Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 12. August 2006 01:03 schrieb ext Michael Crute: HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) NFS OpenAFS The latter may be overkill. However, in mixed environments, in the end, it may also be the best choice. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. August 2006 16:25 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: From: Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS? Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:03:58 +0200 (CEST) (ooops...sorry...wrong subject...) ... because of thread hijacking.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 23:36 schrieb ext Leandro Melo de Sales: Hi list, few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? It never was. It was the _only_ one for some time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sun, August 13, 2006 3:22 am, John J. Foster wrote: [snip] So, before I get to settled on using this, a few questions. Do you encrypt your home directory? /home and swap What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? cryptsetupLUKS Which ciphers do you prefer? Why? AES and

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:04:35 +0200 Hi Dirk, yes I /know/ this, it was simply a mistake, my fault..I am only human... ;) Interestly: I got two answers, saying that I have confused subject and thread...but no

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 08:30 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: yes I /know/ this, it was simply a mistake, my fault..I am only human... ;) OK. Interestly: I got two answers, saying that I have confused subject and thread...but no asnwer to my question yet. I didn't see the other

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/13/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this looks like a setup I'd be pleased with. Right now I have / /boot swap How much of a pain will it be to implement now? Or will I be better off waiting about 6 months till I get a laptop, and then following the guide at

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:47:33 +0200 Am Montag, 14. August 2006 08:30 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: yes I /know/ this, it was simply a mistake, my fault..I am only human... ;) OK. Interestly: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 08:59 schrieb ext Richard Fish: If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and do the swapon before your

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 09:10 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: any idea how I can freeze the shutdown process without harming the system, so I have time to read those messages. Try putting a sleep somewhere into /etc/init.d/halt.sh. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs |

Re: [gentoo-user] udev hickup

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 14. August 2006 09:10 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: any idea how I can freeze the shutdown process without harming the system, so I have time to read those messages. Try putting a sleep somewhere into /etc/init.d/halt.sh. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore it. Isn't there some way they could flag such messages so it doesn't look like a peremptory command I have to jump up and perform? Removing strict from FEATURES

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:39:07 -0700, gentuxx wrote: Yeah, baselayout was one of the packages updated. From what to what? genlop will tell you. If it was a path level update, it is unlikely anything has changed significantly in the configs. I prefer dispatch-conf, which I ran. I use a script

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Kear
from xorg.conf(5x): SERVERFLAGS SECTION [...] Option BlankTime time sets the inactivity timeout for the blanking phase of the screensaver. time is in minutes. This is equivalent to the Xorg server's `-s' flag, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1x). Default: 10 minutes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mod4 mapped to wrong keycode

2006-08-14 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:47:02 +0200 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Cernansky wrote: Does anybody know how to activate this super_win setting? setxkbmap -option altwin:super_win Great, it works! Thank You very much. On my machine Xorg refuses to recognize multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Thomas Kear wrote: The problem is the space in the option names. My xorg.conf has this, works fine: Option BlankTime 0 Option StandbyTime 0 Option SuspendTime 0 Option OffTime 10

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap not starting!

2006-08-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
Martin Richardson wrote: G'Dayy all, after an upgrade of baselayout, I noticed that courier-imap and courier-imap-ssl was not starting from the init script. I have tracked it down to the init script, as this script points to /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-courier-imap.rc, and I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Sven Buttler is out of the office.

2006-08-14 Thread Daniel Iliev
Sven Buttler wrote: I will be out of the office starting 14.08.2006 and will not return until 28.08.2006. Bitte wenden Sie sich an Herrn Drescher (-723). LOL Don't worry, man - we'll cover you! ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2006 10:24, Dale wrote: I got mine from xorg.conf.example. It had this in it: # Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global # rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS. # It is enabled per-screen (or per-monitor), and even

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 missing g++/c++

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I don't believe that I included the USE=nocxx variable. You can simply check with emerge -pv gcc. Yes, I must have included the nocxx in my use variable since a re-build of GCC included the g++ compiler. From this point forward all packages using C++ would build with out errors. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 August 2006 10:24, Dale wrote: I got mine from xorg.conf.example. It had this in it: # Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global # rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS. # It is enabled per-screen (or

Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/11/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Yann Garnier
On your Windows 2K/XP CD you got an NFS client in the tools directory thus enabling NFS too. Best Regards, Yann Garnier Le 14 août 06 à 15:53, Matthew Cline a écrit : On 8/11/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For easy fast

[gentoo-user] update xorg kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread James
Hello, Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith to kde-meta. [1] Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other systems, some of which I only get possession of sporadically

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:39:07 -0700, gentuxx wrote: Yeah, baselayout was one of the packages updated. From what to what? genlop will tell you. If it was a path level update, it is unlikely anything has changed significantly

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:20:04 -0700, gentuxx wrote: Yeah, baselayout was one of the packages updated. From what to what? genlop will tell you. If it was a path level update, it is unlikely anything has changed significantly in the configs. - From v1.11.15-r3 to v1.12.4-r2. How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] update xorg kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 14 August 2006 16:52, James wrote: Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith to kde-meta. [1] Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other systems, some of

Re: [gentoo-user] update xorg kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:52 +, James wrote: Hello, Some time ago, I upgraded several systems I manage. First was the (painful) upgrade of kde-monolith to kde-meta. [1] Then the easier of the two xorg 6.8 to xorg 7.0. [2] I have kept these pacakges masked for a while on other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread kashani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something like an nfs for windows I guess. I've seen that very thing but it was an ancient non-developed app. I haven't messed with it at all, but supposedly the Microsoft Services for UNIX (SFU) is supposed to have NFS

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap not starting!

2006-08-14 Thread kashani
Martin Richardson wrote: G'Dayy all, after an upgrade of baselayout, I noticed that courier-imap and courier-imap-ssl was not starting from the init script. I have tracked it down to the init script, as this script points to /usr/lib/courier-imap/gentoo-courier-imap.rc, and I can start

Re: [gentoo-user] update xorg kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/14/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Which should be performed first kde monolithic--meta or Xorg to Xorg-modular? I don't think it actually matters. 3. Is there any method to streamline/automate these tasks so that the machines compile the new software overnight, unattended?

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/14/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas?? Are those options in the correct section (ServerFlags)? Do you have 'Option DPMS' in your Monitor section? Maybe you should just post your whole xorg.conf... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hi list! I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. So, in short: How am I supposed to set my YP domain name with the new baselayout? Thanks for your time! Fredrik Tolf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: update xorg kde-meta

2006-08-14 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Well, I would use a system that has a lot of disk space, and make a chroot build environment for those laptops. With FEATURES=buildpkg, you can then use a system you have full access to to build binary packages for the upgrade, and then when

[gentoo-user] pygtk emerge emerge fails

2006-08-14 Thread Martins Steinbergs
Hi, im strugling with pygtk emerge, emerge doesnt build pygtk.py and pygtk.pth. Heres message: Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pygtk.py symlink Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pygtk.pth symlink Any ideas whats wrong, bugs.gentoo.org seems doesnt

[gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-14 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD using the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though my xorg is not modular). The thing is i went to the control center to change my keyboard layout and noticed that there are none available. At first i thought i

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 19:05 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: Hi list! I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. So, in short: How am I supposed to set my YP domain name with the new baselayout? It is now

Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:00:11 -0500 Roy Wright wrote: filezilla on sourceforge can do sftp. Used it a lot before switching workstation to gentoo 1.5 years ago. http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ Have fun, Roy frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work.

[gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a LAN session with the same game running on some Windows machines I got a message about not having

[gentoo-user] Mainboard Suggestion Intel Core 2 Duo

2006-08-14 Thread Helge Kaltenbach
Hey everybody... i'm planning to get a dual core cpu soon, the smallest Core 2 Duo from Intel actually: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 now i'm looking for mainboards..the ones i had in mind so far: Intel P965 Chipset: MSI P965 Platinum: + cheap :) + passive cooling mainboard - silent - hard to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD using the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though my xorg is not modular). The thing is i went to the control center to change my keyboard layout and noticed that there are none

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-14 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:41, lunedì 14 agosto 2006, Rafael Barrera Oro ha scritto: Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD using the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though my xorg is not modular). The thing is i went to the

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:14 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: That does lead me to another question, though -- the interface-boundedness of these settings makes me a bit suspicious. Will /etc/init.d/net.* start rewriting /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/yp.conf for me or something like that, and will the

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a LAN session with the same game running on some

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/14/06, Fredrik Tolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That does lead me to another question, though -- the interface-boundedness of these settings makes me a bit suspicious. Will /etc/init.d/net.* start rewriting /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/yp.conf for me or something like that, and will the NIS

[gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread reader
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with samba. Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm the OP) as well and have now gotten it working. It was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:08:48 -0500 reader wrote: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with samba. Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:59:48PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: If you want to get started on this before your new laptop arrives, I suggest starting with the initramfs and encrypting swap only. You should be able to create an initramfs that will setup the mapping and do the swapon before

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/14/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:22:56 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread kashani
Nick Rout wrote: tcpdump or ethereal will allow you to see what is happening on the network before the error message appears. ethereal was renamed to wireshark in portage recently to conform to upstream. I'd probably start with tcpdump as it's less powerful and you're more concerned with

[gentoo-user] Force SSH Key Authentication

2006-08-14 Thread Evan Klitzke
Hi, I have an account on a server that lets users SSH in with password based authentication. That is OK, but for my account I would prefer to restrict SSH access to key based authentication. Is there an option I can put somewhere in ~/.ssh/ to enforce this? -- Evan Klitzke --

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Tandy
Winston Messer wrote: You may need to enable IPX support or something, but I really don't know much about IPX on Linux. You need IPX support in your kernel (CONFIG_IPX) and net-misc/ipx-utils. UDP in Starcraft works fine for me, however, although this is with regular Wine rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-14 Thread Ryan Tandy
Jed R. Mallen wrote: hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the needed packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/14/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore it. Isn't there some way they could flag such messages so it doesn't look like a peremptory command I have to