[gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events
Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that stream stops. Or otherwise changes. Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that stream stops. Or otherwise changes. Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? Thanks, Michael you can just cat /dev/mice or whatever your mouse device is. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:06:50 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out. I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about this change. Windows does sync by default as well. But, it's sync is extremely fast for some reason. It's not whether it does sync be default, that is down you your (auto)mounter, nothing to do with the kernel. The change is that in sync mode, the kernel used to update the FAT after each file, now it does it after each block. That's why it is so slow and destructive. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 44: Advanced BASIC signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome
Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/15/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams schreef: On 1/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gnome carcharias rjf # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 USE=java -debug -gnome -ipv6 -mozdevelop -xinerama -xprint 0 kB The appearance of USE flags (which is what we're talking about) is unrelated to whether or not you have the package installed already snip Oh, I get it. the thing that confused me was that he put the USE=, so I thought he was showing me what use flags he had set, not the output of the emerge command. Now I see he was showing the output of the emerge command and adding USE=. Either that, or he's using a newer version of emerge that outputs USE= for him. Yes, he probably is using the unstable version of Portage; mine does this as well if I use the -v (--verbose) switch (I just went fully ~x86 a couple of days ago): emerge -pv mozilla-firefox portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 USE=gnome java xprint -debug -ipv6 -mozdevelop -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre3-r1 USE=-build -doc 0 kB It's a new Portage feature. Not sure if I like it, but it's not important enough for me to get worked up about, really. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DHCP Jammer
Hi All, Is there anyway to stop unauthorized or unwanted DHCP server to broadcast within a network? Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range, but a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing 192.168.12.0/24 IP. Is there anyway I can stop the unwanted DHCP broadcast? -- Regards, C. K. Ong (Chris) Linux System Engineer RHCT Cert No: 603004347692007 http://www.redhat.com/rhce/rhce603004347692007.html My Directory Sdn. Bhd. Your Open Source Partner. http://www.md.com.my http://www.net.my 2006 -- The more you know, the more you don't know. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error [SOLVED]
Hi Bill, I had this error through several iterations of ipw2200 and gentoo-sources. It went away completely when I loaded genoo-sources-2.6.15. I am using net-wireless/ipw2200-1.0.8-r1, net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware-2.4, and net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.6. I am not using the kernel modules. thanks for sharing your experience. I'll keep in my mind when i'll move to 2.6.15, since now i'm stick with 2.6.14. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Selecting left/Right audio channel in Mplayer/Xine/Totem etc
Look for the -af switch in man mplayer. In particular, assuming you have a stereo disc (2 channel output), mplayer -af channels=2:2:0:0:0:1 source would play channel 0 (probably the left? assuming I have my speakers setup right...) mplayer -af channels=2:2:1:1:1:0 source would play channel 1 For more complicated setup with more channels, refer to the man page for more details. HTH, W On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:36:06PM +0800, Penguin Lover Ow Mun Heng squawked: Just following up on myself. Does anyone have a clue? can I buy a clue here? On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:40 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I have some karaoke discs which I would like to play under linux. Is there any way to control the Left/Right and have it output as mono? Right now, my only solution is to use the Balance to either mute Left or mute Right on the speakers/mixer. Does anyone know? Searching google doesn't yield any results. (I guess my use of keywords isn't perfect) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:22:56 up 49 min, 3 users, load average: 0.45, 0.44, 0.41 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:35:49 up 5:38, 6 users, load average: 0.80, 1.18, 1.78 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Congress: An organization to provide balance and be the opposite of Progress. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 66 days, 2:12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that stream stops. Or otherwise changes. Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? hope I am not misunderstanding you, but what's wrong with cat /dev/input/mice HTH, W -- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 66 days, 2:26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it provides to me? In addition to that, I know dhcpcd has a config file dhclient.conf but it seems to me that gentoo does not use it at all. So, I can't even reject the DHCP server. Help. If you suspect that the problem is in dhcp you will have to use static ip settings. Help on this topic is available in the gentoo installation guide. Another possibility is to contact your network admin, which you should do anyway when manually setting your ip. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:11 +, Mattias Merilai wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it provides to me? In addition to that, I know dhcpcd has a config file dhclient.conf but it seems to me that gentoo does not use it at all. So, I can't even reject the DHCP server. Help. If you suspect that the problem is in dhcp you will have to use static ip settings. Help on this topic is available in the gentoo installation guide. Another possibility is to contact your network admin, which you should do anyway when manually setting your ip. I believe it's a network router issue or something, but I would still like to get a dynamic IP address, just _not_ the one it's giving me which is problematic. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
-Original Message- From: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January 2006 19:19 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world? [snip...] Generally speaking you first unmerge all blocking packages, then emerge poppler (which replaces xpdf). I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it provides to me? I don't think so, but I'm not quite sure I understand this anyway. So you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?) and it's not giving you the IP you want but something else---abd in what way? And it remembers your PCMCIA card's MAC address...so you have another port in your laptop and want to use that instead? I'd think if the DHCP server gives you an andress that doesn't work in your subnet then it's a server configuration issue and should be fixed there. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgplQGDnOcaIg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Jammer
Hi Chris, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 17:50:01, you wrote: Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range, but a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing 192.168.12.0/24 IP. Is there anyway I can stop the unwanted DHCP broadcast? That's a network infrastructure and policy issue. Use port security in your switches, i.e. filter by MAC addresses so everybody who wants to plug in their machine hast to pass by your desk and register their MAC. Set up dhcpcd on every machine to log its actions to syslog so you can determine the MAC address of every fake server that assigned some wrong address. Then get a cat-5-o'nine-tails (http://www.tasigh.org/tuq/whips.html) and wait. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpqiTVmtlBf1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils + gnome
habutre . schreef: Hi guys! My problem it's following: I've a AC97/I82801 sound device building as a built-in on my kernel. My sound work a fun, but I can't store the sound mixer's without a alsa-utils, then all time that i wanna hear a good music, i did should change my volume controls. Then i installed a alsa-utils in my PC, but when i installed this package by emerge, my sound don't work. Any error appear, any exception occour, but the sound don't go out. The equalizer it's work, only the sound don't go out OK, I'm very sorry to say I'm having a difficult time understanding this. So let me first ask if what I've figured out is what you're actually saying: 1. Your sound device is AC97/I82801, and you're using the kernel ALSA drivers to run it, but you did not have (at the time) any of the additional packages installed (such as alsa-utils). 2. Sound worked correctly, but mixer levels were not stored on shutdown or restored on startup (because you didn't have alsa-utils installed, which provides a script to do this). 3. You then installed alsa-utils, but now your sound doesn't work. this is where I get a bit confused there are no errors or exceptions, but you do not hear any sound. The equalizer (*which* equalizer??) works, but sound don't go out (means, you don't actually hear anything?) Anyone already passed for this problem? Remembering : my user it's on audio group: audio:!:18:habutre my sound device has this permissions: crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 16 21:58 /dev/sound/dsp my sound mixing it's: esound my alsa-utils version: 1.0.10 This all looks fine (except for maybe esound, but that's a choice and doesn't necessarily seem to have a bearing on this problem). I think the first thing I'd want to know is: have you actually run alsamixer to set your mixer levels; maybe they're all still muted?; The second thing I'd want to know is: can you hear anything if you turn off esd (esound) or set gnome/esd to use ALSA (never quite figured out how to do that, so I just turned esd off)? Sorry not to be more help, but I'm not sure you've given all the information needed to troubleshoot this (since I'm not sure I understand what the problem actually is). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hello
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. - Virus report (proxy4) Virus was found and quarantined in http://www.gmxattachments.net/de/cgi/msgpart/xjzmy%2Ezip?LANG=deMSGNO=19%2D9452101fd51ddb4c6703b8b9adb3bb40m=497078782%2E1137498660PARTNO=1PARTFILE=xjzmy%2EzipLANG=deFROM=hagi%40p1d%2Ecom: Found virus WORM_MYTOB.AD in file xjzmy.scr (in xjzmy%2Ezip) The uncleanable file xjzmy%2Ezip is moved to /var/spool/iscan/virus/virpzSvSW. - Oh, what a pitty! I do not have winblows, so I can not open that interesting binary attachement. Otherwise I would sure do it... Are those people really too stupid to realise that it is useless to send windows viruses to linux mailing list??? Jarry -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:53:50 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: Generally speaking you first unmerge all blocking packages, then emerge poppler (which replaces xpdf). I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. If you emerge xpdf, poppler would have been pulled in as a dependency. But if xpdf was only there as a dependency of other programs, it is no longer needed, that part of the code is now in poppler. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 079: Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hello
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are those people really too stupid to realise that it is useless to send windows viruses to linux mailing list??? Are there still people so stupid that they reply to virus spam?!!11! 1eleventyone! -- Owen Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email /\ and proprietary formats. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. I think you do, poppler is just the library. I have another problem with poppler now though: one of my machines has Plone and Cups installed. Cups wants poppler, Plone wants net-zope/portaltransforms. The latter wants pdftohtml, which is blocked by poppler. It seems to boil down to a system that cannot have Cups and Plone installed on the same machine :( I think it would make sense to add a USE flag to portaltransforms that removes the dependency on pdftohtml---after all, I wouldn't use this functionality in Plone anyway. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpoWqYSrM8O0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
On 17 January 2006 14:48, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. I think you do, poppler is just the library. I have another problem with poppler now though: one of my machines has Plone and Cups installed. Cups wants poppler, Plone wants net-zope/portaltransforms. The latter wants pdftohtml, which is blocked by poppler. It seems to boil down to a system that cannot have Cups and Plone installed on the same machine :( I think it would make sense to add a USE flag to portaltransforms that removes the dependency on pdftohtml---after all, I wouldn't use this functionality in Plone anyway. If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound servers serve? If you check out mailing list archives of sometime back, you'll find me asking exactly the same question. At that time I was using aRts with KDE, and was experiencing nothing but problems. I did not get any concrete replies to this particular question i.e. Why use a sound server anyways?. Just to see how things turn out, I disabled aRts and don't face any problems till now. I am using ALSA directly. The historical reason for sound servers was to allow multiple processes to generate sound simultaneously, and to have those sounds mixed together. For example, you wouldn't want to miss your new-mail notification while listening to music. But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring dmix. The use of dmix is not automatic... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp9rkRd0mz5h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias What ebuild did you use? Portaltransforms is supposed to have been fixed to have an dependency on either pdftohtml OR poppler. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187#c66 Peace, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. You need administrative control of the DHCP server, and either program a static address for your MAC, or reduce the address lease time. There is no way for a DHCP client to reject an address. But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. You might try some network monitoring tools like tcpdump or ethereal to see what is going on. In particular, pay attention to ARP requests and responses. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
On 17 January 2006 16:47, Michael A. Smith wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias What ebuild did you use? Portaltransforms is supposed to have been fixed to have an dependency on either pdftohtml OR poppler. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187#c66 Uh well, now I understand why I haven't been able to put Matthias's remarks and the ebuild together. =8-O Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) *** end snippet *** Isn't that || a logical OR? Actually, what does the whole last line mean? Uwe Just what you thought -- portaltransforms depends on either pdftohtml OR poppler. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:54:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) *** end snippet *** Isn't that || a logical OR? Actually, what does the whole last line mean? It means the package requires either app-text/pdftohtml or app-text/poppler to run. If neither is installed, the first one will be emerged. -- Neil Bothwick We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Uwe Thiem wrote: RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) Isn't that || a logical OR? Actually, what does the whole last line mean? That it has either app-text/pdftohtml _or_ app-text/poppler as a RDEPEND. So yes it is a logical OR. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help
hello, I would like to be able to mount a *.bin image locally without burning it beforehand, but I don't understand atm how to create a /dev/loop device node and make it work so I can mount it. I don't think I need encryption for it. Which Kernel options are necessary (could not find anything about /dev/loop in ck-patched 2.6.15) and how is the procedure to mount this binary image? Thanks, Karsten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue 10305 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections 10801 ?S 0:00 sendmail: ./k0FKmpDE010833 gpeplpqel.shankscape.com.: user open 10810 pts/0R+ 0:00 grep sendmail I see that sendmail is connected with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. I assume that someone at that host is trying to send mail to my domain, but I checked /var/spool/mail and I didn't see anything from them. I ps'd sendmail again and saw that they were no longer connected. I checked /var/log/maillog and see a bunch of these: Jan 17 11:04:10 bullet sm-mta[10801]: k0FKmpDE010833: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=1+20:15:18, xdelay=00:03:10, mailer=esmtp, pri=8599167, relay=gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. [69.25.212.153], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue 10305 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections 10801 ?S 0:00 sendmail: ./k0FKmpDE010833 gpeplpqel.shankscape.com.: user open 10810 pts/0R+ 0:00 grep sendmail I see that sendmail is connected with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. I assume that someone at that host is trying to send mail to my domain, but I checked /var/spool/mail and I didn't see anything from them. I ps'd sendmail again and saw that they were no longer connected. I checked /var/log/maillog and see a bunch of these: Jan 17 11:04:10 bullet sm-mta[10801]: k0FKmpDE010833: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=1+20:15:18, xdelay=00:03:10, mailer=esmtp, pri=8599167, relay=gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. [69.25.212.153], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? telnet yourdomain.com 25 helo somedomain.com msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com see if it slaps you down (note, i may have the msg from and rcpt to backwards, always forget) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring dmix. The use of dmix is not automatic... It is, if you are using 1.0.9 ALSA. I did not do anything do setup dmix and it works fine. -- Regards, Abhay pgpUxPlSEsj7O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help
On 17:13 Tue 17 Jan , krgn wrote: Which Kernel options are necessary (could not find anything about /dev/loop in ck-patched 2.6.15) and how is the procedure to mount this binary image? Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices mount -o loop -- djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events
I would have thought that should be fine, but I tried that on my desktop, and it locked up my mouse so I thought there was something wrong with this approach. You are the second person to suggest this, though, so I'll try this again. Thanks, Michael On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that stream stops. Or otherwise changes. Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? hope I am not misunderstanding you, but what's wrong with cat /dev/input/mice HTH, W -- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 66 days, 2:26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue 10305 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections 10801 ?S 0:00 sendmail: ./k0FKmpDE010833 gpeplpqel.shankscape.com.: user open 10810 pts/0R+ 0:00 grep sendmail I see that sendmail is connected with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. I assume that someone at that host is trying to send mail to my domain, but I checked /var/spool/mail and I didn't see anything from them. I ps'd sendmail again and saw that they were no longer connected. I checked /var/log/maillog and see a bunch of these: Jan 17 11:04:10 bullet sm-mta[10801]: k0FKmpDE010833: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=1+20:15:18, xdelay=00:03:10, mailer=esmtp, pri=8599167, relay=gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. [69.25.212.153], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? telnet yourdomain.com 25 helo somedomain.com msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com see if it slaps you down (note, i may have the msg from and rcpt to backwards, always forget) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I think I messed up the syntax somewhere: camille ~ # telnet espersunited.com 25 Trying 64.149.52.102... Connected to espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bullet.espersunited.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:33:21 -0600 helo somedomain.com 250 bullet.espersunited.com Hello [192.168.1.1], pleased to meet you msg from someforeigndomain.com 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com 503 5.0.0 Need MAIL before RCPT -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? Many Thanks. --Oms.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue 10305 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections 10801 ?S 0:00 sendmail: ./k0FKmpDE010833 gpeplpqel.shankscape.com.: user open 10810 pts/0R+ 0:00 grep sendmail I see that sendmail is connected with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. I assume that someone at that host is trying to send mail to my domain, but I checked /var/spool/mail and I didn't see anything from them. I ps'd sendmail again and saw that they were no longer connected. I checked /var/log/maillog and see a bunch of these: Jan 17 11:04:10 bullet sm-mta[10801]: k0FKmpDE010833: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=1+20:15:18, xdelay=00:03:10, mailer=esmtp, pri=8599167, relay=gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. [69.25.212.153], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? telnet yourdomain.com 25 helo somedomain.com msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com see if it slaps you down (note, i may have the msg from and rcpt to backwards, always forget) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I think I messed up the syntax somewhere: camille ~ # telnet espersunited.com 25 Trying 64.149.52.102... Connected to espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bullet.espersunited.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:33:21 -0600 helo somedomain.com 250 bullet.espersunited.com Hello [192.168.1.1], pleased to meet you msg from someforeigndomain.com 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com 503 5.0.0 Need MAIL before RCPT mail from instead of msg from. my bad. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ending the htaccess madness
I've been setting up a number of new webapps and have a dozen or so .htaccess/.htpasswd doodads floating around. It's not too terrible to manage, but I think there should be a better way. I'm imagining some sort of php interface that allows users to change their passwords and admins to managed the users. Maybe even allows access per site in a little drop down menu. Then edit all my .htaccess files to use mod_auth_mysql and call it a day. Anyone heard of something like this? Or am I going to have to attempt round three with mod_auth_kerb/mod_auth_ldap in an attempt to use Windows as a backend. *shudder* kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:36, Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the -with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? USE=mysql emerge dev-php/php !DSPAM:43cd2f93212386197110946! pgpAL9kXMi3qo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
Michael Sullivan wrote: camille ~ # telnet espersunited.com 25 Trying 64.149.52.102... Connected to espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bullet.espersunited.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:33:21 -0600 helo somedomain.com 250 bullet.espersunited.com Hello [192.168.1.1], pleased to meet you msg from someforeigndomain.com 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com 503 5.0.0 Need MAIL before RCPT mail from: rather than msg from: I'd also try it from a machine not on your local network unless you don't allow local machines to relay. Your server will likely care much more about the src IP being in the allow list than using J Random domain as the sender. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: [snip] Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? I used to use this test when I had a mail server: telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:36:50 +1300 Oumar Ndiaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the -with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? Just edit /etc/make.conf, and then add mysql to USE. Also, emerge gentoolkit, so that in future you can just enter: 'equery u somepackage' and then it will describe all USE flags available for that package. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
Simon Prosser schreef: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:36, Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the -with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? USE=mysql emerge dev-php/php Which will work for this emerge, but if php is then upgraded, the USE flag will be disabled again. A better way is to either 1. add the mysql USE flag to /etc/make.conf USE flags (if you want to enable mysql support for all packages that might support it); or 2. add dev-php/php mysql to /etc/portage/package.use (to enable mysql support for this package only). If the folder /etc/portage already exists, you can just do # echo dev-php/php mysql /etc/portage/package.use to enable the USE flag for that specific package. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dev-lang/php blocking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Had a rather weird thing happen. I hadn't run an 'emerge world' in a few days, so when I did, there was a long grocery list of things to update. Most of them seem to be related to, or dependent upon, the recent perl and php updates. I had several things blocking the new packages, and I managed to get them uninstalled so that the new packages can emerge. But I'm stuck with one left, that I can't get rid of: [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4) But if I try to unemerge dev-lang/php: emerge -CDatv dev-lang/php These are the packages that I would unmerge: - --- Couldn't find dev-lang/php to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. So how can I get rid of this, so 'emerge world' can do its thing? - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDzTUrLYGSSmmWCZMRApv+AKDn2JiRU0v/Gz1sIVe26zeuCAS1uwCfamTF sKdS6NBgj2dYVQc14hgkFK0= =LRrq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help
Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices mount -o loop ok, installed it as module and its there... RockHead src # ls /dev/|grep loop loop loop0 loop1 loop2 loop3 loop4 loop5 loop6 loop7 but if I try to mount the iso image.. it outputs this - RockHead doom # mount -t iso9660 Doom3cd1.iso01.iso /mnt/iso/cd1/ -o loop=/dev/loop0 ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Device or resource busy so I wonder what this means. Karsten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
On 17 January 2006 17:12, Michael A. Smith wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) *** end snippet *** Isn't that || a logical OR? Actually, what does the whole last line mean? Uwe Just what you thought -- portaltransforms depends on either pdftohtml OR poppler. So I wasn't all that much off. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] *.bin and /dev/loop help
krgn schreef: Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices mount -o loop ok, installed it as module and its there... snip but if I try to mount the iso image.. it outputs this - RockHead doom # mount -t iso9660 Doom3cd1.iso01.iso /mnt/iso/cd1/ -o loop=/dev/loop0 ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Device or resource busy so I wonder what this means. Karsten Wrong mount format. Try mount -o loop Doom3cd1.iso01.iso /mnt/some_folder_in_mnt (I think, working from memory) HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On 1/17/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is, if you are using 1.0.9 ALSA. I did not do anything do setup dmix and it works fine. Ah, I see my knowledge of dmix is obsolete. Now I can purge it to make room for something else! :- -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ogle fails to read dvd
Hello everyone, Here's the error(same as from root prompt): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ogle WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshot' WARNING[dvd_gui]: add_keybinding(): No such action: 'SaveScreenshotWithSPU' libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD callbacks.on_opendvd_activate(): DVDSetDVDRoot: Root not set Yes, there is a proper symlink: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 17 02:17 /dev/dvd - hdd Have tried chmod# 666 and 755 /dev/hdd. User's groups: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ groups wheel audio cdrw usb users portage but, sarawak heathen # usermod -G dvd heathen usermod: unknown group dvd Is it an ownership issue? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/hdd brwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 22, 64 Jan 17 02:17 /dev/hdd but #chown root:dvd /dev/hdd doesn't work. -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked: Okay, a few more questions: 1) Is that behavior reproducible? a) If you reboot, does the sound play normally? Yep, but I don't have to reboot, I killed the artswrapper the other time (it logged me out) and it was enough to restore audio capabilities. b) After the reboot, if you play that same wma file again, does it break sound still? Yes, Can't play it at all. 2) Do you run any sound daemons? (ESD, aRts, etc.) artsd 3) By any software tool, did you include aplay? If not, find some wav file, and run it through aplay. If you don't have wav files handy, do sox soundfile -t wav - | aplay use some soundfile that is known to be good, not the wma file the causes problem. If you don't have sox, emerge it. Ok, did that, the speed was still doubled. Okay, hum. When you play that wma file with mplayer, what does mplayer say about the file? In particular, I am looking for something that looks like: Playing music/phd1.mp3. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)Audio file detected. == Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 12000-176400) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) == Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le - 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le - 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... Which shows the audio decoder used, the audio sampling rate, number of channels, the output driver, etc. W -- If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. ~African Proverb Sortir en Pantoufles: up 66 days, 11:23 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:02 -0800, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: camille ~ # telnet espersunited.com 25 Trying 64.149.52.102... Connected to espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bullet.espersunited.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:33:21 -0600 helo somedomain.com 250 bullet.espersunited.com Hello [192.168.1.1], pleased to meet you msg from someforeigndomain.com 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: msg from someforeigndomain.com rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com 503 5.0.0 Need MAIL before RCPT mail from: rather than msg from: I'd also try it from a machine not on your local network unless you don't allow local machines to relay. Your server will likely care much more about the src IP being in the allow list than using J Random domain as the sender. kashani That's a bit difficult, seeing as I don't have access to a computer that would have telnet installed and is outside my network... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] please ignore
I just can't. To ignore such a message would just irritate me to no end. :P On 1/17/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please ignore this mail, it is just a test. And don't flame me for it, it is legit. See bugzilla. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] more problems emerging world
Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone got any suggestions? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?) [SOLVED]
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:13 -0500, Alec Shaner wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: [snip] Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? I used to use this test when I had a mail server: telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org I ran the command; It tried to connect to my mail server to send spam, but it didn't work, so I guess I'm okay. Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world
Antoine schreef: Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone got any suggestions? Cheers Antoine # echo x11-libs/wxGTK -unicode /etc/portage/package.use re-emerge (--oneshot) wxGTK emerge amarok Done. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world
On 1/17/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone got any suggestions? echo x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1 -unicode /etc/portage/package.use or echo sys-libs/ncurses unicode /etc/portage/package.use -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] more problems emerging world
David Morgan wrote: On 20:42 Tue 17 Jan , Antoine wrote: I had put unicode in my make.conf, well, just cos unicode is a Good Thing. However, I now get audacity telling me that I must emerge wxGTK without unicode. Fine, I'll get rid of it I say to myself. Only I get ncurses telling me I will break my system if I emerge without unicode. Anyone got any suggestions? /etc/portage/package.use ? (man 5 portage) That is what I love about Gentoo (I knew it had to be something simple)! Cheers Antoine ps. This made me feel a little less guilty... NAME portage - the heart of Gentoo DESCRIPTION The current portage code uses many different configuration files, most of which are unknown to users and normal developers. Here we will try to collect all the odds and ends ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
Michael Sullivan wrote: That's a bit difficult, seeing as I don't have access to a computer that would have telnet installed and is outside my network... Doing tests from your own network is the equivalent of going into your bathroom and then trying to break into your house to figure out if it's secure. You're just a little too likely to succeed. :) For the pedantic yes you can reconfigure your server to block local machines which is what I'd recommend if you have no other choices. I see you got it worked out and that's a good little tester I can put in my bag o tricks. And for completeness this is the proper syntax at least for Postfix. qmail tends to be a bit weird from the command line IIRC. popmail ~ # telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 popmail.domain.com ESMTP Postfix helo localhost 250 popmail.domain.com mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok data 354 End data with CRLF.CRLF Subject: Test test all day long Test test while I sing this song . 250 Ok: queued as 9791056D706 quit 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] email within a LAN?
Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be able to send email internally (i.e. without going out to the Internet) for various administrative notifications (e.g. smartd). When I researched this in the past, I couldn't figure out any way simpler than a nontrivial postfix setup PLUS a working DNS/bind installation. I'm wishfully thinking that there is now an easy set it and forget it way to accomplish what I want :) Anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] email within a LAN?
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be able to send email internally (i.e. without going out to the Internet) for various administrative notifications (e.g. smartd). When I researched this in the past, I couldn't figure out any way simpler than a nontrivial postfix setup PLUS a working DNS/bind installation. if you give all your machines a fake domain nameboo.boo, say. and set up a postfix server that considers itself authoritative for that domain, then your wife could send an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and her email client would be set up to send via that mail gateway (for ALL mail). the gateway (that postfix box) would accept the mail, look at it and say, oh, that's matt on me. you would then check that server via pop (or preferably imap) for the boo.boo domain mail. That's essentially what happens with my family, except I happen to own the jolet.net domain, and that box also handles incoming traffic for that domain. I'd call that pretty set it and forget it. Or better yet, spend the $7/year and buy your own domain. I use zoneedit to populate the relationship between jolet.net and my dynamic ip address on my broadband, and publish that as the mx for jolet.net. I'm wishfully thinking that there is now an easy set it and forget it way to accomplish what I want :) Anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
Hi! Try the mysql use flag. Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED],ICQ UIN: 169394884,T: +36 30 447-2042 VE-MIK VeHoK informatikai megbizott informatika-l adminisztrator informatika-lev adminisztrator bsc-info adminisztrator gazdinfo adminisztrator Oumar Ndiaye wrote: Hi, I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the –with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the –with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? Many Thanks. --Oms. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:33:54 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: That's a bit difficult, seeing as I don't have access to a computer that would have telnet installed and is outside my network... There are several places offering free shell accounts, which are perfect for just this sort of thing. I use one at http://www.rootshell.be/ -- Neil Bothwick Intel Inside Is a Government Warning Required by Law. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
I'm working on a manual QEMU install (that is, I'm installing from source downloaded from their website). There's a reference in their kqemu documentation about setting UDEV permissions on /dev/kqemu. I initially disregarded this, but now it's become an issue. It was easily resolved by /manually/ setting permissions on this device to 0666... What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it: kqemu:root:root:0666 This directory and file don't exist so I created them both and rebooted--this didn't work to set the permissions and that device. My question is: How do I set these permissions as explained in Gentoo? (I've looked for docs for doing this but haven't found anything referencing this file or setting UDEV permissions.) Thanks in advance for your help. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:50:08 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it: This is no longer used, hasn't been for quite a while. Permissions are now set in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules. The latest qemu is in portage, so why not emerge that and let the ebuild take care of this? -- Neil Bothwick Strange things are afoot at the Circle K... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it: kqemu:root:root:0666 The kqemu docs are out of date...udev has been changing too frequently for external packages to keep up. In /etc/udev/rules.d/48-qemu.rules, you will find the following line: KERNEL=kqemu*, NAME=%k, GROUP=qemu, MODE=0660 Paste this into /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, and change the MODE statement to MODE:=0666. However, you could also just add any users you want to use qemu to the kqemu group, which would be the Gentoo way. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:50:08 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it: This is no longer used, hasn't been for quite a while. Permissions are now set in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules. The latest qemu is in portage, so why not emerge that and let the ebuild take care of this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much further. :-? Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm having difficulty with is finding information on the illusive /etc/udev/permissions.d directory. According to the kqemu docs, I should edit the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions and add the following line to it: kqemu:root:root:0666 The kqemu docs are out of date...udev has been changing too frequently for external packages to keep up. In /etc/udev/rules.d/48-qemu.rules, you will find the following line: KERNEL=kqemu*, NAME=%k, GROUP=qemu, MODE=0660 Paste this into /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, and change the MODE statement to MODE:=0666. However, you could also just add any users you want to use qemu to the kqemu group, which would be the Gentoo way. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe?
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:34:17 +0100 Andrea Barisani wrote: Lists header are just fine, you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also try [EMAIL PROTECTED] or look up http://www.gentoo.org and the lists page (it's there, easy to find). So there's plenty of ways to get the info you need without bothering the lists itself (including your friendly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes except the OP said he had tried sending an empty email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it had not worked. So what is he to do - i imagine the help address would just tell him the same. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD
Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out. I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about this change. I think this problem should find its way in the official Gentoo docs (if it isn't already there). It affects all recent Linux distros anyway. It's quite crucial -trashing usb flash drives is NOT good marketing for our beloved penguin. Anyone knows if on the LKML the devs gave some opinion about this side effect? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
On 1/17/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). Perhaps I'll try the Portage version of qemu before proceeding much further. :-? echo app-emulation/qemu ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo app-emulation/kqemu ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -pv kqemu qemu That will give you kqemu 0.7.2 and qemu 0.8.0. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
Tom Smith schreef: Well, I didn't emerge the Gentoo qemu--it is a few versions behind the official so I opted for using the official release (0.8.0, I believe). I don't know why you think this: motub - eix qemu * app-emulation/kqemu Available versions: 0.7.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Description: Multi-platform multi-targets cpu emulator and dynamic translator kernel fast execution module * app-emulation/qemu Available versions: 0.6.0 0.6.1 0.6.1-r1 0.7.0 0.7.0-r1 0.7.1 0.7.2 0.8.0 Installed: none Homepage:http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Description: qemu emulator and abi wrapper meta ebuild I'm ~x86 so it's marked as available for me, but 0.8.0 is unstable for x86, ppc, and amd64. You must be running stable? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary distro's would be the same or similar... For the record I think you are (slightly) wrong. The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package: * the original unpatched source as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file (as packaged upstream) * a set of patch files - some of which may be distro specific, some of which may have been produced elsewhere in the community * a .spec file which is the equivalent of the .ebuild file - ie the build and install instructions * scripts for pre/post install/uninstall actions. So in short it is pretty easy to find what patches have been applied to produce the binary package, provided you can find the src.rpm (even the .spec file will tell you a lot). -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias What ebuild did you use? Portaltransforms is supposed to have been fixed to have an dependency on either pdftohtml OR poppler. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187#c66 Sorry, I should have mentioned that was portaltransforms-1.0.4.ebuild, mosdef with the bug still in. I just noticed there's -r1 with the fix, but it's still in unstable. Just syncing again, maybe it will have moved up to stable... regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpOesIYMMBoZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary distro's would be the same or similar... For the record I think you are (slightly) wrong. The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package: Of course, I stand corrected. I think you're right - it's been a long time since I've been to binary or rpm world! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:37:13 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Don't use that file, that is for udev's own settings, so it will be updated when udev is. Use 10-udev.rules (create it if not present) which won't be affected by udev updates and takes precedence over the higher numbered file. -- Neil Bothwick Knock firmly but softly. I like soft firm knockers. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: Don't use that file, that is for udev's own settings, so it will be updated when udev is. Use 10-udev.rules (create it if not present) which won't be affected by udev updates and takes precedence over the higher numbered file. So that's how that works. I was wondering about that because I have one but not the other. Everything works for me, except my email is still messing up. Learn something new every day. :) Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV permissions
On 1/17/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:37:13 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Thank you. I am using the latest udev from Portage. The file I found in /etc/udev/rules.d is 50-dev.rules. Haven't tired it yet but will tomorrow. Don't use that file, that is for udev's own settings, so it will be updated when udev is. Use 10-udev.rules (create it if not present) which won't be affected by udev updates and takes precedence over the higher numbered file. It is read first, but the settings there only have precedence if the := syntax is used. If it just shows =, later rules (i.e, from 50-udev.rules) can override the settings. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias What ebuild did you use? Portaltransforms is supposed to have been fixed to have an dependency on either pdftohtml OR poppler. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187#c66 Sorry, I should have mentioned that was portaltransforms-1.0.4.ebuild, mosdef with the bug still in. I just noticed there's -r1 with the fix, but it's still in unstable. Just syncing again, maybe it will have moved up to stable... regards Matthias Plone in portage hasn't changed in a very long time. I recommend you get the new ebuilds from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187 and install them, then put your comments in that bug to let the devs know that it's working. Or, if you want, you can modify the 1.0.4 ebuild to accept poppler. Sorry it's so complicated. -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 07:53 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. You need administrative control of the DHCP server, Which I don't have. But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc?? I don't knwo You might try some network monitoring tools like tcpdump or ethereal to see what is going on. In particular, pay attention to ARP requests and responses. I did. Nothing significant came up. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:19:35 up 23:22, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.66, 2.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it provides to me? you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?) Yes. and it's not giving you the IP you want but something else---abd in what way? it's giving me an IP, just not a good One. (upstream connection is bad) And it remembers your PCMCIA card's MAC address... That's the DHCP lease. so you have another port in your laptop and want to use that instead? No. I would like to get another IP which is not the problematic one. I'd think if the DHCP server gives you an andress that doesn't work in your subnet then it's a server configuration issue and should be fixed there. yeah.. Unfortunately, I have no administrative control over it. :-( -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java and java.library.path
on the java command line put -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of that file would help? On 1/17/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am trying to get an app called iriverter up and running. Not in portage so I built and installed manually, which went with no errors. However, after starting the app I get: Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-pi-gtk-3201 in java.library.path But I do have this library: $ locate swt-pi-gtk /usr/lib/libswt-pi-gtk-3201.so I ran java-config to see which java I am using (blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02) and I edited /etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 and added '/usr/lib/' to the 'ADDLDPATH' variable, ran env-update, sourced /etc/profile, and even logged out and back in but I still have the same error. Now: I don't really know jack about java, so can someone tell me how to get this to work? How can I add /usr/lib/ to java's library path? Thanks for consideration, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc?? I don't knwo If it was a switch problem, it should not be specific to some addresses. Have you contacted your ISP? You may have to get past the first level of support to get someone that knows something, but they may be able to do some ping/traceroute tests from their end to see what the problem with the IP address is. The other option is to get a second PCMCIA card, and swap them when you have trouble. Since the second card would have a different MAC, it would get a different address. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:50:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package: Of course, I stand corrected. I think you're right - it's been a long time since I've been to binary or rpm world! And long may it stay that way. The only reason i get reminded about rpm's is when other people ask me for help - I often say is your distro's version of foo compiled with support for bar? - to which they go all glazed over, and i end up looking at the src.rpm file for them :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc?? I don't knwo If it was a switch problem, it should not be specific to some addresses. All the Ports connected to that Switch?? Have you contacted your ISP? Not ISP. @Work. We'll see how things go The other option is to get a second PCMCIA card, and swap them when you have trouble. Perhaps it is time for an upgrade. I've been recycling this old DELL rebadged 3COM 3c509 10BaseT for such a long time. (9 years in fact) Since the second card would have a different MAC, it would get a different address. Right now, I'm on the Laptop's internal NIC. (I need 2 nics to enable NAT for my Desktop as well) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:20:27 up 1 day, 23 min, 6 users, load average: 1.38, 1.12, 0.89 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New install, no modem devices found
Hi again, I have got my new install done up to the point that I can get into a GUI, even though the nvidia drivers won't load. Anyway, I want to connect to the net with my serial modem but there are no devices for it to connect with. Here's my first problem. I looked in my /dev folder and the file is there and it points to /dev/tts/1 but it points back to /dev/ttyS1 which points back to /dev/tts/1. This is a endless loop that needless to say is not working. I do have udev installed and have no clue how to fix this. What really creates the thing and how do I fix it? It shows up in dmesg and I am using the same kernel to boot both the old and new OS so it should not be a kernel problem. I'm not sure how this works so feel free to correct me. I have read that you can turn off the tarball thing and it will create all new stuff when you reboot. Can I do that? Will that fix my nvidia problem below too. Also, is there some major change to the nvidia kernel? I emerged it and when I try to modprobe the module I get a error. I know, I don't have the error but I will post it when I figure out how to do that from a console in the other OS. I can't exactly copy n paste can I. LOL For those who were following my old thread, MOZILLA WORKS. It opens up just fine. There is something screwed up in my old OS. Any way to compare what is installed on one to the other? I would still like to fix my old one if I could. It's a thought. Thanks for the help. I can see light at the end of the tunnel now. I just hope I can send email when I get my modem to work. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoolkit-0.2.1 stable on x86
All: As I type this gentoolkit-0.2.1 has been marked stable on x86 and I expect it to be marked stable on other architectures in the next few days. Here is a summary of the major changes between gentoolkit-0.2.0 and gentoolkit-0.2.1. A detailed listing of the changes are in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1/ChangeLog * eclean Added eclean utility for cleaning out your distfiles and Packages directories. Sample usage to remove distfiles for packages no longer installed on your system: eclean-dist --destructive --fetch-restricted time-limit=1w --destructive means to delete files for older version of installed packages. The default is to leave all source files for an installed package --fetch-restricted means to not delete files that are fetch-restricted --time-limit means to not delete files newer than the time specified eclean also supports excluding specific packages and categories through the use of an exclusion file. Please read man eclean for more details. * revdep-rebuild Updated revdep-rebuild to be more configurable by the user. One of the major complaints about revdep-rebuild is that is always wants to rebuild certain binary packages. For example openoffice-bin, mozilla-firefox-bin, etc. The main variable that users will potentially want to modify is SEARCH_DIRS_MASK. You can modify this variable either in your environment or by placing it in /etc/make.conf. For example to ensure that revdep-rebuild doesn't look in /opt you can add the line SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt to /etc/make.conf and revdep-rebuild will not search that directory. Removed the hard-coded paths of directories to search and dynamically generate the list using the path from /etc/profile and /etc/ld.so.conf. This means that as you install packages, revdep-rebuild will normally automatically pick up any paths that have been added by the package. Read man revdep-rebuild for more information on the updated revdep-rebuild. Finally, as much as I would like it, revdep-rebuild is not infallible. There are still open bugs and it can still miss things. * equery Many fixes to equery to make it more usable. The major fix was fixing an issue that caused it to be extremely slow and memory hungry. However, even with that fix, equery is not the fastest program on the block. If the lack of speed bothers you, I would recommend investigating the app-portage/portage-utils package. If you have any questions on the new gentoolkit, feel free to ask here on gentoo-user and I will answer them provided another user doesn't beat me to it :) Regards, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] amd turion laptop with good linux support (but i run gentoo so good gentoo support is the point)
Hello all, I am in the near future looking to get a new laptop. I am wanting to get a laptop that has complete linux support as much as possible, ie even the email buttons etc. And one that has nvidia not ati would be wonderful. Anyway, the graphics aren't as important... anyone with any amd64 laptops please reply and let me know how things are going nick == nick thompson all unix, all the time. == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a dependency, if you enable +oss use flag with alsa-driver On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound servers serve? If you check out mailing list archives of sometime back, you'll find me asking exactly the same question. At that time I was using aRts with KDE, and was experiencing nothing but problems. I did not get any concrete replies to this particular question i.e. Why use a sound server anyways?. Just to see how things turn out, I disabled aRts and don't face any problems till now. I am using ALSA directly. You can also try disabling esd and see how things go for you. If you face any problems then you can enable it again, but I personally don't see any reason to use a sound server. Thanks Abhay. I emerged alsa-driver and got more kernel modules than I ever hope to see again. After some hacking I got rid of that and emerged alsa-oss, started firefox with aoss and everything works like a charm. On the topic of sound servers I shutdown esd and started routing everything straight to alsa and have no problems so I can cut that overhead. I tend to agree with Richard, dmix obsoletes the sound servers. Thanks guys. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, no modem devices found
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:23, Dale wrote: Hi again, I have got my new install done up to the point that I can get into a GUI, even though the nvidia drivers won't load. Anyway, I want to connect to the net with my serial modem but there are no devices for it to connect with. Here's my first problem. I looked in my /dev folder and the file is there and it points to /dev/tts/1 but it points back to /dev/ttyS1 which points back to /dev/tts/1. This is a endless loop that needless to say is not working. snip Thanks for the help. I can see light at the end of the tunnel now. I just hope I can send email when I get my modem to work. Dale :-) OK. I just deleted the things and rebooted. It works now, the modem anyway. For those who was following my thread about not being able to send email. I can open Mozilla just fine on the new install. I can NOT send a email except to those on my local ISP. Ain't that some crap. All this for nothing. I'm hitting up a new thread again I guess. Look for it shortly after this post. Thanks Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
Hi guys. The last thread seemed to have went off base due to more than one problem at a time. I just finished a new install on another hard drive. I now have a working Mozilla, it opens now anyway. I still get the same error when sending emails I used to have though. Here it is again: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again. To recap a bit. I have a problem sending email to anyone outside my ISPs network. I can't send to a yahoo, or my brothers Bell South account and some others too. I can send a email to my ISPs customer service and other users there. I have called my ISP and they have no problems with any other customer. I did copy over my /home directory. I also tried setting up a new user with a empty user directory and then tried to send a email that way, same error. Earlier today when I was talking to my ISP, I got them to set up a new account for me to test with. I can't send any email with it either. So after setting up a new user on my end and setting up a new account on their end, I have no clue what to try next. Kmail is working for the moment, that's how I am sending this one. I plan to try my brothers ISP tonight. I want to see if I can send with it. He uses Bell South. What else can I try? I have no clue what is wrong here. Please don't tell me to use windoze. I'm seriously considering installing Mandrake 9.1 and testing that. It was buggy but it worked. It may be worth testing anyway. Let me know if you need more info. I'll post whatever you want, short of my password. LOL Thanks for the help. I'm open to ideas here. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
Hi, On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:17 -0600, Dale wrote: [snip] sorry I didn't read your original post, I didn't think I could help. I haven't read your original thread, so I don't know if someone has suggested this already. I get this problem when I try to send mail to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] account when I'm actually not connected through isp.com, but rather through a 3rd party isp. This is called relaying, which spammers look for because it enables anyone to send spam, and hence any good isp should block it. What you can try is: 1. Make sure you're actually on your isp.com network - get the ip address of their mail server, and get your ip address and see. 2. Enable passwords with your mail client - not just to check mail, but to send mail as well. (With evolution its in Edit Prefs Mail Accounts (select account) edit Sending Mail Authentication. It looks like you're using mozilla though...) HTH, and as I said, I hope this wasn't already mentioned in the original thread... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
On 1/17/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys.
The last thread seemed to have went off base due to more than one problem at a
time. I just finished a new install on another hard drive. I now have a
working Mozilla, it opens now anyway. I still get the same error when
sending emails I used to have though. Here it is again:
An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1
whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please
verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try
again.
This message typically occurs when the SMTP server doesn't trust you,
either because you are using an email address not from their domain,
or contacting the mail server from outside their network. It might
also mean you have to authenticate with their mail server, using your
account login and password.
If the above doesn't help, maybe seeing your mail configuration would help:
find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \;
-Richard
To recap a bit. I have a problem sending email to anyone outside my ISPs
network. I can't send to a yahoo, or my brothers Bell South account and some
others too. I can send a email to my ISPs customer service and other users
there.
I have called my ISP and they have no problems with any other customer. I did
copy over my /home directory. I also tried setting up a new user with a
empty user directory and then tried to send a email that way, same error.
Earlier today when I was talking to my ISP, I got them to set up a new account
for me to test with. I can't send any email with it either. So after
setting up a new user on my end and setting up a new account on their end, I
have no clue what to try next. Kmail is working for the moment, that's how I
am sending this one.
I plan to try my brothers ISP tonight. I want to see if I can send with it.
He uses Bell South.
What else can I try? I have no clue what is wrong here. Please don't tell me
to use windoze. I'm seriously considering installing Mandrake 9.1 and
testing that. It was buggy but it worked. It may be worth testing anyway.
Let me know if you need more info. I'll post whatever you want, short of my
password. LOL
Thanks for the help. I'm open to ideas here.
Dale
:-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: snip What you can try is: 1. Make sure you're actually on your isp.com network - get the ip address of their mail server, and get your ip address and see. 2. Enable passwords with your mail client - not just to check mail, but to send mail as well. (With evolution its in Edit Prefs Mail Accounts (select account) edit Sending Mail Authentication. It looks like you're using mozilla though...) HTH, and as I said, I hope this wasn't already mentioned in the original thread... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop I do connect directly to my ISP. I have even tried different numbers to dial into and get the same error. How would I get the IP address of the mail server though? I know how to get mine. I assume ifconfig would tell me. Also, keep in mind that Kmail works at least at the moment anyway. It does come up and ask for a password when I connect the first time. I tell it to store the password so I don't have to type it in each time. Those would be a good start though. This is getting weird. Thanks and let me know on the IP address. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:00, Richard Fish wrote:
find ~/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep mail.smtpserver {} \;
This is on my old install.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec grep
mail.smtpserver {} \;
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.auth_method, 1);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.hostname, mail.exceedtech.net);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.port, 25);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.try_ssl, 0);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.username, dalek);
user_pref(mail.smtpservers, smtp1);
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
This is from the new install that I mounted on /mnt/gentoo, you know, like in
the install guide. LOL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # find /mnt/gentoo/home/dale/.mozilla -name prefs.js -exec
grep
mail.smtpserver {} \;
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.auth_method, 1);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.hostname, mail.exceedtech.net);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.port, 25);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.try_ssl, 0);
user_pref(mail.smtpserver.smtp1.username, dalek);
user_pref(mail.smtpservers, smtp1);
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
Well, this may explain why neither one works. They are the same. Does that
look right?? I just thought of something. My new install has two accounts,
the dalek one and my new one rdalek. Where's rdalek?? I'm going to change
later and get rid of some spam, I hope.
I had to fill in the user directories since I was logged in as root. Root
don't have a .mozilla directory.
I'm open to trying something here. I'm going to check my brothers ISP in a
few more hours. If it works, something fishy at my ISP. If not, I have a
problem here, and no clue what to do.
Thanks for the help. Keep those ideas coming.
Dale
:-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: What you can try is: 1. Make sure you're actually on your isp.com network - get the ip address of their mail server, and get your ip address and see. I do connect directly to my ISP. I have even tried different numbers to dial into and get the same error. How would I get the IP address of the mail server though? I know how to get mine. I assume ifconfig would tell me. Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig is part of For your ip address, I'm interested in your real world ip, but don't post it here!! ifconfig will get it IFF your using a modem, or pci-adsl, but if you have a networked modem/router, you'll need to connect to its status page to see what ip address you have. They should be similar, however many isps have a few ip addresses that may not be ranged together. Looking at your other posts though, I don't know that this will help... 2. Enable passwords with your mail client - not just to check mail, but to send mail as well. (With evolution its in Edit Prefs Mail Accounts (select account) edit Sending Mail Authentication. It looks like you're using mozilla though...) Also, keep in mind that Kmail works at least at the moment anyway. really? hmmm... I don't have kmail installed so I don't know how it works. Can you look through the configuration to see if you can turn authentication on for sending mail? Finally, you could do some sniffing with ethereal. Make a capture filter so you don't get other junk, eg host mail.exceedtech.net and then post the text-capture here. Your isp may be giving out a different error which kmail is translating for you... post back if you need more help with ethereal. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. -- Kirk, A Taste of Armageddon, stardate 3193.9 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. - Virus report (proxy4) Virus was found and quarantined in Nice. I think it would be an excellent idea to ban attachments all together from this list. This would also do away with all that HTML junk Are those people really too stupid to realise that it is useless to send windows viruses to linux mailing list??? Oh, pardon me, I must have skipped a step. When I registered, there was no step showing the allowed MUAs. Jarry, do you know since when this has been changed? I'd be interested to know. Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Bastiaan wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that stream stops. Or otherwise changes. Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? Thanks, Michael you can just cat /dev/mice or whatever your mouse device is. -- That's it. It works. Too cool. Thanks to you and the others who suggested the same thing, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
Oumar Ndiaye wrote: I need to recompile php-4 with the –with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? You set appropriate USE flags. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig is part of For your ip address, I'm interested in your real world ip, but don't post it here!! ifconfig will get it IFF your using a modem, or pci-adsl, but if you have a networked modem/router, you'll need to connect to its status page to see what ip address you have. Is dig a command? I don't have it if it is. Keep in mind that I CAN send email just not to anyone outside my ISP and only with Mozilla. Kmail WILL send email on both OSs. I did get a error sometimes but Mozilla is consistant about his one. BTW, I did do a emerge -C mozilla and back up one version, still nothing. I have not done the older version on the new install though. I can if you want me too. They should be similar, however many isps have a few ip addresses that may not be ranged together. Looking at your other posts though, I don't know that this will help... really? hmmm... I don't have kmail installed so I don't know how it works. Can you look through the configuration to see if you can turn authentication on for sending mail? I did have to put in my password for Kmail. I think they do the same way. It's just that Mozilla don't work is all. Well, on this OS, Mozilla won't even open. But it won't email on my new OS either. If this confuses you, let me know. I'll post a better explaination. Finally, you could do some sniffing with ethereal. Make a capture filter so you don't get other junk, eg host mail.exceedtech.net and then post the text-capture here. Your isp may be giving out a different error which kmail is translating for you... post back if you need more help with ethereal. I did capture some data with ethereal before. I'm going to try to do that from my new install. I'm in my old install right now. I'm not sure why though. Habit I guess. I can't capture it here because Mozilla no longer works at all on this OS. Oh, what is UPSMON called now? I need to install it on my new OS but I can't find it. Even emerge -s ups didn't return it. Did they remove it? I'm going to boot the new OS, install ethereal then post from there, if I can. LOL Seriously, thanks for the help here. I'm totally lost. This is just to weird for me. I hope I am making sense. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
Hi, In my haste to reply, I think I confused myself a bit (and you :) On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:05 -0600, Dale wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig is part of For your ip [snip] I started typing (dig is part of bind-tools) but I forgot I was editing my email in the middle... Anyway, I think that's barking up the wrong tree, although you could try it if you feel like doing the exercise! I don't have kmail installed so I don't know how it works. Can you look through the configuration to see if you can turn authentication on for sending mail? I did have to put in my password for Kmail. I think they do the same way. It's just that Mozilla don't work is all. Well, on this OS, Mozilla won't even open. But it won't email on my new OS either. If this confuses you, let me know. I'll post a better explaination. oh yeah, its mozilla that doesn't work... *hit self on head* In your mozilla mail and newsgroup account settings what options do you have set for outgoing server(smtp)? Finally, you could do some sniffing with ethereal. I did capture some data with ethereal before. I'm going to try to do that from my new install. ok. I'll wait and see. Oh, what is UPSMON called now? `esearch ups` shows (among others): dev-perl/Business-UPS net-misc/ups-monitor sys-power/apcupsd esearch is part of the package esearch (surprise surprise) its not the favourite portage search cache, but I like it. I need to install it on my new OS but I can't find it. Even emerge -s ups didn't return it. Did they remove it? try `emerge -S ups` - the uppercase S will search descriptions as well. Seriously, thanks for the help here. I'm totally lost. This is just to weird for me. I hope I am making sense. no worries. hope we can get somewhere... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Programmers used to batch environments may find it hard to live without giant listings; we would find it hard to use them. -- D.M. Ritchie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
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