On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote:
> I need to access some old mail folder. I was using mozilla as mail client at
> the time.
> Now I use thunderbird. I couldn't import/read the mail just by creating an
> account and pointing the Local Folder to that old folder.
Tools -> Import
maybe???
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jim Hatfield wrote:
> I just bought a Pinnacle ShowCenter and am using it with some
> Apache/PHP/MySQL code to play mpeg movie files to a TV.
>
> It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I
> get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with
> suc
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Graham Murray wrote:
> However it should be possible to know all of files that the package
> may install.
You would have to write a utility that looked at ALL the possible USE
flags a package could make use of and build a tree that was stored in a
database (not to mention, yo
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need help in troubleshooting.
>
> asterisk will not start. I have executed "rc-update add asterisk default".
>
> While booting I see the message "starting asterisk as user asterisk[ok]"
>
> But it is not running after I log in.
>
> I there a boo
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote:
> vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846
> vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7
> vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03
> vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfe
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote:
> I have device on the network, I know its MAC address but not IP address.
> How to list devices connected to local network?
You could try running:
arp -e
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote:
> Yes, I used everything as default as possible.
> I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration.
Many people have problems when uysing genkernel to build their kernels, so
I will repeat my earlier advice: build the kernel by hand w
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Wayne Clement wrote:
> try PowerBasic
Ah, a contradiction in terms ;-)
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
> Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail.
> On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home
> (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files.
> Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Markus [utf-8] Döbele wrote:
> The code I think is not the problem. But I think it is still a lot of work.
> By the way I don't like C too much (we had a C Version once and only
> encountered problems all the time :-( Buffer overflows and all this nice
> stuff is a big problem
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> I have a number of gentoo systems and have a central /usr/portage that's
> share by nfs. There are also binary packages that are shared and available
> for all. The nfs-exports are read-only
> If I set up a new machine and it only has read-only ac
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> I have a number of gentoo systems and have a central /usr/portage that's
> share by nfs. There are also binary packages that are shared and available
> for all. The nfs-exports are read-only
> If I set up a new machine and it only has read-only ac
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:
> With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running
> old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just
> went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics
> went fine. I'm up to chap
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I think most "linux nerds" (me included) distain top posting because it's the
> default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS
I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read.
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> I remember the days of "netiquette." I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet
> hippie. :|
No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of
others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your
quoted part to only
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
> From a log investigation you might be right.
>
> Bugger, it is a newish disk too.
>
> Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement.
I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had
one server with Maxtors that d
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Folks, we have got computing power on our desks that equals that of a medium
> sized data centre 10 years ago. Of course, I want the bloody computer and its
> tools to do all the sidetracking little tasks and concentrate myself on
> algorithms and data struc
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:
> btw -
> lsmod currently shows -
> ModuleSizeUsed By
> tulip 42336 0
OK, so what does "ifconfig -a" show?
Also, the output of "lspci" would be useful (I think someone asked
earlier).
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote:
> I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section
> there that sets up a file called firewall.sh
> i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system,
Probably a script the wiki author created perhaps...
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:
> I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the
> first 2.5 years.
That's not too bad compared to Maxtors.
I have Seagate (SCSI) disks in servers that have been running for almost 5
years now...
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Williams wrote:
> Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the
> drive is still detectable by the BIOS.
Sure - we have a *lot* of experience with their RMA process!
> Their warranty periods are 3 year and
> above now too.
> All you pay is
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Marco Matthies wrote:
> I agree with you that it is annoying to scroll through a whole 10
> pages of quoted e-mail conversation just to find the two-line answer
> hidden at the bottom
The real problem is those people too lazy to trim their posts to just what
they are respondi
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote:
> I could set my gateway to 192.168.0.1 and DHCP pool range to
> 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.100 and it would work.
Yes, you might need to do this temporarily until you change the IP of the
device to what you normally use, then you can switch back afterwards.
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Rajat Gujral wrote:
> is it possible to add the support for agpgart without
> reinstalling the whole system ... Or is it possible to
> recompile the kernel without effecting the rest of the
> system ...
Sure, you can recompile the kernel anytime (after all, how else to upgrad
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> I don't mind top-posting, I guess its not "offensive", ok, it
> sometimes waste bandwidth, so does HTML and stuff like "my client
> signature file" attached, I hate multipart, but, hey, you can't make
> everyone think like you do.
So we should all dri
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote:
> I don't know if this is related, but maybe the problem is that Tiger's
> implementation of Samba does not support plain text passwords by
> default; they are now encrypted. The Mac support site offers a
> workaround for this.
Every Tiger review Ive read talk
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
> I am trying to unmerge all versions of php and mod_php on my system.
>
> However:
>
> # emerge -C php mod_php
>
> dev-php/mod_php
> selected: 4.3.2-r5 4.3.8
> protected: none
> omitted: none
>
> >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for remova
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David Busby wrote:
> cdrtx / # fcrontab -e
> fcrontab: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared
> object file: Permission denied
>
> But libc looks OK to me
>
> cdrtx / # ls -l /lib/libc*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1211416 Aug 20 22:36 /lib/libc-2.3.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, David Busby wrote:
> I've re-build both glibc and fcron, no dice. I've looked at ldd for crontab
>
> cdrtx / # ldd /usr/bin/crontab
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7ec4000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000)
>
> L
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
>Your friend is not alone in his desires. For the 4 years I've been
> doing Linux based audio I've wished, cajoled & begged for something to
> replace Acid Pro. There is interest but no developer who'd been
> willing to take up the mission and go make it
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote:
> This is kind of off topic but could someone please look at this
> screenshot (http://pstudios.ath.cx/screenshots/kody-nov-4-04.png) and
> tell me what dock (or icon set) this guy is using. Thanks
Shouldn't you be asking that on a Mac OS X mailing list??
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote:
> Hmm... indeed it does appear to be a Mac, at first glance I thought it was
> Gnome with a Mac skin on top. That explains a lot.
Its a Mac with a skin on top ;-)
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
> Ask some guy on remote side do this:
>
> 1. Put Knoppix CD into drive and reboot
>
> 2. answer "knoppix 2" to "boot:" prompt and hit Enter
> (If prompt doesn't occur, it's probably necessary
> to change booting order in BIOS.)
>
> 3. when r
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote:
> Why not use dispatch-conf instead?
Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to
etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features
added to it. That said, I would rather use it (and be very very careful)
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
> Q: How can I prohibit users from changing mail-path in their
> $HOME/.procmailrc back to $HOME/.maildir? That way they could
> circumvent my /var userqouta settings (100MB) and use /home
> settings (5GB)...
Dont know if you can stop that.
> One more problem: I
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote:
> Strange. It seems to me to be a sort of security problem,
> if someone can so easily circumvent userquota settings...
Not if you have quotas on /home
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Following an emerge world -u all my rsnapshot scripts are erroring out
> like this:
>
> ERROR: config_version was not defined. rsnapshot can not continue.
> /usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
> /etc/rsnapshot_News.conf
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
> - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to
> be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time,
> could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost
> something that checks or sync's the system time
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, John J. Foster wrote:
> The initial "Starting local" is displayed as the system boots, but
> that's all that happens. If I do a /etc/init.d/local restart, all is
> well, and all is logged.
>
> Am I once again missing the obvious?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, q-parser wrote:
> Unfortunately, it was no help :( I'll try to reinstall Koha (that's what
> I'm trying to get working) and see if the problem persists. But I
> strongly believe that there's problem with apache or vhost.
Sorry to be blunt, but it really sounds like you dont re
Anyone else encountered this?
* Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...
* Could not get dependency info for "nscd"!
* Please run:
* # /sbin/depscan.sh
* to try and fix this.
* Starting Name Service Cache Daemon ...
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Olaf Niermann wrote:
> Maybe you can try a lookup onto 'heartbeat' (emerge -s heartbeat) allthough
> it might be overloaded for your needs and I personally just use it for
> failover between different physical servers.
Just wanted to add that heartbeat is part of the HA Linux
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Denis wrote:
> So basically... I would pretty much be buying an already outdated
> technology if I were to purchase a dual Xeon or a dual Opteron system
> now?
One could say that about any technology you buy ;-)
> I guess the other advantage is that a good dual Xeon system
Anybody using lvm2 and RAID together on the same partitions?
Can anyone detail how to create such a setup?
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> And don't try to avoid been called geek by using those fancy smileys. ;)
Im an old timer (well, compared to a lot of folks - been using the net
since 89) and I remember when the ";)" form of the smilie first appeared
on the scene. I opposed it then and
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:08, A. Khattri wrote:
> > Shame we dont have anything like CARP for Linux yet... (unless someone
> > knows better?).
>
> UCARP, but it's fundamentally flawed, as iptables has no method to k
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the
> tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is
> re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies before reverting back to
> the older version. Is there a way to do thi
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> This is a bit of topic here, but maybe someone has a solution!
>
> I can mount dd produced image files (harddisk images) in FreeBSD or
> Linux using different commands:
>
> FreeBSD:
> # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${HOME}/vc.img -u 4
> # mount -t ntfs -o
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I have another problem now. for some reason, the system I was developing
> for (FC3), the mail command does not have a "-a" option.
>
> I'm still searching for the correct mail 'version' in fc3. Anyone else
> has any more suggestions?
Unless you're prepar
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, C. Beamer wrote:
> Yes, I have /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng. This is what it says, but I
> have no idea what it means (I'm not a programmer):
>
> /var/log/messages {
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
> endsc
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Be that as it may, I'm not Perl person (picked up the book, but haven't
> really progressed anywhere hehe).
>
> But.. when push comes to shove
Im assuming there is probably a CPAN module that does most of this for you
- this is why I think Perl might
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Brian Parish wrote:
> Yes, I see that on all our servers. Not much more than an annoyance unless
> you have stupidly obvious passwords, but annoying for sure. On customer
> servers that don't require access from the everywhere and anywhere I just
> configure hosts.allow and
Just went through the apache update on three servers. I duly removed
/etc/apache/conf/apache.conf and restarted apache successfully.
Question: can I safely remove /etc/apache/conf/* (after migrating any
settings to the new conf files of course).
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote:
> As a clarification, I have the "net-dialup/" subtree excluded from
> portage as described by another thread on this list
> (/etc/portage/rsyc_excludes). But when I run "emerge --ask --verbose
> - --update --newuse --deep world", I get the "net-dialup/ppp" pac
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
> my script.
> mail_header()
> {
> echo "MIME-Version:1.0"
> echo "From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> echo "To:$RECIPIENT"
> echo "Subject:Quotes $DATE"
>
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote:
> One thing to note for anyone that might have the same question/problem
> in the future:
>
> The "--tree" option appears to only show the closest dependency.
> Which means that if there are several packages (as in my case) that
> depend on the one you don't wan
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but
> it's in-efficient.
>
> The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went
> to get the "Last Price" now, I would like to add the "Day Range"
>
> last_price()
> {
>
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:25:14 -0700, Carl Flippin wrote:
>
> > The trick to getting it all to work together is doing the raid setup
> > first and then using the /dev/md* devices for the LVM2 setup.
>
> I did something similar here. By creating the RAID fi
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> you'd have to define "just plain raid". There is a performance
> penalty for software raid over hardware raid, but I've not been able
> to see any performance penalty for lvm over plain filesystem. Note
> that my testing has been on light-to-moderately lo
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> The only "problem" with this is that when you unmerge old kernel
> sources, emerge will refuse to remove any patched, backup, or object
> files, so you have to go delete the remaining files manually. But I
> think you end up having to do that in any case
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> I think you are correct, if I could ever remember to do it, or if it
> would annoy me enough to warrant writing a script for it. :-)
Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be nice
if there were preunmerge and postunmerge functi
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:55:06 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote:
>
> > Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be
> > nice if there were preunmerge and postunmerge functions - then it would
> > be easy to re-
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I am in need of a gmail account,
> anyone have one to give?
I can send you invite if you'd like?
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
> How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid
> array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire
> array, not an individual "disk".
You have hardware RAID right? I think 3Ware is one of the RAID controllers
that
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sascha Lucas wrote:
> I realy know what will run on such a system. Think of a router, or a
> datacollector.
You might want to look at GNAP from the Embedded Gentoo project - it
sounds close to the minimal setup you are looking for.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> Googling around once you set your eyes on a particular USB modem usually
> provides some useful clues.
Also reading /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/acm.txt might be useful.
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> My system is AMD64, Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (from gentoo-sources),
> iptables 1.3.2 and generally up-to-date. I can't seem to get iptables
> to work. Netfilter support is compiled into the kernel (compiling it
> as a module and loading that gave the s
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom
> BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not
> detected.
>
> Does 2005.1 detect this chipset, or do any liveCD's work with it?
What does "lspci" say?
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, kashani wrote:
> Can you guess which webmail package I've been attempting to subjugate
> for the past couple of hours?
Ive seen a lot of admins struggle with Horde - and then move on to
SquirrelMail ;-)
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Note: my portage directory is in /var not /usr
Why?
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mark wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
> services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
> Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in
> a DMZ to protect the internal network.
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> I think I want a "document management solution" - though I'm not sure
> that everyone understands the same idea by the term.
This might be overkill:
http://www.alfresco.org/
Or maybe something like ScrollKeeper would suffice?
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem
> to google for it.
>
> I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds
> for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow
> the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo
> way?
The "Gento
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as
> opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing
> archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree
> format)...
If there was something that sc
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, jangar wrote:
> hi, i have problem with Gentoo Linux 2005.1 AMD64 installation.
> CPU: Athlon 64 2800+
> HD SATA Maxtor 80GB
> Ati Radeon 9200
> etc...
>
> after make partition, LVM2 and compiling kernel and config grub my kernel
> give me follow message:
> VFS Cannot Open roo
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> My ISP's news server (news.cableone.net) does not allow posting. I
> wanted to set up my own news server so that I could both get nntp/news
> data and post to newsgroups. I found a howto at www.tldp.org and have
> been following it. The howto said
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> That min-install I was talking about failed due to
> lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G
> drive. Partitions are :
> / of 1.47G ext2
> /home 1.1G ext2
> 500M swap
> 100M /boot reiserfs
>
> I was going to use this disk
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, libertine wrote:
> can you give me the mirrorsit where to download the latest glibc and
xcompmgr
You could try using mirrorselect to find your nearest mirrors.
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I also recall reading about non-official ebuilds available at somewhere
> like bugs.gentoo.org.
Is there something preventing you from doing a search in Bugzilla?
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Which combination of Tomcat and JVM gives the best performance?
(or is this question not relevant?)
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Chris Boot wrote:
> Yes. You may need to press '1' once you have started top to show each
> processor individually. See the top manpage to see how you can set this
> as the default.
You can also press ? in top (like in many command-line apps) to show a
quick help page. There
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
>Was I mistaken in thinking that a true SMP system and also a hyper
> threading system would show two processors in top? I am trying out a
> new HT kernel built this morning. I've enabled both SMP support and
> hyper threading support but top shows only
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> Well, you could try this:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
>
> Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects.
I noticed this broke after the recent Python upgrade - I had to remove the
module to run eme
Subject says it all - anyone succeeded in installing Gentoo on a Cobalt
RAQ4 (x86) system? Is netbooting the only way to go or did you manage to
hook up a CDROM and boot a LiveCD?
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote:
> I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got a
> little bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.
> I've googled and found awstats and analog.
> If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grate
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't
> mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm
> constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old versions lying around
> in /boot just in case.
Id make /boot 50Mb.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be
> putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n'
> light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound
> and wireless, etc)?
>
>
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no
> drivers for the built in wireless.
Im guessing this is with Airport Extreme rather than plain ole Airport?
(I have a friend running Debian on his iBook quitw happily).
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James wrote:
> Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic
> tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD.
I was suprised to find lspci on the latest LiveCDs so I guess this is
improving all the time.
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to
> do well with Linux.
>
> Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this?
Yes, Thinkpads run well with Linux (there is a web site and mailing list
dedicated to Linux on TP)
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Francesco R. wrote:
> For a security hardened database you should drop the test database and
> all users with "%" access. Also you can play with "bind-address" and
> "skip-networking" in the my.cnf
I think bind-address is 127.0.0.1 by default anyway.
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, James wrote:
> Question 1:
> I'm planning on using nmap and nessus to test from the outside(internet)
> inward). On the inside I plan on using snort, an monitoring the various
> log files. Any further suggestions on testing?
Plain ole telnet works for testing protocols too ;
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses from
> the command line rsync --rsh="ssh -l username" server::module/files
> successfully. However, changing the SYNC line in make.conf to
> rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] give me a conne
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote:
> You want to be a gargoyle (
> http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2003/09/23/gargoyle-and-self-gargoyle/
> )?
>
> Heh. I'd start with a mac mini.
Or get Gentoo running on this:
http://www.projectblackdog.com/
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when
> CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse
> point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it
> via ssh. I had to hard reset the m
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote:
> My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD.
I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint
reader...
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote:
> If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much
> cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for
> $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a
> Knoppix CD and you have the same functionalit
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jarry wrote:
> So, with your help I finally checked all software installed on my
> gentoo-server (thanks to everyone, who replied). There were a few
> gentoo-sources (I think 5 or 6 different versions), so I used
> "emerge --prune gentoo-sources" to leave only the last one.
>
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote:
> Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD
> drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go
> OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error "The Root Block
> Device is unspecified or not d
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of
> hard disks?
Maybe you can check with smartmontools...
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