Willie Wong wrote:
Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run
# equery list -p gentoo-sources
It'd be good to know if you are missing the ebuild or if it is masked
somehow.
W
Results of equery:
backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources
[ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all
I used the Gentoo install CD and installed the stage 3 tarball. The
reboot went fine and I can log in purely console mode. I have only a
dialup internet connection but I cannot connect to the internet via the
dialup
on Gentoo. I did emerge 2 files (that emerge -s pppconfig suggested);
Harry Putnam wrote:
I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the last 1/2
hr or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer
I'm working on. Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too.
One by one, I've disconnected each drive, beginning with the one
I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be installed
on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security problem they
have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block keyloggers? I do
not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I don't even network
with
Dale wrote:
Jerry Turba wrote:
I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be
installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security
problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block
keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware
Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/9/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa?
As long as your X configuration is reasonably secure, yes. But if you
do something silly like run xhost +, then any remote user can
connect to your X server
John Jolet wrote:
Jerry wrote:
I am setting up gentoo on another computer and cannot get shorewall
to start properly. I had used another version of shorewall previously
but cannot get 3.0.4 to work. I have read and tried to follow the
instruction in
Ryan Tandy wrote:
Jerry wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/shorewall # shorewall start
Any particular reason why you're running that instead of
/etc/init.d/shorewall start?
Thats is what the docs suggested as the start command.
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 18 May 2006 17:38, Jerry wrote:
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities:
NAT: Not available
Packet Mangling: Available
Multi-port Match: Not available
Connection Tracking Match: Not available
Packet Type Match: Not available
I have been using Linux for a couple years but am a newbie to Gentoo. I am
very concerned about the security of an OS. It is one of the reasons I
switched to Linux.
On another gentoo newsgroup I made a comment about deleting pam because I
believed it was causing a problem with logins to KDE. I
Willie Wong wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:26:55AM -0700, Jerry Turba wrote:
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
PAM has been known to cause pain and suffering at unexpected
As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files
provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for
myself to determine how to handle these new files.
1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file
to overwrite the old file.
2.
Thanks everyone for your help. I will try using Marks rules and start
using dispatch-conf to be able to roll back any changes that don't seem
to work.
Jerry
Mark Knecht wrote:
On 8/30/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration
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