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 operati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Ditch webmail?

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:19:47 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to clarify the situation, Sylpheed is still Sylpheed. > Sylpheed-Claws became Claws-Mail since it no longer follows the > Sylpheed code. right; sorry. i started using it right when that was happening. -- [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:09:09 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a web server they would lend me a page of? I have > one but it hosts my business website and I don't want it to become the > target of super-savvy folk. ftp, ssh, even copy-paste would be > greatly appreciated

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:40:48 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > > >> - ReiserFS looks unsupported now > >> > > > > What do you base that assessment on ? It's true > > that RFS 4 was going nowhere even before its creator's legal >

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:24:01 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which would add an awful lot of complexity and require major design > changes in order to gain anything. The beauty of the ebuild format is > its simplicity. I don't really think it's worth it. I agree. I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:31:58 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this > > > > thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and > > > > shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work > > > > completed on them? Becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:50:33 + "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates > to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough > space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:11:19 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > leave it out completely on systems with >=1G RAM, but there may be > cases where swap is needed even with this large amount of memory. I don't think this is wise, as context switching in low-memory scenarios seems to p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Ditch webmail?

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:19:13 -0500 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plus no PHP on my server. How can you have a webserver without PHP? I cringe : ) > I like Thunderbird. I don't. Thunderbird is, like most mozilla products, slow an bloated. Claws-Mail (as sylpheed is now called, B

Re: [gentoo-user] hello there!

2007-12-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:32:18 -0600 Jesús Abidan Ramos Salas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am new at this list... i hope i can help Welcome to the list. Long live Gentoo! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

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

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:58:02 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know, now that I've set up shorewall on my router it seems > like a simple matter to set it up on another machine. I should only > need to edit a few config files with very light additions. > > - Grant Either way you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:22:45 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that systems like e.g. Ubuntu server do not even have a > firewall running would make you think so. The fact that while on the > road you only stay connected for short periods of time would improve > your chances too. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image 3112 Raid Controller on Kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 not working.

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:51:31 +0100 Norman Rieß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Relson schrieb: > > > > > > > > Hello Norman, > > > > I, too, have one of their controllers (identified by lspci as "RAID > > bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host > > Controller (rev 02)".

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:44:35 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going > to try 2006.1 and Knoppix. > > - Grant You don't use minimals, grant? I'm surprised. I would never put a liveCD in a computer if I could avoid it, myself. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:50:58 -0500 Billy Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also look for entries where is says eth0 has entered promiscuous > mode > - that's a sure fire sign you've been hacked.. unless you're running > a virtual machine with a bridge, or your own packet sniffer/traffic > mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:19 -0300 "Rafael Barrera Oro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a > good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have > the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped > out) s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:56:14 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally > > net.* is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:57:25 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random > port number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 > connections . . . DNS Servers over loaded, on one side of the transaction or the other?

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing a nuissance message regarding FreeFontPath on exitting X

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:40:52 + Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > My gentoo system is now in the lovely state that I can start asking > more asthetic, perfectionist questions. > > Every time I quit X (after starting with startx, regardless of > window manager) I get the message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:18:05 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know exactly how initscripts work, but I suppose that if > the /24 is given in /etc/conf.d/net, then both the resulting iproute2 > and ifconfig command that bring the interface up will include the > netmask speci

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:26:18 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to add to this, I was using the IP address too and it was very > slow. This was also on a local network. After adding the lines to my > host files, it was fast no matter whether I used the name or the IP > address. I stil

Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:46:02 +0100 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512 > > 512+0 records in > > 512+0 records out

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:46:29 -0500 David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning I decided that it's finally time up update Gentoo to > match the new mobo & CPU installed several months ago. so, is gentoo already installed on the system? If so, you certainly don't need to restart** to d

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:27:21 -0500 David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good suggestion! As mentioned my goal is upgrading Gentoo as I've > replaced my Athlon XP mobo with an AMD64 x2 mobo. Is the > SystemRescueCD usable for this? portage is usable for this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:53:47 +0100 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I want to set up a secure binhost server for my customers and the > Gentoo community.What is the best way to achieve this? Or more > specifically I am looking for ways to ensure that binaries arrive > untampered.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:45:20 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:06:10 +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and > > running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the > > previously burnt 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla-2.22.3 not sending any mails...

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:07:54 +0100 Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've emerged bugzilla-2.22.3(*) on a hardened box(**). The problem is > that while bugzilla can send password reminder mails it doesn't send > any other mails. Changing a bug or adding a new one does not result

Re: [gentoo-user] Finely tuning access permissions (in Samba)

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:56:59 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to setup access permissions for a Samba file server and > have so far done this much; > > chmod -R ug+rwxs,o-r+x /data > > The three MS Windows users on the server (george, viki & cad) can all > create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:55:39 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You won't need to stipulate brdcast address in my own experience. > I'm not sure you even need to list the netmask but I always do. > I've never listed broadcast address and have'nt had any problems. you don't have to list the broadca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:11:06 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:48 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > > > In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives. The drives > > mount fine in Fedora and read these particular discs fine (music > > CD's). > > You don

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:36:44 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 schrieb ext Stroller: > > > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" > > is commonly returned when the device is already mounted. > > I also found (with Google

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Google seems to suggest that "mount: No buffer space available" is > commonly returned when the device is already mounted. Possibly, but I think this is unlikely. I have seen the 'already mounted' error many times but n

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:06:37 -0200 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SWAT, its a > web based management program to control Samba settings. It is very > useful and user-friendly. > > You should give it a try. ++! I am a config file editor generally, but samba is one of the 2 things

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600 "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros. > Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but this guide only > discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtkpod won't start

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:49:11 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only started googling $DISPLAY, but yes, it's the same user who > started the X session. Normally I use GNOME, but will also try just > X and KDE. > really? in your previous message you pasted: >arrakis ~ # gtkpod

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:14:57 +0100 "brullo nulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is > > > 320 Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old > > > partition table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. > > > What h

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:56:38 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell ha scritto: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100 > > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it is; however if the partition is live the data could be mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:28:16 +0100 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, the best thing to do is to post any error messages you have > > here. I googled mine too but still was not sure what to make of the > > info I was getting. It sounded bad so I posted them here. There > > are

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:25:06 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Billy Holmes ha scritto: > > Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly > >> have troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of > >> course, but >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:09:38 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600 > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Ooops, I have IDE and the drive I just sent a email about is a &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Grab info off the net

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:59:41 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you want to introduce toddlers under 1 yr to computers this may be > just the ticket. For anything else it appears to be useless. > http://basket.kde.org/ maybe a kde branch or something. not sure if it's what you need, but it l

Re: [gentoo-user] [ way OT] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:44:42 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does Vista look like anyway? I don't think I have ever even seen > it. I have heard it sucks with older hardware tho. One friend of > mine switched back to XP. No internet and no printer. I am friends with tech shop own

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600 > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:12:17 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600 > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB > that should work. You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate drives, although they cost maybe $30 USD more, are spec.'d to spin con

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:19:06 +0200 ~/Timur Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I > suppose I could do "emerge --emptytree world", but that would also > merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:34 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not. What is the procedure for doing this, and what exactly > does it accomplish? > > Thanks # cp /wherever/old/.config /usr/src/linux/.config # cd /usr/src/linux # make oldconfig this prompts only for new or ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA, speakers, volume, mute

2007-11-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:07:50 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:19:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Think about this a little bit. Modern audio hardware has multiple > > inputs and often multiple outputs as well. > > > > You absolutely need to be able to c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:37:21 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > e error message is caused by GRUB currently being > configured for genkernel. > > > -Thufir > > -- Thufir, Grub does not care what kernel it boots, or what OS it implements or what partition it is stored on. Grub

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:49:37 -0800 "Bryan Whitehead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it is from the gentoo guys, I find it less annoying than the > default editor being nano instead of vi... :) yeah, no kidding. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:27:55 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > > map (hd1)(hd0) > > Error 11: Unrecognized device string > > Press any key to continue... > > > > > > _

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:25:43 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried all the possibilities. Except the working one. Don't give up! I don't mean to discount your reply but I am worried I expressed myself poorly. I think your configuration should look like: rootnoverif

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:42:58 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should say something like "You can make a manual install > > now using Gentoo handbook, or you may try an automated installer by > > running "installer" now, but beware its experimental, and doesn't > > always work". Such mess

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:52:49 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grub.conf: > > #XP > title=XP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > map (hd1)(hd0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > boot > > (I used one 'map' command following Dan Farrell's > model but using two made no difference) not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - cvsd

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:09:41 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cvs import: cannot make path to /root/ourrpg: Permission denied you should change the permissions of your directories so that they are accessible to cvsd, which might run as some user. and you should put the file so

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:27:25 +0100 Fabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install gentoo from a minimal cd. I download the minimal > AMD64 iso for my pc.. > During the installation i arrived at this point: > > "eth1: PHY reset until link up".. > and there is no way to continue..i always obt

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:01:24 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > Previously I had a problem with hard drive that turned > out was a faulty IDE controller, not the drive, not > the cable. > > Now I can't use /dev/hdb but /dev/hdc is OK. So my set > up is /dev/hda(

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:50:56 +0100 Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And if you use IPv6, then this one too. But if you don't absolutely > need IPv6, better switch all support for it off, just because it is > less confusing that way. Does anybody actually _use_ ipv6 ? -- [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:15:44 -0600 Teng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see, thank you! > Do I need add news to /etc/cron.allow? possibly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:51:09 +0100 Herbert Laubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. November 2007 01:21:28 schrieb Dan Farrell: > > > Gentoo-wiki goes down a lot. That's why I keep my documentation > > elsewhere... > > How and where? > With

Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding

2007-11-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:52:14 -0330 Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is > running an X server. > ... did you ... - restart the ssh server? - try the -Y option to ssh? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:06 + sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Decided to order a diskless workstation from > http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of > the ltsp project. why would you do that? Coudn't you build an excellent diskless host for less than they cos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
cal install that would actually be a _good_ thing for gentoo? Interested to hear yours, and others', thoughts, Dan Farrell. P.S. This conversation reminds me of the GWN's request for content. I don't know exactly how you'd make it a contribution, but it seems like a big area of discussion in the community. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:40:26 -0800 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate to pull the "expert" card, but I was the network > engineer/architect who built Netzero's original network so I've got > some passing familiarity with this stuff. I'm glad you pulled this card; I want to learn

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:22:14 +0100 Herbert Laubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get on gentoo-wiki.com. Without luck. Other pages aer > working fine, so I do not think, it is a problem of my settings. > > Regards, > Herb Looks like it's down, at least as I'm seeing it. Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade -> re-emerge system?

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:05:09 +0100 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > This morning, I upgraded to glibc 2.7 from whatever used to be current > in ~x86 before that (2.6.). > > Do you guys do a "emerge -e system", ie. recompile everything, after > such an upgrade? > > Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:22:58 +0200 Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 'old' install method meant to use just no-X terminal from a > LiveCD. Then you just follow the handbook (installation) and you're > done. Could be done for half an hour/45 min/,but an hour or two will > suffice for most

Re: [gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:31:33 +0200 Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-) > Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal. ++. Miernik, I _highly_ recommend using a the manual install method from th

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:13:48 -0800 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Buying a single GigE card would appear to be simpler and cheaper > unless you don't have a GigE switch. :-) well, it just so happens I don't. (The 4-port card cost me $0). Some day the file servers will have Gigabit, and so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
I'm going to take a lot of liberties both with humorous informality (hopefully you'll agree with that name for it) and argument; please accept it as a cheerfully submitted 'other side of the argument'. On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:32:58 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Iliev gmai

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:16:46 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: > CLOCK="local" > TIMEZONE="America/New_York" > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" > > it's a dual boot (XP & gentoo) workstation. > > I had to set the time manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms? > > >  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   > > > > First off don't assign separate IPs to e

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:10:16 +0200 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In other words I don't need too many releases, but prefer the devs > spend their time for Gentoo on killing :) bugs and filling portage > with new software instead of taking snapshots and building CD/DVD > images. I agree

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:47:19 +0100 Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:30:22 kashani wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments, or criticisms? > > >  Anybody konw how to do a thing like that?   > > > > First off don't assign separate IPs to e

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
Thanks for your responses, all. On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:30:22 -0800 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off don't assign separate IPs to each port on your four port > card, bond them into a single interface. That will simplify your > config and perform better. Perhaps I will; that's not

[gentoo-user] Multiple Routes to the same Subnet

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
Greetings all. I've just aquired a 4-port network card, and I set it up so that the 4 ports are each assigned an IP address, and gave all the IPs the name 'nfs' in DNS. Now I hope to point all the NFS clients at server 'nfs', and do some basic load balancing, while leaving the original address

Re: [gentoo-user] about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:34:19 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:46:30 -0300, Danilo Marcelo wrote: > > > I´m waiting for too. > > I'm waiting for people to stop top-posting to this list, I guess I'll > have a longer wait than you :( Heaven forbid we be as flex

Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

2007-11-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:06:30 -0500 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it specifies > filename "/pxe/pxelinux.0"; it will start the boot but finally halts > stating cannot find kernel image: linux. > > If it specifies > filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1"; then I get the NBP is to > large f

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAIL (Connection error)

2007-11-03 Thread Dan Farrell
rotocols. In this case, I spoke SMTP with the mail server. You could use the same method to speak to an HTML server, or one of many other protocols as well. Sincerely, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 554 5.6.0 Message co

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Failure to Route(?) some web traffic on Gentoo router

2007-11-01 Thread Dan Farrell
Fixed by a FORWARD rule that looks like this: > 2729 129K TCPMSS tcp -- anyany anywhere > anywhere tcp flags:SYN,RST/SYN TCPMSS clamp to PMTU -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strange Failure to Route(?) some web traffic on Gentoo router

2007-10-31 Thread Dan Farrell
he ethernet interface bound to the ppp0 device from 1500 to 1492, but no luck came of it. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. sincerely, dan farrell =

Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:48:06 +0100 econti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > as the subject says! ;-) > Now my system should be updated. gcc, world and, to-day, the kernel. > Well, everything seems to work fine . . . but: > > 1 among the boot options I had "vga=0x317". Now this option gives

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless routerpostfix google

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:48:01 -0400 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you really need router functionality? If not, I've had tremendous > success with SENAO brand WAPs... List Price $169.00 Sale Price: $125.00 with a price tag to match... ouch. 25 min dBm @1 ~ 24 Mbps 23

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:15:46 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell ha scritto: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 > > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same &

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:51:52 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me correct myself here: my Gentoo boxen behave like this. A > WinXP that I tested for this purpose does not. It comes up with the > APIPA address and when a router becomes available in the network > later on, it readily obt

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:18:49 -0400 Aaron Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I totally agree on the flexibility (although those little things > are pretty darn flexible all things considered). The biggest win > for me was the incredible simplicity with setting them up. It's > pretty much th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way: what's the real difference between a wireless router and a > wireless access point? Only the fact that the former is a router PLUS > a WAP? Because if it's so, I just need an access point... > > m. Think of an AP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:19:05 + (UTC) Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't mind the power, heat, bulk and noise. :) The trade-off is that precisely. Of course you can build a low-power system and probably get by without any fans at all if you're clever, and if you outsour

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:59:05 -0400 Aaron Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like what you really want to get is a Linksys WRT54GL[1] > that you can then flash with something like dd-wrt[2] or OpenWRT[3]. > > Aaron Sure, you could do that, but then you have less flexibility later. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:26:52 +0100 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the slight OT. On Monday I'll have a new shiny MacBook Pro > at home :) (where I will install Gentoo, of course). For this reason, > I'd like to have wireless at home. I myself had to broaden my horizons to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge openssl fails.

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:11:19 +0200 David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I don't feel like doing that and it > seems it has nothing to do with the success of this phase of the > installation but if you insist I am not sure about this, but if glibc got built against the wrong lin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:40:01 +0200 "Yoav Luft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/28/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:04:43 +0200 > > "Yoav Luft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge openssl fails.

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:33:02 +0200 David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached the log file. > There is a --nospinner option for emerge so that the text doesn't get garbled like it did in your attachment. For future knowledge :) I don't know if this'll help, but looks like the file's f

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:04:43 +0200 "Yoav Luft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > during an emerge -uDN process, the compilation for gcc-4.2.1 failed, > as well as for glibc, with same errors. > I have run revdep-rebuilt, and found out about a broken > libexpat.so.0thingy, which I solved follow

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 > > > > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is it by any chance assigning you a 169..

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently > upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries > "zeroconf" or whatever it's called, to give you an address when > there's no

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:55:04 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:45 +0200 > > > > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why can'

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