Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update to go-1.4.2

2015-09-09 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: Post your emerge --info. Why do you have i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc on a 64-bit machine? FYI, this is 32bit Gentoo running on a 64bit virtual machine (so it has a 64bit kernel) because awhile ago I upgraded from a 32bit setup. Was hoping I wouldn't

[gentoo-user] Can't update to go-1.4.2

2015-09-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
I know that Go 1.5 is limited to 64bit CPUs but im running on a 64bit CPU and Im trying to update Go from 1.0 to the latest stable (which is 1.4.2 anyway): dev ~ # emerge -uDatv dev-lang/go * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view

[gentoo-user] PHP slots

2015-08-19 Thread Ajai Khattri
Are packages of major versions of PHP all slotted now? In trying to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.6 I get the following query: # emerge -uDatvk dev-lang/php * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. These are the packages that would

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey

2014-10-22 Thread Ajai Khattri
packages will fix it. -- Ajai Khattri Systems Admin | Web / Mobile Developer

[gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey

2014-10-21 Thread Ajai Khattri
this: # /etc/init.d/postgrey start --verbose * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting Postgrey ... * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/var/run/postgrey.pid': No such file or directory [ ok ] # which doesn't make much sense. -- Ajai Khattri Systems Admin | Web / Mobile Developer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-27 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Hans de Graaff wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18] have been masked. You still have packages on your system that have been installed with the ruby18 RUBY_TARGET. It's

[gentoo-user] Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-26 Thread Ajai Khattri
Ive ran into a brick wall trying to update one of my servers. I have been using Gentoo for a long time but I haven't been following it as closely for the past year so maybe there have been changes Im not aware of. Ive already Googled and checked archives without really solving my problem.

[gentoo-user] Latest perl update has conflicts

2014-02-03 Thread Ajai Khattri
Im updating some boxes after a few months and keep hitting the same conflicts: WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-lang/perl:0 (dev-lang/perl-5.16.3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-lang/perl[-build] required by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-11 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Extremely bad idea. It's no wonder something did break. You can't just silentoldconfig between kernel versions and expect it to always work. At least oldconfig would catch new options (which might be options replacing old ones.)

[gentoo-user] What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines, others dont work at all. The worst case is one where Ive upgraded udev to the latest which only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: Under the old scheme I specified /dev/md1 as my root in grub.conf but since this doesn't exist the boot fails. In trying to fix this I see that the LiveCD uses the following device files for the RAID partitions: /dev/md123 /dev/md124 /dev/md125 /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-07 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Al wrote: When you say Gentoo, do you mean Portage? Remember Windows has a lot of limitations that WILL get in your way so dont be surprised when things break. I am specially interested in Gentoo because it is not another linux distribution, but an administration tool to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-07 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Alex Schuster wrote: It means that portage wants to install both dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.9.0 and dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.6.2-r1 at the same time. I don't understand why, looks to me like it should keep you already installed 1.6.2-r1 version. Do you need to have this package in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-06 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Dale wrote: Try this: emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 # emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-06 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Alex Schuster wrote: What Dale meant is to try installling sys-libs/glibc-2.10.1-r1. I have not checked the depencencies, but the idea is that this version of glibc does not depend on the new gcc, which would pull in the new glibc. So try this: emerge -1a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-06 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Al wrote: No, I am comming from a Debian/Ubuntu background where it simply worked. Same mechanism there too - Debian/Ubuntu also use /etc/ld.so.conf and/or /etc/ld.so.conf.d. You dont see it because you only deal with binary packages when updating in Debian/Ubuntu.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine complains about Gecko

2010-09-06 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: When I try to launch a Windows program in Wine (1.3.2), an error dialog appears informing me that Gecko is not installed and the program might not work (which it doesn't). It has an install button there, but mentions that it would be better if the

[gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-05 Thread Ajai Khattri
This box hasn't been updated in awhile: # emerge -uDtav1k portage * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't resolve package blocks

2010-05-02 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 1 May 2010, Arttu V. wrote: I'd unmask the testing graded media-libs/libdc1394-2.1.2 in package.keywords for the time being (or mask libraw1394-2.0.x), while waiting for the stabilisation of newer libdc1394 versions. Which unfortunately appears to be stuck:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't resolve package blocks

2010-05-01 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Paul Hartman wrote: Use the --tree option in your emerge commandline so it will show which packages are trying to pull in these. I am using the -t flag - that's what I pasted earlier. It looks like you're using stable, I'm on ~amd64 and don't have these blocks so maybe

[gentoo-user] Can't resolve package blocks

2010-04-29 Thread Ajai Khattri
I have unmerged ffmpeg, libraw1394 and libdc1394 and I still can't resolve this block: [nomerge ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p20373 USE=X alsa amr encode hardcoded-tables ieee1394 ipv6 network theora threads vorbis x264 zlib (-3dnow) (-3dnowext) -altivec -bindist -cpudetection

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-08-02 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: hmm... network booting? network mounting? install packages once on one system, share them with everyone. Share passwd/shadow files and the like manually, or symlink them to skeletal versions symlinked to somewhere that can be obscured and replaced by a

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest X on G3 PPC?

2009-06-09 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: I've attached my xorg from my G4 eMac, hopefully it will be of some help. Actually, that config works without any changes! I merged in the monitor and screens config from my old config and I have my desktop back again. The only difference as far as

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Adrian wrote: It's finally getting worn out, keys are sticking pretty bad. I would like to get a new one, but the company I purchased it from (via the internet) seems to not exist any more. Some google action has not resulted in locating any similar keyboards. About

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-06-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: It' sin the apache docs, called IP based virtual hosts if memory serves. If you want to run SSL, then IP vhosts is the only way to go. -- A

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] X on an older PPC-based Mac Mini?

2009-05-27 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any known issues setting up X with xorgconfig on a older Mac Mini? I've done it more or less like I do on my x86 machines. I can use startx and see things (xterm, xclock, etc.) in 'top' but I only get a black screen. There are no error

[gentoo-user] Latest X on G3 PPC?

2009-05-27 Thread Ajai Khattri
Anyone have a working xorg config file for an Apple G3 machine? I upgraded to the latest X and the desktop no longer works... (Yes, Ive already asked on the PPC list too). -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Stroller wrote: One simply uses Go then Connect to server - the menus indicate that the shortcut for this is Apple-K - and then types ftp://site.example.com in order to achieve an FTP connection. In the window displayed there is a + button allowing users to save favourite

Re: [gentoo-user] user command auditing

2008-07-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: Is there a tool or a way of keeping track of which commands user's are executing on a system? I understand that history files can be wiped out and they don't really contain the time at which a command and it's arguments were run so I refrain from

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace operation or so it seems .. but not always.

[gentoo-user] PHP and glsa

2007-08-31 Thread A. Khattri
glas-check shows that PHP on one of my servers is vulnerable but in examining the GLSA and comparing my version against it I see I am running a version that is unaffected by this GLSA - so do I need to tell GLSA to ignore that package or is there something else Ive missed? root# glsa-check

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Xorg + DRI on G3?

2007-06-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 28 May 2007, David Gurvich wrote: The end of block range error is trivial and happens on most ppc macs. The real problem is the XIO error. That usually happens when there is no driver in the kernel for your video card, the driver is misconfigured, or the wrong driver is used in

Re: [gentoo-user] Best language for Ajax Web Developping

2006-12-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Strong Cypher wrote: I'm looking for a language really great for ajax web developping I really want a list of advantage a disadvantage, like Developper available who know well the language Ajax integration Framework object oriented ... Easy plugins install ... I'm

RE: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys.

[gentoo-user] Unicode fonts

2006-12-22 Thread A. Khattri
Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console? Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though, if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that would be great ;-) -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo

2006-12-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jakob wrote: Its funny till yesterday I didnt even know It supports 64bit ;-) Any Pentium D (or higher) CPU supports 64bit. for now I will stick with 32bit, I think I will Install 64bit to another partition in some weeks The other option is to have a pure 64bit system

[gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-19 Thread A. Khattri
Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux? Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I think I can't even switch

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo apache2 VirtualHost :443 config

2006-12-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Grant wrote: Ok, knowing that others like it I'm more comfortable trying to get used to it. It's all the IfDefine stuff I don't like. Actually that makes it super flexible. What would you do if you needed a certain Location block for one domain but not for another, and

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-25 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, November 23, 2006 2:20 pm, Markus Schönhaber wrote: To me, this seems to indicate that masking virtual/mysql-5.0 too might help. So, does this mean I can no longer get any updates for dev-perl/DBD-mysql without upgrading to MySQL 5? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer --

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-25 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, November 23, 2006 4:22 pm, Ryan Tandy wrote: You need to mask the virtual package that's depending on that, not the mysql package itself. $ sudo sed -i -e 's,dev-db/mysql,virtual/mysql,g' /etc/portage/package.mask Looks like DBD-mysql depends on that virtual but I do not wish to

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote: emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade? More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update to MySQL 5? Im running 4.1 quite happily and have mysql-5 masked out in

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

2006-11-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Markus Schönhaber wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote: emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade? More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

2006-10-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jim Ramsay wrote: Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible with Exchange calendar events. I've never tried it, though. 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar' Maybe you can persuade them to use this drop-in replacement for Exchange:

[gentoo-user] Mac k/b on PC?

2006-10-15 Thread A. Khattri
Im using a USB Mac keyboard on a regular (Intel) PC. Works fine apart from the lack of a working ALT key (so I can't switch to another virtual console). I tried playing loading different keymaps using loadkeys but have not found a working setup. Anyone got this working? Or can point me to some

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote: A. Khattri wrote: For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it. For me, seeing the diffs

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote: I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... It works great, But the interface sucks. What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping statement. -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Philip Webb wrote: Even if you're not normally a Vim user, this shows the diffs very clearly allows you to copy your personal changes from old to new versions. Vim is great for looking at diffs and copying between config files. Anyone hacked dispath-conf to use cvs/svn

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), dispatch-conf and cfg-update. Actually all the update tools have pros and cons. For example,

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 26 June 2006 16:29, A. Khattri wrote: For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Teresa and Dale wrote: I also seem to recall that dispatch-conf didn't keep back-ups on mine. I had the directory but it was always empty even after a lot of updates. You know of any reason for that? Is use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispath-conf.conf ? -- A --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which forum app to use?

2006-06-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: The question is: which forum app to use?? I dont think this is in Portage: http://getvanilla.com/ -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Richard Fish wrote: Guys, I think most of this advice is going to be wasted on Windows users. Outlook makes it damn near impossible to properly quote and trim a message when replying. Be thankful if you never have to use that piece of . Yeah, but we're not going

Re: [gentoo-user] bindkey

2006-04-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Glenn Enright wrote: Does anyone know which package supplies this function. Its builtin to tcsh. -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: Brett, Will the hotplug package work on these drives? Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be installed. # equery list hotplug [ Searching for package 'hotplug' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev (?) oddity

2006-04-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, the basic question is: Where should I start ? The problem: I updated several programs via emerge after they where flagged by the emerge -up world command. Probably emerge -uDp would be better... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop portscans but it will stop brute force attacks directly on port 22. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

2006-02-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to /usr/local/mailman. IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to place it to /opt or

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml And what if you dont want to upgrade?! -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml And what if you dont want to upgrade?! Never mind, I figured it out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS lookup fails on a server; no changes since it worked

2005-11-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Micah R Ledbetter wrote: I have a server out on the net, and it's been up for a week or two. I've been on and off it all week long, but as of last night, DNS didn't seem to work for it. Network connectivity worked, because not only could I ssh *in*, but I could also

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

2005-11-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, kashani wrote: A. Khattri wrote: GeoTrust claim to have their root cert in 99% of the browsers out there... Claims and actually works are two different things. For the record IE 5 on the Mac is your big problem child. IE 5 on Mac is a strange beast in many many

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I will admit that I have a big concern about an upcoming MySQL update that is probably going to break my whole TV network here. Due to my fear I haven't upgraded MySQL and will likely come back ranting myself sometime in December when I'm probably

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

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, kashani wrote: We've got a number of customers that use Geotrust which is significantly cheaper than Verisign/Thwate. Someone also uses Starfield which is dirt cheap. There is a technical issue when using certs no one has ever heard of before. Many times

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Brian Parish wrote: I have now implemented a smooth work-around by: 1. Setting the RAID in fstab to noauto and no checking 2. Creating a script in /etc/init.d which assembles and mounts the RAID set 3. Adding this script to the default group using rc-update Yes, this

Re: [gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Machines 3-5 are heavy hitters for graphics work and are heavily loaded with such things as Photoshop, vegas, canopus Edius, Adobe Illustrator and the like. I don't want to have to worry about spyware,adware,virus prevention firewall stuff competing

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

2005-11-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Antoine wrote: We are going to set up ssl on a webserver at work and I guess that means we need a certificate... does anyone have any useful alternatives to Verisign? Are they really worth the name? We are not going to be doing any monetary transactions but our clients

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it

2005-11-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, William Kenworthy wrote: I fixed it, had to go ~x86 Seems like gentoo is getting more debianish as time goes on - package.keywords is getting quite ridiculous in order to have a usable system. I have useable machines without having and package.keywords file... BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Renat Golubchyk wrote: syntax on within vim or in your .vimrc That would be :syntax on (note leading colon) from inside vim. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: It definitely is not an issue with swapping to disk. For some reason X is causing a high CPU load and it acts like its only using one processor. If I switch back to the open source driver the load seems to be balanced across all 4 processors. To make

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache configuration files

2005-11-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, James Colby wrote: I recently upgraded my apache2 to use the new layout. I was wondering about which configuration files that I now have to concern myself with. If I understand correctly the only configuration file is now /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, is this correct? Would it

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon 2GB RAM 128MB GeForce 6600GT Audigy 2 soundcard free -t -o -m output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -t -o -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2009 1505 503 0 440 584 Swap: 1953 2 1950 Total: 3962 1508 2454 According to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael Shaw wrote: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. Not true - maybe your terminal doesn't do color or you have it switched off? -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, John Jolet wrote: At the risk of of adding to the flames here, perhaps an example is in order I once worked as a sysadmin for a guy who firmly believed in security. To prevent any security holes from lingering, he did an apt-get update out of cron every friday

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-11-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: Why not 4P with dual cores? While they work, the need is i/o and memory bandwidth. 4 sockets does that while 2 sockets and 2 dual-cores cores is only half the bandwidth. Its very expensive, but you can now go up to 16 Opeteron cores in a single

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Qian Qiao wrote: 3. Schedule maintenance slots. That's the best way to manage updates. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bandwidth monitor on per service/program basis

2005-11-04 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: I am looking to find a tool that will allow me to monitor which applications or services are utilising my network and hence bandwidth. Now I have found loads of useful tools that can offer me representations of the interface but little that breaks it

Re: [gentoo-user] changing Apache installation

2005-11-04 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. I've tried to install Template Toolkit, Apache2::Template under Apache2, mod_perl2 and am having, no suprise, issues. Though this may be possible, I'm not up to it. So, rather than try to make this work, I just want to unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Full path in apache2 access_log?

2005-11-04 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Grant wrote: Yeah, I wasn't very clear about that. The problem is I can't use VirtualHost definitions because I don't think apache knows which domain is actually being served. I don't use any apache virtual host stuff. Domain identification is handled by my shopping

Re: [gentoo-user] Full path in apache2 access_log?

2005-11-03 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Grant wrote: Is there any way to get apache2 to include a full path in its access_log? That would be something like this: domain.com/page.html instead of this: /page.html If I can get a full path in the log, I can have webalizer report on traffic per domain. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 1.3.34 ebuild

2005-11-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, David Gama Rodrí­guez wrote: I need to update Apache 1.3.33 to Apache 1.3.34 but I cant find an ebuild for that version, Why 1.3.34 ebuild is not in portage? Is unstable?? Have you checked in bugs.gentoo.org - maybe someone submitted an ebuild? Is there a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-11-02 Thread A. Khattri
wrong... http://www.shorewall.net thanks, joshua On 10/28/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Khattri ajai at bway.net http://bway.net writes: /etc/init.d/firewall is the default file where where you put your rules you have written or grabbed elsewhere and modified to meet

Re: [gentoo-user] orphaned kernel sources?

2005-10-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jarry wrote: So, with your help I finally checked all software installed on my gentoo-server (thanks to everyone, who replied). There were a few gentoo-sources (I think 5 or 6 different versions), so I used emerge --prune gentoo-sources to leave only the last one. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote: Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error The Root Block Device is unspecified or not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of hard disks? Maybe you can check with smartmontools... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help

2005-10-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: As grub cannot be setup on RAID0 (neither RAID 1+0 nor RAID 0+1), I have to create a four-partion RAID1 with /dev/sd[abcd]1 and mount it as /boot. Then I want both my / and /var are RAID10. I use the following schema: /dev/sda3/dev/sdb3

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to hard reset the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD. I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint reader... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a Knoppix CD and you have the same functionality

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

2005-10-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Francesco R. wrote: For a security hardened database you should drop the test database and all users with % access. Also you can play with bind-address and skip-networking in the my.cnf I think bind-address is 127.0.0.1 by default anyway. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables on gentoo

2005-10-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, James wrote: Question 1: I'm planning on using nmap and nessus to test from the outside(internet) inward). On the inside I plan on using snort, an monitoring the various log files. Any further suggestions on testing? Plain ole telnet works for testing protocols too ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

2005-10-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses from the command line rsync --rsh=ssh -l username server::module/files successfully. However, changing the SYNC line in make.conf to rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] give me a connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?

2005-10-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote: You want to be a gargoyle ( http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2003/09/23/gargoyle-and-self-gargoyle/ )? Heh. I'd start with a mac mini. Or get Gentoo running on this: http://www.projectblackdog.com/ -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound and wireless, etc)? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James wrote: Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD. I was suprised to find lspci on the latest LiveCDs so I guess this is improving all the time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

2005-10-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to do well with Linux. Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this? Yes, Thinkpads run well with Linux (there is a web site and mailing list dedicated to Linux on TP).

[gentoo-user] Anyone running a RAQ4?

2005-10-24 Thread A. Khattri
Subject says it all - anyone succeeded in installing Gentoo on a Cobalt RAQ4 (x86) system? Is netbooting the only way to go or did you manage to hook up a CDROM and boot a LiveCD? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

2005-10-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote: I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got a little bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience. I've googled and found awstats and analog. If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grateful

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Well, you could try this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects. I noticed this broke after the recent Python upgrade - I had to remove the module to run emerge.

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