Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.

2007-06-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +, James wrote: Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective. I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention Octave... I would like to do some analysis on these signals to

[gentoo-user] Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.

2007-06-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have some (say 100) discrete data sequences sampling a single analogue system with time-stamp data. I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I could show a strong correlation in the signals between

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Emacs in a terminal and intellisense-like functionality.

2007-05-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've a few vaguely related questions. I'm an Emacs user from a decade ago - and have recently returned to using it... I'm trying to set it up as a useful modern development environment. I'd have chosen Eclipse, or something like that, if it wasn't for a constraint that I need it to work remotely

[gentoo-user] Weird high-level question about an ad-hoc wiki-like database

2007-03-31 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking for a client-server package (preferably with the server on gentoo from portage) which provides something which is vaguely like CRM... but in reverse - and for personal as opposed to corporate use. One requirement is for it to act as an address book that will allow me to associate:

[gentoo-user] Clamassassin - does anyone know what is wrong?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
#emerge clamassassin Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3 to / * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Thomas Rösner wrote: Dan Farrell schrieb: I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. [snip] Is there some obvious bit of configuration I'm overlooking? perl-cleaner? I'd not thought of that but... perl-cleaner all has not made any difference... I still get:

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-09 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've used portage to upgrade from Spamassassin 3.1.4 to 3.1.8, and I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. # whoami root # sa-update Can't locate object method finish via package Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout at

[gentoo-user] AFS...

2007-02-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
When following: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml I get as far as # fs setacl -dir /vicepa -acl rl fs:'/vicepa': Function not implemented Why is that? I've googled and can find someone who says that the instructions did not work for him - for the same reason - but there is no hint

[gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

2007-02-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
'^a' into my .screenrc - but that doesn't do the trick. Does anyone here have the correct incantation? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm getting these three emails every day from ruledujour... I'm using the latest stable ebuild of each i.e.: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8 mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour-20051123 Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? -- Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu:

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Norberto Bensa wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? Nope. But I've disabled AntiDrug in /etc/rulesdujour/config because for a few days, I was getting a warning about antidrug's maintainer losing it's domain/host/isp

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: RulesDuJour/gifu: 404 errors]

2007-01-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Does anyone else have this problem with RulesDuJour? -- To: root Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu: 404 errors Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:32:40 + (GMT) From: root (root) The following rules had errors: TripWire had an unknown error: --15:18:15--

[gentoo-user] OT DirectPush email and Windows Mobile 5...

2006-12-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I apologise in advance for this question being tenuously related to Gentoo... My justification is only that I really like my Gentoo-based Postfix /dovecot mail-server... but I also want to push emails to a connected Windows Mobile 5 PDA/phone. Historically mobile devices have polled for email

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin / fcron / RulesDuJour

2006-11-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Last night my default gentoo RulesDuJour for Spamassassin acquired new Adult and General rule-sets from SARE. Thereafter spamd refused all connections and subsequently received mail was not spam filtered. Issuing '/etc/init.d/spamd restart' as root resolved the situation... but I don't want to

[gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-08 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
by demanding evaluation by bash instead of whatever /bin/sh happens to be... Thanks again, Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-07 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8/work # sed -i -e '141 aset -x\n' -e '152 aset +x\n' kbd-1.12/configure # ebuild `portageq portdir`/sys-apps/kbd/kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild compile I've followed your suggestion - I was surprised to see sparc64 mentioned - my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dan Johansson wrote: cross-site-remote-backups Erm, Me too... My first attempt centred on Duplicity - which, on the surface, seemed to be exactly what I wanted... but, unfortunately, it is unusably buggy... and is no longer in avtive development. My second (in-progress) attempt is with

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Does anyone else have problems like this? # emerge -uDNav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 [1.12-r7] USE=nls 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Régis Décamps wrote: On 10/17/06, Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no longer so sure about when imap processes are spawned or terminated - but there seem to be a non-deterministic lots of them for each Thunderbird session. There is one process create each time Thunderbird opens

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-17 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Roman Zilka wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: it appears that there is one connection per folder and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be overkill. Having never used dovecot, I can't comment on this. But maybe this

[gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
. Performance (primarily with respect to 'new mail' notifications, but also, to a lesser extent, with searching archived messages. I'd be interested to hear any anecdotes from Gentooists who have addressed a similar question recently... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Moshe Kamensky wrote: The -s option of formail allows you to specify an argument, which is a program name. This program will be run for each message, with the message on the stdin. So if you have such a program that delivers to a maildir, you can use it. procmail itself is one such program,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Kevin Fullerton wrote: Here's the procmail recipe I use with maildir folders and the Gentoo lists - I think as long as procmail is setup with maildir support you just need to set your MAILDIR var and use a trailing slash and it knows it'd delivering to a MailDir. A, I guess I hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
to set-up - procmail obviously intends to address digest splitting and to support both mbox and maildir delivery... Surely there's a simple solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm familiar with this procmail recipe: -- :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user.gentoo.org | formail +1 -ds gentoo_user -- However... I need to use maildir is there a straightforward way to deliver directly to maildir folders with formail from procmail? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me where I've loused-up this apache config?

2006-10-03 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
This time a bamboozling Apache/vhost/https problem. I have a working vhost configuration for several domains in apache2 (latest stable from portage - 2.0.58) and I want to support not only http services, but, for one domain name at least, I want to support an https service. The working

[gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...

2006-10-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've three independent hosts - imaginatively called A, B and C. Firewall rules dictate that A can be directly accessed from B, but not from C... A and B run the openssh sshd, and C is a terminal with a working X-Windows display. C has a ssh session opened with B which tunnels port 22 on C to 22

[gentoo-user] Backups... a very general question...

2006-09-27 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently been thinking about backup strategy... following a painful re-install after dropping a clanger during a kernel upgrade. While this seems a very basic topic, I can find surprisingly little documentation about this on-line. I need to address several entirely different kinds of

[gentoo-user] emerge tinyca fails...

2006-09-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
After getting into a real pickle with a kernel upgrade (causing me to corrupt my /dev) I opted to re-install from the latest minimal install CD rather than try to unpick the mess. My gentoo box is used almost exclusively used remotely as a mail/web server - however I find tinyca a very useful

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

2006-03-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to re-direct email to it

[gentoo-user] Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently experienced a bizarre failure... and I wondered if anyone else has experienced something similar or has a suggestion to avoid a similar annoyance in future. I run fetchmail to poll 3 servers every minute... and while this has worked fine for weeks, last night it froze at 2am and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
if it was a known (obscure) bug with the latest version... maybe, for example, one that only arises in the context of a TCP error or, maybe, a remote server failing mid-transaction? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advantage of daemon mode here is that I neither end up with a huge polling delay nor any risk of a collision where two processes attempt to access the same POP account at the same time (which I'd expect to cause aggravation.) Running from cron will not cause

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1 now fails...

2005-11-24 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
A few days I 'updated world' and spamassassin 3.04 was replaced by spamassassin 3.1 - after a few minutes spent migrating my configuration (to enable Razor,Pyzor and DCC) all seemed to be working well... but then, after running fine for a day or two, the spamd daemon stopped responding and

[gentoo-user] Ruby Rails and Rake - strange error on Gentoo...

2005-11-07 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently started playing around with Ruby and rails under Gentoo. I've installed everything using emerge as opposed to the using ruby gems. While I seem to be able to use my rails application, I get a puzzling error message when I try to verify it using the default generated rakefile

[gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Has anyone any experience in setting up a wireless music streaming device to read MP3 files from a Gentoo installation? These are the kind of devices I have in mind: * Phillips Streamium [ http://en.streamium.com/products/sl50i/ ] * Netgear MP101 [

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
... but they're cheaper - retailing at about £80 and I've seen them at £50 on ebay. I prefer the appearance of the MP101 over the Streamium too. I'm sure there are other more expensive options out there too. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
... It would be far easier for me to buy a unit on-sale here in the UK... assuming I can get it to suck tunes from my Gentoo box. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] About a proxy-like idea... (was Shell through the web)

2005-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Bridge confusion

2005-10-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I hope that someone on this list can help me to clarify bridging. I'll give that a go... someone is bound to correct me if I give you a partial truth. :-) I'll start by saying that the point of a bridge (in the context of Ethernet networks at least) is to allow

[gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]

2005-09-29 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
with a watermark dating the copy? Is anyone aware of any existing packages - preferably for Gentoo, but any open-source solution would suffice. Thanks in advance for any suggestions :-) Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]

2005-09-29 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I think I want a document management solution - though I'm not sure that everyone understands the same idea by the term. This might be overkill: http://www.alfresco.org/ Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management

Re: [gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

2005-08-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Billy Holmes wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Can anyone see where I'm going wrong. I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and with the latest unmasked vanilla ftp from portage. When I try to use

[gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

2005-08-09 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Can anyone see where I'm going wrong. I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and with the latest unmasked vanilla ftp from portage. When I try to use ncftp, however, I run into difficulties: --

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-05 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Oscar Carlsson wrote: I think lighttpd might be something like what you're looking for. It's pretty lightweight, fast enough and php/ruby/perl works with it (through fastCGI). http://www.lighttpd.net/ And of course it's in portage :) Oscar I've installed lighttpd - and while mostly

[gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-04 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
- server would be heavily loaded and low capacity.) Can anyone make suggestions as to good packages to investigate? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar... ssh / shell glitch...

2005-07-28 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
+cygwin+ssh. In the first search result it suggested to Switch off ForwardX11 in your .ssh/config. Thanks... I guess I suspected gentoo rather than cygwin as I first noticed just after an emerge -uD world... Cygwin it must be then. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Peculiar... ssh / shell glitch...

2005-07-27 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
. Does anyone have any idea why this might have started to happen? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-22 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
guess, given that I need cygwin, that my only option is to wait and hope the nx client for windows is fixed at some point? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
more convenient to have tips/tricks/gotchas available annotated with each package - say on http://packages.gentoo.org/... Hmmm. In any case, thanks - crontab /etc/crontab seems the perfect resolution. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
ssh. Google for samba tunnel putty. This is exactly what I wanted to know. I hadn't thought of googling with putty as I'm using OpenSSH on both client and server - but the techniques look the same. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Because I need my Gentoo server to perform periodic tasks on my behalf I new I needed some implementation of cron - and after a brief investigation I settled on fcron as I liked the idea that I could give flexible scheduling in order to allow the OS to delay processing in the event of heavy

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
dependencies which prompted me to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS with emerge -uD ... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access IMAP; SMTP, X applications etc.

[gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-14 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward. Portage (by default) still gives me version 1.1.3... but version 1.2 has been available for a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

2005-07-14 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Marco Matthies wrote: Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's dependencies) in

[gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently discovered a problem doing my periodic emrege -uD world - which looks as if there is some general problem with jade [Attached below - output from the command.] It seems to me that jade is linked against libsop.so.3, however I only appear to have a copy of libsop.so.4. I've not

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
this is a simple issue that packages should now be dependent on openjade and not jade, that the portage tree would have been updated to reflect this? Is this planned? I wonder why it seems to have taken so long? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] # ./CA.pl -newca certification problem

2005-06-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
askar ... wrote: I'm trying to setup email system by reading the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide. I have a problem in section 5. When I do # ./CA.pl -newca have error unable to load certificate 2319:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:637:Expecting:

[gentoo-user] Online backups...

2005-05-24 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I admit that this is a pretty generic idea... but I hope no-one sees harm in me asking about it here... I plan to do this with gentoo... so if someone else has had a similar plan... maybe they could offer me the benefit of their wisdom :-) Assumptions: 1. There are two Linux Hosts

[gentoo-user] IMAP/Spamassassin/RazorPyzor

2005-05-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
be possible to set-up an internal account spam to which only local users (i.e. myself) can send mail... bounce all my spam there (using the Mail Redirect extension?) - and somehow use procmail to report it? Is there a neater solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
for the suggestions... at least it seems I'm not overlooking the obvious? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have a few bespoke XML schema specs, and I want to find a generic tool to construct XML files which are syntactically valid with respect to the schema specs. The schemas represent data-structures for domain specific records with moderately complex structure. It would not make sense to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
if it would be worth my while to look around for another cheap modem or wait... if sometime this year a usable (very small volume) support for Class 1 faxes becomes available then that would probably be fine - I've other (less convenient) options which can see me through until then. Steve -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to get it working, but it's pretty straight-forward. That looks

[gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen to be. I've heard of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
alternatives before I do... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list