Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-24 Thread Dan Farrell
is reputed to be much faster in certain cases. Hope that helps. I would be very interested in your findings. Be well, Dan Farrell -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:19:08 +0100 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting after an emerge -e world. Do you see any possibility for that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:04:28 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should run my own portage server here for our 6 home machines? You could then sync once for the lot of them, rather than for each. You might find that convenient, and the servers might appreciate it too. --

Re: [gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:32:19 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml Here, among other things, it says to edit certain files, but it doesn't say which

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:49:48 +0100 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell writes: Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to harden the gentoo running on my little server, but I'm a little worried about possible problems. Like, services not coming up when rebooting

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:27:24 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Dynamic HTML to PDF

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:42:05 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently printing a dynamic HTML web page via firefox, but I'm trying to switch to a method that will allow me to print across the internet in an automated fashion with lpr. I've tried printing a static HTML file with lpr,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:27:12 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them listening on 22 and 631? Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
That's more or less what I'm trying to do. Is setting up a VPN between my remote server and local network overkill? I think the only thing I'd use it for is to hide the sending of these printouts. I would speculate that a VPN for one service might be overkill, if that service is easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:06:47 -0800 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I don't know about large setups, where it might be very possible that port knocking becomes a major PITA as you say. But I have setup and used port knocking for remote ssh access lots of time in the past,

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:16 -0500 Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will appreciate it if you don't respond to unrelated posts. Many mail browsers (my own included) organize by the in-reply-to header (at least I think that's the one): In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have probably

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:56:22 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Civilization III fails because some security module can't be found... You might try a no-cd crack, if this is indeed caused by copyprotection as I suspect. I think they're legal to use (if you have a license for

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:32 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Could you elaborate on your configuration? Are you... - relaying mail to a specific

Re: [gentoo-user] network setup

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:50:51 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:18 +0100, Stefán István wrote: can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get

Re: [gentoo-user] ALT/GR (Right ALT) as an RETURN?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:32:47 +0100 Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mateusz Mierzwinski pisze: Ok, I don't know what's going on, but My laptop have issue - when I press ALT/GR (Right ALT) it works like RETURN, executes applications, sends messages by Kadu. What's wrong? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:27:50 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to share my ext3 file server with my Windows machines without being forced to use windows file systems. Thanks, Mark If you want to get files to windows hosts that aren't running (dual-boot), you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:25:25 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I would set up openvpn on my remote server and connect to it from: here's a few ideas about the subject, some options to think about. 1. my local print server for printing Look into routed vpn networks. If I were in your

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:34:07 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the point of the question was to avoid waiting for the GRUB menu to appear. I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:04:27 + Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:46:48 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service

Re: [gentoo-user] Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:10:56 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: SNIP Malware for Linux? What about those macro viruses for Open Office? Every cross platform software such as Mozilla derivatives, java based stuff like Azureus and so on is a possible target. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:16:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My server's current IMAP setup is only used with squirrelmail so it doesn't have to communicate over the internet. I'm trying to ditch squirrelmail for claws-mail good choice. and I'm having a little trouble making the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. furthermore you can diagnose connection problems seperately from missing mail problems. ( claws-mail has a convenient log feature for

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin opening index.php with text editor

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:47:48 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to re-compile phpmyadmin with vhost? and setup phpmyadmin as virtualdomain? I recommend that you do, to avoid htdocs 'bloat'. however that's unlikely to solve your problem. It sounds like, perhaps, apache is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:29:15 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT, but unable to raise anyone at comcast right now. Really? I didn't think that was possible... although sometimes it's good to call twice, get another opinion. I think I recall having read somewhere that one can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:53:31 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. But squirrelmail doesn't work if I stop imapd, so imapd must know

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:55:49 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the authentication is configured at the PC/client end rather than the modem, then you are probably not using the correct encapsulation for the cable network and, or have

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:45:14 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:02:01 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:49 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can print from your laptop to your printer at home while overseas, for example. Sounds very convenient ; ) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT again..] Technical networking question about changing GW

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:28:16 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happen to be in a situation where I have both a DSL and CABLE connection to internet up for the time being... (Until the DSL contract month runs out). It affords a nifty opportunity to do some experiments. Of course I tested

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:14:59 -0500 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid myself of this nonsense. Don't assume DSL will be better. They often block ports

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:52:14 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had to change the IP address on the router to a fixed address to get it to work right. I think I had it set to 192.168.100.2. After that, we had very little trouble with the connection. The modem itself was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:23:23 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cringe at the idea of having to use a VPN for imap, however. Why? Would you say the same of using it for SMTP? I read email rather compulsively I guess, and would hate to be bothered with VPNs, then use an encrypted mail

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] Satellite A40-201 changing hard disk

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:55:29 +0100 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, has someone changed the hard disk of that laptop? (or one from its family?) Any advice? May I buy a generic one? TIA, judging by

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:42:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about having ssh, imap, smtp, cups, and possibly a non-standard https port all hidden within a VPN?  Should that be considered a benefit of running a VPN? One other thought about ssh+vpn, if you have VPN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT again..] Technical networking question about changing GW

2008-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:23:15 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to try to gauge if there was much of a noticeable difference with the two IP connections. And it would be handy to just step through the links changine the GW intermittently

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:19:48 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you just want to encrypt some clear-text protocol that doesn't have an encrypted equivalent, a vpn is still overkill. For that you use ssh tunneling (which is essentially the same thing as an encrypted

Re: [gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:07 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have just gotten a computer with a Super Micro c2sbe Motherboard. Now I also bought a dual port PCI Express ethernet card. Now the normal kernel driver in my 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 does not recognize the ethernet port

[gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Farrell
I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [avoided]

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Well, removing all settings for SANE_BACKENDS in my make.conf seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump]

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Curses! My scanner won't scan a thing. Has anyone else been able

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:21:00 -0800 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping,

Re: [gentoo-user] printer uses UHCI instead of EHCI. Why?

2008-02-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:57:08 +0300 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ehci module is loaded, all MB USB ports are USB 2 ports, printer is USB 2 (Full Speed) printer. Where to dig in? Which additional information must I supply? Andrew just a guess, but do you have your kernel set

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:16:36 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 Ritesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had success with #dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:21:48 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: maxim wexler ha scritto: This is such an obvious fraud it makes me wonder at his 100% positive

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
. Anyhow, my advice to you is to do what many, including myself do - save yourself the headache of running ~amd64, and only use package.keywords to unmask packages as necessary. Good luck, and may you withhold judgment of me as I have of you, Dan Farrell -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's one other way that I just remembered (for future reference). You don't *have* to use a linux machine as a gateway if you have a decent managed switch - set it to route all traffic on all ports out through the

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:02:40 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially, the antiailiasing seems to alter the consistency of fonts in an irregular manner causing them to blur (differently) across the screen, as if the monitor resolution is out of sync. hmm, that

Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:10:58 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please find xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log attached. I am using the xorg radeon driver. The font size is just right, would not like to increase it. A few thoughts based on your xorg.conf. 1) you set HorizSync 64 #31 - 80

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do port-based routing?

2008-03-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:11:20 -0500 (EST) Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many interfaces but they are all frontends to iptables. Personally I just did a lot of reading and built my firewall from scratch. that's the spirit ; ) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:16:09 -0400 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you thinking his ISP is doing port-based connection filtering? What kind of connection filtering allows a connection to go through for 5 seconds, then resets it? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm !

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Farrell
to the idea of granting us permission to use the site engine? Thank you for your time, Dan Farrell [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-673136.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:04:22 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is suposed to be here soon, I guess anyway. Dale you've been saying that for so long now. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem like this. They might have blocked port 25 and squelched my bittorrenting at times, but never anything like this. Of course, ymmv. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem like

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of

Re: [gentoo-user] jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:27:22 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and and old 4 gig ide disk: /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104400244 81% / /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot I

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:06:07 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:45:21 + Filipe Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few numbers from genlop -t Thanks much! This was interesting for me to read. I am surprised by how much faster 64bit system was for compiling these things. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New USB trackball; how to use?

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:10:54 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a new USB trackball today. When I plug it into the computer, this shows up in dmesg: input: Logitech USB Trackball as /class/input/input6 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Trackball] on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:46:49 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pongracz Istvan pongracz.istvan at gmail.com writes: I've got several boxen that need to be installed so I was hoping to test drive 2008.0 AFAIK the releng team are working on the next release (2008.0) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:18:33 +0100 Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: Install from 2007.0 with interet: - most recent stage3 - most recent portage therefore most recent system Install from 2008.0-beta with internet: - same stage3 - same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:05 -0600 darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Dan Farrell: net benefit of 2008.0: none. The benefit is that the beta gets tested, and we all move that much closer to a stable 2008.0 release. True, I suppose. I tend to be a little draconian with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:06:04 -0400 Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Main thing that speeds up the AMD box is using 320MB scsi's for near-term storage. They are hugely faster than [S]ATA or IDE used on most equipment these days. what R/W speeds can you expect? --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:19:11 -0230 Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the server uses tcpwrapper. rpcinfo -p on the server shows: beryl

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox: password field

2008-04-17 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:59:46 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu patch indeed. For those interested: ... Thanks for the source overview -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] network boot broken by changes in init scripts over last few months

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Farrell
insistent about documenting. Needless to say I'd like to solve the problem the right way. However, the init scripts are a complex bunch for me and I'm not sure how to go about fixing this. I was hoping one of you might be able to guide me. Any thoughts? Thanks, Dan Farrell -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] network boot broken by changes in init scripts over last few months

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 May 2008 03:51:01 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: friends, has anybody else come across the problem updating their initscripts and breaking network booting in the last few months? Evidently not. Well, it looks like the new baselayout2 also has problems with net

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Dan Farrell
Have you used ~/.xsession ? That's what I do for a 'custom' session. Search for xsession in the X manpage for more information on this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:56:13 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What interfaces was the win2003 server using previously for bridging and connecting to the Internet? I'm not entirely sure windows 'bridging' is equivalent to linux Ethernet bridging. Specifically, wouldn't linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Treason uncloaked! solution?

2007-08-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:48:55 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:18:16 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I get Treason uncloaked! in dmesg when running bittorrent. The solution here:

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:54:23 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:55 +0200 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What concerns me is that alsamixer nevers shows a volume control on Master anymore, and amixer says: Simple mixer control 'Master',0

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:41:39 +0200 brullo nulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, Intel onboard videocards were well supported open source... They do a really nice job on 2D in my experience. But if you are accelerating 3d opengl in hardware, like glxgears for example, expect artifacts to the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:23:23 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:05:24 +0200, b.n. wrote: The onboard Intels were a good lifesaver. I'm considering an Intel Core Duo... what's wrong with them that AMD does right? :) Nothing AFAICT. I have a Core2Duo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:36:38 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say if you stick with AMD, try the boxed cooler and test it. Since it's not a dedicated silent system, it might be good enough. If you switch to Intel, buy a good cooler from the beginning. Furthermore, be sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Treason uncloaked! solution?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:17:17 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:55:06 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It usually means that the other side of the TCP connection reduced the window to zero size, thus leading stupid TCP stacks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i586 install

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:53:28 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: journaling is just a waste of space and time. not to mention breaking compatibility with older bootloaders. not that it's likely to matter, but yet another con. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Network Configuration

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:49:51 -0700 (PDT) BRM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll have to check into iproute2. Seems interesting...won't be able to try until tonight (after I get home), but will certainly share the results. Thanks, Ben. Ben, iproute2 is the latest and greatest (and

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:18:47 +0200 (CEST) Cipher van Byte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't good idea to mount nfs over openvpn. Both are highly unstable. Openvpn is highly unstable? really? mine's been up for days. NFS is highly unstable? Hardly. Perhaps you mean that it's unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:54:27 +0200 (CEST) Cipher van Byte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I'm concerned the structure of directories and links (hard or symbolic) were invented to eliminate the _need_ of having such searching engines. Using those search engines is like reinventing the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:05:47 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. Why? I can make menuconfig and then: sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do you think

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:44:34 -0400 Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Ok, I've decided I'm doing more damage than good here. Arnau, if you want to take this off list away from the static (much of it generated by me, apologies), please feel free to email me, I'll help as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:08:27 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been unable to boot into my gentoo system due to a Machine Check Exception. This is an AMD 64 system. MCE for AMD is enabled in the kernel (2.6.21 gentoo-sources). I am unable to boot in to turn off MCE

Re: [gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:19:15 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are gentoo users using? Anyone? I recommend submitting this question (or rather, reading responses to others' similar questions) on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro Gentoo UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, a vanilla Gentoo installation could be considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since such a

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your solution is the better one, though. I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do with it. The thing is, you are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval

2007-09-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was only trying out Amarok. What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid. audacious seems almost completely better to me I suspect they

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:50:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 this is not outlook express, it's kmail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:55:44 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: treat ~ # cd /etc/init.d treat init.d # ./apache2 stop * Stopping apache2 ... No /usr/sbin/apache2 found running; none killed. [ !! ] treat init.d # ./apache2 start * WARNING: apache2 has already been started.

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:51:53 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sean wrote: I installed Audacious again and it works with error, I will just stick with that. I was only trying out Amarok. That should have been without error. -- as fun as errors are, I think we all went ahead and

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem yesterday, but rebooting the machine fixed it. As for the KEEPENV, I was puzzled by that too but I didn't add anything to env_whitelist and I left KEEPENV commented. Everything seems to be fine. Possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today apache2 wants to upgrade to 2.2.4-r12. I've got cold feet. Anyone tried this yet? I just started it out, to see what happens. I turned off the AC today, my feet aren't very cold ; ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 - 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:02:16 -0500 Marzan, Richard non Unisys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goodluck friend Thanks, I needed it. I finally found a nice list of the information I need here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/upgrading.html there's a message en route that covers all the majority

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 - 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
I have discovered a really fun error message: zeus dan # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 - 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
I have tracked down what appears to be the source of the difficulty with restarting apache 2.2 after an upgrade. to recap, here's the error: zeus ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:00:12 -0400 Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kinda desperate at this point as I'm about to go on a very long tour through Europe and I won't have time to troubleshoot this sorta thing then. well then I think there may be hope for you, for this isn't likely to provide

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