Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:08:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: So please, think twice before hitting that reply button. Whoops, too late :) You have street cred. We'll forgive you. But only this time. Next

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I have always used gentoo-portage.com On 8/9/07, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/9/07, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Heim wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:12:51 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it just me, or is

Re: [gentoo-user] netcard interface with alias

2009-03-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 3/2/09 4:10 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have 7 networks behind a machine with 5 network's device. Now, this machine running debian, but i'll upgrade too gentoo. How i can create a eth0:1, for example, using /etc/conf.d/net? Thanks -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo

2009-03-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 3/25/09 4:43 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:38:53 David wrote: I wrote an entry in my blog about gentoo, and created a little script to make gentoo handling a bit easier, and whant to share it will all gentoo users to see if it could help them to understand gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. =) It does simplify a number of things, and I honestly have never actually tried to make the LDAP integration work on BSD.Kerberos is not an account management tool - it is authentication management, I use it all the time, and

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-16 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 1/11/06, Eric Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:06 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke Godwin's Law[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1]

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 1/21/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I still use ext3 for / and ext2 for /boot.I get confused about all the others.I have ext2 for /boot and reiserfs for everything else. But reiserfsfragmentation is going to make me pretty angry... m.XFS is the best. It is supported,

Re: [gentoo-user] doom3

2006-01-23 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I only ever got the invalid key when I was using a key from the internet which I had acquired. Down-grade to the previous doom release - it works without the key.jsOn 1/23/06, Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, den 23.01.2006, 11:14 -0200 schrieb Cláudio Henrique: hi, there,

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Yeah, use ext2 for all of that: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm http://www.fs-driver.org/ All of those are supposed to worik, and I am trying them out now. good luck, joshua On 1/23/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-27 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
For now that will not affect any user, only the manufacturer. And yes, they could put ext2 on a digital camera. Maybe this patent will prompt them to do just that. sincerely, Joshua On 1/26/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Yeah, use ext2 for all

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-08 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 12/1/08 4:15 PM, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: I have finally reached the point where I use enough USB media (external hard drives and flash drives) that I would like to set up a system to automount the media devices for me. I have read in the past about hal + ivman and a bit of googling has brought

Re: [gentoo-user] how create perment mknod

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/13/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:53:18 +0600, Gentoo Shadow wrote: mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 [create tempory nod, how to create perment nod?]Put the command in /etc/conf.d/local.start. Or, for the very perverse - change /etc/conf.d/rc to tar up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Your using the wrongr driver. There is a kernel 'High def' driver in 2.6.13On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
more specifically is now an Intel HD Audio at the very bottom of the alsa PCI devices list thanks, joshuaOn 10/13/05, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your using the wrongr driver. There is a kernel 'High def' driver in 2.6.13On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
PCI SND │ │ Location: │ │ - Device Drivers │ │ - Sound │ │ - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture │ │ - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (SND [=m]) │ │ - PCI devices │ │ Selects: SND_PCM │ │ │ On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:05 -0700, Joshua

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrw advice?

2005-10-14 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
on other OS's you have to 'format' the RWs before you can mount them in packet mode. Is the same true for Linux? On 10/14/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:35:02 -0700michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[snip]I continued hacking away at it and I seem to have

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig vs iproute2

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
iproute2 is newer and while it takes over all of the abilities of ifconfig, it is modularized and designed for controlling advanced router features as well as basic interface related stuff. The capabilities of it are vastly superior to ifconfig, and sometimes the notation is simpler. Setup eth0,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
you can add e100 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or install/activate coldplug on default or bootOn 10/15/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:07 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i would say there no support for ya net cart built into kernel/module On

Re: [gentoo-user] IndexError: list index out of range

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I have seen this a number of times, but I have always gotten around it by emerging portage, then doing and 'emerge metadata' js On 10/15/05, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been away from Gentoo for awhile and I am going about building a2005.1 system.I just finished a emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
It looks from the ebuild that net-misc/e100 was intended for 2.4.x series kernels (*.o as opposed to *.ko).I would suggest running 'makemenuconfig' or similar and enabling e100 as a module from within thekernel tree. I don't think that he built net-misc/e100... I think his module just didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/15/05, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can add e100 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or install/activate coldplug on default or bootOn 10/15/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:07 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i would say

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade - make.conf

2005-10-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Well, tempting as it seems, I am not in the mood for adentures. :) I have that setup, you have to use gcc 3.4 or higher, I used the jackass stuff as a base. I have that + NVidia binary drivers on a desktop - it's all very HOT! So, it does work, however, you ahve to pretty much do a clean install

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
you're looking at threads. they aren't really taking up 16m x 4 of memory... try enabling nptl, and re-emerging glibcIf your going that route (which i highly recommend) rebuild w/ nptl and nptlonly.thanks, joshua

Re: [gentoo-user] SMP/HT top

2005-10-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/17/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:Was I mistaken in thinking that a true SMP system and also a hyper threading system would show two processors in top? I am trying out a new HT kernel built this morning. I've enabled both SMP support and hyper

Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging

2005-10-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/19/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I had a doubt, I got a power loss when emerging gccit was almost at final, when I do a emerge --resume, it beguns allover again so my doubt is if there a way to continue compilationfrom where it stops. I do not beleive so,

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade - make.conf

2005-10-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I went back to -march=athlon-xp. I don´t know how much k8 optimizations does performance-wise, but I guess it ain´t woth a reinstall.Best regards,Andreas KarlssonSwedenI think you will only see an improvment if you need 64bit userspace. I.e . right now you are effectivley running in a 32bit

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-26 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Frank, You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection established that way, please try the cable etc. I would also recommend following the other

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/31/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote:Hi,Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) and how todo it, because I've tried with e2fsck with different options and readman e2fsck with no possitive results. Thanks,Rafael Fernández López.There was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I have not read every single post in it's entierty. I have seen this lots with Firefox - especiall with flash. It tends to actually be that the system is swapping out. What filesyetem are you using? js On 10/31/05, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sorry about the late reply, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables on gentoo

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
James, Why are you using IPtables directly? It's good for an exercise, but roll-your-own firewall is not really as cool as it seems. Have you looked at Shorewall [net-firewall/shorewall]. http://www.shorewall.net thanks, joshua On 10/28/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Khattri ajai at

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
BTW: 99% of the time, this has nothing to do with devfs, udev, or the kernel. When it says 'module failed to load' it's because the x is missing the driver file. i.e. /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o On 10/30/05, renna bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

[gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-21 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Dear Fellow Users, I don't know if someones already done this, however, I really, really, painfully want Gnome 2.14, and I hate the unmasking crap. So I hacked up this script, and I thought of all the other ricers out there who desperately want it. So, WFM [works for me], hope it's useful to

[gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-21 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Dear Fellow Users, I don't know if someones already done this, however, I really, really, painfully want Gnome 2.14, and I hate the unmasking crap. So I hacked up this script, and I thought of all the other ricers out there who desperately want it. So, WFM [works for me], hope it's useful to

Re: [gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-21 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
# emerge -vp =gnome-2.14* These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =gnome-2.14* have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - gnome-base/gnome-2.14.0 (masked by:

Re: [gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-22 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 3/22/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:20, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Yeah, so? *crickets* Thanks, the d.g.o. was pretty clear, but I can imagine that confusing people, the referenced document was next to useless, did you read it? Well, I did have

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that, so do not expect to gain too much. Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can do something akin to this: emerge -c =gentoo-sources-version-revision e.g. To remove all of these kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
I do something like this: for x in /*; do if [ ${x} != /usr ]; then tar zcf ${x}.tar ${x} fi done for x in /usr/*; do tar zcf /usr_`basename ${x}`.tar ${x} done Then you save those files to another medium [i.e. cd, or another host or hard drive or something] format your

Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
gtk != gnome. Gnome uses GTK, but so does XFCE, Gimp, Ethereal, etc. So, you may not want -gtk and -gtk+ in your main packages. That said Gogiel is absolutley correct. js On 4/12/06, Gogiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pawel K wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
That's close to what I use. However, MX entries alone aren't the solution. You also have to configure the mail servers to forward the mail on to the final destination once it comes back online. I'm not sure how to do that myself, and don't really have to time to put much effort into it since

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-06 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
but it would be extremly slow for some reason (really long cable) so the isp just told me to keep the link at 10 mbps. On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't it auto-detecting the link speed? -- Ghaith Hachem TristMoon Staff TristMoon.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-06 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghaith, I think that you shouldn't do this this way, but so be it. It's generally spekaing to 'force' a specific setting. In most cards and switches this disables all negotiation, and can lead to all sorts of strange problems

[gentoo-user] Java Config Problems.

2006-10-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Java Config is screwing up. (The gentoo java changes have been a long haul of sucky experiance.) I have severeal systems that now work, and one that doesn't which i will speak of. I have others, but likely they all have the same problems: java-config-2 doesn't exist. java-config-1 reports:

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Config Problems.

2006-10-10 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
It seems to be installing everything under /var/tmp/ [SNIP] Wow! Fortunately your bug report [1] contains more info: !!! SELinux module not found. Please verify that it was installed. I don't really know anything about SELinux but I did find [2]... If you haven't read the SELinux

Re: [gentoo-user] SMTP Authentication

2006-10-18 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
What does SMTP auth have to do with dovecot or courier imap? What authentication packages are you using? I see one qmail - why qmail? I have tremendous success with postfix, and it's a little more modern, with less patches. I don't know much about dovecot, but Courier is a kmore familiar

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl error.

2006-10-25 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Yeah, the updates work. If you're really lazy, I have stuck this in my overlay since I had to do it on multiple systems: https://embassy.asylumware.com/projects/portage sincerely, joshua On 10/25/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, for those one that has this same

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-29 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Dude - I use xfs w/o a UPS for desktops and laptops. I use it on servers with RAID and with UPS protection. I also keep good backups for the servers. I have been using XFS since _just_ _after_ it came to Linux. I have used XFS on several hundred systems (which I have been responsible for).

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-29 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/29/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:56, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: On 10/28/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'd recommend changing to ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-29 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Yeah, I will try JFS again some day. Not today, but someday. XFS slow deletion is my personal pet peeve. I have been using XFS for so long, so successfully, that I am hesitant to change. Plus, I have a large number of existing installs. Last year, I setup a JFS system on a dual-opteron.

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/30/06, Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After sending this I realized that XFS doesn't support journal=data... I thought journal=data was a general VFS part of the linux kernel... my bad. :) I guess you are just left with in kernel tuning (someone previously posted a link to).

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits that caching can cause. js On 10/31/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:04, Uwe Thiem wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-11-02 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
While this is true, it also may dramatically lower the mean time to failure for your disk, due to increased ware and tear - consumer ATA drives are designed to operate with the write cache on. If you cannot afford to lose data due to poweroff corruption, then the only viable solution is a RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-14 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Hi Cameron, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, all the reg hacks I found didn't work. If I find one that does, I'll post it here. :) Regards, Raphael This sounds exactly like you do not have the nsswitch.conf environment correct on your Linux box. Are you using Winbind or nss_ldap?

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-19 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Sorry for taking this long, rough week. I didn't understand your answer. The Linux box you're talking about is the Samba server? Yes, the Samba server What is Winbind? Or nss_ldap? How did you setup a PDC without using either nss_ldap or winbind? nss_ldap: * requires modification to

[gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

2007-01-04 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pants

2007-01-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
do other people use your server? Is there any other clothing references. You can lookup Clothromancy in the Necronomicon. On 1/9/07, Korthrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any clue what put: PANTS=ON into my environment? google is failing me here =/ Thanks -- () The ASCII

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue?

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ mount | grep xfs /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) Hmm, I missed this before. nobarrier should be showing up here. Try: mount