Re: Gentoo for many servers (was: Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once)

2009-11-15 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:36:06 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge -avuND world everywhere This is way cool. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Richard Marza wrote Thank you for the information, I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in threads but there were issues with it not working properly. Some users created custom scripts to get the job done correctly. Have you considered not

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 14 Nov 2009, at 20:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You are right of course, but in this particular case the guy who pays wants to have root access. And you agreed to work like that? So when he fucks things up good royal and proper, will he gladly accept his shafting and

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 01:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greets ... As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week. So far OK ... but: I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component might be the reason. Sometimes my gnome-session

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 07:15:43 Stroller wrote: On 14 Nov 2009, at 20:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You are right of course, but in this particular case the guy who pays wants to have root access. And you agreed to work like that? So when he fucks things up good royal and

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole 'nother subject and I'm in communication with the developer about it. Is this the very famous watcom compiler that's been around longer than MS-DOS and eventually ended up being

Re: [gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 05:19:41 Maxim Wexler wrote: On 11/14/09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:12:26 Maxim Wexler wrote: Yes, use vesa. It's slow at high res, but works. The nvidia framebuffer does not work with nvidia-drivers Yeah, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation

2009-11-15 Thread Hung Dang
I would suggest to find out which wireless card you have and configure the correct kernel driver for it. Then you can emerge wireless toll such as wicd and let it configure your wireless connection. Hung Stroller wrote: On 14 Nov 2009, at 17:55, Nelis Botha wrote: ... I need some help. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] install nvidia driver and virtualbox for two kernels

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 04:06:27 Zhang Jun wrote: Hi list, I want to keep two kernels in my pc, but have some problems on video card driver and vbox: pc ~ # cd /lib/modules/ pc modules # ls 2.6.28-tuxonice-r10-tuxonice 2.6.30-tuxonice-r6 pc modules # uname -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 02:29:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Is this a desktop machine? What difference does that make? It might be inconvenient to run the wicd client on a headless box If so, dump the net.* scripts and just run wicd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:21:55 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Richard Marza wrote Thank you for the information, I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in threads but there were issues with it not working properly. Some users created custom scripts to get

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:12:31 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Do you use distcc? Try if the ebuild works with temporary disabling distcc. If distcc is to blame, fixing wont be that easy. You have to examine build.sh and fix it in order to work with distcc. Or disable distcc in the ebuild. Or

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 02:06:19 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greets ... As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week. So far OK ... but: I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component might be the reason. Sometimes my

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:15:43 +, Stroller wrote: So when he fucks things up good royal and proper, will he gladly accept his shafting and pay you more to undo it? Or will he do the usual customer stunt and blame you? My typical experience is that the customer will take it

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:21:55 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: Have you considered not allowing password-based logins at all for ssh? Use RSA keys instead. It's much easier, and much more secure. That doesn't stop the attempts. -- Neil Bothwick Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 14 November 2009 23:50:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Saturday 14 November 2009 22:46:18 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag 14 November 2009 16:13:04 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Ever heard about make menuconfig? ??? The account foolishly being prevented from bypassing SELinux

Re: [gentoo-user] scrollback using framebuffer

2009-11-15 Thread Justin
Maxim Wexler wrote: On 11/14/09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:12:26 Maxim Wexler wrote: Yes, use vesa. It's slow at high res, but works. The nvidia framebuffer does not work with nvidia-drivers Yeah, I found that out just after mailing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Jacques Montier
Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Samstag 14 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Jacques Montier a gentiment tapote: Julien Gormotte a gentiment tapote: Ok, this is interesting : libpng12.so.0 libQtSvg.so.4 I suppose the icons are in png or svg format, and k3b is not able to

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
David Relson schrieb am 15.11.2009 05:07: Daniel, A detail I meant to include in my original posting is that I'm attempting the build on (and for) a 32 bit machine. So distcc _is_ the problem. The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole 'nother subject and I'm in

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation

2009-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:40:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Is this a desktop machine? What difference does that make? It might be inconvenient to run the wicd client on a headless box You could run the curses version over SSH, provided you could avoid tripping over the various chickens

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 10:52:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:15:43 +, Stroller wrote: So when he fucks things up good royal and proper, will he gladly accept his shafting and pay you more to undo it? Or will he do the usual customer stunt and blame you?

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread KH
Richard Marza schrieb: I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum of

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:53:24 Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10: -- SUBJECT: Cron r...@obelix test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line

Re: [gentoo-user] install nvidia driver and virtualbox for two kernels

2009-11-15 Thread Zhang Jun
great, thanks ! 2009/11/15 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Sunday 15 November 2009 04:06:27 Zhang Jun wrote: Hi list, I want to keep two kernels in my pc, but have some problems on video card driver and vbox: pc ~ # cd /lib/modules/ pc modules # ls 2.6.28-tuxonice-r10-tuxonice

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo for many servers

2009-11-15 Thread Andreas Niederl
Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge -avuND world everywhere This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am administrating. Nice, now this is an improvement over my 'for $h in $HOSTS; do

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Nov 2009, at 08:26, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... My typical experience is that the customer will take it completely on the chin and pay me to fix the problems. That doesn't make foul-ups due to such unnecessary meddling any less frustrating, though. My experience has been completely the

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Richard Marza
- Original Message - From: KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd Richard Marza schrieb: I recently check my log files and discovered that

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:52:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Why not use sudo to give the customer's account almost full root access? Not only does this allow you to restrict which damaging commands he can run but sudo logs each command it runs, so you have CYA insurance. Double CYA

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole 'nother subject and I'm in communication with the developer about it. Is this the very famous watcom compiler that's

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Daniel Troeder schrieb: I might have a similar problem, that is definitely related to the second monitor and power management. If you disconnect your 2nd monitor, do the crashes still occur? But maybe this isn't related, because I have a Radeon card... just a lucky guess... I could try with

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: Sometimes my gnome-session (2.28) works for hours, sometimes for minutes. What happens when X crashes? Does the X session go away? Is there an error message? Or does it just hang? The whole X-session restarts, as if I do xdm restart or ctrl-alt-backspace. I get back

[gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/15/2009 11:22 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: SELinux allows to spread the tasks root needs to do or can do accross several roles. Of course, if only one single person has root access to the system this doesn't make sense. But we're talking about cases where several people (incl. the malicious

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:54:39 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: Sometimes my gnome-session (2.28) works for hours, sometimes for minutes. What happens when X crashes? Does the X session go away? Is there an error message? Or does it just hang? The whole

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:44:16 David Relson wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole 'nother subject and I'm in communication with the developer

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 14:47:14 Stroller wrote: I find the root password in a sealed envelope in the safe is the ideal insurance for that. Totally agree. My biggest customer, unfortunately, has taken on a large investment of capital recently, resulting in a new director who's

Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question

2009-11-15 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:06:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:44:16 David Relson wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: I still think a hardware stress test will be useful. The least that will happen is you will verify your hardware is probably OK. hmm, yes. What do you suggest? I ran memtest for 2 passes now without an error. Maybe I will game a bit this evening, this should stress the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 16:40:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/15/2009 11:22 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: SELinux allows to spread the tasks root needs to do or can do accross several roles. Of course, if only one single person has root access to the system this doesn't make sense. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: No error with ldd /usr/bin/k3b I give up.. Thanks again, Best regards, -- Jacques See if you can emerge a different version, older or newer, and see if that helps. I assume you have re-emerged the current version already as well. I think I read earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Dale wrote: Jacques Montier wrote: No error with ldd /usr/bin/k3b I give up.. Thanks again, Best regards, -- Jacques See if you can emerge a different version, older or newer, and see if that helps. I assume you have re-emerged the current

[gentoo-user] DPMI screen blanking on *TEXT CONSOLE*?

2009-11-15 Thread Walter Dnes
There are two types of screen blanking. One mode is fake, with the lcd backlight being left on. A black foreground is placed over top of everything. In X, there is a DPMI option to really power down the LCD backlight. What is the equivalant on a textmode console? -- Walter Dnes

[gentoo-user] Re: Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread doki_pen
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:21:55 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Richard Marza wrote Thank you for the information, I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in threads but there were issues with it not working properly.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-15 Thread Mick
I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the radeon card which is now an older offering: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Studio_XPS_16 The current spec on the UK Dell website shows 1GB ATI®

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Jacques Montier
Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Dale wrote: Jacques Montier wrote: No error with ldd /usr/bin/k3b I give up.. Thanks again, Best regards, -- Jacques See if you can emerge a different version, older or newer, and see if that helps. I assume you

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Jacques Montier
Dale a gentiment tapote: Jacques Montier wrote: No error with ldd /usr/bin/k3b I give up.. Thanks again, Best regards, -- Jacques See if you can emerge a different version, older or newer, and see if that helps. I assume you have re-emerged the current version already as

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Dale wrote: Jacques Montier wrote: No error with ldd /usr/bin/k3b I give up.. Thanks again, Best regards, -- Jacques See if you can emerge a

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Jacques Montier
Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag somewhere. My k3b useflag : Installed versions: 1.68.0_alpha3(4)(02:54:09 14/11/2009)(dvd encode ffmpeg flac mad vorbis wav -aqua -debug -emovix -lame -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib -vcd) -- Jacques more like

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag somewhere. My k3b useflag : Installed versions: 1.68.0_alpha3(4)(02:54:09 14/11/2009)(dvd encode ffmpeg flac mad vorbis wav -aqua -debug -emovix -lame -musicbrainz

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Jacques Montier
Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag somewhere. My k3b useflag : Installed versions: 1.68.0_alpha3(4)(02:54:09 14/11/2009)(dvd encode ffmpeg flac mad vorbis wav

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag somewhere. My k3b useflag : Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMI screen blanking on *TEXT CONSOLE*?

2009-11-15 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: There are two types of screen blanking. One mode is fake, with the lcd backlight being left on. A black foreground is placed over top of everything. In X, there is a DPMI option to really power down the LCD backlight. What is the equivalant on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag somewhere. My k3b useflag : Installed versions: 1.68.0_alpha3(4)(02:54:09 14/11/2009)(dvd encode ffmpeg flac mad vorbis wav -aqua -debug -emovix -lame -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing icons in K3b

2009-11-15 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: On Sonntag 15 November 2009, Jacques Montier wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann a gentiment tapote: I suspect a missing useflag somewhere.

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-15 Thread Valmor de Almeida
James Ausmus wrote: [snip] First off - do you have PulseAudio running? If so, for HW/ALSA testing purposes, shut it down. Second, check your mixer settings to determine No I don't have it installed. if your volume levels are appropriate. A great quick CLI app for this is alsamixer

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-15 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Stroller wrote: [snip] You haven't made it clear - in any of your subsequent posts, either - if sound is working for other applications. I have never configured sound. It has never worked. If you get a new email, does your laptop go bing!? Can you play an MP3 by double clicking on

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-15 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Stroller wrote: [snip] You haven't made it clear - in any of your subsequent posts, either - if sound is working for other applications. I have never configured sound. It has never worked. If you get a new email, does your laptop go bing!? Can you play an