Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext KH: why does #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ show alpha/ blackfin/ h8300/ m32r/ mips/ ppc/ sh64/ um/xtensa/ arm/ cris/ i386/ m68k/ parisc/s390/ sparc/ v850/ avr32/ frv/ ia64/

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread justin
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:38:12 +0800, Mark David Dumlao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread 443-653-1569
On 09:38 Wed 13 Feb , Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough, ecatmur

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I canlayman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread justin
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:42:02 -0500, 443-653-1569 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09:38 Wed 13 Feb , Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked:

[gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know what NFP exactly means or the full spelling of NFP in the section below. ** Foundation Status Grant Goodyear, one of our active foundation trustees, recently gave an

[gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Lowe Schmidt
I guess it means Not For Profit. Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know what NFP exactly means or the full spelling of NFP in the section below. ** Foundation Status Grant Goodyear, one of our active

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in network commands in root mode

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Markus Schönhaber wrote: dell core2duo wrote: No, its not due to proxy. See the output below. - - flukebox driver # wget yahoo.com --2008-02-12 22:30:56--

Re: [gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know what NFP exactly means or the full spelling of NFP in the section below. Not For Profit. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

[gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-13 Thread John covici
Hi. I have just gotten a computer with a Super Micro c2sbe Motherboard. Now I also bought a dual port PCI Express ethernet card. Now the normal kernel driver in my 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 does not recognize the ethernet port on the motherboard, only the dual port PCI Express card. So I found an

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: snip detail app-crypt/hashalot sys-libs/pwdb sys-apps/attr Is it safe to remove they from the system? This is mail server and has mostly no additional packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, James wrote: James R. Campbell jamesc at reliant-data.com writes: What processes have the most on cpu time as reported by a 'ps ax' ? not certain what your are asking. Here is the result of ps ax: He probably meant 'ps axu' -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon

[gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-crypt/hashalot selected: 0.3-r2 protected: none omitted: none sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 protected: none omitted: none sys-apps/attr

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-13 Thread Grant
Even if you just want to encrypt some clear-text protocol that doesn't have an encrypted equivalent, a vpn is still overkill. For that you use ssh tunneling (which is essentially the same thing as an encrypted version of a protocol). 'ssh -X' is the classic example of easily

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 = pcmcia + usb adapter

2008-02-13 Thread Simon Turner
Wow, that's a good start! I'll keep your post aside for when I go through the kernel again (i'm not at the point of setting up all software). At least, now that I got it working I can relax and start understanding what I've done! ;) Thanks a lot Mick! Simon Not sure, because I've never done

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Alan, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 6:22:33 PM, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: snip detail app-crypt/hashalot sys-libs/pwdb sys-apps/attr Is it safe to remove they from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: oh, and for whatever reason wine performs better under 64 bit OS rather than 32. Don't have any other proof then my own experience but Diablo LOD runs much smoother once I've rebuilt my system with 64bit with the same useflags and

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, KH wrote: why does #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ show alpha/     blackfin/  h8300/     m32r/      mips/      ppc/       sh64/      um/        xtensa/   arm/       cris/      i386/      m68k/      parisc/    s390/       sparc/     v850/     avr32/     frv/      

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you already are aware of it. So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't need it

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Thanks, Alan! Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you already are aware of it. So, if

Re: [gentoo-user] what NFP means?

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, I try to translate the GMN(2008-01-21), and now I want to know what NFP exactly means or the full spelling of NFP in the section below. ** Foundation Status Grant Goodyear,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Thanks, Alan! Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Mick, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (=sys-apps/attr-2.4) sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr) YMMV. Hm... on my server: # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE=-X

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Willie, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 10:36:01 PM, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE=-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE=-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr) # equery depends pwdb [ Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb module, and if you do, warns you about it. I for my part just removed pwdb, and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread dell core2duo
Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. Below is dmesg output for b43 driver. snip flukebox flukebox # dmesg|grep b43 [ 27.087297] kobject b43: registering. parent: NULL, set: module [ 27.087328]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Not so fast. Check to see if you do have the xattr flag enabled. In the kernel config probably? No, I mean the USE variable. The entry for attr is a conditional dependency: you don't need it if you don't have the xattr

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Henry Gebhardt
# equery depends pwdb [ Searching for packages depending on pwdb... ] sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 (sys-libs/pwdb) Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb module, and if you do, warns you about

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. [cut] flukebox flukebox # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: Hi Mick, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (=sys-apps/attr-2.4)

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Output for iwlist wlan0 scan is as below. flukebox flukebox # iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:D8:E3:33 ESSID:iitk Channel:7 Cell 02 -

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-13 Thread dell core2duo
On Feb 14, 2008 3:48 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. [cut] flukebox flukebox # iwconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi Grant, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for everyone's help. Here is a more to-the-point list of what I'd like to accomplish: 1. encrypt CUPS printouts between remote server and local print server 2. add an additional layer of security

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Mick, Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:22:20 AM, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: Hi Mick, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:14:31 PM, you wrote: # equery depends attr [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ]

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Willie, So, I can unmerge hashalot and attr safely. How can I add pwdb to the system (or maybe world is more correct) class? Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 11:22:54 PM, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: Where does equery get that from? emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au tigah_- i have 4gb for /tmp Knghtbrd What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? tigah_- yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au tigah_- i have 4gb for /tmp Knghtbrd What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? tigah_- yes Ahem. 'scuse me: I have 5.5G for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Thanks, Alan! Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Henry Gebhardt
2008/2/13, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb module, and if you do, warns you about

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:34:21 +0200 Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, thanks again :) Last question. How can I update selected packages correctly? Before I used 'emerge -uDN package_name' command, but it adds package to the world class, which is IMHO is not fully correct. Use

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Alan, thanks again :) Last question. How can I update selected packages correctly? Before I used 'emerge -uDN package_name' command, but it adds package to the world class, which is IMHO is not fully correct. To update whole system, I must use 'emerge -uDN world', right? Thursday, February 14,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au tigah_- i have 4gb for /tmp Knghtbrd What do you do with 4G

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-13 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 08:19 -0800, Grant wrote: Thanks a lot for everyone's help. Here is a more to-the-point list of what I'd like to accomplish: 1. encrypt CUPS printouts between remote server and local print server 2. add an additional layer of security around SSH and CUPS on local

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark David Dumlao wrote: I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely to gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where I hope to transfer my gentoo). However, my brother has been downloading some torrents for weeks on end, and their sessions have

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Dale, Thursday, February 14, 2008, 3:10:09 AM, you wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you already are

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, you already are aware of it. So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in

[gentoo-user] Make Konqueror use same plugins as Firefox

2008-02-13 Thread reader
How can I make Konqueror use the same plugins as Firefox? I've installed mplayer and that seems to have allowed Firefox to display online videos in QuickTime format, but try the same link in Konqueror and I get a message telling me no plugin for Quictime video is found and offering to download

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:58:03AM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: So, yes, pwdb is a runtime dependency. I don't actually run pam, so can't confirm what would happen if I remove pwdb. Holy shit, what's going on? The ebuild in the portage tree is different than the one in

[gentoo-user] kernel BUG when unplugging usb?

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, When I unplug my usb mouse and keyboard for longer than a few seconds (not sure of the exact time, but must be more than, say, 5 seconds) I get a BUG message in dmesg. When I plug them back in, they don't work! I just tried to unload reload usb-hid, but modprobe locked up on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:17:35AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: emerge -n pwdb Actually, don't do that. Alan gave the right answer, but it seems that my portage tree was just a few days out of date. flameeyes just removed the dependency for pwdb from pam. (See my other reply for