Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 20:05 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:54 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: I personally use dar and gpg. Dar can be used to make incremental backups which should partly solve your speed problem. Alternatively you could use tar and gpg or cpio or

[gentoo-user] Versioning scheme (was: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises)

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, need for a rev bump. If one person has a problem and another person does not have the problem, it is helpfull to be able to determine the exact version of the packet installed. Not bumping revs makes that harder. Exactly. There should be a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Top-post with full quote (was: you have cruft in /proc remove it)

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: Don't top post! Big whoop! The two posts are tiny -- it's easy to see at a glance which is the original and which the reply. And since your post was so tiny, you really should have trimmed what you quoted. This could easily mean, that all the

[gentoo-user] evolution problem

2008-04-18 Thread Stéphane ANCELOT
Hi, WHen I try to emerge evolution I have the mistake import libxml2 failed how to solve it Best Regards Steph -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the backup locally and only use the much slower option of restoring

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Because you didn't read the elog messages. it is still not ok to remove /etc/conf.d/net. That is extremly stupid. This one caught me too, and I DID read the elog message plus the upgrade guide. /etc/conf.d/net is not mentioned anywhere.

[gentoo-user] Tripwire

2008-04-18 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi what is tripwire and where can i get the information Thanks and Regards Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: There are at least two drawbacks to using rsync for mirroring the local backup to a remote host: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 17 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Because you didn't read the elog messages. it is still not ok to remove /etc/conf.d/net. That is extremly stupid. This one caught me too, and I DID read the elog message plus the upgrade guide. /etc/conf.d/net is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:34:56 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: It would be, but it wasn't removed on any of the three machines I upgraded. So, I think, that your system is a bit odd. Maybe I should have specified that the three machines all have very different setups. Fourth time

Re: [gentoo-user] Tripwire

2008-04-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
On 18/04/2008, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is tripwire and where can i get the information http://gentoo-portage.com/app-admin/tripwire Also, in /usr/portage/app-admin/tripwire/tripwire-*.ebuild Regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's why I use rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup isn't really suitable for offsite backups because

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution problem

2008-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 April 2008, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: Hi, WHen I try to emerge evolution I have the mistake import libxml2 failed how to solve it Best Regards Steph emerge libxml2 -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Graham Murray
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you use dispatch-conf, check /etc/config-archive for your previous version. You might get lucky... It was not there for me. conf.d/net.example was in there but not conf.d/net which contained the pre-baselayout-2 network configuration. My main complaint

Re: [gentoo-user] Tripwire

2008-04-18 Thread robert anstuther
Tripwire is a good solid tool for aiding the security of your important servers, along with others of course. Boba. On 18/04/2008, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is tripwire and where can i get the information http://gentoo-portage.com/app-admin/tripwire Also, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread John covici
on Friday 04/18/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: There are at least two drawbacks to using rsync for mirroring the local backup to a remote host: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Question

2008-04-18 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Sorry to be so long replying - I've been busy with work haven't been reading the list. In case you're still having problems - and for the benefit of teh Googles - it looks to me like mail.ipr.edu may be doing clever greylisting stuff. If I telnet in and - giving a legitimate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's why I use rdiff-backup.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Justin
I upgraded another machine this morning and the file was untouched. Me too. But I have another problem on two machines. After the upgrade following message is drop while rebooting: * Stopping gdm ... * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/var/run/gdm.pid': No such file or directory [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:06:39 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: rdiff-backup isn't really suitable for offsite backups because it uses no compression, making the space and bandwidth requirements double those of other methods. It also uses no encryption. It uses compression (gzip), but only

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:10:59 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: If you use dispatch-conf, check /etc/config-archive for your previous version. You might get lucky... That won't help because the replacement is done by the ebuild. It was not there for me. conf.d/net.example was in there but not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-18 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:36:40PM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am looking for best fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not sufficient to

[gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread robert anstuther
Hi, I am new to Gentoo so accept my apologies if this is a blatently stupid question. I want to install the latest version of a package on our site, on checking the various gentoo boxes I discovered that the versions of the package varied a lot. therefore I ran emerge --sync this worked fine but

[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would upgrade your extremely stupid opinion to something more like Ravenous Bluggbatter Beast of Traal level stupidity. Yup, it really is that bad and the flood of user support questions from this is going to be quite long. While I agree that this

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Freitag, den 18.04.2008, 13:09 +0200 schrieb ext robert anstuther: I am worried that I mess up my kernel by proceeding You can only mess up your kernel by recompiling it with the wrong options set in the kernel config and then use it at next boot. portage _never_ compiles a kernel. It just

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 April 2008, robert anstuther wrote: Hi, I am new to Gentoo so accept my apologies if this is a blatently stupid question. I want to install the latest version of a package on our site, on checking the various gentoo boxes I discovered that the versions of the package varied a lot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:10:30 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: While I agree that this might not have been the most clever idea they ever had, I would like to point your nose to http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/baselayout/baselayout-2.0.0.ebuild?r1=1.2r2=1.3 Now it makes

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure

2008-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: I don't know if this is relevant, but I just recovered from unmerging coreutils, which I promise never ever to do againG. Now that I have things working again, and revdep-rebuild says I'm OK. I went back and re-ran emerge --ask --deep --update

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-04-18 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Friday 28 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: pastup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then iwconfig [...] fi return 0 } should work. Nice tip, thanks. I don't understand why config_SSID and config_ETH (or iwconfig_) can't handle it. Is there a bug on

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Question

2008-04-18 Thread Jason Messerschmitt
Stroller, Thanks for getting back to me on this. My original intent was to only send mail from abulafia, not receive it from outside (of course it can be delivered locally). Is it still necessary to have an MX record made for abulafia? Maybe I'll go ahead and give that a try. Joomla has always

Re: [gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-18 Thread maxim wexler
Yes, but then udev sees that eth0 is already allocated to another card so makes this one eth1. Just delete the file as mentioned previously to have udev forget about the old card and start again with eth0. What file? Cause now I'm getting this: localhost heathen # dmesg|grep eth0

Re: Top posting (Was Re: [gentoo-user] you have cruft in /proc remove it)

2008-04-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schrieb: First: Don't top post! Big whoop! The two posts are tiny -- it's easy to see at a glance which is the original and which the reply. Irrelevant! I answered you below, what happens when you answer again on

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Johan, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Johan Blåbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong, since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:10:30 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: While I agree that this might not have been the most clever idea they ever had, I would like to point your nose to

[gentoo-user] Slightly off-topic... is there a web app in portage for....

2008-04-18 Thread Steve
I want to be able to manage a sizeable number of reference manuals I have in various ebook formats - CHM; PDF etc. scattered around various PCs; on CDs etc. - and I'm looking for a web-app to help me organise them as a virtual reference library. I want to be able to tag the files by 'subject

[gentoo-user] Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-18 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, It's been three years since I last set up mail on my workstation which I'm replacing after a motherboard failure. One of the pieces I'm missing is what do I need to allow processes like portage and mdadm send notification messages to my email account. IIRC, I had something that just

Re: [gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:26:34 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Yes, but then udev sees that eth0 is already allocated to another card so makes this one eth1. Just delete the file as mentioned previously What file? The one in /etc/udev/rules.d -- Neil Bothwick Come on! It's a whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:49:55 +0200, b.n. wrote: Now it makes sense. If you have not modified conf.d/net since the last baselayout emerge, portage considers the file to be part of the old package and removes it. That's why only some machines are affected. It also shows that this is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:35:28 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: It's been three years since I last set up mail on my workstation which I'm replacing after a motherboard failure. One of the pieces I'm missing is what do I need to allow processes like portage and mdadm send notification messages to my

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure

2008-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:50:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote On Friday 18 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: checking for ALSA... yes checking for snd_pcm_ioplug_create in -lasound... no configure: error: *** libasound has no external plugin SDK libasound comes from package alsa-lib. So,