Re: [gentoo-user] CD burning with full filenames

2005-08-25 Thread Frank Schafer
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:40 -0700, Grant wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD with the full filenames preserved? I tried specifying Joliet and Rock Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being altered. AFAICR none of

Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4

2005-08-25 Thread Ted Ozolins
Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:34, Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my

[gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space

2005-08-25 Thread krgn
Hello, Has anyone experience with the Alsa RTC-module and how install it? My problem is only how apply the diff-files to the kernel and I would like to know how to do it. Just how to generally do that sort of thing. Can anyone give me a quick tipp? Would it make a SIGNIFICANT difference to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/24/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:30:11PM +, Fernando Meira wrote: Oh.. and by the way, how reliable is this prediction? (...) [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.9 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 Estimated update time: 6 hours, 7 minutes. All system in 6h?

[gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running mythfrontend as well as an

Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4

2005-08-25 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Nick Rout wrote: I know I should upload this to bugs.gentoo.org, but as we are in the middle of a thread i thought I'd load it here for anyone interested to try (and to criticise) Please be gentle with me, this is my first ebuild. The ebuild is attached, as is the small startup script. The way

RE: [gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: krgn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2005 13:00 To: Gentoo List Subject: [gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space Hello, Has anyone experience with the Alsa RTC-module and how install it? My problem is only how apply the diff-files

[gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] webcdwriter

2005-08-25 Thread patrick . marquetecken
Hi, Because my server is the only computer with a dvd writer i was thinking of installing webcdwriter. My server doesn't have Xorg installed on it, so when i do a emerge -pv i get a huge list, even with -X -gnome and so on in my use settings. Is there a way to install this without all these ?

[gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. Weren't you invited? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Don't hate yourself in the morning, sleep until noon.

Re: [gentoo-user] webcdwriter

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:50:03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because my server is the only computer with a dvd writer i was thinking of installing webcdwriter. My server doesn't have Xorg installed on it, so when i do a emerge -pv i get a huge list, even with -X -gnome and so on in my use

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jerry McBride wrote: I think most linux nerds (me included) distain top posting because it's the default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread Ted Ozolins
John Dangler wrote: With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread Ted Ozolins
John Dangler wrote: With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I remember the days of netiquette. I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet hippie. :| No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your quoted part to only

[gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running mythfrontend as well as an

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote: From a log investigation you might be right. Bugger, it is a newish disk too. Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement. I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Greg Shikhman
Well, if you or someone at the location has access to grub they could add the singleuser flag. This will allow you to change the password. On 8/25/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have forgotten the root password of my remote server.Is there anyway to retrieve or reset it? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
remotely? if there is, couldn't anyone get it? If the system is patched and up-to-date, you should have to be at the keyboard. On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:47, Grant wrote: I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? - Grant -- John

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:51:32AM +, Fernando Meira wrote: I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop. I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've interrupted while compiling gcc-3.3.6.. so it had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Uwe Thiem wrote: Folks, we have got computing power on our desks that equals that of a medium sized data centre 10 years ago. Of course, I want the bloody computer and its tools to do all the sidetracking little tasks and concentrate myself on algorithms and data

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. Weren't you invited? ;-) If his mail

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? sarcasm Sure, just use the root backdoor service that every linux system exposes to connect and change the password. Ooops, the secret's out, I guess I have to worry about all of you folks using

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:21:20 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? We're all at the party, enjoying the free beer and pizza. Weren't you invited? ;-) That'll be in the same post

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Davison
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:22, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be the latter. I'm getting messages from the list, although it is a bit slower jsut recently. - Mark On 8/25/05, Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? A'll

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? If your mail filters are eating the world, you won't know it because the replies won't arrive. So it's almost pointless responding, isn't it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
Well, if you or someone at the location has access to grub they could add the singleuser flag. This will allow you to change the password. Thanks for a real solution. They will attach a KVM unit to the machine and I can log into the KVM. Would that help? - Grant I have forgotten the

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Ric Messier
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: Sorry, couldn't resist. Of course there is no way at all to do this, nor would you want to be able to, cause if you could do it anyone could and would do it. That's not technically true and the sarcasm wasn't really warranted. I can think of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK it is not possible short of brute force hacking it. If it were,it sort of defeats the point of security on the box...Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for youand reset the password there. W--ARTHURIt's not a

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread krzaq
On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This observation comes from both a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for a real solution.They will attach a KVM unit to themachine and I can log into the KVM.Would that help?- Grant--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Sure that would work but if you have a sudo user your can do it without rebooting. -Mike--

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate ofothers when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming yourquoted part to only what is necessary for context. Unfortunately most people are too lazy to bother

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I didn't want to just 'try it', since, as I said, I've been wrong before. I'm not really sure how to install this setup, since my laptop has all new hardware in it, and the kernel has modules for the laptop. All of the information I find in googling is about Linksys wireless cards. This box is

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sorry, couldn't resist. Of course there is no way at all to do this, nor would you want to be able to, cause if you could do it anyone could and would do it. That's not technically true and the sarcasm wasn't really warranted. I can think of a couple of possibilities, of course

[gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Harry Putnam
First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery software in particular... I found in portage

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery software in

RE: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
No templates at all. Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging approach. First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete. Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to determine if it is a build issue in general (i.e. perhaps

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I am currently at Chap 7 from the handbook... nowhere near X yet. I have the basic system installed, and am nearing the reboot. I'm trying to find out what I need to have in modules.autoload.d ... John D -Original Message- From: Ted Ozolins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:51:32AM +, Fernando Meira wrote: I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop. I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: btw - lsmod currently shows - ModuleSizeUsed By tulip 42336 0 OK, so what does ifconfig -a show? Also, the output of lspci would be useful (I think someone asked earlier). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No templates at all. Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging approach. First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete. Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to determine if it

[gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread James
Hello, Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla? http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-25 Thread Timur Aydin
Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Really hoping someone has some idea on this... haven't found any solid answers on the web... I have an AMD64 system (but I am running the 32 bit version of Gentoo on it) and I am seeing mouse problems. The mouse wheel doesn't work at all. Sometimes the

[gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Ok. I found some info about tulip drivers. I added tulip to modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and rebooted (while sweating)... eth0 is up and running fine! Thanks for all the help. (It's usually a combination of this list, google, portage, and wiki that solves these problems quick!) John D

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This observation comes from both a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 15:07, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, krzaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this?

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years without problems... Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year

[gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Im looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12r9) In portage, sudo says Allows users or groups to run commands as other users. The latest stable shows 1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is it unstable, and the one before that is stable) hmm Anyway, the use

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: All you really need is an account with sudo rights then `sudo passwd root` and your all set, else your suck with singleuser. If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to the list? And if he didn't, setting up

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:33:14PM +, Fernando Meira wrote: I would say that most of the emerged packages were emerged before.. but maybe not that much so that genlop could be accurate. Also, a new compiler was being used.. no idea how much can that change the performance. That might.

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:46, A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to thelist? And if he didn't, setting up sudo would be a catch 22 now,wouldn't it?Though, granted, the OP did only say he lost root passwd, and not superuser access...Indeed and most often

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla?http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htmI just took a look and it seems like this is a Windoze only thing. Linux doesn't implement ActiveX anyhow. -Mike--

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Dangler wrote: The connecting page is a Solaris page that doesn’t exist. I’m trying to find out exactly what this means, since it’s a recommended piece from the Gentoo security handbook. There's a page at the gentoo wiki with some information about how to set it all up: S/keys are one

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... On 8/25/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Has anyone successfully used ActiveX

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Phill MV
Nor will there ever be any implementation of it, as far as I know. Try wine'ing Internet Explorer, that usually works just fine.On 25/08/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:40:59PM -0400, John Dangler wrote: skey says it's a Linux Port of OpenBSD Single-key Password System That's all the info I've been able to find out so far. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Skeys w -- Pages one and two [of Zaphod's presidential speech] had been

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Greg Shikhman
Well, I just remembered hearing about rootkits.I think all you need is access to a user and a rootkit, but I haven't used one so I wouldn't know...but a simple google search came up with some linux rootkits:p

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: On 8/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla? http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm I just took a look and it seems like this is a Windoze

[gentoo-user] Can't compile gconf-2.10.1-r1

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
I am upgrading my system from a GRP install and it has been a mess, I have solved various errors and now I have this one that I don't know how to solve: make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gconf-2.10.1-r1/work/GConf-2.10.1/gconf' /usr/bin/orbit-idl-2 ./GConfX.idl orbit-idl-2 2.12.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile gconf-2.10.1-r1

2005-08-25 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:26, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: fix_libtool_files.sh `gcc -dumpversion` --oldarch i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5-20050130 --oldarch i386-pc-linux-gnu fixed it, where 3.3.5-2005013 is the result of `gcc -dumpversion`, *sigh*. -- José Pablo

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
yeah - and someone using a rootkit was able to successfully login to our old dedicated server and wreak havoc on it, too. That led to a complete rebuild of the server (which now runs seLinux... (Understandably, there may have been steps we could/should have taken to prevent it, but this was setup

[gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10 to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed. Although there are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks! Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Roy Wright
Holly Bostick wrote: Harry Putnam schreef: First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies. I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently not made it to the server. I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and web gallery

Re: [gentoo-user] gforce4 and gensplash [RESOLVED]

2005-08-25 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Can I make gensplash to work with gforce4? yes What fb driver are you using? I've tried with vesafb which was working well with my onboard i810 chip without success. Eventually got it working with vesafb-tng. Had to splash_geninitramfs with all available resolutions (was using 1024x768) and

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Once the ebuild is officially in the portage tree, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Cedega implemented a plugin for using activex with mozilla, check it at the transgaming site www.transgaming.com. This looks promising. Theres an ebuild for it, I'm sure... app-emulation/cedega is this the

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
Grant~ I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' into the machine to get it back. If there's another way, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread krzaq
I couldnt find a good program to do this. I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c. It's configurable and works quite well. If you like I can email the source to you. On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/05, krzaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there,I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed.Althoughthere are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks!Ian I tired 9 and

RE: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the use flags set, it would also grab skey... John D -Original Message- From: Jonathan Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote: I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Dangler wrote: so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the use flags set, it would also grab skey... Something like that. But, at the end of the day, it depends whether you want

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:24, Mark Knecht wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/ dev_driver/ i2c_adapter/ w83781d/ w83l785ts/ ^^^ ^^^ looks like you have modules compiled in

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, krzaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldnt find a good program to do this. I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c. It's configurable and works quite well. If you like I can email the source to you. That would be great, but why not make it an ebuild and put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Grant
Wow! That was decent of them. Is it a dedicated server or a colo ? John D Hey John, It's a dedicated (not virtual dedicated) box. They changed the password and forwarded me the new one. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:39:14 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read. You know you've been on the internet too long when the trolls are no longer amusing... -- Neil Bothwick Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maxim, An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are you using? I found that running with a 2.6.12 kernel gave me this error; downgrading to 2.6.11 fixed it. here's a relevant forum

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote: Michael Crute wrote: I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:51:33 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: BUT!!! It seems that there is a bug with genlop and newer versions of portage because some issues with a sandbox lockfile. Search for genlop sandbox on bugs.gentoo.org for more info. In any case, for the time being, until the bug is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:19:27 +0100, Tony Davison wrote: A'll working fine now, just put it down to my ISP's habit of losing touch with the world. It went quiet for several hours for me too, so I suspect something upstream. -- Neil Bothwick NOTE: The most fundamental particles in your

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: Humm... I tried gkrellm2 on one machine. It runs but I haven't figured out how to make it show me fans and temps. I wonder if this older Asus A7V266-E machine can do that? I also emerge gkrellm-sensors but I'll have to find some info on how to

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
C.Beamer schreef: John Dangler wrote: I’m looking into setting up sudo on my latest test box (stage3/genkernel 2.6.12—r9) In portage, sudo says “Allows users or groups to run commands as other users”. The latest stable shows *1.6.8_p9 (although the one before is it unstable, and the one

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
Hmm - Maybe I need to look into a different service ? John -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:52 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system Wow! That was decent of

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error

2005-08-25 Thread maxim wexler
Another thing, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-353295-highlight-xf86enomem.html all seem to be complaining about DRM failure but according to the gentoo-radeon-faq: * Device drivers - Character Devices - Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support): DISABLED

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:53:43 +0200 Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? portage is already installed, or its not gentoo! Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Markus Döbele
Okay. Understood! I would like to have a look in how an ebuild is constructed. I figured out how to create an rpm and now want to know how it looks like for an ebuild. I didn't receive the actual Mail of Nick. Can you send it to me again? Or can I download it from the gentoo project homepage?

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:32 pm, John Jolet wrote: Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this correct, or is there more to it? I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
daniel wrote: I've been beating my head against my keyboard all day trying to figure out how get SpamAssassin working on our server and so far I've not had a lot of success. Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They store

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
Jerry McBride wrote: Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate to use all the time. I experience the same fail to shutdown problem you have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the open a file button and it will crash... almost

[gentoo-user] emerge output

2005-08-25 Thread John Dangler
I just did an emerge uDv world during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just loaded this last night), I got some messages saying please make sure you run (I couldnt read it all since it went by so fast) I got a couple of these before it was over. Is there a way to view

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 25 August 2005 23:41, Jonathan Wright wrote: Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They store the checksum of all know spam mails. Once I enabled that, my level of false spam went down massively. I very rarely get

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