Re: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?

2005-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nichols
A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: Here is a follow up. I could not get any tulip-based driver to recognize the FA311. I did a web search and found that the tulip driver supported FA310 cards, but the chipset was changed on the FA311 and the natsemi driver is required

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto tune SpamAssassin

2005-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:13 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Mar 2 21:50, Matthias F. Brandstetter (gentoo-user@gentoo.org) wrote: after upgrading SA to version 3 I now do get lots of false negative. I trained my filter via sa-learn, and many of these FP do have BAYES_99,

[gentoo-user] Trying to patch mrtg..

2005-02-04 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hi all! I'm trying to add the 95th percentile patch to MRTG (http://www.seanadams.com/95/) and I'm trying to edit the ebuild to include the patch. I added the following to the mrtg-2.10.15.ebuild src_unpack() { unpack ${A} ; cd ${S} epatch /tmp/95.patch }

[gentoo-user] cachefs: anyone use it?

2005-02-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I believe that it's part of the kernel now, right? Is anyone using cachefs at all? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hosting plan? [OT]

2005-01-31 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Owen Ford wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 20:26 -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Don't many ISP's also offer the babysitting service for your computer? That is, take your box to the ISP's actual building and leave it there (plugged in). Administer the box remotely. Only time you need the ISP

[gentoo-user] Uh oh.. automake?

2005-01-27 Thread Jonathan Nichols
This looks like a total disaster waiting to happen... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r3 [5.8.5-r2] [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2 [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] MegaRAID

2005-01-27 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Daniel Corbe wrote: Hello, I have been trying rather unsucessfully to find monitoring tools for the MegaRAID-based RAID cards that will run on Gentoo. Does anyone out there have one of these cards? If so, what are you using to monitor the status of the array. I just want some basic information

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a domain member on a Win NT network

2004-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nichols
gabriel wrote: On February 10, 2004 06:32 pm, Brock Campbell wrote: Well, in the real world NT while a bit of a Pain In The Ass, does the job for a lot of businesses. It's really easy to suggest ripping out all the NT and throw Linux in it's place. It's also really easy to get fired for

[gentoo-user] highmem K7S5A

2004-02-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all, I have an ECS K7S5A board and tried putting 2x512 DDR2100 DIMMS into the thing. It boots up, but I get an error in dmesg about only 896MB being available. So, following some instructions I found on forums.gentoo.org, I enabled highmem support (4gb) in the kernel and recompiled. From

[gentoo-user] So, glibc....

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nichols
.. this glibc problem is only affecting Intel boxes right now? Is there a fix coming soon? :) I only have 1 Intel box, but it's many miles away .. and I updated glibc on it. :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC

2004-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Tomorrow I'll buy a new NIC (I'm tired of USB-ADSL). My question is can I buy whatever NIC I want or some NICs will not in Linux? I have several Netgear FA-310TX 10/100bT ethernet cards and they've worked great. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] warning problem emerge sync this morning.

2004-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Philippe Van Hecke wrote: It seem that an emerge sync remove all the /usr/portage/profile dir. after that you are unable to do any emerge. I will full fill a new bug. Philippe Don't. Just look at www.gentoo.org :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] am i the only person with genkernel gentoo problems?

2004-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols
No, I would like to know somebody to whom it works :-(. After I decided to try it, I like to start with RTFM, but didn't find any usable doc (not a good sign). genkernel not working? I had the same problems. I gave up on the automated stuff and did everything by hand. Wasn't too difficult, I

[gentoo-user] gripe about the other docs on gentoo.org

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hrm.. the virtual mailhosting system guide says that it was updated on January 7th, 2004. But there's no changelog that I can see! It would be nice to know *what* was updated, don't y'all agree? :) I think that a brief ChangeLog for the documentation that hits the public site would be a *very*

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? I have very good universal solution for all micro$hit systems, which will prevent such troubles forever: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX hdXX is micro$hit partition Yeah, that works, but it kind of makes stuff like Age of

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Dennis Freise wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500 Nicholas Hockey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the Microsoft Update virus going around, i'm trying to figure out why i get nailed by it all the time, and i apologize for the apparent list spam.

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Chris Bare wrote: Me too, but i'm using postfix to reject alle *.exe attachments. Oh, that sounds great. Could you post how you cofigured it to do that? Here's how to kill it 99% of the time:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3

2004-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Marius Mauch wrote: On 01/07/04 Alberto Garcia Hierro wrote: Differences are _trivial_. I wasn't talking about the differences but the vulnerability. So, does gentoo-sources-2.4.22r3 address this recent vulnerability or not? :-) I just finished upgrading everything to 2.4.22r2, so if

[gentoo-user] bazillion portage updates?

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Every time I run 'emerge sync' it tells me that a new version of portage is available. Did something get mucked up or have there been a few minor releases recently? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Shell scripting question

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Evening, all! Got a quick shell scripting question, if anyone wants to take a stab at it. :) I'm writing a script to creat a DNS zonefile and so far, everything is working great except for the $ORIGIN (and $TTL) statement. The phrase $ORIGIN is the problem. The script thinks it's a variable,

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2004-01-05 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Redeeman wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 22:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote: Eric Paynter wrote: Aaron Stout said: hello Hi! -Eric Tjena! - Jonas hej! waaap? ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] New kernel exploit/patch/etc?

2004-01-05 Thread Jonathan Nichols
So, rumor has it that there's a small kernel problem today... Any word on patching gentoo-source-2.4.22r2? ;) And I *just* finished compiling it on all of the machines. Drat. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] couriertls problem

2004-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
(also posted to courier-users) Greetings! This just started today.. Jan 2 15:59:27 [imapd-ssl] Connection, ip=[192.168.10.78] Jan 2 15:59:27 [imapd-ssl] LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=[192.168.10.78], command=AUTHENTICATE Jan 2 15:59:30 [imapd-ssl] LOGIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[192.168.10.78],

Re: [gentoo-user] Daemon Status

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Jeff Smelser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I just realized spamassassins deamon was not running. Doing a rc-status, of course, said it was started.. Has someone created a nifty script to run through the default runlevel, like rc-status, but actually make sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Belinus wrote: Is anyone having resolve errors for emerge tonight? I'm trying to emerge sync and I am getting 'Temproary failure in name resolution' errors but when I ping the IP from my Windows workstation it resolves just fine. /etc/resolve.conf is correct as well Any suggestions? It's working

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Belinus wrote: I commented out the GENTOO_MIRRORS line and up'd the retries to 25 in make.conf but I still get the same error. Jon Does mirrorselect give you back anything? That's odd. I haven't had trouble with emerge... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] spam problem

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
thanks just emerged it apparently it's even trickier: dev-perl/Mail-Spam*A*ssassin :) Uh oh.. expect an update any day now. 2.60 has been released. The current ebuild shows 2.55 :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin hates gentoo-user

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Cal Evans wrote: IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM Did these guys come back up? I turned them off after the rule started flagging ALL messages as SPAM when they went down. What version of SpamAssassin? No, they didn't... Might be an issue with Verisign's stupidity - remember, anything .com was actually

[gentoo-user] local.cf for spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all, Here's a freely available local.cf that you can grab once in a while: http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] errr.... I meant blacklist, not local.cf

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
see my previous message about this: http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current I meant *blacklist* - not local.cf. *goes to get coffee* -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] spam problem

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Johan Van den Neste wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:38, Jonathan Nichols wrote: thanks just emerged it apparently it's even trickier: dev-perl/Mail-Spam*A*ssassin :) Uh oh.. expect an update any day now. 2.60 has been released. The current ebuild shows 2.55 :) uh... new versions do

Re: [gentoo-user] local.cf for spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
One question though. Is it possible to get local.cf to include a second config file? I'd rather not start cat'ing files together everytime I update the blacklist. Not entirely sure. I just download the blacklist and cat it onto the end of local.cf :) Not one false-positive yet, I'm happy to

[gentoo-user] Squirrelmail 1.4.2 ebuild?

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Anyone seen an ebuild for 1.4.2 on the horizon? my 1.4.1 install has b0rked itself somehow. =/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] mysql log files

2003-09-05 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all, I just noticed that my mysql.log file has gotten way out of hand. It's almost a gig right now. Doesn't metalog pick up logfiles from newly emerged stuff? Or, is there another advised way to rotate mysql logfiles? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] pyzor spamassassin

2003-08-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Anybody managed to get the two working fine from the ebuilds? I'm having problems with pyzor right now.. spamd[20383]: [debug] Found Razor2 part: part=0 noresponse spamd[20383]: [debug] leaving helper-app run mode spamd[20383]: [debug] Razor2 results: spam? 0 highest cf score: 0 spamd[20383]:

[gentoo-user] I'm afraid. :P

2003-07-26 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hmm.. I've never seen the blocks thing pop up. What's that about? Also, has anyone updated Perl to r12 yet? Experiences? :) mail jnichols # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B]

[gentoo-user] Failed to install socket filter?

2003-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nichols
This error just started popping up, and it's kind of annoying.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] servers $ ping mail2 PING mail2.pbp.net (63.206.177.74) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 63.206.177.74: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=46.5 ms WARNING: failed to install socket filter : Protocol not available 64 bytes

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install socket filter?

2003-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nichols
A search for 'socket filter' on forums.gentoo.org brought this up as the first result: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67576 Whoops. Forgot about the forums. =/ Interesting, because the kernel hasn't changed, and only recently has this error shown up. Guess I'll take a look at the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] How can i test my Bandwidth ?

2003-07-15 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Andrew Farmer wrote: At 15 July, 2003 Ricardo Nuno wrote: Anyway the test's i make on the net the closes i get is 1773mb download and 390 kbps upload, so or they are cheating me and making me pay for something i dont got, and this is no dsl line this is a dedicated one it's really alot of money,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent apacheto upgrade ?

2003-07-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Sylvain wrote: Hello ! I'm affraid my question is a faq, but i have had a look at the Portage Manual, and what i tried doesn't work : i use axkit and apache, and i don't want to upgrade apache, since axkit doesn't know how to work with apache2. so i fixed the apache version in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests

2003-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
i think what you're looking for is /etc/make.profile/packages read the comments in there and i *think* that's what you'll want to modify to get apache not to upgrade. Yeah, I took a look there.. it's not in there. =/ if it works, remember to post what you did to the list eh? Will do :D

Re: [gentoo-user] Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests

2003-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Tom Wesley wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2003 09:56, Jonathan Nichols wrote: i think what you're looking for is /etc/make.profile/packages read the comments in there and i *think* that's what you'll want to modify to get apache not to upgrade. Yeah, I took a look there.. it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Silly question: Skipping stuff that emergesuggests

2003-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
If you haven't installed apache yet or it is installed as dependency, edit /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages and add or modify net-www/apache-2. Or, I did install 1.3.27 from portage a while back... This above approach worked. emerge -up --deep world stopped showing me Apache 2.0.x

[gentoo-user] Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests

2003-07-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Greets, all..this is probably a *really* easy question, but I'm drawing blanks even after reading manpages searching forums mail jnichols% These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] sys-devel/gettext-0.11.5-r1 [0.11.5] [ebuild

[gentoo-user] Nagios?

2003-06-20 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Has anybody updated Nagios from portage yet? ;) Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.4-r5 [2.5.4-r4] [ebuildU ] net-analyzer/nagios-core-1.1-r2 [1.0-r1] [ebuild N ] net-misc/iputils-020927 [ebuildU ] net-misc/ntp-4.1.1b-r6 [4.1.1b-r5] [ebuildU

[gentoo-user] stolen:Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
-- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net ?? I'm still mad at you for stealing my Microsoft photo idea! ;) -Dr_Stein (from #userfriendly..back in the day) :P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] urgh.. mod_php blew up webmail

2003-06-10 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Cal Evans wrote: Thanks, Yes, I just found the message. There has got to be a better way to notify users of these issues. I usually start compiling and walk away. occasionally I do an emerge -U world if I know what's getting updated and know it's going to take a while. These messages fly by and

[gentoo-user] amavisd.conf?

2003-06-10 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all, I've got Postfix, f-prot, anomy mailtools, and amavis working quite well together but I noticed that the amavis ebuild doesn't seem to have an amavisd.conf file that I can find anywhere. Does it just not have one? Can I just create /etc/amavisd.conf and have it read it? Thought I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for Blocking Attachments by File Extension

2003-06-09 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm quit new with mail on linux, i have already this working: fetchmail - postfix - amavis - clamAV - spamassassin - procmail now i want to bounce or quarantine mails with some extentions, like exe ,src and so on. But i don't know where to start, so any advice would be fine. This is quite easy

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: mbox vs maildir

2003-06-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Anthony Floyd wrote: With all the discussion of mail handling recently, it's perked my interest in trying to revive the mail system on my test machine, which I've borked pretty royally. One thing I've never had a good handle on is mbox vs maildir. I sort-of know the differences between the two,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix vs. Qmail

2003-06-05 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Bobby R. Cox wrote: I thought I would poll the masses and see what the groups take is on these two. I am currently contemplating either of the two for mail at the ISP level. I like Postfix, but have been told Qmail is the way to go. What do you think? Pros and Cons for both. This could end

[gentoo-user] Ok, April 1st is over.. ;)

2003-04-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
..perhaps it'd be a good idea to change the April 1st newsletter... I had a co-worker (who I've convinced to try Gentoo because he hates RPM..heh) come over and give me the WTF?? I just finished installing it and now they're going to use RPM?? freak-out dance. I explained that it was an April

Re: [gentoo-user] Ok, April 1st is over.. ;)

2003-04-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
However, there could be other people glancing at the page that might not quite remember that it's April 1st... Whoops. I forgot to mention that I was only referring to the main page - I made my co-worker read the actual newsletter and he understood that it was a joke. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] april fools?

2003-04-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Quite honestly, I'm surprised that so many people believed it. To me, the notion that Gentoo would dump ebuilds in favor of RPMs is so far from the realm of possibility as to be absurd. Obviously, some folks didn't find it quite so impossible. :) Oh, this wasn't too bad.. you should have

Re: [gentoo-user] how does one install all available categories/packages?

2003-04-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Now a question. Why would you want to do that? Sheer utter insanity would be my guess. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage on Solaris?

2003-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nichols
How far fetched is the idea getting portage onto Solaris? We need a system so the installed sources could be traced: who was compiling it, how he was doing it, what packeges are installed now and so on. A package manager is perfect for this purpose. Not too far fetched at all. Check out

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-28 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm just wondering how many other people use sudo instead of su, and whether it should be perhaps included in a 'standard' install (by which I mean mentioned in the install docs). I do. Nobody ever gets the root passwords. ;) The root pw can be changed via sudo if needed. sudo is a pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] bad ./configure Cant emerge mod_php

2003-03-27 Thread Jonathan Nichols
!!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.1 failed. !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 216, Exitcode 1 !!! Function src_compile, Line 216, Exitcode 1 !!! bad ./configure !!! bad ./configure Can someone tell me how to fix this? Yup! I know how to fix that

Re: [gentoo-user] problem at bootup

2003-03-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols
fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb3 /dev/hdb3: (superblock warning) *filesystem could not be fixed !!! give root password for maintenance (blah,Blah) System was running fine yesterday. I had that happen when I forgot to do emerge reiserfstools - I never

[gentoo-user] bad uid -uid in virtual maps.

2003-03-21 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all! I posted this to the forums as http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42722 I cannot find a resolution for this anywhere on the web, so I thought I'd ask you guys. Here's the text of the post: After following every direction I could find in the document