Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails[SOLVED-Agn]

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to > my script. > mail_header() > { > echo "MIME-Version:1.0" > echo "From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > echo "To:$RECIPIENT" > echo "Subject:Quotes $DATE" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency determination

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: > As a clarification, I have the "net-dialup/" subtree excluded from > portage as described by another thread on this list > (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run "emerge --ask --verbose > - --update --newuse --deep world", I get the "net-dialup/ppp" pac

[gentoo-user] New apache layout

2005-09-19 Thread A. Khattri
Just went through the apache update on three servers. I duly removed /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and restarted apache successfully. Question: can I safely remove /etc/apache/conf/* (after migrating any settings to the new conf files of course). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist

2005-09-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Brian Parish wrote: > Yes, I see that on all our servers. Not much more than an annoyance unless > you have stupidly obvious passwords, but annoying for sure. On customer > servers that don't require access from the everywhere and anywhere I just > configure hosts.allow and

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails

2005-09-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't > really progressed anywhere hehe). > > But.. when push comes to shove Im assuming there is probably a CPAN module that does most of this for you - this is why I think Perl might

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, C. Beamer wrote: > Yes, I have /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng. This is what it says, but I > have no idea what it means (I'm not a programmer): > > /var/log/messages { > sharedscripts > postrotate > /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true > endsc

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Script that sends out HTML emails

2005-09-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing > for (FC3), the mail command does not have a "-a" option. > > I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else > has any more suggestions? Unless you're prepar

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: mounting hd images with windows?

2005-09-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > This is a bit of topic here, but maybe someone has a solution! > > I can mount dd produced image files (harddisk images) in FreeBSD or > Linux using different commands: > > FreeBSD: > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${HOME}/vc.img -u 4 > # mount -t ntfs -o

Re: [gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the > tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is > re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before reverting back to > the older version. Is there a way to do thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:08, A. Khattri wrote: > > Shame we dont have anything like CARP for Linux yet... (unless someone > > knows better?). > > UCARP, but it's fundamentally flawed, as iptables has no method to k

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > And don't try to avoid been called geek by using those fancy smileys. ;) Im an old timer (well, compared to a lot of folks - been using the net since 89) and I remember when the ";)" form of the smilie first appeared on the scene. I opposed it then and

[gentoo-user] lvm2 and RAID

2005-09-15 Thread A. Khattri
Anybody using lvm2 and RAID together on the same partitions? Can anyone detail how to create such a setup? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware advice for dual-processor set-up on gentoo

2005-09-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Denis wrote: > So basically... I would pretty much be buying an already outdated > technology if I were to purchase a dual Xeon or a dual Opteron system > now? One could say that about any technology you buy ;-) > I guess the other advantage is that a good dual Xeon system

RE: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Olaf Niermann wrote: > Maybe you can try a lookup onto 'heartbeat' (emerge -s heartbeat) allthough > it might be overloaded for your needs and I personally just use it for > failover between different physical servers. Just wanted to add that heartbeat is part of the HA Linux

[gentoo-user] init script dependency problem

2005-09-07 Thread A. Khattri
Anyone else encountered this? * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Could not get dependency info for "nscd"! * Please run: * # /sbin/depscan.sh * to try and fix this. * Starting Name Service Cache Daemon ...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Virtual Host

2005-09-04 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, q-parser wrote: > Unfortunately, it was no help :( I'll try to reinstall Koha (that's what > I'm trying to get working) and see if the problem persists. But I > strongly believe that there's problem with apache or vhost. Sorry to be blunt, but it really sounds like you dont re

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, John J. Foster wrote: > The initial "Starting local" is displayed as the system boots, but > that's all that happens. If I do a /etc/init.d/local restart, all is > well, and all is logged. > > Am I once again missing the obvious? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to > be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time, > could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost > something that checks or sync's the system time

Re: [gentoo-user] Piles of errors from rsnapshot follown emerge world -u

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: > Following an emerge world -u all my rsnapshot scripts are erroring out > like this: > > ERROR: config_version was not defined. rsnapshot can not continue. > /usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \ > /etc/rsnapshot_News.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: > Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem, > if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings... Not if you have quotas on /home -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)

2005-08-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: > Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their > $HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? That way they could > circumvent my /var userqouta settings (100MB) and use /home > settings (5GB)... Dont know if you can stop that. > One more problem: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: > Why not use dispatch-conf instead? Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features added to it. That said, I would rather use it (and be very very careful)

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Ask some guy on remote side do this: > > 1. Put Knoppix CD into drive and reboot > > 2. answer "knoppix 2" to "boot:" prompt and hit Enter > (If prompt doesn't occur, it's probably necessary > to change booting order in BIOS.) > > 3. when r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: > Hmm... indeed it does appear to be a Mac, at first glance I thought it was > Gnome with a Mac skin on top. That explains a lot. Its a Mac with a skin on top ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: > This is kind of off topic but could someone please look at this > screenshot (http://pstudios.ath.cx/screenshots/kody-nov-4-04.png) and > tell me what dock (or icon set) this guy is using. Thanks Shouldn't you be asking that on a Mac OS X mailing list??

Re: [gentoo-user] GarageBand

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >Your friend is not alone in his desires. For the 4 years I've been > doing Linux based audio I've wished, cajoled & begged for something to > replace Acid Pro. There is interest but no developer who'd been > willing to take up the mission and go make it

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot load libc, permission denied

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David Busby wrote: > I've re-build both glibc and fcron, no dice. I've looked at ldd for crontab > > cdrtx / # ldd /usr/bin/crontab > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7ec4000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) > > L

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot load libc, permission denied

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David Busby wrote: > cdrtx / # fcrontab -e > fcrontab: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared > object file: Permission denied > > But libc looks OK to me > > cdrtx / # ls -l /lib/libc* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1211416 Aug 20 22:36 /lib/libc-2.3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php and mod_php

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > I am trying to unmerge all versions of php and mod_php on my system. > > However: > > # emerge -C php mod_php > > dev-php/mod_php > selected: 4.3.2-r5 4.3.8 > protected: none > omitted: none > > >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for remova

Re: [gentoo-user] MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) can't connect to smaba share

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: > I don't know if this is related, but maybe the problem is that Tiger's > implementation of Samba does not support plain text passwords by > default; they are now encrypted. The Mac support site offers a > workaround for this. Every Tiger review Ive read talk

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I don't mind top-posting, I guess its not "offensive", ok, it > sometimes waste bandwidth, so does HTML and stuff like "my client > signature file" attached, I hate multipart, but, hey, you can't make > everyone think like you do. So we should all dri

Re: [gentoo-user] AGP GART support not availiable

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Rajat Gujral wrote: > is it possible to add the support for agpgart without > reinstalling the whole system ... Or is it possible to > recompile the kernel without effecting the rest of the > system ... Sure, you can recompile the kernel anytime (after all, how else to upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: > I could set my gateway to 192.168.0.1 and DHCP pool range to > 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.100 and it would work. Yes, you might need to do this temporarily until you change the IP of the device to what you normally use, then you can switch back afterwards. --

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Marco Matthies wrote: > I agree with you that it is annoying to scroll through a whole 10 > pages of quoted e-mail conversation just to find the two-line answer > hidden at the bottom The real problem is those people too lazy to trim their posts to just what they are respondi

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Williams wrote: > Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the > drive is still detectable by the BIOS. Sure - we have a *lot* of experience with their RMA process! > Their warranty periods are 3 year and > above now too. > All you pay is

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the > first 2.5 years. That's not too bad compared to Maxtors. I have Seagate (SCSI) disks in servers that have been running for almost 5 years now... -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section > there that sets up a file called firewall.sh > i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system, Probably a script the wiki author created perhaps...

RE: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > btw - > lsmod currently shows - > ModuleSizeUsed By > tulip 42336 0 OK, so what does "ifconfig -a" show? Also, the output of "lspci" would be useful (I think someone asked earlier). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Folks, we have got computing power on our desks that equals that of a medium > sized data centre 10 years ago. Of course, I want the bloody computer and its > tools to do all the sidetracking little tasks and concentrate myself on > algorithms and data struc

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > From a log investigation you might be right. > > Bugger, it is a newish disk too. > > Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement. I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that d

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I remember the days of "netiquette." I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet > hippie. :| No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your quoted part to only

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jerry McBride wrote: > I think most "linux nerds" (me included) distain top posting because it's the > default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] network driver

2005-08-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running > old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just > went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics > went fine. I'm up to chap

Re: [gentoo-user] what must be writable by portage

2005-08-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > I have a number of gentoo systems and have a central /usr/portage that's > share by nfs. There are also binary packages that are shared and available > for all. The nfs-exports are read-only > If I set up a new machine and it only has read-only ac

Re: [gentoo-user] what must be writable by portage

2005-08-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > I have a number of gentoo systems and have a central /usr/portage that's > share by nfs. There are also binary packages that are shared and available > for all. The nfs-exports are read-only > If I set up a new machine and it only has read-only ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Markus [utf-8] Döbele wrote: > The code I think is not the problem. But I think it is still a lot of work. > By the way I don't like C too much (we had a C Version once and only > encountered problems all the time :-( Buffer overflows and all this nice > stuff is a big problem

Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???

2005-08-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: > Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. > On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home > (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. > Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Wayne Clement wrote: > try PowerBasic Ah, a contradiction in terms ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

2005-08-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: > Yes, I used everything as default as possible. > I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. Many people have problems when uysing genkernel to build their kernels, so I will repeat my earlier advice: build the kernel by hand w

Re: [gentoo-user] finding IP address of device on the network

2005-08-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: > I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address. > How to list devices connected to local network? You could try running: arp -e -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

2005-08-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: > vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 > vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846 > vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7 > vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03 > vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfe

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update add asterisk default

2005-08-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need help in troubleshooting. > > asterisk will not start. I have executed "rc-update add asterisk default". > > While booting I see the message "starting asterisk as user asterisk[ok]" > > But it is not running after I log in. > > I there a boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Graham Murray wrote: > However it should be possible to know all of files that the package > may install. You would have to write a utility that looked at ALL the possible USE flags a package could make use of and build a tree that was stored in a database (not to mention, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb

2005-08-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jim Hatfield wrote: > I just bought a Pinnacle ShowCenter and am using it with some > Apache/PHP/MySQL code to play mpeg movie files to a TV. > > It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I > get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with > suc

Re: [gentoo-user] Read/Import mail

2005-08-22 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: > I need to access some old mail folder. I was using mozilla as mail client at > the time. > Now I use thunderbird. I couldn't import/read the mail just by creating an > account and pointing the Local Folder to that old folder. Tools -> Import maybe???

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp 425 bad IP connecting

2005-08-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > One of my users is having a problem with FTP access to my server. He > says that he can connect and get a listing for his home directory, but > he can't do anything beyond seeing the listing. He's connecting from > outside the network. I can connec

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 min-install weirdness

2005-08-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > After booting the 2005.1-min-install CD I browsed the > contents for awhile and thought I'd try to setup > dial-up by copying over the appropriate files from > /etc/ppp/ on another drive. So I mounted that drive > then, I'm not sure if it was immediately

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vpopmail and courier.imap

2005-08-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jan Meier wrote: > vpopmail and courier-imap is running on my server and it mostly works great, > but sometimes the user login fails. The log file has the following output: > Aug 11 20:33:35 nerdig authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has > gone away > But, mysqld i

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with 2005.1

2005-08-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, James wrote: > I was looking around for new features and enhancements between > installing via 2005.0 and 2005.1 and found nothing of detail. > Any detailed information on 2005.1 or the new features of installing > with 2005.1, in a review or other document would be appreciate

Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1

2005-08-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > it is necessary to make any changes to get the packages from version > 2005.1 while using 2005.0. > > I read somewhere that we should change the symlink /etc/make.profile > to the new 2005.1 profile and resync, I dided and after sync there > where

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

2005-08-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Instead, the approach would be to > - use a console for X11 gui (xterm, rxvt, whatever), > - use a terminal emulator for for terminal emulation (usually included > in the console applications, but I'm more thinking of "screen" here > because you ment

RE: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd

2005-08-09 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Joe Rizzo wrote: > Thanks for the response. I think I'm having an issue unrelated to udev. > > 3ware tech support said the driver included with the kernel was old and > suggested to build the latest driver as a module. Why not do away with initrd and just build the driver int

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, glumtail wrote: > Why not write a GLOBAL script for collecting some usefull information? > And then just be included in every pages, store records in a > particular file. This is a horrible way to do it. A lot of free stats services do something similar with a block of JavaScr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Aaron Nichols wrote: > I was going to try the "non-genkernel" approach and see if that worked any > differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples > of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this situation, but > those do not use udev and n

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Virtual Host

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: > Just a note for the future. Whenever you create a virual host that points to > a directory you must create a directory container inside of the virual host > container that sets up the permissions for the directory otherwise your will > always get a 403 er

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, daniel wrote: > very cool. > how many servers are you using for this? do you have a rough ratio for > users:servers? Its hard to say what the ratio of users/servers is - we haven't hit any major bottlenecks yet and we serve somewhere between 3000 - 4000 accounts. We have two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Badges

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, A. Khattri wrote: > That's what happens when you post a link to a mailing list and then host > it on your home DNS line - good job he didn't post to Slashdot ;-) Err... of course I meant "DSL line" ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'll put in a plug for "meld" if you're like me and non-masochistic. It's an > X-windows application and is as simple as point & click. Yeah, but that's no use on a server without X now is it? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow > tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to > copy and paste by hand? If there are minor changes, you can directly edit the update then save, quit and merge the u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Badges

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Alvin A ONeal Jr schreef: > > I prefer the bumper sticker myself: > > http://coolaj86.homedns.org:4887/gallery2/main.php/d/5203-1/jeep_bumper_stickers.jpg > > > > > > hehe > > > > I must say, Alvin, that image took waay too long to load for me That's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, daniel wrote: > So at the moment, my main issues are: > > - How do I replicate the user list from the master to the satellites? > - What MTA should I use on the satellites and how would I configure it? > > I don't even know if "cluster" is the right word since whenever I go

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, John wrote: > This email address is being abandoned due to the sick amount of junk mail I > receive. Please stop spamming it. > > If you are a friend and need to contact me I can be reached at: > > Email: firstinitiallastinitial at neochicago.com And the last name and initia

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: > You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or > dispatch-conf.conf to use it. Lovely colours all around. :) Ive tried it with dispatch-conf. I went back to etc-update and vimdiff (since its vi, its easy to move around and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Phill MV wrote: > After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type > emerge -uva world. > > Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few > 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). > I use gnome, so I've alway

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage) or emerge conf-update. > Unfortunately, etc-update has many known bugs. The problem you > mentioned sounds like bug 26807. Both etc-update and dispatch-conf have good and bad points - none of them are ideal tools.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring (graphical web app)

2005-08-03 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Chris Frederick wrote: > I've been looking for a monitoring app that I can run on my > server/gateway. The more graphical the better, I really like the looks > of the graphs from ipac and grapher. But I'd like to get more details > than just total interface statistics. I'd l

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring (graphical web app)

2005-08-03 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: > I use Nagios and Cacti with much success. > > http://www.nagios.org/ > http://www.cacti.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] An iptables like setup on windowsxp

2005-08-03 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: > Maybe this isn't really the place but its more likely to get informed > answers here than on an ms group where most will not know what iptables > is. > > I'm in a position where I need to use MSwindowsxp OS on 2 machines > that are dedicated video and imag

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with genlop

2005-08-03 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Yuval Scharf wrote: > Why when ever I execute > > cgext03 ~ # genlop --current > > I get... > > !!! Error: no working merge found. That would be correct, --current reports on an emerge in currently in progress, so you see the above message when there's none in progress. --

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: > Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as > external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this > is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and muck > things up. Most of the exten

Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, James wrote: > Has anyone successfully deploy mulitple SATA-2 drives in a Gentoo Server? > If so, have you benchmarked the performance of these drives? > If so, are you happy with the price/performance of SATA-2 > or what would you recommend for price/performance on a mid-rang

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

2005-07-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > In the newer kernels (>= 2.6.10 ??) there is a search functionality > callable with the key "/" . About time they had something like this! -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

2005-07-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote: > However, I realize the magicfilterconfig tool is Debian-specific, > since there is no trace of it in the official source code I just > downloaded from > http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/magicfilter-2.3.d.tar.gz > > I wish Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Waldemar Tribus wrote: > Just wanted to follow gentoo 2.4 to 2.6 migration guide, > to avoid stipud error which i could make if i would do > it by myself :) We see a lot of posts here from people that have problems with genkernel, which is why some of us dont use it. The han

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

2005-07-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote: > I installed magicfilter on a i386 machine because I was > confortable with it's use with LPRng under Debian. I knew it came > with a configuration tool, magicfilterconfig, but that tool is > missing in my installation (from sources). There doe

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Run Script Weirdness

2005-07-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > Nope, same old stuff: > > localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql start > * Starting mysqld (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) ... > * MySQL NOT started, proceding anyway > [ !! ] > localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql zap > localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql start > * Starting

Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal

2005-07-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. > > Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs > calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is > -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 > > This permits 3 side by side windows (

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Run Script Weirdness

2005-07-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2005 11:27, A. Khattri wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > > > [code] > > > localhost mysql # /etc/init.d/mysql stop > > > * ERROR: "mysql" has not yet been

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Run Script Weirdness

2005-07-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > [code] > localhost mysql # /etc/init.d/mysql stop > * ERROR: "mysql" has not yet been started. > localhost mysql # > [/code] > > The fact that I can't use the runscript to stop the proess gets to me... I'm > itching to fix this. Did you run "mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] Ipsec with openswan consult...

2005-07-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Walter Willis wrote: > # ipsec verify > Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and started correctly: > Version check and ipsec on-path [OK] > Linux Openswan U2.3.1/K2.6.12-gentoo (netkey) > Checking for IPsec support in kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP everywhere?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > Do you have openldap installed? The ldap flag is listed in > /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults so it should default to -ldap > unless openldap is installed. You can always add -ldap to make.conf. Poking around it looks like ldap support was compile

[gentoo-user] LDAP everywhere?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
After a recent --sync I see now that the update wants to emerge openldap because an "ldap" flag has been added to openssh and it seems to be the default. Anyone else seen this? What is the thinking behind making it a default flag? Makes no sense to me. I dont want or need openldap on my boxes...

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Chaz Andrews wrote: > I use UltraEdit for this purpose on a daily basis. It is the best editor > for all my > Windows needs. There is only ONE editor: vim (it runs on everything incl. Windoze) Let the flames begin... ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Noah Roberts wrote: > How long between when a GLSA is distributed and glsa-check will pick it > up? I just got a message from announce that has a GLSA I believe my > server will be vulnerable to but glsa-check isn't picking it up. In > fact I just did a 'glsa-check -l | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] QOS

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Patrick wrote: > Are there people on the list who are using QOS, i need it to preserve > 4MB for IP telephonie on a 100Mbit line. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > I heard there was a problem like that with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 and > iptables: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=112129686806476 Im using the kernel with iptables - no problems. -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys

2005-07-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote: > Umm, I thought of that earlier, here is the complete ls -all of the htdocs > dir, nothing wrong here that I can see Do those sub-dectories have index.html file in them? If not, then you need to explicitly switch on directory listings (they are off by

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel > does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for > devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). True, but a lot of people have had probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, James wrote: > Ahhh that's it: > # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp > Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 > # date > Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 On my machines, the master rsync server does a sync at 3am. The rest of the machines sync with the master server at 4am. This way th

Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > I recently updated portage tree & kernel and using usual > > genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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