Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2008 schrieb maxim wexler: At the end of an emerge process I saw two recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact name escapes me and I can't find it in the logs. It seems pretty significant with 100+ updates pending. Do you recall the full name? cfg-update,

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Rumen Yotov pisze: On (01/02/08 23:44) Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Total: 246 packages (201 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 38 new, 6 in new slots), Size of downloads: 1,047,420 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied) Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] PS: Gentoo is only

[gentoo-user] Can I get help here for portage on Sabayon?

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Stockdale IV
Sabayon uses gentoo's portage with overlays and I am having difficulty with portage conflicts. I will include details if this is the right list. If not would someone direct me to the right list? Thank you. Bob

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 3 February 2008, Grant wrote: OK, port knocking is going back on the todo list. Note that I'm not claiming that portknocking is the solution to every security problem. Only that it has its uses in certain scenarios. A drawback of portknocking is that it requires modified clients

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get help here for portage on Sabayon?

2008-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Sabayon uses gentoo's portage with overlays and I am having difficulty with portage conflicts. I will include details if this is the right list. If not would someone direct me to the right list? Thank you. Bob Lots of people here know

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Dynamic HTML to PDF

2008-02-03 Thread Grant
I'm currently printing a dynamic HTML web page via firefox, but I'm trying to switch to a method that will allow me to print across the internet in an automated fashion with lpr. I've tried printing a static HTML file with lpr, but it comes out in raw code. I think I need a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Grant
Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting trusted traffic.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:27:24 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Dynamic HTML to PDF

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:42:05 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently printing a dynamic HTML web page via firefox, but I'm trying to switch to a method that will allow me to print across the internet in an automated fashion with lpr. I've tried printing a static HTML file with lpr,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:27:12 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past, and never had a problem. This is just my little experience, of course. OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Grant
Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. I would speculate that a VPN for one service might be overkill, if that service is easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:06:47 -0800 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past,

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:16 -0500 Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will appreciate it if you don't respond to unrelated posts. Many mail browsers (my own included) organize by the in-reply-to header (at least I think that's the one): In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have probably

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:56:22 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found... You might try a no-cd crack, if this is indeed caused by copyprotection as I suspect. I think they're legal to use (if you have a license for

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:32 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Could you elaborate on your configuration? Are you... - relaying mail to a specific

Re: [gentoo-user] network setup

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:50:51 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:18 +0100, Stefán István wrote: can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-02-03, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying ssh running on an unusual port is good enough? For some value of good enough, yes. I'm no expert, but from my logs: SSH attempts (from bots in Shanghai and the like) on port 22 number in the thousands, unexpected SSH

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-02-03, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can imagine situations where you'd want to print invoices and the like at front offices or even remote storefronts and locations, but wouldn't you want a VPN up between your remote offices anyway? That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
I here use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. I just change /etc/dispatch- conf.conf to the following: use-rcs=yes and diff=colordiff -Nu %s %s | less --no-init --QUIT-AT-EOF which requires rcs and colordiff to be merged. It's fantastic for updating the conf files. Regards, Saffi On

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get help here for portage on Sabayon?

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Stockdale IV
Thank you. I'll post using a different thread that reflects the issue. Bob On Feb 3, 2008 11:24 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Sabayon uses gentoo's portage with overlays and I am having difficulty with portage conflicts. I

[gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Stockdale IV
I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. When I run emerge --sync, it claims that there is an updated version of portage, and I should run emerge portage before updating any packages. When I run emerge -pv portage I get: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:44:26 + Robert Stockdale IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. When I run emerge --sync, it claims that there is an updated version of portage, and I should run emerge portage before updating any packages. When I run emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread 443-653-1569
On 09:28 Sun 03 Feb , Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2008 schrieb maxim wexler: At the end of an emerge process I saw two recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact name escapes me and I can't find it in the logs. It seems pretty significant with 100+ updates

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread ????????? ???????
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plus I mask x86 only in portage because says masked by: missing keyword while emerging, it means that the packages isn't available for your architecture yet, i.e. you are running x86_64 and the package has for instance x86 keyword only. If you really

[gentoo-user] Line drawing characters in Konsole

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel D Jones
Somehow, I've lost my line drawing characters in Konsole. Applications like alsamixer show up with letter characters instead of neatly outlined boxes. I've tried changing fonts and encoding with no effect. Loading the program in another console displays correctly. --

[gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?

2008-02-03 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals Keyboard also don't work. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Grant
I can imagine situations where you'd want to print invoices and the like at front offices or even remote storefronts and locations, but wouldn't you want a VPN up between your remote offices anyway? That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote

Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?

2008-02-03 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've try control panel in KDE, but this wont work in regionals settings. Periphernals

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync, there is a later version of portage in the tree that bash does not block [blocks B ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking

[gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering if there are any 'better' ext2/3 drivers for

Re: {Disarmed} [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Neil Walker
Robert Stockdale IV wrote: I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. Sabayon creates a complete mess. You have 3 alternatives: 1. Wait for the next Sabayon release and install that. 2. Remove Sabayon and install Gentoo. 3. Spend weeks trying to turn Sabayon into Gentoo. It can be done

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Alan McKinnon pisze: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33) emerge --sync, there is a later version of portage in the tree that bash does not block [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Mateusz Mierzwinski
Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing.

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread maxim wexler
Was it dispatch-conf by any chance? It does the same thing as etc-update. 100+, WOW. he he he Now that I've thought about it more I recall it didn't specify a command, what it said was something like there are n files in /etc that have changed then something like see man emerge for further

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 4:27 AM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: Was it dispatch-conf by any chance? It does the same thing as etc-update. 100+, WOW. he he he Now that I've thought about it more I recall it didn't specify a command, what it said was something like there are n files in /etc that have changed then something

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: I've installed cups and hplip I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Pupino
2008/2/3, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman pisze: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Feb 3, 2008 4:13 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 PM, Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, I'm using that driver on windows vista from some weeks ago till now and it seems to give no trouble... You can see your linux partition just as an ordinary

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 PM, Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/3, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 3:26 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Feb 3, 2008 4:16 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3, 2008 3:26 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? Graphical User Interface. Usually compared to a CLI, Command Line Interface. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? A GUY who lost his ` -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] constantly restarting esd

2008-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, This seems to happen only with rhythmbox, not with mplayer or totem (although I don't use totem much, and mplayer mostly for video): After playing 3 or 4 songs, at the beginning of a song rhythmbox will refuse to play anything. When I press the play button, the play-pause indication

Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:32:47 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:27:50 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark If you want to get files to windows hosts that aren't running (dual-boot), you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:25:25 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would set up openvpn on my remote server and connect to it from: here's a few ideas about the subject, some options to think about. 1. my local print server for printing Look into routed vpn networks. If I were in your

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/3/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm