[gentoo-user] ot - nagios question

2003-09-19 Thread Mikhail P.
All, I have nagios installed and running for a long time now. Currently, there is few servers nagios monitors in one or another way and various people contacted in case of any problem(s). I have one question though - I have "admin" access to nagios and able to view all servers/services via web

Re: [gentoo-user] root's history file

2003-09-13 Thread Mikhail P.
On Saturday 13 September 2003 15:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >A simple question, I hope. Where does the size limit on root's > history file get set? > > Thanks, > Mark In bash it is variable $HISTSIZE e.g. "export HISTSIZE=150" will limit it to 150 lines. regards, > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] A process refuses to die

2003-09-05 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 05 September 2003 22:22, Scharf Yuval wrote: > It's D - uninterruptible sleep > Well, D processes cannot be killed directly, unfortunately. regards, > > Yuval Scharf > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mikhail P. wrote: > > On Friday 05 September 2003 22:02, Scharf

Re: [gentoo-user] A process refuses to die

2003-09-05 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 05 September 2003 22:02, Scharf Yuval wrote: > I've tried all those things. > The father is 'init' so I can't kill it, right? > Well, I would not kill init.. Btw, what's the status of process you can't kill? Is it "Z"? or "D"? Mikhail. -- I once heard Bill Gates say, "WHAT?!?! Netsc

[gentoo-user] user limits, pam.d

2003-09-05 Thread Mikhail P.
Hello, I'm having very strange problem here with PAM and user limits (/etc/security/limits.conf). I have sshd running, and my /etc/pam.d/sshd file has the following record: [...] sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_limits.so I have edited /etc/security/limits.conf and added the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Mikhail P.
On Monday 11 August 2003 22:01, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing > the big bad internet?! > > * gs-sources > "This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be > up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without co

Re: [gentoo-user] PATH & LDPATH

2003-08-01 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 01 August 2003 16:11, Andy wrote: > Thanx! // Nezachto > > I need LD_LIBRARY_PATH initiliazes on startup > How can i do this? > > Andrey I suggest that you put PATHs to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. This will affect all users gloabally and will set paths automatically after each

Re: [gentoo-user] PATH & LDPATH

2003-08-01 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 01 August 2003 15:29, Andy wrote: > How to set LDPATH > and add paths to PATH PATH var is used to set PATH. E.g. in bash: "export PATH=${PATH}:/other/bin:/that/bin" As for LD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used to set those the same way PATH works ("export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/othe

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing users from escaping their home dirs

2003-07-31 Thread Mikhail P.
> rbash is NOT working for me on Gentoo ... (on RH 7.3 it worx) > I have done everything as above, but rbash worx normally/without any > restrictions ... > is it a bug or something else should be done ? > > noro > > If rbash does not work for you, then check "bash -r". Mikhail. > > -- > [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] decent browser?

2003-07-21 Thread Mikhail P.
On Monday 21 July 2003 22:30, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > does anyone have any suggestions for a good GUI browser that doesn't > require GTK or QT? I am running fluxbox on an old P233 and want something > light and fast. Is opera a good choice? If you want lighting fast and lightweight, try "lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decent browser?

2003-07-21 Thread Mikhail P.
On Monday 21 July 2003 20:19, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > Wow! Konqueror could be started when running Gnome? I didn't know that! > > Would you ming writing a little howto on this and send it to the list? Hm, I'm KDE user mostly, but sometimes I use Gnome and Konqueror is my favorite browser in

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail

2003-07-16 Thread Mikhail P.
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 14:48, Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Mikhail P. wrote: > >You can try qmail, which is much smaller than sendmail and much more > >secure. > > I'm sorry, what known security issues are there with Sendmail 8.12.9? > None? >

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution seg faults

2003-07-16 Thread Mikhail P.
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:02, reg hughson wrote: > Posted a message a while ago to see if anyone else was having problems > with evolution (1.4.3) seg faulting constantly (mostly while using the > contacts section)...apparently I am the only one. > > But just in case I am not, if someone else is

Re: [gentoo-user] TV Tuner Card - Recommendations

2003-07-15 Thread Mikhail P.
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:32, Andrusky wrote: > I'm using an AverTV card, nice and cheap and works well. Uses the bttv > driver. The only problem I had was getting the option to compile the bttv > driver to show up. After reading through the kernel docs I found out it > requires I2O device support

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail

2003-07-14 Thread Mikhail P.
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 01:31, edj wrote: > My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, > etc, to root -- "Sendmail: cannot open port 25".No wonder - I do > not have sendmail installed. I'd rather not install it. I have ssmtp, > but my wanderings around Google tell

Re: [gentoo-user] portage upgrade - xine-lib problems

2003-07-14 Thread Mikhail P.
On Monday 14 July 2003 22:37, Spider wrote: > > emerge -C xine-lib; emerge xine-lib > > > > however it might be that you have a package that depend on the old xine > libraries, in case it will ask you to install that when you do emerge > -up world again. > > This is because Xine seems to be inheren

[gentoo-user] portage upgrade - xine-lib problems

2003-07-14 Thread Mikhail P.
Hello, I'm currently upgrading system, and found this really annoying problem about xine-lib: (after emerge sync): Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/xine-lib-0.9.13-r3 [ebuildU ] net-www/mozilla-1.4 [1.3-r2] [ebuildU ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r5 [0.00-r4]

Re: [gentoo-user] LinuxTag

2003-07-14 Thread Mikhail P.
Sebastian, Nice photos! Thanks for letting us know! regards, Mikhail. On Monday 14 July 2003 08:05, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > I took some photos [1] of the GENTOO booth at LinuxTag, Europe's biggest > Linux and Open Source / Free Software event that was held the last > couple of days in

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set terminal properties

2003-07-09 Thread Mikhail P.
Try putting this in ~/.bashrc Mikhail. On Wednesday 09 July 2003 14:22, Michael Gruetzner wrote: > Hello, > > I want to turn off the bell on the console using 'setterm -blength 0'. > How can I make this command to execute automatically for all terminals? > > Thanks in advance > > Michael -- Dou

Re: [gentoo-user] converting ms outlook to kmail

2003-07-09 Thread Mikhail P.
http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html has some tips & tools on convering MS Outlook mails to different UNIX formats. Mikhail. On Wednesday 09 July 2003 13:52, daniel wrote: > i've got about 120mb of email that i have to convert from microsoft outlook > (not express) in pst format to kmail... any idea

[gentoo-user] problem with installing new system

2003-07-03 Thread Mikhail P.
Hello, I have P4 here, on which I decided to put gentoo now.. I have gone through the installation manual once again, emerged sync, edited make.conf as usual but when I bootstrap, everything fails right at the start: cdimage portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ C

Re: [gentoo-user] Databases - which one

2003-07-03 Thread Mikhail P.
Personally I prefer Postgresql, as it is more stable and has features mysql does not have. Although MySQL is faster than postgres. So it really depends on your needs - large php driven sites with database probably will consider mysql (because it is faster), while small commercial organizations w

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution-1.4.0

2003-07-01 Thread Mikhail P.
build net-mail/evolution-1.4.0 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. How to overstep this problem in my case? I have also injected 'net-mail/evolution-1.2.4', but it does not solve the problem. Mikhail.

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution-1.4.0

2003-07-01 Thread Mikhail P.
Thanks, worked great for me. Mikhail. On Tuesday 01 July 2003 12:30, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: > Today 12:30:04 > > Mikhail P. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is ther

[gentoo-user] evolution-1.4.0

2003-06-30 Thread Mikhail P.
Hello, Is there any brief instructions on how to emerge evolution-1.4.0 on stable x86 system? It appears that 1.4.0 is much better than 1.2.x.. Just wanted to ask here, before breaking gentoo. thanks, Mikhail. -- Two computer people discussing those old stories about Bill Gates' name adding u

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Laptop?

2003-06-26 Thread Mikhail P.
I did everything from stage1 on PII 233 mhz, 128 RAM though (OmniBook). I did not use distcc, or any other distributed client. It took me around 2 days to build system with full KDE. Runs nicely. Mikhail. On Thursday 26 June 2003 14:33, Larry Meadors wrote: > I recently did a stage 1 install on

Re: [gentoo-user] "screen" question

2003-06-17 Thread Mikhail P.
Thanks Mike. It works for me as well, since I'm using default settings. Mikhail. On Wednesday 18 June 2003 00:13, Mike Roest wrote: > Mikhail P. wrote: > > > | which probably means "Ctrl+D" should detach it back, but it does not > > work well > > | for m

[gentoo-user] "screen" question

2003-06-17 Thread Mikhail P.
The question is regarding "screen" tool. When I run screen in detached mode (e.g. "screen -dmS sync emerge sync"), I'm able to see it via "screen -ls" and then reattach it by typing "screen -R -S sync". That's fine, however once I'm in reattached screen session, how do I detach it back, so I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfile mirror for University LAN.

2003-06-15 Thread Mikhail P.
Actually I have only /usr/portage/distfiles shared via NFS. Each machine has it's own /usr/portage, because I often edit .ebuilds and often they differ. But if you run identically the same setup on all machines, then exporting /usr/portage with all subfolders should work in most cases. Mikhail.

Re: [gentoo-user] truetype in konsole

2003-06-15 Thread Mikhail P.
Jorge, To make fonts AA in konqueror, go to "konqueror -> settings -> configure konqueror -> fonts" and select "Verdana" for example for all kinds of fonts there. Now you should have fonts AA in konqueror. As for konsole - not sure how to do that there. Mikhail. On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:36, J

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding user to group

2003-06-11 Thread Mikhail P.
Editing of /etc/group as you described is enough. Mikhail. On Wednesday 11 June 2003 13:39, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: > Hello! > > Is it nessessary to use 'usermod' to add user to some group? > Or may I just edit /etc/group file and enter new username after comma on > the line containing the group I

[gentoo-user] qt compile problems

2003-06-11 Thread Mikhail P.
Hello, I'm installing qt on one of my local computers, however I get the following error (tried twice to compile, always end the same place). System is running latest software, from "x86". Has anyone had the same thing? ln -s libqui.so.1.0.0 libqui.so ln -s libqui.so.1.0.0 libqui.so.1 ln -s lib

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 n00b questions (portage)

2003-06-11 Thread Mikhail P.
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 11:25, Gëzim wrote: > 2.) Is it possible to use .tar.gz files instead of > .tar.bz2 since the former (.tar.gz) compiles faster > eventhough it takes longer to download? Hm, do you mean it unpacks faster?.. The difference between bz2 and gz, is that BZIP2 compresses data

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix vs. Qmail

2003-06-05 Thread Mikhail P.
Personally, I prefer Qmail + Vpopmail combination, since it is easier to setup and run. Further more, qmail is lightweight MTA and it is running on my servers even under high load without taking much CPU time, comparing to sendmail and probably other monsters in the same situation. regards, Mik