[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then can't log in via GDM. Makes sense. I want the user to be able to log in via GDM but not via ssh. Is that configured in ssh? Yes, you can configure that in SSH. There are the DenyUsers DenyGroups keywords for sshd_config. Alexander --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 14 December 2007, James wrote: Hello, I have been using flat hubs (netgear 104EN is my favorite) for some time to sniff out ethernet traffic. Now days, it's difficult to find flat hubs for this purpose, that are new. Ideally I like to find a 10/100/1000 flat hub for sniffing, but

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
I'd like to create a really restricted user on my laptop. I don't want the user to be able to do much of anything but browse the web, use skype, and maybe look at photos on a CD or something. I did this: useradd -m -G users,audio,cdrom -s /sbin/nologin newuser How does that look?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
then can't log in via GDM. Makes sense. I want the user to be able to log in via GDM but not via ssh. Is that configured in ssh? Yes, you can configure that in SSH. There are the DenyUsers DenyGroups keywords for sshd_config. Alexander Thanks Alexander. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/12/14, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Nowadays CFQ and deadline are the best choices. Why not built all three and switch between them with the apropriate kernel command line. That way you can easily test which one is

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Nowadays CFQ and deadline are the best choices. Why not built all three and switch between them with the apropriate kernel command line. That way you can easily test which one is the best for you. Hello Hemmann, This

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes: Take a look in the kernel docs. It is not that difficult. It should be under Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt You can build the schedulers as module or directly in the kernel, maybe you need to load the module before when

[gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading something and the connection just died on me. (I have my Gentoo box behind a firewall box [also Gentoo, of course]; I moved the cable that connects the firewall [to my ADSL modem] directly to my Gentoo box to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
James wrote: COST is the key factor. Why pay somebody for something, when you can get equivalient functionality for very few dollars. A flat hub is all I need (want).. With a flat hub and a portable, you can mix in any amount of target software and do many things with a flat but and a

[gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread James
Randy Barlow randy at electronsweatshop.com writes: I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they are or can be setup as a flat hub. This seems like something that you should be able to do with OpenWRT and a Linksys WRT54Gl... Yep, that device was on the short list. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. Where do you find it is slowed? FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:39:11 -0500 Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably want to use CFQ as it is currently the fastest It is? I though anticipatory was still considered the fastest. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
James wrote: Have you set one up to sniff and remotely display the result on a workstaion before? No, I definitely haven't done anything like that. Mine is just a router/WAP/firewall/QoS thing with some fun port forwarding rules. Funny that it's default firmware doesn't let you forward outside

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:32:06 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message reports that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:12 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Dec 14, 2007 5:30 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Christopher Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 5:30 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there is

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Otherwise, I'm interested in what your definition of forward is. How about anything? More than nothing. I'd agree with this. I think gentoo is having growing pains in directions the (gentoo) pundits are not really interested in. Take for example JAVA.

[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Volunteer to pick up part of the load, I guess - something that I, as a newbie, am reluctant to do - but I guess I will if filezilla continues to languish. There is indeed an issue; e.g. TOR, a popular desktop package, is a release behind; Vidalia, is two releases behind - one a security

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Grant wrote: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. Where do you find it is slowed? I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: Gentoo's foundation is great. I can't think of any major changes that should to happen to it. But Gentoo is at this point *only* a foundation. It needs more (removable) layers. FreeBSD created extra layers on its own foundation and called the result PC-BSD which is aimed at the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: OTOH, the good news is that a newbie like me can install an outdated package (e.g. Vidalia); resolve dependencies; uninstall the portage version; download and compile the current version from the developer. If you know how to do those things, learning how to make the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread kashani
James wrote: COST is the key factor. Why pay somebody for something, when you can get equivalent functionality for very few dollars. A flat hub is all I need (want).. With a flat hub and a portable, you can mix in any amount of target software and do many things with a flat but and a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: Let me in on that. What can I do too? Find bugs on b.g.o. and help out! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 13:58 -0600, Christopher Dale wrote: Feel free to post any ideas you have to enhance Gentoo's base functionality to the list though, I think you've roused everyone's curiosity Grant :D Christopher Okay, here it goes: I think we could need a better support for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. Where do you find it is slowed? I don't have statistics to support this, but it seems

Re: Documentation about ebuilds (was: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules])

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Randy Barlow ha scritto: 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: OTOH, the good news is that a newbie like me can install an outdated package (e.g. Vidalia); resolve dependencies; uninstall the portage version; download and compile the current version from the developer. If you know how to do those things,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20) Sad. Can you link the thread? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Documentation about ebuilds (was: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules])

2007-12-14 Thread Andrey Falko
On Dec 14, 2007 6:15 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Barlow ha scritto: 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: OTOH, the good news is that a newbie like me can install an outdated package (e.g. Vidalia); resolve dependencies; uninstall the portage version; download and compile the current version

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Roy Wright
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading something and the connection just died on me. Howdy, I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found that if I kill dhcpcd then restart it then my connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Florian Philipp ha scritto: Other things to improve? A better documentation on USE-flags. In my opinion every maintainer should provide as much information as possible on what exactly a USE-flag changes. At the moment it's the administrator's responsibility to find this out. Not really a good

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:59:09 -0800 Hilco Wijbenga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading something and the connection just died on me. (I have my Gentoo box behind a firewall box [also Gentoo, of course]; I moved the cable

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Randy Barlow wrote: 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: OTOH, the good news is that a newbie like me can install an outdated package (e.g. Vidalia); resolve dependencies; uninstall the portage version; download and compile the current version from the developer. If you know how to do those things, learning

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Okay, here it goes: I think we could need a better support for binary packages. There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary packages for customers. As far as I remember the problem was (and still is) that there is no easy way to check the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 14, 2007 3:37 PM, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading something and the connection just died on me. I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found that if I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance? Nope, I've tried a tulip and a 3COM NIC. Pretty run-of-the-mill. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: My concerns with this, other than my abilities, are: 1. Showing proper respect to the guy who pioneered the effort to date, and who may simply be out of town. (This disrespect would be alleviated if there was an official policy encouraging volunteer ebuilds.) It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there is