[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: [...] But when you do it that way, and say want to VNC or ssh or the like to something connected by a dhcp serving WAP then how do you find the address? The best thing to do is to use a DHCP server and DNS server that are connected somehow.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net writes: [...] You won't really break anything by changing the log levels. Todd, your post was really a boost for me. And thanks for you kind offer of looking things over. [...] Mick wrote: No worries! I'm no iptables guru, but I'm still here! ;-) [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Jumping up the thread a bit now, after Pauls excellent input. I see that iptables cmd is known on the OS, but man I really had not wanted to pound my way thru iptables to the point of competency. Count yourself lucky. I'd rather have to deal with

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: After turning remote admin on, and setting a single IP address to be able to connect... I still cannot access it for remote admin on 8080. Did you try this from the Internet, or from within your LAN? Inside lan. I guess you are saying that connection

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On a typical Cisco router you should be able to download/edit/upload the configuration file from/to the router using tftp and a text editor, or minicom and a serial cable if the router has a serial port, When I export the config file, its a binary file,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: [...] Ah! Here's what I found: http://blog.ioshints.info/2007/06/port-number-not-shown-in-access-list.html Thanks for doing so much legwork. On the cisco RVS4000 v2.. I see no way to enter the syntax shown at the URL or in your previous post. I've

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net writes: There is a basic firewall in place with OpenWRT (enabled by default.) There is a a web GUI for OpenWRT (as well as with DD-WRT.) The web GUI supports the usual config pages as with other similar home routers. There's a status page showing the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? Have you gone through

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: Harry wrote: So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? Joost replied: Not familiar with specific types, but I've had best results

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes: On Tuesday 19 April 2011 04:31:38 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing. I'm gazing at an Atom box

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you don't need wifi. I don't need wifi, but of course OpenWRT won't run on the cisco But that WZR-HP-G300NH is

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
W.Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au writes: I have this device and am using Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std - its been totally stable since I dumped the buffalo firmware. My son plays windoze online games and I often move large files around as well as stream mythtv across it - no problems

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net writes: OpenWRT is running the BusyBox syslogd by default. I doubt it would take much to build a syslog-ng (or whatever other logger you prefer) if there isn't already a package for it. Oh, I see that there already are syslog-ng (1.6.12-2) and syslog-ng3

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: ... So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Apr 20 14:41:08 ddwrt kern.warn kernel: [2814955.71] DROP IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:1b:54:c9:4b:d9:08:00 SRC=10.166.128.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=325 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=34279 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=305 Apr 20

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: [...] I guess one could use Froogle if you can't buy it across the pond. Cheap little thing tho. o_O What is the cpu? I couldn't tell if you were joking about cheap... ... so is the final price about $400 US?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com writes: [...] I guess one could use Froogle if you can't buy it across the pond. Cheap little thing tho. o_O What is the cpu? Intel Atom 1.6GHz CPU I couldn't tell if you were joking

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Whereas openWRT sounds like you may need to role your own iptables script right off the bat.  at least judging from a few posts I've now read from their mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything yourself. I think anything in the middle, like

[gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
This is way OT, but this list is such a great resource I suspect the advice gotten here will be more to the point. ( I have posted to a network hardware group as well) I've bumped my home lan router to a gigabit from the old 10/100 (NETGEAR FVS318). I made the move for the gigabit lan ports

[gentoo-user] Re: When mounting windows (ntfs) shares

2011-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: $ mount -v -t cifs //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic -o username=harry,user=harry,uid=bob The example helped immensely... thanks. (Although I think it may have been responsible for a fellow named `bob' hacking my windows machines .. hehe)

[gentoo-user] When mounting windows (ntfs) shares

2011-03-07 Thread Harry Putnam
For a long time I've just put up with the inconvenience or of users not being able to write to mounted filesystems on windows hosts. But sometimes is a real pain. I've never known for certain if linux users (non-root) can actually write to windows shares. I use what is probably an oldish setup

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-24 Thread Harry Putnam
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes: But still, when I'm trying to measure how much data is moving emerge bwmon, It measures across the ethernet ports, so adjust your test, according to what you want to measure, crossing the ethernet port

[gentoo-user] [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to get some definitive starting points. When you see net adapters online they are always rated like 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into megabytes? I think those numbers stand for bits, right? But

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to get some definitive starting points. When you see net adapters online they are always rated like 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into megabytes? I

[gentoo-user] no emerge of emacs-vcs

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I haven't been able to emerge emacs-vcs for a while now. I know there was some trouble with renaming of the repo more than once but this problem today looks different. Looks like some other kind of change on the repo end. Is anyone else noticing a problem building emacs-vcs? Oh, and in the

[gentoo-user] Re: copy a bunch of files...

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv | while read file; do cp $file ~mark/CorrelationTests; done Just a minor point that would simplify the cmd by one cmd call. You could use awk instead of 2 calls to grep. It might be a tiny bit slower... but

[gentoo-user] Is emacs-vcs bug 299997 back? [repo rename]

2011-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
[aside: It may be of note that this `emerge world' comes after about 2-3 mnths of neglect] I've hit something during an emege world while emerging emacs-vcs, that looks a lot like bug #299667: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299667 I found the bug by googling the last bits from the

[gentoo-user] Is emacs-vcs bug 299997 back? [repo rename]

2011-02-07 Thread Harry Putnam
[NOTE: I did this a bit awkwardly by posting this message on the user list first. Probably it should be here] [aside: It may be of note that this `emerge world' comes after about 2-3 mnths of neglect] I've hit something during an emege world while emerging emacs-vcs, that looks a lot like bug

[gentoo-user] [OT Xming] Syntax in the launch script

2011-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
This is a little of the beaten track for this forum but there doesn't seem to be a regular Xming forum. Also since my problem is related to running emacs thru xming, I tried on emacs.help more than once to get this figured out. Any emacs users here will know about emacslcient, and maybe some of

[gentoo-user] Re: Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller, Sorry to butt into a thread. I sent private mail but suspect it hit your spam bin haven't heard back. Is your email here obfuscated?

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 17/12/2010, at 1:41am, Harry Putnam wrote: Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard. What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub screen

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However since I can access the bios thru the KVM switch, shouldn't that mean I should be also able to access the grub prompt? I think that basically GRUB does not have

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: There have been patches to the legacy grub to add support for things like GPT so it still gets the job done for most people in most ordinary cases. Here's a page that lists the current features of grub2: http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus

[gentoo-user] Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard. What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub screen... It does not see my keyboard yet. Once booted and login prompt is up (I boot to console mode) the

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: [...] dmesg|grep -2 hdc [1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected [1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1... [2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL disk drivers. You should

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: hdparm -z /dev/hdc I got some kind of weird output from that: root # hdparm -z /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: re-reading partition table BLKRRPART failed: Invalid argument fdisk has no better luck: sudo fdisk /dev/hdc Password: Unable to open

[gentoo-user] No cdrom device created

2010-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I think I found the reason for a long standing problem I've had with the machine locking up. I see no evidence of a cdrom link or device name in /dev. dmesg seems to show that it is recognized on boot, but I'm not smart enough to know what the lines from dmesg really mean: Just showing the key

[gentoo-user] About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell me how determine what these kind of useless names really mean? From df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / /dev/root 1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / How are you supposed to tell what actual device these

[gentoo-user] Re: About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: I know I can look in fstab... but that is something of a crap shoot since it is user configured. So? It should not be touchable by human hands unless they have root. The only way this would change is if someone changed it, and you can easily track

[gentoo-user] Re: About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: Jake, I am soo sorry for seeming to aim my joking post at you when it was Mr. Indexer who seemed to be needing a little ribbing.

[gentoo-user] [OT] About devining file type when browsing

2010-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
It s a bit OT but at least I am doing this on a gentoo system. Does anyone here know if it is possible to determine the kind of video file a browser is visiting? Many are flash these days but I think some still newer stuff is showing up. Something in mp4 container perhaps. I'm hoping

[gentoo-user] samba no connect from windows

2010-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
This samba problem (windows machines cannot connect to gentoo server) seems to have followed a recent update including samba. qlop shows: Mon Nov 1 05:10:33 2010 net-fs/samba-3.5.6 Usually I've found I might need to redo passwords with smbpasswd. This time, that is not sufficient. Looking at

[gentoo-user] [OT xfce pager] Xfce pager jacked up after updates

2010-11-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone know which applet controls how the virtual desktop pager appears under Xfce The one called `workspaces' appears to be it, but it looks to be set as it always was... with a default 4 desktops. But the actual pager is now 4 rectangles all end to end on the panel with the large words

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. [...] It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd. Anyone else

[gentoo-user] Re: More troubles with major update

2010-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 1/11/2010, at 10:52am, Harry Putnam wrote: ... A major problem right now is that 127.0.0.1 has started rejected mail connections. That is, sendmail cannot send mail even locally. Sendmail itself has not been updated... You haven't

[gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Something I have not run into before. Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will not run on $HOME. I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. Top shows 94% idle so its not

[gentoo-user] More troubles with major update

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a series of problems following a major update from several mnths ago. A major problem right now is that 127.0.0.1 has started rejected mail connections. That is, sendmail cannot send mail even locally. Sendmail itself has not been updated fetchmail has but looking at the ouput of

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 12:28 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry Putnam did opine thusly: Something I have not run into before. Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will not run on $HOME. I can view

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] What shell are you using? What is the output of echo $HOME? My shell is xterm... and was just updated to: Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 x11-terms/xterm-262 That's the terminal. What shell do you use/ Sorry... still asleep...

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Colquhoun paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au writes: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:54:51 Harry Putnam wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need

[gentoo-user] scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been off the list a good while and wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. I understand it is being done away with upstream and will probably require some changes on users part. I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to learn about if it effects my

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes: 101027 Harry Putnam wrote: I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : Nice .. many thanks but one question To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes: 101027 Harry Putnam wrote: I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : Nice .. many thanks but one question To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag

[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to learn about if it effects my longtime reliance on xorg.conf to keep using my huge desktops I like

[gentoo-user] Recent updates brings hefty number of X related config files

2010-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
With recent updates (done thru cron) I have quite a hefty number of new X related config files. They unmodified and I think most are new. Especially the X related ones. I have `inlined' the list at the end of this post. It may contain a few normal changes as well I wasn't sure what might be

[gentoo-user] Problems relating to /usr/lib/libmpfr, is this fix safe

2010-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
The following comments turned up in my elogs recently: ---- ---=--- - --- Messages generated for package dev-libs/mpfr-3.0.0 by process 12988 on 20100622-081454 CDT:- WARN: postinst Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your

[gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes: On 2010-06-06 22:13, Harry Putnam wrote: I disagree that we all are accustomed to Cntl-v etc. That is more a windows phenomena... long time linux (X) users are more accustomed to left mouse highlight... middle mouse paste, I think, at lest I am. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Brandon Vargo brandon.va...@gmail.com writes: do. When I go to find code that I have written, I do not remember variable names, lines of code, etc that I can match with a regular expression. Thus, that kind of search is pointless for me. I remember what the code does, the project for which I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Brandon Vargo brandon.va...@gmail.com writes: [1]: http://www.google.com/codesearch [2]: http://beagle-project.org/ Acckk, I forgot to thank you for the URLS you posted.. thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Brandon Vargo brandon.va...@gmail.com writes: As an example of how it works, suppose I am making a news website and have a bunch of news posts, each of which has an author, category, and Thank you brandon for such a nice through answer... Yeah, looks like I'm barking up the wrong tree. I know

[gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com writes: On 06/06/10 07:56, Harry Putnam wrote: Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox. Some other places too. I don't. But, I guess you need to clarify, when you're saying you copy/paste, is it Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V type of copy/pasting

[gentoo-user] Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox. Some other places too. I'll mouse scrape something from and go to paste it into google, and get some older paste plus the new one intermixed as a result. Its been going on for a good while and finally reached the point where

[gentoo-user] [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been looking for a perl based search tool that uses some kind of indexing to index and render searchable my home library of software manual and the like. Quite a few html pages involved, maybe 15-16,000. Webglimpse is something I've worked with before and know a bit about but thought I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] I could use some OT coaching... retrieve laptop os remotely

2010-05-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Isn't this an indication that more than the screen was damaged? Did you try pressing Fn+F4 or whatever the appropriate key is to activate the external monitor? Did you try rebooting just for good measure? You can disregard my other response. It

[gentoo-user] [OT] I could use some OT coaching... retrieve laptop os remotely

2010-05-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can backup a disk on a remote laptop running windows vista. I've utterly destroyed the laptops screen, even plugging it into an external monitor... fails. vnc access fails as well. However due to having installed an sshd daemon with cygwin, I can ssh to

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Harry Putnam writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs

[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 , and I'd expect all to be fine then. Doesn't seem to

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: [...] The penultimate paragraph says that you should copy _some_ file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ penultimate Egad... does that mean its explosive? ... : ) [...] [...] 17 /match 18 19 merge

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote: I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and what

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Internet mail is quite complex, yes. This statement is the source of the confusion surrounding sendmail. Internet mail is not complex, it is stunningly simple: mail comes in, look up where it should go, send it there [...] Egad, I had no

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. Now understand, that I am easily the dullest knife in the drawer on this list even though by unix/linux standards I'm fairly long in the tooth having started my computing skills in 1996 and

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then let m4 sort out sendmail.cf. IOW, sendmail has

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge Read more details here:

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy the relevant .fdi file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last paragraph: Yes, I did misread apparently...

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: For the purpose of posterity: The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to define a fall back smtp server. Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up giving help. Did someone answer your question privately?

[gentoo-user] I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC. I'm not finding it now readily. Can someone tell me where that setting may be made. If it has something to do with new way of starting X where we don't

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Read more details here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not the new way ;) Well, its just not the NEWEST way. But what is the newest

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Read more details here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not the new way ;) Well, its just

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Hi All, Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is down, without some bespoke DIY script? Not give you the runaround, and there may well be some sendmail

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-10 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 04/09/2010 08:19 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example. I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run cvs -n update 2 /dev/null I've apparently lost the ability to remove stder from output. I used

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: $cat /tmp/testfile cat: nonexistantfile: No such file or directory Thanks... Are you running cvs as root, or user, or ...? I was running cvs as user, and now trying your tests... it appears the trouble has stopped... doesn't occur now in cvs cmds

[gentoo-user] [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-09 Thread Harry Putnam
This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example. I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run cvs -n update 2 /dev/null I've apparently lost the ability to remove stder from output. I used that command to trim out file descriptor 2 which used to leave a list of any

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES=test and finished?

2010-04-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: [...] You can set features on a per-package basis by putting FEATURES=blah into /etc/portage/env/category/package. If that would also work for something like always using a specific EXTRA_ECONF for a certain package: EXTRA_ECONF=--enable-rootcommit

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES=test and finished?

2010-04-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:17:14 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You can set features on a per-package basis by putting FEATURES=blah into /etc/portage/env/category/package. If that would also work for something like always using a specific EXTRA_ECONF

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: On 21 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Forgot to give kernel version: uname -r 2.6.33-gentoo I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able to see a solution. I've make

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: Hi Harry, first of all, have you enabled Device-Drivers/Hardware monitoring support/ AMD Phenom/Sempron/Turion/Opteron temperature sensor ? and then Winbond W83627EHF/EHG/DHG, W83667HG I have an ASRock M3A790GXH/128M board.

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able to see a solution. I've make the propers kernel settings and the w83627hf modules is built and available in /lib/modules/* I tried rebuilding the kernel with that stuff built-in. but then lm_sensors couldn't even find tools

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable

2010-03-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Forgot to give kernel version: uname -r 2.6.33-gentoo I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able to see a solution. I've make the propers kernel settings and the w83627hf modules is built and available in /lib/modules/* I

[gentoo-user] nfs mount on client end.

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
In my home lan setup its an opensolaris (zfs fs) NFS server that is supposed to be set to show NFS vers=3 on offer. Somehow on the client end... my gentoo desktop, its getting mounted with vers=4 as evidenced by the output of `mount' opensolairs_NFS_SERVER:/pub on /pub type nfs

[gentoo-user] umount nfs share

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying t umount an nfs mounted share but am told the resource is busy. umount -f fails too. So first I turned off all the xterms I had running which should have killed any shell operating there. Still says resouce is busy. So trying to see what is doing it with `lsof' However, when I run

[gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Steve gentoo_...@shic.co.uk writes: I have recently started looking at server resilience and availability in the context of a hardware failure or hardware upgrade. I've come to the conclusion that it would be very desirable if terrabyte-scale data did not need to be restored from backup.

[gentoo-user] Re: about sys-fs/zfs-fuse and qmerge

2010-03-14 Thread Harry Putnam
William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au writes: [...] qmerge is an argument to ebuild: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: [...] Actually, you don't need all of this as ebuild will perform all uncompleted previous stages, so you only need ebuild unpack edit file ebuild qmerge

[gentoo-user] MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean

2010-03-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with: emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0. I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask But when I look there, I see: # Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org (10 Mar 2010) # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk. ~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1.

[gentoo-user] Re: MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean

2010-03-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the masked file... where do look to find out its meaning? Try

[gentoo-user] about sys-fs/zfs-fuse and qmerge

2010-03-13 Thread Harry Putnam
I need a little coaching on qmerge usage. I'm trying to emerge sys-fs/zfs-fuse. The merge fails on a known bug, a duplicate of another bug... 303623 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303623 In the comments... (#3) someone has asked to make the emerge once a specific file is edited to

[gentoo-user] About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write freely there. This line, does not do it: grep hdd7 /etc/fstab /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserfs noatime,exec,users,rw 0 2 (using the singular `user' didn't

[gentoo-user] Re: About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write freely there. This line, does not do

[gentoo-user] Re: About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Stop fooling around with fstab and mount options. The commands you want are chown and chmod Got ya ... thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: htpasswd works only for valid-user

2010-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Monday 08 March 2010 21:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess. It works only if I put require valid-user not if I put require specificuser any idea? It should work, if

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