[gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Smith
has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the security risk? if so i would be very interested in looking at that script. Keeping 5 gentoo machines up to date security wise is becoming very time consuming.

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check script

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Smith
On 5/11/06, Rasmus Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the security risk? if so i would be very

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp problems

2006-03-29 Thread Nick Smith
On 3/16/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:21:17 -0500 Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64

[gentoo-user] Re: problems emerge'ing amavis-new

2006-03-27 Thread Nick Smith
its been a couple weeks since i posted this, figured i would wait and see if this fixed itself and it hasnt, has any one got any ideas as to why im getting this error or where to start to fix it? thanks nick On 3/10/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i get this when i try to emerge amavis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unformat a partition

2006-03-17 Thread Nick Smith
thanks for the replies, i was actually able to get the data off the drive with getdataback, i can rest easy now. thanks again Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: unformat a partition

2006-03-17 Thread Nick Smith
Aren't you the lucky one!! Bet you'll never do _that_ again! However, it's important to have a list of useful programs that help in just this kind of circumstance. You _never_ know when you may need it. I'd never heard of getdataback, but will take a look. Glad this had a happy ending. Now,

[gentoo-user] dhcp problems

2006-03-16 Thread Nick Smith
i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64 machine) but i cant get it to pull an ip address via dhcp i get this in the syslog: dhcpcd[6038]: dhcpStart: ioctl

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcp problems

2006-03-16 Thread Nick Smith
On 3/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64 machine) but i cant get it to pull an ip address via dhcp i get

[gentoo-user] unformat a partition

2006-03-16 Thread Nick Smith
i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat if it was just done? like undo the format information? i formatted with ext3. ordinarily i wouldnt mind, but i have some VERY important information on there and a

[gentoo-user] problems emerge'ing amavis-new

2006-03-10 Thread Nick Smith
i get this when i try to emerge amavis-new: Unpacking amavisd-new-2.3.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/amavisd-new-2.3.3-r2/work * Patching with qmail qmqp support. * Applying amavisd-new-qmqpqq.patch ...

[gentoo-user] qmail and SA problems

2006-03-08 Thread Nick Smith
im currently trying to implement spamassassin into our mail server and am running into problems im hoping you can help me with. our current setup is running gentoo/qmail/vpopmail/qmail-scanner/courier-imap/clamav/tmda. i have reinstalled qmail-scanner so that it can pickup that SA is installed,

[gentoo-user] virtual cdroms in linux

2006-03-01 Thread Nick Smith
does anyone know how to make a virtual cdrom in linux? kinda like daemon tools for windows? i have my iso mounted as /mnt/iso but vmware keeps complaining that i cant use a directory as an iso. i know vmware can use iso's as cdroms, but in this instance i cant use vmware, i have to mount it some

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual cdroms in linux

2006-03-01 Thread Nick Smith
On 3/1/06, Uwe Klosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have to mount it for the use with vmware. Update your vmx file with the following: ide1:0.fileName = changeme.iso ide1:0.deviceType = cdrom-image Cheers Uwe Nick Smith wrote: does anyone know how to make a virtual cdrom in linux

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual cdroms in linux

2006-03-01 Thread Nick Smith
On 3/1/06, Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 17:27 schrieb Nick Smith: wouldnt that be the same as just telling vmware in the software itself to use the that iso image? i cant use vmware's virtual cdrom for this project, it gives me errors on boot, i need

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual cdroms in linux

2006-03-01 Thread Nick Smith
sweet! oh well, thanks for they help. On 3/1/06, Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 18:02 schrieb Nick Smith: vmware tells me that /dev/loop1 exsists but does not appear to be a cdrom device, is there something else i have to do? As I said, YMMV. The loop

[gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Nick Smith
is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was already running? how can i re-detect the hardware? also, what if it detects a drive as sda, and i want it to be sdb? is there a way i can tell it what i want to be sda, sda etc?

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/26/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/25/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was already running? how can i re-detect the hardware? If you are using udev

[gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin, and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but how do i know the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: apache and php

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/24/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think if you first emerge dev-lang/php and apache, you will not get the blockers anymore. dev-lang/php will update the virtuals available on the system and horde depends on virtual/php and not dev-php/php. Catalin ill give it a

[gentoo-user] wierd messages in syslog

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
i keep getting these errors in my syslog, has been happening ever since the install (couple days ago) what does it mean, and how can i fix it? init: Id s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes what is s0? this is a sparc system if that makes a difference. TIA Nick --

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
Most of these components will issue messages to syslog using the 'mail' facility. If you configure your syslog daemon to route messages from this facility to, say, /var/log/mail.log, you'll have all of the info you need. If you're using syslog-ng, the following addition will do this for

[gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Nick Smith
ive been wondering this for a while. i know how to deal with masked packages, beit keyword masked or hardmasked, but ive googled and googled, and cant seem to find or figure out how to deal with masked packages that are missing keywords. there is a nice document in the wiki that explains masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Nick Smith
Use /etc/portage/package.keywords (with an actual keyword, instead of the default ~ARCH) or your local overlay. what is the actual keyword if it doesnt have one? just add it to my package.keywords file and add the arch to it? i dont see how that would work. However, a missing keyword (like

[gentoo-user] apache and php

2006-02-23 Thread Nick Smith
i know there has been alot of reconstruction with the php files in gentoo in the past, had alot of problems with one of my old web servers, horde wants php5 everything else doesnt. well ive setup a new server, decided i would install horde right out of the gate and let it pull down what it wanted

[gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread Nick Smith
where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt even exsist on gentoo. TIA nick -- Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal

[gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Smith
just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one

[gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do an emerge, is there a way to tell if the package that is blocking the other is actually needed by any other package on the system before i unmerge it? thanks Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because its blocking something else isnt needed by another package on

[gentoo-user] SMP not working?

2006-02-13 Thread Nick Smith
actually the SMP is working, as in top shows 2 CPU's. but when i do an emerge --sync CPU1 stays pegged at 99% and CPU0 stays below 1% the entire time. this is a dual 200mhz U2 Sparc system, i was just wondering if this was normal or is there something messed up in my config? and sorry for

[gentoo-user] problems removing a package

2006-01-20 Thread Nick Smith
Ive been trying to install horde and it keeps saying: [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9) [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4) when i try to remove it i get: mail ~ # emerge unmerge dev-lang/php --- Couldn't find dev-lang/php to

[gentoo-user] problems compiling Msql-Mysql-modules

2005-12-14 Thread Nick Smith
can anyone help me out with this error? Creating files for MySQL .. WARNING: PL_FILES takes a hash reference not a array reference. Please inform the author. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgz Using

[gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Smith
just did a reinstall of my gentoo box, (been almost a year or so) and for some reason this time around it doesnt see my hyperthreading p4 as two cpu's anymore, i have hyperthreading and smp support turned on in the kernel like i had before. is this normal? what can i do to get gentoo to see this

Re: [gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/13/05, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you viewing /proc/cpuinfo to get that information or just watching as it boots? Also, what do you get if you do this: i was actually watching 'top' i could never get the smp function to work. here is what cpuinfo gives: mail ~ # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Smith
In top what happens when you hit the number '1'? it only lists the one cpu. Seems a bit strange to me. - Mark its a server, i dont think i built ACPI into the kernel cause i didnt need/want it, dont think that should make a difference. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --

Re: [gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/13/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:29, Nick Smith wrote: its a server, i dont think i built ACPI into the kernel cause i didnt need/want it, dont think that should make a difference. From what I can see SMP functoinality seems to rely quite

Re: [gentoo-user] hyperthreading

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Smith
thanks to everyone that helped, ya'll are gods, that got me working with smp/HT thanks again Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] apache and cgi

2005-12-12 Thread Nick Smith
how do you install a cgi script in apache when the cgi-bin folder is outside of the document root like is the default for gentoo? ive tried a symlink and that doesnt seem to work, this is my first cgi script so im not exactly sure how to install it. this is for the courier webadmin program, it

Re: [gentoo-user] apache and cgi

2005-12-12 Thread Nick Smith
scripts in there by default printenv and test-cgi. Point u'r browser to http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv and u should see something. If not, then there is something wrong with u'r setup. Catalin Nick Smith wrote: how do you install a cgi script in apache when the cgi-bin folder

Re: [gentoo-user] cms

2005-12-11 Thread Nick Smith
what about postnuke? its got all those things. www.postnuke.org it rocks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the webserver dir like the other things ive installed, phpmyadmin etc. couldnt find anything on the wiki or googling. thanks Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a Windows XP

Re: [gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/10/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote: anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the webserver dir like the other things ive installed, phpmyadmin etc

Re: [gentoo-user] courier webadmin

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/10/05, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote: anyone know what you have to do to get courier's webadmin tool to work in gentoo? it didnt automagicly get installed into the webserver dir

Re: [gentoo-user] courier

2005-12-04 Thread Nick Smith
On 12/4/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: thanks, i thought that courier-imap relied on courier, so i assumed it would have emerged it, i was wrong, thanks for the help. If there's anything you need

[gentoo-user] completely removing a program

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Smith
sorry for the simple question. how can i completely remove a program and have it get rid of the conf files and any other temp files it leaves around? i want to start from scratch with some programs and dont want to have to manually search and remove those files. TIA Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] courier problems

2005-11-25 Thread Nick Smith
What about interactively logging into mysql with the providedcredentials? Does that work? i can log in just fine with the user and pass i have specified in the conf files.

[gentoo-user] courier problems

2005-11-23 Thread Nick Smith
ive been trying to setup a mail server following the how-to at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Hosting_Server#Virtual_Mail_Hosting and everything seems to have been setup correctly, but i keep getting these errors and cant login Nov 22 23:28:29 mail imapd: Connection,

Re: [gentoo-user] courier problems

2005-11-23 Thread Nick Smith
On 11/23/05, James Hiscock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ive been trying to setup a mail server following the how-to at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Hosting_Server#Virtual_Mail_Hosting and everything seems to have been setup correctly, but i keep getting these errors and cant loginI

[gentoo-user] new apache install

2005-11-11 Thread Nick Smith
i just built a new box that will be a mail/web server, but after emerging apache the entire /etc/apache/conf does not exsist, i tried re-emerging but nothing changed. is this something im doing wrong? Thanks Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] new apache install

2005-11-11 Thread Nick Smith
On 11/11/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Smith wrote: i just built a new box that will be a mail/web server, but after emerging apache the entire /etc/apache/conf does not exsist, i tried re-emerging but nothing changed.is this something im doing wrong?perhaps /etc/apache2/ ?kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] WEP woes

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Smith
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:52 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: any help or a config file would be greatly appreciated. thanks Nick no one has anything? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Smith
I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage, i have checked the gentoo-portage site, done numerous searched with emerge and cant seem to locate it, there website says gentoo has it Your favorite Linux distribution probably already has packages for NetworkManager. Fedora Core, Debian,

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Nick Smith
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: There is, however, an ebuild for 0.3.1 on b.g.o-- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396 which can 'legitimately' be put in one's overlay. HTH, Holly well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that

[gentoo-user] WEP woes

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Smith
Im having a heck of a time getting wep to work with either iwconfig or wpa_supplicant, ive followed the how-to, read over the wiki pages, and looked at the example file in /etc and i still cannot get it to let me connect with WEP, i can see the AP, get the freg/voltage etc, but i cant get an ip

Re: RESOLVED: RE: [gentoo-user] power management on laptop

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Smith
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I looked around a little more and found someone who had a box very similar to mine and used the autoload settings from that article... All of the applets are showing properly in gnome now! Thanks to you and Holly for the patient replies

[gentoo-user] emerge woes

2005-08-19 Thread Nick Smith
haven't updated my box in a while and when I tried this afternoon and I get this error and cant seem to get past it. any ideas? actually im getting several emerge errors across a couple boxes, this is just one of them, different files, but I hope they are somehow related and the answer to

RE: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Nick Smith
From: kashani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 7/8/2005 1:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps Ron Bickers wrote: On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Which is a huge bummer since

[gentoo-user] reinstall troubles

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Smith
something messed up? nick -- ComputerNick a.k.a. Nick Smith Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web - http://www.ComputerNick.com -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list