[gentoo-user] Help! with a pam upgrade, lockout, etc.

Hi, I'm running Gentoo. As part of an unrelated package upgrade, PAM got upgraded. Ever since, or sometime afterward, anything requiring a username and password fails. My POP3 server fails, I can't even log in as root! If I try to log in at the console, it takes the username, which can be a

[gentoo-user] Apache2 bandwidth limiting help needed

Hi all, I've been using MOD_BW, but for some reason it's stopped working. Don't know why, everything's configured properly. So I was going to try MOD_CBAND. When I have it installed, E.G. '-D CBAND' in the Apache2 options, trying to go to my website results in a 403 Forbidden error. This

[gentoo-user] Problem merging GCC so Glibc won't merge either!

Hi, Ok, last night I did the usual 'emerge --ask --nospinner -u world' which I hadn't done in a few weeks, I know bad me! So it's going along nice and dandy until it hits Glibc. It tells me Glibc is NPTL only! and tells me what to do. So I do that, then do an 'emerge --newuse --nospinner world'

[gentoo-user] Problem with PHP4

Hi, I've been using PHP version 4. Last night during a normal emerge -av --nospinner -u world Mysql got updated to version 5, which messed up Apache, Postfix and Pure-ftpd. Actually Apache itself wasn't messed up, but Mod_PHP was since it couldn't load the Mysql library any more. It's clear to

[gentoo-user] Bandwidth Limiting with Mod_BW and Apache2

Hi there, For a while now I've been using Mod_BW to limit bandwidth for a directory on my website. We have a residential ADSL line, and some files I'm hosting are somewhat popular, leading to bandwidth usage and Internet slowness for the rest of the household. The bandwidth limiting for one

[gentoo-user] One package is blocking another?

Hi, Several days ago I did an 'emerge --ask --nospinner -u world' to update my software as normal, but was told that ftpbase-0.00 was blocking proftpd-1.something. What, exactly, does this mean and what do I do about it? I want to continue using Proftpd, and don't know what Ftpbase is. Any help

Re: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another?

Hi, Thanks everybody, that solved my problems! Jayson. - Original Message - From: Stefan Onken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:26 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another? Hello, software as normal, but was