Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:41:04 +0800 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: one thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? My Pentium III with 312MB of ram took 3 days to compile for i686 with a xfce desktop. compiling for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with make oldconfig 2.6.30-8 == 2.6.31

2010-03-11 Thread Jonathan
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:03:21 -0500 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: PS, why isn't there a gzcat command in Gentoo? It is zcat no g.

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED ( problem with firefox-bin )

2010-03-20 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:18:42 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Add them back one by one to find out which one it was. You then may want to report it to whoever developed the add on. Adblock plus blocks frame ###adcontainer guess what frame name that website uses... Add this filter

[gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-16 Thread Jonathan
I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions of a user. 1: su -: Needs root password and you need to be in the group wheel. 2: sudo: You need to be in the group wheel or in the /etc/sudoers file, using your own user password. I'm not counting gksu and gksudo

Re: [gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:45:57 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: In fact, POSIX capabilities are a mechanism to *reduce* a program's permissions, not increase them. It's true that Linux capabilities are used to replace SUID and that does reduce the programs permissions. On the other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:25:18 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've been an amateur linux/*BSD user for about ten years or so, and I would love to answer your questions -- but I don't know the answers. Yet. Around 4 years, 3 years with Ubuntu and one with Gentoo. While you and I wait for

Re: [gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:59:07 +0200 KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Sounds a little like putting someone in prison and than telling him walking through the prison yard is increasing his freedom. As Linux is a prison for programs then I guess your right.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:29:37 +1000 Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote: sudoedit is mainly just a shortcut for sudo $EDITOR (plus doing a few things). sudoedit is safer then sudo because sudoedit runs as root but nano (The editor) runs as your user. sudoedit uses a fixed path which is compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:05:23 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Have a leisurely browse through /usr/include/unistd.h to answer your question. That file has answer to my question. Thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:46:25 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: If any Joe Schmoe could imbue a program with capabilities, this might be true. But that's not the way the system works. Sorry, I think i'm missing your point. Only root can run the setcap program to add capabilities

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:52:08 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I uses Option TwinView 0 under screen section and Option DynamicTwinView FALSE under device or xrandr gives the wrong refresh rate. I do not know if this will help you. Oh! Yes! the other meaning of

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathan
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:59:08 +0200 Fabian Köster koesterre...@gmx.net wrote: Hi *, I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following problem: When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everything is perfectly directed to the local PulseAudio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
Sorry, but I believe the you are the one being pretentious; how long has been since you tried PulseAudio? It has come a lng way, and I haven't seen any real flames against PulseAudio in many months (and it's enabled in all major distributions). And that is because it's working (I repeat my

[gentoo-user] Gnome is missing the hibernate button in the shutdown dialog box.

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan
I'm running TuxOnIce kernel version 2.6.34-r1 with gnome 2.28.2. I can hibernate using pm-hibernate as root but I do not have a hibernate button in the shutdown dialog box but it does have suspend button which works. Here is some info based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager.

[gentoo-user] Making emerge-delta-webrsync more useful

2010-08-05 Thread Jonathan
Am I right in thinking that the Gentoo Rsync mirrors are using more bandwidth then they could, because of the CPU load on the servers and the fact that there are less Rsync mirrors then distfiles mirrors? Emerge-delta-webrsync downloads its patch from the distfiles mirrors which can make it up

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread Jonathan
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread has 500 messages. Nothing to filter. emails too. But you

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-30 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 29 May 2011 20:49:05 + Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is clearly suboptimal. Try checking to see if any program has a file open in the cd. If

Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

2011-06-26 Thread Jonathan
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:53:32 +1000 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Make an entry in your grub.conf with gentoo=nox, so you can boot to command line. here's what mine looks like What a reboot to fix Xorg keyboard drivers? Thats not the Linux way. Press at the same time Ctrl + Alt +

Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

2011-06-26 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:34:30 +0200 (CEST) Alain DIDIERJEAN alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Citing Alan Mackenzies: It's a strange, depressing feeling when the only input device which works is the reset button - thank goodness that isn't handled by evdev. ;-) Please use the mark for quotes

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?

2011-09-13 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. The offlinehelp flag is now in the libreoffice-l10n ebuild.

[gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Jonathan Haws
I am having a major problem right now with my laptop. I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 filesystem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Haws
on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image of an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). Does anyone know of a tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support? -- Jonathan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant confusion

2008-06-06 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
On Friday 06 June 2008 12:15:11 Mick wrote: Within the next few seconds I get an IP via dhcpcd and I can immediately connect to the Internet, but very unreliably. Within a few seconds it seems that the link goes down, i.e. I can no longer ping Internet addresses, or the AP, despite

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant confusion

2008-06-09 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
On Friday 06 June 2008 14:36:14 Mick wrote: Yep. I did manage to get it working with wpa_supplicant (or so I thought . . . ) # lsmod | grep rt2 rt2500usb 21728 0 rt2x00usb 8576 1 rt2500usb rt2x00lib 14944 2 rt2500usb,rt2x00usb Am I on a

[gentoo-user] Networking Issue

2007-10-25 Thread Jonathan Haws
could get eth1 to work if I manually assigned an address, but now that doesn't work either. Any help is appreciated. -- Jonathan R. Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [gentoo-user] Networking Issue

2007-10-26 Thread Jonathan Haws
are available where I am at. Jonathan R. Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Adam Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:54 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Networking Issue Any ideas? The /etc/conf.d/net file

RE: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Haws
If you don't have any other use for the 'single' runlevel, you can use the softlevel grub option (softlevel=single) to boot without X. It works great for me. Jonathan R. Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Galevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 18

[gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Haws
This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and why or why not? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Weird Permissions error

2005-12-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec 12 14:13 named There is a named directory there, but it's empty. I assume that it was automatically created when I emerged bind early this afternoon. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Michael Sullivan wrote: I need help setting up my network's DNS configuration. I tried to subscribe myself to the bind-user mailing list (using the address at the bottom of the bind docs README file, but I saw this in the log: Dec 15 17:51:15 bullet sm-mta[29432]: jBFNpCvf029430: to=[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying email from dcron

2005-12-18 Thread Jonathan Wright
can't delete the file because it doesn't actually exist. How do I get rid of this annoying error? Out of interest - have you tried creating the file, possibly with dcron permissions? Sound's like a badly written error message. -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
It's a local setup. I don't even know if my ISP will allow me to run a public DNS server. My last ISP didn't. This is purely intra-espersunited.com so that when the cable Internet goes out (which it frequently does) my applications which require knowing what host they're running on. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread Jonathan Wright
. Have you tried with another disk? -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 15 days, 5:01, 2 users, load average: 0.99, 1.02, 0.97 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- About a year

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-24 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
), then convert that to UTC. Jonathan Kollasch pgpJZyLNgRl9H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted every partion related to Mac OS

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
? If you compile them as modules for the server, you should be able to use modules.conf to set the alias between the device name and the ethx bit. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
then. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
, would think this was a trivial thing to pull off. I've found this link http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-2.html which uses ether= instead of netdev= Worth a try? -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
= before the irq number. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Error when trying to emerge openldap-2.1.30-r4

2005-04-28 Thread Jonathan Gill
, Exitcode 2 !!! make failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Thanks Jonathan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin - the memory black hole

2005-05-02 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Yes, that is almost 3 gig swap used (it is maxed out). And I thought that one gig of RAM would be enough... Does anyone have a clue? :O I would ask the folks on the SpamAssassin-users mailing list, actually. The developers live there and they are usually very helpful. :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's interesting although it felt a bit strange typing emerge -pv pv I prefer emerge -av pv ;) That way you don't have to re-run the search and everything if it's all OK! :D -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]big partition

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I heard lot of urban legend about flying away data from reiser3 4. I can never validate whether was FS, or user error, but some performance dropback for stability is more than acceptable for me. I'd vote for urban legend/user error. I've always used ReiserFS on machines and have never had any

Re: [gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Also, can I install 2005.0 using the Knoppix CD? I think Knoppix supports LVM2... right? Yeah, you sure can. it's actually fairly easy, and the documentation is on the gentoo.org website. I just did a Knoppix installation a few weeks ago because the 2005.0 CD stuff wouldn't see my (not so

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, now this is weird-- where are the subjects?

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Holly Bostick wrote: Now I just replied to a message with a subject, and my reply has no subject??!! I don't even know if this will have a subject. What could be going on? *BuRP* Sorry, I was hungry. :) I don't know what's going on, but I've been seeing subject-less messages for the past several

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem w/o network

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathan Wright
the problem that I can't have postfix running and queueing messages I send while offline so they can be delivered once I plug in somewhere. regards Matthias -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?

2005-05-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have Postfix running and I happily read email on my server, but I'd like to read my email on my IMAP/SSL cellphone client. I've seen Courier, UW, and Cyrus, and perhaps there are others. Any recommendations, for or against? Currently I'm the only user, but I host

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imapd have to be restarted to much time

2005-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Claudinei Matos wrote: Hi, I've installed postfix to work with my domain using vmail with courier imap (I've followed gentoo guide) and it was working fine until today. Now I have some users (including me) that can't get new messages 'cause the mail software (thunderbird) keep tring to connect to

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imapd have to be restarted to much time

2005-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Claudinei Matos wrote: I was looking at this parameter when I got your mail. Actually it was specified a limit of 4 connections. I tried to setup to 0 ( I mean it could be no limit) but doesn't work, so for a test I did setup it to 30 connections and did some tests, and I saw that each folder that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Grant wrote: A discussion about enterprise linux distros came up, and my old boss (who is a complete idiot) turned and looked at me and said And Gentoo will *never* be one of those distributions.. before going back to his conversation. Nice description. You make me want to punch that guy in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the

[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Groups

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests. I did Google around for a bit but didn't really find a whole lot. I'm right here in the Silicon Valley and figured that there would be at least *one* floating

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nichols
to a LUG. I will admit that this particular LUG was populated by some serious dyed in the wool longhair-ed hippie types complete with oddball PhD's in dead languages. Having had a haircut that month it was apparently impossible that I actually already used Linux so I was Us long haired Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip tags from your view of the text and make it more readable? Just wondering. You can do it with procmail, but it's a lot less painful to just clobber the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
, double-processor system, it's effectively a quad system (no dual), so SMP should be build for at least 4 processors. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
of the licensing fees Micro$oft could charge for that if the mood caught them right! :-/ -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need help setting up Gentoo to access digital camera

2005-05-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
gphoto2 with the camera. It's not the most well build for feature complete programs (only really meant as a proof-of-concept), but it's fine for browsing though the photos and downloading them onto my system. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy

[gentoo-user] Bad thing? bug?

2005-06-07 Thread Jonathan Nichols
QA Notice: ECLASS 'libtool' inherited illegally in dev-php/php-4.3.11 ... just noticed that this evening. I didn't see a forum post nor a bug report.. is it something to even be concerned with? So far, it's compiling fine, but I thought someone might be interested. ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathan Wright
to nothing - usually a few quid a card on BuyItNow options - you'll probably have it within a day or two, brand new. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100

[gentoo-user] new base layout and linuxant driverloader problems

2005-06-12 Thread Jonathan Gill
/edit where needed) I cant seem to get the wifi card to come up and connect to my access point. Ive just emerged back the old layout and all is perfect with it. Anyone any clues or tips on how I should be doing this? Thanks Jonathan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] livejournal server gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work. Any errors? What is exactly the problem? I linked to this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_everywhere/189360.html I mentioned that because a few

Re: [gentoo-user] new base layout and linuxant driverloader problems

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Gill
Jonathan Gill wrote: Hi All, Anyone else seeing problems with the new baselayout scripts and linuxant's driverloader? Any reason you can't use ndiswrapper? I used to use linuxant before I found out about ndiswrapper (but unfortunately after I paid them $20 to use it :/). None

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1-3.0.3]

2005-06-15 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Spamassassin in portage is old. I know that there's an ebuild for 3.0.4, but it's marked unstable still.. Just an FYI. [ebuild R ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1 Original Message Subject: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1-3.0.3 Date: Wed,

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

2005-09-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
the hangcheck timer? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 1:08, 7 users, load average: 1.80, 1.71, 1.57 -- President Bush said he

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wright
'cable' us used for both sending and receiving traffic. If one conflicts the other, you'll get a collision. With Full-duplex, sends and receives are independent and therefore you can't get collisions: jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] -- /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:87

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
-HD, and they all work without a problem). Try disconnecting one system and restarting the switch to see if one node is causing a problem. Also, if you can, try a crossover cable to see if it's the switch causing the problem and not the computers. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them? - SOLVED

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
, allowing you to connect extra items (such as the switch and wireless router) and keep the network running! :) Thanks for the invaluable help with mii-tool. Very, very helpful. NP. Glad to help :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
the process as (like gaim) it is notoriously flaky with anything other than the basic settings. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b2 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 11:54, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.89, 2.04 -- Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from

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

2005-09-27 Thread Jonathan Wright
not that responsive) as Horde, I'd recommend something else. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 42 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.03

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

2005-09-27 Thread Jonathan Wright
Heinz Sporn wrote: 2. must be using a mod_php of no later than 4.3.11 Can't confirm that. I am running both Horde 2 and 3 with 4.4.0-r3. I have run it with 4.4.0 here, although now running with 4.3.11 as Zend Debugger doesn't like the 4.4.x series atm. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

2005-09-27 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
2.4 kernel on the MIPS32-el architecture, and then it's a proprietary binary). Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Jonathan Wright
standards, it needs 37 passes using RANDOM data! -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 23:38, 11 users, load average: 0.01, 0.16, 0.41 -- Memo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
makes any sense. But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
- but you knew that already! ;) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 5:52, 6 users, load average: 0.56, 0.85, 0.96 -- My cousin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
tried to symlink, but then I got the old error about wrong gtk version. Opps! :$ Didn't see that. If you want to know what package a file belongs to, you can use equery from the gentoolkit (emerge gentoolkit): jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] -- equery belongs /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines

[gentoo-user] NFS questions

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm mount /home off of a box via NFS. So far, it seems to be working but having a few issues. On www (192.168.10.38) /var/log/messages I see this sometimes: Oct 3 00:45:00 www kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.10.50 Oct 3 00:45:00 www kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.10.50 Oct 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread Jonathan Wright
capacitance effect). Do you get the same effect when you swap the cables over? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4 days, 3:12, 3 users, load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-10-16 Thread Jonathan Wright
. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works fine for me. # ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # vncviewer localhost:0 -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
server across the Internet, SSH works great and has added security built in. If you want to access more than VPN, i.e. SMB, or need the remote computer to 'appear' on the local network for some reason, VPN is fine - go ahead and use it. KISS - keep it short and simple. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
) (and so on...) From the looks of it, you haven't told the system which two network ports need to be bridged together. Also, do you have net-misc/bridge-utils installed? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
everything per hand, but not with the start/stop script. So the bridges already exist on the system and they just needs configuring, or are you trying to create the bridges aswell from scratch? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
the bridge then and it should work on reboot. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2 days, 2:06, 0 users, load average: 0.75

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Denny Schierz wrote: Rather than having 'need net.eth0 net.eth1', stick in the code/functions that create the interfaces. You can create the bridge then and it should work on reboot. It works, i made a simply script, that creates the devices, before net starts. :-) np. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problem(maybe related to udev)

2005-10-22 Thread Jonathan Wright
Tamas Sarga wrote: I'm affraid, that my system was somehow hybrid udev-devfs system until I removed devfsd for gentoo-sources-2.6.13. IIRC, the new udev systems require you to remove the /etc/udev/rules.d before upgrading - have you given that a go? -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
on the host/server. So, the odd outage shouldn't be a problem - at least it's not with me here :) Also, it's worth double-checking to see if your ISP will allow port 25 inwards. Some don't, and you wouldn't want to do all that work only to find nothing happening! :/ -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
SSL encryption over IMAP and SMTP, plus I have the advantage of all my mail being handled from one location. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6, now what?

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
configuration is often automatic. But once users have an IPv6 connection your site should be accessible (assuming you get your connection up). Jonathan Kollasch -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
be there that shouldn't. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 10:06, 0 users, load average: 3.50, 1.73, 0.83 -- It always seemed to me a bit pointless

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bash scripting

2005-11-11 Thread Jonathan Wright
output: $blah=$(./blah) or $blah=$($(pwd)/blah)) or are you looking for directory listings?: $blah=$(ls $(pwd)/blah)) ?? -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4 days, 14:09, 1 user, load average: 0.80, 0.72

Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

2005-11-11 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
create new file systems on the new drive then cp -PRp or rsync the old data to the new drive. In the later case you'd need to reinstall GRUB or LILO. Be sure to not erase the old drive until you're sure the data got copied correctly. Jonathan Kollasch pgp5T5I4iwKAU.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-13 Thread Jonathan Wright
miles (~200km) using an un-amplified signal: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000970052590/ http://wireless.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000407052562/ http://www.wifiworldrecord.com/ -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols
If these clients *know* you, and *trust* you, and know anything about security, there is no reason why you couldn't get away with a self-signed cert. If not, http://www.instantssl.com/ I can second this. I will be buying my mail server certs through InstantSSL in a few weeks. So far, I've

Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight webcam server for embedded gentoo?

2005-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the TCP/IP server part myself. This *might* be close to what you're looking for. It's

[gentoo-user] Problems with udev and network cards changing device name

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan Gill
Jonathan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-16 Thread Jonathan Chocron
daemon (spamd), it's faster. - You should consider dropping procmail in favour of courier-maildrop, since you seem to be using courier-imap. I find it more flexible and better integrated with the imap server. -- Jonathan (Note : that is just a suggestion, I am not looking to start a flamewar

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling portage

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
the tree. I think it just wants to import the profile, though, so you might be able to remove the various categories. Or, you could edit the file responsible for this in /etc/env.d. Regards, -- Jonathan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

2006-05-17 Thread Jonathan Chocron
and use.local.desc. -- Jonathan Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff

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