Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

2006-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:16:35 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It happens as soon as I enter any one of the following lines: tc filter add dev eth2 parent 1: prio 2 handle 1 fw flowid 1:20 [...] I then get the error message: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:51:21 +0100 Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to the thread... I started wondering about something. I thought a 100% full root filesystem was deadly, but never thought about /tmp. So I'd like to ask, what is more deadly for a system, a full root FS, a full /tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?

2006-02-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have currently syslog-ng running, but I think I remember that similar configuration was in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (maybe commented out?) Yes, it was commented out as the default setting is to send

Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

2006-02-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:43:33 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 03:31, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge': [...] If you /do/ want to do packet filtering on br0, I belive you can

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:24:25 - Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized Console Log window icon. [...] What's the purpose of

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:23:20 - Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends. It usually just outputs what is piped into /dev/xconsole. [...] Would you mind showing a default/typical/custom (whatever) config file so that I can compare with mine? No problem. But it's

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized Console Log window icon. [...] I could not find the script ou option which starts this window. Where can I disable it? I don't even know what's the name

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:48:49 +0700 Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. That's pretty normal. I think the application using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not emerge net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1-r1

2006-02-03 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
of openssh-4.2_p1 fails with the same error message and yes,libpam is installed. If I emerge with -pam the installation fails with some other library missing, which is installed too. -- Hans-Gunther Borrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:40:39 -0500 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP or dual core system. I have an SMP system. It's just more lightweight by

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:08:38 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged SpamAssasin on a mailserver the other day, added the appropriate line to /etc/postfix/master.cf and it all seems to be working ok. But it doesn't seem to be very accurate in the default configuration -

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:07:51 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, at 12:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'd strongly suggest using the Bayesian filters, per-user, that is... [...] What improvement rate are you seeing for this, please? About 99% of _Spam_ mails

Re: [gentoo-user] SIOCADDRT: No such device

2005-12-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:50:05 +0200 Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - * Adding routes - * default ... - * via ... - gw: Unknown host - * 192.168.4.1 ... Your /etc/conf.d/net is broken in this regard. Read the example (net.example) for correct

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:45:19 +0100 capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenBase is part of OpenOffice... and is really slow on my laptop. OK, please don't try to enforce your own name... it's OpenOffice Base, not OpenBase, as you've been told... Do you know any replacement of OpenOffice for

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetchmail

2005-12-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I run fetchmail to poll 3 servers every minute... and while this has worked fine for weeks, last night it froze at 2am and stopped polling. When I killed the fetchmail process and ran fetchmail again this afternoon, things jumped to life again and appear back to normal... but I wished I

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP Server - authenticating off a Windows Domain?

2005-12-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, That's the problem I'm getting at the moment - the user authenticates ok (using Samba's winbind PAM) but the IMAP server exits because it can't chdir into the user's home directory (which doesn't exist). I'm told I can use `pam_mkhomedir` to solve this, but I'm beginning to wonder if

Re: [gentoo-user] Berkeley DB patch required (I think)

2005-12-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:04:56 +0200 Mike Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dec 13 15:56:00 getafix slapd[7156]: bdb(dc=inzanix,dc=com): illegal flag specified to txn_begin Dec 13 15:56:00 getafix slapd[7156]: bdb_txn_get: BerkeleyDB 4.2.52 library needs TXN patch! Dec 13 15:56:00 getafix

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

2005-12-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 01:29:23 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be able to stream video from the webcam. I don't need full tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I

Re: [gentoo-user] high volume IMAP/smtp server

2005-12-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:13:19 +0100 (CET) Peter van Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need to migrate from netscape mail server running 7000 users to a preferrable open source solution(ncluding failover cluster). Anyone got recommendations/suggestions , or actually running with this amount

Re: [gentoo-user] building a server cluster?

2005-11-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:23:28 +0600 El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please guide me to deploy a gentoo linux server cluster. currently i have 7 piii 800Mhz machines want to test a cluster server. if somebody can point me step by step or a good guide, it will very appreciable. What kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Authentication Gateway??

2005-11-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:32:49 +0600 El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have to replace our existing wired network to wireless network. so please help me to deploy a wireless authentication gateway using linux based open source application which provides a total security solution for

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it. That won't help. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Convert windows-1250 database to UTF-8

2005-11-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:25:22 +0100 Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 11/7/05, *Khan* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to convert my windows-1250 database to Unicode, UTF-8. Is there any script that can do the job? What

Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites

2005-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:40:02 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes thats the point of squid it is a proxy. OK, but that's like using the word in the definition to a guy who's never used a proxy. ;-) I'm still unclear though, and I'm sure I'll find this out either through

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

2005-11-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:31:55 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: [...] well, and what does dmesg say? Do you have i2c support in the kernel? What kind of IR receiver are you using? Do you need certain kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Begging For Help With ALSA and Lirc

2005-11-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:11:41 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lirc won't load. I get these errors when inserting the module: tv mythtv # modprobe lirc_dev FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xmlto ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:47:10 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does the kernel need xmlto? It seems to work without it. in order to build documentation. Remove the doc USE flag if you don't want it to. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:53:11 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] /etc/locales.build which says # This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. # The format is locale/charmap, where locale is a locale from the # /usr/share/i18n/locales

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc, userlocales, and ENV Variables

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:16:49 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I kinda get that and dmesg says during boot that the terminal (agetty) is being configured to use UTF-8 (which is what I told it to do when I built the kernel, so that's OK). The kernel is configured by the

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

2005-11-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:54:06 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:53:11 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: You can also poll the ip by doing an ifconfig and parsing its output inside your application. I think the overhead on the system would be barely

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:21:23 +0100 Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm learning

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:48 + karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to ask whether someone on the List has experiences with the Realtime Preemption patches by Ingo Molnar http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ applied to the gentoo-kernel. I have just tried it

Re: [gentoo-user] realtime-preemption patch

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:01:40 + karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you point me to a list where all the patches are listed, as I really don't know what patches are applied to gentoo-sources.#? See http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches HTH, -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Sony Picturebook Widescreen framebuffer patch, was: Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:48:24 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:18 am, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'm running Gentoo on my picturebook happily since about 2 or 3 years now. Just ask if there are more problems. I can give you a kernel patch for the neomagic

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird pauses making me nuts

2005-10-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:24:26 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, my system is running fine (no overt problems), but about every 30 seconds or so, it 'pauses' to do something, and I have to wait for 5-10 seconds while it does it before I can go further. Or the display

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug info when umount fails

2005-10-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:36:56 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I want to know what is happening there. A restart of samba has no noticable effect. It can't, it only manages server side. Client side is done by the kernel. What can I do to hasten the remountability of

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:57:28 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Gentoo on a Pentium II 400 Vaio Picturebook, the Sony with a 6 widescreen (1024 x 480??) but never had one of these CD-Roms available, only the floppy drive. In fact I cheated resorted to

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot otherwise... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone

2005-10-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:38:34 +0200 Keats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... What phone brand? Most phones support

Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword

2005-10-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:08:47 -0700 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On October 22, 2005 04:38 pm Dave Nebinger was like: I think at this point you'll have to post some of the output generated when the ebuild fails before we'll be able to help you any further... Well here

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, Sorry for another tree of answers, but the others seemed a bit fuzzy to me... On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:08:50 +0800 (CST) Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I always save two copies of every of my document, one in original format (eg. odt) and another in printable format for my

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 has long pauses

2005-10-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:24:07 -0600 Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using OpenOffice 2.0 since the 1.9.xx beta era. For a while, I've had issues with the responsiveness when I click a menu or use the scroll bar with my mouse. Clicking a menu or scrolling with the mouse causes

Re: [gentoo-user] Stealth Ethernet testing

2005-10-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:19:15 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after much ado, it seems quite easy (trivial) to hide an ethernet interface, while being able to collect reems of local ethernet traffic based data, from both snort and ethereal. No, it's not that easy -

Re: [gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod

2005-10-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:02:34 +0200 Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The eject doenst work unfortunately, the IPod is detected as /dev/uba. Revisit your kernel's configuration and disable the Slow USB Block Device support (under Device Drivers/Block Devices, AFAIK). Instead, enable

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox is very memory hungry

2005-10-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:57:02 -0200 Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just had a look at 'top' here, and was astonished by its output: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 19328 isabel.s 15 0 511m 204m 16m S 0.0 27.2 0:02.47 firefox-bin [x4] 22668 lustosa 15 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

2005-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:54:34 -0700 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module cannot be found. Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found. It's not compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

2005-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:37:25 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2 I read that as your friend can download it for non-commercial use then distribute it to you for free under the GPL for you to use for commercial purposes. I don't agree. In

Re: [gentoo-user] what is x11,and what is XFree86 and XORG

2005-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:40:44 +0800 libertine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't know what is x11,and XFree86 and XORG's different who can tell me X11 is commonly referring to the protocol suite. X11R6 is the current version, AFAIK. XFree86 and Xorg are Implementations of this protocol

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

2005-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:54:12 +0200 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've liked the fetchmail-procmail setup as I can have procmail process | the mail in many ways and even though Opera can do much of that I'ld like | to keep this process. OK, sorry, I remember now

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

2005-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:13 +0200 Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ [...] I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was obviously wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed

2005-09-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:14:59 +0300 Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are only 20. [...] Hm. And you're sure that the fan *isn't* already at

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:09:29 +0200 Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 python-fcksum-1.7.1 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla ^ | +- !

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted NFS via ssh tunelling

2005-09-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always get this error: mount: localhost:/usr/portage failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Attach NFS port of Server (2049) to local port 2818 ssh -f -L 2818:10.32.3.172:2049 -l root

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:54:47 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep. it's a bug. As soon as I remove iptables from the kernel config, ipw2100,ieee80211_crypt_tkip, ieee80211_crypt_ccmp, ieee80211_crypt_wep, ieee80211 all show up fine in lsmod. no dmesg errors, and eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 + (GMT) Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: [...] Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual task): partition table of a floppy disk? well, you

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Get dyndns working on one end... and then use ppp over ssh... :) http: //www.csh.rit.edu/~psionic/articles/ppp-over-ssh/ http: //www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/ppp-ssh.html Nah, don't do that. It will introduce major issues reg. connection

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a dyndns account, it keeps the dns updted. I can always get to my router/gateway which is dyndns enabled, how do I get to my ip on the server, set up port forwarding on the router. Most router-in-a-box appliances will let you

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from reiser4 to reiserfs

2005-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Justin Patrin wrote: Is there an easy way switch back my reiser4 partition to reiserfs without reinstalling everything. I suggest booting from a Gentoo CD. Make a tarball of the entire FS you want to convert and either pipe it across the network or onto another

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in dummy TAO mode for single session. ... Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) Did

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:30:31 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd vote for a preference setting for prefetching: - disable / enable / enable for the same host only a little bit like cookie handling. from http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox Fortunately, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:52:10 -0400 John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. Just a bad mark on Mozilla. This is to be separated: #1: Google is

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was written in the '90s like minicom or programs that have limited capabilities. ...  I'm looking for a GUI program with a scrollback buffer, scripting, multi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:28:18 +0100 Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the cookie settings under preferences override FF/Google's preset cookie flow? Yep, the FF/Google cookie flow, yes. But I think you mean the cookie flow from Google's search result pages' links? No, probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

2005-08-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth the only command listed above that shows my external drive is this: baby ~ # cdrecord -scanbus [...] scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'TOSHIBA ' 'CD/DVDW SD-R5372' 'TU53' Removable

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:53:54 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached the output of e2fsck -n. Could you please tell me how bad it looks? Are there questions to which answering yes is dangerous? e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Warning! /dev/hda2 is mounted. That is done in a mounted

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

2005-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:34:58 -0300 Mauro Faccenda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an customer that has a website hosted in a chrooted environment and want a stats page (hits, origin, etc...) I have access to the apache logs but I don't have a shell access, so I was thinking if there is

Re: [gentoo-user] How does cisco vpnclient find its .pcf file?

2005-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:26:57 +0800 W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed the cisco vpn client and cant figure how it accesses the .pcf configs under gentoo. Can someone in the know tell me how to specify a .pcf when issuing a /etc/init.d/vpnclient start ? There

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:28:46 + Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters (between 2 rooms) is enough. I have to check if the driver I use

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 Craig Zeigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:52:11 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/24/05, Michal Pronay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix for example. Easy way, but not the right one: my mouse is new and does function on other

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:23:14 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's OK: I had winzoz installed from the seller i bought it from and the mouse did function as well! Hm, OK, it definately _is_ a driver issue then... * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but...

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've logrotate.cron and

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:42 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights). The permissions have

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/man SGID ?

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:28:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why? For caching the rendered man pages for all users, IMHO. I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID... On debian, if configured to be chatty

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:12:56 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the drwxr-xr-x will not run at all. These have not changed since they were working previously. Hm. Isn't anything written to the apache error log that could give a hint? Did you restart apache after

Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

2005-07-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100 Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake. Everything is fine until I

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:14:44 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all academic now -- the pc just died :( Not a beep, no screen o/p. The green light on front of the box comes on for about 1/10 sec, fan turns a few degrees and thats IT! Tried another power supply -- no dice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot route dynamic dns name internally

2005-06-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:08:35 -0400 Travis Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://my-dynamic-name.no-ip.com from inside my network returns: connection was refused when attempting to contact my-dynamic-name.no-ip.com. I'm not sure whether this is an iptables issue or dns (or something

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4 and 3.4 in parallel

2005-06-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:01:01 +0200 Philip Lawatsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I simply emerged gcc4 (its slotted) and then as my user I did export the variables a gcc-config -E x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.0.1-pre20050616 printed out. This way I successfully compiled and linked my

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot route dynamic dns name internally

2005-06-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:09:44 -0400 Travis Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only concern is that while this will work for my web server, it appears as though I would have to put all my service-providing machines on different subnets and have rules for each of them ... am I

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

2005-06-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:50:18 +0600 askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that this should be better done in the ppp-connect script rather than here. The iptables should be set up at boot time, I'd suggest. So you're not imposing a (rather short) open firewall situation. In fact,

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

2005-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:16:21 +0600 askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to PCs. 1st one used as a router. Well, I think then you've already set up forwarding, like Kurt G. mentioned. On 2nd PC I have web server installed and would like to setup ip forwarding to the 2nd PC. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Ethereal Error

2005-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:53:43 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on system A. This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

2005-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:22:35 +0600 askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/05, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As root do: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE where eth0 is your outward facing port to

Re: [gentoo-user] ip forwarding question

2005-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I'm gonna comment your script below... On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:13:48 +0600 askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The iptables scripts as follows: - #!/bin/bash IPTABLES='/sbin/iptables' # Set interface values EXTIF='ppp0' INTIF1='eth0' #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-07 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
On Monday 06 June 2005 18:54, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Did you see man 5 shadow? yes man 5 shadow (this all there is about the password field): The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to 24 characters from the 64 character alphabet

[gentoo-user] /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg
I can't seem to find any official documentation on /etc/shadow syntax. Searching google I find loads of conflicting explantions of the meaning of x,!,!!,* in the password field. man 5 shadow only says: The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to 24 characters from

[gentoo-user] Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg
I think this may happen if you're emerging in parallel (e.g. emerge started on two consoles) Stoian Ivanov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ]

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg
Michael Kjorling wrote: The given password is encrypted, and then compared to whatever is in the password field in /etc/shadow (or /etc/passwd). If they match, the password is valid. So entering anything that cannot be valid into the password field means that no password will be valid.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg
Zac Medico wrote: Did you see man 5 shadow? yes man 5 shadow (this all there is about the password field): The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to 24 characters from the 64 character alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9, interpreted. I've used freenx

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

2005-06-06 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg
Stoian Ivanov wrote: Nope this is not the case: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # grep MAKEOPTS /etc/make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # That option does not mean that you can not start emerge in parallel. Is says that emerge should tell each instance of make to not compile in parallel. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about ARPing

2005-05-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:45:33 +0200 Martin Tedjawardhana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why is eth0 responding to 192.168.0.1 http://192.168.0.1 arping although it does not have that address? How can I remedy this? How can I block arping? read about the arp_filter sysctl in

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

2005-05-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:51:21 -0700 Pingveno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just remerged hibernate-script and ran it (after saving everything :P ). The one problem: I have to shut down X11 because the nvidia driver has to be unloaded before hibernation is started. This is, of course, with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: driver CardBus bridge Texas Instruments PCI1211 SOLVED

2005-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:31:28 +0600 askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even now, pcmcia card works, there is no info in lspci. Then it's not cardbus but 16 bit. cardctl can tell, i think. Only cardbus is usually transparently mapped onto the PCI bus. HWH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -C package doesn't clean up /etc/ config files

2005-04-28 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
when a package is unmerged. While this may be a little bit untidy, it does prevent potentially valuable config files from being deleted, which is of paramount importance. -- Hans-Gunther Borrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rechenzentrum der

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:58 +0200 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, it is in https, but seeing as it is my browser I want to spy on, isn't that OK? technically, it is not. You could intercept network traffic at the link level and even simulate the remote host and its correct address

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mail server attempts to deliver the outgoing email, but returns the mail to the user who sent it with an error message. The interesting thing is that I can ping the address of the recipient mail

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