Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:05:54PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all; I was wondering about somethings I got a linux box at work that I keep always updated; but; I had a dial up connection at home :( ( snip ) !!! if I copy the portage tree with the distfiles to my home computer I

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync problem

2005-09-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
I haven't been able to emerge --sync for the last few days and I can't figure out why. When I try I get the following output: Sounds like you're having problems with your rsync mirrors. What values do you have in /etc/make.conf? I have http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ listed as my primary mirror

[gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...

2005-09-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm running postfix and tpop3d on my site for email delivery. Everything is working great; internally I can send receive, and externally I can send and receive also (using smtp auth for sending, tpop3d for receiving). However, I'd like to add the ability to check my email through my web

Re: [gentoo-user] Any 'sed' geniuses out there?

2005-09-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm writing a sed script that will parse the *broken* output of man2html. I say broken, because the output isn't W3C compliant (html OR xhtml). I'd like to be able to modify it so that the final outcome is XHTML 1.0 compliant. I'm running into a problem where the output doesn't close the p, dt,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any 'sed' geniuses out there?

2005-09-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well, while I enjoy a good challenge (especially sed, awk, or perl), htmltidy does the trick quite nicely. It doesn't indent the way that I do, but my first priority was making the output W3C compliant, and htmltidy's output is that. I haven't used it in awhile, but there may be some command

Re: [gentoo-user] Incompatible gcc

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have emerged gcc-3.4.4, but emerge --info, see below, still shows 3.4.1. There was a PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in make.conf and 3.4.1 was in this dir. I commented out the PORTDIR_OVERLAY, but no change I'm no portage expert but I think you have to re-emerge the meta emerge meta as

RE: [gentoo-user] traffic mesure ?

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
Does someone knows how I can mesure a traffic trought a firewall in bytes or Kbytes per second ? Iptables keeps counters for the various filters, etc. See the man page for iptables to see how to export your rules with the counters. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
you don't have rpcinfo? that is not right! dragonfly ~ # rcpinfo -p -bash: rcpinfo: command not found dragonfly ~ # slocate rcpinfo dragonfly ~ # Hold on guys, notice the spelling difference - rpcinfo which is what you need, but rcpinfo is what was searched for. --

RE: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Does anyone can recommend a well-supported inkjet printer for using with Linux? You can pretty much go with any printer. Cups supports a wide range of printers. If you're worried about a particular product, the cups site can help you... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? I don't think it stands a snowball's chance in ... Well, you get the idea. Sascha, I'm thinking that if you start with a bare-bones handbook install you'll have a minimum system, at least for gentoo support. It won't have X,

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
dragonfly ~ # uname -a Linux dragonfly 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #3 Thu Aug 4 06:43:20 PDT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux dragonfly ~ # myth14 ~ # uname -a Linux myth14 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #2 Tue Aug 2 16:31:31 PDT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz

RE: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Name resolution is name resolution, whether on the static line or the dynamic line. What difference does it make? -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:44 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user]

RE: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Name resolution is name resolution, whether on the static line or the dynamic line. What difference does it make? If they are on different networks, one interface may not be able to see the other interface, therefore not the name servers either. But if one /etc/resolv.conf dns points

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Title: Message Youre looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and a maildir-based tool (postfix). Im not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default behaviour, but you could try -mbox maildir in your USE flags and re-emerge both. Personally rather

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Title: Message Your ISP may be blocking port 25 outside of their own network. Most likely you need to configure postfix to relay mail through your ISPs mail server rather than just use your own. A lot of ISPs do this so they dont have to handle complaints about spam originating from

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? Sorry, Willy, but for as long as Nick has been posting I would just assume he was having a bad

RE: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
What would be an accepted easy way, meaning not too much software setup, etc., to get the machine to email my GMail account every time it reboots? I don't expect that this should happen often, but I'd like to know when it does. Add a line to /etc/conf.d/local.start to either call a script

RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Any help appreciated. /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux- gnu/../../libc.so when searching for -lc Dude, I think your build chain is now in a 'hosed' state, probably as a result of the migration that you were trying... Since gentoo is a

Re: [gentoo-user] script in /etc/cron.daily never runs

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). I'm using vixie-cron. cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacrondo you have anacron installed? Sorry, John, that's not

RE: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
1) Why wouldn't a default xorg.conf be installed? Xorg.conf contains detailed info about your installation, a default one doesn't do you much good except for to use a vanilla x config. 2) Is there possibly another config file that my system is using? I'm sure it defaults to a simple config

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
well, at first, let memtest86(+) run for some hours. Volker's got a good point here... second, check that your box does not get too hot. Crashes on stress are mostly overheating or PSU going bad. Mentioned that to him about the heat... Kris, were you able to get lm_sensors running on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
Before the crash, the following three lines appeared (in this order) nearly 53,000 times for a total of 16MB of text: Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] ip_local_deliver: bad skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN LOCAL_OUT POST_ROUTING Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] skb: pf=2 (unowned)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
So for example lp* stays (it's another one that disappears), all hdc? stays, but hdc still is not there. File devices.tar.bz2 is updated by system and it has not hdc. What else can I do? Not use the tarball option? I mean, seriously, are you really seeing it's saving you anything at boot? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've been experiencing some random kernel crashes, and need a way of finding out what happened. Kris, I'd start by answering the following: 1. What version of the kernel are you using? Your OP is quite old, and many releases of the kernel have come out since then. Have you tried a newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
1) The problem appears to be independant of the kernel version, as I've had it occur on a 2.6.10 and 2.6.12 kernel. 2) How might I check for flakey hardware? I would guess hardware problem (unless 3 applies below), but actually finding the errant component can be quite a task. For a desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

2005-09-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
/usr/src/- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 exists You need to link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4, as in: # cd /usr/src # ln -sf linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 linux Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
I did something like that: -I set up RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no -rebooted, all hdcX disappeard, and hdc appeard -I set up RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes -rebooted -there is no hdc* what else can I do? Go to the udev migration thing in the gentoo wiki. There is a command that you have to run to actually

Re: [gentoo-user] named init-script error

2005-09-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
$ /etc/init.d/named start * Starting named ... usage: named [-4|-6] [-c conffile] [-d debuglevel] [-f|-g] [-n number_of_cpus] [-p port] [-s] [-t chrootdir] [-u username] [-m {usage|trace|record}] named: extra command line arguments What do you think about it? What do

Re: [gentoo-user] named init-script error

2005-09-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
What version of bind are we talking about? net-dns/bind-9.3.1-r4 Well, this version is masked, maybe for this reason? I'm running 9.2.5-r6, the latest stable, and do not have this issue... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification of packages cd's for 2005.1

2005-09-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
Is it true that the packagers have abandoned p3, p4 and athlon-*?? I don't know about that, Nick, but if you can't find the p3, p4, or athlon packages I can tell you that distcc will be your best friend ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Any interest in a postfix/milter bridge?

2005-09-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
every mail filter I need fits nicely into postfix. Which one are you having problems with? I'd like to be able to run MIMEDefang, but it's milter only. and I don't think this is the place to discuss enhancements to postfix, go join postfix-user and discuss it with the developers. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why did portage re-install the same version of mailman (r4) over and over? daevid init.d # genlop -l | grep mailman Thu Nov 11 10:26:07 2004 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r2 Sun Nov 14 18:12:48 2004 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r2 Mon Jan 17 14:36:05 2005 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r3 Fri Feb

[gentoo-user] OT: Any interest in a postfix/milter bridge?

2005-09-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm currently running postfix as my mail system. Unlike a recent post which assumed that postfix was overkill compared to sendmail, I tend to feel the opposite, that sendmail is bloated much more than the more simplified postfix. However, when looking for spam blockers, virus checkers, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why autoconf?

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Why the hick are there so much versions of autoconf (in system)? Well, somewhere in the [Nasty bug..] thread someone (again) mentioned, that different packaged depend on different versions of autoconf. That's NOT the truth for building a package. You're making some assumptions here... Part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
What about changing the logfile names to: package-version.log package-version.msg? Because multiple installs of the same version would overwrite the log. The added prefix is, I believe, either some sort of order number or a time-based reference, not sure which. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
Note that the 2005.1 handbook mentions only the stage3 and not stage1 or stage2. Installation from the lower stages is more error prone and best avoided. Hardly. Starting from a stage 3 is like starting from any old binary distribution. Starting from stage 1 2 allows you to build a box

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
A stage3 install has most of the benefits of a stage1 or stage2. Portage gives you the ability to rebuild *every* single package if you choose. And like the binary distributions, it's targeted towards the generic 386, not the pentium class machines we're all using (at least it was the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
Starting from stage 1 2 allows you to build a box customized from the ground up optimized for your hardware (assuming you've set the cflags correctly before beginning). IMHO, stage 3 is for those that don't want to take the lengthy build time for some of the larger packages, i.e. X and

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrdao woes

2005-09-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
My kernel was booted with this setting: hdc=ide-scsi, I read to do set that in the kernel help under make menuconfig. I also want to be able to burn UDF/data DVDs with this thing too, but music first. I've looked at the HowTos on the Gentoo WIKI but those haven't helped, and I'm trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 python-fcksum-1.7.1 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla ^ | +- ! gcc-config error: could not run/locate i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc My guess is that during the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I don't get You at this point. I'll have to start ''emerge --emptytree system'', wait until it crashes, run ''fix_libtool_files.sh'' and run ''emerge --emptytree system'' ones more, hoping that it won't crash this time? No, after the fix_libtool_files.sh run, you do the emerge --resume to have

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ Senior System Administrator UNIX Expert For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to a mailing list ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] panel error

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Every time I log into gnome I get this annoying error: I've detected a panal already running, and will now exit. My wife tells me that she gets the same message when she logs into her account on this machine. Is there a way to remedy this problem? I checked the gentoo-user archives at GMane

Re: [gentoo-user] Ideas for a mini-FAQ/HOWTO

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
Not to rain on your parade, Walter, but: 1) In /etc/make.conf set the following entry... MAKEOPTS=-j1 Do *NOT*, I repeat, do *NOT* use higher numbers. You are begging for problems if you do so. I use distcc in my compile farm and have most systems set to -j8 or above. I haven't run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
# Generated by iptables-save v1.3.2 on Thu Sep 8 12:32:48 2005 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [34942:3100331] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [106864:7597940] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [106858:7597722] :net_dnat - [0:0] :w1ad_masq - [0:0] -A PREROUTING -i w1ad -j net_dnat -A POSTROUTING -o w1ad -j w1ad_masq -A net_dnat -p

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
Dude, trying to use iptables directly was your first mistake. no, it wasn't. I have written some small example script http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=377447 that (IMO) is quite modular... Yes, Timo, it is quite modular and quite thorough. It represents a great job at developing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables advice for stand alone box under different usage scenarios

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
3. Performance, over time, would drop down to a trickle. The only way to get it back up was to reboot the router. And since I didn't want to expose the admin interface to the world, that meant that I would have to wait till I was on-site to reboot it. Aahh, that's not on! I haven't noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
is there a command to let me know the name and model of my motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find the manual and box in which it came) ? thanks emerge dmidecode -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
There certainly is a lot of useful information in this output, but it's not necessarily the information needed (and certainly not all of the information requested by the OP). So how would I, or the OP, use this utility properly to answer the question, What is the make (manufacturer) and model

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile gcc

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
/bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.6/work/gcc-3.3.6/libstdc++-v3/docs/doxygen/run_doxygen \ --mode=man ${srcdir} ${builddir}) :: NOTE that this may take some time... /usr/bin/doxygen /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.6/work/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/docs/doxygen/man.cfg

Re: [gentoo-user] other packages

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have found an add-in for gimp called GAP (animation). It is a zipped tar file. How can I add this to my gentoo install? Well, if you're referring to the one from www.gimp.org, the zipped tarball is a source distribution, and you would just need to process it as you would a standard source

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
So shouldn't it wait till the network has started and I have an IP address from ifplugd? Well, isn't the problem here that the network isn't being requested to start (until ntp tries to make a connection, which of course attempts to start it, but then it's too late)? [snip] So I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile Mozilla, was Can't compile gcc

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
When you say system hangs, you don't say if it's hanging for minutes, hours, whatever. But since it's running against a config file in /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.6/work/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3, I'd be willing to bet that it will take a great deal of time to complete. Emerge (not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
OK, good point. But several folks have mentioned that shorewall is not a one-to-one tool for straight iptables/netfilters implementations. It has things that are not part of a raw usage of iptables/netfilters. My goal is to learn as much about iptables/netfilters on a Gentoo X86 firewall, before

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables advice for stand alone box under different usage scenarios

2005-09-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay, Mike, here goes... For the gentoo box to act as the router/gateway/hub, you need more than one ethernet card in the box. Typically eth0 will be the outward facing card (towards the net), and eth{1,2,...} will be inward facing cards. Just having the cards installed in the box is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables advice for stand alone box under different usage scenarios

2005-09-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
For the gentoo box to act as the router/gateway/hub, you need more than one ethernet card in the box. OK, but under the ADSL connection scenario (diagram A) I already have a hardware router/gateway, so do I still need a two card configuration? What I am trying to do is protect the Gentoo box

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I think it might be important to point out here how Shorewall handles/uses these files. I don't use Shorewall, so I can't really shed light on it. But these config files are really only one side of the mirror. Actually these files are typically the only ones you'll need to edit...

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
That's all I'm going to say in the face of all this needlessly insulting behaviour. Holly, I have not nor do not intend to insult or constipate anyone. Sincere apologies. However, I find this very strange that published rulesets do not exist for iptables/netfilter, for simple and common

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
As far as functionality and rule set development, I don't think there is that much of a difference between 2.4 and 2.6. I'm sure there are tons of cool things that go on under the hood that I don't really know about, but the implementation is basically the same. 2.6 kernels may offer newer

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix configuration in server with dynamic IP

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, Romildo: I am looking for a posftix configuration for my computer, which receives a dynamic IP through adsl. This is exactly the setup that I'm using. I'd suggest getting an account through dyndns.org. You can update it using ez-ipudate when your local ip address changes and, from

[gentoo-user] Validation of DomainKeys signature?

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, all, just a quick question... On my postfix installation I'm running a filter to insert a DomainKeys signature into outbound email messages (should in fact be included in the header of this message). I'm not 100% sure, however, that it is doing the right thing. So how do I test to

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix configuration in server with dynamic IP

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
My main problem is that ... Currently I am using postfix for sending mail from this computer, but most of the time the IP I receive from my ISP is blacklisted and is rejected on some destinations. So I want to use my ISP mail server for sending mail (with athentication). This

RE: [gentoo-user] iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've been trying to build a simple firewall with a DMZ for a web server. Dude, trying to use iptables directly was your first mistake. Take a spin out and look at shorewall (I'm sure others have different recommendations). Shorewall will get you up and running in no time and will easily

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
If shorewall is so easy, then just email to me the config files for a 3 nic network, with DMZ based web server, and only internally (LAN) initiated connections allowed, in the form of config files, OK? Sure, there's 5 files you'd need to set up and, as per your request, it is limited to web

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
It's not a parade, it's what old-timers do, it's how I learn. I started that way too (being an old-timer myself ;-) However after consuming info available on the net and buying/reading an iptables book, I quickly came to realize that it's quite easy to shoot yourself in the foot with iptables.

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-09-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
If I replace the pixie emerged by portage does that mess up anything as far as portage is concerned? Well, other than if an upgrade comes through emerge --update world would try to overwrite what you install. Otherwise portage will think it's in there. I have one more dumb question. What

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-09-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hi Dave -- thanks for the response. I'm not sure I understand it all, but I understand enough to get me started and do some testing. One question however, when you say to build pixie manually, what do you mean by building it manually? Is that different from emerge pixie Yeah.

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-08-31 Thread Dave Nebinger
pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc A google search for libdpstk indicates that this is a core library for x11 with some references to it being obsolete. I've got one for my xorg-x11 install, so it must not be too obsolete... A google

RE: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not, but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies. emerge mtools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Get rid of PAM?

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
On another gentoo newsgroup I made a comment about deleting pam because I believed it was causing a problem with logins to KDE. I was severely reprimanded for such a careless attitude towards security. I am a home user and may have anywhere from 1-3 computers on my home network. I do not run

RE: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running mythfrontend as well as an

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? sarcasm Sure, just use the root backdoor service that every linux system exposes to connect and change the password. Ooops, the secret's out, I guess I have to worry about all of you folks using

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT]Deafenig Silence

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Everone gone home, or have my mail filters finally eaten the world? If your mail filters are eating the world, you won't know it because the replies won't arrive. So it's almost pointless responding, isn't it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sorry, couldn't resist. Of course there is no way at all to do this, nor would you want to be able to, cause if you could do it anyone could and would do it. That's not technically true and the sarcasm wasn't really warranted. I can think of a couple of possibilities, of course

RE: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
No templates at all. Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging approach. First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete. Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to determine if it is a build issue in general (i.e. perhaps

RE: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form. I'm using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the top. With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view the post. Because we don't read from bottom up, we read from top down. For example, this

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

2005-08-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
Jose, I'm currently DHCP behind DSL so I have the kind of setup you're looking at. Apart from the obvious configuration things you'll have some other things to keep in mind, like who is doing the DHCP negotiation for the IP address? If the router is, it must be able to interact with the dynamic

RE: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-08-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have recently updated shorewall on my 2.4 gentoo OS I now get the following error: I was getting similar errors due to invalid entries in the shorewall configuration files. I would guess that you've got a dollar sign in there somewhere that shouldn't be there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname

2005-08-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
(none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname cat /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb laeb.dyndns.org (none) mark # Besides using the incorrect format for the files, your dnsdomainname should not include the hostname: cornholio ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname # /etc/conf.d/hostname # $Header:

RE: [gentoo-user] PPP Issue

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
I enter the mknod command which recreates the device and I can then PPP into wokr but after a reboot that device always disappears. How can I stop this happening? Are you running udev? If so, could be a number of things. First if you're using the tar file (specified in /etc/conf.d/rc) the

RE: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
Although i do not quite understand what you are saying: (copy from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2) - do you mean,: copy from /dev/hdb1 that is mounted on /mountpoint1 to /dev/hda2 that is mounted on mountpoint /mountpoint2? If that is the case, then a simple: cp -R /boot /new-boot-location should

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc and iptables

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
but distcc doesn't work ... Ah, did you edit /etc/conf.d/distccd to add the --allow and --listen options? If you don't specifically enable them the remote system will not be able to get to distcc on the box. Locally I use a line as follows to enable the internal lan to hit distccd:

RE: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? Did you try the revdep-rebuild -p to see if there are any broken dependencies? Did your files in /etc/conf.d get updated? Is your session stuff correct in /etc/rc.conf? Any messages in the syslog or

[gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan on using as the windows drive. Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding

RE: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ Just to be on the safe side I'd try: # chown

RE: [gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...

2005-07-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i given size. I have tried find /home -type d -size +5k and find /home -type d -size +5k -iname * Both without much success... find will not calculate folder sizes (as you've already seen). You'll need to use du

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Well, sarcasm is fine (I deserve it). However, you have helped me uncover a simple but profound problem. Sorry, James, that was my fault. I had jumped in mid-stream and hadn't realized it was an ongoing thread... Trust me there was no sarcasm intended. As far as the man page for cdrecord, it

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Success? cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README results Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write2 seconds. cdrecord: fifo had 1 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and

RE: [gentoo-user] Digest verification Failed

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
Anyone know why the digests are failing so frequently? Are they packaged poorly? Is it the mirror I'm getting them from? But then that begs the question, aren't the mirrors synchronized and MD5 verified with each other? Shouldn't TCP/IP be safe in that it retries a packet until it gets it --

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron? You missed the message that flew by when emerging fcron... Fcron includes the /etc/cron.* directories but does not install cron jobs for them automatically, and it does not support /etc/crontab (as other crons do). You need to

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
# Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed # Only generate emails on errors... !nolog(true) Oops, this nolog bit comes from my crontab and is not normally put in. I added it because I hated getting emails for regular runs. If you choose to include it, add !reset to

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. Any suggestions? Your problem is going to be the incremental enabling thing you'd like to do. If you add a new USE flag later on, you need to emerge with the newuse flag which will result in a larger emerge than what you

[gentoo-user] Init script dependency creation?

2005-07-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got a Sangoma ADSL card that needs wanpipe to run before starting rp-pppoe. Having seen the /etc/init.d files, dependencies can be declared within the scripts themselves to make sure a dependency is satisfied before the script starts. I want to create such a dependency in

RE: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Excrement out of luck, but use the standard slang curse word instead of excrement. ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Methinks your indescretions and prejudices against micros, is insensitive to the future, sensate possibilitys of micros and the things they inhabit. micros are entering the human body at an alarming rate. Don't you thing we need mechanisms to keep their interal code robust and current?

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other sytems? /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp contains the timestamp for

RE: [gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
My immediate guess would be a routing issue. What's the routing definition for when eth1 is up vs down? Issue the 'route' command as root and send us the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
/sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
What about routing? As root run: $ route # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth1 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0

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