On 4/26/06, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 02:39 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley:
>
> > I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is
> > a reply with no message.
>
> Try to explain it to them. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quo
Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 02:39 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley:
> I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is
> a reply with no message.
Try to explain it to them. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
should help.
Bye...
Dirk
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Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 20:11 schrieb ext Herman Grootaers:
> The division is not so strange as it seems. In */sbin the binaries
> placed are used by the systemuser root, that means the binaries can be
> used by anyone. in */bin the binaries are under user-control that is
> they are owned by th
Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 18:00 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley:
> Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very
> document.
>
> It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin.
It's from the very beginning of Unix. Harddisks where small (or they even
u
Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 20:31 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
> "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :)
No, it wouldn't. People could still - by accident, of course - append
init=/bin/bash to their kernel command line. However, you'd need to try
hard to create an acciden
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 18:58, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd':
> Piping to telnet worked with netkit-telnetd's client but not
> telnet-bsd's
Sound like one opens a new pty and the other just uses std{in,out,err}.
A good expect script
> Oddly, running kernel 2.6.16, it is showing up as
> /dev/ttyS2, so I had
> to re-run wvdialconf (the only such package that
> ever detected the
> modem as /dev/ttyS14, by the way). Although I
> cannot be certain, I
> suspect that serial support in the 2.6.X kernel
> series has gone
> through a
>
> To check for serial port support in your kernel, do:
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
> go to Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial
> Drivers
> Then make sure that "8250/16550 and compatible
> serial support" has
> either a * or an M
>
> If it doesn't, then go ahead and add it in
Simon Prosser wrote:
>
>setterm -blank 0
>
>
That too should work. I think if you do a "setterm powersave off" it
will do the same thing. I think that disables all the other power save,
standby and such. Note the I think. It's been a while since my servers
are headless anyway. I also made
On 4/25/06 9:14 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NO!!! I HAVE SBC!!! AND IT HANGS! I guess I will just have to gateway
> through my isp. Thanks for the help.
>
>
Well, my co-worker called them and they unblocked it for him. You could try
that. Gating through your isp isn
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 03:45, Geoff wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
> signal
> to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
> minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
> anything set.
xset --he
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes
On 4/25/06 9:11 PM, "Maurice E Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK,
Here's how this works.
Many (nearly all) primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP (this means y
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 02:55, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Geoff wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
> >signal
> >to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
> >minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver
Goran Maksimovic wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and then in my /etc/make.conf I enabled
>portage feature ~x86 so I could install the latest Xorg and KDE. When all was
>over I entered KDE by startx as normal user and noticed that I can't change
>virtual terminals by ctrl+al
NO!!! I HAVE SBC!!! AND IT HANGS! I guess I will just have to gateway
through my isp. Thanks for the help.
On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/25/06 8:47 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router,
OK,
Here's how this works.
Many (nearly all) primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP (this means your IP is a client IP on the ISPs net).
Well, one day, many moons ago a bunch of very intelligent folks got tog
On 4/25/06 8:47 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't
> want anything to do with my ISP's mail. I just mentioned the router
> and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was
> right, becau
Geoff wrote:
>Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
>signal
>to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
>minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
>anything set.
>
>
>
If it is in a GUI, check your xorg.conf
no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't
want anything to do with my ISP's mail. I just mentioned the router
and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was
right, because I don't really know how CIDR works. I just fired up
mutt from my gentoo bo
Can anyone tell me where the settings are that controls the video
signal
to the screen. My screen goes off (but still has power on after about 5
minutes and I want it to stay on all the time. I have no screen saver or
anything set.
--
Chow,
Geoff.
REMEMBER:- Those that get what they want, are
On 4/25/06 8:28 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From both localhost and my SDF account I get the expected 220
> casusbelli.homelinux.org ESMTP Postfix. I haven't emerged iptables
> yet, but I'm behind a router that has a firewall installed. I'll
> install iptables later f
>From both localhost and my SDF account I get the expected 220
casusbelli.homelinux.org ESMTP Postfix. I haven't emerged iptables
yet, but I'm behind a router that has a firewall installed. I'll
install iptables later for ssh tarpitting, but for right now I'm doing
without it. I don't know if th
Grant gmail.com> writes:
> I'm planning on following the instructions here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml
> to set up a Gentoo router. When I move in one week the router will
> get service from a DSL modem. For now, can I test the router by
> having it pick up the wire
On 4/25/06 7:48 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not at all. I wanted to actually get the server up before I got that set up.
>
> On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/25/06 7:16 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah,
Not at all. I wanted to actually get the server up before I got that set up.
On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/25/06 7:16 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I have syslog-ng running.
> > Here is the output:
> > Apr 25 19:15:22 casusbelli pos
On 4/25/06 7:16 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, I have syslog-ng running.
> Here is the output:
> Apr 25 19:15:22 casusbelli postfix/pickup[23829]: 9CA9636623: uid=0
> from=
> Apr 25 19:15:22 casusbelli postfix/cleanup[23906]: 9CA9636623:
> message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED
Sorry I top posted.
Forgot I was on a Linux list.
I am used to Windows people and if I bottom post they wonder why there is a
reply with no message.
Thanks to all of you.
That really helped my understanding.
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Yeah, I have syslog-ng running.
Here is the output:
Apr 25 19:15:22 casusbelli postfix/pickup[23829]: 9CA9636623: uid=0 from=
Apr 25 19:15:22 casusbelli postfix/cleanup[23906]: 9CA9636623:
message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apr 25 19:15:22 casusbelli postfix/qmgr[23830]: 9CA9636623:
from=<[EMAIL PROTEC
Just a warning, the netkit-telnetd and telnet-bsd clients do not work
identically.
I was recently testing some remote control software that connected to a
remote telnet port. The software would issue command like:
echo jump mainmenu | telnet mythtvbox 6546
Piping to telnet worked with netkit-tel
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 08:16 am, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 4/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > More news:
> >
> > I successfully got GnuPG 1.9 installed, and then a new problem arose.
> > Configuration.
> >
> > I went to http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html#gnupg
On 4/25/06 6:40 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #netstat -an|grep 25
> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
> unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 109125
>
>
> On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
#netstat -an|grep 25
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 109125
On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/25/06 6:22 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a postf
On 4/25/06 6:22 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a postfix mailserver setup on my system that uses pam for
> authentication. I can recieve email just fine, but whenever I try to
> send mail, my logs say that the connection to the server timed out on
> port 25. Does a
I have a postfix mailserver setup on my system that uses pam for
authentication. I can recieve email just fine, but whenever I try to
send mail, my logs say that the connection to the server timed out on
port 25. Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem is?
--
Erik
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gentoo-user@gentoo.
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:10:55 -0400, Erik Zeek wrote:
> Once would have been understandable, but I did mine twice (only once as
> root though). It's fun to stare at the screen wondering why it's taken
> 5 minutes to delete two hidden directories, followed by a scream of,
> "OH SH*T!" which is imm
Hi,
I know the question has already been answered but a little bit of time
ago I wrote this in response to a similar question. I hope it helps
others that are reading the q.
http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2120
Mark
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote:
You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files
could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions
changed. :-)
"rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :)
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you Richard.
BTW, on this list it is considered polite to quote messages above your
replies (no top-posting), and to trim the quoted message down to just
the necessary parts.
-Richard
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Grr. I hate this keyboard.
> Once would have been understandable, but I did mine twice
> (only once as root though). It's fun to stare at the screen
> wondering why it's taken 5 minutes to delete two hidden
> directories, followed by a scream of, "OH SH*T!" which is
> immediately followed by
> -Original Message-
> From: Erik Zeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd
>
> On Tue April 25 2006 14:46, John Jolet wrote:
> > > I find that "rm -rf .*" works wond
On Tue April 25 2006 14:46, John Jolet wrote:
> > I find that "rm -rf .*" works wonders for security.
>
> Now guys, someone new is going to try one of these! :) And we all know
> we've done that at one time or another. Mine was "rm -fr /* filename"
> on a running sun box. :) during month-end p
On 4/25/06 1:41 PM, "Erik Zeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote:
>>> You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files
>>> could accidentally get owned to another users or have its perm
On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote:
> > You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files
> > could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions
> > changed. :-)
>
> "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote:
> You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files
> could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions
> changed. :-)
"rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :)
--
Neil Bothwick
Top
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 18:00, K. Mike Bradley wrote:
> Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very
> document.
>
> It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin,
> /sbin.
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Justin Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
Dan Johansson wrote:
Yes I know that I can just let the server disabled. But I was just wondering
if there where any alternatives so that the server don't get started by
"accident". Will probably delete the server after the emerge.
Tanks for your input!
You might want to delete chmod and ch
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 07:33, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Dan Johansson wrote:
> > On Monday 24 April 2006 20:04, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:58 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
> >> > I only need a telnet client and not the whole server part. Any
>
> [...]
>
> >> I think the on
Thank you Richard.
That answers my question very well.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Richard Fish
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:14 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr
On 4/25/06,
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created?
The idea is that / can be a very small partition and contains
everything necessary to boot and administer the system, and /usr can
be a separate partition or logical volume. Some advantag
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Glenn Enright wrote:
> Does anyone know which package supplies this function.
Its builtin to tcsh.
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A
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On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very
> document.
>
> It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin.
/bin contains commands that may be used by both the system
administrator and by users
Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very
document.
It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin.
-Original Message-
From: Justin Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:36 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.o
Hi,
short note at the start: Don't hijack other threads (like you did
here), don't answer a mailing list mail but write a new one to the
list, when you want to start a new thread.
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:32:52 -0400 "K. Mike Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why the latest
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created?
>
> It has a /bin and /sbin with similar binaries as the root equivalents.
>
> I have read that it's called the secondary hierarchy and it's sharable and
> meant to be read only (these days
Can anyone tell me why the latest Gentoo uses initramfs but it is loaded by
GRUB using initrd?
I though the initramfs was to be compressed into the kernel image?
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev
initrd /boot/ini
On 4/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More news:
>
> I successfully got GnuPG 1.9 installed, and then a new problem arose.
> Configuration.
>
> I went to http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html#gnupg and followed the
> instructions to the best of my ability, and yet I sti
I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created?
It has a /bin and /sbin with similar binaries as the root equivalents.
I have read that it's called the secondary hierarchy and it's sharable and
meant to be read only (these days) ... but what is it for and why do we have
duplication of /bin a
Hi all,
I was at the office today, and needed to get something from my email at
home. So I launched my browser, pointed to my horde installation, and
it let me in. I don't have any saved passwords, and to double check it,
I ran IE and Firefox and both were let in without any problem.
I've
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More news:
I successfully got GnuPG 1.9 installed, and then a new problem arose.
Configuration.
I went to http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html#gnupg and followed the
instructions to the best of my ability, and yet I still get this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.gn
I have an internal PCI modem. It was /dev/ttyS14 for a long time, on
Ubuntu and Mepis, and maybe Gentoo (don't remember), but then, on
Gentoo, it started showing up on /dev/ttyS4, I believe.
Oddly, running kernel 2.6.16, it is showing up as /dev/ttyS2, so I had
to re-run wvdialconf (the only such
Hi!
I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and then in my /etc/make.conf I enabled
portage feature ~x86 so I could install the latest Xorg and KDE. When all was
over I entered KDE by startx as normal user and noticed that I can't change
virtual terminals by ctrl+alt+f1 and so on and neither by c
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:51, Mick wrote:
> I only have a couple of minutes so I apologise for not writing a
> complete answer. FWIW the gpg-agent was hard masked (yesterday?) and
> just adding it to your /etc/portage/package.keywords won't work. You
> need to use package.mask instead.
>
> Howe
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:51:09PM -0700, James Ausmus wrote
> To check for serial port support in your kernel, do:
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
> go to Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial Drivers
> Then make sure that "8250/16550 and compatible serial support" has
> either a *
On 25/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More news:
>
> I successfully got GnuPG 1.9 installed, and then a new problem arose.
> Configuration.
>
> I went to http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html#gnupg and followed the
> instructions to the best of my ability, and yet I st
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