[gentoo-user] Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)
Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but I'm curious about the details. Can you please elaborate? Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:45 -0500, Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have ATT DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the past 5 years or so. It is supposed to be here next week. They put the cards in the DSL box today. YEPPIE If I don't get DSL this time, my next post may be from jail. I'm going to drive my uninsured 3/4 ton pick up right over their shiney new DSL box. :-@ Thanks. Dale :-) :-) My wife and I have had ATT DSL for a couple of years and we have the our router plugged into the DSL modem and it works just fine. I don't know if it would if you had a PC plugged directly into the modem, but with a router it works fine.
Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?
Grant writes: Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right? Should I be doing more than running this test: smartctl -t long /dev/sda [...] Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell? Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 14109 - Looks good. Have a look at the output of 'smartctl -H /dev/sda', too. And also of 'smartctl -A /dev/sda', there you may spot things that are wearing down, but not failing imminently. The output is a little hard to interpret, though. Here's an article about smartmontools: http://www.linuxjournal.com:80/article/6983 Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:45 -0500, Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have ATT DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the past 5 years or so. It is supposed to be here next week. They put the cards in the DSL box today. YEPPIE If I don't get DSL this time, my next post may be from jail. I'm going to drive my uninsured 3/4 ton pick up right over their shiney new DSL box. :-@ Thanks. Dale :-) :-) My wife and I have had ATT DSL for a couple of years and we have the our router plugged into the DSL modem and it works just fine. I don't know if it would if you had a PC plugged directly into the modem, but with a router it works fine. It sounds like it will work without a router. I know my ex's cable modem worked without or with. Of course, without only one of us could surf at a time. ;-) If it doesn't work, I can always pick up a router. Newegg is just one day away. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED
Al wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. Any suggestions on how to get things working again? Thanks, Drew Hi I have the same problem however I have been able to start a machine from the comand line, ~ VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm name of your machine I also tried VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm name of your machine but this gave the same unreadable screen. The same results repeated with a new machine also. Installing the guest additions has no effect. Have not got around to investigating any further yet. I tried moving my old xorg.conf out of the way and running X without any conf. Then I started a Virtualbox machine and the display was fine. Must have been something in the old xorg.conf that didn't jive with the xorg 1.6. Everything else worked too except my synaptics touchpad. I killed X and ran X -configure and let it create a xorg.conf file for me. Then I cut an pasted the synaptics part from my old file into this new and restarted X. Everything now works. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and ATT. About time.
On 08/08/2009 05:17 PM, Dale wrote: It sounds like it will work without a router. I know my ex's cable modem worked without or with. Of course, without only one of us could surf at a time. ;-) If it doesn't work, I can always pick up a router. Newegg is just one day away. All you need is a switch, not a router. However, most DSL modems are routers and have a built-in switch offering 4 Ethernet ports (usually). If you need more, you just buy a switch and plug it in in one of the ports and connect the rest of the PCs to the switch.
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest
Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin. As part of the celebration we are having a screenshot contest. Links Gentoo Anniversary Announcement http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090722-anniversary.xml Screenshot Contest http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/2009-screenshot-contest.xml Screenshot Contest Contestants Page 1: http://gentoo-pr.org/node/6 Page 2: http://gentoo-pr.org/node/7 Forum Post http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5923900.html -david aka (dabbott) -- Powered by Gentoo GNU/Linux http://linuxcrazy.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest
On Samstag 08 August 2009, David wrote: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin. As part of the celebration we are having a screenshot contest. Links Gentoo Anniversary Announcement http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090722-anniversary.xml Screenshot Contest http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/2009-screenshot-contest.xml Screenshot Contest Contestants Page 1: http://gentoo-pr.org/node/6 Page 2: http://gentoo-pr.org/node/7 Forum Post http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5923900.html -david aka (dabbott) fittingly the forums are down again ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest
On 08/08/09 20:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 08 August 2009, David wrote: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin. As part of the celebration we are having a screenshot contest. Links Gentoo Anniversary Announcement http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090722-anniversary.xml Screenshot Contest http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/2009-screenshot-contest.xml Screenshot Contest Contestants Page 1: http://gentoo-pr.org/node/6 Page 2: http://gentoo-pr.org/node/7 Forum Post http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5923900.html -david aka (dabbott) fittingly the forums are down again ;) Forum is up, but Gentoo Wiki is down. I've been with Gentoo for over 6-years and have seen better times. Some updates are not up to standards (as they used to be in the past). example only: current upgrading postgresql from 8.0 to 8.1 there is no pointer to documentation how to upgrade safely. In the past such an upgrade would follow link to documentation step-by-step what to do with explanation. I've seen better times when D.Robbins was aboard. We used to get a weekly newsletter; it was downgraded to monthly and now we are not getting it at all. So over 300 developers has a little meaning. -- Joseph
[gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that?
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could mask the version higher than what you have or just mask the specific version it is trying to upgrade to. The former will not upgrade until you remove the mask. The later will remind you the next time there is a version bump. I sort of prefer the later version just in case I forget that I masked something. There may be other ways to tho. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
On 08/08/2009 11:20 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could mask the version higher than what you have or just mask the specific version it is trying to upgrade to. I think you're confusing emerge -e with emerge -u :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? No. -e is intended to rebuild *eveything*, not everything except something. You need to take the long way round and find everything in /var/db/pkg, compile a list of everything there, remove the ones to be excluded and redirect the whole list to emerge. It might even fit on one command line. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
On 08/08/2009 11:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? No. -e is intended to rebuild *eveything*, not everything except something. You need to take the long way round and find everything in /var/db/pkg, compile a list of everything there, remove the ones to be excluded and redirect the whole list to emerge. It might even fit on one command line. I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again.
[gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot
For the life of me I can't figure out the canonical way to rebuild my mirrored /boot. The second disk (/dev/sdb1) got corrupted and it is interfering with my rebuilding the kernel (genkernel can't mount /boot). I tried following this page: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-4.html But I can't figure out what package ckraid is in. Equery belongs is not help and searching gentoo-portage.com returns nothing. Does anyone know of some gentoo specific instructions in this regard? Thanks in advance, -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: Why am I here? But now we know the question is actually: Why is THAT THERE? -Me
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/08/2009 11:20 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could mask the version higher than what you have or just mask the specific version it is trying to upgrade to. I think you're confusing emerge -e with emerge -u :) I don't think so. If it is masked, it shouldn't try to upgrade the package. I have a few packages that are masked and when I do my occasional emerge -e world, it installs or recompiles the previous or older version. From what I have seen, if it is masked, portage can't see it. Sort of like when you put a mask on your face. It can't be seen. I do bet there are other ways tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot
On Samstag 08 August 2009, Kevin Haddock wrote: For the life of me I can't figure out the canonical way to rebuild my mirrored /boot. The second disk (/dev/sdb1) got corrupted and it is interfering with my rebuilding the kernel (genkernel can't mount /boot). forget genkernel. put in correctly partitioned disk. read man mdadm /sbin/mdadm /dev/md0 –fail /dev/sdb1 –remove /dev/sdb1 /sbin/mdadm /dev/md0 –add /dev/sdb1 as example. Found on google in less than 2 minutes. Seriously, google is your friend ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again. Or you could temporarily remove them from the world file, unless they are dependencies of something else. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e
On Saturday 08 August 2009 23:36:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again. Or you could temporarily remove them from the world file, unless they are dependencies of something else. package.provided perhaps? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags
pk writes: Alex Schuster wrote: So what modules does get loaded? All from your modules section (except for type1), an in total these: glx, extmod, dri, dbe, record, fglrx, kbd, mouse, vgahw, int10, vbe, fglrxdrm, ddc, fb, ramdac, xaa, fglrxdrm, glesx, amdxmm I know this command from when I had a NVidia card, and I am missing the 'YES' in my output of fglrxinfo. But I do not have a 'NO' there either. fglrxinfo is different from glxinfo. glxinfo is available in the mesa-progs package (emerging this will pull in mesa as well but there's no harm in that, unless you are tight on hard drive space - just make sure you shift back to ati opengl after emerging). Ah, I see. Didn't know about mesa-progs. Mesa is already installed, and space is really no concern here. The output of glxinfo looks good: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap GLX version: 1.2 GLX extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics OpenGL version string: 2.1.8201 Release OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 OpenGL extensions: GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_ARB_color_buffer_float, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_draw_instanced, GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_half_float_pixel,
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest
David wrote: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. Congratulations! And here's to many more years together! :-) Best regards Peter K
[gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?
Hi there,
I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode
on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a
headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine.
Unfortunately, the fonts are pretty large - I would prefer to
configure these on a KDE-wide basis, as the Location, Edit, View, c
is equally large in Konqueror, which opens if I click a link in a
usenet posting in knode.
I have tried running `kcontrol`, but it opens without any icons or
tree on the left hand side - I see a blue welcome page, but there is
nothing I can actually configure.
If I try `kcmshell`:
$ kcmshell fonts
kbuildsycoca running...
kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'fonts'.
$ kcmshell -list
The following modules are available:
$
Version of knode:
$ eix knode
[I] kde-base/knode
Available versions:
(3.5) 3.5.9 3.5.10
(4.2) ~4.2.4
(4.3) [M]~4.3.0!t
{aqua arts debug elibc_FreeBSD handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix
kontact xinerama}
Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(13:07:37 25/06/09)(-debug -
elibc_FreeBSD)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: A newsreader for KDE
It appears that `kcmshell` is provided by kde-base/kdelibs, but I
don't know what the !t in the below means:
$ equery b `which kcmshell`
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kcmshell in *... ]
kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 (/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kcmshell)
$ eix kdelibs
[I] kde-base/kdelibs
Available versions:
(3.5) ~3.5.9!t ~3.5.9-r1!t ~3.5.9-r2!t ~3.5.9-r3!t 3.5.9-r4!t ~3.5.10-
r1!t ~3.5.10-r2!t ~3.5.10-r3!t ~3.5.10-r4!t ~3.5.10-r5!t 3.5.10-r6!t
(4.2) ~4.2.4-r4!t
(4.3) [M]~4.3.0!t
{3dnow acl alsa altivec aqua arts avahi bindist branding bzip2 cups
debug doc elibc_FreeBSD fam handbook jpeg2k kdeenablefinal
kdehiddenvisibility kdeprefix kerberos kernel_linux legacyssl lua mmx
nls openexr opengl semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl test tiff
utempter xinerama zeroconf}
Installed versions: 3.5.10-r6(3.5)!t(03:36:47 09/08/09)(acl
cups doc kernel_linux spell -alsa -arts -avahi -bindist -branding -
debug -elibc_FreeBSD -fam -jpeg2k -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -
legacyssl -lua -openexr -tiff -utempter)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE libraries needed by all KDE programs.
$
Nevertheless, it appears some other package is need to provide the
modules for KDE Control Centre. Anyone know what that is, please?
I'm running x86, not ~x86.
Stroller.
