Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Remy Blank wrote: Steve wrote: I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this service by configuration; strong passwords; no root login remotely etc. I would

Re: [gentoo-user] System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968

2008-02-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: $ echo $LC_ALL - $LANG give - C I don't have an /etc/env.d/02locale file. I don't know the syntax of this file. I will need a sample...I'll goog-it. Maybe this can help: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Steve
Thanks for all your suggestions... I will look into fail2ban... that might be what I need... While I could crank BLOCKING_PERIOD for blacklist.py to an absurdly high value, this (AFAIK) will not persist blocks when the server is powered down or rebooted. I need to retain port 22 and can't

[gentoo-user] adding python module

2008-02-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to add a python module to python, or give me a url telling me how? THANKS GAVIN -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1419 (76128-76177)

2008-02-28 Thread mvidela
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[gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread andrea
I had no problem booting since last time I partitoned my USB external disk. == Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir -- SOLVED?

2008-02-28 Thread felix
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:46:59PM +, Graham Murray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:13:10AM +, Penguin Lover Steve squawked: Thanks for all your suggestions... I will look into fail2ban... that might be what I need... While I could crank BLOCKING_PERIOD for blacklist.py to an absurdly high value, this (AFAIK) will not persist blocks when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:39:15PM +0100, Penguin Lover Anno v. Heimburg squawked: It limits the number of new connections on each port in INPUT_LIMITER_TCPPORTS from any individual host to INPUT_LIMITER_COUNT within INPUT_LIMITER_TIME. My experience suggests that finding the right

[gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Andrea Momesso
I had no problem booting since last time I partitoned my USB external disk. == Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI stuff has all been discovered so of course it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI stuff has all been discovered so of course it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread andrea
On gio, 2008-02-28 at 12:54 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread KH
Hi, never tried that and might only be a temporary workaround. You could install grub in the mbr of both disk and then point them only to your internal disk. That way you should always be able to boot, shouldn't you? kh andrea wrote: On gio, 2008-02-28 at 12:54 -0500, Don Jerman wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread andrea
On gio, 2008-02-28 at 19:23 +0100, KH wrote: Hi, never tried that and might only be a temporary workaround. You could install grub in the mbr of both disk and then point them only to your internal disk. That way you should always be able to boot, shouldn't you? kh ┌─([EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with kernel and net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng

2008-02-28 Thread Fei Liu
Fei Liu wrote: Hello, Group, I am trying to install and use NetGear MA111 usb wireless network. I followed the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Prism2_USB_on_Gentoo http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Prism2_USB_on_Gentoo But I get errors when I try to install the kernel

[gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread ionut cucu
I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, or if I;m lucky enough I get to do an umount before everything falls. Is there any way to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, or if I;m lucky enough I get to do

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread ionut cucu
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:59 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) suddenly stops working

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Neil Walker
ionut cucu wrote: Yeah well it's a campus *(1) switch, the campus's *(2) lan, the campus's *(3) gatewayso on so forth till the A class IP so I can do nothing about it You could try telling (asking nicely ;) ) the campus tech guys to get their act together. It seems, from what you

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:58:32 pm ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:59 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Brennan
Are you sure the switch/hub/router is failing? With any remote connection such as smb/nfs/sshfs, if the target becomes unavailable for some reason such as lag or a bad route from Point A to Point B then that terminal window will hang till point B is reachable. ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb

[gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thefile. Now I want to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play it. Is there any advice? Thanks in advanced! -- wcw --

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

2008-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title The thread title, the OP and the OP's reply to the suggestion to let rename do the job make me think that a rename is exactly what the OP wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thefile. Now I want to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play it. Is there any advice? You

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use it. And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, not a stream. So, you mean mplayer can NOT play stream? As far as I know, mplayer can play file on a web(html) site. In man mplayer, I can see that