Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

On Saturday 01 October 2005 16:15, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: > > I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive > > before shipping. > > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda > > Alexander Skwar dban: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Richard Fish schrieb: > A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt > /dev/zero and write that output to the disk. Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where those rescue companies restored an OVERWRITTEN (ie. not

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Mark Knecht schrieb: > I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive > before shipping. dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 07:46, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? > > The easiest way is not to bother. Use a local dns server to provide host > lookups. > > I believe on the gentoo wiki you'll find a setup for a caching dns proxy > where t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVED -- now what?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 15:36, Dan wrote: This is indeed a wonderful list. "Everything is going extremely well". -HAL K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option that I can find. On windows I had clone DVD. Source:Dual Layer D

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Tried that - didn't help. This is a brand new install. I finally just did an emerge system as we used to do and it looks like it worked. On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Friday 30 September 2005 10:22 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Any ideas on how to fix this? /sbin/fix_libtool_

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVED -- now what?

On Saturday 01 October 2005 15:36, Dan wrote: > This is indeed a wonderful list. > > "Everything is going extremely well". > -HAL > > K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option > that I can find. > > On windows I had clone DVD. Source:Dual Layer DVD in one drive, > D

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVED -- now what?

This is indeed a wonderful list. "Everything is going extremely well". -HAL K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option that I can find. On windows I had clone DVD. Source:Dual Layer DVD in one drive, Destination: Single Layer blank in burning drive. Press Go, w

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

On Friday 30 September 2005 10:22 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Any ideas on how to fix this? /sbin/fix_libtool_files.sh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the boot strap and a now am doing the emerge --emptytree system stage. However, I keep getting this error on python-fchksum AND files. unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory error: command 'i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- SOLVED

Dan schreef: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:17, Dan wrote: >> >> >>> I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no >>> response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. >>> > >> downgrade ffmpeg - afair there was even a bug on >> b

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- SOLVED

On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:09, Dan wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:17, Dan wrote: > >>I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no > >>response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. > >> > >>Anyway, avifile-0.7.43.20050224-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- SOLVED

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:17, Dan wrote: I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. Anyway, avifile-0.7.43.20050224-r2 won't compile, it complains that some members are missing fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- very inconvenient!

On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:17, Dan wrote: > I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no > response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. > > Anyway, avifile-0.7.43.20050224-r2 won't compile, it complains that some > members are missing from a struct. USE="-avi" sk

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- very inconvenient!

I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. Anyway, avifile-0.7.43.20050224-r2 won't compile, it complains that some members are missing from a struct. USE="-avi" skips that, then in transcode 0.6.14-r2 I am told tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

Mark Shields wrote: reports the speed as UDMA44 to the BIOS, when in fact there is no such standard and it should be UDMA66, but that's easily fixed with hdparm). Actually, there was a UDMA44 standard. It's defined in ATA-5 (Ansi NCITS 340-2000), tough I've never heard of hardware supporting o

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

On Friday 30 September 2005 07:54 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: > :0 > > * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user > $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ > > Sound about right? > > Guess I'll find out before many of you can even reply ;-) Maybe it w

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ Sound about right? Guess I'll find out before many of you can even reply ;-) I use: :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user\.gentoo\.org .maildir/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dave, On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:54:53PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: > > :0 > * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user > $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ Close, but not quite. Here i

[gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ Sound about right? Guess I'll find out before many of you can even reply ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Thanks all. I think this info would make a good wiki or something. There are sort of two cases: 1) You want to wipe some drive that's a peripheral part of the system. You're going to keep the system so you can use portage, etc. 2) You want to wipe the whole system. You need to wipe root so you wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Oliver Friedrich wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>>What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? > > > Hi Mark, > > well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping... > > http://dban.sourceforge.net/ > > Give it a try... > > BeowulfOF There is also b

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive? Hi Mark, well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping... http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Give it a try... BeowulfOF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

Hi, > Also, I have experienced a few problems. Firefox window got fully > transparent somehow and I couldn't get it back. If I try to log out, the > dialog where it asks logout/restart/shutdown doesn't appear also. > gnome-panel goes to the back, and windows appear in front of them. Kinda > small

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Remy Blank wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Hello, you might want to give shred a try. It is probably already installed on your box. Regards Martin On Friday 30 September 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Remy > > On 9/30/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual b

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Mark Knecht wrote: before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and different file try shred: # shred -v /dev/hda -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Forgot to credit my source:  http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1848770 That post also mentions a Helix livecd that comes with the dlcfdd program I mentioned.On 9/30/05, Mark Shields < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Deleting and recreating new, different partitions isn't en

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Thanks Remy On 9/30/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had > > financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive > > before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Deleting and recreating new, different partitions isn't enough, as the raw data is still there.  I would use /dev/urandom combined /bin/dd.  Never done this before, but *should* work.  Boot from the gentoo livecd (or some other livecd that provides a full working linux environment), type dd if=/dev

[gentoo-user] Portage, network less install and Apache, MySQL, PHP

Greetings, I just managed to install (network less Universal CD install) Gentoo on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM (yeah, it was hard, but I got the fastest system this poor hardware ever had), its working fine with minimal on everything, but as I have limited network access (proxy), I can't updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

On 9/30/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and hadfinancial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and writtennew partitions on which are different sizes and diff

[gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Mark Knecht wrote: >Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had > financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive > before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written > new partitions on which are different sizes and different file > systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

On 9/30/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 30 September 2005 06:44, Fernando Meira wrote:> drwxrwS--- 18 root portage 576 Sep 29 00:21 .Which portage version are you using? 2.0.51.22-r2? There was a bug in one ofthem that would cause ccache permissions to be updated everytime in

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

On 9/30/05, Norman Golisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, the transparency abilities are still buggy and experimental.Do you run Nvidia's TwinView?No, but I've read something about it not working with this. A friend is running xfce under the same configuration, and things are way faster on his mach

[gentoo-user] Good command for wiping a hard drive?

Hi, Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which are different sizes and different file systems. What simple command can

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

> However, things are incredibly slow. Yes, the transparency abilities are still buggy and experimental. Do you run Nvidia's TwinView? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Messed up mail access rights

Meh, you could always chmod -R 770 * from the top dir of the maildir and see what happens (since the "Mail" dir is 770, it's quite possible all the other dirs should have same permissions).  If that screws it up even more or doesn't work, you can always restore your backup again.On 9/27/05, Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] download first and compile later?

Quick note:  --fetchonly is also useful if for some reason the md5 checksum fails on the source files.On 9/30/05, Uwe Thiem < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 30 September 2005 06:57, vikram ranade wrote:> Quick question > I looked in the emerge man pages but i cant seem to figure out how to> downlo

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

I'll echo what A. Khattri said.  I run one server, it functions as a router, web, ftp, LAN portage mirror (thanks http-replicator!), DNS proxy (dnsmasq), pop3(ssl), imap(ssl), smtp, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and VNC server, in addition to Xorg.  Runs just fine.  But it's also an Athlon XP 2400+ (2ghz, 133

Re: [gentoo-user] Any 'sed' geniuses out there?

gentuxx wrote: concerned about that. My main concern was validation, and htmltidy gives me that. open it in vim, and do the autoindent function (select all, hit "=") -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

Hello. I have been experimenting with xcomposite in xorg, to enable transparency and other effects. I added this to xorg.conf: Section "Extensions"     Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection and this under the Device section:     Option "RenderAccel" "true"     Option "AllowGLXWithCom

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2 blocking subversion

Thanks I found on gentoo-wiki now. see you On 9/30/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nope. > > On 9/30/05, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ? > > > > > > Is there any reason to do this ? > >

[gentoo-user] usb bluetooth hotplug script

Where should I put my own script which is started after I hotplug my usb bluetooth so that /etc/init.d/bluetooth is started after that? and how to name it or how to findout the name? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2 blocking subversion

nope. On 9/30/05, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ? > > > > Is there any reason to do this ? > > > > Do you have the "apache2" USE flag enabled? > > HTH, > > Matt > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2 blocking subversion

> Hi All, > > Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ? > > Is there any reason to do this ? > Do you have the "apache2" USE flag enabled? HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache 2 blocking subversion

Hi All, Does someone knows why apache-2 is blocking subversion ? Is there any reason to do this ? Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

On Friday 30 September 2005 06:44, Fernando Meira wrote: > drwxrwS--- 18 root portage 576 Sep 29 00:21 . Which portage version are you using? 2.0.51.22-r2? There was a bug in one of them that would cause ccache permissions to be updated everytime in exactly the above situation. What you have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow response from mouse

Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote: Hi, I have installed a new gentoo machine with xorg and KDE. Everything works fine, but the mouse has a low responsiveness. The speed of the rest of the componets is ok, but the mouse moves with a certaing laziness, meaning that it arrives to its desti

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow response from mouse

No, the system runs perfectly. It is possible that is some problem with the graphic card. It is an i810. The following warning appears in my x.log file: ==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xd000,0x400) (II) I810(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x (II) I810

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

On 9/29/05, Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # du -sh .ccache/ 965M    .ccache/  # ccache -s cache hit   4569 cache miss 32736 called for link 3200 multiple source files  7 compile failed 

Re: [gentoo-user] test message

Holly, I can vounch that messages you send to mailing lists do appear in your Inbox (or whatever label you have set for the mailing list), but only if you receive a reply to it.On 9/29/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jangar schreef:> is only for test my enabled posting>As far as I kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow response from mouse

Most of the time I've seen this behavior is when other programs running in the background are using too many resources, leaving little for Xorg.  Are you sure this isn't the case?  Is this constant slugishness? Sorry I don't have anything else to offer, 'tis the only thing I can think of.On 9/30/0

[gentoo-user] Slow response from mouse

Hi, I have installed a new gentoo machine with xorg and KDE. Everything works fine, but the mouse has a low responsiveness. The speed of the rest of the componets is ok, but the mouse moves with a certaing laziness, meaning that it arrives to its destination a few decs of a second after it i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC?

On 9/30/05, Eldon Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've followed the instructions for patching the kernel fromSyskonnect.com for their sk98lin and ended up with a bzImage file.What do I do with it? Am I on the right track at all? --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listYep you are on the right track

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reiserfs speed

On 9/29/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not a power user or even a very knowledgable user.  But amsomething of a long time user, and since `96, I've used ext2 or 3exclusively. I don't recall a single incident of losing or corruptingfiles that was attributable to ext[23]. I'd heard r

Re: [gentoo-user] my subscribe not work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jangar wrote: > i send message and i it's visible into webmail mailing list system as > news.gmane.org , but in my mailbox any message > not arrived Its because gmail notices it already has a copy of the message. - -- [Name

Re: [gentoo-user] download first and compile later?

On 30 September 2005 06:57, vikram ranade wrote: > Quick question > I looked in the emerge man pages but i cant seem to figure out how to > download all the packages using emerge and then compile them > is there some parameter that i can use? > > > emerge > ? > or do i have to mess with the m

Re: [gentoo-user] download first and compile later?

emerge -pv --newuse --columns package  to see what must be downloaded (dependencies if any to the package)   emerge -fv --newuse --columns package to fetch it (download)   emerge -v --newuse --columns package to compile your downloaded package  On 9/30/05, vikram ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Q

[gentoo-user] How to install D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC?

I've followed the instructions for patching the kernel from Syskonnect.com for their sk98lin and ended up with a bzImage file. What do I do with it? Am I on the right track at all? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] specific version of package in /etc/portage/package.keywords

Am Freitag, 30. September 2005 08:49 schrieb Paweł Madej: > Erwin Lang wrote: > > hi everybody! > > > > I don't like to upgrade to ruby version 1.8.3 so i added the following > > line(s) (not all at the same time) to /etc/portage/package.keywords: > > > > =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2 > > > > =dev-lang/ruby

Re: [gentoo-user] specific version of package in /etc/portage/package.keywords

Am Freitag, 30. September 2005 08:48 schrieb Eugene Rosenzweig: > Erwin Lang wrote: > >hi everybody! > > > >I don't like to upgrade to ruby version 1.8.3 so i added the following > > line(s) (not all at the same time) to /etc/portage/package.keywords: > > > >=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2 > > > >=dev-lang/ru