Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It's also faster to rm -fr the directories before unmerging. You'd > have to do it afterwards anyway, to remove the files that portage did > not install (unless you run make mrproper) but doing it first speeds > things up a lot as it avoids portage

[gentoo-user] klibc doesn't compile

2007-02-22 Thread Giampiero Gabbiani
Hi to all, trying to install splashutils on a diskless epia gentoo linux box I obtain the following: (thinclient) media-center / # emerge -va splashutils These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.2.1-r2 USE="(-n32)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Dan Cowsill wrote: > Actually, I'd be pretty interested in what you have to rant about > PHP. I run apache with php_mod installed and have the http port open. >  Is there a security risk I should be aware of? The problem is not so much with php itself - that' s just a

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an > > initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports* > > initrd format, even if initram

Re: [gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

2007-02-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +, Mick wrote: > > >> I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough >> to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some >> relevant links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a >> co

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-22 Thread paulie . x
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): > On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding': >> Hi. >> I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8. >> But

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

2007-02-22 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Dnes wrote: > Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor version > bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)? I suppose I > should try to slap together a script that's run after emerge. It would > run the "f

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread C Lee Davis
Aggelos wrote: www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin www.petitiononline.com/golfinho It's messages like this that remind me my mailer has rules. Consider yourself killfiled. I'm here for Gentoo, not dolphins. -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society ht

[gentoo-user] Documentation annoyances

2007-02-22 Thread Walter Dnes
Thread re-named to reflect topic-drift On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at times, and > otoh one can miss the really useful stuff I wouldn't mind terribly if it was actually usable. I'd like to be

[gentoo-user] Re: off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread »Q«
Aggelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, > for this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I > posted it here. That bit of brilliant thinking could be used to justify posting absolutely anything to any list, "since y

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:20 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: > > How can I see which versions of hardened-sources portage thinks are > > currently installed? I guess I should manually unmerge old sources as > > above instead of using rm -rf. > > > > - Grant > > Yes, you can: > > $ equery list --du

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800, Grant wrote: > It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access > to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the > contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks. Does that sound like a > possibility? Not unless you have the vmwar

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-22 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote: > > > On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge > > > hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of > > > (-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but > > > whenever new kernel sources are emerged,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-22 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Donnerstag, den 22.02.2007, 15:30 -0800 schrieb Grant: > > > On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge > > > hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of > > > (-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but > > > whenever new kernel sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-22 Thread Grant
> The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly > disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did > configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of > using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home Router Guide. I'm > also running PenguinTV

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing: how to enable..

2007-02-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:22:16 +0100 Roman Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, please forgive this most probably very simple question, but I > cannot find the correct configuration file to enable routing... > > I have two PCs, one HAS a internet connection to the internet-proxy, > the other on

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 07:34 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > Look the fact is every day: * [some things happen] * and someone hijacks a thread. > Now, back to our regularly scheduled mailing list, already in > progress... > > Ob-Linux: If you use the forcedeth ethernet driver then I'd advise

[gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

2007-02-22 Thread Mick
Hi All, I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some relevant links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a console? A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back th

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding': > Hi. > I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8. > But my man-pages are > still displayed with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread kashani
Dan Cowsill wrote: Actually, I'd be pretty interested in what you have to rant about PHP. I run apache with php_mod installed and have the http port open. Is there a security risk I should be aware of? It really depends on how badly the PHP application you're running has been written. Assumi

RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:40 PM > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. > > > > I don't want to do like thi

[solved] RE: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, list -- > > I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. > > I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the > package and attempted to configure the interface manually. >

Re: [gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:27 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. > > I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and > attempted to configure the interface manually. How? We can't guess at what changes you made.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Postfix and procmail

2007-02-22 Thread Alexis Lahouze
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:50:20PM -0500, James Colby wrote: > List members - Hi > > I am running the Postfix MTA on my gentoo server. Postfix is > receiving mail for multiple domains using the virtual_mailbox_domains > directive. I was wondering if it was possible to use procmail to > sort an

[gentoo-user] remove DHCPCD/djbdns -- and now, manual setup fails...

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, list -- I have a server that had been running dhcpcd to get it's IP address. I don't want to do like this anymore, so I removed the package and attempted to configure the interface manually. However, somewhere in my configs dhcp client is still called. How do I fix this? Also, I'd tried

[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-22 Thread jcd
Hi. I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8. I re-encoded several files and several filenames. But my man-pages are still displayed with bad characters ('á' is 'á') in console even in X terminal emulator. I unmerged pack

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Aggelos
on 02/22/2007 09:14 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:20:28 +0200, Aggelos wrote: > >> I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for >> this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it >> here. > > What outstanding arro

[gentoo-user] backing out of djbdns installation -- no DNS?

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, List -- I may just posted with a problem backing out of DHCP configuration. (I found the offending line in /etc/conf.d/net. So, now I get my IP address assigned, I can ssh to the machine again. Great.) Now, /etc/resolv.conf has three lines like: nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.x I can ping the name

[gentoo-user] OT: Postfix and procmail

2007-02-22 Thread James Colby
List members - I am running the Postfix MTA on my gentoo server. Postfix is receiving mail for multiple domains using the virtual_mailbox_domains directive. I was wondering if it was possible to use procmail to sort and deliver mail to my virtual_mailboxes. If so, any suggestion or documentat

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
... for its **right** propose ... 2007/2/22, Leandro Melo de Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: His arrogance is a desperation signal. He, in fact, knows and are conscient of his mistake and because of a lack of justification to give due to what he did, he act like this. I suggest to ignore such user

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
His arrogance is a desperation signal. He, in fact, knows and are conscient of his mistake and because of a lack of justification to give due to what he did, he act like this. I suggest to ignore such users and do what Neil said: wait for this user need to use the list for its write propose and

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:20:28 +0200, Aggelos wrote: > I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for > this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it > here. What outstanding arrogance! This list is primarily a vehicle for peer support. You total

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Aggelos
on 02/22/2007 08:48 PM Ralph Seichter wrote the following: > Aggelos wrote: > >> I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for >> this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it >> here. > If you don't care about the other subscribers here, I sugge

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Fabrício L. Ribeiro
Can you, please, continue this discussion in your private emails? Thanks! -- FABRÍCIO L. RIBEIRO === [icq: 66770900] [e-mail, gtalk e msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [blog: http://opalavrorio.blogspot.com] ï¿½ï¿½í¢‹ï¿½z���(��&j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Aggelos
on 02/22/2007 08:30 PM Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote the following: >> >> > > I don't see a problem with OT posts that have some vague relevance e.g: List > policies, Linux security issues (for example " OT - Some miscellanous > questions about hack attacks and dealing with them"). By your lo

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Ralph Seichter
Aggelos wrote: > I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for > this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it > here. If you don't care about the other subscribers here, I suggest you to host your own mailing list, i.e. gentoo-user-and-everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 03:49 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports > > about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my > > firewall. I've stuck

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Aggelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 February 2007 18:20 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan > > > on 02/21/2007 07:48 PM Aggelos wrote the following: > > www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:42:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The dolphins are being massacred. We need them: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix dolphin > * kde-misc/dolphin > Available versions: (~)0.8.1 > Homepage:http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de > Description: A file ma

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Aggelos
on 02/21/2007 07:48 PM Aggelos wrote the following: > www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin > > www.petitiononline.com/golfinho I really don't care if consider the above as spam or not or watever, for this list or for any list. I am subscribed to this list so I posted it here. If I had posted it to a do

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an > initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports* > initrd format, even if initramfs is preferred now. It does, I have a system that boots 2.6.20 u

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Dan Cowsill
Actually, I'd be pretty interested in what you have to rant about PHP. I run apache with php_mod installed and have the http port open. Is there a security risk I should be aware of? Thanks On 2/22/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007, Michael Sullivan wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 + (UTC) Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require > >> a lot of round-trips betwee

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 February 2007 17:33 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack > attacks and dealing with them > > By far the most common attack vector is weak u

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 February 2007, b.n. wrote: > Aggelos ha scritto: > > I would not define such a mail as spam. > > Don't care if you have a special vocabulary. It is spam. > Post your spam elsewhere. OMFG, don't you heretics comprehend what you have done!!!??? The dolphins are being massacred. W

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Michael Sullivan wrote: >  Also, I've always heard that you shouldn't > have any ports open on your machine unless you have some server bound > to that port because hackers can get in through unbound open ports. >  Is this true?  If so, how does it work? That sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-22 Thread b.n.
Scott W. McMikle ha scritto: > OK, I will consider myself duly chastised. ;-) I didn't mean to be rude :), of course if you need specific help you are more than welcome. And if you *really* need step-by-step directions, we can point you to the right page. However getting directions and then try/l

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports > about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my > firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu, > except for listing each o

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-22 Thread Scott W. McMikle
OK, I will consider myself duly chastised. ;-) On 2/22/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott W. McMikle ha scritto: > Forgive me, but I will need step by step instructions to recompile with > the necessary driver. Never ask for "step-by-step" instructions. Ask for where to find information

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-22 Thread b.n.
Scott W. McMikle ha scritto: > Forgive me, but I will need step by step instructions to recompile with > the necessary driver. Never ask for "step-by-step" instructions. Ask for where to find information and how do things work, so you can actually *learn* by yourself what you are doing (instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] No more ASCII progress bar for Suspend2 hibernate

2007-02-22 Thread Henk Boom
On 20/02/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:44:21PM -0500, Henk Boom wrote: > Hi, I have just done an emerge -uDNav world, and when I hibernate > (suspend2) with the 'hibernate' script, it no longer displays the > progress bar showing how long

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread b.n.
Aggelos ha scritto: > I would not define such a mail as spam. Don't care if you have a special vocabulary. It is spam. Post your spam elsewhere. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu, except for listing each of my machines in my LAN in the accepted_hosts.conf file. I also s

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 22 February 2007 04:45:02 Scott W. McMikle wrote: > Here are the errors I receive when I attempt startx; > > failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extentsions/libGLcore.so > failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7) > failed to load module "VESA" (module does not exist, 0) > fail

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require >> a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of >> a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet l

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 22 February 2007 15:16:20 Grant wrote: > On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge > hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of > (-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but > whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I jus

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead >> >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it >> >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via >> >> X-Forwarding. >> >> >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 February 2007 17:05, Grant wrote: > > >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead > > >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it > > >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via > > >> X-Forwarding. > > > > > > Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require > a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of > a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, > even if the bandwidth is the same: Where do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant
>> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via >> X-Forwarding. >> > > Could be bandwidth. More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X a

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote: >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm ru

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-22 Thread Mikie
>cd / >rm -rf * I tried that and rebooted and It launched Windows 3.1 What Gives (Tong firmly in cheek) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-22 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
>So there we have it. Experienced users don't want to play twenty questions and inexperienced users >don't know what information is relevant to the problem. Sort of a Catch22, though this is one of >the better lists in all respects. However to new users more info is almost always better than >les

[gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

2007-02-22 Thread Grant
On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of (-doc%). I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just manually rm -rf the old sources in /usr/src. I guess po

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote: > I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead > of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it > feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via > X-Forwarding. > Could be bandwidth. Wifi

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
The post that I made was satire. Its porpoise was to inspire a laugh, a chuckle, at most a humorous response. Not a debate. Debates are for serious people. Look the fact is every day: * A dolphin is killed * A cow is killed * Someone litters * Someone is killed/tortured

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage can't see ebuilds in PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:01, Peter Lewis wrote: > I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am > having problems. Ah... solved it. The thing needs to be in: /usr/local/portage/// I'd missed out . Sorry for the noise... :-) Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant
> Is anyone using X-Forwarding over a local wireless connection? I'm > forwarding a couple of light apps and they work fine with -Y but -X is > unusable. Not sure why it would work with -Y but not -X, but in any case if it works with -Y why not just use that? But yes, I do use X11 forwarding ov

[gentoo-user] Portage can't see ebuilds in PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi people, I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am having problems. I dropped the ebuild into /usr/local/portage/kde-misc/foo-1.2.3-r4.ebuild and have also set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf. I have chown'd portage:portage everything unde

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread pat
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:10:59 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote > On Thursday 22 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > > Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can > > compile SATA support directly to ker

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working > rather > than an initramfs [snip] > At least, that's been my experience, others may have found the > process easier. No you are not alone. I eventually found pro

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working > rather > than an initramfs -- the whole chroot/exec vs. pivot_root vs. switch_root > step always failed for me when using an initramfs (and the very same >

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > > 'Re: > > > > [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > > First, I think the OP is confused between

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Or you could dp it the way Boyd does it - with his / on an lvm group. To > do that he needs an initramfs which has drivers for at least his disk > bus, his disk adapter, the filesystem on / and lvm before his kernel > can access /. Genkerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 02:53, Richard Watson wrote: (I'm just going to assume you've got the right package / module; I don't know anything about it particular hardware and your choices seem appropriate.) > So I > # emerge ralink-rt61 > # slocate rt61.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/net

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:39, pat wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > > initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile > > everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind > > of raid), or people too stupid to build t

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:41, pat wrote: > P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-| Any modules or userland utilities needed to mount your '/' filesystem, plus all the libraries and other utilities they depend on, plus a linuxrc or init script that will actually do the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-22 Thread Jakob
failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extentsions/libGLcore.so failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7) failed to load module "VESA" (module does not exist, 0) failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0) failed to load module 'mouse" (module does not exist, 0) No Drivers Availab

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Aggelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 February 2007 18:23 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan -snip- > > I would not define such a mail as spam. > Aggelos > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Watson
# modprobe rt61 FATAL: Module rt61 not found Is 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 the kernel you are currently running? It sounds like /usr/src/linux is pointing to the wrong kernel source. # ls -la /usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Yes it's pointing to the correct kernel source - Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread pat
Thanks to all. Now it cleaner to me :-) Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can compile SATA support directly to kernel and it will be still OK ??? Once again thanks a lot. Pat On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Thursday 22 February 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:23, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC. > I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot). > > # lspci reports > :01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 > > net-wire

Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That would be true except I've beeen setting loop to since many > > kernel versions back. I actually suspect it's more a udev thing, > > there has been a lot of activity and changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, kashani wrote: > Contrary to Eric Raymond's "How to Ask Intelligent Questions" it is > actually very hard to ask good questions or even search about a > subject you do not fully understand. That's an easy one. If you really don't know the subject or how to search fo

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC. I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot). # lspci reports :01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 net-wireless/ralink-rt61 was masked so I added to /etc/portage/package.keywo

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-22 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 03:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> That I can understand. I sometimes want someone to tell me something >> good to use so I can get a unbiased opinion. >> > > Yeah except a) opinions *are* biased and b) one's opinion was never > asked and c) I've o

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:50:54 +0200, Aggelos wrote: > there is another difference: The killing of those dolphins. each year, > in the numbers seen on the video, may be a threat to nature's ecological > system. It may,m it may not, that is open to debate. What is not in doubt is that this has absol

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become almost > a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and roll your > own (raid users excepted of course) Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple o

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Jakob
Did you try to export the display manually? I also got some problems using -X but it works perfect by using "export DISPLAY=:0" maybe that helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up a name-based virtual host in Apache

2007-02-22 Thread Zachary Grafton
Daniel Iliev wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I hope this email gets to the list. My last post didn't. This is semi-urgent. Over the past year I've been developing a PHP-based web interface for my college's music festival. This web interface would allow participating directors to enter all