Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug for it:

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:11:36 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:54:52 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to picture my 3/4 ton pick-up on top of that DSL box. It's starting to look pretty darn good too. Would sort of miss the ole truck tho. But then you'll be back to dialup indefinitely ... i wonder if

[gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:01:53 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: gentoo-wiki has nothing to do with gentoo.org. Nothing. Sure, they're completely seperate ... officially. But that's not the point. For good or for ill, gentoo-wiki is - or at least used to be before

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:05:07 +0200 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: gentoo.org works for me (both this afternoon, around 15.00 and right now, 20.03). f.g.o. also works right now. g-w.com also works. Your're all right; the gentoo.org thing must have been a transient hiccough somewhere between me

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:12:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually DOES? That is exactly my question. Is it important to do

[gentoo-user] sorry for fanning flames [site downtime]

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Farrell
i'm sorry to everyone, i started a bit of a heated debate. i didn't mean to imply that the gentoo sites hosting is less than adequate. I think the gentoo sites do a good job. I couldn't bring up the site for like 3 seconds today, and wouldn't you know it, I mentioned it on the mailing lists,

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:22:31 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the process of switching from dial-up to DSL. :-D :-D Running gentoo on dialup for so long, you must be the most patient person in existence.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:42:24 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:  It never made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now. In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is inversely

Re: [gentoo-user] Website disabling right click

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:01:08 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Stroller wrote: I considered suggesting contacting the owners of the site explaining how stupid it is to piss your customers off without benefit, but if they're dumb enough to have implemented this in the first place

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Kevin Haddock kevinhadd...@yahoo.com wrote: I changed the permissions on my machine. On the remote machine, it shouldn't need root permissions just to compile programs, right? No, I don't think so. You know, the remote admin might rather open up

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums.gentoo.org - error

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum? When trying to access it I get: phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database I hope so : ) It went down some time after 6 this morning (CST - noon UTC). I sent an email to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums.gentoo.org - error

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:34:17 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On gentoo-dev there was a post a few days ago about the forums being moved to a new server cluster. Perhaps something's not well with the new setup. the move was some days ago. And supposedly

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums.gentoo.org - error

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:56:01 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: back then, yes. Maybe one of the new boxes suddenly combusted ;) yes, well, I sure hope it takes more than one. they must have some sort of replication thing going right? I mean, if _i_ were hosting

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums.gentoo.org - error

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:54:54 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that (re)loading www.gentoo.org now takes around 10 seconds from the UK. This is a significant delay compared to usual performance. Not sure if people are loading this up to see what happened with the forums

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:48:06 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It never made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now. In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is inversely proportional

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:14 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/net I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating GenToo upto several times a week) and

Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:57:48 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Dealing with unexpected side effects of syncing in-use files could be a lot more problematic. perhaps a digest of some kind? md5 the files, write up a little script to keep the rest of the nodes synced up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection

2009-03-16 Thread Dan Farrell
Hi again. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dan. No matter what I do, I can't get the other laptop to communicate with my laptop. It can ping the router which is between us, but it can't get to the other

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both me, but with different UIDs

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:26:45 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless signals. It works great, but my girlfriend struggles to connect with her built-in antenna. I do have a travel router (D-Link DWL-G730) so I'd like to be

[gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-21 Thread Dan Farrell
Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. Also updated

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

2009-01-21 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:47:57 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: Hi all, I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:55:23 +0100 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a little OT but I love that old board so much I had to chime in with my $0.02. Is that the game? I have an old abit bp6 on loan out to a friend as a workstation. two pentium IIs or pentium II class

[gentoo-user] DNS Server Patches

2008-07-27 Thread Dan Farrell
The recently released (early july) advisory on the DNS exploits discovered earlier this year have caused a bit of stir on the BIND mailing lists, and rightly so. Everybody on board with this one? CERT Bulletin: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113 Dan Kiersky's own description, and

[gentoo-user] network boot broken by changes in init scripts over last few months

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Farrell
insistent about documenting. Needless to say I'd like to solve the problem the right way. However, the init scripts are a complex bunch for me and I'm not sure how to go about fixing this. I was hoping one of you might be able to guide me. Any thoughts? Thanks, Dan Farrell -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] network boot broken by changes in init scripts over last few months

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 May 2008 03:51:01 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: friends, has anybody else come across the problem updating their initscripts and breaking network booting in the last few months? Evidently not. Well, it looks like the new baselayout2 also has problems with net

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox: password field

2008-04-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:59:46 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu patch indeed. For those interested: ... Thanks for the source overview -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:11 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. rpcinfo -p on the server shows: beryl

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:06:04 -0400 Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Main thing that speeds up the AMD box is using 320MB scsi's for near-term storage. They are hugely faster than [S]ATA or IDE used on most equipment these days. what R/W speeds can you expect? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:46:49 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pongracz Istvan pongracz.istvan at gmail.com writes: I've got several boxen that need to be installed so I was hoping to test drive 2008.0 AFAIK the releng team are working on the next release (2008.0) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:18:33 +0100 Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: Install from 2007.0 with interet: - most recent stage3 - most recent portage therefore most recent system Install from 2008.0-beta with internet: - same stage3 - same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:05 -0600 darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Dan Farrell: net benefit of 2008.0: none. The benefit is that the beta gets tested, and we all move that much closer to a stable 2008.0 release. True, I suppose. I tend to be a little draconian with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of

Re: [gentoo-user] jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:27:22 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and and old 4 gig ide disk: /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104400244 81% / /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot I

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:06:07 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:45:21 + Filipe Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few numbers from genlop -t Thanks much! This was interesting for me to read. I am surprised by how much faster 64bit system was for compiling these things. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New USB trackball; how to use?

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:10:54 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a new USB trackball today. When I plug it into the computer, this shows up in dmesg: input: Logitech USB Trackball as /class/input/input6 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Trackball] on

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem like this. They might have blocked port 25 and squelched my bittorrenting at times, but never anything like this. Of course, ymmv. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem like

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:16:09 -0400 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you thinking his ISP is doing port-based connection filtering? What kind of connection filtering allows a connection to go through for 5 seconds, then resets it? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm !

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Farrell
to the idea of granting us permission to use the site engine? Thank you for your time, Dan Farrell [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-673136.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:04:22 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is suposed to be here soon, I guess anyway. Dale you've been saying that for so long now. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do port-based routing?

2008-03-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:11:20 -0500 (EST) Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many interfaces but they are all frontends to iptables. Personally I just did a lot of reading and built my firewall from scratch. that's the spirit ; ) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
. Anyhow, my advice to you is to do what many, including myself do - save yourself the headache of running ~amd64, and only use package.keywords to unmask packages as necessary. Good luck, and may you withhold judgment of me as I have of you, Dan Farrell -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference). You don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a decent managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out through the

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:02:40 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially, the antiailiasing seems to alter the consistency of fonts in an irregular manner causing them to blur (differently) across the screen, as if the monitor resolution is out of sync. hmm, that

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:10:58 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please find xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log attached. I am using the xorg radeon driver. The font size is just right, would not like to increase it. A few thoughts based on your xorg.conf. 1) you set HorizSync 64 #31 - 80

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:16:36 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 Ritesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had success with #dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:21:48 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: maxim wexler ha scritto: This is such an obvious fraud it makes me wonder at his 100% positive

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:21:00 -0800 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping,

Re: [gentoo-user] printer uses UHCI instead of EHCI. Why?

2008-02-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:57:08 +0300 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehci module is loaded, all MB USB ports are USB 2 ports, printer is USB 2 (Full Speed) printer. Where to dig in? Which additional information must I supply? Andrew just a guess, but do you have your kernel set

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [avoided]

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Well, removing all settings for SANE_BACKENDS in my make.conf seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump]

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Curses! My scanner won't scan a thing. Has anyone else been able

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:19:48 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you just want to encrypt some clear-text protocol that doesn't have an encrypted equivalent, a vpn is still overkill. For that you use ssh tunneling (which is essentially the same thing as an encrypted

Re: [gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:07 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have just gotten a computer with a Super Micro c2sbe Motherboard. Now I also bought a dual port PCI Express ethernet card. Now the normal kernel driver in my 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 does not recognize the ethernet port

[gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Farrell
I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:42:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about having ssh, imap, smtp, cups, and possibly a non-standard https port all hidden within a VPN?  Should that be considered a benefit of running a VPN? One other thought about ssh+vpn, if you have VPN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT again..] Technical networking question about changing GW

2008-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:23:15 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to try to gauge if there was much of a noticeable difference with the two IP connections. And it would be handy to just step through the links changine the GW intermittently

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:02:01 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:49 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can print from your laptop to your printer at home while overseas, for example. Sounds very convenient ; ) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT again..] Technical networking question about changing GW

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:28:16 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happen to be in a situation where I have both a DSL and CABLE connection to internet up for the time being... (Until the DSL contract month runs out). It affords a nifty opportunity to do some experiments. Of course I tested

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:14:59 -0500 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid myself of this nonsense. Don't assume DSL will be better. They often block ports

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:23:23 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cringe at the idea of having to use a VPN for imap, however. Why? Would you say the same of using it for SMTP? I read email rather compulsively I guess, and would hate to be bothered with VPNs, then use an encrypted mail

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] Satellite A40-201 changing hard disk

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:55:29 +0100 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, has someone changed the hard disk of that laptop? (or one from its family?) Any advice? May I buy a generic one? TIA, judging by

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:53:31 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. But squirrelmail doesn't work if I stop imapd, so imapd must know

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:55:49 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the authentication is configured at the PC/client end rather than the modem, then you are probably not using the correct encapsulation for the cable network and, or have

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:45:14 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:52:14 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had to change the IP address on the router to a fixed address to get it to work right. I think I had it set to 192.168.100.2. After that, we had very little trouble with the connection. The modem itself was

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:46:48 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:10:56 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: SNIP Malware for Linux? What about those macro viruses for Open Office? Every cross platform software such as Mozilla derivatives, java based stuff like Azureus and so on is a possible target. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:16:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My server's current IMAP setup is only used with squirrelmail so it doesn't have to communicate over the internet. I'm trying to ditch squirrelmail for claws-mail good choice. and I'm having a little trouble making the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. furthermore you can diagnose connection problems seperately from missing mail problems. ( claws-mail has a convenient log feature for

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin opening index.php with text editor

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:47:48 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to re-compile phpmyadmin with vhost? and setup phpmyadmin as virtualdomain? I recommend that you do, to avoid htdocs 'bloat'. however that's unlikely to solve your problem. It sounds like, perhaps, apache is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:29:15 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT, but unable to raise anyone at comcast right now. Really? I didn't think that was possible... although sometimes it's good to call twice, get another opinion. I think I recall having read somewhere that one can do

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:34:07 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the point of the question was to avoid waiting for the GRUB menu to appear. I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 + Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:27:24 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Dynamic HTML to PDF

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:42:05 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently printing a dynamic HTML web page via firefox, but I'm trying to switch to a method that will allow me to print across the internet in an automated fashion with lpr. I've tried printing a static HTML file with lpr,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:27:12 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. I would speculate that a VPN for one service might be overkill, if that service is easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:06:47 -0800 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past,

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:16 -0500 Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will appreciate it if you don't respond to unrelated posts. Many mail browsers (my own included) organize by the in-reply-to header (at least I think that's the one): In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have probably

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:56:22 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found... You might try a no-cd crack, if this is indeed caused by copyprotection as I suspect. I think they're legal to use (if you have a license for

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:32 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Could you elaborate on your configuration? Are you... - relaying mail to a specific

Re: [gentoo-user] network setup

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:50:51 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:18 +0100, Stefán István wrote: can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get

Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:32:47 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:27:50 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark If you want to get files to windows hosts that aren't running (dual-boot), you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:25:25 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would set up openvpn on my remote server and connect to it from: here's a few ideas about the subject, some options to think about. 1. my local print server for printing Look into routed vpn networks. If I were in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:49:48 +0100 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:19:08 +0100 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:04:28 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should run my own portage server here for our 6 home machines? You could then sync once for the lot of them, rather than for each. You might find that convenient, and the servers might appreciate it too. --

Re: [gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:32:19 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml Here, among other things, it says to edit certain files, but it doesn't say which

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-24 Thread Dan Farrell
is reputed to be much faster in certain cases. Hope that helps. I would be very interested in your findings. Be well, Dan Farrell -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in

2008-01-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:39:33 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, /dev/mmcblk0 never appears.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I've been told Hitachi bought up IBM's drive manufacturing operation a

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