Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo web development tool

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, simply change wrote: > what is the gentoo official web site WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL? (like screem, nvu > or what?) I dont know if there is an "official" tool - speaking from experience many designers use whatever they feel comfortable with. There is a new design for the site cu

Re: [gentoo-user] nptl

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, LostSon wrote: > Hey > I would like to use nptl and did not use it as a use flag when > installing my gentoo system. When adding this to my use flags what other > packages would i have to compile to get use of nptl ?? Thanks I thought there were two nptl-related USE flags - t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PHP and PEAR

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote: >$ emerge PEAR-PEAR > > >>> Install PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5/image/ > >>> category dev-php > /usr/portage/eclass/php-pear.eclass: line 47: pear: command not found > > !!! ERROR: dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5 failed. > !!! Functi

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jarry wrote: > Pardon for my ignorance, but what do you mean with "Linux raid-1 rather > than the software raid"??? Is it not the same? Or do you mean some > hw-raid? Some motherboards claim to have RAID built-in but really it is software RAID in the BIOS. Linux's software RA

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs Problem

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Sebastien Morand wrote: > BHi everybody, > > I got the following error with emacs: > pyrenees:~ $ emacs > Fatal error (6).Aborted > > I tried to compile by mself with the same flag emacs and didn'get any > problem and it works fine, so why do I get a problem when using Gentoo

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

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, James wrote: > Is there a script to update workstation systems, automatically, > say 10 minutes after booting? How best to do this? I run this in my servers at 3am (they sync off a local rsync server, similar to your setup): http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/ -- Aj. -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth Adapter???

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, timothy johnson wrote: > I am thinking about getting a bluetooth usn adapter to use my old sony > cell phone as a remote for my music server. Just wondering if anyone > has use a bluetooth usb adapter, if there are any howtos to get this > setup??? And if it would be worth it t

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing --now w/ dead pc

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Mark Shields wrote: > Speaking of dead PC, my server died today. Either the power supply or > motherboard. R.I.P. Gentoo server. I think I overloaded a cheap PS (I > hope). Will find out tonight which component it is. The Hardware Guys swear by Antec: http://hardwareguys.c

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT?) configure and go web feedback package

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Antoine wrote: > The boss has given me a project that will involve having people log in > to a server to post feedback-like questions/complaints and be able to > review their previous/current complaints. > Basically, the people send things that need to be actioned, and if they

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-libs/tunepimp-0.3.0-r1 failed

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, James wrote: > These packages fail upon update: > [ebuild U ] media-libs/tunepimp-0.3.0-r1 [0.3.0] > [ebuild N] media-libs/xine-lib-1.0-r2 > [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.1-r1 > > One error message I see is: > > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PHP and PEAR

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote: >I think I did not said things correctly. >If I try to emerge any PEAR package, to install it the system tries to > use /usr/bin/pear which does not get installed exactly because PHP is compiled > without PEAR. I mean the pear core which can be used

Re: [gentoo-user] Ram specifics installed?

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, James wrote: > Ideas or other tools are of interest? * sys-apps/lshw Available versions: 02.00b ~02.02b 02.03b 02.04b Installed: no Homepage:http://ezix.sourceforge.net/ Description: Hardware Lister See http://ezix.sourcefor

Re: [gentoo-user] Potential Supid question re Grep

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote: > Apr 24 06:39:51 polaris INPUT BLOCKED: IN=eth1 OUT= > MAC=00:09:5b:1f:16:42:06:05:5d:9f:a3:74:08:00 SRC=212.56.68.108 > DST=212.159.25.17 LEN=71 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xA0 TTL=58 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP > SPT=46245 DPT=161 LEN=51 Looks OK and grep should find it. D

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP Odd Error

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, David Busby wrote: > List, >When running php shell scripts I get this at the end of each one > > No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging > Cannot rename //var/lib/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf to > //var/lib/net-snmp/snmpapp.0.conf > Cannot unlink //var/lib/net-snmp/sn

Re: [gentoo-user] Potential Supid question re Grep

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote: > I am trying to extract information in my logs for a abuse department and am > using the code: > > Code: > > zcat /var/log/messages.*?.gz | grep 212.56.68.108 >> /home/mike/abuse1 > > The logs are standard: messages.??.gz > > However, when I examine the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge question

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > I want to emerge PHP to my box, a 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 but a want to emerge it > without x11 support. When I type emerge -p -v php I got this message: Re-run that with the -t option added to the command-line - the resulting tree will show you what

Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Llewellyn wrote: > I plan on calling them. Unfortantly there is no one there at 4 am! I was > just curious it port 25 being closed would be the reason I couldn't recieve > email in the first place. SMTP uses port 25 so a block would indeed affect incoming email. --

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Echo is in the sudo-ed group, and echo isn't the problem-- the problem > is that permission is refused to write to the file itself (which is an > error *from* echo, so it would seem that echo itself is OK as far as > sudo goes). Which means that I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Martin Carpella wrote: > When connecting to one of my gentoo servers via SSH, I've got a strange > problem: Ctrl+S is not sent to my screen sessions any more, instead > handled directly by the shell, causing the sesssion to freeze. This is > extremly annoying as many emacs shor

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is seriously wrong with my hard drive partitions

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Ian K wrote: > ReiserFS: hda4: Using rd5 hash to sort names > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda4" or unknown-block(3,4) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(3,4) > > So you know: > hda1 = NTF

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: telnet into embedded devices

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, James wrote: > I'm the only admin. I found the behavior with a gentoo system, a debian system > and any number of different embedded targets all isolated on a flat hub. > No DNS, auth, or other fancy stuff going on. Dirt simple class C (/24) > network. That doesn't mean that

Re: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > I installed kudzu-knoppix some time back (I can't remember why). With the > issues yesterday re: revdep-rebuild, r-r wanted to update kudzu-knoppix. > Well, kudzu-knoppix failed to build because of issues with the linux > headers. > > Rather than trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo "L 80" Boot Error

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Richard Watson wrote: > I've been struggling for days now to get my genkernel image to boot. Its been said before: many of us dont use genkernel because of various problems... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Matthias Bethke wrote: > Or, if you don't mind some configuring, use amanda. It scales nicely to > more machines should the need arise. For most people, Amanda is wy over the top... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > > I imagine any CD included with a motherboard is old > > before it hits the > > shelves... > > So what? The "tool" will still work. Kindly read what > I wrote! I *did* read what you wrote. My point was if there was an update on the CD it would be old.

Re: [gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > next notify "init" process about changes: > # init q Or: # telinit q -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: > In another year or > two, there may be a significant population of PCs that will be able to > run Longhorn. And then they'll have to change the name to Longtooth. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard for Dual-Core CPU - Linux firendly

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Joseph wrote: > Looking for Linux friendly motherboard where everything will work from > sound to graphics for Dual-Core CPU (AMD 4400) > Any recommendations? > > Most-motherboard will do but there is always something that will not > work, especially sound chips. When ask for

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > Now, the Asus brd does have raid capability. Would > that be a way out of this morass? Its probably software RAID - you're better off using Linux's own software RAID. > How does raid work? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html -- -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > So there must be a problem w/ > the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it using > the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only made > matters worse: Did you download the latest BIOS from Asus's site and use that? I imagine any CD included with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken sudo

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Sean Higgins wrote: > Did you run etc-update, or dispatch-conf, to merge configuration file changes? > I ran into the same error on several systems, but once I fixed up the > configuration files changes, everything was fine. Yeah but the point is, if you haven't changed /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > In kernel there is no option for 3c59x There is - in menuconfig: Device Drivers -> Networking support -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) -> 3COM cards -> 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support -- Aj. --

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > Thanks, but modprobe 3c59x gave me errror: FATAL: Module 3c59x not found. > In kernel there is no option for 3c59x I am using this driver so I know it works... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] can't ping myself when iptables running

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Depends upon what your default policy is defined as. If the default policy > is DENY then you must specifically include an ACCEPT rule for icmp traffic. You need some rules like this before the end of the INPUT ruleset: ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > CPU: Undecided, some flavor of Pentium III > RAM: 256 MB > Storage: 700 MB IDE (/boot, something else) > Storage: 18.2 GB Ultra160 SCSI (on a Series 428 MegaRAID) > OS: Windows NT Server... kidding! Gentoo! If you go to the Dell support web site and punch

Re: [gentoo-user] driver for 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]????

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > I tried this one. It didn't work. Can you run lspci and show us the output? > > askar > > > > > The card comes under > > Device Drivers > > -> Networking Support > > -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) > >-> 3Com Cards > > -> 3c590/3c900 series (592/595

Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with this? Would Gentoo install and run > on this machine without any problems? Is there anything special about this machine to make you think it wouldn't? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > This reminds me. When I installed 2005.0(sempron-box) > I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition, > since that gave no problem in 2004.3(k6-box)but it > gave me some sort of error, forget which, so I went > for the default, or anyways, the sugg

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda1 is gone!

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > My /dev/hda1 block device file is gone. I know I can create the > file /dev/hda1 with "touch", but how do I make it a block device file? man MAKEDEV -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Console

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Christopher Cover wrote: > I've been searching all over for information about Gentoo's > installation console. I want to use the same thing in my > own console. > > It's got a purple gradient background, and a dark screensaver > that's still transparent enough to know what's h

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Yes it is the current one assuming you save the .config file when > exiting. Except when starting with a fresh new kernel. What I do is copy a working .config over to the new kernel and run "make oldconfig" before doing the usual "make menuconfig", etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > Why I can't see www.mydomain.com from LAN? www.mydomain.com is > registered at providers DNS server. Probably because your WAN interface never gets the packet. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 and PUT

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Nagatoro wrote: > in the "/" directory. But I still get this reply from apache: > > HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:30:51 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Gentoo/Linux) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e > PHP/4.3.11 > Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE > Co

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a custom PS1

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Where is the best place to do it? I mean, some place that does not risk > to be updated/overwritten by a baselayout update. Probably ~/.bashrc -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > Thanks, but I already have this script in my iptable rules. > My router works for PC in LAN. > But when I run in LAN PC www.mydomain.com it > doesn't homepage. Though I can see web page when I run http://localhost. No it won't. Be

Re: [gentoo-user] caller id?

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, luis jure wrote: > anyway, if anyone has anything to add to that thread, comments are > welcome... ncid.sourceforge.net -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] samba + mysql + crypt password (pam or passdb)?

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Claudinei Matos wrote: > what I want is to use crypt password with mysql. I don't know if is > there a way to do it without make more changes to passdb source code > or if I could pass some parameter identifying that I'm using pam > instead of other auth methods, so any sugges

Re: [gentoo-user] (Slightly OT) PC IDE cards in a Gentoo-ed Mac?

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > Mac IDE cards are more expensive than PC IDE cards. I've got a SIIG > Ultra ATA 100 PCI RAID controller lying around and a couple of IDE > drives. Now, the card's firmware isn't Mac compatible, and none of my > Macs (all PCI-based OldWorld architecture) have o

Re: [gentoo-user] caller id?

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, luis jure wrote: > anyone knows a nice and simple to setup caller ID application for linux? What sort of phone? Landline or cellular? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem wars - ReiserFS 3.6 vs. JFS

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > Right now, I'm having PartitionMagic 8.0 check each sector of the disk, > to see if it was a hardware problem. (It'd better not be, I bought this > disk not even a year ago!) If its Maxtor I would not be surprised... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo > running. > > right now, the space stands at > > total size = 53.6MB > ext3 journal = 33MB > kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) > kernel-modules=9.5MB Could you describe how you did i

Re: [gentoo-user] handling folders with spaces

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, timothy johnson wrote: > trying to play starcraft, got it installed Are you playing Starcraft under WINE? Love that game... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >As A. Khattri pointed out Linux-Sound.org is a good place to start, > but it can be quite overwhelming. While I'd not suggest a Gentoo-User > look at the distro too much, there is an off-shoot of Redhat/Fedora > called PlanetCCRMA

Re: [gentoo-user] blog software recommendation for gentoo?

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > True but isn't it CGI-based? > > > Is that a problem? Something I should be aware of? For me yes. Every incoming request launches the CGI that generates the web page. Unless you're using mod_perl (or choose to publish static pages), you take a perf

Re: [gentoo-user] web-base calendar/appointment

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Joseph wrote: > Does anybody know of any good web-base calendar appointment software for > Linux. > > Something that would let user log-in and book an appointment etc. webcalendar.sourceforge.net -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: > i haven't > heard about any open source tool in that field. There's a lot of stuff some of it is very good: ardour.org rosegardenmusic.com audacity.sourceforge.net Also checkout linux-sound.org for more resources. -- -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] blog software recommendation for gentoo?

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote: > [Blosxom](http://www.blosxom.com/) deals with plain text files. If you want a > simple blogging engine, this is it. :) True but isn't it CGI-based? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, cothrige wrote: > Just like the installation itself. Now just everybody it seems has a > broadband connection and so that is how things work. But people like > me living on dial-up, sad huh?, cannot install an entire system > downloading it a bit at a time. What about runni

Re: bugs.gentoo.org (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles)

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > > Richard Fish wrote: > > >I've been trying to get a link, but bugs.gentoo.org seems to > > >be...well...buggy right now. > > > > > > > > I had to clear my cookie cache in firefox to be able to access > > bugs.gentoo.org again. Anybody got any ideas why I

Re: [gentoo-user] blog software recommendation for gentoo?

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to experiment with a blog as a way to track and collaborate on > projects. Do any of you have recommendations, for or against, very > simple blog software, ideally available in portage? > > I confess I'm a complete novice when it comes to blo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recovering vim/mutt email I was writing

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Grant wrote: > I was writing an email using vim in mutt and I accidentally hit > ctrl+alt+backspace which exited X. Is there any way to recover that > email? There might be a temp file in /tmp or /var/tmp. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > I've been running a little scriptlet to test whether I could get mail > sent to my ISP inbox. The full script runs esync and glsa-check, but > naturally I didn't want to sync 700 times, so I just ran the glsa-check > section. Is this script "glcu" ? ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Thanks to your help, and a slightly revised version of Neil's script > (thanks, Neil!), it seems to be working. I would also like to thank the > author (scottro?) or authors of the Quick-N-Dirty guides found at > http://www.qnd-guides.net/ , whose Q-n-D

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > But your mention of bway.net reminds me of something I wanted to ask > you-- are you in NYC? Yes I am - Im assuming you no longer are - where are you now ? > I was a bway.net customer before I left New York, > so it made me wonder. I found them a great

Re: [gentoo-user] email sending problem

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > --- Session Transcript --- > Parsing Message > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sdfadfad > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MX-record resolution of [eu-bomca.org ] in progress > (DNS Server: 85.115.195.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Logs & HostnameLookup Off

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I've set hostnamelookup off in the apache config but for some reason, > it's still resolving the hostnames. > > How/why is this? Does anyone know? Did you restart Apache after making the change? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: > From some reading this looks like it would fit the bill. Do you know of > any helpful howtos for this or similar combos? You could look at lifewithqmail.org or google for "qmail toaster". We are using a custom build with almost everything hooked into MySQL da

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off > qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what works well for "us".

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. > > Has anyone had good luck with mod_perl and Apache 1? *NOT Apache 2 - I > cannot upgrade to Apache 2* The ebuild looks like it builds as a DSO (this is the default for most Apache module

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular > ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email, you will have to edit /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daevid Vincent wrote: > i can send mail using 'pine' from the server to anywhere. > > i don't see any messages in the log file ?! Which log file? You might want to try tail'ing the log file and then sending through OutLook and seeing what is reported in the logs. -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, not so much to go off on a tangent (even though I am, so I split > this off the original thread), but this brings me to another question > that I've been meaning to ask. I want esync to be a cron job, and mail > me the list of new and updated package

[gentoo-user] DR working for M$

Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wordpress - How to override security mask?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Jason Newquist wrote: > As might be obvious from the question, I'm new to Gentoo. Apologies > if this question is answerable via RTFM. :) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=0 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Mark Shields wrote: > Trying to remove any MTAs from my system, so I did an emerge -C ssmtp, > which unmerged it just fine. Its a virtual dependency. ssmtp is not really an MTA, but a wrapper for a script that emulates sendmail. Its harmless and uses very little space so you

Re: [gentoo-user] Reboot when GRUB starts

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > /boot/grub/grub.conf > === > default 0 > timeout 10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r9 > root (hd0,0) > kernel=/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hde3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap > vga=0x31B Shouldn't that be: ke

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables and servername

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Patrick wrote: > I'm having trouble with iptables and http. > Before i have activated iptables i could access my server with a name in my > local /etc/hosts, after activating iptables i can only connect with the > ipaddress or his FQDN. > This local name is different or does

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_log_sql can't connect do db and can't write to file

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Claudinei Matos wrote: > I did installed mod_log_sql and and setup the conf file using default > options as template. > well, I also followed a tutorial that actually is for a old version > but following the default options I did the adjusts. > I did create the database and exe

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: > I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means > that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently > running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux > user, though not a fanatic like me ;-))

Re: [gentoo-user] is there anybody succeded with ./CA.pl -newca in Gentoo 2005.0?

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > I was using universal live cd, with its stage and portage files not > using emerge --sync. Maybe that's your problem. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables blocks ssh

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > I've recently turned my workstation into a router for my laptop, using > the great gentoo home router guide. Everthing is ok so far, with one > exception: I can't connect to my ssh server anymore from outside the > LAN, becuase iptables seems to preven

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast > throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 > 3com. Speaking from the server side of the fence, we swear by Intel eepro cards. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run "ps -ef" and show us the output? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] majordomo issue

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, q-parser wrote: > I have a problem with majordomo. Everything had been ok until recently > when it stopped working. The log says that user majordomo is not able to > write to /usr/tmp but this folder has 777 mod set on it. I was thinking > that my mail server was badly configur

Re: [gentoo-user] Port 512/Comsat and Sendmail or Fetchmail hangs

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been happening all the while because I just > noticed it this morning as I was popping my emails (via fetchmail). > > The process would hang at at the input of each mail for a short (but > very noticable) period while it tries to co

Re: [gentoo-user] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 Available Now

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > http://mag.my-opensource.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=54 Mambo heh? One of the defauly templates too. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Andreas Vinsander wrote: > I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions, > just try it! Its "hard" links that dont work across file-systems. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > However, when I run it from cron as the same shell script (and redirect > STDERR and STDOUT to files): > > ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Is it running as root from crontab? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I prefer just plain iptables myself ;-) > > One man's meat is another's poison. > > That's the beauty of Open Source. You're free to decide. Well its one less package to manage - and you dont need any startup scripts ("/etc/init.d/iptables save" saves t

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman: how to approve messages by automated script or how to just allow autopost from address and ip?

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Claudinei Matos wrote: > I have a list at mailman with all my clients. I've specified that all > posts to the list are moderated. > That works fine but I always have to approve the messages by admin interface. > The situation is that I have a address that I want to trust to pos

Re: [gentoo-user] pxe installation

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Shahriar Mokhtari wrote: > I have to have the keyboard attached to client and press "enter" key > before time out. Usually there's a setting in the BIOS of most PCs to ignore keyboard "errors". -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

On Sun, 29 May 2005, cothrige wrote: > The book mentions a networkless install, but this seems to be a binary > package installation. That is the inference I am drawing in regards > to the universal install disc and the packages disc. Am I wrong? Yes, for a networkless install you would normall

Re: [gentoo-user] determining who is using a device

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >However when we look at mythfrontend it doesn't say that the > program is recording anything so something seems messed up. Not necessarily - lsof just shows that the process has the device open. Why would that be unusual? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Frankly, I've stopped trying to grok iptables but rather I use a > frontend like shorewall. It's much simpler than doing it all by > yourself. I prefer just plain iptables myself ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up again

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Pupeno wrote: > I'm missing a couple of things, maybe flexbackup can do it, but I do not know > how, can you help me ? > > 1- I need to backup some big files (databases) that change slightly over the > days, so, I need to be able to do incremental/differential [1] back up insi

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > lsmod returns "tulip" > > The switch is :- > > Supports 4 10/100 Auto MDI-X > Ethernet switch ports and 1 Line > port > > > and using "modinfo tulip" I get > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart # modinfo tulip > author: The Linux Kernel Team > description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > yes it has a built in switch [Linksys WAG54G] > and unfortunaltly Is it a 100Mbps switch? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart # mii-diag > Using the default interface 'eth0'. > SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed: Operation not supported > > ^^ prehaps this is relavent

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines > connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc. > I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer > speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > If you _do_ decide to rebuild the raid array, and you want the kernel to > autodetect things when it starts, then you need to have the right > partition types and create the array with the "persistent-superblock" > option, or use mdadm to create the array

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