[gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-22 Thread Matt Harrison
installed something wrong, and I can't even try to re-emerge lvm etc. Any tips would be greately appreciated. Thanks Matt Harrison -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Dave Jones wrote: Hi Matt Matt Harrison wrote on 23/04/08 07:05: I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a dream until now. The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
On a side not, I'm not sure if this could the problem: I've got one disk on one of my pairs failed. There's a replacement disk arriving tomorrow, but the stripe (thats built out of 3 mirrored pairs) won't start on its own, I have to manually rebuild the array after boot. This shouldn't stop

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: You wrote in your first mail that you use software raid. Did you also add the dep for this, so that raid devices are setup before lvm runs? Would be something like rc_lvm_need=mdraid No actually, I don't have that line either. I take it this is all new stuff...as its

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:05:06AM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes. If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:14:02PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Do I read correctly you have new version of LVM that needs baselayout 2, but you have only baselayout 1? (If so, then probably much of the parallel thread is solving

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ext Matt Harrison schrieb: Ok, I don't think I really want to deal with baselayout 2 unless i really have to, does anyone know what version of LVM is safe to regress to so I can get access to data again? I will upgrade to baselayout 2 eventually, but I really have

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:14:02 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Problem is, I wasn't watching the emerge, so I'm not sure what did happen. If you can access the var filesystem from the live CD, you can read emerge.log and see what you installed just before the problem hit

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:20:00 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I've tried to upgrade to BL2, and found it is masked, along with openrc...so if those were masked..how did I end up with bits that rely on it, without unmasking them? strange. Very strange. Baselayout-2

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:54:45 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Very strange. Baselayout-2 and openrc are both keyword masked and shouldn't be installed on a stable system. Which bits of testing/bl2/openrc have you ended up with? I would appear that its part of lvm and/or mdadm

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-24 Thread Matt Harrison
as you have given it will mean your system will NEVER remember how you like your packages installed. 99.999% of people want to keep their setups, and consequently use the /etc/portage/package.use file HTH Matt Harrison -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Limiting portage sync

2008-05-19 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was just wondering, while watching an emerge --sync, is it possible (or advisable) to limit what portage syncs? For example, I have a server here that doesn't use X, kde, gnome, java, and a number of other fairly large areas of portage. It would

[gentoo-user] Samba core dumping after update

2008-05-29 Thread Matt Harrison
:( Any help greatly appreciated as I'm pretty stuck without samba Thanks in advance - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.genestate.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkg/Bw4ACgkQxNZfa+YAUWEGlwCgkhUZdQNa5CFciEd2Z2ntnXkZ BcIAnjNpq9O/IiuMRmZWvS/m/C

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Samba core dumping after update

2008-05-29 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Harrison wrote: | Well I seem to have another problem after updating samba on my | fileserver, on starting /etc/init.d/samba I now get this: | | ~ * samba - start: smbd ... | /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 231: 15228 Aborted | (core dumped

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.1

2008-06-05 Thread Matt Harrison
a disk in the handbook so you should be able to work it out :) - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.genestate.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkhIkXcACgkQxNZfa+YAUWEnegCgvJIpLJwxkdEdF4Hqk8ipM55e nRUAn3aom4B1o2pGolCEBhlQ0+5YrBKj =0Hgl -END

[gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Matt Harrison No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1489 - Release Date: 07/06/2008 11:17

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
deface wrote: tried running a revdep-rebuild? please paste the output of emerge --info revdep-rebuild doesn't find anything that needs rebuilding. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 x86_64)

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
application to see if that will fail too or not. HTH Davide Now that you mention it, I think the problem is going to be kernel support for x86. I seem to remember removing it for some strange reason. I'm doing a kernel compile now and I'll post my results in a little while :) Thanks -- Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Pupino wrote: Check if you have the support for x86 binaries in you kernel and that the partition where /usr/lib32 resides is not mounted with noexec mode. Furthermore, the error regarding ldd seems related to ldd itself, not to the OO library which you are ldding You can

Re: [gentoo-user] How to boot into single user mode

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:50:58PM +0530, Ashish Shukla ??? wrote: ,--- Peter Wood writes: | Hi all, | I have a kernel generated with genkernel and do need the initramfs | because I am using lvm and luks. Now I am trying to create a second | entry in grub.conf that

[gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Harrison
to date, but as you can understand, I'm loathe to make changes that will give me a borked system yet again. Grateful for advice anyone can give as my system is now getting quite out of date. Thanks Matt Harrison pgpS7MozWIBam.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:46:25PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Which versions are you using, to which shall they be updated and on which arch are you? Knowing emerge --info and your profile might also help. Thanks for the reply. Ok, versions in use: lvm2-2.02.10 mdadm-2.6.4-r1 udev-104-r12

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:01:03 +0100 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:46:25PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Which versions are you using, to which shall they be updated and on which arch

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:33:11AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Well, then upgrade to BL2! And upgrade all the other packages as well. You only have to keep in mind to tell the initscripts that your RAID and LVM devices need to be activated, too. Isn't BL2 masked ~arch? I think it was when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:24:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:20:08 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Isn't BL2 masked ~arch? I think it was when I originally ran into this problem. Doesn't that mean that my system will upgrade stable packages that MUST be run using

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for replying to my own message, just had a thought. Could this all be a udev rules problem? I mean could some new rules in the updated udev package be causing my lvm/raid devices to not be picked up and activated? I've been trying to break a

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:32:33 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: | | Sorry for replying to my own message, just had a thought. Could this all | be a udev rules problem? I mean could some new rules in the updated udev | package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Heiko Nock wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I've just read your outdated page It is not outdated. Since more than a year, there is no visible development in cdrkit. Not visible to you. cdrkit-1.1.8 at http://cdrkit.org/releases/ is dated 25.05.2008.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Heiko Nock wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I've just read your outdated page It is not outdated. Since more than a year, there is no visible development in cdrkit. Not visible to you. cdrkit-1.1.8 at http://cdrkit.org/releases

[gentoo-user] segfaults with php and cacti

2008-07-04 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've been using phpmyadmin with apache/php for ages with no problems. I want to add the cacti application to the same server but on a separate vhost. The problem is, trying to access the cacti interface through a browser causes a segfault with php. I've also tried running the index.php

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] segfaults with php and cacti

2008-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Stroller wrote: On 4 Jul 2008, at 20:38, Matt Harrison wrote: ... I want to add the cacti application to the same server but on a separate vhost. The problem is, trying to access the cacti interface through a browser causes a segfault with php. I've also tried running the index.php from

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there. Yes grub is install properly and yes

[gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from the data cables to see if that

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:32:15 +, Matt Harrison wrote: I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by moving a cable an inch to one side. Did you touch a grounded object before putting your hand inside the case. A static discharge could kill

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power cables away from

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Dan Cowsill wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running 3d applications. Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I got fed up. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-17 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2009 20:12:06 Grant wrote: This requires only that the computer in question has a static IP or a permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of the web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, deny

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop rotate)

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Harrison
the need to copy them around the network. Of course, if it's something you need to judge by eye, that isn't an option. -- Matt Harrison

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-29 Thread Matt Harrison
and see what you think. -- Matt Harrison A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com writes: Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing on a domain via cifs. I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] Should this hardware work?

2009-02-15 Thread Matt Harrison
connection. This should mean that once the infrared connection is established, you should be able to print as if it was a physical serial connection. Of course, getting the IR connection established might be easier said than done. HTH -- Matt Harrison

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-16 Thread Matt Harrison
james wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs at online.de writes: would you please be so kind and avoid hijacking other threads next time. Um, you must not have read the response. I did specifically address and provide remedy if indeed having gcc installed on a machine is a security

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Harrison
Shawn Haggett wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com wrote: G'day, I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE is called hda

2009-04-16 Thread Matt Harrison
Thomas Chef wrote: Aha I understand. But what if my cd installation names my disk hda, but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it

[gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd.

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Florian Philipp wrote: How about a good old sneakernet? [1] Grab a memory stick and use it to transfer data between your eee and a decent machine. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net Hey thanks for the reply, Ok so assuming I can get the stage3 and portage snapshot plus some

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread Matt Harrison
James Ausmus wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com mailto:bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using

[gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-14 Thread Matt Harrison
I just updated grub as part of my regular updates and it gave me the message that I should re-install grub to my MBR otherwise stage1 and stage2 would mismatch. I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the bootloader without problems. However, now, when I boot up, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: This problem was already posted here. The idea is that splashimage moved from /boot/grub to /usr/share/grub. Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with splash) as

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with splash) as you would expect. Sorry that should read: ie the normal menu but without splash -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] eee pc query

2008-07-15 Thread Matt Harrison
I've got one of these Asus EEEPc's and I'm thinking about installing gentoo on it as the (xubuntu) distro isn't really up to par with gentoo IMHO. I'm not worried about messing things up as I can just re-image it with the supplied discs if something goes wrong but I do have a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dhk wrote: | So what is the solution to making grub visible again? I remember when | it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't | know the fix. | | Running emerge --config grub doesn't work. | | Is it as simple as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: | Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? | | I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It | supports both PS/2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan E. Davis wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had

[gentoo-user] [slightly OT] recommendations for streaming audio solutions

2008-07-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, This is a tiny bit OT but not totally. I used to have a streaming audio server setup using tunez (http://tunez.sourceforge.net/) but that is no longer in development (since 2004). Is there something in portage that I can use to stream audio over icecast, both mp3 and ogg and control

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Joshua D Doll wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GPG: pub sec keys required to decrypt?

2008-09-09 Thread Matt Harrison
It looks like I've imported a pub/sec keypair now. Should I remove the public key for security? Maybe I misunderstood from the beginning and having both keys on the same system isn't a security issue? - Grant It is still a security issue, but only as much as any other data on your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT joomla, defacement and remote shell

2008-09-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Michele Schiavo wrote: How can i prevent the execution of this file ? Please don't spread an infected file to the whole list, just give a description of your problem and people might be able to help. Right now it just looks like you're trying infect list members with something. Matt

[gentoo-user] squid with active directory

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I have a gentoo box that acts as a firewall, router and squid proxy. I've been following a guide[1] to integrate squid authentication with our active directory domain. The guide is a little bit out of date and it doesn't seem to work for me. Authentication is refused to

Re: [gentoo-user] squid with active directory

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Let me clarify a little bit: Before attempting this integration, I had an acl line like this: acl internal src 10.194.217.0/24 And i'm allowing that like so: http_access allow internal I'm just not sure how to change this to allow access to authenticated users while prompting for those not

[gentoo-user] QoS and tc

2008-12-06 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I'm trying to set up some sort of QoS for my small network. I've got a pretty slow 512kb/256kb ADSL line and I'd like to have it managed better. All the examples I have found[1] talk a lot about outbound..or inbound, but not both. The problem is that my upstream bandwidth is half

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ Dale :-) :-) Hey, I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: But if we learned to much, we may be dangerous or something. Sometimes to much knowledge can be bad. lol I !think! I tried XFS once. If it was XFS, you need to have a UPS for sure. Every time the system crashed I had to re-install. I never got it to recover even once. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon wrote: Hi there, long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had added the line sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24 (without quotes) to the file /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called enthusiasts, I'll drop the question here ;) In KDE (3), when enabling the fade effect for menus, clicking on a menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2008, 15:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It's coming from the case, not the speakers. BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me. Same here. The sound is loudest when running the Mother Nature test of 3DMark 03. Happening with every

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/01/09 Mick said: I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev't will undoubtedly decline with time. Maybe the recent 2.6.27 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-07 Thread Matt Harrison
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are any applications still around that haven't moved to ssh. Exposing the root user to an already unsafe transmission is asking for trouble IMHO.

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Harrison
Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. - Grant I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in C, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external one?

[gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Dale wrote: So, another question. Is there a tool that is local and would do something like this? I am using Seamonkey 2.0 nowadays. It seems to have some tools available to it that the old Seamonkey doesn't. Dale :-) :-) There is a tool I've used in the past called PasswordMaker. It

[gentoo-user] OT: amavis and DKIM verification

2010-01-10 Thread Matt Harrison
or misconfigured something. If anyone knows about DKIM and might be able to shed a light on this, I'd love to hear. It's not a big problem, just a puzzle I'm interested in. Thanks Matt Harrison pgp46Pqij6XrY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: amavis and DKIM verification

2010-01-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:09:07PM +0100, Xavier Parizet wrote: Le 10/01/2010 22:26, Matt Harrison a ??crit : I say OT because it's my understanding of DKIM that lets me down here, not Gentoo. I'm just not sure who to ask or even if it could be something Gentoo related. I've recently

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Harrison
I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On 15/04/2010 09:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. I don't mind hearing this :) I only use vixie-cron as that is what I started

Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs

2010-05-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:42:09PM +0200, KH wrote: Hi List, I just ran in a problem: net-fs/mount-cifs (net-fs/mount-cifs is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6) Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is client to a server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More

[gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?

2010-05-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi List, I got a capture card (4 port composite) ages ago, and I remember I had it working perfectly. I've just reinstalled it into a fresh gentoo box and connected one of the cameras, and all I'm getting is noise. I know its a real image as when I put my hand over the camera lens, the

Re: [gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?

2010-05-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Actually I've just found the paperwork, it's an LMLBT44 from Linux Media Labs. Their website isn't much help, it did point me to the module arguments to use, so it's now no longer detected as a generic unknown card. Unfortunately I'm still seeing the same issues. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] v4l need tuning?

2010-05-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:45:57PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Actually I've just found the paperwork, it's an LMLBT44 from Linux Media Labs. Their website isn't much help, it did point me to the module arguments to use, so it's now no longer detected as a generic unknown card

[gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports invalid credentials. Remove the NFS home

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, thanks for the replies guys On 01/08/2010 18:17, kashani wrote: On 8/1/2010 8:06 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-02 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/2010 08:17, Stroller wrote: On 2 Aug 2010, at 00:11, Matt Harrison wrote: ... On 01/08/2010 18:19, Stroller wrote: Have you considered Dovecot? I haven't, no. Not for any reason other than I hit upon courier first and I has always

[gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-20 Thread Matt Harrison
and asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me access to them via FTP or something. I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a copy of all his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it onto another machine. Grateful for any help, Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-20 Thread Matt Harrison
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:46:56PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 20.01.2011 15:23, schrieb Matt Harrison: I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a copy of all his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it onto another machine

[gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-28 Thread Matt Harrison
On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some

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