[gentoo-user] Ebuild for a Ruby package
Hi there,I would like to create an ebuild for a Ruby based package. Is there any place with documentation regarding this? The ruby eclass seems to execute the install.rb file included in the source tarball I download, but my first attempt ended with a sanbox violation, so I guess I'm missing something, or maybe I have to create a custom install.rb that installs the package to the sandbox instead of doing it directly to the target directories.Thanks in advance, best regardsJose
Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution
2006/7/18, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not wanting to hijack the thread from the OP, but this subject interests mefor the following reason. I work on a software system where one customer hasabout 1 systems at about 500 locations.Remote systems are categorized as one of 3 types/configurations.Automated management of them is essential,including upgrades, but seldom upgrades to the latest and greatest asstability is very important.Upgrades need to just work, and not require manual intervention.Currently, they're all on Windows in one form oranother (ugh!).The systems in question have very limited capabilities, andthe people on site have very limited permissions.Other potential customers have similar size systems, and I certainly expect someone to realize the value of Linux for this.I'd like to have a solutionin my mind when the time comes.I've considered the idea of a custom distribution to do this.There is nodoubt in my mind, that any such distribtuion would be based on an existing one, with tweaks that deal with where updates come from, and what packagesare availble, etc.Gentoo or Debian are the two likely candidates.I'm not*sure* a customized distribution is appropriate. I think you should take a look at:http://www.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.htmlhttp://www.cfengine.org/ Best regardsJose
[gentoo-user] Cannot remove files: operation not permitted
Hi there, I was trying to make a clean install on a disk with a previous installation of Gentoo on a reiserfs partition, but I wanted to keep some files. I thought I would be able to boot with the LiveCD, mount the partition, remove everything except the files I wanted to keep (moving them to a temporal directory) and then copy a stage3 to the partition. After mounting the partition and trying to rm -rf a directory I got a Cannot remove ... operation not permitted. After googlong a while I found about chattr, and although it seems this is a ext2/3 tool I tried it and I was able to remove some files after doing a chattr -ia on them. Any way, there are some files I'm not able to delete, and they seem to be non regular files (links, linux sockets,...). Any idea why this is happening? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose
[gentoo-user] USB digital video capture from camcorder?
Hi there,I've recently purchased a Panasonic GS75 (MiniDV) camcorder and I'd like to download and edit videos on linux (if possible). The camera comes with an USB cable, so I tried to find something to get the videos out from the camera. The recommended application for this seems to be kino, but it seems that is only able to capture from ieee1394 devices, is this correct? So, is there any way to capture or download videos from the camera using the provided USB cable? Should I buy a DV cable (the camera has DV output)?Thanks in advance, best regardsJose
Re: [gentoo-user] Por qué eres tan maravilloso Gentoo
I'll try to translate it, please forgive (or correct) any mistake, see inline2006/2/11, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Buenas, Hi there Pues esta vez no escribo porque tenga ninguna duda, ni porque tenga algún problema relacionado con mi sistema. Sencillamente, escribo porquequiero mostrar mi agradecimiento a todas las personas que hacen posibleun sistema como es Gentoo GNU/Linux, que brindan su esfuerzo y tiempo libres en poder permitir que todos seamos iguales y que lo que nosdiferencie no sea el dinero, sino las ganas de conocer y de aprender,una curva maravillosa.This time I post neither because I have any doubt nor because I have any problem related with my system. I simply write because I want to show my gratitude to all those people that make possible a system like Gentoo GNU/Linux, people who offer their effort and spare time to help us to be equal and only being different not on our money but only on our interest in knowledge and learning, a wonderful curve. Desde hace tiempo vengo defendiendo muy fuertemente todo el pensamiento GPL así como las licencias CC (Creative Commons). ¿Por qué puedo teneryo un libro que valga 80 euros [y tener acceso a ese conocimiento] yalguien que no tenga esos 80 euros no pueda tener acceso nunca a esa información? El conocimiento es un bien común, que interesa se expanda,y que se debe compartir, sin apartar a nadie del acceso al mismo.Dejemos que el conocimiento se expanda y nos inunde a todos, es algo quenos beneficia de lejos. Since some time ago I've been strongly supporting all the GPL philosophy as well as CC (Creative Commons) licenses. ¿Why can I have a 80 euros book (and have access to that knowledge) while somebody without those 80 euros will never be able to access that information? Knowledge is a shared good, something that should spread and be shared, without moving anybody away from it. Let the knowledge spread and flood us all, that's something that is clearly beneficial. El tiempo nos ha dado la razón. Un sistema privativo no es más seguro por el hecho de tener el código oculto [de hecho se ha comprobadoexperimentalmente xD]. Se han podido desarrollar sistemas como Samba oWine, que sin saber nada a priori [sobre el código] se ha permitidoemular, otro punto a favor de las mentes abiertas. Time has proven us right. A privative system is not more secure just for having hidden code (this has even been proved experimentally xD). Systems like Samba or Wine have been developed without any prior knowledge of the system to emulate, another success of open minds. En definitiva quiero agradecer a todas las personas que se toman un minuto para ayudar a otros con su conocimiento, por escaso que sea.Quiero agradecer a todos los developers que se preocupan de que lo quetienen entre manos sea de una calidad como lo que todos nosotros tenemos instalados en nuestro disco duro, y también quiero agradecer cómo no almaestro Robbins su genial idea de un sistema tan particular como Gentoo.In short I want to thank all those people that take a minute of their time to help others with their knowledge, even if that knowledge falls short. I want to thank all those developers that work to have a quality product to be installed in our computers, and I also want to thank master Robbins for such a great idea of a system like Gentoo. Como última nota, es como un sentimiento que tengo acerca de Gentoo, no se si lo compartiréis. Me ocurre con Gentoo y LFS (Linux From Scratch).¿Por qué Gentoo y no Debian u otra distro? Porque para mí es como ir aun restaurante y que me sirvan el vino en la mesa, que lo abran delante mía. Es una cuestión de educación. Prefiero que mi sistema se baje elcódigo, aplique parches (según directivas que YO controle, y nadie más),y me cree la aplicación a mi medida. Para mí un sistema de paquetes binarios es como que abran la botella de vino en la cocina.Finally, I want to share my feeling about Gentoo, maybe you feel something similar. Gentoo and LFS (Linux From Scratch) make me feel this way. Why Gentoo and not Debian or whatever else? For me it's kind of going to a restaurant and having the wine served at my table, opening the bottle in my presence. It's a question of being polite. I prefer that my system downloads the code, applies patches (using guidelines *I* control, and nobody else), and creates the application that fits my needs. For me a binary package system is like opening the bottle at the kitchen. Un saludo y muchísimas gracias,Best regards and thanks a lot Rafael Fernández López.-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.orgiD8DBQFD7lRP9RRlaicc3IERAi3KAKCDHI0mGE3e0m7zRMyFFSY3NS7iVgCZAeuql4wCS2gQePZQvRj+r5cBa2g= =GJoU-END PGP SIGNATURE---gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam
2006/1/13, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: thanks. I believe I am starting to understand this. I was seeing that ldap can authenticate in a lot of types, like , databases, files, and PAM do some things like that too or am I wrong ?as far as I know you are wrong.ldap is an authenticationmechanism.it stores usernames, passwords, and much more. LDAP is *not* an authentication mechanism. LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, so LDAP is a protocol you use to access data stored in a structured way, called directory. An LDAP directory is a directory that may be accessed using LDAP. An LDAP server is a server that serves its data using LDAP. LDAP servers are used for a lot of things, and two of them may be single sign on or centralized authentication (they are different although related things). To access data in a directory you may have to authenticate to access the data. This authentication can be done in several ways, and one of them is called simple bind: in this case you provide a path to locate an object in the directory and a password and the server compares the password provided with the password stored in the specified object. IIRC the PAM-LDAP module uses simple bind to authenticate an user trying to gain access to the system. This is, the PAM module takes the provided user and password and tries to authenticate itself against the LDAP server using the simple bind mechanism, translating the user into a path to locate the object representing that user in the directory. BIG WARNING: Don't do this unless you're using simple bind over SSL protected connections unless you want your passwords to travel (almost?) as clear text through the network. HTH Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
2006/1/10, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 January 2006 15:15 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ? There's a Gentoo installer?I thought that was called Me!Ha, ha!Yes, ME TOO!:-D Well, then there are two Gentoo installers, ME and http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ :o) Although I am convinced that ME TOO is a bit buggy. :-))With regards to the original post isn't this perhaps controlled from theumask setting in /etc/profile?I am not currently at my machine tocheck what's what, but I ran up to a permissions problem while trying to emerge sox (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83331).Still notsure why the permissions of the particular directory were not as theyshould have been on an old installation of mine, while everything went fine on a newer box.umask is set to 022, that seems to be perfectly correct. I don't know where did those permissions came from, but I'm quite sure I didn't set them.Best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
2006/1/10, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Did you use the Gentoo installer?IIRC I used the regular manual install with 2005.1 media, but not2005.1-r1 which I've used since. However I don't see how anything other than a PEBKAC could have caused it. I don't think the stage3 wouldchange permissions on /mnt/gentoo when expending out which is the onlyother logical idea I can come up with it.Well, as I told in another post, I'm quite sure I didn't change those permisssions to such an strange combination, at least I wasn't aware I did it, if I did it at all... but I'll have to admit a PEBKAC for this. Best regardsJose
Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
2006/1/9, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines: proxy ~ # ls -ld / d-wxrt19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 / protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x19 root root 440 mar 102005 /I installed a machine a few months ago, oct?, that had the samepermissions as the first machine you list above. I never did figure out why that machine had strange permissions, but a number of other peopleseem to have had the same issue around the same time. I've installed anumber of machine since and haven't run into it again.In any case a chmod 755 / fixed it. Did you use the Gentoo installer?Best regardsJose
[gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
Hi there,Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines:proxy ~ # ls -ld /d-wxrt 19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 /protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 440 mar 10 2005 /I've been having a permission related problem in the first machine (you can find the description in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116247 ) and as the guy from the Gentoo team tells, maybe it's related to this...TIA, best regardsJose
[gentoo-user] Weird permission problem trying to start Dante SOCKS server
Hi there, I'm facing a weird problem that seems to be related somehow to some permission problem I can't identify. I'm trying to use the Dante SOCKS server, that has three different users you may specify at its configuration file. They should be the sockd user (id 101), but if I use it, I get the following error while checking the configuration file (this error prevents the service from starting): proxy ~ # /usr/sbin/sockd -V Jan 2 16:45:31 (1136216731) sockd[0]: socks_seteuid(): old: 0, new: 101 Jan 2 16:45:31 (1136216731) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): current: 101, new: 0 Jan 2 15:45:31 (1136216731) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): getpwuid(0): Permission denied (errno = 13) Jan 2 15:45:31 (1136216731) sockd[0]: sockdexit(): terminating After googling around I found that getpwuid is a function that returns the information associated with an entry in /etc/passwd for the given uid, and socks_reseteuid seems to be the function used by Dante to switch from on user to another one. So it seems when Dante runs as user 101 (sockd) the call to getpwuid is failing due to a permission problem. I've checked users, permissions on /etc/passwd, and can't find any reason why this would be failing so any help would be greatly appreciated. More info: proxy ~ # id root uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),20(dialout),26(tape),27(video) proxy ~ # id sockd uid=101(sockd) gid=2(daemon) groups=2(daemon) proxy ~ # ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1772 Dec 20 15:01 /etc/passwd proxy ~ # cat /etc/passwd | grep root root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash proxy ~ # cat /etc/passwd | grep sockd sockd:x:101:2:added by portage for dante:/etc/socks:/bin/false Any ideas TIA, best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to start Dante SOCKS server
2005/12/20, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,On (20/12/05 17:35), Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: 2005/12/20, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On (20/12/05 13:59), Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I've just emerged Dante, and I'm trying to start it, but I'm getting the following error and I don't know what's causing it... proxy ~ # /etc/init.d/dante-sockd start Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_seteuid(): old: 0, new: 101 Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): current: 101, new: 0 Dec 20 14:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): getpwuid(0): Permission denied (errno = 13) Dec 20 14:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: sockdexit(): terminating * Something is wrong with your configuration file * for more info, see: man sockd.confCheck this file /etc/sockd.conf (hint) must be somewhere under /etc but i can't check as i don't have 'dante' installed. Read man sockd.conf too.Usually some programs (most often daemons) start as root and later fork/switch the process to other user ID.Main purpose is to gain more security if the service is compromised. e.x. apache,ftp others.Check the above man page and the config file itself (read the comments, if any). Ok, I've isolated the cause of this: Dante has three users to be configured in the config file: user.privileged, user.notprivileged and user.libwrap. If only one of them is different than root, the service cannot be started. I guess this must be some bug in the Gentoo ebuild that prevents the daemon running with the sockd user, at least in the user.notprivileged case. Anybody can confirm this? Thanks, best regards Jose
[gentoo-user] Unable to start Dante SOCKS server
Hi there, I've just emerged Dante, and I'm trying to start it, but I'm getting the following error and I don't know what's causing it... proxy ~ # /etc/init.d/dante-sockd start Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_seteuid(): old: 0, new: 101 Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): current: 101, new: 0 Dec 20 14:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): getpwuid(0): Permission denied (errno = 13) Dec 20 14:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: sockdexit(): terminating * Something is wrong with your configuration file * for more info, see: man sockd.conf Any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to start Dante SOCKS server
2005/12/20, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On (20/12/05 13:59), Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I've just emerged Dante, and I'm trying to start it, but I'm getting the following error and I don't know what's causing it... proxy ~ # /etc/init.d/dante-sockd start Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_seteuid(): old: 0, new: 101 Dec 20 15:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): current: 101, new: 0 Dec 20 14:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: socks_reseteuid(): getpwuid(0): Permission denied (errno = 13) Dec 20 14:01:20 (1135087280) sockd[0]: sockdexit(): terminating* Something is wrong with your configuration file * for more info, see: man sockd.conf Any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards JoseHi,Seems it wants to run as user ID 101, so check your config files, whatever they are. Run grep 101 /etc/passwd to see which user it wants to be, or change the config.No experience with 'dante' though. The user with id 101 is indeed the sockd user: proxy ~ # grep 101 /etc/passwd sockd:x:101:2:added by portage for dante:/etc/socks:/bin/false So I guess it must be doing something with that user that can't be done... Thanks for your help, best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?
2005/12/10, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:34 pm, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Stroller wrote: to authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email? You have many approaches, each of them with specific complications: ... 3) PAM_LDAP and use courier with authpam: May probe useful. It certainly did a couple of years ago for me. From http://www.networkcomputing.com/1305/1305ws12.html I'm readingthat:Finally, we need to add users to both the Linux server and the Windows domain.Here lies an obvious deficiency with thissolution.We have provided an enterprise-scalable authenticationmechanism but not an enterprise-scalable account-managementmechanism. Is this really the case, please? I had just decided that PAM was theway to go for me until I read this. I've never done this, but theoretically you could authenticate against a PDC using Kerberos and then use that Kerberos ticket to connect to any machine in your network using SSH (SSH has builtin support for SSO using Kerberos). I've successfully configured SSO in this way, but authentication was done against an OpenLDAP/Heimdal server. But weren't we talking about IMAP servers? Best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?
2005/12/5, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there,Does anyone have any experience of this, please? I have a number ofusers with roaming profiles on a Windows Domain Controller (SBS 2003).I don't want to use Exchange as a mailserver but instead an IMAP sever such as Courier (which I'm familiar with).Each user will have to change their password on the domain every coupleof weeks and because I want to provide webmail access to their IMAPaccounts it's desirable that their IMAP username password be the same as their Windows one. I don't mind adding users by hand on theLinux-based IMAP server but I would prefer that passwords be changedautomatically - I guess the best way to do this is for the IMAP serverto authenticate against the domain controller everytime the user logs on to their email?Has anyone any experience of this, please? You should either go the Kerneros way for single sign on (I think SBS 2003 uses it), or use an IMAP server that is capable of handling user authentication against LDAP (if using Active Directory). HTH, best regards Jose
Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Interfaces
2005/11/21, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for a GUI interface to PostgreSQL and have found several open source ones available. I'd like some comments on what others use and the good, bad, and ugly of what you use. Thanks. I'm using pgadmin3 under Windows, and I've been happy so far Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing
Hi there, I would like to hear what people is using to do the following things, if this can be done in Linux / Gentoo (I hope so): 1. Photo organizing. This includes downloading photos from a Canon Powershot G6, organizing it in folders (currently done with camera software), batch renaming them using EXIF information included in photos, editing EXIF information (currently done with Exifer: http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/. Unfortunately this is cardware closed source only for Windows) 2. Minor photo editing, like red eyes correction, composing whole images from stitchs (currently done with camera software) 3. Creation of slideshows from photographs. I would like to be able to select some or all of the photographs, maybe add some opening or closing title, extract headers or footers from EXIF information, edit transition between photos, add music to the slideshow, adjust the duration of photos and transition to fit the music, and export a video in a suitable format to be included in VCD, SVCD or DVD. 4. VCD / SVCD / DVD authoring. If possible I'd like to have a GUI for doing this, kind of Ulead DVD Workshop, this is, you can add video files, create menus in a graphical editor, export and burn a project in different formats (VCD/SVCD/DVD), include the source folder with the original images in the resulting CD/DVD... From what I've found I have the feeling that some of the things may be done, but others, specially graphical CD/DVD authoring are lacking some mature tools. TIA, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing
2005/11/8, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, all of those things are possible. Oh you want the long answer? see below: Sure I want it :o) On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:31:48 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: organizing it in folders (currently done with camera software), batch renaming them using EXIF information included in photos, editing EXIF information (currently done with Exifer: http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/. Unfortunately this is cardware closed source only for Windows) There are many good photo databases that do this kind of thing. digikam, kimdaba It seems that digikam has only an Exif viewer, not editor, and I haven't been able to find any reference to batch renaming based on Exif information. Regarding KimDaBa, it also seems to read Exif, but it doesn't let you edit it. 4. VCD / SVCD / DVD authoring. If possible I'd like to have a GUI for doing this, kind of Ulead DVD Workshop, this is, you can add video files, create menus in a graphical editor, export and burn a project in different formats (VCD/SVCD/DVD), include the source folder with the original images in the resulting CD/DVD... dvdstyler is a good gui front end for this. This is only for DVDs, isn't it? Anyone for VCD / SVCD? Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing
2005/11/8, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Creation of slideshows from photographs. I would like to be able to select some or all of the photographs, maybe add some opening or closing title, extract headers or footers from EXIF information, edit transition between photos, add music to the slideshow, adjust the duration of photos and transition to fit the music, and export a video in a suitable format to be included in VCD, SVCD or DVD. I have no idea... but looks like the most horrible kitschy bad-taste thing I ever heard, so I refuse to give you advices about such an horror :-) Maybe, but you can make really happy your mother-in-law if you prepare a few of those slideshows containing photos of her grandchildren. If you finally author an easy to use SVCD menu, burn it on a printable surface CD, and print a photo of them in the surface, you become her favorite son-in-law... believe me, tested and proven ;o) Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing
2005/11/9, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: 2005/11/8, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Creation of slideshows from photographs. I would like to be able to select some or all of the photographs, maybe add some opening or closing title, extract headers or footers from EXIF information, edit transition between photos, add music to the slideshow, adjust the duration of photos and transition to fit the music, and export a video in a suitable format to be included in VCD, SVCD or DVD. I have no idea... but looks like the most horrible kitschy bad-taste thing I ever heard, so I refuse to give you advices about such an horror :-) Maybe, but you can make really happy your mother-in-law if you prepare a few of those slideshows containing photos of her grandchildren. If you finally author an easy to use SVCD menu, burn it on a printable surface CD, and print a photo of them in the surface, you become her favorite son-in-law... believe me, tested and proven ;o) Ahaha, OK, you're forgiven :-P (Sorry if I looked rude, but I couldn't control myself in front of such a description...) No problem, and thanks for the help :o) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix, LDAP, courier-imap, how do i get them to talk to each other?
2005/9/2, Jakub Krajcovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all, I am finishing the installation of a gentoo server, and $SUBJECT is the last thing that i need to do. The server's primary purpose is to server as a PDC for a windows domain. The user accounts (both posix and samba) are stored in ldap, as are the machine accounts (i followed the instructions on samba.idealx.org to set it up). The accounts in ldap are valid unix accounts (posix - like i mentioned earlier), the only thing is that they do not have a shell, (eg /bin/false) because the users only use samba, and do not connect to the server itself for shell access. Each user has a valid home directory (eg /home/group/user) and of course, a password. I configured postfix to relay mail, and now i need to configure it to receive mail, pass it to courier-imap (configure courier-imap), and make courier look for delivery info in the ldap database, and deliver the friggin email. I need the email stored in Maildir format, and preferably, i would want it to be stored in /home/group/user/.maildir (eg ~user/.maildir) Could someone please help me with this? I have followed this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Postfix- LDAP_virtual_users_with_qmail_schema and did some configuration according to this, but i was not able to get it working, as this deals primarily with virtual users, but my users are real. I googled, checked the forums, but i found nothing that would solve my problem. Also, i am using qmailSchema for the users that i need to give email to. The fields that are defined for mail-enabled users are: mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] accountStatus: active mailMessageStore: /home/group/user/.maildir (is this correct?) In case anyone would be willing to assist, but you would need the config files, please let me know, and i will post them on my server. thanks in advance to anyone willing to help S pozdravom / Best regards jakub krajcovic Sometime ago I had some installation with that software and a similar setup, although I don't remember the exact details. Anyway I seem to remember that the mail wasn't delivered to the home directory of every user, as it's a bit tricky to do so: the MTA should have write access to all the home directories. I'm currently using Cyrus IMAP and delivering mail through LMTP. Anyway, you may treat your users as virtual and store the mail anywhere else. Keep in mind that storing mail in the user's home directory is intended for systems where users access mail directly in their file system (as they used some time ago) instead of going through a POP3/IMAP server, as it's mainly done nowadays. Moreover, you're not giving your users shell access, so you don't have to worry for giving direct access to mail files (unless you're mounting those directories from anywhere else). HTH, Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with tape autochanger
Hi there, I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost. It seems I cannot access the tapes, as I get the following: cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind /dev/nst0: No such device or address cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind /dev/st0: No such device or address cognos ~ # ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 mar 10 18:47 /dev/nst0 cognos ~ # ls -l /dev/st0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 0 mar 10 18:47 /dev/st0 It seems my system has not detected the tape autochanger, as I only get the SCSI disk in the list of SCSI devices: cognos ~ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: BD07296B44 Rev: HPB6 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 I have two SCSI adapters: cognos ~ # lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32) :00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) GCNB-LE Host Bridge :00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) :00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) :00:05.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System Management Controller :00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02) :00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07) :00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) :00:0e.0 IDE interface: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) CSB6 IDE Controller (rev a0) :00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0) :00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) CSB6 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05) :00:0f.3 Host bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) GCLE-2 Host Bridge I think the tape autochanger is connected to the second one (LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030), so I have checked my kernel config searching for drivers. Everything I can think of seems to be compiled in the kernel, or as modules I have tried to modprobe, but with no positive results... any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with tape autochanger
2005/8/9, Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost. It seems I cannot access the tapes, as I get the following: cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind /dev/nst0: No such device or address cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind /dev/st0: No such device or address cognos ~ # ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 mar 10 18:47 /dev/nst0 cognos ~ # ls -l /dev/st0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 0 mar 10 18:47 /dev/st0 It seems my system has not detected the tape autochanger, as I only get the SCSI disk in the list of SCSI devices: cognos ~ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: BD07296B44 Rev: HPB6 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 I have two SCSI adapters: cognos ~ # lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32) :00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) GCNB-LE Host Bridge :00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) :00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) :00:05.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System Management Controller :00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02) :00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07) :00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) :00:0e.0 IDE interface: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) CSB6 IDE Controller (rev a0) :00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0) :00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) CSB6 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05) :00:0f.3 Host bridge: Broadcom (formerly ServerWorks) GCLE-2 Host Bridge I think the tape autochanger is connected to the second one (LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030), so I have checked my kernel config searching for drivers. Everything I can think of seems to be compiled in the kernel, or as modules I have tried to modprobe, but with no positive results... any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose There's nothing as posting a question to inmediately find the answer: I had to modprobe mptbase and mptscsih (MPT Fusion support). Now it seems to be working Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tomcat5 sun-jdk issue
2005/8/9, Andreas Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 8/9/05, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason I have 56 java processes running each time I restart tomcat? Anyone know how this could be? These are most likely threads, since so many of them share the same memory usage. Try the various ps options that relate to threads and see if you can make the display prettier. Regards, Andreas As Andreas told you, you're most likely watching Java threads. I seem to remember that after installing NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) support a Java virtual machine with all its threads maps to just one linux process, so you would stop seeing that many processes every time you lanch a multithreaded Java application... anybody can confirm this? Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo
Hi there, I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router, with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs (except the server, with fixed private IP). Now I'm considering changing to another provider with dynamic IPs. I have three domains hosted in my SOHO server (let's say example1.com, example2.com and example3.com) including mail for two of them. The questions are: 1. Which dynamic DNS provider do you prefer and why (I would prefer a free one)? 2. Which is the best dynamic DNS client available in Gentoo, taking into accout that it must be able to discover the DSL router's dynamically assigned IP and connect with the chosen provider? I would like to be able to keep my domain names, but using a dynamic IP DSL connection, this is, I don't want to change to any URL like example.no-ip.com or example.dyndns.org. So I thought I could just add some CNAMEs entries to my DNS service (kind of www.example1.com CNAME example.dyndns.org and mail.example1.com CNAME example.dyndns.org) to get what I want, but here: http://www.dyndns.org/services/dns/ they say the free service doesn't support using your own domain names... does this mean that you must pay if you want to include your own domain name in their DNS servers, but the whole CNAME stuff should work if you have a DNS service available elsewhere? Has anyone ever tried this? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo
2005/8/9, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router, with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs 2. Which is the best dynamic DNS client available in Gentoo, taking into accout that it must be able to discover the DSL router's dynamically assigned IP and connect with the chosen provider? Well, I think, this could be easy done by your broadband soho router. Most of them have already support for all common dyndns providers... I'm facing the opposite problem: I have gentoo-server with bind running (with static IP, outside of my home network) and I'm looking for the way my home router (asus wl500g) with dyn-ip could use it as dyddns instead of dyndns.org... Jarry I currently own a 3com 812 router (a bit outdated) so I think I don't have that functionality built in the router. Anyway, I have taken a look at ddclient (suggested by Jean) and seems to have some kind of support for my router... Thanks, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring (graphical web app)
Haven't tried it, but it seems to be worth a look, so I would add http://www.zabbix.com/ 2005/8/3, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use Nagios and Cacti with much success. http://www.nagios.org/ http://www.cacti.net/ -Mike On 8/3/05, Chris Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been looking for a monitoring app that I can run on my server/gateway. The more graphical the better, I really like the looks of the graphs from ipac and grapher. But I'd like to get more details than just total interface statistics. I'd like to be able to see a graph for the total, but also a few extra graphs for watching specific ports (21, 22, 25, 80, 443, etc...). Being able to monitor procs, specific procs, and memory and stuff would be nice, but I can get that from other apps if needed. Any suggestions/recommendations? Thanks all, Chris Frederick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?
2005/7/18, Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the many suggestions... Lots of interesting ideas and different perspectives. Zac Medico wrote: Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ I'll give that a look - it's not really what I was after - while I suppose I wasn't really clear about my intentions, I really wanted FS-like access to enable me not only to edit text files, but also to use visual differencing tools etc. I'm suspecting that this wouldn't be supported using an ftp-like approach. For remote X you should use nx (emerge nxserver-freenx) or vnc (emerge tightvnc). That's new to me - looks very interesting... I'm guessing I'd need to get this working under cygwin for my XP client... Anything which improves the performance of remote X sessions would be very useful. To map a network drive, you should probably tunnel samba through ssh. Google for samba tunnel putty. This is exactly what I wanted to know. I hadn't thought of googling with putty as I'm using OpenSSH on both client and server - but the techniques look the same. Steve I'm surprised nobody mentioned WinSCP... definitely worth a try: http://winscp.net/ And of course, it's GPLed. Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to know if a Xeon is EMT64 capable?
Hi there, I'm about to install a Gentoo system in a Xeon based computer, but I'm not sure if this processor is 64-bit capable or not, as there seems to exist 32 and 64 versions of this processor. Is there any way to know it? The output of cat /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 3067.211 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr bogomips: 6062.08 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 3067.211 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr bogomips: 6127.61 Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
