Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems

2006-02-07 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Ernie Schroder wrote: I updated firmware on my linksys BEFSW11 router yesterday and I cannot receive email, nor access the email provider's website. I've spent about 3 hours on the phone with less that competent tech support people at #1 ntplx.net (email provi

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix

Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
somehow is corrupted How should that be fixed? not necessarily. make sure mysql is not running. check for the existence of /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock...if it exists, delete it. it shouldn't exist with mysql not running. Fredrik - Original Message - From: "John Jole

Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:22 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wro

[gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread John Jolet
Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, permission denied".

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem

2006-02-02 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use as recipients of all backups. This will mostly consist of rsnapshot created files. And a number of tar.gz and other compression type files maybe some ISO type files etc. I'm bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I can'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:18 PM, James wrote: James tampabay.rr.com> writes: John Jolet jolet.net> writes: But now when I run 'ntpq -p' I get: ntpq: read: Connection refused is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:25 PM, James wrote: Devon Miller gmail.com> writes: Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP & UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcm Well my firewall should allow outgoing initiated sessions from the ntpd (internal) server. From wh

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:58 AM, James wrote: Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-25 Thread John Jolet
I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with compressing already co

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the comma

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Jeff wrote: This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty well. I guess my main concern was with tar - would it be able to handle a filesystem this large? Myself, I haven't seen or heard any scary stories thus far. Anyone shed light on tar limitati

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
Well, perhaps "old school" has different meanings to different people. :-) I was referring to the UNIX "tools" philosophy in which each program has a very specific use, similar to qmail (the original, unmodified qmail, that is). And this is usually the direction I take when looking for "tools"

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | s

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Sean wrote: I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often gets a recommendation. Would anyone recom

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe

Re: [gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Antoine wrote: Hi, Until now I have been able to chmod halt to let me halt/reboot as a normal user and my last big emerge -uDNav world put a stop to that - any ideas? Cheers Antoine and using sudo is out of the question? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Antoine wrote: Personally I use ext3 for everything except windows partitions. I have 3 NTFS-partitions, and one FAT32 partition. The freeware read/ write ext2-driver for Windows doesn't work with Windows 2003, so I have to use FAT32. Especially because captiv

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. This

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: what is the output of "echo $TERM"? pcadobe ~ # echo $TERM linux pcadobe ~ # try "export TERM=vt220" and see if that helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH and terminal emulation

2006-01-23 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Tom Smith wrote: I use Kermit 95 to connect to my server. When I run "pstree" from an SSH session, I get the following type of output: pcadobe ssh # pstree initqwqaacraid tq2*[agetty] tqcron tqevents/0 tqkhelper tqkhpsbpkt tqkjourn

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-22 Thread John Jolet
This error is returned consistently: E [22/Jan/2006:11:53:45 -0700] StartListening: Unable to find IP address for server name "sarawak" - Unknown host if sarawak is the name of the box in question, adjust the line in / etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1 to include sarawak. but cupsd.conf defaults to loc

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-20 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 20, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Midnight Toker wrote: Neil, Thank you, looks like this could be the thing i'm looking for. Midnightoker. me, too, just hadn't gotten around to asking :) On 20 Jan 2006, at 09:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 +, Midnight Toke

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jarry wrote: John Jolet wrote: I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partitionor has that need been alleviated? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:23 PM, kashani wrote: Mike Williams wrote: Yesterday an IBM ServeRAID decided to mark it's 3 SCSI disks as defunct when they are all in fact perfectly fine, giving me a 4am finish this morning after the major hassle of rebuilding, so I'm now heavily biased against ha

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Dale wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 06:38, Dale wrote: OK, some of this is getting out of order here. I changed the flag in my USE to -ipv6. I then recompiled the programs that it changed on. It was Mozilla and a couple others as well that Mozilla uses. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] email within a LAN?

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned tha

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail:

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

2006-01-15 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Stroller wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, at 10:15, Ryan Viljoen wrote: What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam.

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-14 Thread John Jolet
. rsyncing /etc/passwd and /etc/ shadow is probably going to be sufficient for a very small network. beyond 5 or so computers, the other methods start to earn their way. no matter what, though, pam stays in the soluution stack. On 1/13/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:2006/1/13, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:> thanks. I believe I am starting to understand this.>> I was seeing that ldap can authenticate in a lot of types, like ,> dat

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
w is the authentication method of last resort. so pam is a framework into which multiple authentication methods can snap. On 1/13/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I don´t know if this is a valid question, or I am mak

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I don´t know if this is a valid question, or I am making a big mess, but I was wondering witch autentication method is better, ldap or pam. I would like to know too if is possible to use bouth. ldap is one of the methods that can (p)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 02:04, Zac Medico wrote: You can boot off of the cd and build a kernel immediately or you can copy the cd's kernel. When booted from the cd, the kernel is found at /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo-em64t and corresponding

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread John Jolet
256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; > Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named > Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram > and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput > > All run Gentoo Linux, all run fold

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
> > do you have a SATA cdrom drive? > Cynyr. no. it's ide. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > > I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and > > 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find > > RO

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86 2005.1. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
in your environment, despite the security issues, because if you make ALL of your machines nis slaves, and have them authenticate to themselves, if you nis master goes down, you can still get on the other boxes. Or you could just use rdist to fan out your /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files ;) >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
27;t pick this one) nis or YP is another I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are fairly non-trivial depending on your experience level. maybe there's a way to do it with sama as well? > > Thanks! > Matt > > -- > Matt Garman > email at: http://raw

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread John Jolet
what are the permissions on the su binary? On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user a

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-04 11:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't seem to have opened any obvious other security holes. well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your box..

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as vukyou want to replace vuk with root. There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what I got in the e

Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have to set yourself up to be able do shutdown and reboot if desired. Do this in the sudoers file. I don't have my setup where I can reach it at this moment but if you need I can post it later tonight. what you wanted was %whe

Re: [gentoo-user] cron help

2006-01-03 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Let's play everyone's favorite game, "What did Kris do wrong"? ;-) I've been working on a set of scripts to utilize Mark Lyon's gml (Google Mail Loader), a tool to upload email to GMail for easy storage and searching. So far, the scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi

2006-01-03 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote: Before I submit a bug report, has anyone had a similar experience ? Does anyone have anything to suggest to try first ? I did an emerge kdebase-startkde and didn't see any errors, but the kicker doesn't seem to exist...so maybe it failed and I j

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread John Jolet
The file /etc/default/tar contains a list of tape devices. So on Solaris 2.8 if -f is not specified and $TAPE is not set, which it isn't by default, then tar will use a tape device *not* stdin/stdout Steve -- Thanks, Steve. This is the point I was trying to make, but I'm at home with on

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 31, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: tar outputs to stdout by default, Not always. From man tar -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout) So "-f -" is unnecessary, but

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:40 AM, C. Beamer wrote: John Jolet wrote: Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-sta

[gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480. So I ran xorgconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up" | dd of=target.tar.gz tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the use of dd. All you n

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
one called "poke" and "peek"works on all unixes i've found so far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch, and the "poke" part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a particular argument to share the :0 display. On Dec 29, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually convert your binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that your *main* machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU power. That implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@ Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character on the left wil

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/ files from one box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar" or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-25 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-24 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 24, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Peter wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:35:37 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: snip... With respect, "officially" Pro and Server are separate products--that is, Pro will run Win2k and WinXP while the current Server product (WTS 3.0) will only run Win9x. I thought you mea

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware tests

2005-12-23 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 23, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 12/23/05, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, not the gentoo question however i have box that is failing to work, constant reboots so there isn't way to install any OS. I was runing memtest86 from Knoppix without errors,

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: office (2 floors) Can you drill through walls? yes! Are they all in the same room? no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors Why are you networking them? sharing Internet + other normal data sharing stuff What sort of traffic do you expect bet

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that "rpm -ivh Win4Lin..." generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

2005-12-21 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe... the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe). Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot runlevel it switches to runlevel 5 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-21 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 21, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: A mixed system is not stable. I doubt many people run all stable save for one package, not that there's anything wrong with that. But when you have a lot of packages in package.keywords, you're best of switching to a full testing system,

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
Sure, it's somebody's fault! We can start with blaming the Microsoft's Jscript development team, and follow up with the ECMA standards body for trying to compromise between the two existing versions of J[ava] script. After that, we should go after Netscape and IE both for creating two differ

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:23 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see it. I've opened up port 53 on my router so that extra-network hosts could use it, but they still can't. I'm not run

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs to find out how must

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? hmm, that may be. I prefer not to bother wit

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plowing thru the piles of documentation on gentoo.org looking for something that tells me where initrd's come from and how they are built. Amid the litterally thousands of hits

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On 12/18/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1) ja

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

2005-12-13 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:26 +0100, PayPal Security Service wrote: Dear valued PayPal member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your acc

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-11 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side I've not used others, but i've been using teamspeak with a co-worker

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal i

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
that no longer exists.at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch.On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a "win4lin

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux laptop. It's a gateway model M1675 laptop It has fairly standard hardware, all of which

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread John Jolet
ugh, so depending on your workload, your milage may vary. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
getting this to work?John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Add subject to mails CLI Postfix

2005-12-03 Thread John Jolet
mail -s On Dec 3, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, I'm using Postfix on my PC. Some of my programs send mails to me. For example Cron and Smartd. Cron mails have subject, but smartd try to use sendmail -s but sendmail says it is invalid argument. How can I send mails with subject

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RE: Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
allow port 631tcp and udp. On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Mick wrote: Richard Fish wrote: First, let me say that I don't have this setup, but based on /usr/share/doc/cups-1.1.23-r4/html/ipp.pdf, you should have something like: ipp://192.168.0.3/printers/Compaq-HP Wey-hey! It WORKS! :-D Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
silly question, but...any firewalling on the host? or client for that matter? On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thank you Holly, -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2005 13:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:28 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thanks John, Let me understand this right: Have you installed cups on the laptop? Any printer drivers? When you run localhost:631 in a browser on your laptop, what do you see under printers when the laptop is connected to the mac and what w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-11-30 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Mick wrote: Guys, this is ridiculous! Every time I want to print something from my main Linux machine I have to physically disconnect the printer from the second box and connect it to this one. The way this is going I will soon need to buy another parallel po

Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question

2005-11-29 Thread John Jolet
ount to any of them > gives me "not a valid block devices". > Cheers > Antoine -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread John Jolet
come home and ssh in to restart > > > everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. > ifplugd works, at least at the ethernet level. > > > many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to > > connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the s

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-15 Thread John Jolet
Thanks! > > > > You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then > > execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another > > editor if you like. > > > > Regards, > > Petteri -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-15 Thread John Jolet
t and Thawte are the best known (but I don't say they > are the best). ha! verisign bought thawte a few years ago... > > You may try using self-signed certificate, or get one from cacert\ > free of charge: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_cacert.org_SSL_certificates > > Jar

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-15 Thread John Jolet
not after that search engine crud they pulled a few years ago. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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