[gentoo-ppc-user] Sawtooth G4 boot issue

2005-03-05 Thread Roderick Day
hello all, perhaps this question has been asked but if so i could not find any references on the forums or on google. i have a "sawtooth" G4 400MHz with a Rage 128 Pro 32MB and 384 MB RAM. i cannot for the life of me boot any discs other than the OS 9 and OS X install CD's. i have tried every

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Cox
On Saturday 05 March 2005 01:37 am, James Colannino wrote: I'd like one keyboard/mouse to control the MythTV display only, and another keyboard/mouse to control only the primary display. I don't think that setup is possible. But do keep us informed. -- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread Harald Arnesen
Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than trying new ram, is there a way to try and figure out if it's the mainboard or the processor? If you overclock your processor, don't. It could also be an overworked power supply. If you have a modern graphics card, several disks og similar power

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 03:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Smith wrote: is there a way to send encrypted email? so that if the person on the revieving end of the email doesnt have the key they cant view the email? In any case, what you need is GNUPG (gpg); most, if not all email

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread Julien Cayzac
Just try to increase the ram-related delays in your BIOS settings... On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:57:47 +0100, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than trying new ram, is there a way to try and figure out if it's the mainboard or the processor? If

Gentoo Performances (Re: [gentoo-user] performance Profiling a live server)

2005-03-05 Thread Julien Cayzac
Dont think it's related, because your problem is PHP-centric, but I think it could be worth it to somewhat add a profiling driven optimisation (http://jcayzac.brainlex.com/profiling.html) to Gentoo, since it's a source based distribution. It would require sysops to be able to run software inside

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck

2005-03-05 Thread Julien Cayzac
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:45:10 -0800, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the root filesystem is mounted by the kernel before it passes control to init, as it needs to be able to *find* init. Also, the root filesystem must be mounted in order to run fsck. But it doesn't have to be mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails

2005-03-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:08 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I get is /usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation fault $mozbin

Re: Gentoo Performances (Re: [gentoo-user] performance Profiling a live server)

2005-03-05 Thread Jos Houtman
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:09 +, Julien Cayzac wrote: Dont think it's related, because your problem is PHP-centric, but I think it could be worth it to somewhat add a profiling driven optimisation (http://jcayzac.brainlex.com/profiling.html) to Gentoo, since it's a source based distribution.

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Luke Ravitch
On 2005-03-05 02:10, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ck wrote: In any case, what you need is GNUPG (gpg); most, if not all email clients I am familiar with have some facility to encrypt and decrypt mails using it as a backend. Not if you're using outlook. My German isn't good

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Dion Sole
One would hope though, that being on Linux, he wouldn't be using Outlook :P Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 03:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Smith wrote: is there a way to send encrypted email? so that if the person on the revieving end of the email doesnt have the key they

Re: Gentoo Performances (Re: [gentoo-user] performance Profiling a live server)

2005-03-05 Thread Julien Cayzac
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 12:17:43 +0200, Jos Houtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No This is exactly the stuff iam looking for, this time my problem was phpcentric, but next time it might be NFS, or mysql or some other part of the system. The link looks promising, i will take a good look Keep in mind

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails

2005-03-05 Thread ZeeGeek
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:08 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I get is /usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation fault

[gentoo-user] Dual monitors

2005-03-05 Thread timothy johnson
I have just purchased a nice little 7 LCD Touchscreen, and have it currently setup as a monitor running off my dell 8100. But I have two problems. First is some some reason it thinks that the Smaller LCD screen is my main screen, so all the gnome menus icons draw on that screen instend of laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-05 Thread Bill Roberts
On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Sami Samhuri wrote: There's at least one interested person... Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) Here's a neat little trick I learned on this list a couple of days ago that might help. If you open up a second console by

Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.

2005-03-05 Thread Jonathan Wright
Steve wrote: I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software

Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.

2005-03-05 Thread William Kenworthy
I dont have a HP, but had a similar problem in the past. Linux in general doesnt pay much attention to bios disk sizes. The problem is booting - many bios's cant easily boot from an oversized drive. Easiest is keep the 17 G for the boot partition (and in my case a second rescue install of linux

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ryan Sims ha scritto: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that popped up; say a page and a half of them. (and here's

Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.

2005-03-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:28 +, Jonathan Wright wrote: Steve wrote: I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 02:26 -0800, Luke Ravitch wrote: On 2005-03-05 02:10, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ck wrote: In any case, what you need is GNUPG (gpg); most, if not all email clients I am familiar with have some facility to encrypt and decrypt mails using it as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Maintenance

2005-03-05 Thread Tom Wesley
Michael Haan wrote: I've just about got my mythtv box finished and I'm turning my eyes to the job of maintaining it. I know there are several routine things I should be doing, but I'm curious just how often I should be doing them. Any advice as to when I should be doing some of the routine

Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.

2005-03-05 Thread Steve
Fantastic... Thanks everyone... It's ordered :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Portage broken by emerge --sync

2005-03-05 Thread Alex Bennee
I was runnning a emerge --sync and portage died at the end: deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.11.11 deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.10.4 Number of files: 113281 Number of files transferred: 2980 Total file size: 88664800 bytes Total

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-05 Thread Alex Stagg
I think you'll need to actually start two X servers, one for each of the video cards. How the kbd and mouse get mapped I don't know but there will probably to be separate X configurations for each server and maybe the input devices can be specified there. The last I looked at running X was a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread Ryan Sims
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:08:46 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann look for the temps in bios/with sensors. CPU60°C check you fan. mobo 35°C check all fans. Check your PSU, try the stick in a different slot. Ahhmy CPU runs, according to my BIOS, usually between 70-80 degC, perhaps this is the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:09 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that popped up; say a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Maintenance

2005-03-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 05 March 2005 04:38, Michael Haan wrote: I've just about got my mythtv box finished and I'm turning my eyes to the job of maintaining it. I know there are several routine things I should be doing, but I'm curious just how often I should be doing them. Any advice as to when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Add files to Live-CD

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Cox
On Friday 04 March 2005 03:21 am, Mark Brier wrote: Quoting Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I really would like to see an answer to this, as I've just built a stage4 from my install (8Gb down to 900Mb with bzip2) and would like to incorporate it into a Live-DVD for system rescue purposes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails

2005-03-05 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:59 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:08 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: ZeeGeek wrote: Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I

[gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Cox
Last night I just happen to connect to http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm and noticed something odd that I haven't seen before. There was a 2nd Wireless IP address on my local LAN. But I only have 1 wireless card connected on a Windows 2k machine. This one had a different Hostname on it so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure

2005-03-05 Thread maxim wexler
Course I'd much prefer using Grub over Windows, or Lilo to boot my system. right, linux good, Windows evil, but this way I can easily swap many different drives with different OSes on them without re-configuring a thing. And, technically, lilo *is* being used to boot the linuxes. Besides, as

[gentoo-user] help finding files

2005-03-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, emerge -av requires the following: net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb googling uncovers the files(supposedly) but the links lead to something quite different. Are there viable alternatives? I'm using 2004.3 with

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). But please excuse my ignorance, if you run a public access point to which no control is done, do you really expect people

Re: [gentoo-user] help finding files

2005-03-05 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, emerge -av requires the following: net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb googling uncovers the files(supposedly) but the links lead to something quite different. Are there viable alternatives? I'm

[gentoo-user] Reinstall Toolchain From avenj's Rescue Bins - How?

2005-03-05 Thread fire-eyes
I am having various major problems, summed up basically by the fact I get unrepeatable segfaults left and right. It's gotten to the point where it is not possible to merge medium to large software. Now, I already suspect my hardware. However I'd like to rebuild my entire toolchain, because I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Compiling Kernel 2.4.28-r5 with OpenMosix

2005-03-05 Thread Raphael Melo
Humm, I don't use that variable. My make.conf file looks like this: CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer USE=fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:59:22 -0600 Chris Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... someone in the area was using my bandwidth/ broadband connection. So my next question is how should I prevent this in the furture? Should turning on WEP on my router fix this? Yes, but do it *soon*. There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Cox
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address filtering but I'll look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
From what I've seen you set up xorg.conf for two screens then in the Xservers file (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers if you use xdm) you can tell it what screen to use. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Sami Samhuri wrote: snipped or, in my case, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Dion Sole wrote: One would hope though, that being on Linux, he wouldn't be using Outlook :P His message headers say he's using Novell Evolution. =P X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Julien Cayzac wrote: But reiserfs keeps telling me it can't replay the journal because it's read-only... Use a more mature filesystem? ^_^ *runs and hides* -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats.

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
Chris Cox wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck

2005-03-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:11, Peter Gordon wrote: Julien Cayzac wrote: But reiserfs keeps telling me it can't replay the journal because it's read-only... Use a more mature filesystem? ^_^ *runs and hides* Run far, hide deep deep down an enormous cave, don your asbestos suit and bear

[gentoo-user] Annoying syslog entries

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Sullivan
I use syslog-ng along with a configuration I found at gentoo-wiki.com. It works pretty well. As many of you know, I'm have a mailman problem I'm trying to solve currently. I also have an inbox monitor that checks my mail server for new messages every ten seconds and evolution checks for new

Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed 1.9.4 and aspell

2005-03-05 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:05:25 -0500 reg hughson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Sylpheed 1.9.4 and prefer it over any other version of sylpheed or sylpheed-claws. However, I have been unable to get the spell checker to work. Not being an ebuild expert, I figured that the ebuild,

Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed 1.9.4 and aspell

2005-03-05 Thread reg hughson
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:11:19 +0100 Marc Ballarin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:05:25 -0500 reg hughson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Sylpheed 1.9.4 and prefer it over any other version of sylpheed or sylpheed-claws. However, I have been unable to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Uwe Thiem wrote: What he meant was: If you send out encrypted messages you want your counterpart to be able to decrypt them. It's a fair assumption that some of the receivers of your email are using outlook unless you are one of those who simply refuse to communicate with MS users. ;-) Ha ha.

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Haan
Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Haan
It is - 2.6.9. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:49:29 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: It is - 2.6.9. So look in your kernel config: # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig Under Device Drivers - Sound - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Chris Cox wrote: Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address filtering but I'll look into it. Usually this can be setup in the web page for your access point. I guess I just never expected anyone to connect to my wireless network

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Luis F. Araujo
A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system)

Re: [gentoo-user] Coldplug Mounting confusion!!!

2005-03-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, James Nicolson wrote: I also have a sd card reader writer which I would like to mount as swap. Probably not a good idea since most flash cards only have a finite amount of writes before they wear out. -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:27:00 -0600, Chris Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:49 am, Chris Cox wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Haan
Checked that last night - alsa is loaded as a module. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:04:21 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: It is - 2.6.9. So look in your kernel config: # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig Under Device Drivers -

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Chris Cox wrote: MAC address filtering is also enabled. Does that mean nobody can come in my Wireless network now? Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed anyway. -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound.  The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver.  So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and

[gentoo-user] package.keywords

2005-03-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
In my /etc/portage/package.keywords I have app-arch/dar ~x86 Yet when I try to -uvpD world, I get: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =app-arch/dar-2.2.0 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed anyway. Any idea how they could get your MAC address, or the only one the AP accepts? I don't think they would use brute force, but still don't know if it's

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords

2005-03-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:56:48 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In my /etc/portage/package.keywords I have app-arch/dar ~x86 | Yet when I try to -uvpD world, I get: | Calculating world dependencies - | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =app-arch/dar-2.2.0 have been | masked. !!! One

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Tim Igoe
I've not been following the thread, but a quick thought would be using 'alsamixer' to check that the right volumes are set. I remember with mythTV on my Audigy was fun, it didn't follow the standards to get the capture working correctly. I have seperate capture channels, and an 'aux mix' and

[gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb

2005-03-05 Thread Joseph
Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:43:18 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: You're safer now, but it has been reported that sniffers can decode WEP if they scarf up enough data (it seems like a few weeks is enough). Probably a good idea (tm) not to leave your wireless powered on 24x7. Or change your WEP key

Re: [gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Gordon
Joseph wrote: Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb Have you tried specifying /dev/fd0H1840 as the floppy device rather than /dev/fd0? For more info you may want to read the manual page: $ man fd -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb

2005-03-05 Thread Colin
Joseph wrote: Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb superformat will give you about 1.72 MB. Don't know if it's included with the kernel but you can definitely download it somewhere (plus a version for DOS/Windows, too). -- Colin --

[gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd

2005-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:/bin/false operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false

[gentoo-user] [OT] Dedicated Gentoo servers

2005-03-05 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you know any company offering Gentoo dedicated servers for less than 50u$s/month (and I'm talking about 1280MB of RAM, 40GB of HD, a full computer of over 1.5GHz, etc). I am currently working with a company that is offering that for 29.95u$s,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles

2005-03-05 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Sat Mar-05-2005 at 01:02:09 PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb said: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on ctrl-alt

Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Melanson
Walter Dnes wrote: Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand No, this is all pretty standard. Plus, the fact that the shells are all /bin/false makes it impossible to log in as those user and get an

Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd

2005-03-05 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Walter Dnes ha scritto: Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:/bin/false operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Scott Stoddard
Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted

Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd

2005-03-05 Thread Mariusz Pkala
On 2005-03-05 17:26:24 -0700 (Sat, Mar), Mike Melanson wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand No, this is all pretty standard. Plus, the fact that the shells

[gentoo-user] X11 Forwarding over SSH

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
Hey everyone, I enabled X11Forward in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine I'm connecting to, and I'm using the command ssh -X -C hostname on the computer I'm using to connect to it. I can get in, and I can run simple X apps and have them forwarded just fine (for example, xclock, kcalc, etc.),

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords

2005-03-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Are you sure the file is readable and free of mistakes? Thank you. Thought of everything but to check to see if the file was readable, I just assumed it was. Now back to upgrading my system : ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to procmail. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to | procmail. I use maildrop... * mail-filter/maildrop Latest version available:

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I think that was it. I'll check it out. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Melanson
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to procmail. When I decided to dump procmail, I switched to getmail: * net-mail/getmail Latest version available: 4.2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting 1.68mb floppy - WAS: format floppy to 1.8mb

2005-03-05 Thread Joseph
superformat will give you about 1.72 MB. Don't know if it's included with the kernel but you can definitely download it somewhere (plus a I decided to stick with 1.68mb floppy as I need to use syslinux to make it bootable. I was format it 1.68mb: fdformat /dev/fd0u1680 but I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:54 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, I had the same issue. I travel a *lot*, and so sooner or later a hard drive will die, or a laptop will get stolen, or...

[gentoo-user] digest errors for some days when trying to upgrade to media-libs/win32codecs-20050115

2005-03-05 Thread William Kenworthy
I am getting digest errors for some days when trying to upgrade to media-libs/win32codecs-20050115. Is anyone else seeing this or is it just me. There's nothing on bugs or forums I can find so I think it might be the source I am getting. BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! --

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 Forwarding over SSH

2005-03-05 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
On 2005-03-05 17:12:34 -0800, James Colannino wrote: I enabled X11Forward in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine I'm connecting to, and I'm using the command ssh -X -C hostname on the computer I'm using to connect to it. I can get in, and I can run simple X apps and have them forwarded just

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Jason Cooper
Ralph Slooten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: A. Khattri wrote: Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed anyway. Any idea how they could get your MAC address, or the only one the AP accepts? I don't think they would use brute force, but still don't know if

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting 1.68mb floppy

2005-03-05 Thread Mariusz Pkala
On 2005-03-05 19:36:07 -0700 (Sat, Mar), Joseph wrote: but I have a problem mounting it, I have tried: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt I added to fstab: /dev/fd0u1680/mnt/floppy vfatnoauto,rw,users 0 0 What am I missing? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/floppy maybe?

[gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN

2005-03-05 Thread Douglas James Dunn
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:11 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Chris Cox wrote: Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address filtering but I'll look into it. Usually this can be setup in the web page for your access point. I guess I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-05 Thread James Colannino
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. Hey Brett, There are probably more advantages for each than I'm aware of, but here's what I'm aware of: .maildir is less prone to corruption, because where mbox is just one

Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir

2005-03-05 Thread ZeeGeek
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. I think maildir is better for handling small files, and maildir stores each mail in seperate files, while Mbox stores them in one, so if anything bad happens to your mails, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd

2005-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:26:24PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote Walter Dnes wrote: Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand No, this is all pretty standard. Plus, the fact that the shells are

Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd

2005-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:57:36AM +0100, Mariusz P?kala wrote Wouldn't some PAM magic skip over this? auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_localuser.so Hovewer, if an attacker can configure PAM, she does not need an entry in /etc/passwd ;-) I got rid of PAM some time ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:37 -0700, Mike Melanson wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to procmail. When I decided to dump procmail, I switched to

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Melanson
Nick Rout wrote: isn't getmail a replacement for fetchmail? Either you are confused, or I am. Yeah, I am confused. Sorry about that. Holdover from the days when: fetchmail retrieved the POP mail, then passed it off to... qmail which processed the mail, which handed it off to... procmail for

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement

2005-03-05 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout a écrit : | On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:37 -0700, Mike Melanson wrote: | |Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | |Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail |but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives

[gentoo-user] Display managers

2005-03-05 Thread Ian K
Hi there. I was just wondering if anyone has come across a display/login manager that allows to to theme it kind of like Windows Xp's? You know, click your pic, and type your password. That is the /one/ thing Bill Gates did right with Windows XP. If not, I guess Ill just have to wait until KDE

[gentoo-user] [OT] Skining Windows 98 or ME

2005-03-05 Thread Ian K
Hey everyone, I have Windows ME on the family computer, and was wondering if there are any open or free programs that could go about it? I have tried both Chroma and Window Blinds, but they are a general pain in the rear. Has any one else come across one? Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian