[gentoo-web-user] webapp-config protect behaviour

2006-03-08 Thread Panard
Hi, I would like to discuss about current webapp-config behaviour concerning protecting/drop user modifications on webapps. (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-437655-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html) Here is the current behaviour : $ webapp-config -I -h localhost -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/8/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gentoo live cd? I didn't know it started gnome. the new 2006.0 boots gnome and you can start graphical installer now for the problem, press ctrl+alt+F1 there you can kill configure your xorg with xorgconfig when done restart X with

[gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
haiwhen i login to root account thru gnome it shows an error massage .dmrc file permission erroit should be 644 and owned by the userbut when i login to other accounts it does not show the error and while login to IceWM as root.i saw the file permission its also correct. how can solve this--

Re: [gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Haddon
I had the same problem on Ubuntu. Just issue chmod 755 /home/username. This isn't recursive and doesn't mean everyone can execute anything in your home directory - the execute bit only means traverse in reference to directories, so you should be okay. Thanks, Tom On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 14:14

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what video drivers the live cd uses? Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home

Re: [gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network

2006-03-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mickey Mullin wrote: Unfortunately, what you describe is not a simple or common setup, so easy to set up may be a difficult goal to accomplish. Also, fetchmail expects an SMTP service to which it can deliver the mail it receives. fetchmail will, by default, try to deliver mails to a SMTP

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i know ati drivers suck but i booted the live cd on my x300se card so i guess it's not really the problem.. maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the live cd set by default on my pc and it worked great) On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ghaith Hachem schreef: On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What video card do you have and what drivers? I've had similar problems (not with this graphical live CD, since I installed Gentoo before it existed, but with X applications and X itself), because I have an ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the x cards are particularly problematic in terms of X drivers at this time. yep the card sucks i'll get an nvidia as soon as i can maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know ati drivers suck but i booted the live cd on my x300se card so i guess it's not really the problem.. maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the live cd set by default on my pc and it

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Please note that mmx seems to be missing in both columns. despite that its there in my USE in make.conf `cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep flags` to see what flags your cpu uses. Perhaps your cpu doesn't handle mmx? Sorry, I don't have expierence with your cpu. -Jeremy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
hai, it worked for me, but since it a root's directory i dont any one to view the content on the folder.is there any other way to solve the problen.On 3/8/06, Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem on Ubuntu. Just issue chmod 755 /home/username.This isn't recursive and doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Patrick B�rjesson
On 2006-03-08 00:20, Kumar Golap uttered these thoughts: I have the following USE in my make.conf (on an athlon64 machine) USE=3dnow xorg a52 alsa acpi arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvdr dvd encode foomaticdb ffmpeg flac gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hal imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww lm_sensors

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel da Veiga schreef: The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all cards Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by autodectection of the video hardware? My question here is because

Re: [gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Haddon
Didn't see the root account message. Not sure how you would resolve that one (could experiment with the permissions on the directory - try 750 or 700), but I think if you're worried about security, it's never a wise idea to log in to an X session as root. Is there some particular reason that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-08 Thread Goran Maksimovi
Tim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love zsh ;-) ,- | % setopt | grep -i append.*history | incappendhistory | % man zshoptions | col -b | grep -A 4 APPEND_HISTORY | APPEND_HISTORY D | If this is set, zsh sessions will append their history list to |

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Frink
You could also just add the extensions USE flag to iptables and that should give you tarpit supportOn 3/7/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Erik Westenbroek wrote on 03/07/06 04:18: I am attempting create a tarpit to protect against SSH Brute force attempts.I tried this: --snip-- iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] .dmrc error

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
still the same prolen on gentoo but it works fine in suse 10. i thought it will also work in gentoo but it still shows the same error in gentoo. On 3/8/06, Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't see the root account message. Not sure how you would resolve thatone (could experiment with the

[gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning Folks: I have been doing some reading over the last day or two about a SSH bot attack that is occurring in some places. I will be the first to admit that I have been a bit lax with my ssh security (allowing root logins etc). This problem has inspired me to get things cleaned up,

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga schreef: The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all cards Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning Folks: I have been doing some reading over the last day or two about a SSH bot attack that is occurring in some places. I will be the first to admit that I have been a bit lax with my ssh security (allowing root logins

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread Nagatoro
John Jolet wrote: this says for all hosts i ssh to, use port 26, and username john at the [...] I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) Missed something? :) -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc using a x86-hardened and a pentium4 host

2006-03-08 Thread Zac
Here is the gentoo distcc guild that says you should not run distcc on hardened host for a not hardened system. http://mirror.eacoss.org/documentation/gentoo/distcc.html However, I currently have an amd64 system that runs distccd that my celeron laptop and p3 media pc use with no issues. -Zac

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Nagatoro wrote: John Jolet wrote: this says for all hosts i ssh to, use port 26, and username john at the [...] I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) Missed

[gentoo-user] qmail and SA problems

2006-03-08 Thread Nick Smith
im currently trying to implement spamassassin into our mail server and am running into problems im hoping you can help me with. our current setup is running gentoo/qmail/vpopmail/qmail-scanner/courier-imap/clamav/tmda. i have reinstalled qmail-scanner so that it can pickup that SA is installed,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:06, John Jolet wrote: is that a question or statement? What do you mean? You said: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) but at the beginning of your message

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop portscans but it will stop brute force attacks directly on port 22. I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:06, John Jolet wrote: is that a question or statement? What do you mean? You said: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop portscans but it

[gentoo-user] NFS

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
hello,i have to find the exported filesystem ie., /etc/exports from a nfs server dynamicallyfrom the client macline.then i have to mount the file system ny selecting any of the exported folder.i have to done all this thru c program. how can i do. i dont know whether this is the correct mailing

[gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread jerry
I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources I get: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1 Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2 Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB Homepage:http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Kumar Golap
In fact if i remove the USE line from the make.conf file ...and i do emerge --info ...it is showing USE flags that i have no clue from where its coming. I guess that that is what is overiding my changes in USE i.e its been ignoring the fact that wanted mmx and 3dnow etc to be used. In case

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS

2006-03-08 Thread Darryl Wagoner
showmount(8) is what you are looking for. You may also want to check out the automounter and/or NIS.On 3/8/06, c.s.prakash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:hello,i have to find the exported filesystem ie., /etc/exports from a nfs server dynamically from the client macline.then i have to mount the file

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
thanksi can use it load the exported filesystem into a tmp file and can display itbut i need to do then in my c program.is there something like system calls or library, so can directly do it in my program. On 3/8/06, Darryl Wagoner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: showmount(8) is what you are looking for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources this page shows that the 2.6.15-r1 is availiable for x86 and amd64 gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 ~alpha amd64 arm ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86 check if the 2.6 kernel is masked.. maybe sync again though it's weird that all the other versions are masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources I get: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1 Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2 Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:33, Kumar Golap wrote: In fact if i remove the USE line from the make.conf file ...and i do emerge --info ...it is showing USE flags that i have no clue from where its coming. I guess that that is what is overiding my changes in USE i.e its been ignoring the

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS

2006-03-08 Thread Darryl Wagoner
It depends upon how much trouble you want to go thru.You could get the source to showmounts and copy that code or you could write your own server which would live on the NFS server to be a directory service for NFS mount points. On 3/8/06, c.s.prakash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanksi can use it

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
i want just like mount systemcall through which i can mount but cant able to list exported filesystem is there any library its working for local filesystem but i get error on mounting nfs i may be giving wrong arguments but it can done easily i think.On 3/8/06, Darryl Wagoner [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/8/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it would be the safest way. But now that you mentioned it, I only tested in my machine (ATI, old one) and another server (NVidia, FX5200), both loaded without Direct

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Kumar Golap
Thanks now I understand the default USE flags I see, I think. And apologies for not searching the manual first. But I still do not understand why flags like mmx (or 3dnow) flags that i put in the /etc/make.conf file is not getting picked up. Am i right in my understanding that emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:16 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote: Thanks now I understand the default USE flags I see, I think. And apologies for not searching the manual first. But I still do not understand why flags like mmx (or 3dnow) flags that i put in the /etc/make.conf file is not getting picked

[gentoo-user] Re: Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Westenbroek
thank you to all. I now have tarpits up and running smoothly. On 3/8/06, Andrew Frink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also just add the extensions USE flag to iptables and that should give you tarpit support On 3/7/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Westenbroek wrote on

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Andrew, Andrew Frink wrote on 03/08/06 14:57: You could also just add the extensions USE flag to iptables and that should give you tarpit support On 3/7/06, *Dave Jones* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Westenbroek wrote on 03/07/06 04:18: I am

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread neil
Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a virus. I have to wonder what you are

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:16, Kumar Golap wrote: Thanks now I understand the default USE flags I see, I think. And apologies for not searching the manual first. But I still do not understand why flags like mmx (or 3dnow) flags that i put in the /etc/make.conf file is not getting picked

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread jerry
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/8/06, jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources I get: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1 Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2 Size of downloaded files: 31,219

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Tim Igoe
neil wrote: Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a virus. I have to wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread neil
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: No, there are virii and worms in the wild. This is one of my pet hates. There is no such word as virii. The correct plural of virus in the English language is viruses. Whilst the word virus comes from Latin, the common pluralisation by replacing us with i

Re: [gentoo-user] tool to convert to psp movie format

2006-03-08 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martins Steinbergs) writes: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:47, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, is there something to convert movies into the format required by a playstation portable in the portage-tree? Can maybe transcode do this? Konstantin ffmpeg

[gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread c.s.prakash
when i mount the nfs through the system callmount(192.168.0.51:/root, /mnt/9, nfs, 0, rw, async);it shows an invalid argument. but when i do this thru mount command it mounts without any problem -- C.S.Prakash

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:30:26AM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: THanks for the quick reply. I did another emerge --sync and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jerry # emerge -s gentoo-sources Searching... [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ] [ Applications found : 1 ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Helmer
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 19:55, c.s.prakash wrote: when i mount the nfs through the system call mount(192.168.0.51:/root, /mnt/9, nfs, 0, rw, async); it shows an invalid argument. but when i do this thru mount command it mounts without any problem It's been about 4 years since I last had

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:23 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS,

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] plural of virus (was antivirus)

2006-03-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:40:01PM +, Penguin Lover neil squawked: This is one of my pet hates. There is no such word as virii. The correct plural of virus in the English language is viruses. Whilst the word virus comes from Latin, the common pluralisation by replacing us with i would

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user needs to understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to execute on their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Jarry
Bob Young wrote: In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections. True, but unfortunatelly, there are too many win-applications (even serious ones), which does not work correctly (or at all) without

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause.

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Petr Uzel
It's been about 4 years since I last had to do that (so no guarantees), but If I remember correctly the data argument for NFS is not just a string. Instead I believe that you have to do some other magic to encode the data correctly. I would recommend looking at the source code for mount and

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:04 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Bob Young wrote: In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Helmer
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:07, Petr Uzel wrote: IMHO it's easier to look at 'man 2 mount' : ... Values for the filesystemtype argument supported by the kernel are listed in /proc/filesystems (like minix, ext2, msdos, proc, nfs, iso9660 etc.). man 2 mount is not going to help. If you

[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Myers
Hey everybody! I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake DVDs. I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular dvd players because of the stupid region thing. K3b didn't seem to have anything for doing that, so I tried dvdrip/dvd::rip. Whenever I

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread DebianTux23
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Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Darryl Wagoner
On 3/8/06, Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man 2 mount is not going to help.If you had looked closer you would realizethat the data argument is the last argument not the filesystem type.Theman page only says that the data argument is typically a comma separated string. I don't believe that is

[gentoo-user] Good Game??

2006-03-08 Thread wieseltux23
www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:37:19 + Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:07, Petr Uzel wrote: IMHO it's easier to look at 'man 2 mount' : ... Values for the filesystemtype argument supported by the kernel are listed

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Helmer
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22:04, Darryl Wagoner wrote: On 3/8/06, Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man 2 mount is not going to help. If you had looked closer you would realize that the data argument is the last argument not the filesystem type. The man page only says that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Game??

2006-03-08 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 23:26 schrieb wieseltux23: www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 For all people who haven't looked there yet, this is a crappy german advertising game, in which the player gets points for the number of people visiting his site. So: don't go look there, this has

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-08 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22.32, Mike Myers wrote: Hey everybody! I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake DVDs. I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular dvd players because of the stupid region thing. K3b didn't seem to have anything for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge lilo fails

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/6/06, Erwin Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone! i tried to emerge lilo (`emerge -bva lilo') - but it aborts with the following error-message: open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) In the past, emerging LILO would choke

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Game??

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:42 +0100, Heiko Wundram wrote: Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 23:26 schrieb wieseltux23: www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 For all people who haven't looked there yet, this is a crappy german advertising game, in which the player gets points for the number of people

RE: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

2006-03-08 Thread Covington, Chris
Why don't you just get a $40 Cyberhome CH-DVD300S DVD player and watch any regions and PAL as well? Chris -Original Message- From: Mike Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed Mar 08 16:43:52 2006 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-server] courier-imapd have to be restarted to much time

2006-03-08 Thread James Colannino
Claudinei Matos wrote: Hi, I've installed postfix to work with my domain using vmail with courier imap (I've followed gentoo guide) and it was working fine until today. Now I have some users (including me) that can't get new messages 'cause the mail software (thunderbird) keep tring to connect

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-server] courier-imapd have to be restarted to much time

2006-03-08 Thread James Colannino
Wow; umm, looking at the date, I realize that this message was from all the way back in May of 2005. If the original poster is still around, I'd be interested to hear from him. Otherwise, sorry for the noise (that's what you get when you archive mail and forget to check the date :-P) James

[gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-08 Thread scwang
I can't enable glx on my video card, the following is output of lspci in my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) My kerenl is linux-2.6.15-suspend2-r6. Any hints about it? Best Regards! -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] suspend2 problem

2006-03-08 Thread scwang
My suspend2 works, but still have the following problem: 1. After resuming, x windows doesn't work well. The screen is dusky, and it comes back normally only after I switch to console and then switch back to it. 2.It seems my dpms doesn't work anymore after resume. Screen will become black but

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't enable glx on my video card, the following is output of lspci in my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) My kerenl is linux-2.6.15-suspend2-r6. Any hints about it? Best Regards!

[gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-08 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply

[gentoo-user] Xterm, xmms color after Modular X

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I just switched to Modular X.org, everything went fine after a few minutes of configuration, but I noticed that XMMS default skin bitmaps were all wrong (white strips all over it), trying recompile, did no help. Also noticed that Xterm has only blue as color, all other colors appear

Re: [gentoo-user] how to implement net bandwidth quota

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 23:52, Bobber Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how to implement net bandwidth quota': I'd like to implement net bandwidth quota. E.g. I like give normal use 1M/s at max, give superuse 10M/s at max, give server user like apache 50M. Any suggestion?

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Kumar Golap
Thanks all for your help...and I know why now mmx flag was getting masked. Its in the use.mask as suggested by Martins. Attached is the use.mask file i have ...that file gets updated/overwritten every time i do a emerge --sync, right ? For some reason all the flags under x86/amd are

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:20, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64': Thanks all for your help...and I know why now mmx flag was getting masked. Its in the use.mask as suggested by Martins. Attached is the use.mask file

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/8/06, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for your help...and I know why now mmx flag was getting masked. Its in the use.mask as suggested by Martins. The mmx USE flag is not supported on the amd64 profile. The processor does support mmx instructions, but (I think) only when

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Kumar Golap
Apologies for not having done my research properly In this /specific/ case, you don't have to because the ebuilds and gcc know that x86_64 CHOST means that mmx etc. ARE supported and they will hard-enable them (you may not turn them off). Do you mean that, say, xawtv would have been

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Kumar Golap
The mmx USE flag is not supported on the amd64 profile. The processor does support mmx instructions, but (I think) only when operating in 32-bit mode. So it probably doesn't make sense to have an amd64 profile with the mmx/sse/3dnow use flags. Presumably there are better processor

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
Kumar Golap wrote: Apologies for not having done my research properly In this /specific/ case, you don't have to because the ebuilds and gcc know that x86_64 CHOST means that mmx etc. ARE supported and they will hard-enable them (you may not turn them off). Do you mean that,

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:45, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64': On 3/8/06, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for your help...and I know why now mmx flag was getting masked. Its in the use.mask as

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-08 Thread scwang
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:19:40PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't enable glx on my video card, the following is output of lspci in my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) My kerenl is

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works, mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try it when i reinstall windows thx -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/8/06, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mmx USE flag is not supported on the amd64 profile. The processor does support mmx instructions, but (I think) only when operating in 32-bit mode. So it probably doesn't make sense to have an amd64 profile with the mmx/sse/3dnow use

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:19:40PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't enable glx on my video card, the following is output of lspci in my system: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Jarry
Bob Young wrote: PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the Linux/Unix world, PowerUser is not. The primary and most important difference is the ability to *write* to the registry, It's perfectly safe to routinely log on as a PowerUser, as PowerUsers can *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem

2006-03-08 Thread Pablasso
if you have your video driver with dri/drm (3d acceleration) activated, thats the problem, suspend2 currently does not work along with 3d acceleration so you have to choose beetween them.for fb try first with vesa-tng and if it doesnt works try with vesa On 3/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] SELinux

2006-03-08 Thread Steve B
Hey everybody, Quick question. How can I disable SELinux without modifing (recompiling) the kernel? The reason I ask is because my kernel was compiled with SELinux support, however its not active. Apparent vpopmail has issues with SELinux and I believe that I am having problems because of

[gentoo-user] lost partition table

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore it -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I am trying to move my system over to modular X, but I'm having a few troubles. There are 4 packages that don't seem like they should be bringing in virtual/x11-6.8, but they are. Also, it's really confusing trying to figure out /why/ they are bringing in virtual-x11. emerge -pvt is giving

Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table

2006-03-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table': help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to. fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Frink
ahh haven't really played that much with tarpit, thansk for clearing that up :-)On 3/8/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi Andrew,Andrew Frink wrote on 03/08/06 14:57: You could also just add the extensions USE flag to iptables and that should give you tarpit support On 3/7/06, *Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table [SOLVED]

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
ok problem solved, the partion deleted was ext3 i must have clicked install without paying attention to the format partion dialog in the installer anyway i used http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and it recovered my data On 3/9/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)

2006-03-08 Thread Nagatoro
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I am trying to move my system over to modular X, but I'm having a few troubles. There are 4 packages that don't seem like they should be bringing in virtual/x11-6.8, but they are. You could try and look at the DEPEND/RDEPEND of those ebuild's too see if any