sure this will change, Well, I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Also on normally sized systems, there just is no requirement for it - as long as the requirements are simple enough (eg. LDAP? Go PAM! Database? Go PAM!). But on consumer systems, and that's what we're talking about!, you

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 20 November 2005 14:49, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Optional things aren't standard. They are optional. PAM is optional. You don't need it - at least not for basic setups. It is NOW optional. I'm sure this will change, that's why I recommend to try

[gentoo-user] DNS lookup fails on a server; no changes since it worked

2005-11-20 Thread Micah R Ledbetter
I have a server out on the net, and it's been up for a week or two. I've been on and off it all week long, but as of last night, DNS didn't seem to work for it. Network connectivity worked, because not only could I ssh *in*, but I could also contact the outside network as long as I used

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin]

2005-11-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 20 November 2005 15:24, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 20 November 2005 14:49, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Optional things aren't standard. They are optional. PAM is optional. You don't need it - at least not for basic setups. It is NOW

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread kashani
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: Why should I-- who has further had (very) bad experiences with the use of PAM, give it another try, when my system clearly runs without it, which suggests I have no need for it? I'd like to

[gentoo-user] any SSH guru on the list

2005-11-20 Thread Joseph
I'm having problem logging into my Gentoo server from Knoppix booted PC Connection between two Gentoo servers works fine. I narrow it to the authorization method ssh is trying to use. When I'm logging from Getnoo workstation the authorization ssh is trying to use: service ssh-connection method

[gentoo-user] DVB-T errors

2005-11-20 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! I use a new Pinnacle i300 card with analog and dvb-t tuner. I have no problem with the analog tuner, but if I try to use the dvb-t tuner after about 20 seconds it stops to work. I read that from dmesg: [ 456.905661] saa7134[0]: mt352_pinnacle_init called [ 460.907225] saa7134[0]:

Re: [gentoo-user] any SSH guru on the list

2005-11-20 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 15:22 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: snip What file control ssh-connection method? man ssh_config look for PreferredAuthentications Thanks for the pointer. According to the manual the default for ssh PreferredAuthentications is:

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-20 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux? It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about the way DL discs are written, or does

[gentoo-user] OT - Good GUI debugger that can be used for Qt apps

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
What's a good gui debugger that works on Qt c++ files? I'm getting a segmentation fault in my program and I don't really want to go through each individual file (there are only eight, but I'm a wimp) and search for it, because I lose track of which variables have been initialized and which

Re: [gentoo-user] any SSH guru on the list

2005-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Joseph schrieb: Thanks for the pointer. According to the manual the default for ssh PreferredAuthentications is: hostbased,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password So it should work but for some reason or another Knoppix is not defaulting to publickey; even though I have public key in

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.14.2 and problem with ACPI (lost interrupt)

2005-11-20 Thread pat
Hi, I've decided to switch to new kernel. When I've rebooted the system start to type error messages and newver stoped. The message is: hdc: lost interrupt irq 15: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpool option) I found the problem is ACPI, but I don't want to turn off the ACPI support. The

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-20 Thread Nick Rout
Here is the relevant gentoo-dev thread. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-devm=112940871726601w=2 On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:36:49 +0100 Alexander Skwar wrote: James Colby schrieb: List Members - I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux package anymore. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Good GUI debugger that can be used for Qt apps

2005-11-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/20/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's a good gui debugger that works on Qt c++ files? I'm getting a kdevelop -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] MythTV compile error

2005-11-20 Thread James Colby
List - Thanks for all of your help this weekend. I am having another issue. When I try to upgrade mythTV I am getting the attached error (I hope the attachment comes through). Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? Thanks Again, James lcddevice.cpp: At global scope:

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.14.2 and problem with ACPI (lost interrupt)

2005-11-20 Thread b.n.
pat wrote: Hi, I've decided to switch to new kernel. When I've rebooted the system start to type error messages and newver stoped. The message is: hdc: lost interrupt irq 15: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpool option) Have you tried booting with the irqpool option as the messages say

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-20 Thread James Colby
On 11/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the relevant gentoo-dev thread. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-devm=112940871726601w=2 Excellent, thanks for the link. Very helpful -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.14.2 and problem with ACPI (lost interrupt)

2005-11-20 Thread Peter Gordon
Have you tried booting with the 'irqpool' kernel option as suggested by the error message? --Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.14.2 and problem with ACPI (lost interrupt)

2005-11-20 Thread pat
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:53:24 +, b.n. wrote pat wrote: Hi, I've decided to switch to new kernel. When I've rebooted the system start to type error messages and newver stoped. The message is: hdc: lost interrupt irq 15: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpool option)

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.14.2 and problem with ACPI (lost interrupt)

2005-11-20 Thread b.n.
The message is: hdc: lost interrupt irq 15: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpool option) Have you tried booting with the irqpool option as the messages say (whatever the irqpool option is)? Yes, I did. But I've made a mistake, the option is irqpoll not irqpool :-\ So I'm sorry about

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:54:54 -0500 James Colby wrote: On 11/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the relevant gentoo-dev thread. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-devm=112940871726601w=2 Excellent, thanks for the link. Very helpful no problems. there is a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 20:25 +0100, Cédric FINANCE wrote: Nagatoro wrote: Try and download a big file with ftp and see how the throughput is. This should show if it's a modem/ISP problem or a rsync one. I fetched vmware-workstation and got 180kB/s. Downloading a single file isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout broke my system

2005-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 21:08 -0800, Grant wrote: Hello everyone, I updated to something like baselayout pre9-r2 a few days ago and I immediately started getting this on boot up right after Checking root filesystem: I checked /etc/fstab and it looked fine. I tried upgrading to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Good GUI debugger that can be used for Qt apps

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:19 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/20/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's a good gui debugger that works on Qt c++ files? I'm getting a kdevelop -Richard I copied my code into a KDevelop project and built it. I then placed a breakpoint on int

[gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread 張韡武
Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that could not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I am having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. Usually I have to go to a Windows computer and print to the 'Adobe PS Printer', and

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that could not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I am having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. Usually I have to go to a Windows

[gentoo-user] Re: Webserer monitoring tools

2005-11-20 Thread james
Colin Copley cmc.75 at btinternet.com writes: Does anyone have any advice about monitoring software/apache modules that I can use to check how many connections, connection speed, resources (CPU) so I can monitor how the webservers doing, if it's getting overloaded etc. jffnms is an

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
Open the print dialog, tick the Print to file box and then print. A file save dialog pops up. It prints in ps format. OO has done it this way for years ... BillK On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 19:32 -0800, John Myers wrote: On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: Hello. So far openoffice is

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread Zhang Weiwu
W.Kenworthy wrote: Open the print dialog, tick the Print to file box and then print. A file save dialog pops up. It prints in ps format. OO has done it this way for years ... I just wish to further know if this PS file contains anything related to the printer, anything printer-specific.

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But preventing updates (espec. if they're Windoze boxes) seems like a bad idea to me. It can be done by running IE thru a proxy on my linux box. Then it only sees local address. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is a gentoo list - nobody here really cares what OO on windows does :) However, I produce pdf's all the time using standard tools from the linux OO generated postcript files and the doze users seem happy. The postscript is pretty standard it seems, my only beef is that more control

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread Zhang Weiwu
W.Kenworthy wrote: This is a gentoo list - nobody here really cares what OO on windows does :) However, I produce pdf's all the time using standard tools from the linux OO generated postcript files and the doze users seem happy. The postscript is pretty standard it seems, my only beef is that

[gentoo-user] about console resolution

2005-11-20 Thread sempsteen
Hi, My screen resolution outside of X is 720x400. I don't know in which file this is set and i want to change it because whenever splash starts it tries to load 720x400.cfg file. I've tried to change it on grub.conf file but nothing happens, it always switches back to 720x400. I've tried these in

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] any SSH guru on the list

2005-11-20 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 21:53 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Joseph schrieb: Thanks for the pointer. According to the manual the default for ssh PreferredAuthentications is: hostbased,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password So it should work but for some reason or another Knoppix is not

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread Zac Medico
Zhang Weiwu wrote: after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there

Re: [gentoo-user] about console resolution

2005-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 08:28 +0200, sempsteen wrote: Hi, My screen resolution outside of X is 720x400. I don't know in which file this is set and i want to change it because whenever splash starts it tries to load 720x400.cfg file. I've tried to change it on grub.conf file but nothing happens,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
configure a dummy colour printer in cups. Despite what I said, I do admin some windows machines that print via an adobe driver to a gentoo print server. Different versions of doze, but the same adobe print driver (all installed from the same installation file) - and one, and only one refuses to

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Interfaces

2005-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 21. November 2005 05:00 schrieb ext Brett I. Holcomb: I am looking for a GUI interface to PostgreSQL and have found several open source ones available. I'd like some comments on what others use and the good, bad, and ugly of what you use. kpogre doesn't compile against libpqxx