Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vixie-cron
Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, i´m trying to automate a proccess with vixie-cron, so I edit the /etc/crontab file, and after run crontab /etc/crontab, i look into the log (/var/log/crond/current) and the following message apears: [cron] (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/crontab) and my task was not executed. What´s wrong ? First you do not want to put it into /etc/crontab. Edit a file in your local directory. Often it is better to crontab -l local.crontab or some such so the file is populated with your current crontab entries, then edit it to add your new entry. Finish that off by crontab local.crontab to get the addition loaded. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax
Harry Putnam wrote: in package.provided: cvs-emacs-24 [snip] emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this just a typo on your part? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you from having to know what's best for you. That's a little harsh, Ciaran. I did the linux from scratch thing. Had a lot of fun with it. Enjoyed being down in the bowels of the linux system and the total control over what was installed. I knew what was best for me, I knew what my requirements were and built the box to satisfy those requirements. Then after a few weeks of tracking freshmeat daily to see what updates I needed to download and apply manually, I stumbled upon gentoo and have been a happy gentoo'er since. I never lost sight of what was best for me, what my requirements were. I merely had to alter my processes to incorporate the automated nature that gentoo offers (what a relief that was ;-) Your statement is probably true for all of the binary distribution folks. But I doubt that you'll get many from this crowd that would say that we want or expect the gentoo team to know what's best for [us]. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Why should prozilla or some other tool make the download be faster? When I download something with wget, or watch emerge invoking wget, it's always maxing out the saturation of the line. On my 1Gig line on my workstation at work it's usually _not_ saturizing the line. But I decided that it's not very polite to use a parallel fetching tool under these circumstances... I would bet that has more to do with traffic shaping on your connection to the external world than anything to do with the local bandwidth, in which case you could probably parallel all you want w/o improving download performance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.
Nick Smith wrote:
i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin,
and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering
mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going
through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but
how do i know the exact route a message takes through my mailserver?
like from coming into the machine, being scanned by spamassassin,
being scanned by clamav, then passed to qmail to be delivered. where
can i see proof that it is actually doing all those steps?
Most of these components will issue messages to syslog using the 'mail'
facility. If you configure your syslog daemon to route messages from
this facility to, say, /var/log/mail.log, you'll have all of the info
you need.
If you're using syslog-ng, the following addition will do this for you:
destination mail { file(/var/log/mail.log perm(0644) ); };
filter f_mail { facility(mail); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(mail); };
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?
Uwe Thiem wrote: 3. because it is always better to have too much ram/swap then too little Nnnnot always. There are circumstances when you do not want swap at all. This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. Your example of having a real-time responsive app requiring memory residence is a determining factor of how much physical memory you'll need to keep the app resident. But the truth of the matter is this will not be your only app running on the system. Throw some big memory hogs into play, i.e. an active X session running locally and that remote X session you've started from work, and pretty soon you can find yourself eating up that 1gb that you thought would be fine. Except that since you did not have any swap enabled, once you reach the 1gb limit, processes start failing. You find yourself unable to log into the box because there's not enough memory to spawn a new shell. You're forced to hard-boot the system and hope that the HD caches were flushed to the disk before you hit the reset button. Having swap is just another manner of safe-guarding your system. Once you breach the physical limit, there's always swap to fall back on. Sure all of your apps will suffer while swapping occurs, but at least you stand a chance of cleaning up the situation w/o facing the hard reboot option. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work? You don't need to report success. There are teams of folks who 'bless' the packages into unmasked status when they feel they are ready. Your lack of reporting a bug is an indication that there is nothing to block the package from being promoted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'
Iain Buchanan wrote: etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' Any ideas? How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'
Francesco Riosa wrote: How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own? and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every corner you could look at it ? How about because that is set from the default installation and that 95% of the folks on this list couldn't even tell you what it is for and when it is appropriate to change the setting? How about the high probability that this person is not running their own DNS and is using /etc/hosts for local name resolution? Or how about the fact that glibc 2.3.6-r3 (as 2.3.6 in general) is masked in Portage indicating that you should expect problems if you're going to build your box on an unstable version of glibc? Sure it is not the answer for someone running their own DNS (which I do) and has their .local zone defined (as I do), and in this case it might actually be a bug (which is probable since that version of glibc is still masked). But without the OP specifying that he *was* running his own DNS and *had* his .local zone set up and *was known* to be able to handle a base system running from masked glibc, you can't assume that he's even slightly qualified to diagnose and resolve this issue. So the simple answer of removing the line is probably the right one for him. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'
Rumen Yotov wrote: Or how about the fact that glibc 2.3.6-r3 (as 2.3.6 in general) is masked in Portage indicating that you should expect problems if you're going to build your box on an unstable version of glibc? Please don't scare me, it's in testing (not masked). At least 2.3.6-r2|3. -*2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 ~2.3.6-r3 In testing, yes, but it is still (soft) masked. Glibc is the core of the system; if there is *any* package you *don't* install unless it is unmasked entirely, it would be glibc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Why does portage want to downgrade?
Here's the skinny: I updated iptables from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 this weekend. Everything's cool. Next 'emerge --update --deep world' wants to downgrade iptables back to 1.3.4. So I add '--tree' to see what package wants it downgraded, and it's shorewall. I opened the shorewall ebuild, and it has a depend line for iptables stating: =net-firewall/iptables-1.2.4 Well, in my book both 1.3.4 and 1.3.5 are greater than the 1.2.4 dependency. So I don't understand why portage thinks it needs to downgrade iptables when clearly shorewall should be happy with 1.3.5. Anybody out there that can provide a clue? TIA Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize
James wrote: is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop it and start it again: /etc/init.d/ntpd start fails. /etc/init.d/ntpd zap to clear out the invalid status, then do the 'start' again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stubborn distcc compile on localhost
How is it shown file is compiled on localhost despite: halinka ~ # distcc-config --get-hosts 192.168.0.2 Where of course localhost != 192.168.0.2 Any ideas what am I doing wrong ? I think you need to add a line to your compile hosts like: localhost/0 I believe this informs distcc not to try to compile on the local host at all but use the remote hosts. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown service running on port 859/tcp
netstat -pl | grep 859 This will give you the name of the process that's listening there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Refresh my memory...
I've got a couple of packages that insist on doing the upgrade/downgrade cycle... What's the arg list to pass to emerge so I can see who's trying to downgrade my packages? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using tar to backup my system
# tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I don't want to go in circles). You're going to want to exclude portions of /var, /dev, /proc /sys, /tmp, ... You're also going to want to dig deeper into command line options to preserve ownership, links rather than hard files, etc. # tar -zxvf mylaptop.tar Ah, -z isn't needed because mylaptop.tar is not compressed. The other larger problem is that it overwrites all files, regardless of whether they have been updated or not. I guess really what I'm saying is no, it is not a good idea. There's plenty of other backup solutions out there that would work better than this scheme. If you have a server and space for the file, rsync would even be a better solution. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...
On Monday 24 October 2005 06:13 pm, Eric Waguespack wrote: what would I do (short of a reinstallation) to recompile everything with these new USE flags? emerge --newuse --emptytree world will rebuild everything applying the new use variable(s) to the mix. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages
On Saturday 22 October 2005 04:07 pm, Robert Persson wrote: I know I can emerge kdebase-meta kdeaddons-meta kdeblahblahblah to get things up to date, but is there a way to get portage to actually deal with kde nicely like it used to? Just emerge kde, you don't need to work with the meta packages themselves. The kde is itself a meta package and will ensure the sub-packages are kept up to date (at least that's how it's been working on my box). Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using g++ instead of gcc to build abiword
On Saturday 22 October 2005 07:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: The strange thing is that abiword-2.2.10 (the version I currently have installed) was only released last month sometime. So between then and now something has changed on my system to prevent it compiling properly. If gcc hasn't changed then what on earth could it be? I think at this point you'll have to post some of the output generated when the ebuild fails before we'll be able to help you any further... Just saying you're getting error on delete(void*) doesn't really provide much info in regards to what was happening at the time. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MySQL 5.0 unmasked, but what does the upgrade entail?
The devs have finally un-hard-masked MySQL (still soft masked by ~x86 keyword). But, in their wisdom, they block the 4.1 to 5.0 unless you define MYSQL_STRAIGHT_UPGRADE=1 before starting the emerge. I originally allowed ~x86 because I wanted the 4.1 version of the db, and everything has been working fine on my end. But now it's time to consider whether or not to keep the ~x86 keyword and move to the 5.0 branch or remove it to stay at 4.1. Has anyone out there done the 4 to 5 upgrade? What will I need to do post-install to migrate my databases? Also I hestitate to ask if I should do the upgrade; I know folks will say that it is still soft masked and that's a reason not to do it, but that kind of response I can do without. A reason outside of the soft-mask that says why I should not upgrade would be a lot more valuable. A google search did not turn up anything gentoo specific about the upgrade, but I'm still looking for general 4 to 5 upgrading procedures (hmm, maybe I'll even get to submit a wiki article or something ;-) Thanks in advance! Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!
MySQL upgrade was painful, but the upgrade guide given in the einfo worked perfectly (THANK YOU Doc Team!). Not so painless on my end... Revdep-rebuild failed to identify that postfix and dspam were (somehow) linked against missing mysql 4 libs. Had to re-emerge them manually (after realizing that the mail server was not receiving mail most of the day), but after that things seem to be fine wrt the latest batch of updates. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 12:26 pm, Rob wrote: I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the command rc-update del syslog-ng default will not remove the file from /etc/init.d. rc-update del syslog-ng default just removes the link from /etc/runlevels/default; that's the directory that determines which services to start at system boot time. Is it safe to remove manually from /etc/init.d? Yeah, sure, I guess. But the gentoo way would be to emerge -C syslog-ng and let emerge remove the files as it will drop all of the component pieces and not try to keep emerging updates when they come out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 01:05 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:44:18 + Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 2005-10-19 09:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I recently decided to use sysklogd instead of syslog-ng. But the | command rc-update del syslog-ng default will not remove the file | from /etc/init.d. | | It should be deleted when you unmerge syslog-ng. No it shouldn't. Okay, I'll bite, why shouldn't it? If the package is unmerged, why would this file be kept on the system? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 02:08 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:22:45 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Okay, I'll bite, why shouldn't it? If the package is unmerged, why | would this file be kept on the system? CONFIG_PROTECT. If you think that the default behaviour is silly, try something like this in your make.conf: CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb No, I don't think it is silly, but based on a discussion on gentoo-dev recently I was under the impression it was not enabled by default (as I remember the poster was asking everyone to turn on config_protect to see if there were any other relevant defects that needed to be identified). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 03:38 pm, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all, I had a doubt, I got a power loss when emerging gcc it was almost at final, when I do a emerge --resume, it beguns all over again so my doubt is if there a way to continue compilation from where it stops. Nope. The assumption is that there was an error in the previous build so it starts over with that package. Even if you were to try the lower level ebuild command to try to manually kick it I don't think you'd be successful because it was still in the middle of an emerge phase when the failure occurred. Just --resume and get yourself a cup of coffee, grab a smoke, go out to dinner, etc., and look forward to it being done when you get back. Besides, gcc is part of the build tool chain so you really wouldn't want it to be broken in any way as it may (probably would) cause you more headaches down the road if portage weren't completely happy with it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 04:03 pm, Billy Holmes wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: over again so my doubt is if there a way to continue compilation from where it stops. sometimes, but you have to add FEATURES=keepwork to make.conf not all ebuilds will support it, and your /var/tmp/portage will get very large, very quickly. I send to use it on the command line: (example) FEATURES=keepwork emerge -avt vim Keepwork will keep the results of the build process in /var/tmp/portage, but I didn't believe portage could pick up in the middle even if keepwork was set... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 04:58 pm, Billy Holmes wrote: Dave Nebinger wrote: Keepwork will keep the results of the build process in /var/tmp/portage, but I didn't believe portage could pick up in the middle even if keepwork was set... I will resume in the middle, based upon how the Makefile, autoconf, and dependancies are setup. Since the .o files are still there, the make process will skip them. My experience has only been from the ebuild development side. I know that ebuild checks timestamps on the directories to determine if a re-extract is necessary, but I wasn't sure if quitting in the middle of a compile would act as a similar trigger or not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging stuff..
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 04:59 pm, karlos wrote: Hi, Hi Karstin, welcome to Gentoo! I am really bad in setting up internet/networks and that sort of thing, and I am having problems connecting to any of the ftp-servers for updating gentoo. Helping to diagnose your problem would be a lot easier if you could specify the errors that you're encountering. At this point we could only guess about firewall issues, timeout issues, connectivity issues, settings, etc. Without a clearer indication (i.e. a screen dump of the failure), any advice you'd garnish here would be merely a guess. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?
On Thursday 20 October 2005 01:19 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Well, you could try this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects. I noticed this broke after the recent Python upgrade - I had to remove the module to run emerge. Yes, but all you need to do is (as the python update ebuild reported but many of us missed) run python-updater and it would have resolved the issue. It was due to relocation of the libraries for py 2.4 vs 2.3 Run python-updater and then restore the cdb module. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Well the good news is that since you're getting this far, you're almost out of the woods... As far as the radius warnings go, I got those also but it installed w/o them. There are only minor differences between your command and the one my system issued: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I/u sr/local/include -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I /usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/i nclude/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--e xport-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz The first is the INET6, I don't have ipv6 support enabled on my box (the -ipv6 use flag). The added defines for threads I'm not sure about, but I've got both nptl and the older thread support enabled (the nptl use flag). Also mine didn't emit the -mcpu=686 argument for gcc; is this something you defined in your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Basically I would try the following: 1. Disable ipv6 if you are not using it. 2. Check your nptl/nptlonly use flags; if you have nptlonly set, it might be a threads issue. 3. Check your CFLAGS and possibly remove the -mcpu definition (as I remember that is supposed to be deprecated anyway). Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:06 am, Richard Fish wrote: In either case, the solution is the same: MAKEOPTS=j1 emerge ethereal. Sorry, but I can attest to -j(n 1) works locally for me. It is most likely not the issue. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:56 am, Scott Tiret wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Try revdep-rebuild. If it is not available emerge gentoolkit and try again. You may have some missing links to the libraries. Good luck, He got all the way to the last part where it builds doco for ethereal... If it were truly a library issue it would have crapped out long before then. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:25 pm, Scott Stoddard wrote: An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with less frustration. Come on, folks, even though this thread has gone on just today it's gone on long enough... Gentoo isn't LSB, nor will it be. That much is a fact. To think that LSB will solve the problems of maintainers of heterogenous networks is a clear indication that you haven't really read what LSB actually is or means. What the original poster is going to find out is that a) gentoo does not support LSB and that b) gentoo is not alone. This will leave them with the choice of limiting their tool to only LSB compliant distros or doing what the rest of the folks are and that's developing the code base to release onto the end nodes that will be managed. Personally I'd opt for the latter, but then I don't have any say in what their choice will be. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:44 pm, Matias Grana wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: motub- useflag vim-with-x /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm Aha! Now it seems that I have an old (or not so accurate) /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc: /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Enables linking the console vim against X libs to enable some features in xterms You're not out of sync, Holly is, possibly an upstream sync issue. This is why I neglected to see that clipboard and vim-with-x were related. But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong to any package (tried equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc and didn't get any answer). This file is resynced when you 'emerge --sync'; it is not owned by a package in portage. If you look at the timestamp of the file it should match the date of your last sync. For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. I sync against the Netherlands rsync pool, SYNC=rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I suppose what you say is possible, but does not seem to be the case. I figured you sync'd daily Holly; I wouldn't have expected any less. ;-) The question is, however, if you and I both sync daily and, although file times suggest they have been updated, but the file contents are different, where would the problem lie? The only guess I could come up with is the upstream mirror. I sync against http://gentoo.osuosl.org/, and you're syncing against the netherlands pool. Either one themselves could be sync'd against another mirror which is sync'd against another mirror... Somewhere along the line I'm guessing that perhaps this particular file is not fetched/updated for some reason which would leave one of us with an outdated copy. I know mine comes out of CVS with the header $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 00:03:00 vapier Exp $, so I'm guessing that I have the later file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 08:32 pm, Phill MV wrote: That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on a website? Legally binding, maybe But enforcable, hardly. Had the individual mailed you directly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversation between the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to share privileged information with you, which you then made public). However, as the OP posted his message to the mailing list which is of course archived, republished as digests, and generally available from the website. So there was no intent on his/their part to discretely share information with one or a few individuals. Look at the guy that just got busted for releasing early information on some apple product (the ipod mini, I think?) There's an example of what can happen if you share info that is given to you by a corporate entity and you go spreading it around. But once the individual/company make it public (ala posting a message like that to the list), it no longer carries privilege with it, unless of course it contained information that you used in some way to develop a competing product/service, at which point you've opened a different can of worms... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 07:00 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: are you saying that this line app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm is not the same on your file, despite the identical header? I mustbe getting old or something. I swear when I looked at it before it matched the other guys and not yours. Now mine matches yours. I need to start drinking ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 12:09 am, Phill MV wrote: Well, it's just weird. What if said person is engaging in harassment? That's a separate can of worms altogether. First you'd have to prove to the court that you are actually getting harrassed. A statement like the one automagically appended would have nothing to do with that situation. Is it then illegal to go about spam if they include the little disclaimer? Well, I think that's different as well. The spammers want you to share the spam with your friends/family/coworkers as they want the clicks/sales. A statement like the one that was on the OPs email would suggest that sort of thing was not wanted... It doesn't make sense to me :P but oh well. Me either. I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to the law, but I've been known to crack open a few books when necessary. Basically it's a CYA move by the companies to allow for litigation should one of their employees let something slip... That's a different case. IIRC the guy who leaked the info on the iPod shuffle/Mac mini broke an NDA he signed with Apple - which is then perfectly legal. Trade secrets and the like, I suppose. But I think had that been an internal apple employee that sent it to an individual without an NDA, just a buddy he wanted to give a heads up to, and that buddy posted it on the net, the court may look at the wording of the blurb and apply a similar ruling. Then again, the whole thing might get thrown out by the court, but by that time you're bankrupt because you try to stand up for yourself. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /sbin/runscript.sh: line 32: /var/lib/init.d/softlevel: No such file or directory
On Monday 17 October 2005 10:57 am, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Is anybody seeing this in recent x86 stable? I just built a stock 2005.1 system on a classic Athlon platform and I am getting; /sbin/runscript.sh: line 32: /var/lib/init.d/softlevel: No such file or directory softlevel just contains the name of the level that you booted under, most likely default on a line by itself. It looks like this file is created when the system boots, as mine is dated for when my system was cycled last. Possibly you could try hand creating this file, but if possible you might be better off recycling the system alltogether. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best Tomcat performance?
On Monday 17 October 2005 12:48 pm, A. Khattri wrote: Which combination of Tomcat and JVM gives the best performance? (or is this question not relevant?) I'd say irrelevant. Basically your performance will be controlled by the amount of memory you have, the number of child daemons you allow, and the basic speed of your system. Each instance is going to require a big chunk of memory to stay resident and not get swapped out; if your limited on memory you're going to find yourself swapping like crazy and performance is going to blow. You should try to identify how much memory each process is consuming then adjust the number of child processes to keep them within the amount of available memory. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Syslog-ng has shell port open...
So I'm busy tracking down a tcp connection issue on my server and I see that
*.shell is open (not a good thing).
So I do the 'netstat -pl' command to see who has that socket open and, low and
behold, it happens to be syslog-ng.
So I'm thinking that's kinda odd, there's no reason that syslog-ng should have
the shell port open for any reason.
Looking at my syslog-ng.conf file, the only sources I have defined are:
source src {unix-stream(/dev/log);
internal();
pipe(/proc/kmsg);
udp();
tcp(max_connections(10));
};
These, to me, do not look like they should result in an open shell port.
Anyone out there with ideas as to why it is opened by syslog-ng and how I can
get it closed down?
Thanks!
Dave
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Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng has shell port open... SOLVED
On Monday 17 October 2005 02:00 pm, Dave Nebinger wrote: So I'm busy tracking down a tcp connection issue on my server and I see that *.shell is open (not a good thing). So I do the 'netstat -pl' command to see who has that socket open and, low and behold, it happens to be syslog-ng. My bad. Forgot that under tcp 544 is shell, but under udp 544 is syslog. I had both tcp and udp open, which is why shell port was open. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what diz mean?
On Monday 17 October 2005 05:19 pm, Gentoo Shadow wrote: tcp 0 0 10.1.0.64:33612 http://10.1.0.64:33612 strategiy.com:httpESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.1.0.64:33621 http://10.1.0.64:33621 strategiy.com:httpESTABLISHED so help me... what diz mean? why this? It means there are two incoming HTTP connections to your box from strategiy.com. Check your web server logs and you should be able to identify the resources they're hitting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what diz mean?
On Monday 17 October 2005 05:44 pm, El Nino wrote: i don't have a running web server. am just using my lap to surf de net. i thought some one accessing my lap over de net. what do u think? My bad, first address is where the connection is from, second is where the address is to. So from your OP, you are connected via http out to strategiy.com. If you don't think it's your browser doing this, you can do a netstat -ap to print the program that has the connection open. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] automounter
On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:34 pm, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I've been wrestling with this all weekend. My last emerge --update world emerged dbus and hal. Now usb storage devices are not mounted. I've been getting the following message during boot: I'm willing to bet that revdep-rebuild -p will show that automount needs to be re-emerged. Revdep-rebuild (without the -p) will clean up all apps with broken library links for you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reaching my network over the internet
On Sunday 16 October 2005 09:18 pm, Nick Rout wrote: no, you just type: ssh my.network.com Depending on your setup you will probably need to set your firewall/router to forward port 22 to the machine you want to log into. Also make sure your ssh server is set up securely. This last statement really needs to be highlighted for all of the newbies out there... Just opening port 22 will expose your system to attempted break-ins. If you look at your authorize.log (or relevant log depending upon your syslog config), you'll see after a couple of days different systems accessing ssh an trying to log in as root and/or other users. Unless you really feel comfortable with your own security infrastructure, your best bet is to edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and change the port number to only something you'd think of in the higher range of port numbers. It will still be open, you'll still be able to hit the box from anywhere outside your network, but the different port number ensures that random port scans and breakin attempts will be significantly lower than if you just tried to use standard port #22. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling lirc for streamzap with 2.6.14-rc3
On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:10 pm, Shaw Vrana wrote:
Hello again Gentooers,
I'm attempting to get the streamzap remote working with lirc. According to
the howtos around, I've created LIRC_OPTS in make.conf with a value of
--with-driver=streamzap. Emerging lirc afterwards, however, gives me
the compilation errors attached. Also, I get the message Streamzap is not
Kernel 2.6 ready and will not be compiled. Is this true or does it work
out of the box? I've seen both reports out there. The 2.6.14-rc3 kernel
I'm running seems to know the device and register it properly.
Oct 13 17:47:40 kron kernel: usb 2-1: Product: Streamzap Remote Control
Oct 13 17:47:40 kron kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Streamzap, Inc.
Oct 13 17:47:40 kron kernel: usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using
uhci_hcd Oct 13 17:47:41 kron kernel: usb 2-2: Product: PS2 to USB
Converter
Shaw, there's nothing in the config.log file that meantions the streamzap
driver. The errors are the normal output of the configure script testing for
environmental things (i.e. mingw compiler, libdnet.{a,so}, etc) and are not
failures that you need to worry about.
Unfortunately there is no indication why it thinks it's not '2.6 ready'.
Do you have your /usr/src/linux link set to point at the kernel you're
compiling for?
Also which version of lirc were you going after?
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[gentoo-user] runscripts and niceness...
Hey, for the /etc/init.d scripts based upon runscripts, is there a way to have it start a daemon using a different nice value? I hate having to go in manually to bump postfix's niceness each time the system boots... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with eix?
On Thursday 13 October 2005 04:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: root - eix cedega * app-emulation/cedega Available versions: 4.0 4.0.1 4.1 4.1[1] 4.1.1 4.2-r1 4.2.1 4.3 4.3.1 4.3.2 4.4 4.4.1 Installed: 4.4.1 Homepage:http://www.transgaming.com/ Description: Cedega replaces WineX, a distribution of Wine with enhanced DirectX for gaming Sorry, Holly, but what exactly is the error you're seeing? I get the same list (but not the overlay), but there is an ebuild for each one of these in /usr/portage/app-emulatiiin/cedega... What did you expect to see? Also, as a side note, eix had problems with the cdb portage some time back; if you'e running cdb you might want to disable it, emerge --meta, update-eix, then see if the problem still exists. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with eix?
On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:00 am, Holly Bostick wrote: In this particular example, version 4.4.3 is also available, but does not show as available under eix, though it does show as available via an emerge --search. Ah, now I see. So many versions I couldn't see the tree in the forrest. Same thing on my end yet slightly worse; 4.4.2 is also available but does not show up under eix either. Also, as a side note, eix had problems with the cdb portage some time back; if you'e running cdb you might want to disable it, emerge --meta, update-eix, then see if the problem still exists. Thanks for the confirmation; I was figuring that cdb might have had something to do with it, being the only real possible culprit. I'll try that, hopefully it will fix things. Well, obviously it's a defect in eix again. I wouldn't call dumping cdb a 'fix' as I wouldn't want to lose the performance increase I get by using it. Guess I'll see what the EIX folks have to say about it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with eix?
On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:36 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: Well, obviously it's a defect in eix again. I wouldn't call dumping cdb a 'fix' as I wouldn't want to lose the performance increase I get by using it. Guess I'll see what the EIX folks have to say about it... Opened a bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=710608aid=1325887group_id=128101 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with eix? [SOLVED?]
On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:36 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: Well, obviously it's a defect in eix again. I wouldn't call dumping cdb a 'fix' as I wouldn't want to lose the performance increase I get by using it. Guess I'll see what the EIX folks have to say about it... Hmm, Holly I don't know if the same stream of events happened to you, but for me: 1. python update to 2.4, missed the python-updater warning. 2. re-emerged python-cdb to get portage working again. 3. verified missing cedega packages from eix database. 4. re-emerged eix 5. problem solved, cedega reports all versions. Try re-emerging eix, rerun update-eix, then check the output. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer
On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:51 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xff91, irq 20, MAC addr 00:13:20:2B:98:18 e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100 Mbps, full-duplex eth0: no IPv6 routers present You need to disable the ipv6 support unless you actually have an ipv6 uplink. It's probably some kernel setting or something that is trying to throw you into ipv6. I use the -ipv6 use flag to disable ipv6 across the board and disable in the kernel config. If you do the same (you'll need to rebuild everything tho :-( it will probably clean itself up and the card will come up fine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
1. Boot should be at most ext3, but ext2 is just fine (the only thing on this partition is kernel images and grub stages). Keeping to this will mean less problems at boot time (grub users can tell you nightmares about reiserfs /boot partitions, and I'd guess that jfs would be in the same category). 50 meg is a nice round number although you can do with half that (I personally use 100mb but I've got a number of kernels installed there). 2. /opt does not need to be a separate partition. Few gentoo things go there, so it is not worth maintaining a separate partition for (and wasting the possible space). 3. /home should be a separate partition, sized to your needs. 4. I'm from the old school where we believe /var/tmp and /tmp should be separate partitions. This is primarily before they were made partitions as a norm and were on the root partition; filling them meant filling / and also meant you would lose access to your box. 5. For gentoo I recommend using a separate partition for /usr/portage. It's hard to nail down a size for this as portage tree keeps growing and the number of distfiles you might have is in flux. Isolating it ensures that any growth issues are isolated to that branch. 6. /var is your choice whether to parrtition separately or not, but is probably a good idea. /var/logs will grow over time, /var/spool is in constant flux, but the rest will typically remain kinda static (note this depends upon the apps you use; mysql houses it's databases under /var by default, and apache/tomcat use /var/www so that can chane also. Sizing each of the areas is really personal preference; if you ask 10 different gentooers you'll probably get 11 different responses at least. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Crute wrote: I have a 120GB drive with a 32M /boot a /10 GB / and the rest of the disk dedicated to /home. The setup works wonderfully for me. Ah, but it is a disaster waiting to happen. If you fill your root partition you'll have difficulty getting back into the box (you'll need your live cd to chroot into your system and clean out the disk). How can something like this happen? Syslog filling up /var/log. An influx of spam filling /var/spool/mail. Never cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles but continually downloading package updates. The root partition is your key to accessing your box. You basically want to have only static files on the root partition, not files that are in a general state of flux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
On Thursday 13 October 2005 05:15 pm, Alexey Asprov wrote: Thanks for your reply. So, if that were your system, how much space you would give to /boot /swap / ( eliminating /opt) /home /var /tmp and /usr? I just need rough numbers, so that my fresh install wouldn't get in trouble. I have 256 RAM and this is 10GIGs. Thanks again. General rule of thumb is swap = 2 x ram, so 512mb swap. That will leave about 9.25 gb left (must account for partitioning overhead). I would probably do as follows: /home - 2gb /var - 1gb, rebind a section as /tmp to keep it all under this partition. Assumes you are not using the PORT_LOGDIR option, if you are add another 1gb. /usr/portage - 1gb but you'll need to clean out distfiles regularly. Whatever is left goes to / Note that regardless of your partitioning, you're going to want to be very selective over what is installed on the system. For example, choose gnome or kde, but not both (and set appropriate disabling use flags), or better yet a thinner window manager like icewm or something without the bulk/overhead of gnome/kde (which will struggle anyway due to low memory). My system is allocated as: cornholio src # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 13G 7.6G 5.2G 60% / /dev/hda1 99M 46M 49M 49% /boot /dev/sda3 2.8G 356M 2.4G 13% /tmp /dev/hdb1 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /var /dev/sda2 3.9G 1.3G 2.6G 33% /var/tmp /dev/hdc1 29G 23G 6.6G 78% /var/spool/news /dev/hdb4 4.9G 3.3G 1.7G 67% /home /dev/hdb2 3.9G 742M 3.1G 19% /usr/portage /dev/sdb1 8.5G 463M 8.1G 6% /backup -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables
On Thursday 13 October 2005 03:20 pm, James wrote: Yes, OK. I want to play with this manually for a few weeks, then I'll use buildpkg and PGKDIR. One last qustion. If the USE settings are identical and the CFLAGS are similar between an AMD and Intel, can I use the approach with one system being Intel and the other being AMD: Nope. Buildpkg bundles the stuff that was just compiled for the local architecture. You'd have to disable pentium vs amd stuff (mmx vs 3dnow) and might even have to boil the CFLAGS down to a simpler x86 (not sure if natively built 686 executables run on amd, but going down to a 386 or 486 would work). In the end tho the hoops you'd have to jump through to make it work will mean sacraficing the performance increase you get by targeting a specific platform. You'd almost be better of running a binary distrib rather than trying to figure out how to get this working. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare
What to do? Can I safely ignore the revdep-rebuild messages? I think you can safely ignore that (unless you're running java applications that use sound/alsa). the java packages are binary, that means that you don't compile it according to your use flags, you install the whole package, so some libraries (like libalsasound.so) will complain if you don't have alsa support. I'm having this problem with opera and libXm but I just ignore it. Thanks. You might consider the alternate route of removing the offending libjsoundalsa.so file. Of course, rather than simply /bin/rm'ing the thing away you might want to just relocate it temporarily. Then do a revdep-rebuild -p to see if blackdown starts complaining about the missing file... Another alternative is to install alsa. Granted you won't be using it because you don't have the hardware, but it might be enough to have a clean revdep-rebuild. Based on equery results, it looks like all you'd need to emerge is alsa-lib and alsa-headers, so you wouldn't be talking about a great deal of extra space... Just a thought. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg gone with gentoolkit update
emerge portage-utils. That will give you qpkg back (equery told me so ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare
Another alternative is to install alsa. Granted you won't be using it because you don't have the hardware, but it might be enough to have a clean revdep-rebuild. Based on equery results, it looks like all you'd need to emerge is alsa-lib and alsa-headers, so you wouldn't be talking about a great deal of extra space... Wouldn't that entail some error messages at boot time? Not as long as you're not loading the modules. Lib headers do not have any runtime (service) components, sothey shouldn't have an impact. If they did, you would just need to remove them using rc-update. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare
OK, I'll try that. Or perhaps I give Sun a try, although I find the hassle repulsive. After all, they're not charging for the product, so what's the point of making downloading such a pain? Stupid, if they ask me, which they don't, of course. It's not gentoo's fault. The website itself forces you to jump through hoops before the link works (make sure you click on the 'accept' radio button). Ya know, these days, it's all about protecting your IP... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootstrap USE flags opinions?
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 01:54 pm, Alexey Asprov wrote:
Hi list again..
Hello Alexey. Just a quick FYI: Your timezone does not appear to be set
correctly; I can tell because your sent time is in the future ;-)
I will attempt to bootstrap with following USE flags for the NPTL.
I will not be using Gnome or KDE. I'd appreciate peoples opinion
about them and welcome their examples of USE flags ( real working
experiences) for bootstraping. This will be done for Pentium3
machine, if this matters.
Hmm, well I can't tell you what to predict in regards to the list of flags
that you generated. The list is all over the place in regards to media and
web flags, yet the -kde and -gnome will hogtie most of the resulting
packages.
Use emerge --pretend to see what kind of results you'll actually get.
Another question I'd like to ask if I need to include my CPU flags
In /etc/make.conf you define your CFLAGS to match your cpu. In your case
(which is just like mine) the following should suffice:
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
You might want to add the USE options for the supported mmx, mtrr, etc. but I
honestly can't tell you what effects they actually have on the builds.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 01:19 pm, kashani wrote: I did this to a few of my servers and it works well. Then I did it to my internal portage mirror. When my internal machine sync against it, it runs very slow... I'm not overly surprised, but I'd like some clarification on why that's happening. I suppose the fix would be two separate copies of portage. One for the machine and one to serve out of rsync that doesn't have the cdb stuff. The cdb shouldn't have anything to do with rsync; rsync is just copying the /usr/portage tree, it doesn't interrogate the cdb store. That's why after fetching emerge rebuilds the meta data, because that info is not rsync'd (or if it is, it isn't trusted by the local emerge so it rebuilds the meta data anyway). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootstrap USE flags opinions?
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 08:17 pm, Alexey Asprov wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:21:08 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 01:54 pm, Alexey Asprov wrote: Hi list again.. Hello Alexey. Just a quick FYI: Your timezone does not appear to be set correctly; I can tell because your sent time is in the future ;-) Hello Dave. Why this can be so important? Yes, I set my local timezone to GMT. If it won't harm the system, who cares? Or, does it harm? And yes, I am in st.Petersburg (Russia), but I coudn't find any relevant timesone when I've installed Gentoo for the (3)rd time and thoght this would be fine. Does this interfere with my using and compiling the system? Well, spamassassin flags the messages because they have the date in the future. I've got a rule allowing messages from the list so it goes through, but some sites might block your email whether you know it or not. From your local system perspective, no it really doesn't matter. But being part of the internet means that you should be playing by internet rules, therefore having the right time/date for the system. As far as compiling goes, it wouldn't matter either. I'd worry about the rsync process as, since you are in the future, the timestamps from your local system and the remote rsync mirror might indicate to your system that you're newer than what the mirror thinks. Enough preaching, I was just pointing it out in case you weren't aware. I have only found exaple with working ( as athour claims) USE flags for workingbootstraping . If you feel that some packages will hogtie, please advice on what USE flags have to be removed ( or added). Well if you're not running X you can slim down quite a bit. The list you included has all multimedia and stuff for more of a desktop system. My server box has a much shorter list: USE=-mbox -gnome -kde -X atm maildir cdr bzlib curl -emacs exif fam ftp gnutls -ipv6 kerberos libwww mime mmap mmx mng nptl pcre pic php perl sockets sse ssl sysvipc posix sasl shared sharedmem usb mysql xml cups pam imap aac apache2 bash-completion berkdb bidi bzip2 canna caps cjk clamav cpdflib crypt dbus dbx dio ethereal examples expat flac freewnn gd gdm javascript ncurses nls png jpeg junit ldap libclamav mcve ming openntpd mysqli nas netboot openal tcpd spl spell snmp sockets soap python samba vhosts xml2 zlib Use emerge --pretend to see what kind of results you'll actually get. Not sure what do you mean by that. Emerge -pv just estimating what packages have to be emerged. It will show all of the dependencies as well as the package. For example, you had gnomedb in your USE list, but -gnome also. If you emerged a package that used the gnomedb flag, but gnomedb has dependencies upon gnome, you're either going to be looking at a nasty message about a blocked package, the package won't install, or you'll get gnome anyway (note this is just an example, I don't know for sure what the gnomedb flag would incur). Thanks for your response, but probably some one added to USE flags in make.conf? And how did it go in bootstrapping? Also, to rephrase my original question do I have include all of them or only mmx, sse, mtrr as Dave suggested? I did include them in my USE flags. I don't have any clue what, if any, effect they have on the system. Many of the USE flags have descriptions available, but I haven't seen any sort of cross-reference that says when USE flag X is set, Y happens as a result. I look at these as clarifying the base system architecture, but do not have the same kind of impact as gnome/-gnome would have. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Palm with udev problem
Googling turned up the following: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-298123-view-previous.html?sid=7f00b2b96c8825e43147c9fddfe05cb6 try loading module usbcore with modprobe usbcore old_scheme_first=Y, or if its built in, then, boot with paramter usbcore.old_scheme_first=Y http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=370812 well i would assume that these devices are usb2.0,but you're only loading them using one of the usb1.1 modules. run a modprobe ehci_hcd to load the usb2 driver and try again. you might want to rmmod ohci_hcd to make sure that only the 2.0 driver can be used. http://www.talkaboutsoftware.com/group/linux.kernel/messages/166276.html This one says you need to run MAKEDEV usb, but I'm not sure this needs to occur on a udev box. There is of course the wiki article for evolution, palm, and udev; perhaps the udev stuff will help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_sync_for_Palm_PDAs_with_Evolution_2.0_and_udev Or a more generic link that has udev/palm example: http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Somebody's cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles and I want it to stop! ;-)
Seriously, I purposely do not clean out distfiles because I don't want to refetch them every single time an -rn update comes out. But I've been noticing that /usr/portage/disfiles has been cleaning itself. I don't have any of the 'clean' type features set, and I don't have any cron tasks going in there and cleaning it out, so what gives? And why is it only happening on one of my two gentoo systems? emerge --info is the exact same (minus some USE flag differences)... I'm truly at a loss for this one. None of the obvious suspects appear to be in play, and I don't know where to go look next... Suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Somebody's cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles and I want it to stop! ;-)
Are you running http-accelerater and repcacheman on one? http-replicator, not accelerator, but it does run repcacheman on a monthly basis (on the 30th). The cleanups appear to be more frequent than that, however, so I didn't really consider it to be the cause. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Somebody's cleaning /usr/portage/distfiles and I want it to stop! ;-)
On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:48 am, Justin Patrin wrote: Are you running http-accelerater and repcacheman on one? Oh, and both use /var/cache/http-replicator as the source dir, not /usr/portage/distfiles. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar? If you choose to roll your own solution, that would be difficult. Youve already accepted the connection, so the firewall is now configured to allow the packets back and forth only when related to your connection. Without 'exec()'ing a child process to retain the open file handle, you'll be forced to proxy the packets on your own. And since you don't want to exec an instance of apache (hm, perhaps an instance of a lightweight web proxy instead, hmm) it will be less general overhead to proxy packets on your own. Technically the proxy development is not difficult, but for newbies it can be frustrating working out the nuances of processing asynchronous data arriving on one pipe let alone two. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight placeWHACK-A-MOLE
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:32 pm, maxim wexler wrote: But now grub wont work at all. there's either a crash or the thing boots to an error message such as end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0. Needless to say the floppy drive is fine. Or, The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly Maxim I had a similar thing happen when grub went thru an upgrade on the box that I missed. Next boot resulted in grub complaining. Re-installing grub to the MBR fixed it (using the version of grub that was installed on the box, not the grub on the knoppix cd). Have you tried that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... cornholio ~ # df -h /boot FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 99M 46M 49M 49% /boot cornholio ~ # ls /boot System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 System.map-2.6.13.2 config-2.6.12.3-firewall vmlinuz-2.6.11.7 System.map-2.6.11.11 boot@ config-2.6.12.4 vmlinuz-2.6.12 System.map-2.6.11.6 config-2.6.11 config-2.6.13 vmlinuz-2.6.12.2 System.map-2.6.11.6-bridgeconfig-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 config-2.6.13.2 vmlinuz-2.6.12.2-firewall System.map-2.6.11.7 config-2.6.11.11 grub/ vmlinuz-2.6.12.3-firewall System.map-2.6.12 config-2.6.11.6 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 vmlinuz-2.6.12.4-firewall System.map-2.6.12.2 config-2.6.11.6-bridge kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 vmlinuz-2.6.13 System.map-2.6.12.2-firewall config-2.6.11.7 lost+found/ vmlinuz-2.6.13.2 System.map-2.6.12.3-firewall config-2.6.12 vmlinuz-2.6.11.11 System.map-2.6.12.4 config-2.6.12.2 vmlinuz-2.6.11.6 System.map-2.6.13 config-2.6.12.2-firewall vmlinuz-2.6.11.6-bridge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
you may find this link very helpfull: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. Trust it, Mark, it works great! I've been using CDB for like 9 months now. I've had only one problem with it (the recent python 2.3 to 2.4 upgrade, I missed the fact that I was to run python-updater, so the CDB stuff was not automagically upgraded on it's own). It's very quick, EIX supports it, and it works like a charm. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to wipe windows for gentoo w/possibility of restoration...
I've got a laptop. It has a working win xp system on it (plus all apps, etc). I want to wipe windows off of it and put gentoo on it. But, after gentoo is up and running, I'd like to create a partition to restore the windows partition to. Laptop has a CD burner for storing the data. But I'm kinda at a loss on how to proceed. Obviously it is more complicated than just doing a fresh install because I'd lose all of the applications, etc. (including the installed drivers, registry, etc.). Anyone out there know if such a thing is possible? Thanks! Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:18 pm, Mark wrote: Is there a way I can apply all of the options I set last time I ran make menuconfig to the new kernel I just downloaded, or do I have to go through all the settings again? 1. cd /usr/src 2. tar xjf /path/to/downloaded/kernel.tar.bz2 3. cd linux-new-kernel 4. make mrproper 5. cp ../path.to.old.kernel/.config ./.config 6. make oldconfig 7. make make modules_install cp .config /boot/config-new-version cp System.map /boot/System.map-new-version cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-new-version /bin/rm -f /usr/src/linux ln -s /usr/src/linux-new-kernel /usr/src/linux vi /boot/grub/menu.lst A little terse, but yes. make oldconfig pulls in your existing .config file. It will prompt for new offerings not part of your old .config, usually the suggested default at the prompt is the way to go. When managing your own kernel, don't forget to a) install the modules (plus any other third party modules (i.e. nvidia driver modules) or your new kernel will give you grief, and b) recreate your /usr/src/linux symlink to point at the new kernel. Those steps above are the ones that I typically take (yes, folks will say to use make install, but I'm still from the old school. The only part of the rote script above that I'm unsure about is the System.map stuff. I know it gets generated when the kernel is built, I know most systems have them in /boot, but for the life of me I never a) found out what it was for, b) found out if it had to be in /boot and if it had to be a special name (i.e. /boot/System.map explicitly), and c) why I even bother in the first place. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:39 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hand copiing and editing grub.conf/menu.lst is just not needed. Come on, Volker, don't begrudge me a little fun ;-) I like seeing my 12 kernels listed all nice and neat in the list. Maybe one day I'll have a need to revert back to that 2.6.11 kernel. Probably not, but at least I know it's 2.6.11 and not 'current kernel' vs 'previous kernel'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:58 am, Francesco Talamona wrote: Yesterday, after python update (dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1), emerge refused to work, I had to comment both lines in /etc/portage/modules and reemerge dev-python/python-cdb. It wasn't a stopper, but it worth mention. That was the part I mentioned earlier. I think if you caught the note to run python-updater after the python upgrade it would have covered this. Basically what happens is that, without running python-updater, you've got a number of python packages installed in /usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages (or something like that). After the python 2.4 upgrade, those packages are no longer available, as 2.4 is looking for them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages (or whatever). Running python-updater is supposed to get those old guys moved from 2.3 to 2.4 so everything works. Unfortunately if that message about running python-updater floats by in the middle of updating a bunch of packages it is easy to miss, and before you know it you think your system is majorly screwed. I posted a message to gentoo-dev asking for an enhancement to portage that would collect the messages generated in the pkg_postinstall phase and re-report them after all packages have completed. Fortunately it is already an enhancement that is on the list, but it's not clear when it will be released. In the meantime I'm going to check out ENOTICE http://dev.gentoo.org/~eldad/ to see if it will work as a short-term solution. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
I was going to use this disk to help diagnose/repair the 120G which is down. Um, maybe I missed something Maxim. Do you have a cdrom? If so, just boot from a knoppix cd. Comes with tons of repair tools already on it. Then you wouldn't have to struggle with trying to get that small drive into a bootable state... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is this a memory thing?
Just scanning my logs and found the following entry: Oct 9 07:44:08 butthead MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0. Oct 9 07:44:08 butthead Bank 2: 9400417a I'm assuming since it says 'bank 2' it's referring to a problem with one of the ram slots... Can anyone confirm my assumption? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] making my own router
Sound OK so far?
Yup, same setup I'm using (kinda). Works out very well.
Next steps I think are figuring out how to provide DHCP
to both internal subnets from the same Gentoo box, and
what gateway address(es) the clients should use.
The gentoo box is the gateway. Assuming it is 192.168.{0,1}.1,
that would be the address to feed to the internal network boxen.
DHCP is easily configured to serve based upon the card, you just
need to dig into the config file to get it set up. Don't forget
to add iptables rules to block DHCP traffic coming or going on
the card connected to the network; you don't want to offer DHCP
to anyone outside of your internal network.
Along with DHCP you might want to add a caching DNS proxy on the
gateway box. This will simplify the network settings of the
internal systems (everything network-related would point to the
gateway).
Finally, I need to be able to do port-forwarding from the
outside to a specific host on one of the internal subnets.
Can I do that?
Yes, it's all done via iptables. You'll need to chain it up; the
cable modem forwards to the firewall which forwards to the gentoo
box which forwards to the specific host. You'll have to get all
of the DNAT stuff right along the way.
One quandary I have is regarding the hardware firewall. We have
money invested in it, but does it buy me anything now that we are
creating the 2 separate subnets? Should I just sell it and let
the Gentoo box be the firewall as well?
As one poster said it will offer another layer of protection, but...
Personally I found it unwieldy to maintain iptables rules in such a
fashion. If traffic can't get to/from a destination you'll have like
5 points of failure: the local box, the switch, the gentoo box, the
firewall, and finally the cable modem.
And with the correct iptables rules in place your gentoo box will
be just as secure as the firewall appliance. It also offers you the
opportunity to see all incoming traffic, not just the traffic the
firewall appliance allows. So, for example, I have the ssh port open
on the gentoo box but it is basically a honey pot; folks trying to
connect there get automatically added to the blacklist and traffic
is blocked from them permanently.
I'm not sure how feature-full your firewall appliance is, but the ones
that I was using had limited port forwarding capabilities (10 to be
exact). Once I wanted to start hosting basic services, I quickly
consumed those ports (imap, pop3, ssh, ident, smtp, ftp, http/s, ...).
This however might not be a problem for you.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror
On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:38 am, kashani wrote: John Jolet wrote: I was asked a similar question today at work. we have some new gentoo servers that do not have outbound access to the net. We'd like to have a local mirror. Is there a howto? I run a proxy server for the servers without access. That might be easier than having a local mirror. Once the proxy is set add this to the other machines' /etc/make.conf http_proxy=proxyhost.yourdomain.com:3128 kashani Do a google search for http-replicator. It's what I use and it works very well. Each gentoo box has it's /etc/make.conf pointed at http-replicator running on a gentoo box on the gateway. They each operate independently requesting files, but they are only retrieved from external sites once. First hit downloads at regular speeds, other hits (from remote boxes) are as fast as the internal network speeds. Comes with a script to add to /etc/cron.monthly to clean up old files. I don't remember there being an ebuild in portage, but I've got one in my overlay I'd be willing to share. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed!
I can't figure out how to get past it. After changing the ebuild, type ebuild mailman-xxx.ebuild digest. This fixes the digest values. You should then be able to emerge mailman w/o resync. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Get those strange questions ready...
Because gen-ux is temporarily offering free Gentoo support (thanks slashdot for the heads-up). http://www.gen-ux.com/node/16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?
Okay, I finished an emerge --update --deep world this morning. Everything was cool. This afternoon, however, I decide I want to install eclipse to migrate a windows java development effort to my gentoo box. Did an emerge --pretend dev-util/eclipse-sdk to see what I was going to get. I was surprised to see it wanting to emerge ant-core because I thought I already had it in place, so a quick eix call results in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix ant-core Search results: 1 * dev-java/ant-core Available versions: 1.5.4-r2 1.6.2-r5 ~1.6.5-r2 Installed: 1.6.2 Homepage:http://ant.apache.org/ Description: Java-based build tool similar to 'make' that uses XML configuration files. So obviously it is in there, in my world file and everything. The question is, shouldn't portage have updated to the latest -r5 ebuild as a result of the --update --deep world update previously? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?
On Sunday 02 October 2005 07:03 pm, Zac Medico wrote: The likely explanation is that ant-core is not a dependency (direct or deep) of your world list. Ah, but if it is installed it must have been a dependency somewhere or in place as a result of a direct emerge. Eix and emerge both knew it was installed and that it needed to be updated at the point when I was going to emerge eclipse. So I don't think that answer covers it... One way to verify is with emerge -a depclean. If you want to keep any of the depclean packages then you should add some to /var/lib/portage/world. I haven't played with depclean so I'm going to have to look into that. So far I've taken the if it's not broke, don't fix it path in regards to the portage subsystem. Up until this incident I didn't think it was broke. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why would portage not update a package?
On Sunday 02 October 2005 08:25 pm, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 03 October 2005 00:49, Dave Nebinger wrote: The likely explanation is that ant-core is not a dependency (direct or deep) of your world list. Ah, but if it is installed it must have been a dependency somewhere or in place as a result of a direct emerge. At some point, yes. Doesn't mean it is so now. Well I should have qualified it by saying that I don't clean out packages; when I install something it is because I want to try it out and/or use it. When I stop using the package, it still stays installed. So the dependency should still exist and be valid. Eix and emerge both knew it was installed and that it needed to be updated at the point when I was going to emerge eclipse. So I don't think that answer covers it... Is the eix database upto date? Are you really sure ant-core is actually installed? You said it wanting to emerge ant-core, that suggests to me that ant-core isn't installed, unless you meant it wanting to upgrade/update ant-core. Eix is updated every night after the emerge --sync completes. You'll have to go back to the original post but eix (as well as emerge --search but I didn't include that output) shows that ant-core is installed. The emerge --pretend did report that mozilla and eclipse were new, but ant-core was an update. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/db/pkg deleted
Note the date the message was sent: On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:10 pm, Javier Uribe wrote: El Sáb 01 Oct 2005 21:06, Yoandy Rodriguez escribió: Try this http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/28 Thanks solved :D Now that you have that fixed, Javier, you might want to take a look at how to set the date on your system. Either that or you live in some kind of timewarp where you posted this in 2004 and it's just now being delivered... ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail
Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ Sound about right? Guess I'll find out before many of you can even reply ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
On Friday 30 September 2005 10:22 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Any ideas on how to fix this? /sbin/fix_libtool_files.sh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!
Were I you, I would consider: - If keeping X, switching to the absolute most minimal wm possible (twm, ratpoison, ion), to see what effect that had. - If downstepping from X, investigating what programs run under DirectFB and seeing what effect that had. - If going cold-turkey off X, seeing how far you get with the command-line and ncurses programs. I would also add the following: remoting X. X is a hog, as Holly said, but there's no reason the X server would need to run on the same box as the ongoing recording session. Running two systems, one running X and handling the gui operations, and one running your audio apps, might provide enough of the separation to reduce the latency on the audio box. Of course the two cards should probably be connected with at least a 100mb Ethernet connection (to eliminate the overhead of dealing with the network conversations for X). Another possibility might be your choice of filesystems (assuming the recordings are going to disk). Different filesystems have inherent latency based upon their design - journaling adds overhead, btree maintenance in reiser adds overhead, etc. Just using a simple ext2 filesystem for the initial recording followed by backups to a modern filesystem may have a measurable impact. Going back to X, it is a hog both in cpu cycles and in memory; you mention having an amd64 but no quotes on memory. My assumption is that such a system has a big chunk of memory, but I've learned what happens when one assumes. Obviously a lack of sufficient memory can cause you some swapping issues whether you were aware of it or not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?
When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as being available. Is this because I need to unmask something or because nothing past 1.1.4 is available in the ports yet? cornholio configures # eix openoffice * app-office/openoffice-bin Available versions: 1.1.1 1.1.4-r1 1.1.5 [M]2.0.0_rc1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.openoffice.org/ Description: OpenOffice productivity suite Clearly it is out there, but it is hard-masked, which is a fairly good indication that you shouldn't play around with it just yet. Source-based distro does not appear to be available, but you can check the bugs database to see if an ebuild has been submitted. Also look to the gentoo wiki for alternate ebuild sources, there may be one floating around out there somewhere. attachment: winmail.dat
RE: [gentoo-user] Newest version of OpenOffice (2.0rc1) in portage?
When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as being available. Is this because I need to unmask something or because nothing past 1.1.4 is available in the ports yet? cornholio configures # eix openoffice * app-office/openoffice-bin Available versions: 1.1.1 1.1.4-r1 1.1.5 [M]2.0.0_rc1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.openoffice.org/ Description: OpenOffice productivity suite Clearly it is out there, but it is hard-masked, which is a fairly good indication that you shouldn't play around with it just yet. Source-based distro does not appear to be available, but you can check the bugs database to see if an ebuild has been submitted. Also look to the gentoo wiki for alternate ebuild sources, there may be one floating around out there somewhere. attachment: winmail.dat
RE: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?
I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? It's the general unix way of doing things, so sure it fits into gentoo also. Ebuilds are not really necessary unless you believe a lot of other folks will be using the same package. That said, having written some ebuilds lately, I can tell you for the most part the process is pretty easy. Start with an ebuild for a package that is similar to what you're going to install, make the various changes for the package (the gentoo doc for the ebuilds is your best friend here), and drop it into your overlay. If you want to release it, it goes easily into bugs.gentoo.org. If you don't want to do the ebuild yourself, and you believe at some point in the future someone else might get one into portage, you can always use the ./configure script to install to /usr/local - it would still be available yet allows for future emerging should it get added. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to expect from emerge --newuse --emptytree world re: etc-update
I'm getting ready to dive into the apache2 install on my server.
In preparation for this I needed things I wasn't using before like
IMAP (see thread on web mail systems), MySQL, and ldap.
Being the good little gentoo boy I updated my USE flags to include
these and other settings that I plan to use but didn't have in before.
And since my USE flags changed, I'm in the middle of doing the
emerge --newuse --emptytree world (it's actually going quite well;
hum, that seems like a bit of overkill. wouldn't emerge --newuse world
have sufficed? If you only added imap, mysql, and ldap, there should
only be fewer than 150 packages out of 417 that needs to be
recompiled.
Well there were actually quite more use flags than that. To prep for
apache I added the jpeg, png, xml xst, php and a bunch of other
related flags. Some of them are probably overkill, but it seemed to be
a significant enough change to the USE flags that I thought may touch on
more of the installed components than such a short list.
The --emptytree as well might be overkill, don't know for sure. I
thought it would be the safer option to ensure that dependencies, etc.,
would be covered. Either way it is too late now as the recompiling is
almost finished.
out of 417 packages, only scotty failed due to some sandbox violations
that I'm not worried about right now).
But that's got me wondering - am I going to be looking at hundreds
of /etc updates?
something like that, yes.
BUT, if you are like me and do not modify most of the configuration
files, LOTS of those files in /etc will get handled automatically by
etc-update... you only need worry about those files you have changed
from the defaults.
I tend to get into many of the configuration files for one reason or
another adding or removing options that are specific for my site (and I
guess I'm a control freak ;-)
So on the majority I would be looking at many updates.
So if I am looking at hundreds of /etc updates that I don't really
want to have to wade through, what would be the easiest way to purge
them all?
My find syntax is a bit rusty, but I think running the following as
root might do it: (you can sub -f for -i if you are real adventurous)
find /etc -name ._cfg00* -exec /bin/rm -i {};
That's the route I'm probably going to take. Thanks Willie!
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RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow
It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync
Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? The easiest way is not to bother. Use a local dns server to provide host lookups. I believe on the gentoo wiki you'll find a setup for a caching dns proxy where the most lookups will be forwarded to a regular dns but you can still provide local host lookups and reverse lookups. Works great for me and I don't have to worry about whatever /etc/hosts contains. Also ensures that new windows clients added to the network don't need their files updated, either. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow
Dave Nebinger schreef: It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I some way turn off this cache? I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. This sounds quite interesting, but I can't find any mention of this patch on the Wiki, even after two searches on the Wiki and 3 on Google. I feel pretty dumb, since Paweł clearly found it easily, but I can't. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...
Can you guess which webmail package I've been attempting to subjugate for the past couple of hours? Ive seen a lot of admins struggle with Horde - and then move on to SquirrelMail ;-) Anyone out there using eGroupWare? Looks good on the site and it would appear to use most of the standard tools... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...
Anyone out there using eGroupWare? Looks good on the site and it would appear to use most of the standard tools... I've got it installed. I like the looks of it a lot, but my mail users are real os users, and you have to add the egroupware users into it's database. so i'd have to add everyone twice, and password changes would be a nightmare. so I pretty much don't use it. I like the product, though, if I had virtural users. Cool. This is going on my home system so, whilst I would have double user headaches, since I'm only talking about 5 users it shouldn't be a problem. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] java issues
/var/tmp/portage/struts-1.2.4-r2/work/jakarta-struts-1.2.4-src/src/share /org/apache/struts/action/Action.java:27: package javax.servlet does not exist [javac] import javax.servlet.ServletResponse; Does anyone have any suggestions? Update your classpath before trying the emerge? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What to expect from emerge --newuse --emptytree world re: etc-update
I'm getting ready to dive into the apache2 install on my server. In preparation for this I needed things I wasn't using before like IMAP (see thread on web mail systems), MySQL, and ldap. Being the good little gentoo boy I updated my USE flags to include these and other settings that I plan to use but didn't have in before. And since my USE flags changed, I'm in the middle of doing the emerge --newuse --emptytree world (it's actually going quite well; out of 417 packages, only scotty failed due to some sandbox violations that I'm not worried about right now). I've got about 10 hours left on the recompiles (estimated), so tomorrow morning the next step will be to handle any /etc updates. But that's got me wondering - am I going to be looking at hundreds of /etc updates? If I am, I'm certain I don't need them as my existing configs are all working fine. So if I am looking at hundreds of /etc updates that I don't really want to have to wade through, what would be the easiest way to purge them all? Thanks in advance, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
