Re: [gentoo-user] usb external drive
On Thursday 05 July 2007 5:27:19 James wrote: What I'm looking for is a simple procedure I can use to set up all my gentoo systems so I can easily move this drive from machine to machine and have access to the files under gentoo and windoz (2k,xp,vista). When I did this I just used ext3 and then installed an ext2 driver for Windows. I don't know whether the ext2 driver is supported under Vista but it works fine under XP. The only options I know of are NTFS (flakey linux support) or VFAT (obsolete and wasteful filesystem). Josh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.
Hey gang... I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some security issues. I was just curious which IMAP server other people would recommend or perhaps if I am best off just sticking with what I know. My current setup is very simple. My only real requirements are SSL and maildir support. I connect using either Kmail or Thunderbird. Thanks, Josh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dovecot... is the bugzilla material?
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 18:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you emerge dovecot with the pop3d USE flag? Nope and Jean has explained a bit about that... sorry for the line noise Looks to be not the end of the troubles with dovecot. I get this when a connection is attempted: dovecot: Jun 27 13:07:52 Error: pop3-login: inotify_init() failed: Function not implemented Just a guess, but: check your kernel config. See if CONFIG_INOTIFY is set. If not, recompile with that set and see if it behaves better. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux
On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, so that I can have a update of the whole smash in my laptop once a day, rather than waiting for a slow internet connection remotely. It's just an idea I'm playing around with, and playing around is good (99% of the time, anyways). I used to setup linux-based embedded systems running agetty on the serial port. That allowed us to connect to the machine with just a null-modem cable (Windows client using hyperterm usually) and login directly if the network went screwy. The thing I remember most about the whole process was that running over a serial connection was slow as molasses. You need to set a baud rate on the line (the server and client must agree on the rate) and you basically get dial-up speeds. If there is a way to coax 2Mb/s out of the thing I never found it. If you are looking for a linux client, look for a program called kermit. It's been at least 5 years since I last used it, but I believe that is what we used to use. Josh pgpgpJslnpkgQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel
On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:58, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:22, Lord Sauron wrote: Found xinit! However... it's very... confusing. What you want is a file called .xsession in your home directory. Mine just contains: #!/bin/sh `which startkde` Why not just: #!/bin/sh startkde If 'which' can find startkde then it must be in the PATH. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 19:55, c.s.prakash wrote: when i mount the nfs through the system call mount(192.168.0.51:/root, /mnt/9, nfs, 0, rw, async); it shows an invalid argument. but when i do this thru mount command it mounts without any problem It's been about 4 years since I last had to do that (so no guarantees), but If I remember correctly the data argument for NFS is not just a string. Instead I believe that you have to do some other magic to encode the data correctly. I would recommend looking at the source code for mount and see what happens. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:07, Petr Uzel wrote: IMHO it's easier to look at 'man 2 mount' : ... Values for the filesystemtype argument supported by the kernel are listed in /proc/filesystems (like minix, ext2, msdos, proc, nfs, iso9660 etc.). man 2 mount is not going to help. If you had looked closer you would realize that the data argument is the last argument not the filesystem type. The man page only says that the data argument is typically a comma separated string. I don't believe that is the case with NFS. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22:04, Darryl Wagoner wrote: On 3/8/06, Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man 2 mount is not going to help. If you had looked closer you would realize that the data argument is the last argument not the filesystem type. The man page only says that the data argument is typically a comma separated string. I don't believe that is the case with NFS. Why not? I would try something like for data: rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft. Check nfs(5) for details. OK... I did some googling... Source: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html Instead of a textual option string, parsed by the kernel, the nfs file system expects a binary argument of type struct nfs_mount_data. The program mount itself parses the following options of the form `tag=value', and puts them in the structure mentioned: rsize=n, wsize=n, timeo=n, retrans=n, acregmin=n, acregmax=n, acdirmin=n, acdirmax=n, actimeo=n, retry=n, port=n, mountport=n, mounthost=name, mountprog=n, mountvers=n, nfsprog=n, nfsvers=n, namlen=n. The option addr=n is accepted but ignored. Also the following Boolean options, possibly preceded by no are recognized: bg, fg, soft, hard, intr, posix, cto, ac, tcp, udp, lock. For details, see nfs(5). I would still recommend looking into the mount source code. If I remember correctly, there is more to it than just creating a struct and populating it. I seem to recall that I also had to do something to register the remote export with the local machine. I vaguely remember fighting to have to get something to show up in /proc before I could successfully mount a filesystem. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 08:17 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Yeah. Each one has an entry that says 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and then it has an entry consisting of 192.168.1.? name.espersunited.com name Looks correct to me. Someone may have already suggested this (if so, sorry), but how about your /etc/nsswitch.conf file? Are you checking the hosts file before you try a dns lookup? Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist
Yes, I see that on all our servers. Not much more than an annoyance unless you have stupidly obvious passwords, but annoying for sure. On customer servers that don't require access from the everywhere and anywhere I just configure hosts.allow and hosts.deny to drop traffic from all but known addresses, but this is of course not an option for a webserver or whatever. There have been lots of discussions on various lists about handling these brute force ssh scripts, with various strategies for having iptables rules limit login attempts after three unsuccessful attempts, but I've seen as many it didn't work for me posts as do it this way and not being a firewall guru, I've sat on the fence so far. I think the problem with just blacklisting IPs is that the list will just grow and grow as these cretins move around all the time. Oh for a small incendiary device that could be targeted by IP address! ;-) I want one of those too!!! I realize that security experts cringe when I say this, but most of these automated attacks are pretty stupid and you can make yourself invisible to most of them by simply having ssh use a different port. I am not saying that doing so gives you any more security than leaving ssh at port 22 - especially against a determined cracker. You still need to apply appropriate security safeguards like firewall rules, host allow settings, good passwords or better yet password-less login, etc... But, it does significantly reduce the number of random brute-force attacks that you see. I personally went from seeing 20 or so of these a day to not having seen one in weeks. Low hanging fruit and all of that... Josh pgptWLFCiFtUb.pgp Description: PGP signature
