Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] PGP User Groups?

2009-10-01 Thread Eric Martin
frequently employ encryption and do key signing and the like? > > Thanks guys! > > DC > > Both Linux User Groups that I'm in have PGP key signings on a regular basis. I think that starts to answer your question... -- Eric Martin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-26 Thread Eric Martin
ros including gentoo are officially > un-endorsed by > GNU: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/common-distros.html Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink -> /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on Debian). I found that out the hard way whe

Re: [gentoo-user] mythfilldatabase

2009-07-03 Thread Eric Martin
gigli wrote: > gigli wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Can anyone help me. A newly installed gentoo amd64 system, using funtoo, >> and mythtv database and setting imported from a backup. >> >> When i run mythfilldatabase i got the following error. >> >> 2009-07-02 19:22:46.122 Connected to database 'mythconv

Re: [gentoo-user] mythfilldatabase

2009-07-03 Thread Eric Martin
gigli wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone help me. A newly installed gentoo amd64 system, using funtoo, > and mythtv database and setting imported from a backup. > > When i run mythfilldatabase i got the following error. > > 2009-07-02 19:22:46.122 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: > localhost >

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum mismatch, upgrade from torrent, fsck

2009-05-23 Thread Eric Martin
Thufir wrote: > I suppose I'll have to re-download the iso if the md5sum doesn't match > (which it doesn't per UbuntuHashes#9.04>)? The problem is that the iso is corrupted? > Do the md5sums match? If they do you downloaded the cd fine. If not, redownloa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maxim wexler wrote: > >> >>> Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with >>> a 100 Watt >>> incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS >>> from the >>> wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: > >> James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: >> # macchanger eth1 >> Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) >> Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6e (Intel Corporate) >> >> >> # macchanger eth0 >> Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-28 Thread Eric Martin
maxim wexler wrote: > Only 2.8mins left? The UPS unit, fairly common I suspect, is a Back-UPS ES > 350 and less than a year old. It only saw service once last year during an > electric storm when the house power failed for a few minutes. Why isn't it > charging. Or is it? It says BATTDATE 2000-0

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-27 Thread Eric Martin
Marco wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > >> Marco wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services >>> reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Martin
Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services > reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, > could you please verify if the output of 'iptables -L -v' is > considered to be a safe firewall? Thanks! > > Chain INPUT (policy DR

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-18 Thread Eric Martin
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin wrote: > >> Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down >> as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before >> unmounting my shares. I need to do

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Martin
Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up. On 4/8/09, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Often (now, perhaps always) when I try to halt u

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] chess software and libraries

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
hese libraries? > is this what you're looking for? app-misc/chesstask I haven't used it myself but it sounds good. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
Jorge Morais wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:48:22 -0400 > Eric Martin wrote: > >> Also, the kernel is the last place that you want to drag >> your feet for updates. If there's a bug in the kernel I want to have it >> fixed asap. Granted you can also arg

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
tested. > > Cheers, > Jorge > I personally do it to get all of the code updates. all of my boxes are on ~arch for gentoo-sources / hardened-sources and I haven't had 1 problem yet. Also, the kernel is the last place that you want to drag your feet for updates. If there'

Re: [gentoo-user] svn broken ?

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Martin
d you're using? svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/p3yk ? -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Eric Martin wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck >>> wrote: >>>> I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Martin
lusive as I'm not sure if you can tweak fail2ban's ssh rules to monitor another port. I just chock it up as log spam unless I see definite bad patterns. But again, with public key access only and banning root from logging in via ssh I don't think anybody is getting far unless t

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Martin
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Aaron Clark wrote: > >> Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >>> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >>> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Martin
nning system. Is that possible? > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > Cloning a live system is pretty easy. I'm using a live usb boot device based off of the gentoo-amd64 minimal cd (and I'm adding more as I go). The liveUSB howto [1] on docs.gentoo.org is great and will answe

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin wrote: >>>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> As the subject line s

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices >>> (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

2009-01-20 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices > (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB > suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I > tell if: > > A) USB suspend is actually on or not > B) powertop

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash & Server Sockets

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Martin
While I don't think there's a way. I took a shell scripting class a year or two ago and we used netpipes for tcp connecrions. Since it was a very bash class we'd have used bash if possible On 1/16/09, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:53 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> Hi all, >> >

[gentoo-user] Oops when mounting (some) XFS volumes

2009-01-12 Thread Eric Martin
I'm at the end of my rope with this problem and I'm hoping that people here can help. I have a few boxes that are Oops'ing on startup due to mounting some xfs volumes. I created a machine with the 2008.0 live cd and the stage3-i686-hardened tarball. I'm using xfs on top of lvm2 and some xfs volu

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: > Hi, > > Nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Martin
Matt Harrison wrote: > Chuanwen Wu wrote: >> I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. > > Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are > any applications still around that haven't moved to ssh. > > Exposing the root user to an already unsafe transmission is asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Martin
KH wrote: > Hung Dang schrieb: > >> Hi all, >> I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the >> default file every time I reboot my computer. >> Does anyone has similar problem before? >> >> Thanks, >> Hung >> >> >> > I had a problem like this when I used vpn. Neve

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Martin
Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the default file every time I reboot my computer. Does anyone has similar problem before? Thanks, Hung dhcpcd does this. Are you running dhcp on the machine?

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-07 Thread Eric Martin
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:06:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've seen a dev complain that most of the problems he's had to deal with have been due to oldconfig, so I don't use it at all. I copy the config in from the previous tree, then I run menuconfig and search for lines

Re: [gentoo-user] update brings no recognition of tty hence no login

2009-01-04 Thread Eric Martin
Harry Putnam wrote: After updating today (from only a few days ago) I'm getting a situation that makes it impossible to login. unable to determine your tty name The login prompt is there but after typing in the name and hitting enter I only get the above comment. Googling on this I find a gen

Re: [gentoo-user] oocalc document always needs recovery when opened

2008-12-23 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 00:20:51 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > >> A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and >> openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how >> openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rsync servers time out

2008-12-23 Thread Eric Martin
Mick wrote: > I have noticed this phenomenon which I am not sure I can explain very > satisfactorily. Just after midnight (GMT) any attempt to resync proves > futile: > == > # eix-sync > * Running emerge --sync > Starting rsync wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > >> I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post >> and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as >> this thread makes it ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > >> b) just because you don't read all of the threads on this list doesn't >> mean you're exempt from them. There are plenty times that somebody asks >> a question and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil > the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the > problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed. > > The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html > mails.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > >> Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant >> thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do >> it. There isn't a rule about it, it's not an e

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Martin
Great to hear that the problem is solved! I've used puttygen before to convert keys (both ways) but when I used it the other day to create a key on windows & convert it wouldn't work. Oh well! On 12/18/08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:17:13 Mick wrote: >> > The only tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Martin
Mick wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008, Mick wrote: >> On Monday 01 December 2008, Eric Martin wrote: >>> What did you use to generate the key? Also, what does the client / >>> server say for the key fail? >> I used something like: ssh-keygen -v -t rsa -b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Webmin Question - was Print to cups printer from Windows?

2008-12-17 Thread Eric Martin
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:13:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> But back onto your original question. Webmin is a problem that cannot >> be fixed. It needs to have root priviledges, the root password needs to >> go over the wire to the webmin http server, and to the best o

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-16 Thread Eric Martin
Justin wrote: > Eric Martin schrieb: > >> Justin wrote: >> >> >>> It is in sunrise now. >>> >> Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't >> find it and I don't see it in the d

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-15 Thread Eric Martin
Justin wrote: > It is in sunrise now. > > Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't find it and I don't see it in the dir structure...Am I missing something? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Martin
firefox 64bit is unstable for me, and I also think I have a problem w/thunderbird / enigmail. Other than that I'm happily running 2 64bit machines On 12/9/08, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote >> Hello, >> >> I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo proc

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-30 Thread Eric Martin
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > >> Mick wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> For some reason my Gentoo rsa public key is not liked by 3.9p1-11.el4_7 >>> sshd, which is running on a CentOS server. On the Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-28 Thread Eric Martin
Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > For some reason my Gentoo rsa public key is not liked by 3.9p1-11.el4_7 sshd, > which is running on a CentOS server. On the Gentoo machine I am running > net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1. This is what it shows: > === > debug1:

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-07 Thread Eric Martin
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 18:59:42 schrieb Eric Martin: > > >> IIRC, there is a fuse filesystem in portage that does exactly that. I >> don't have any experience with it but it warrants a look. >> > > Wow, indeed! s

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-05 Thread Eric Martin
IIRC, there is a fuse filesystem in portage that does exactly that. I don't have any experience with it but it warrants a look. On 11/5/08, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:12

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Martin
Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless On 10/30/08, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> , >> | % emerge --info libxcb >> | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, >> glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) > [blah] > >> Any ideas why

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh configuration guide

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Martin
Ssh disconnects on its own accord even with keepalive. I disable all methods of authentication except for public keys. You'll have to create a pub/private pair and copy the public key to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys. I'm on my blackberry so I can't type out full directions but gentoo has docs. On 1

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Eric Martin
m also going to check on Net Zero in a little bit. > Ideas welcome. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you? You can get a sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to split the signal. It's not blazing fast but @ 60

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHd: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

2008-09-12 Thread Eric Martin
s again: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -p 2202 bullet > Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). > > As you can see, I'm still locked out. > > try # ssh -p 2202 -vv bullet or #ssh -vv bullet as that will give you debug info from the client sid

Re: [gentoo-user] no network device

2008-09-01 Thread Eric Martin
g. You can also use ndiswrapper no matter what with the windows ndis driver but I've heard mixed reviews on that. Have you checked on your vendor's website for a NIX driver? -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partition question

2008-08-19 Thread Eric Martin
Kevin Philp wrote: > I already have 32 bit Ubuntu up and running on my computer and I am > about to install the AMD64 version of Gentoo. I have a separate /boot > for Ubuntu - should I use the same /boot for Gentoo or am I better off > using a separate boot partition for each operating system? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Martin
on instead of remote-shell? - Grant Let me get this straight. Rsync being easy to use is a downside? I've never used rsnapshot but judging by eix it sounds like it might work... -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Martin
net/ Description: control and monitor storag -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Martin
files and cover.png but keep the CD folder out of it completely. How should I do this? - Grant The thing that jumps to me immediately is rsync with a --exclude=CD -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior [SOLVED]

2008-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think i

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Eee 701 thread

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
ed as a mistake and I apologize > again. > Certainly not my intention to promote flames on this list, which I > consider a very good one. > Cheers! > > Best regards, > > Saffi > No worries :) -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > Eric Martin wrote: >> Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if >> you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of >> good resources on hijacking threads. > > You don't h

[gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" TIA -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
ad+hijacking&btnG=Google+Search thanks! -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Martin
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: Doesn't Gmail support SSL? My email provider provides support for SSL connections (via HTTP, LDAP, & POP). If that's the case then it would be extr

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Martin
l on sign in if you go through webmail. After that it's all in the clear. POP and IMAP are running securely however (which is why I check my stuff via imap) -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Martin
14:19 /proc/config.gz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > > It can prove helpful at times. > > Dale > > :-) :-) yeah, but it doesn't change that you still have to run make oldconfig. I love /proc/config.gz, especially because of zless and zgrep -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Martin
but a good idea to see if there are any new options. Why is it not needed? I could have sworn that we touched on this a week or two ago where somebody said that /proc/config.gz could be read by make config but people nixed that. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig

2008-08-04 Thread Eric Martin
es > > > > You still need make oldconfig AFAIK. I copy my .config to the new sources branch and run make oldconfig just like always. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ing and compiling pkgs for multiple PCs

2008-07-31 Thread Eric Martin
my Athlon built packages for my celerons. Check out the Distcc-Cross Compile guide here [1]. Apparently the doc has been updated since I last checked as the tools have gotten full rewrites. 1) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
ew lib? I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen >>> anything yet. >> http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html >> >> the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the >> meantime)if you do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Budd, Tracy wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:42 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for ue

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
rsistent-rules for another reason and rebooted which regenerated it. Problem gone. Just make sure you make a backup of it before you reboot. - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan E. Davis wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and >> tracking down the cause of that fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Eric Martin
d a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head needlessly and later on. just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that 'preserved-libs' stuff. Thank you for the advice, Alan Davis HTH -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Calenders

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Martin
e format is a little odd but you should be able to do something with it. Also, I'm pretty sure they have a new one on the net as Outlook 2003 just ran out of holidays as of 2008 so they added to the file to extend (and keep people using outlook). - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-22 Thread Eric Martin
isn't going to happen. In other words I cannot view > the running desktop from a remote machine but am forced to view a new > or different desktop where none of the things I have running on :0 are > available. I'm pretty sure x11vnc will do that. I do know there's a

Re: [gentoo-user] 20008 install problem: "Could not find the root block device in ."

2008-07-20 Thread Eric Martin
Dale wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message comes: >> Determining root device... !! Could not find the root block

Re: [gentoo-user] 20008 install problem: "Could not find the root block device in ."

2008-07-20 Thread Eric Martin
u get started. For that matter (as people always say) you can boot off of knoppix or the lfs (linux from scratch) disk. The only thing the cd does for you is provide a working linux environment that you can chroot from to install gentoo. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
ut, that is just my viewpoint and I felt like I had to defend the developers motivation. Regards Dirk -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
Stroller wrote: On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-16 Thread Eric Martin
CJoeB wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a

[gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-14 Thread Eric Martin
eople use. Thanks! -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mythdvd on Gentoo?

2008-06-17 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I wonder if anyone can share how to use the mythdvd module on Gentoo? I've always emerged mythtv with the dvd flag but the mythdvd module isn't emerged. Can't

Re: [gentoo-user] mythdvd on Gentoo?

2008-06-17 Thread Eric Martin
he frontend has been restarted. Thanks, Mark No prob, HTH -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Decrypt WEP Packets After Upgrade From 2.6.23 to 2.6.25

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Martin
and did it in under 1 minute. I went home that night and got WPA to work. Any ideas on what I have done wrong? Yes, turning on wep vs WPA ;) Thanks, Drew Sorry the only answer is do it totally differently but nobody else replied so I figured I'd chime in. -- Eric Martin PGP fingerpri

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Eric Martin
ering whether it could be that the | list server has problems with those mails or perhaps | those mails are simply blocked. | | Is there a problem with signed messages? | | Thanks in advance. | | W. Canis | | PS: Send at 11:12 PM CET without PGP/MIME This one isn't sent as pgp/mime - -- Eric

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-24 Thread Eric Martin
ils or perhaps those mails are simply blocked. Is there a problem with signed messages? Thanks in advance. W. Canis Sending w/PGP/MIME, email me off list if you get this. I'll also send one w/pgp not mime encoded -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A94

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: | Hello. | | · Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | |> Ok, so looking at your original post, gvfs, gnome-vfs, and seahorse were |> upgraded. | | Yes. | |> I'm not much of a gnome guy but I do know that app

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Thiem wrote: | On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: |> Has anybody else who recently posted to the list gotten an email |> bounce for a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Nope but since it is an "unknown or illegal alias" rather th

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Martin <[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: | Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |> of course I ran eix seahorse *after* hitting reply. Teaches me not to |> reply to a message 30 seconds after getting out of bed. Ok, now onto |> helpful stuf

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
some easy OC headroom. | | YMMV. | | Have fun, | Roy This may be untrue, but from what I've see that's the way it goes w/OC'ing; Intels have room to be overclocked and AMDs don't. The OP overclocked an AMD processor which I've always heard is a bad idea. Just my $0.02

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schmarck wrote: | Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Michael Schmarck wrote: |>> Hello. |>> |>> Since this morning, I find that I can no lo

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Martin
6876 16776 ?Ss 07:14 0:00 > /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute gnome-session > > Anyone else having problems with ssh-add? > > Best regards, > Michael > Is ssh-agent running? What does ps -aux | grep ssh show? Also, env | grep SSH ought to show a bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-12 Thread Eric Martin
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e32000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fbb000) Also, please don't top-post. It makes it really hard to keep up with the conversation. Thanks! - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes on Suspend to Disk ( hibernate )

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
it will even let you suspend if that's not the case but I'll ask anyway. Does /var/log/messages and/or dmesg show anything? - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
s generally 40C (that's with powersave enabled). When I compiled the temp would go up to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40 is too hot... *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it, subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
very large window of data. - -- Eric Martin PGP fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH8pKxdheOldgSlQgRAhO3AJ9+rZB8E/DSZ4vGe0+I1MdXf9

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ? My idea goes like this: * one or more devices are assigned to one block device * a bunch of spare

Re: [gentoo-user] Root shell terminates after first keystroke

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > Tonight, for no apparent reason, a problem has started cropping up when > I 'sudo su'. The root shell will start up fine, but after the first time > I hit a key, the shell terminates - apparently normally. A sample try > looks like this (I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages & Email clients

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Martin
Matt Nordhoff wrote: Chris Brennan wrote: Matt Nordhoff wrote: | Yeah, yours is the only one I'm having trouble with. :-P | | Can't find it on any of the key servers I've tried. | | (Note: I"m kind of a PGP newbie. I didn't look very hard.) mmm then I will regenerate my key and resubmit it

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