Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with qmail-smtp
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 23:11, Jan Meier wrote: My qmail-smtp is not running anymore, I am not able to send mail over it. What can I do to get rid of this? etc-update -- Mike Williams pgpVCaMnSvkrN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?
On Sunday 19 June 2005 18:28, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2 (x86 architecture)? I just can't seem to remember the name of the site. http://chinstrap.alternating.net/ Don't know if it has evolution 2 though. -- Mike Williams pgpPZvJis5BfH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] files in /usr/portage/metafiles/cache
On Saturday 18 June 2005 18:41, David Harel wrote: Can I remove files from: /usr/portage/metadata/cache ? Yeah, if you want. But then again, you can remove anything you like, wether you'll break anything is another matter :) In this case, portage should just run slower. -- Mike Williams pgpt4pNkBmkB2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server
On Friday 17 June 2005 19:55, Antoine wrote: Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to an Oracle database. The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $3+ solution is not on the cards... I know of a big-ass HA Oracle system at a previous employer. It was an Oracle 9i RAC system, consisting of 3x boxes, dual fibre channel switches, dual FC arrays stuffed with SCSI disks, and finally a big quad CPU box as a failover for the failover/redundant/resilient RAC! I think there was a master server for the RAC in there too. That system IS NOT going down, at all, ever (unless something absolutely catastrophic happens, all the kit is in the same room). All Dell stuff, running RedHat. As Byron says, RedHat is one of the few distros Oracle will support. SLES is another, and thats what we run our Oracle 8 installs on. -- Mike Williams pgpq6vwvQ0Wwz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 3 Disk server setup - recommendations?
On Friday 03 June 2005 10:38, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: If you have any opinions / recommendations concernign this issue, please let me know. I am really interested in the gentoo users opinion, (and myself being a libra, i hope i will able to make up my mind :-)) I'd mirror, and LVM the 2 IDE disks for user data, and install the system on the SCSI. If you can ever imagine it necessary to alter partition sizes for the system, then LVM the SCSI disk too, but DON'T make it part of the same vg, it's unnecessary and can cause major headaches in the event of a failure or hardware moves. Personally, I wouldn't LVM the SCSI disk as, if you can get your hands on another disk at some point, it's relatively straight forward (from an livecd) to convert your system partitions to RAID mirrors. -- Mike Williams pgpBHRCzN7gIA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] openssh newuse
On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:49, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: configure:6491: checking compiler and flags for sanity configure:6510: i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -DWITH_LDAP_PUBKEY -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -lldap conftest.c 5 conftest.c: In function `main': conftest.c:21: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memalloc_x' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memvfree_x' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memrealloc_x' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memcalloc_x' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_strndup_x' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_memfree_x' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_strdup_x' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Here is your problem. Do you want/use ldap? -- Mike Williams pgpvBqEvCOqkT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:31, Colin wrote: Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. Did this happen after a reboot? Check the permissions of /dev/null -- Mike Williams pgpWfGzWHSA21.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?
On Saturday 21 May 2005 23:57, Felix Tiede wrote: Tell it to use udev by adding gentoo=nodevfs to your kernel-commandline. Other way: Remove support for /dev filesystem (DEVFS) from your kernel. Or, just install udev. The init scripts will work the rest out. -- Mike Williams pgp58cDvn4oSl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?
On Monday 09 May 2005 16:33, Willie Wong wrote: There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 yesterday and can no longer find the etcat and qpkg commands. And what is it with the changelogs? Maybe I've looked in the wrong place, but I didn't see that change mentioned at all in the changelog for portage (actually, I didn't even see a changelog when I issued `emerge -vlPu portage'). Neither etcat, or qpkg are, or have ever been, part of portage. They come with gentoolkit. -- Mike Williams pgpLFL6dyRsjQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user]
On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. I also think that if I'm not part of the wheel group, I wouldn't even have the opportunity to enter a password after doing 'su'. How can I check to be sure I'm part of the wheel group? You will still get asked. id -- Mike Williams pgp3XcNfYZPY0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] pcimodules
On Friday 06 May 2005 22:54, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Let me know, if I identified your question properly! :-):-) If u doesn't know, which chipset is used on your eth card, run # lspci | grep Eth and learn it. This info should be enough to configure your kernel properly. Unfortunantly my requirement is a little more complex than that :) This is for an fully automated install routine. -- Mike Williams pgpxNUYWu7XqJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas
On Monday 25 April 2005 13:47, Jason Cooper wrote: But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunately, implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless there is a --nodownload flag. otherwise, you'll have to figure out some way to block the emerge process until the file(s) is/are downloaded. portage already handles that, using locks. I think it's the distlocks FEATURES, which should be on by default. -- Mike Williams pgpZlsMjUFHIp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot crontab -e - Permission denied!
On Sunday 24 April 2005 14:56, Michael Sullivan wrote: but I can edit my crontab on my personal computer. How would I fix this? I can't even tell what's wrong with it, why I can use crontab on baby but not on bullet One word: permissions. -- Mike Williams pgpZ4K4xn4djC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail
On Thursday 14 April 2005 18:09, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any info about this. I want to subscribe here but get no messages delivered. The subscription would be so as to enable posting thru news.gmane.org's mail to news gateway. Is there some way to set such a parameter? # Get off the main list mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # Get on the allow list mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Williams pgp9KelxcCklZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?
On Monday 11 April 2005 23:18, Eric S. Johansson wrote: ;);) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) I always leave it mounted since it makes little real difference security wise. seriously, what does it protects you against when a compromise can probably also mount it then unmount it again as a courtesy mount it read-only, seriously, you can't accidentally delete/edit stuff, or format it by accident (*cough*), plus genkernel supports read-only /boot's since I fixed it and submitted my patches. -- Mike Williams pgpAzdYUbBZMr.pgp Description: PGP signature
