[gentoo-user] Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-08 Thread pk
Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but I'm curious about the details. Can you please elaborate? Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:45 -0500, Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have ATT DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the past 5 years or

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right? Should I be doing more than running this test: smartctl -t long /dev/sda [...] Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell? Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours)

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-08 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:45 -0500, Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have ATT DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED

2009-08-08 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Al wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I also followed the ATI Migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 05:17 PM, Dale wrote: It sounds like it will work without a router. I know my ex's cable modem worked without or with. Of course, without only one of us could surf at a time. ;-) If it doesn't work, I can always pick up a router. Newegg is just one day away. All you need is

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest

2009-08-08 Thread David
Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest

2009-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 08 August 2009, David wrote: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest

2009-08-08 Thread Joseph
On 08/08/09 20:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 08 August 2009, David wrote: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With

[gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could mask the version higher than what you have or just mask the

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 11:20 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could mask the version higher

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? No. -e is intended to rebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 11:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for

[gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-08 Thread Kevin Haddock
For the life of me I can't figure out the canonical way to rebuild my mirrored /boot. The second disk (/dev/sdb1) got corrupted and it is interfering with my rebuilding the kernel (genkernel can't mount /boot). I tried following this page:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/08/2009 11:20 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I will need to perform an emerge -e world on a system. However, I would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? You could

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 08 August 2009, Kevin Haddock wrote: For the life of me I can't figure out the canonical way to rebuild my mirrored /boot. The second disk (/dev/sdb1) got corrupted and it is interfering with my rebuilding the kernel (genkernel can't mount /boot). forget genkernel. put in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again. Or you could temporarily remove them from the world file, unless they are dependencies of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 08 August 2009 23:36:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again. Or you could temporarily

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: Alex Schuster wrote: So what modules does get loaded? All from your modules section (except for type1), an in total these: glx, extmod, dri, dbe, record, fglrx, kbd, mouse, vgahw, int10, vbe, fglrxdrm, ddc, fb, ramdac, xaa, fglrxdrm, glesx, amdxmm I know this command from when

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 | 2009 Gentoo Screenshot Contest

2009-08-08 Thread pk
David wrote: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. Congratulations! And here's to many more years together! :-) Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?

2009-08-08 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine. Unfortunately, the fonts are pretty large - I would prefer to configure these on