Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Good DNS registrar?

2006-11-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols


Are there any readers of this list that still provide their own 
primary/secondary dns services?  Or offer secondary services to

others for a fee or free?

I'm either a dinosaur or I have missed something fundamental on 
the evolution of DNS?  



http://www.easydns.com/secondarydns.php3

http://www.secondarydns.ca/

http://www.backupdns.com/index.html

http://www.twisted4life.com/index.php

http://soa.granitecanyon.com/

If you're just looking for a place that will simply act as a slave NS 
for your zones, give one of them a try.


There used to be a few more services, and I was offering such services 
at one point but the sheer volume of "plz set up mi DNS plz!!" noobs 
became overwhelming.

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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 
because I didn't need them, so now I have only the Apple_partion_map, 
the Apple_Bootstrap (where is Yaboot) and an empty partition (I've 
already removed my old Gentoo partitions).
I've tried to insert the Mac OS X (v 10.0.1) but the installer is not 
able to find any partion (hd): what can I do? Thank you very much for 
your help, in advance.


Alessandro


10.0?!

My god, where did you find such an old CD? What happened to the media 
that came with the iBook?


Anyway, with a modern OS X CD, just boot it up. When the installer 
starts, choose "Disk Utility" from the menu in the upper left hand 
corner. I forgot what the menu is actually called, but Disk Utility 
should be under one of them.



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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 don't seem to be smart enough to look
at /etc/hosts.  Some people on one of my Linux lists suggested that if I
set up DNS for my network that shouldn't be a problem anymore...



Ah, ok. Yeah, split-horizon DNS does work quite well.. just a bit more 
to update.
I lost your original post, or I'd be more useful. Hrm, did you remember 
to make your local DNS server the authoritative DNS server for the 
domain? (in named.conf)



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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 PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(1000/100), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=120297,
relay=mx.sth1.isc.org. [192.228.89.21], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for
180 seconds (see http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help)




You're not even running your own public DNS! Not according to the root 
name servers anyway..


http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=espersunited.com

Your NS records at the parent servers are:

yns1.yahoo.com. [66.218.71.205] [TTL=172800] [US]
yns2.yahoo.com. [216.109.116.20] [TTL=172800] [US]

[These were obtained from m.gtld-servers.net]

So, yeah, that's going to be a big problem right there. :-)

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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
thoughts on what's causing this error?



It's trying to put the pid file in /var/run - you need to change 
named.conf to have it put it in /var/run/named instead


in named.conf:

pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";

That should solve that problem for you.


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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 lightweight and 
runs great.


http://paginas.terra.com.br/informatica/gleicon/video4linux/videodog.html


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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 heard nothing but good things 
about them, and their prices are excellent.


(No, I don't work there.)
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[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 00:59:42 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net not responding, 
still trying
Oct  3 01:00:15 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net not responding, 
still trying

Oct  3 08:45:31 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net OK
Oct  3 08:45:31 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net OK
Oct  3 08:46:44 www syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Oct  3 09:07:07 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net not responding, 
still trying
Oct  3 09:27:06 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net not responding, 
still trying

Oct  3 11:23:32 www kernel: nfs: server clutter.pbp.net OK


(at around 01:00, the box "clutter" locked up solid.)

On clutter (192.168.10.50) I see this sometimes:

Oct  3 11:31:11 clutter rpc.mountd: dump request from 192.168.10.50

DNS is ok, both A and PTR records are accurate.

I am *not* using tcp wrappers, so I don't have an /etc/hosts.allow or 
/etc/hosts.deny


'showmount' shows me this, though..

clutter home # showmount
Hosts on clutter:
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.47
192.168.10.38
dhcp170.pbp.net
dhcp179.pbp.net
dhcp183.pbp.net
www.pbp.net
clutter home #

Only 'www.pbp.net' is actually mounting it at this time. Its IP is 
192.168.10.38. The others in the list have mounted it in the past, but 
not for months. I don't know why they're showing up there at all.


The /etc/exports on clutter (the NFS server) is this:

/home   192.168.10.38(rw,async)

The /etc/fstab entry on www (the web server) is this:

clutter.pbp.net:/home   /home   nfs rw,hard,async   0 0

the NFS box seems to be ok on resources.

clutter home # free -m
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:  1008142866  0 54 57
-/+ buffers/cache: 30978
Swap:  972  0972
clutter home #

model name  : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+



The thing I'm most concerned about are the messages that I noted above. 
I searched the forums and didn't see anything, and Google brought up 
some Debian list posts but no actual solutions or further information.


Anyone seen these before?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 1850/Dell Partition

2005-09-19 Thread Jonathan Nichols



  Can you do that?  Has Compaq stopped putting half their "BIOS" in a
small hidden partition?  Some years ago at work, we got a Compaq server
for use as a linux server.  It came with NT4.  So the CS guys blew away
the partitions, and installed RedHat7.0.  The thing would not boot.



Yes, he can do that. I've installed Gentoo on the PowerEdge 2650, 2860, 
6500, 1650, 1750, and 420SC boxes with no problem whatsoever. Usually I 
get the Dell boxes with the smallest hard drives they ship and buy my 
own larger drives aftermarket. Aside from a "WTF kernel module do I use 
for this RAID card?" questions, I've never had any problem.

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

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nichols


For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message to 
get to the "new response" of the OP. 

I think most "linux nerds" (me included) distain top posting because it's the 
default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS




It's also the default for Gmail and Thunderbird, as I mentioned before. 
Fortunately, Thunderbird lets you change it. Holly posted a nice little 
how-to as well.. ;)


The biggest problem that I run into is more often than not, the top 
posting types leave the *entire email conversation* below their reply. 
They don't trim it. They end up causing *more* scrolling to get to the 
issue at hand. That's bad.


I remember the days of "netiquette." I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet 
hippie. :|

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

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Holly Bostick wrote:

Jonathan Nichols schreef:


And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change
that.



Oh, for Pete's sake, you can change that in your Preferences in 5 seconds.



Uuuh Holly, I'm quite aware of that. It's one of the very first things 
that I change.


*Other users* are obviously *not* aware of it, and unfortunately, it's 
the default. Since many many many end users leave applications at their 
default settings, they top post. :P



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

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| You know bud, read some rules, be polite.

There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest
thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is worse, but
not by much.



It's too bad that even *gmail*, the paragon of geek email, encourages 
top posting. :(


And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change that.
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 
AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to 
tune my fs. "If it's not broken, don't fix it.




Yikes.

Y'know, what city is this machine in? One of us might be nearby and 
willing to talk the data center folks through the issue. *shrug* Just an 
idea. :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm not sure what's worse.. the elitist chowderheads, or you bloody top 
posters that don't trim replies!!


:P

Solve the top posting problem. If you see a co-worker top posting, club 
them with a shoe.

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Re: [gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote:

Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even 
if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a 
booth. :P



And speaking of that, is there interest in a gathering of some kind, say
lunch or drinks?

Michael


That's not a half bad idea. There's quite a few decent places to eat 
around there. I'm not sure what day I'm going up there, but any of them 
sound good.


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[gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even 
if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a booth. :P


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Instalation CD SCSI problem on Dell PowerEdge 4400

2005-07-21 Thread Jonathan Nichols




I have message:

No bootable medium found, waiting for new device. It seems that it 
cannot mount cdrom.


What SCSI card is in the machine? PERC 2? PERC 3/d?

I believe the 4400 had a SCSI CD-ROM device too.

You may have the older Megaraid controller, which seems to seriously 
lack support in the newer LiveCDs. I had to do a Knoppix installation 
because NONE of the Gentoo LiveCDs (even went back to 2004.1) would let 
me mount my SCSI RAID array because the controller wasn't being found. 
Knoppix allowed me to find it properly and do the installation. It's 
been great ever since.


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Re: [gentoo-user] eAccelerator/"Zend outdated"

2005-07-16 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Catalin Trifu wrote:

   Hi,


Did you check php.ini. Looks to me like there is some mixup between 
installed versions of PHP.

You should not rename eaccelerator.so to mmcache.so.
Check php.ini and load the appropiate extensions.




Renaming the file didn't hurt anything. The ebuild creates the .so with 
one name and inserts another one into the config.


I found the issue. This box actually had Zend on it. I forgot about that. :|

Whoops..

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[gentoo-user] eAccelerator/"Zend outdated"

2005-07-15 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Due to the recent GLSA, I updated PHP. :(

Now that turck-mmcache is gone and replaced by eaccelerator, I thought 
that I'd give it a shot. No luck so far. Here's what I get in error_log:


[Fri Jul 15 22:48:33 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
Failed loading 
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/mmcache.so: 
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/mmcache.so: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory

eAccelerator requires Zend Engine API version 20050606.
The Zend Engine API version 20021010 which is installed, is outdated.

Failed loading 
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/mmcache.so: 
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/mmcache.so: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory

eAccelerator requires Zend Engine API version 20050606.
The Zend Engine API version 20021010 which is installed, is outdated.

[Fri Jul 15 22:48:37 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)  (Gentoo/Linux) 
PHP/4.3.11 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a configured -- resuming normal operations



php -v gives this:

www conf # php -v
PHP 4.4.0 (cli) (built: Jul 15 2005 22:33:58)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.3, Copyright (c) 2004-2005 eAccelerator, by 
eAccelerator

www conf #

It compiles OK. I have "dev-php/eaccelerator-0.9.3-r1" installed (used 
~x86 too)


It just doesn't create a "mmcache.so" file. It appears that it creates 
"eaccelerator.so" instead. I just copied that file to mmcache.so and 
restarted Apache.

Upon doing that, I get this error:

[Fri Jul 15 22:58:03 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
eAccelerator requires Zend Engine API version 20050606.
The Zend Engine API version 20021010 which is installed, is outdated.

eAccelerator requires Zend Engine API version 20050606.
The Zend Engine API version 20021010 which is installed, is outdated.

eAccelerator requires Zend Engine API version 20050606.
The Zend Engine API version 20021010 which is installed, is outdated.

eAccelerator requires Zend Engine API version 20050606.
The Zend Engine API version 20021010 which is installed, is outdated.

[Fri Jul 15 22:58:07 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)  (Gentoo/Linux) 
PHP/4.3.11 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a configured -- resuming normal operations



I'm going to file a bugzilla report against this. I searched bugzilla 
and forums and didn't find anything that wasn't related to Apache 2 and 
PHP 5. (I'm still using Apache 1.3.x and PHP 4.x)


So, the main question is "How do I update the Zend Engine API" so 
eaccelerator is happy?


;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-07-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Remy Blank wrote:

Jonathan Nichols wrote:


It's Thunderbird, for one...

Add this to user.js (create it if it doesn't exist)
//mozilla thunderbird: check all imap folders for new mail.
user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);



I have that in my user.js, with a comment saying that this only applies
on startup. And it does seem to behave that way: if I have "unreported"
new mail in a folder, and I restart Thunderbird, it will catch them when
starting up again.



Mine checks all of the folders on schedule.. both the Windows & Mac OS X 
versions. (I don't have it on a Linux desktop yet)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird

2005-07-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Remy Blank wrote:

Nagatoro wrote:


Remy Blank wrote:



This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes
misses new messages in subfolders, and only finds them when you click on it.

I'm not sure if this is a Thunderbird or a courier-imap problem, though...


Could be both...
From /etc/courier-imap/imapd



It's Thunderbird, for one...

Add this to user.js (create it if it doesn't exist)
//mozilla thunderbird: check all imap folders for new mail.
user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);

Why that isn't an option that users can just select in the Preferences, 
I have no idea.


HOWEVER by default, courier has a limit. you're going to want to 
bump the "MAX_PER_IP" setting. I think that's the setting.. read the 
comments, it's in there. The default setting is something like 5 or some 
other really low number. Raise it or you'll wind up with a bunch of errors.


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Re: [gentoo-user] (A bit OT) Gentoo on a Dell OptiPlex G1

2005-06-26 Thread Jonathan Nichols


Well, Dells always have been rather interesting machines, from the 
custom power supplies to the PCI bus mastering in some slots;  add in 
the recent discussion about Gentoo on a Dell... I just thought I'd ask 
before I start buying hardware.




Possibly the older ones, but I haven't had trouble with any of the newer 
hardware. Even with the PowerEdge servers, it's usually just a matter of 
"WTF hardware is in this thing?" - once you figure it out, it's all good. :D



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[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, 15 Jun 2005 13:00:46 -0700
From: Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
To: announce@spamassassin.apache.org
CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org, dev@spamassassin.apache.org

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was recently released [0], and fixes a denial
of service vulnerability in versions 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3.  The
vulnerability allows certain misformatted long message headers to cause
spam checking to take a very long time.

While the exploit has yet to be seen in the wild, we are concerned that
there may be attempts to abuse the vulnerability in the future.
Therefore, we strongly recommend all users of these versions upgrade to
Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 as soon as possible.

This issue has been assigned CVE id CAN-2005-1266 [1].

To contact the Apache SpamAssassin security team, please e-mail
security at spamassassin.apache.org.  For more information about Apache
SpamAssassin, visit the http://spamassassin.apache.org/ web site.

Apache SpamAssassin Security Team

[0]: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-dev/200506.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]


[1]: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1266

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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 people have offered solutions ranging 
from IfModule statements to "Use Debian." :(


The error is in that post.. I won't waste our time repeating it here 
because one of the IfModule suggestions worked, and the error went away, 
but I could not produce any evidence of mod_perl actually working, 
that's the thing. :|

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Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problems - Linux & OSX

2005-06-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols

Ed Jabbour wrote:
Mac OSX is the server - 192.168.1.20;  Linux the client - 192.168.1.4. 
When I "mount -o vers=2 192.168.1.20:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien" I get

the dreaded "mount: 192.168.1.20:/Volumes/Alien failed, reason given by
server: Permission denied".  I'm trying to discover which side the
problem's on.  Any of the following stuff not kosher?  


/etc/fstab:
192.168.1.20:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien nfs 
rw,noauto,users,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0


You have to add "insecure" there - Mac OS X tries to do it over 
privledged ports by default... or something like that.


Anyway, add "insecure" and restart portmap & nfs, it oughta work. :)

Hrm, actually that might be with an OS X client -> Linux server.

However, you might want to check out www.macosxhints.com ... the answer 
you seek might be there!


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[gentoo-user] livejournal server & gentoo vs mod_perl

2005-06-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols

I'm having absolutely no luck with getting mod_perl to work.

Has anyone had good luck with mod_perl and Apache 1? *NOT Apache 2 - I 
cannot upgrade to Apache 2*


Here's my currently unanswered post, and there's a link in there to a 
livejournal community that deals with the livejournal server source.


Otherwise, I'm stuck. I'm not sure exactly how mod_perl from Portage 
gets installed (module? DSO?) ..


http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-348027-highlight-livejournal.html

Help?

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[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. ;)


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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 HTML posters with a frying pan.


Something like this, I think..

$HTMLDIR=$MAILDIR/HTML

:0 aBw
* ^Content-Type: text/html.*
$HTMLDIR

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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 using hippies take offense to that. :P
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[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 around. :)

If there *isn't* one, would there be enough interest in creating one?
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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 
FairPlay DRM.  My other iBook, iTunes and iPod-owning friend said he was 
right.


OT, but they're totally and cluelessly incorrect. :)
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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 face.
- Grant
Dude, how do you think that *I* felt. I had to work with this idiot, 
too. *sigh*

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Grant wrote:
Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of
emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo?  I find this in
correspondence with other Linux people sometimes.  Is Gentoo far
enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude?  It seems like
these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to
me.
- Grant
Oh, absolutely. I think it even cost me a job in the end. (Note: The job 
royally SUCKED and I am much happier now.)

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.
The Gentoo servers were in place long before this guy started. He went 
on crowing about how we needed "Enterprise level support" yadda yadda.

Oh, then he got the prices of Red Hat Network machines. On the ones that 
supported Oracle, they just decided to keep the RHN updated packages and 
apply them to other machines. New machines? They were rolled out with 
"Whitebox Linux" to appease the RPM-heads that we had. Whitebox Linux is 
some distro that some kids in a library came up with. It's bascially Red 
Hat w/o the Red Hat labels. No "enterprise support" at all, and in fact 
AFAIK the entire distro has become stale and people have moved to CentOS 
or something like that.

Meanwhile, the Gentoo boxes had 0 downtime and 0 security issues. The 
Red Hat boxes? Older Dell boxes were stung REALLY HARD when the megaraid 
kernel driver changed and they wouldn't boot after a security related 
kernel upgrade.

Long story made short, I'm no longer with that company and I found out 
that my ex boss pretty much ordered another admin to reformat the 
internal servers and make them Red Hat boxes. Yes, he was *that* 
anti-Gentoo, with absolutely no valid reasons whatsoever. This was also 
a person that considered managed switches to be totally unnecessary 
expenses.. in a data center, even.
I'm now employed elsewhere at 2x the money, and my side gig still has 
many Gentoo boxes running very well. :)

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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 I
try to open in thunderbird open a new connection at the server. So if
I have 10 users trying to see his email and 5 of they try to open 2
folders at the same time I will have 20 connections on the server. Is
that correct?
Pretty much, yeah. but, it's per IP. I have mine set to 180 and haven't 
had any problems at all. :)

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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 the
server and doesn't get any messages.
I did ssh at the server and saw that the new messages are at the user
.maildir. I also give a look at /var/log/messages and when I try to
get my mails, my connection trying is not registered at the logs. If I
try users try to send a mail, these mail are sent without a problem.
So I give a try to restart courier-imapd and I could get my messages
again but 30 minutes later the problem turn back but a little bit
differente, 'cause this time the users can't read the messages, but
all the users can see the list of messages, so I have to restart
courier-imapd again.
At the logs I get no warning or error messages. I'm freaking out with
this problem and I thinking if I could redirect the messages delivered
to my domain to a local network server (today the mail server is
hosted in a hosting company with my web and dns server).

What does /etc/courier-imap/imapd say? Specifically, "MAXPERIP"
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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 about a dozen friend's websites,
and perhaps someday they too would like email, so I'd like to be able to
grow into that, but I don't feel I need a database to support a huge
number of clients. I support these virtual domains directly from
Postfix.
Any other things I should be thinking about, or aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Michael
Courier-IMAP is pretty easy to deal with. Cyrus can get.. uh.. out of 
hand, real easily. It's overkill for many situations. the guy that wrote 
courier is also very active on the courier-users mailing list too, which 
is a big plus.

uw-imap & the mbox format in general are outdated & sometimes dangerous, 
imo. back in the days where emails were nice & tiny, it worked a lot 
better..
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[gentoo-user] Netgear GA311

2005-05-10 Thread Jonathan Nichols
The gigabit NIC - Netgear GA311
Has anyone used these and had satisfactory (at least better than 10/100) 
performance out of them?

They're based on a realtek chipset, apparantly. Which kernel module did 
you use?

(side note: These cards are reported to work fine with Mac OS X 10.4 too.)
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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 hours, although not every message lacks a subject.

It's only this list, too.
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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 old, but 
whatever..) "MegaRAID Enterprise 1500" RAID controller.

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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 data loss problems at all.

I used to develop home, but I haven't got enough money for UPS, and two
HDD with mirroring. I used to create backups every month, but it gives just
a minimal safety.
Hrm. You near the SF Bay Area? I have a couple APC 350 UPS units (small, 
but useful) that are cluttering up my apartment. :P


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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. :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Jonathan Nichols
The Disguised Jedi wrote:
OK...This is going to sound like a really dumb question, but I'm really 
new at this, but liking it so far...
 
I've heard (and believe) that the Mac OS is built on a Linux kernel.  Is 
this true?  If so, does that mean that Macintosh\Apple compatible 
software can be installed on a Gentoo machine?  There's lots of software 
out there I'd like to use in my Gentoo environment, and I can find 
Mac\Apple versions, but I don't know if it will work in Gentoo.
Others answered the question already, but there's always this: You can 
install the PPC port of Gentoo onto Apple made hardware, if you felt so 
inclined. :)
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