Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Weird Permissions error

2005-12-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec 12 14:13 named There is a named directory there, but it's empty. I assume that it was automatically created when I emerged bind early this afternoon. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Michael Sullivan wrote: I need help setting up my network's DNS configuration. I tried to subscribe myself to the bind-user mailing list (using the address at the bottom of the bind docs README file, but I saw this in the log: Dec 15 17:51:15 bullet sm-mta[29432]: jBFNpCvf029430: to=[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
It's a local setup. I don't even know if my ISP will allow me to run a public DNS server. My last ISP didn't. This is purely intra-espersunited.com so that when the cable Internet goes out (which it frequently does) my applications which require knowing what host they're running on. They

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted every partion related to Mac OS

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin - the memory black hole

2005-05-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Yes, that is almost 3 gig swap used (it is maxed out). And I thought that one gig of RAM would be enough... Does anyone have a clue? :O I would ask the folks on the SpamAssassin-users mailing list, actually. The developers live there and they are usually very helpful. :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I heard lot of urban legend about flying away data from reiser3 4. I can never validate whether was FS, or user error, but some performance dropback for stability is more than acceptable for me. I'd vote for urban legend/user error. I've always used ReiserFS on machines and have never had any

Re: [gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Also, can I install 2005.0 using the Knoppix CD? I think Knoppix supports LVM2... right? Yeah, you sure can. it's actually fairly easy, and the documentation is on the gentoo.org website. I just did a Knoppix installation a few weeks ago because the 2005.0 CD stuff wouldn't see my (not so

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, now this is weird-- where are the subjects?

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Holly Bostick wrote: Now I just replied to a message with a subject, and my reply has no subject??!! I don't even know if this will have a subject. What could be going on? *BuRP* Sorry, I was hungry. :) I don't know what's going on, but I've been seeing subject-less messages for the past several

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have Postfix running and I happily read email on my server, but I'd like to read my email on my IMAP/SSL cellphone client. I've seen Courier, UW, and Cyrus, and perhaps there are others. Any recommendations, for or against? Currently I'm the only user, but I host

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imapd have to be restarted to much time

2005-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Claudinei Matos wrote: Hi, I've installed postfix to work with my domain using vmail with courier imap (I've followed gentoo guide) and it was working fine until today. Now I have some users (including me) that can't get new messages 'cause the mail software (thunderbird) keep tring to connect to

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imapd have to be restarted to much time

2005-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Claudinei Matos wrote: I was looking at this parameter when I got your mail. Actually it was specified a limit of 4 connections. I tried to setup to 0 ( I mean it could be no limit) but doesn't work, so for a test I did setup it to 30 connections and did some tests, and I saw that each folder that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Grant wrote: A discussion about enterprise linux distros came up, and my old boss (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said And Gentoo will *never* be one of those distributions.. before going back to his conversation. Nice description. You make me want to punch that guy in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the

[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests. I did Google around for a bit but didn't really find a whole lot. I'm right here in the Silicon Valley and figured that there would be at least *one* floating

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nichols
to a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was Us long haired Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip tags from your view of the text and make it more readable? Just wondering. You can do it with procmail, but it's a lot less painful to just clobber the

[gentoo-user] Bad thing? bug?

2005-06-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
QA Notice: ECLASS 'libtool' inherited illegally in dev-php/php-4.3.11 ... just noticed that this evening. I didn't see a forum post nor a bug report.. is it something to even be concerned with? So far, it's compiling fine, but I thought someone might be interested. ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? I linked to this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_everywhere/189360.html I mentioned that because a few

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1-3.0.3]

2005-06-15 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Spamassassin in portage is old. I know that there's an ebuild for 3.0.4, but it's marked unstable still.. Just an FYI. [ebuild R ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1 Original Message Subject: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1-3.0.3 Date: Wed,

[gentoo-user] NFS questions

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm mount /home off of a box via NFS. So far, it seems to be working but having a few issues. On www (192.168.10.38) /var/log/messages I see this sometimes: Oct 3 00:45:00 www kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.10.50 Oct 3 00:45:00 www kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.10.50 Oct 3

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
If these clients *know* you, and *trust* you, and know anything about security, there is no reason why you couldn't get away with a self-signed cert. If not, http://www.instantssl.com/ I can second this. I will be buying my mail server certs through InstantSSL in a few weeks. So far, I've

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

2005-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the TCP/IP server part myself. This *might* be close to what you're looking for. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Good DNS registrar?

2006-11-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Are there any readers of this list that still provide their own primary/secondary dns services? Or offer secondary services to others for a fee or free? I'm either a dinosaur or I have missed something fundamental on the evolution of DNS? http://www.easydns.com/secondarydns.php3

Re: [gentoo-user] eAccelerator/Zend outdated

2005-07-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, Did you check php.ini. Looks to me like there is some mixup between installed versions of PHP. You should not rename eaccelerator.so to mmcache.so. Check php.ini and load the appropiate extensions. Renaming the file didn't hurt anything. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Instalation CD SCSI problem on Dell PowerEdge 4400

2005-07-21 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I have message: No bootable medium found, waiting for new device. It seems that it cannot mount cdrom. What SCSI card is in the machine? PERC 2? PERC 3/d? I believe the 4400 had a SCSI CD-ROM device too. You may have the older Megaraid controller, which seems to seriously lack support

[gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a booth. :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a booth. :P And speaking of that, is there interest in a gathering of some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Yikes. Y'know, what city is this machine in? One of us might be nearby and willing to talk the

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You know bud, read some rules, be polite. There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is worse, but not by much.

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Holly Bostick wrote: Jonathan Nichols schreef: And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change that. Oh, for Pete's sake, you can change that in your Preferences in 5 seconds. Uuuh Holly, I'm quite aware of that. It's one of the very first things that I change

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nichols
For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message to get to the new response of the OP. I think most linux nerds (me included) distain top posting because it's the default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS It's also the default for Gmail