Re: [gentoo-user] is this normal? (free disk space question)

2005-02-11 Thread Botykai Zsolt
IMO he compared ``df'' with ``df''. If I look at the original post I see some (multimedia related?) applications which I don't know. The difference makes about 2GB so I wonder if some of this application is of sort video. Could be that this app saves temporary files. My 0,02$ Frank

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink exits with 1 ( a crash ? ). What do I do ?

2005-02-11 Thread Botykai Zsolt
-= Eredeti zenet (Original message) =- Dtum (Date): Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:40:05 +0200 Kld (From): Ivan Yosifov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cmzett (To): gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trgy (Subject): [gentoo-user] Prelink exits with 1 ( a crash ? ). What do I do ? It appears prelink has simply stopped working

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: squirrelmail and huge message folders

2005-02-11 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Nick Smith wrote: i would suggest upping the limit anyway, because the folder will still continue to grow. ;-) Nah, I do a cleanup once in a while removing all messages older than 60 days... So I keep it pretty constant at 1 messages... I'm surprised that my tiny server can handle it...

Re: [gentoo-user] is this normal? (free disk space question)

2005-02-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 16:57 schrieb ext Botykai Zsolt: just got some warning about lack of disk space, so I cheched it. # cd /home # du --max-depth=0 -m 3132 # df -m | grep home /dev/hda5 67335362 1030 84% /home Just thaught what hte heck??? started to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread Stoian Ivanov
You could sing in for a free shell account (www.rootshell.be), and allow access from their ip/network only - when you are away you can hoop via the free account to your machine, adjust firewall and carry on. Shell providers won't allow scanner running on their machines :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread Matan Peled
R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: Hi all, Recently I'm receiving a lot of failed ssh login attempts on my box for user root as well as a whole lot of other users which doesn't even exist. I'm getting tired of blocking these IPs manually everyday. Is there any software that can look in the logs and put

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome desktop - how do I customise the context menu?

2005-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Ric de France wrote: Luke, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:41:31 -0800, Luke Ravitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-02-10 22:35, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I change the context menu to remove all traces of totem or Totem media player? From the context menu, select Properties. Select

[gentoo-user] SNAT and multiply real addresses ?

2005-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, I have a real networks on the eth0 side and real network on the eth1 side. a.a.a.0/24 x.x.x.0/24 eth0--SNAT-box--eth1:0 y.y.y.2/24 y.y.y.1/24 ===INTERNET z.z.z.0/24 I want to nat those behind eth0 to go out as y.y.y.0/24 (eth1 is with another address different gw and address, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious GDB Error!

2005-02-11 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: | Hi, | | I've written this simple piece of code that uses STL strings in C++ | (appears below). Now when I run GDB I get the following: | | 1. warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. | GDB will be unable to

[gentoo-user] Can't kill KsCD - can't eject CD

2005-02-11 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there, Since my last update (udev, KDE 3.3.2) I'm having problems with KsCD. On a clean reboot KsCD starts without any problem, I put a music CD, start KsCD and play it without any problem. Once the CD finishes playing I'm able to change it using the eject button twice (first time opens the

[gentoo-user] xen ebuild madness

2005-02-11 Thread Eric S. Johansson
trying to use the xen ebuild from bug 70161 and I am getting the following messages but I haven't been able to find anything via google on the error. Clues would be most welcome. ---eric xeno root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge --debug xen Calculating dependencies Parent:None Depstring:

RE: [gentoo-user] logwatch + syslog-ng

2005-02-11 Thread Simon Cornell
I've solved my own problem - just plodded through the scripts and changed a few regex's. There was probably an easier way; but it's done now -Original Message- From: Simon Cornell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2005 19:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] cups-kprinter problem

2005-02-11 Thread Andreas Fischer
Hi, I had the same problem on a SuSE system. I was able to fix it uninstalling and reinstalling ghostscript. You should try this on gentoo, too. Hope this helps. Andreas Michael W. Holdeman schrieb: I keep having a problem with cups-kprinter. It is with tryiong to print pdf files. I also get an

[gentoo-user] help for eth0 not existing

2005-02-11 Thread Admin
Hi, someone could go through this. After I had installed 2004.3, compiled 2.6.9r1, rebooted and during booting I have such messages: ... *Starting input hotplugging... [ok] *Starting pci hotplugging...[ok] *Mounting network filessytems... [ok] *PCMCIA support detected [ok] *Starting

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi Heniz, On Fri, February 11, 2005 12:59 am, Heinz Sporn said: Just out of curiousity - have you ever thought of allowing ssh only over a VPN? Like say OpenVPN? No, I haven't played with that idea yet as I haven't yet played with vpn stuff. Will take a shot at it this weekend. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] help for eth0 not existing

2005-02-11 Thread Bryan Linkous
Make sure that you have the correct ethernet drivers compiled into the kernel, or that the correct module is loaded. I got the same error when I had compiled in the wrong driver. HTH, Bryan On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:27:53 +0100, Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, someone could go through

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Thanks Stoian I never even thought of this. Will definitely try it. Seems the easiest way. Will also try to implement openvpn as pointed by Heinz. -R'twick On Fri, February 11, 2005 3:59 am, Stoian Ivanov said: You could sing in for a free shell account (www.rootshell.be), and allow access

[gentoo-user] nvidia 6600GT

2005-02-11 Thread Tamas Sarga
Hi, I'd like to buy an Nvidia 6600GT card. Will it works with binary nvidia driver? Any experience? TIA. Cheers, Tamas Sarga -- A day is 24 hours long. Egy nap 24 rbl ll. A box of beer contains 24 bottles. Egy tlcn 24 veg sr van. I don't believe in coincidence. Nem

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6600GT

2005-02-11 Thread M. Ignacio Monge
El vie, 11-02-2005 a las 16:20 +0100, Tamas Sarga escribió: Hi, I'd like to buy an Nvidia 6600GT card. Will it works with binary nvidia driver? Any experience? TIA. Cheers, Tamas Sarga -- A day is 24 hours long. Egy nap 24 órából áll. A box of beer contains 24

[gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Bradley Serbu
My flags tell me that I have a hyperthreading capable processor, which is new to my knowledge. I am curious if the output is garunteed correct before I compile the dual-processor options in my kernel. I have a Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz - Brad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6600GT

2005-02-11 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, M. Ignacio Monge wrote: El vie, 11-02-2005 a las 16:20 +0100, Tamas Sarga escribi: Hi, I'd like to buy an Nvidia 6600GT card. Will it works with binary nvidia driver? Any experience? TIA. Cheers, Tamas Sarga -- A day is 24 hours long.

[gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread Michael Thompson
I have a issue where I cannot connect to my server because the firewall only allows ports 80 and 443 out. I previously ran SSH on port 443 to overcome this, but I have had to implement a HTTPS solution for users who wanted secure access, so that is now gone. This system has DNS records for

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Michael Thompson ha scritto: I have a issue where I cannot connect to my server because the firewall only allows ports 80 and 443 out. I previously ran SSH on port 443 to overcome this, but I have had to implement a HTTPS solution for users who wanted secure access, so that is now gone. This

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6600GT

2005-02-11 Thread dave
On (2005-02-11 16:41), Tamas Sarga wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, M. Ignacio Monge wrote: El vie, 11-02-2005 a las 16:20 +0100, Tamas Sarga escribi?: Hi, I'd like to buy an Nvidia 6600GT card. Will it works with binary nvidia driver? Any experience? TIA. Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread Steve
Michael Thompson wrote: I have a issue where I cannot connect to my server because the firewall only allows ports 80 and 443 out. I previously ran SSH on port 443 to overcome this, but I have had to implement a HTTPS solution for users who wanted secure access, so that is now gone. I've had a

Re: [gentoo-user] help for eth0 not existing

2005-02-11 Thread heinz . sporn
Ok. There's no such thing like /dev/eth0. Use ifconfig -a. Things to check: 1. What's your NIC? Did u compile a module for it? Or included kernel support? 2. Look into /var/log/kern.log 3. run rc-update add coldplug boot Zitat von Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, someone could go through

Re: [gentoo-user] help for eth0 not existing

2005-02-11 Thread Bradley Serbu
Is this a wireless device? Do you have the ndiswrapper emerged? I read somewhere that this was a problem with the ndiswrapper's choice of driver. I'm pretty sure I read it in the Wireless Guide on the Gentoo Wiki. - Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. There's no such thing like /dev/eth0. Use

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread James Hiscock
so can I use IPTables or similar to recognise if it is being connected to via ssh.server.co.uk on port 443 and forward the traffic to port 22? If www.server.co.uk:443 is used apache gets the traffic? Or is this (As I suspect) Impossible? You can look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread Keith P Hassen
Friday 11 February 2005 11:07 - Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a issue where I cannot connect to my server because the firewall only allows ports 80 and 443 out. I previously ran SSH on port 443 to overcome this, but I have had to implement a HTTPS solution for users who

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious GDB Error!

2005-02-11 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:58:36 +0200, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi, Hello! SNICKER SNACK! 10 cout s.at(3); (gdb) b 9 MORE SNIPPAGE I'm no gdb expert, but aren't you forgetting the closing curly bracket? What you saw was under

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious GDB Error!

2005-02-11 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:11:31 +0100, Karsten Baumgarten Can you show us how you have compiled the program? I tried to reproduce this on my box (GCC 3.4, GDB 6.0) and it works as expected (that is, what I expected, not what you experienced ;) ) The funny thing is it works perfect on most

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 6600GT

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 11 February 2005 15:20, Tamas Sarga wrote: I'd like to buy an Nvidia 6600GT card. Will it works with binary nvidia driver? Any experience? I have a 256MB, 6600, PCI-E card, on a stock 2.6.10 kernel and it works just fine. Installed the nvidia drivers, setup xorg to use it, and off I

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-11 Thread Antoine
Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! Reading all the posts to your question I found it rather strange that no one seems to be interessted in some basic facts: 1. How will this kind of file server being used? What is its main purpose? 2. How many users are we talking here? 3. What are the most important

[gentoo-user] deltaV servers

2005-02-11 Thread Antoine
Hi, I don't really know much about this but are there any OSS servers that implement deltaV (with webdav of course)? The boss wants something with versioning but turned his nose up at subversion today. I would like to be able to provide an alternative to the vpn access with zero versioning

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 05:32 -0500, Bradley Serbu wrote: My flags tell me that I have a hyperthreading capable processor, which is new to my knowledge. I am curious if the output is garunteed correct before I compile the dual-processor options in my kernel. I have a Mobile Intel(R)

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Bradley Serbu
For all that are interested. I went ahead and built my kernel with Symetric Muliprocessing support enabled and didn't have a problem. However I didn't see another CPU show up and the results of dmesg said HyperThreading was disabled. After some further research online with the P4M processor I

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, fire-eyes wrote: I've never heard of them being wrong, as for guaranteed, not sure I'd go that far. I don't remember hyperthreading being enabled for pentium 4 mobile chips but I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure you're going to be enabling hyperthreading (HT), not SMP,

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael Thompson wrote: This system has DNS records for ssh.server.co.uk and www.server.co.uk, so can I use IPTables or similar to recognise if it is being connected to via ssh.server.co.uk on port 443 and forward the traffic to port 22? If www.server.co.uk:443 is used apache gets the traffic?

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Bradley Serbu
Peter Karlsson wrote: To enable smt you need to enable smp... Besides, an smp kernel works nicely for an non-smp system as well... What benefits does a kernel configuration like this have? The results in dmesg show Hyperthreading as disabled. - Brad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibe?

2005-02-11 Thread Billy Holmes
James Hiscock wrote: That looks fantastic! And it appears to support SSH...so you could try to match against SSH, and redirect to the appropriate port if it does match. Otherwise, assume it's web traffic... I agree. I didn't do any research, but I was a little doubtful that someone else hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] help for eth0 not existing

2005-02-11 Thread PK
how old is that card ? check your kernel enable * NE2000/NE1000 support under device drivers networking support 10 100 Admin wrote: Hi, someone could go through this. After I had installed 2004.3, compiled 2.6.9r1, rebooted and during booting I have such messages: ... *Starting input

[gentoo-user] OT: Confustion over network performance numbers

2005-02-11 Thread Abap
Hi, I noticed that my network seemed slow at times (when copying files). I thought I would try to do a little investigation so that I could at least get some baseline numbers for future comparison. What I have found is rather confusing to me (I know enough about networking to barely be

Re: [gentoo-user] OT software to block IPs automatically?

2005-02-11 Thread Matt Garman
The original poster was requesting a way to automatically block suspicious IPs. Lots of good responses. Another idea, and I've only read about this (no actual experience), but may be worth looking into: port knocking. The basic concept is that you would keep your ssh port closed *all* the

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager) - FIXED

2005-02-11 Thread Robert S
If I try to start metacity I get: Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1630 error_code 8 request_code 66 minor_code 0) Aborted I've fixed it - found it on the forums. I removed the following from xorg.conf Section Extensions Option

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-11 Thread Robert S
Thank you for your comments on the 2nd and third points of my original post. I'm still struggling with emerging sawfish. The first question (the most important) remains unanswered. Has anybody had problems with seting up the WindowManager? Any tips on how to do this?? One of the things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert S wrote: Thank you for your comments on the 2nd and third points of my original post. I'm still struggling with emerging sawfish. The first question (the most important) remains unanswered. Has anybody had problems with seting up the WindowManager? Any tips on how to do this?? One

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager) - FIXED

2005-02-11 Thread Robert S
Here's the culprit - found it in the Forums Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Commented that out and all is fine now. I still can't compile sawfish, but that's irrelevant now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-11 Thread James Hiscock
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:33:23 +1100, Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your comments on the 2nd and third points of my original post. I'm still struggling with emerging sawfish. The first question (the most important) remains unanswered. Has anybody had problems with seting up

[gentoo-user] intermitent hang at shutdown

2005-02-11 Thread rodrigo ahumada
hi, this one is for a little problem i'm having: 1/5 reboots/poweroffs doesn't shutdown the computer. info: gentoo stage1 kernels: gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10r6 compiled with and without acpi support, with apm linux-2.6.10 from

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 questions: frame buffer, dma

2005-02-11 Thread bluebird_zenith
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:38:21PM +, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/lilo.conf depends on how you boot) for exmample adding vga=0x317 I thought you couldn't use hex in the lilo/grub confs but had to use the decimal representation or am I mistaken?

Re: [gentoo-user] intermitent hang at shutdown

2005-02-11 Thread Steven Susbauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Make sure you enable Use APM to turn off power (or something close to it) in the APM settings, and also make sure Enable APM at boot is selected. I've had it just sit there after a reboot if they aren't on. rodrigo ahumada wrote: hi, this one is for a