Re: [gentoo-user] How to get hid2hci command

2010-09-16 Thread Kyle Bader
net-wireless/bluez maybe? Kyle On Sep 16, 2010 1:01 PM, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I need to use hid2hci for my bluetooth keyboad. However, I could not figure out how to get the hid2hci command. Any suggestion would be appreciate? Thanks in advance Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache crashed, what could be the reason?

2010-08-27 Thread Kyle Bader
Except for that, only common scannings for phpMyAdmin, myadmin, pma, mysql, scripts, etc. Nothing more. Any ideas why apache died? I noticed you have mod_dav mod_cache and are running 2.2.15, perhaps it's this? http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1452 -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-10 Thread Kyle Bader
Another idea to help with your forensics would be to bring a netstat and lsof binary over to your machine and run them to see which actors are running and trying to get out. That could help you detect what is running on that machine and google your way from there. If your kernel has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-04 Thread Kyle Bader
AddHandler cgi-script cgi py Thanks, Kyle, you've been getting me closer and closer. If I'm starting to get the new stuff, AddHandler declares certain extensions.  Up until last month, extensions were not required, and in fact my CGI programs have never had them.  It used to be enough to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kyle Bader
Heyo Kevin, Directory /hex/hexTest/     AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/kosmanor/passwords     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     AuthName OHex Advanced     AuthType Basic     Require valid-user     Options FollowSymLinks /Directory Try adding one of these in there: AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl --

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-30 Thread Kyle Bader
 * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 64.166.164.49:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs   [ Strace will probably reveal which log file

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kyle Bader
 * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 64.166.164.49:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs   [ ok ] Make sure an interface is listening on that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to extract a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Kyle Bader
ebuild PATH TO ebuild file unpack and then look at /var/tmp/portage//work/ but is there a direct way (or how does portage do this)? I'm not sure how portage does this but the git directory is likely bare which is why you don't see any branch files. Try: git clone

Re: [gentoo-user] openvz kernel and ext4

2010-07-15 Thread Kyle Bader
Ext4 was very new around 2.6.27,. The kenel is likely refusing to mount the filesystem because the kernel driver is experimental (old) and the filesystem was created when a different kernel was loaded (non experimental ext4). Using the old driver could compromise the integrity so the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) Ceph ?

2010-07-15 Thread Kyle Bader
Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. Seriously, I'm looking for any  information/brave hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo The two main things you'll have to do is build a kernel with ceph support and then create an ebuild for ceph's userland utilities and put it in your own

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread Kyle Bader
Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. Seriously, I'm looking for any  information/brave hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo The two main things you'll have to do is build a kernel with ceph support and then create an ebuild for ceph's userland utilities and put it in your own

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-12 Thread Kyle Bader
Maybe you need a powered adapter like the one you need for a classic model m? Can't think of the brand I've seen offhand :/ On 7/12/10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Kyle Bader
Most secured - App i C++ or C. Programs written in c++/c are not inherently secure, the programmer must make use of best practices using secure functions, etc. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Kyle Bader
Iotop is for io and the kernel support is through netlink. Aside On 7/7/10, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Jarry mr.jarry at gmail.com writes: I would like to see in console current network transfer rate for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] with top command.

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Kyle Bader
Misfire. Aside from trafshow and iftop you might look at iptraf On 7/7/10, Kyle Bader kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Iotop is for io and the kernel support is through netlink. Aside On 7/7/10, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Jarry mr.jarry at gmail.com writes: I would like to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Kyle Bader
Since space is a issue for you, you really only need the kernel sources for the kernel you are using.  One could argue that if you have a well built kernel and don't plan to change it in the future, you could remove its sources too.  I would save a copy of the config tho. I'd certainly argue

Re: [gentoo-user] what should I restart after changing /etc/resolv.conf?

2010-06-19 Thread Kyle Bader
You generally don't have to restart anything. If your still having trouble can you post the /etc/resolv.conf file so we can take a look? On 6/19/10, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I modified /etc/resolv.conf (added opendns-servers in addition to my own), but I do not know what I should

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox bridge mode eth0

2010-04-08 Thread Kyle Bader
CONFIG_BRIDGE :) On 4/8/10, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/08/10 07:40, Fernando Antunes wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've activated Network adapter in VirtualBox (running Windows XP) but I it is not working. It works only in NAT mode not

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU choking under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Kyle Bader
I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly Did this behavior start after a kernel upgrade? If yes, what was the previous kernel version and what version are you running now? -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] 8 bays/drives in server: only 6 seen in gentoo

2010-03-26 Thread Kyle Bader
Doesn't help right now but it sounds like an expander cable might be loose. On 3/26/10, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does anyone know this? I run 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 on a server, amd64 .. It has 8 hotswap-bays for hdds and lspci says it uses a --- Intel Corporation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Kyle Bader
+1 on zfs w/ solaris for storage, just don't go cheap and get desktop disks. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-12 Thread Kyle Bader
li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 11.03.2010 16:54, schrieb Kyle Bader: If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 That sounded

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-11 Thread Kyle Bader
If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 /sys/class/block/device name/queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 On 3/10/10, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Recently I see bad

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-26 Thread Kyle Bader
I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a bad choice anyway.  But as always, rtfm is good advice!  Thanks (not sarcastic, except to mock myself). Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar: tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - ) tar cf - $old_dir |

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-26 Thread Kyle Bader
tar cf - $old_dir | ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - ) tar cf - $old_dir | ssh $other_host ( cd $new_dir: tar xf - )                                                    ^ The ':' separating commands should be a ';'. Using the -C option would be a little easier, but your method also would work for star.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-02-26 Thread Kyle Bader
- be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the recent thread) +1 - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping /dev/sda stays /dev/sda always +1 - initrd - I've never used one, but maybe it's needed if root is on software RAID? It's not technically

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-12 Thread Kyle Bader
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? tar up /etc. Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't been tested are not backups! :D -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Kyle Bader
4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Good article by Theodore T'so, might be helpful: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
Most of the wait I would assume is due to the size of the volume and creating parity. If it was my array I'd probably just sit tight and wait it out. On 2/1/10, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the initial setup. LSI,

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Kyle Bader
This is rather blunt but... Find / -name *|xargs touch On 1/25/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and forgot to set date/time/timezone. (Doing too much

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a usb Demo Disk

2010-01-25 Thread Kyle Bader
Is there a way to install a program that runs on Gentoo on a usb stick?  I would like to be able to booted to the usb stick and run the program in a Gentoo environment?  Basically I would like to make a demo disk with the program and just enough of the OS so it works. I think the answer lies

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 NICs

2010-01-22 Thread Kyle Bader
Udev rules On 1/22/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got a new machine with (for now) 2 NICs in it. How do I configure networking so that the GigaBit NIC is always eth0 and the 100Mb is eth1? Is there a way to link either a driver to a specific net.ethX name? Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Kyle Bader
Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for certain root dir? Have writable files on local disk and mount them a la mount --bind /mnt/local/etc /etc. You should make a separate partition for local swap if you have a local disk. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-04 Thread Kyle Bader
Any change in kernel configuration or did you copy your old config and run make oldconfig? On 1/4/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo 64bit from 32bit running enviroment

2009-12-31 Thread Kyle Bader
I'm pretty sure chrooting to 64bit from 32 bit kernel won't work, so you'll have to reboot into a 64 bit environment. On 12/24/09, Carlos Moyano Cubillos cmcg...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, I have a gentoo system running 32bit .. and I have a 30GB partition available on which I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] pxe + initramfs

2009-12-28 Thread Kyle Bader
James: How would I go about taking a LiveCD and packing it into a LiveCD so that I don't have to set up NFS exports for all the other Linux distributions? I assume you mean taking a livecd and packing it into a initramfs. I would suggest you read this guide:

Re: [gentoo-user] High load, idle CPU?

2009-12-18 Thread Kyle Bader
Ps auxr On 12/18/09, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Hi list! My virtual server seems to have a problem and I don't know how to find it. Today, while trying to create a new postgresql

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab and cdrom question

2009-12-18 Thread Kyle Bader
I'm on the train so its hard to check the man pages but can't you use udevtrigger or a similar tool so rebooting isn't required? On 12/17/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/17/2009 08:42 PM, Denis wrote: Hello folks, Quick question. My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in

Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

2009-12-18 Thread Kyle Bader
Scsi support maybe? On 12/17/09, Bruce Hill br...@slackwarebox.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:14:48AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: ok. but it looks like the gmail web client encourage top post ;) That doesn't make it easy to read. This is how we see it when you top-post: A: Because you are

Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

2009-12-18 Thread Kyle Bader
Is it rootdelay or scandelay? On 12/18/09, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: Try passing a rootdelay option to the kernel to allow the kernels USB probe to complete before it tries to mount the USB device. e.g. kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/usbhdd rootdelay=30 in grub -- Sent from

Re: [gentoo-user] tunneling or redirect attack?

2009-12-01 Thread Kyle Bader
Is it a common thing, or really easy to do,  to redirect the content from a server to another one? Change dns records/ip addresses? Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and then get all data travelling there?? tcpdump? -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] license change in sun-jdk

2009-11-09 Thread Kyle Bader
Thanks dale, adding :) On 11/9/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, for all who have problems with their jdk (and don't want to spent half an hour finding out why 8-): after sync, portage wants to install dev-java/icedtea6-bin, although there is a jdk

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
And iirc you can got ext3 - ext2. The same does not hold true for ext4 - ext3. On 10/30/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual machine. Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled version, that way you don't have to worry about libc. I dunno how flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :) On 10/30/09, Duncan Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm

2009-10-05 Thread Kyle Bader
Output from rc-update show ? On 10/4/09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm fires up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?

2009-10-05 Thread Kyle Bader
Apache2, mod_ssl, self signed certificate, htaccess/htpassword via digest. Done deal :) On 10/5/09, David Juhl commo_p...@yahoo.com wrote: I am trying to find away to access files securely from my home computer. The network I am on is really strict on email attachments and no usb drives are

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use

2009-09-28 Thread Kyle Bader
Use a MAILTO= in your crontab and notifications will go to any address you want, leave MAILTO blank and it won't mail at all. On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-03 Thread Kyle Bader
1. Put your host into dyndns and ssh to that name I'll often do this and then create a subdomain of a domain I own then have it CNAME to the dyndns domain name. I find that I have a easier time remembering the names I choose this way. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread kyle . bader
Excuse the top post - bb email. You might be able to change the hdd boot priority in another menu to try usb hdd first then fallback on sata/ide whatever. Also you might have to add a slowusb kernel boot param if after the kernel boots you get a unable to sync vfs error when handing off to

Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

2009-07-17 Thread Kyle Bader
I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day. I wouldn't think 10mbps would be a

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist außer Haus.

2009-04-28 Thread kyle . bader
Get killed. --Original Message-- From: Martin Schrodi Sender: AGDA To: gentoo-user ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Apr 28, 2009 3:17 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist außer Haus. Ich werde ab 28.04.2009 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 29.04.2009.

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread kyle . bader
Sorry for top posting my bb is dumb about that. The answer to your question is yes, you can uses your current pots lines. You want your outside line to be fxo and lines connecting to your standard phones to be fxs. The digium wildcard supports 4 pots and you can buy them with a different mix

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread kyle . bader
It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box. Here's that link: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread kyle . bader
Your welcome, also I seem to remember there being a caveat to running asterisk in a vserver (if your host uses that technology) but its not coming to mind. Maybe when I'm home infront of a real computer I can find it. Also I really liked the voiper soft phone, its not in the tree but might

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda

2009-04-16 Thread kyle . bader
I'm unsure if lilo supports booting by filesystem label/uuid but that's what I do with grub. Might be woth looking into Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:07:08 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-09 Thread Kyle Bader
Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to make it use ftp? Use a ftp:// mirror ? (correct me if I'm wrong) -Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-08 Thread Kyle Bader
You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with exceptions for the domains you need. -- kyle.ba...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-17 Thread Kyle Bader
This is a great method that I utilize: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.comwrote: I run on an old laptop a website (Joomla + MediaWiki + Moodle + a couple of other things). The site now is offline and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
Its a tigon 3 broadcom nic if that helps, I can get the .config line once I beat traffic Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:56:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How to tie

Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
My guess is tha while inside the initrd a kenrel module was loaded and it was something that you needed to read the boot volume. Are you statically or modulely including your sata drivers? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
You probably need scsi and scsi disk support compiled in as well. Everything associated with accessing the device and the filesystem it contains has to be compiled in to the kernel and not be a module. The initrd is loaded into memory and loads the kernel modules (the ones you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse thansoftware RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread kyle . bader
Go areca, I have a coworker that raves about his. At my shop we have dozens of systems using 3ware and they have horrible preformance. --Original Message-- From: Pintér Tibor To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Oct 15, 2008 6:41 AM Subject: Re: