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chen_changm...@163.com wrote: H, cat got your tongue? Dale :-) :-)
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On 2011年10月08日 14:07, Dale wrote: H, cat got your tongue? Dale Sorry,this is my first time using mailing lists.
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chen_changm...@163.com wrote: On 2011年10月08日 14:07, Dale wrote: H, cat got your tongue? Dale Sorry,this is my first time using mailing lists. Well, you know it works. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement
On Friday 07 Oct 2011 08:25:36 Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On one hand, you can configure the locations of things like %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT%. On the other hand, you can mount a volume wherever you like. I used this to use the same .libpurple directory on a machine dual-booted between WinXP 32-bit and WinVista 64-bit. A data volume was mounted at D:\Data, and I had NTFS junctions pointing my .libpurple on both boots at a directory on that volume. H, this is interesting. My brother has filled up his hard drive and I been planning on reinstalling to a larger drive. Maybe I need to check into this more. He uses XP and I really hate to install windoze. Since he had to spend $8,000.00 on a new mower, his new rig went to second place in the budget. This could be the place for the next couple years. Uhh, he mows grass for a living. Anyway, putting Documents on its own drive would save me some grief. You will get some space back if you move all the backup files created with MSWindows updates out of C:\ (but not the index which is needed to be able to update it properly). If space is running out fast, then you may have a corrupt page file. Delete it and move it to another drive/partition. Finally, clear all cruft in /temp directory (somewhere under local settings) for each user. If you have another drive, move all his data out of C:\ then defrag and shrink the partition a bit, create new partition(s) and install Linux! ;-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Anyone else using vimpager?
I'm just wondering if there's anyone else -- beside me -- that uses vimpager for PAGER? Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't INSTALL vim-core!!!
please run etc-update and try again Am Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:05:31 +0800 schrieb 1990 dqgcs dqgcs1...@gmail.com: HI After emerge -auvDN world,Portage asks me to reinstall app-editors/vim-core-7.3.266,but finaly i failed it stays at installing /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-core-7.3.266/image//usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1 forever(in fact,i wait about half an hour) what should i do?PLZ help!!! the attachement is the output of the emerge while installing gvim. Best Wishes Nicola Eleree
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement
Mick wrote: On Friday 07 Oct 2011 08:25:36 Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On one hand, you can configure the locations of things like %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT%. On the other hand, you can mount a volume wherever you like. I used this to use the same .libpurple directory on a machine dual-booted between WinXP 32-bit and WinVista 64-bit. A data volume was mounted at D:\Data, and I had NTFS junctions pointing my .libpurple on both boots at a directory on that volume. H, this is interesting. My brother has filled up his hard drive and I been planning on reinstalling to a larger drive. Maybe I need to check into this more. He uses XP and I really hate to install windoze. Since he had to spend $8,000.00 on a new mower, his new rig went to second place in the budget. This could be the place for the next couple years. Uhh, he mows grass for a living. Anyway, putting Documents on its own drive would save me some grief. You will get some space back if you move all the backup files created with MSWindows updates out of C:\ (but not the index which is needed to be able to update it properly). If space is running out fast, then you may have a corrupt page file. Delete it and move it to another drive/partition. Finally, clear all cruft in /temp directory (somewhere under local settings) for each user. If you have another drive, move all his data out of C:\ then defrag and shrink the partition a bit, create new partition(s) and install Linux! ;-) Well, I don't know much about windoze. He currently has a 40Gb drive that only has about 2Gbs left. I need to google for a howto or something. I got a 80Gb drive that I wish I could scoot it over onto. He does want Linux tho. We were planning to build a new rig like mine but he had to buy a new mower. He mows grass for a living and the new mower was over $8,000.00. The new rig is on the back burner now. He has a prebuilt rig right now, Gateway I think. I would be scared to compile Gentoo on that stock heat sink. It is a single core ~1.8Ghz with about 768Mbs of ram. It is maxed out ram wise and the CPU won't take much improvement either. It would take me days to install even if it had a nice heat sink on the CPU. I was thinking Mandrake, bunto, slack or something. I been using Gentoo so long, I don't even know what else is out there anymore. lol See the problem? Some of it me. lol Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.4-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 31 07:34:34 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: http://blog.jolexa.net/ but you should complain about packages that are basically broken without them.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Over the years I've found that the time I spend on the computer has a negative affect on my mental/emotional health. It seems to suck the life out of life and impair my ability to function in the real world. I've tried various things to counteract the problem, but the only thing that really works is not getting on the computer, and that works really well. I think part of the problem is caused by my processing information, but I think part is due to radiation/glare from the laptop screen. Has anyone dealt with this successfully? I'd love to know how you did it. - Grant I'm very late to this thread so I'll only offer one thing I don't think showed up elsewhere. My dog. Spending 5 minutes every hour laying on the floor with a Yellow Lab getting licked in the face always makes me feel better. I work at home so this is practical for me. Might not work for others. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Over the years I've found that the time I spend on the computer has a negative affect on my mental/emotional health. It seems to suck the life out of life and impair my ability to function in the real world. I've tried various things to counteract the problem, but the only thing that really works is not getting on the computer, and that works really well. I think part of the problem is caused by my processing information, but I think part is due to radiation/glare from the laptop screen. Has anyone dealt with this successfully? I'd love to know how you did it. - Grant I'm very late to this thread so I'll only offer one thing I don't think showed up elsewhere. My dog. Spending 5 minutes every hour laying on the floor with a Yellow Lab getting licked in the face always makes me feel better. I work at home so this is practical for me. Might not work for others. - Mark I have my garden. That gets me outside in the sun and some exercise. I really need a gut buster tho. I just eat to much. lol Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: http://blog.jolexa.net/ but you should complain about packages that are basically broken without them. I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. Regards Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.4-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 31 07:34:34 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Over the years I've found that the time I spend on the computer has a negative affect on my mental/emotional health. It seems to suck the life out of life and impair my ability to function in the real world. I've tried various things to counteract the problem, but the only thing that really works is not getting on the computer, and that works really well. I think part of the problem is caused by my processing information, but I think part is due to radiation/glare from the laptop screen. Has anyone dealt with this successfully? I'd love to know how you did it. - Grant I'm very late to this thread so I'll only offer one thing I don't think showed up elsewhere. My dog. Spending 5 minutes every hour laying on the floor with a Yellow Lab getting licked in the face always makes me feel better. I work at home so this is practical for me. Might not work for others. - Mark I have my garden. That gets me outside in the sun and some exercise. I really need a gut buster tho. I just eat to much. lol Dale I lost 45 pounds (approximately 25% of my pre-diet weight) this year on Atkins. I know a lot of folks have trouble with Atkins but it worked great for me. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't INSTALL vim-core!!!
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:05:31 +0800, 1990 dqgcs wrote: After emerge -auvDN world,Portage asks me to reinstall app-editors/vim-core-7.3.266,but finaly i failed it stays at installing /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-core-7.3.266/image//usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1 forever(in fact,i wait about half an hour) what should i do?PLZ help!!! I had this happen when something added an NFS share to CONFIG_PROTECT in /etc/env.d. See if portageq config_protect shows anything that would take a long time to scan. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:09:48 +0200 Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: http://blog.jolexa.net/ but you should complain about packages that are basically broken without them. I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. A good plan is to give USE flags sensible names. This one describes what the flag *is*, a good description tells you what the flag *does*. USE=perl tells you squat, you don't even know what effect it will have. You'd have to read the ebuild and the source to figure that out. A MUCH better name is USE=tabs with a description like this Provide multiple tabs, requires perl. It's really just a different manifestation of the #1 but in almost all interfaces: exposing the underlying implementation in the interface. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
I second this! On Sat Oct 8 12:23:57 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:09:48 +0200 Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: http://blog.jolexa.net/ but you should complain about packages that are basically broken without them. I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. A good plan is to give USE flags sensible names. This one describes what the flag *is*, a good description tells you what the flag *does*. USE=perl tells you squat, you don't even know what effect it will have. You'd have to read the ebuild and the source to figure that out. A MUCH better name is USE=tabs with a description like this Provide multiple tabs, requires perl. It's really just a different manifestation of the #1 but in almost all interfaces: exposing the underlying implementation in the interface. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com Internet Technology Specialist -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com Internet Technology Specialist (702) 508-8455
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. Comment here? The devs are still CCed even though it's closed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/250179 To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. That bug is for adding IUSE defaults, rather than removing the flag.
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else using vimpager?
On 8 October 2011, at 10:19, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm just wondering if there's anyone else -- beside me -- that uses vimpager for PAGER? Tried it, couldn't get along with it at all. I can't now recall why. Why do you ask? Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else using vimpager?
On Oct 9, 2011 5:05 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 8 October 2011, at 10:19, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm just wondering if there's anyone else -- beside me -- that uses vimpager for PAGER? Tried it, couldn't get along with it at all. I can't now recall why. Why do you ask? Well, there's no ebuild for vimpager in portage, and if there are other users, I might be interested in writing one. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have my garden. That gets me outside in the sun and some exercise. I really need a gut buster tho. I just eat to much. lol Dale I lost 45 pounds (approximately 25% of my pre-diet weight) this year on Atkins. I know a lot of folks have trouble with Atkins but it worked great for me. - Mark My problems are I like to cook and I like my cooking. Since I have arthritis and all, I can't jog or run it off. Oh well, I'm not that bad but I do have a gut I'd like to loan someone. I wish I could transfer it to my girlfriend. She could use it. lol She's really little, like 85 to 90 lbs little. o_o Dale :-) :-)
Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [gentoo-user] PulseAudio 1.0-r1 + Skype == Garbled output sound
On 29 September 2011 20:09, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 15:57, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Arun Raghavan arun.ragha...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 02:56 -0300, Spidey / Claudio wrote: [...] My bad, hadn't synced yet before that post. I'll test it throughly and tomorrow (today, 29/09) I'll give feedback. Can you reproduce the reported error? I won't file the bug just yet. Nope -- the mic works just fine for me and a bunch of other people, so I suspect a problem on that specific machine. Having the same problem using Arch Linux x86_64. Running pulseaudio 1.0 and skype using lib32-libpulse 0.9.23 seems to be fine, while skype using lib32-libpulse 1.0 garbles the input. Bisecting lib32-libpulse has proven difficult, with me arriving at seemingly random commits. It appears the issue is not consistently reproducible. So far the earliest commit that reproduced the issue for me seems to be af18bc8038177a4b83171671daaf771ecf353b8e. A colleague running Arch Linux i686 claims he has no issues running pulseaudio 0.99.4, while sometimes encountering the issue using pulseaudio 1.0. ___ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-disc...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss Tested today pulseaudio-1.0-r1 with skype-2.2.0.35-r1 without mic problems. Had to test with echo123, but it worked, anyways. Emerge pavucontrol and check your devices' profiles. The new pulseaudio-1.0-r2 (with the version patch mentioned on the PulseAudio ML) works fine. Thanks!
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else using vimpager?
On Sunday, 9. October 2011 05:01:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 9, 2011 5:05 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 8 October 2011, at 10:19, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm just wondering if there's anyone else -- beside me -- that uses vimpager for PAGER? Tried it, couldn't get along with it at all. I can't now recall why. Why do you ask? Well, there's no ebuild for vimpager in portage, and if there are other users, I might be interested in writing one. vim has a use flag vim-pager that installs vimpager. At least that's what euse -i tells me :) Rgds, Best Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else using vimpager?
On Oct 9, 2011 6:27 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: On Sunday, 9. October 2011 05:01:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 9, 2011 5:05 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 8 October 2011, at 10:19, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm just wondering if there's anyone else -- beside me -- that uses vimpager for PAGER? Tried it, couldn't get along with it at all. I can't now recall why. Why do you ask? Well, there's no ebuild for vimpager in portage, and if there are other users, I might be interested in writing one. vim has a use flag vim-pager that installs vimpager. At least that's what euse -i tells me :) It has?!?! Gee, I've been looking in the wrong place, then :-( Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:19:18 -0500, Dale wrote: I lost 45 pounds (approximately 25% of my pre-diet weight) this year on Atkins. I know a lot of folks have trouble with Atkins but it worked great for me. My problems are I like to cook and I like my cooking. Since I have arthritis and all, I can't jog or run it off. I too have knackered joints, which is the best excuse for not running :) However, I did lose 20kg in the first 8 months of this year, just by calorie counting. An Android app to help it did assist by appealing to my inner geek (which is not considerably nearer the outside). Liking cooking is not a problem, you just have to like cooking lower calorie foods ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:19:18 -0500, Dale wrote: I lost 45 pounds (approximately 25% of my pre-diet weight) this year on Atkins. I know a lot of folks have trouble with Atkins but it worked great for me. My problems are I like to cook and I like my cooking. Since I have arthritis and all, I can't jog or run it off. I too have knackered joints, which is the best excuse for not running :) However, I did lose 20kg in the first 8 months of this year, just by calorie counting. An Android app to help it did assist by appealing to my inner geek (which is not considerably nearer the outside). Liking cooking is not a problem, you just have to like cooking lower calorie foods ;-) Well, I bought me a NuWave Oven and it is good for sure. Thing is, it's so good I eat more. sighs I gained a couple pounds already with that thing. I need to wield my elbows while bent away from my mouth. Maybe bobbing for apples would help. At least you got to work for it. I might also add, some of my meds don't help either. Is there a med that doesn't make a person gain weight? :/ Dale :-) :-) P. S. Welcome to the mailing list where people complain about their weight. lol Oh well, we got Linux fixed so we can do this until the Fedora dev stirs up something new. :-P
[gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for that, I hope someone could tell me where to get this information , I haven't found them on gentoo.org , so please lead me to the correct direction, thank you for you all !
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig select the list of modules/drivers you need for your box make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.3.whatever you want to call it vi /boot/grub/grub.conf nano if you have not used vi before part of grub.conf title Gentoo Linux 2.6.36-r1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.36-native-r3 root=/dev/sda3 reboot If this is a fresh install, make mistakes, break your environment, chroot into jail...This is the only cure for your condition. Nick. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Lavender 448463...@qq.com wrote: It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for that, I hope someone could tell me where to get this information , I haven't found them on gentoo.org , so please lead me to the correct direction, thank you for you all !
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
Nick Khamis wrote: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig select the list of modules/drivers you need for your box make modules_install make make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.3.whatever you want to call it vi /boot/grub/grub.conf nano if you have not used vi before part of grub.conf title Gentoo Linux 2.6.36-r1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.36-native-r3 root=/dev/sda3 reboot If this is a fresh install, make mistakes, break your environment, chroot into jail...This is the only cure for your condition. Nick. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
On 10/09/2011 06:25 AM, Lavender wrote: It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for that, I hope someone could tell me where to get this information , I haven't found them on gentoo.org , so please lead me to the correct direction, thank you for you all ! If you're new to building kernel, it will take some time to learn what modules you need what options you should enable, etc. You're building gentoo on some host Linux os, so you can use that os's lsmod utility to know what modules you require. Also, if some modules may be compiled right into the kernel you may not be able to see them in the lsmod produces, instead use lspci -v for that. One important thing I learnt the hard way while building gentoo for a server- Always compile the critical modules like disk controllers, RAID, also don't forget to use RAID autodetection if you're not going to use an initramfs and filesystems (involved at boot) statically. While citing my experience about building gentoo on a server, you have to do the things invisibly, so you can't see what the kernel emits befor panic. It turned out that I'd disabled RAID autodetection and wasn't using an initramfs either (which will load the arrays using mdadm). -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit?
On Thu 06 Oct 2011 10:40:35 PM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Thu 06 Oct 2011 10:32:14 PM IST, Michael Mol wrote: On Oct 6, 2011 12:57 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Thu 06 Oct 2011 09:06:06 PM IST, Alberto Luaces wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan writes: One of the servers I manage has a strange problem. Every 24h, someone starts a process shows up as perl in the list, but launching command is /usr/sbin/httpd. It shows just one process, but when I run something like this: ps -C perl -o cmd,pid I get some 5-6 processes alternatively with cmd as /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/bin/perl. The even more interesting thing is, /usr/sbin/httpd does not exist. I suspect a rootkit, but chkrootkit rkhunter reported nothing. Also, I found a mysterious file: /tmp/ips.txt with following content: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 127.0.0.1 addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx addr: addr:127.0.0.1 addr: Somebody is aware of a malware/rootkit which creates such files? I had some of that recently. The attacker used a instance of phpmyadmin to inject into its URL a wget command to download a perl script from another site. Look for `wget' into apache logs. @all Apache was never installed I don't see any reason to install it because nginx satisfies my needs. I grepped for the string wget in all logs and php files, found some, but they were for libssh2 in wordpress code. @Michael, I thought of doing that, but before I discovered the file, I'd already killed the processes. Will check later when the process is relaunched sometime later. You might crank up service log levels in anticipation, too, and prod your firewall to log unusual-but-allowed connections, too. I just found something: http://blog.vaultpress.com/2011/08/02/vulnerability-found-in-timthumb/ Data on just one of the wordpress installations seems to be deleted, which seems to me as an effect of this. We're removing timthumb and will watch. Thanks for the tip :-) After about 72 hours of watch, it seems timthumb was the culprit. No attack/overload since 72h. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
Yeah, your reply is exact what I mean , but I'm really confused by those modules' names, I can't find any contact between the hard device name and its module name . For example, there is a module named 3c59x.ko , I totally don't know what device it present for , I mean I can't figure out that which module correspond to which device though I know the hard devices consisted of my PC. So I need information about contact between them so that I could know what modules need to be chosen in kernel , also the options of kernel are quiet a lot , there're many features that I never heard , I want to find them out . May be you think these problems are too easy , but I have never contacted them before . Forum I visited and books about Linux I readed are both not mentioned them , so I wish you all could instruct me. -- Original -- From: Nilesh Govindarajancont...@nileshgr.com; Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 10:09 AM To: gentoo-usergentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel? On 10/09/2011 06:25 AM, Lavender wrote: It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for that, I hope someone could tell me where to get this information , I haven't found them on gentoo.org , so please lead me to the correct direction, thank you for you all ! If you're new to building kernel, it will take some time to learn what modules you need what options you should enable, etc. You're building gentoo on some host Linux os, so you can use that os's lsmod utility to know what modules you require. Also, if some modules may be compiled right into the kernel you may not be able to see them in the lsmod produces, instead use lspci -v for that. One important thing I learnt the hard way while building gentoo for a server- Always compile the critical modules like disk controllers, RAID, also don't forget to use RAID autodetection if you're not going to use an initramfs and filesystems (involved at boot) statically. While citing my experience about building gentoo on a server, you have to do the things invisibly, so you can't see what the kernel emits befor panic. It turned out that I'd disabled RAID autodetection and wasn't using an initramfs either (which will load the arrays using mdadm). -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
On Sun 09 Oct 2011 10:23:50 AM IST, Lavender wrote: Yeah, your reply is exact what I mean , but I'm really confused by those modules' names, I can't find any contact between the hard device name and its module name . For example, there is a module named 3c59x.ko , I totally don't know what device it present for , I mean I can't figure out that which module correspond to which device though I know the hard devices consisted of my PC. So I need information about contact between them so that I could know what modules need to be chosen in kernel , also the options of kernel are quiet a lot , there're many features that I never heard , I want to find them out . May be you think these problems are too easy , but I have never contacted them before . Forum I visited and books about Linux I readed are both not mentioned them , so I wish you all could instruct me. Kernel module names are usually named according to a specific naming scheme like name of product manufacturername of model number.ko So here, 3c59x.ko is 3COM 59X device. 3COM ethernet cards are quite common. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
