Re: [gentoo-user] [uOT] Thunderbird, Mozilla and HELO
Rasmus Andersen wrote: I have a slightly offtopic question that I hope I can get help with here. I have a home server, running an MTA for my domain. As of the last month or so, I have experienced a huge increase in spam and spam bounces. To combat this, I have upped my MTA's pickyness quite a bit but would like to up it more. Specifically, I would like to reject mail where sender says HELO jaquet.dk and/or where the Received line looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my MTA's Received stamps are of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Spammers like to use these to 'fake' their way through. I'm not sure about blocking a specific HELO request, but I added the following configuration to my main.cf, and combined with postgrey, my Spam dropped from 150 per day to around 50 per month: # Set the server to reject any unauthorised e-mails and set what can # and can't be sent or received by the server smtpd_delay_reject = yes smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks reject_non_fqdn_hostname reject_invalid_hostname reject_rbl_client xbl-xbl.spamhaus.org reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org permit smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_unauth_destination permit smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_unauth_destination # can't move from here as needs to know sender check_policy_service unix:private/postgrey permit smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_multi_recipient_bounce permit I've also added the following lines to prevent clients from trying address after address in the same connection: # Limit the number of addresses the remove server can # send mail to, also adjusting the error calculation level smtpd_recipient_limit = 3 smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit = 1 That helped my server and account greatly with no (apparent) risk to genuine mail either. -- Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://djnauk.co.uk cat /dev/random (you never know, you may see something you like!) 2.6.17-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 57 days, 17:24, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.63, 0.30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem
Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs to find out how must power is needed to optimally write to the disc (can only be done 99 times on any disk) IIRC. Have you tried with another disk? -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 15 days, 5:01, 2 users, load average: 0.99, 1.02, 0.97 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- About a year ago I was a guest on a network news show in New York. They were showing film clips from a gay pride parade down Fifth Avenue, but they only decided to show the part with men in dresses and heels. I had seen the parade, and there were men in business suits as well. After showing the film, the newsperson made some comments, and I found the comments extremely offensive. This is what's wrong with the media, I said. You show a fringe position. You show one point of view. You're closing the minds of the people by not showing them what the reality is. I got up and walked out, and I've never been asked back again. ~ Kathleen Nolan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem
John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs to find out how must power is needed to optimally write to the disc (can only be done 99 times on any disk) IIRC. Have you tried with another disk? Thanks for the suggestion. I am now in the process of writing the image file using a different make of disc. How silly of me to think that if discs work on windows they should work on linux don't assume it's the os...could very well be the burner. unless it's the same box and dual-boot? I've been working with burners since there was only 1x scsi cdr and the media was $25/each. There has ALWAYS been great variation in media and burner compatibility. It's a LOT better than it used to be, but still Very true - although it could be a case of Windows 'covering' over a problem, where it would continue on this disk when Linux won't (what with it's superior tools and everything ;) I have found the DVDs are very difficult to get working reliably. In fact, I've found alot write fine in the drive, but the drive has trouble reading them again, but no problems in reading normal DVDs. It may be worthwhile looking at a different batch of disks instead of a different disk - just in-case it's a bad batch. -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 15 days, 8:06, 2 users, load average: 1.34, 0.49, 0.18 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. ~ Fran Lebowitz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying email from dcron
Michael Sullivan wrote: I was having some problems with dcron randomly shutting down. I remerged dcron this afternoon and it's running just fine except that I get this annoying email every few minutes: unable to create /var/spool/cron/crontabs/michael.new: File exists The problem is that I can't delete the file because it doesn't actually exist. How do I get rid of this annoying error? Out of interest - have you tried creating the file, possibly with dcron permissions? Sound's like a badly written error message. -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 13 days, 23:41, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.23, 0.17 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't. ~ Ed Fallon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology
Nick Rout wrote: What bollocks. 802.11 is capable of 5 km at least with a decent card and directional aerials. Directional aerials can be built from quite cheap materials like woks and other asian food implements, or you can buy commercial directional aerials. The world record is set at ~125 miles (~200km) using an un-amplified signal: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000970052590/ http://wireless.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000407052562/ http://www.wifiworldrecord.com/ -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 7 days, 19 min, 3 users, load average: 0.96, 0.97, 0.75 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay. ~ Perry King -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bash scripting
Peper wrote: Hello, I have a var $blah=' `pwd`/blah ' (extra spaces for clearer reading), how can i change it to 'output of pwd/blah' ? What do you mean - are you looking for the actual phrase 'output of /path/to/blah', i.e. $blah='output of $(pwd)/blah' are are you looking for program output: $blah=$(./blah) or $blah=$($(pwd)/blah)) or are you looking for directory listings?: $blah=$(ls $(pwd)/blah)) ?? -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4 days, 14:09, 1 user, load average: 0.80, 0.72, 0.56 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. ~ Fran Lebowitz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email
Mark wrote: Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we use will host the DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in place, but this is the first step we've taken toward making anything available inbound, so I'm cautiously optimistic. Generally, most mail will sit in a queue for around 3 days before failing to deliver - but that depends on the host/server. So, the odd outage shouldn't be a problem - at least it's not with me here :) Also, it's worth double-checking to see if your ISP will allow port 25 inwards. Some don't, and you wouldn't want to do all that work only to find nothing happening! :/ -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4:46, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.55, 0.50 -- Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants. ~ Lynn Lavner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email
Digby Tarvin wrote: It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you advertise it.. That's fine for outgoing mail, but unless an MX record exists for the internal server on a domain/subdomain, it's difficult to 'direct' traffic from the outside in. The only other way I can think off is to test the server using either a telnet port or a script from an off-site computer onto the new server. I have been running a mail server on my home system ever since I got my DSL connection at home. It is where I normally direct mailing list traffic and other correspondence which is non critical, because I can create dedicated aliases which all point the the same ultimate mailbox, making it easy to identify where spammers have been obtaining addresses from, and making it possible to just invalidate the effected address... For person mail that I want to be able to access when I am travelling I use a mail forwarding address which can be pointed at an ISP hosted POP3 mailbox (which is polled using fetchmail when I am home) or when needed can be pointed direct to my home server. All me e-mail comes in on my home server and has been now for ~3 years, along with my families for the last year or so now that multiple domains has been setup. I've even used it as an emergency backup for another server when that went down. As for remote access, I use IMAP over SSL. Most new phones and PDA's support SSL encryption over IMAP and SMTP, plus I have the advantage of all my mail being handled from one location. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 5:41, 2 users, load average: 1.22, 0.86, 0.83 -- I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, Who's the dyke in the dress? ~ Karen Ripley -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?
gentuxx wrote: !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/digest-sylpheed-claws-1.9.1 There's a file within the portage structure for sylpheed-claws that it hasn't been told about. Two options: - First, is it's just a standard package from the normal portage tree (i.e. it's not in a layout), then run a sync. If there is still an error, file a bug. - Second, run the digest command. You'll need to do this if it's not in the standard portage tree and it's something you have added. Portage needs to be told all the files within the tree and their md5 values, to make sure nothing bad gets in :) To do this, run # ebuild /path/to/sylpheed-claws-1.9.1.ebuild digest This will run though all the files and rebuilt the digest file. You can do this in the main portage tree aswell, but it's not recommended as something could be there that shouldn't. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 10:06, 0 users, load average: 3.50, 1.73, 0.83 -- It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~ Francis Maude -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB problem(maybe related to udev)
Tamas Sarga wrote: I'm affraid, that my system was somehow hybrid udev-devfs system until I removed devfsd for gentoo-sources-2.6.13. IIRC, the new udev systems require you to remove the /etc/udev/rules.d before upgrading - have you given that a go? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 6:17, 4 users, load average: 0.45, 0.76, 0.72 -- A study done in the Des Moines public schools showed that the average high school student hears anti-gay comments like 'dyke' and 'faggot' a stunning 26 times a day, and that teachers who witness such incidents do nothing a shocking 97 percent of the time. The results of this kind of behavior for gay and lesbian students is terrifying. ~ Martina Navratilova -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet
John Jolet wrote: Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works fine for me. # ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # vncviewer localhost:0 Okay, now show me the instance where you want box-internet-box-vnc server. That does provide a tunnel between two boxes. It's quick and simple to setup and can be used by any ssh client, regardless of the system. Whether you're on Unix or Linux. You can even do it using Windows using PuTTY. It's good to know in case if you need access but don't have a box that can't do VPN, or there's a problem with the VPN. If you want to open it up for some reason to another box, you can use the gateway switch (-g) and SSH will listed to all incoming connections on that port on the remote computer. # ssh -g -L5900:remote:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:port If you set up openvpn on your ssh server, you easily can tunnel across it. Doing that with ssh would add another tunnel. Takes 5 minutes to set up. I'm not disagreeing with you, but a VPN can add a whole level of complexity and setup, whereas if you just want to remotely access a VNC server across the Internet, SSH works great and has added security built in. If you want to access more than VPN, i.e. SMB, or need the remote computer to 'appear' on the local network for some reason, VPN is fine - go ahead and use it. KISS - keep it short and simple. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 21:39, 0 users, load average: 0.64, 0.46, 0.33 -- My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. ~ Amanda Bearse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net
Denny Schierz wrote: bridge=xenintbr config_xeninetbr=( 10.0.10.3/24 ) brctl_xeninetbr=( setfd 0 sethello 0 stp off ) What is wrong? I've not setup a bridge before, but according the example in /etc/conf.d/net.example; # To add ports to bridge br0 #bridge_br0=eth0 eth1 #config_br0=( dhcp ) (and so on...) From the looks of it, you haven't told the system which two network ports need to be bridged together. Also, do you have net-misc/bridge-utils installed? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 1 day, 10:34, 2 users, load average: 0.31, 0.15, 0.05 -- The next time someone asks you, 'Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?' tell them, 'Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them.' ~ Karen Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net
Denny Schierz wrote: From the looks of it, you haven't told the system which two network ports need to be bridged together. Also, do you have net-misc/bridge-utils installed? no, i haven't cause these are only virtual devices for xen. They don't have to do any with eth0/1. I can do everything per hand, but not with the start/stop script. So the bridges already exist on the system and they just needs configuring, or are you trying to create the bridges aswell from scratch? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2 days, 1:48, 0 users, load average: 0.34, 0.27, 0.19 -- President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges. ~ Jay Leno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net
Denny Schierz wrote:
or are you trying to create the bridges aswell from scratch?
jupp, creating from scratch. the bridges don't exist, at startup.
From the sounds of it, that's ur problem. The script doesn't know it
needs to create the bridges and assumes they're there ready.
As you have a set of virtual ports to connect using the bridges, why
don't you use a little hack and create a depend() function to insert the
code needed to create the interfaces for the bridge:
# If any of the ports require extra configuration - for example wireless
# or ppp devices - we need to write a depend function for the bridge so
# they get configured correctly.
# This is exactly the same as a depend() function in our init scripts
#depend_br0() {
# need net.eth0 net.eth1
#}
Rather than having 'need net.eth0 net.eth1', stick in the code/functions
that create the interfaces. You can create the bridge then and it should
work on reboot.
--
Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk
~ www.djnauk.co.uk
--
2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz
up 2 days, 2:06, 0 users, load average: 0.75, 0.36, 0.22
--
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global
warming on the AIDS quilt.
~ Dennis Miller
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net
Denny Schierz wrote: Rather than having 'need net.eth0 net.eth1', stick in the code/functions that create the interfaces. You can create the bridge then and it should work on reboot. It works, i made a simply script, that creates the devices, before net starts. :-) np. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 2 days, 4:04, 0 users, load average: 0.67, 0.43, 0.38 -- War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ~ The Value of Families -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet
John Jolet wrote: Basically I have a network back home with a couple Gentoo systems connected and I'd like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am. What do you think? if you just need ssh, you don't need a vpn, just a port forward on your router. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works fine for me. # ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # vncviewer localhost:0 -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.68, 0.87, 0.33 -- People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay. ~ Perry King -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions
Dave Oxley wrote: Ah right. I did not know that! Yeah, its a hub. I'll stop trying to set it to full duplex now. I still have a problem though, the collision rate is 11-12% when copying to the client and the performance is terrible: Copying from Server to Client (i.e. receive) 170.3Kb/sec Copying from Client to Server (i.e. transmit) 7.383Mb/sec It is 40 times quicker in one direction than the other. Can you give me a hint where to go from here. Some hubs don't like having different sets of ports and it's a repeater, not an 'intelligent' routing system. If you're going to try and set the cards to FD you may want to try disconnecting them all and connecting them all one at a time once you have forced the card to FD. Admitidly, I don't know why it would be faster one way than the other. I'm wondering if that's a cable issue (partially damaged cable causing a small capacitance effect). Do you get the same effect when you swap the cables over? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4 days, 3:12, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.36, 0.58 -- Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ~ Sam Austin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?
Christoph Gysin wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: btw - some time ago I let glxgears run on several wm - and it was the fastest on kwin and integrity (both qt based) and slower on gtk-based wm... glxgears doesn't need/use/depend neither a WM nor GTK/QT, so I don't see how this test makes any sense. But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 1:02, 13 users, load average: 0.63, 0.53, 0.52 -- It's hard enough to be taken seriously in the struggle for gay rights without having a bunch of straight girls running around kissing each other to get the attention of the boys and videocameras. ~ M. Robin D'Antan, 2002 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK
Bruno Lustosa wrote: So, it seems it's an incompatibility between gnucash and the installed gtk+ version, right? I tried to re-emerge gnucash, but it didn't help much. You'll have to re-emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-pixmap: * x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap Available versions: 0.28-r1 ~0.28-r2 Description: A modified version of the original GTK pixmap engine which follows the KDE color scheme It's a theme engine on which themes for gnome/gtk are built. From the looks of it, it's out of date compared to GTK and therefore refusing to load - but you knew that already! ;) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 5:52, 6 users, load average: 0.56, 0.85, 0.96 -- My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. ~ Bill Kelly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK
Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 10/3/05, *Bruno Lustosa* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, the first thing I tried to do was a 'emerge search pixmap', and I only found the gtk-engines-qtpixmap you mentioned. As it wasn't installed, I guessed it was the wrong package. Anyway, I'm trying to install it now to see if it works. I hope it will! If it works, I'll post it back here. Thank you Well, just tried it. Still not working. Same error. It installed a file named 'libqtpixmap.so', and as gnucash is looking for libpixmap.so, it didn't find it. I tried to symlink, but then I got the old error about wrong gtk version. Opps! :$ Didn't see that. If you want to know what package a file belongs to, you can use equery from the gentoolkit (emerge gentoolkit): jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] -- equery belongs /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libpixmap.so [ Searching for file /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libpixmap.so in * ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 (/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libpixmap.so) So, form that I deduce that you're running an older version of GTK - btw which one are you using? You may have to rebuild GTK+. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 6:37, 7 users, load average: 0.89, 1.05, 1.00 -- Earlier today, President Bush said gay marriage is immoral and that heterosexual marriage must be defended, that's what he said. You can tell Bush is serious because he said the new Axis of Evil is Cher, Bette Middler and Clay Aiken. ~ Conan O'Brien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?
Alexander Skwar wrote: A good option for more speed would be to use aespipe to encrypt /dev/zero and write that output to the disk. Why do that? Overwritten data is already pretty much irrecoverable. Or do you know of ONE instance, where those rescue companies restored an OVERWRITTEN (ie. not something simple as burned or such) drive? And if you fear, that the CIA or FBI might recover data - use a metal shredder... Actually, even if you format a hard drive, it's still relatively easy to get the data off. Although we think of data in the digital domain, ones and zeros, there or not, hard drives are an analogue system using a variation in the magnetic field on a smooth plate, spinning at (usually) 120 revolutions per second and storing up to (I think) 120 billion 'bits' of information in one square inch of 'plate'. The accuracy needed to completely override the data for a particular sector is near improbable. Around the areas for any particular byte residual traces of a magnetic field can be found, if you have the right equipment. I can't remember the name of the program to do it, but if you want to securely erase a hard drive according to NSA/CIA/FBI standards, it needs 37 passes using RANDOM data! -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 23:38, 11 users, load average: 0.01, 0.16, 0.41 -- Memo to the Congress: Thanks for thinking of me, but I don't need you to defend my marriage. My husband and I can handle that ourselves. Spare me 'The Defense of Marriage Act' label on a bill banning same-sex marriages. The name implies that the value of heterosexual marriages goes down once you let homosexuals into the institution. There goes the neighborhood. I don't buy this realtor's view of relationships. Gay and lesbian couples who want to wed aren't trying to assail the grounds for marriage. They're trying to share them. If anything, they want to stabilize the gay community. ~ Syndicated Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...
Alexander Skwar wrote: Anybody out there able to point me to an existing open-source, solid package? Horde Actually, Horde is the framework, IMP is the Mail Program :) Anyway, Horde is a good enterprise-scale system, and once setup can work well, esp. with the range of other plug-in modules that go with Horde (Contact Management, Time Management, Calender, etc.). But, there are must easier systems to setup and use. Squirrelmail being one of them. Unless you want something and big and as powerful (and as resource hungry - I run it on a PII-450 with 128Mb RAM and it's not that responsive) as Horde, I'd recommend something else. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 42 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.08 -- If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.' ~ Robin Tyler -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...
Heinz Sporn wrote: 2. must be using a mod_php of no later than 4.3.11 Can't confirm that. I am running both Horde 2 and 3 with 4.4.0-r3. I have run it with 4.4.0 here, although now running with 4.3.11 as Zend Debugger doesn't like the 4.4.x series atm. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 8:52, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.39 -- If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.' ~ Robin Tyler -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?
Mark Knecht wrote: Note that there is no link for any of the 100Mb settings. This is verified looking at the switch itself as the link light turns off. Actually, I had never noticed that the 100 light was not turning on before today. so much for plug and play! (My bad...me stupido...) ;-) Hehehe. Until you push the network, you probably would never really notice. :) dragonfly ~ # mii-tool -r restarting autonegotiation... dragonfly ~ # mii-tool -v eth0: autonegotiation failed, link ok I must admit - this I find quite interesting. Somewhere along the line, the switch and the interface aren't talking to each other. OK, so something is having trouble with this negotiation stuff. I'll drag out some new cables after I send this and see what happens with that. I looked at the LinkSys switch docs again. There are no user settings that I see to get the switch to support 100Mb/S. It's supposed to be automatic. Your cables could be an issue. For 100MBps you really need Cat5, although Cat4 may be able to handle it (just not ideal). Cat5e is generally the best as (IIRC) it supports up to Gigabit ethernet. Again, thanks very much. mii-tool is very helpful. I'll also have to look at mii-diag to see if it can help with this problem. Depending on the two computer locations, you could try connecting the two computers together via a crossover cable and seeing how the autonegoition works. I think there are some switches which require all ports/nodes to be on the same speed/duplex settings as it can't handle the differences, although I find that unlikely with any modern switch (personally, I'm running two Netgear Switches - FS105, 5-port FS108, 8-port, and they can handle multiple node-types - all systems are on 100baseTx-FD whereas my VoIP phone is 10base-HD, and they all work without a problem). Try disconnecting one system and restarting the switch to see if one node is causing a problem. Also, if you can, try a crossover cable to see if it's the switch causing the problem and not the computers. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 23:59, 4 users, load average: 3.98, 4.22, 4.32 -- Earlier today, President Bush said gay marriage is immoral and that heterosexual marriage must be defended, that's what he said. You can tell Bush is serious because he said the new Axis of Evil is Cher, Bette Middler and Clay Aiken. ~ Conan O'Brien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them? - SOLVED
Mark Knecht wrote: The switch was stuck in some strange state. Power down and back up fixed it. Time to get a UPS for the media center... Opps. Just clicked send on the reply and I saw this! :) Ah well! hehehe. I'm using a UPS myself for my two servers the master switch and the wireless router: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=Section_Id=202840pcount=Product_Id=201050Section.Section_Path=%2FRoot%2FPowerProtection%2FUPSUninterr%2E%2E%2EerSupply%2FUninterr%2E%2E%2EerSupply%2FBelkinSu%2E%2E%2EeriesUPS%2F I prefer that one as it has standard plugs, allowing you to connect extra items (such as the switch and wireless router) and keep the network running! :) Thanks for the invaluable help with mii-tool. Very, very helpful. NP. Glad to help :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 23:59, 4 users, load average: 3.98, 4.22, 4.32 -- You can tell Bush is serious because he said the new Axis of Evil is Cher, Bette Middler and Clay Aiken. Earlier today, President Bush said gay marriage is immoral and that heterosexual marriage must be defended, that's what he said. ~ Conan O'Brien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4
Robert Persson wrote: Should I enable the mmx use flag when I am compiling stuff (e.g. mplayer) for a pentium 4? I'm confused because I've kind of got the idea that mmx is obsolete, but I'm not clear exactly how obsolete. In theory, yes it is sort of obsolete - sse and sse2 are the preferred method. However, so long as you have specified -march=pentium4 (and -mcpu=pentium4 or -mtune=pentium4 with =gcc-3.4) mmx/sse/sse2 will be implied as part of the compilation process. As for mplayer - unless you set the appropriate use flag, then almost all C(XX)FLAGS will be remove from the process as (like gaim) it is notoriously flaky with anything other than the basic settings. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b2 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2 days, 22 min, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.21, 0.37 -- Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ~ Woody Allen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4
Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running gcc 3.3.6. I just ran emerge --sync a few minutes ago. Running emerge --ask --deep --update --world doesn't mention gcc. Are you unmasking a test version? I think gcc-3.4* is still marked ~x86; however since that version -mcpu has been depreciated in favor for -mtune. As for the mmx information, that's valid across all gcc versions. If you specify -march=pentium4 and -mcpu=pentium4 as part of your CFLAGS, -mmmx and -msse, etc., will be implied by the compiler, and any programs built to take advantage of the extensions will be able to do so. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 11:54, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.89, 2.04 -- Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? ~ Elayne Boosler -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?
Mark Knecht wrote: 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface? As Paul pointed out via his e-mail (via the previous thread), collisions are when two packets try and talk over an ethernet cable at the same time. In terms of a hub, it's very common, esp. when the hub becomes loaded as 2/4/8/32, etc. machines are all essentially using the same bit of cable (what with a hub being nothing more than a repeater). If an interface detects a collision, the transfer is stopped and a it waits a random amount of time before trying to send it again. This goes round and round until it's sent. For a switch on the other hand, its not so common, as there are only ever two machines on the cable - the switch and the computer. Although 31% collision rate on dragonfly does seam alot. Again, Paul is probably right, with half-duplex being the problem. In this case, the same 'cable' us used for both sending and receiving traffic. If one conflicts the other, you'll get a collision. With Full-duplex, sends and receives are independent and therefore you can't get collisions: jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] -- /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:87:89:03 inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3481762 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3664852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1212745301 (1156.5 Mb) TX bytes:1002484102 (956.0 Mb) jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] -- ssh -t kenny /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8B:4C:9C:EA inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18415888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:17153032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:2907452267 (2772.7 Mb) TX bytes:960767410 (916.2 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 Memory:4210-42100038 Connection to kenny closed. jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] -- ssh -t kyle /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:C7:7F:CF:A7 inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:34264896 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4375 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3580726012 (3414.8 MB) TX bytes:196135708 (187.0 MB) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2000 Memory:4210-42100038 Connection to kyle closed. 2) How can I eliminate them? (Including hardware changes if required.) The two machines are connected through a small LinkSys switch. model EZXS55W: When I first read that I thought 'cheap built-in hub', so only 10MBps @ HD, however looking at it, 100MBps-FD shouldn't be a problem. A good tool to look at is mii-tool (emerge mii-diag): root on jonathan [ ~ ] -- mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok root on jonathan [ ~ ] -- mii-tool -v eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok product info: Intel 82555 rev 4 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control Then you can run: root on jonathan [ ~ ] -- mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD Which should put the computer into 100MBps via Full Duplex. Give that a go - it should work. If there's a problem putting it into that (and you can run 'mii-tool -r' to re-negotiate), it may be the switch and/or the cable. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 11:04, 4 users, load average: 3.06, 5.30, 6.56 -- People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay. ~ Perry King -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:44:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: I just realized that I always turn this option (wherever it may be) off (I think it's the kernel, which would explain why I don't remember precisely where it is, since I configure all kernels to be the same as the last, so I set it once and forgot it), and maybe you should too-- that way you might have a better chance of knowing what precisely is causing these spontaneous reboots in the first place, so you could stop them. Does anybody else know what I'm talking about? ;-) ? Yes, but like you I can't remember where you set it. You can also pass it as an option to the kernel when booting. I don't really think it will help here, the system log should contain everything Mark needs, providing it's not a hard reboot that prevents the last log messages being flushed to disk. I think you're talking about the hangcheck timer? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 1:08, 7 users, load average: 1.80, 1.71, 1.57 -- President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges. ~ Jay Leno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox
Holly Bostick wrote: Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for a long, long time. Firefox was a big relief because it *didn't* have 'that damn Mozilla memory problem', but it seems to have developed it. At the end of the day - it's still a massive improvement over anything M$ have produced with IE. So long as you know the limitations you can work around it - i.e. if you've been playing with alot of tabs, just close it down and start it back up again when you're done (a few seconds work). And, I think with one of the tab extensions that you can download it'll save the current tabs you have open and recreate them all for you when you restart firefox. I just find Mozilla (Suite) slow and cumbersome, although it does have better Javascript support than Firefox (useful for IE-centric sites), and Opera is propiritary and has an over-enthuisatic interface (not as simple as firefox). Long live firefox! :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 1:53, 3 users, load average: 1.61, 1.48, 1.39 -- Sex is often quite funny. You know what's a good definition of trust? Two cannibals who agree to give each other oral sex. ~ David Bertugli -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm sure this is OT, so just send a pointer if you like, and I'll stop. But... This is great! I haven't paid much attention to FF/TB extensions up to now because the few I tried early on got obsolete and/or didn't work well. They are getting better - in fact there are a number which are designed to integrate themselves within websites (google preview is the first that springs to mind - it displays a thumbnail of a website within the google search listings). But: what's the modular search thingie? Moreover: what would you suggest for backups/sharing of bookmarks? For control of popups/ads and script vulnerabilities? Surely there's a list somewhere for asking these things? I'm not sure about a list, but aside from the standard sites (click the Get Extensions links in FF/TB), mozdev.org is a good place to look around for plugins. Some are still in planning/alpha stage, but there's some promising plugins coming along! :) Personally, I don't use many plugins. Thunderbird-wise, I use Quotecolors (Colourizies the background and borders of different levels of quotations to help see the different levels of conversations. very nice and very clean.) and Mail Redirect (allows be to 'bounce' messages to other people instead of forwarding). For Firefox, Web Developer (for my Web Design work - very nice!), Google Page Rank (out of interest) and Download Statusbar (puts current downloads as buttons just about the status bar). -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 6:03, 3 users, load average: 1.89, 2.34, 2.52 -- When we say the Pledge of Allegiance, we say, '...with liberty and justice for all.' Well what part of 'all' don't people understand? ~ Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.), Gay and Lesbian March, 1993 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info
Kris Kerwin wrote: I've tried catting the output from dmesg and running it regularly with crontab, as was advised below. This, unfortunately doesn't work because cron can only run as often as once a minute. This means that if a crash happens in between these dmesg snapshots, the debugging information is lost. The only way that catting dmesg to a file will work is if the crash just so happens to occur right as dmesg is being logged. I might be able to increase my chances if there was anyway to set up vixie-cron to run more often than once a minute (once a second? more?) Why not run a bash script, something like (not tested or debugged! And I can't remember how to do a while loop in bash;) while true; do if [ -e /tmp/stopdmesg ]; then exit; else dmesg dmesg-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%m%s) sleep(5) fi done Open up your terminal and run the script (and append to send it to the background). If needs be, change sleep(5) to as low as you need to get the dmesg information. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 9:03, 3 users, load average: 3.62, 2.94, 2.42 -- The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and three hundred sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ~ Lynne Lavner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info
Kris Kerwin wrote: Thanks Jonathan. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a bash or any other programmer, and was wondering if this would work. And how might I code that while loop? Actually - the while loop was fine. I wrote that line and thought I can't do that! I'll have to look it up before I send it out - it was originally white (1) - but in doing so, I forgot to delete the statement. while true; do if [ -e /tmp/stopdmesg ]; then exit; else dmesg dmesg-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) sleep(5) fi done In theory, the following code should do it: --cut--- #!/bin/bash if [ -z $1 ]; then echo sleep time not given exit fi while true; do if [ -e /tmp/stopdmesg ]; then exit; else dmesg /tmp/dmesg-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) echo -n . sleep $1 fi done --cut--- You can then run to program (say it's in a file called dcat) $ ./dcat 5 which will sleep for 5 seconds at a time, before outputting the dmesg contents to /tmp/dmesg-(time), (e.g. /tmp/dmesg-20050917231913) For each output, you'll see a period on screen, e.g. $ ./dcat 5 .. So you can track. But you can delete the 'echo -n .' line if you want to stop that. Finally, to stop it, you can either kill the process, or create an empty file called stopdmesg in /tmp: $ touch /tmp/stopdmesg which will terminate the loop and the program. Hope that all helps and gets you the information your after! -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 12:08, 4 users, load average: 4.58, 2.76, 2.62 -- Labels can also be misleading. I saw a news report about a lesbian protest march, and the reporter said, 'Coming up next, a lesbian demonstration.' My first thought was, 'Cool. I always wondered how those things work.' ~ Michael Dane, Comedian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in particular I should look for? I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficulty releasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs running. The only way to release it is to shut down firefox. However, I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet though. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 1:39, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.42, 0.99 -- If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~ Bert R. Sugar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Plesk...
Mal Herring wrote: Hi List, Anyone ever installed Plesk onto a Gentoo server ? Can it be done and if so how did you find the install ? Got someone wanting me to install a Plesk box for them and I don't want to have to use Red-Hat Thanks in advance. Good luck! :) Actually, it's very difficult as Plesk relies both on knowing the location of certain files (which gentoo doesn't always keep in the same place as other distributions - apache2 being an example) and the installation of some of it's own utilities and programs (all of which come in RPM format). While it is (in the long run) possible to setup Plesk on a gentoo server, it's not supported by Plesk and it's not as simple as just downloading the RPMs and running an ebuild. AFAIK, no-one has a successful installation! I would like to try myself, but our company has too much on the go at the moment and I can't spare the time to try. Good luck though. (BTW, I use CentOS 4.1 - although ur better with 3.4, as it's a bitch to get the dependencies correct on 4.1 and upgrades are difficult.) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r9-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 1:48, 2 users, load average: 1.24, 0.93, 0.60 -- A study done in the Des Moines public schools showed that the average high school student hears anti-gay comments like 'dyke' and 'faggot' a stunning 26 times a day, and that teachers who witness such incidents do nothing a shocking 97 percent of the time. The results of this kind of behavior for gay and lesbian students is terrifying. ~ Martina Navratilova -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through
Jarry wrote: I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in. BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as examples for spamassassin-learning? mbox (all mails in 1 file), or maildir (every mail is a separate file)? Or both are acceptable? Either. By default, SpamAssassin will assume path given is a Maildir folder, unless passed with the -mbox statement. What about MUA mail-folders? Can I use them? I have a lot of mails in mozilla/thunderbird mail-folder format, which is (I think) very close to mbox (every mailfolder is one file, e.g. one file for all Sent mails, etc), but I'm not sure if spamassassin would understand it as many mails in one file, separated by newline and From - date line... So long as it's in the mbox style, SpamAssassin will work with it. I do remember seeing some references to the Thunderbird mail system, so I think it should be OK. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r9-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2:58, 2 users, load average: 3.26, 1.86, 1.06 -- Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. ~ Gore Vidal -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to increase the number of external (all imap) accounts in evolution?
W.Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way to increase the number of external (all imap) accounts? The server end where the bulk of the accounts sit is courier-imap on gentoo, the other is wu-imap on solaris (I think). The client (two of) are both on gentoo, remote to the imap servers. Courier tends to run it's own daemons, whereas WU uses xinet.d, so for that you'll need to check the settings for xinet.d. Courier on the other hand can be set using it's configuration files. I don't use it on Gentoo (I have it running on Fedora/CentOS for our web servers atm), so I'm not sure if the configuration files have been moved, but on there they're in /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc. If you have gentoolkit, run # equery files courier-imap | grep (imap|pop3)\.dist to see where they're located. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 17:11, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.34, 0.47 -- To a large segment of our society, gay people are viewed as sexual outlaws. God forbid a straight person should acknowledge that there are pleasures associated with their anus. That's a big, big door that people don't want to open. ~ Phil Hartman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows Media Player
Daniel Vrcic wrote: Personally, I prefer to skip the GTK interface and just use the standard mplayer version, not gmplayer. I've mapped all the keys to my liking, so I need nothing more :) You're using slave mode? What keys? I've got the Logitech diNovo wireless keyboard, so I've mapped all the main functions to the keys on the Media Pad, meaning I don't have to have the full keyboard with me when I'm using mplayer :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 16:49, 4 users, load average: 1.50, 1.02, 0.75 -- When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~ Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through
W.Kenworthy wrote: This works very well, though it can be set too zealous (as warned about in the spamassassin section) so needs checking of the trap directories every few days. I've just just it configured with the standard settings, and while it can pull in the occasional valid e-mail, they've always been of the mass mailing sort (usually from eBay, Amazon, etc.). In terms of personally-addresses e-mails, that's never been a problem. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 17:06, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.41, 0.56 -- There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. ~ Boy George -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sudo
John Dangler wrote: The connecting page is a Solaris page that doesn’t exist. I’m trying to find out exactly what this means, since it’s a recommended piece from the Gentoo security handbook. There's a page at the gentoo wiki with some information about how to set it all up: S/keys are one time use passwords. You can use them if you need to provide passwords where someone may be monitoring your keystrokes. S/keys are generated randomly, usually around 100 are generated at one time, with a passphrase as a key. (This passphrase is independent of your main system password.) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 11:09, 2 users, load average: 1.50, 2.22, 1.99 -- Governor Schwarzenegger has come out against gay marriage and then he went back to slathering body oil all over his muscles in front of other guys. ~ Craig Kilborn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sudo
John Dangler wrote: so, the best place to start would be to emerge sudo (and it's dependencies), and then try and configure it from there... (?) I'm guessing that, with the use flags set, it would also grab skey... Something like that. But, at the end of the day, it depends whether you want the feature of having single-use keys available on the computer/server. If that's of no use to you, there's no point in setting the skey flag and just leaving it alone. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 13:29, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.25, 0.33 -- You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks. ~ Trey Parker Matt Stone, South Park -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through
daniel wrote: I've been beating my head against my keyboard all day trying to figure out how get SpamAssassin working on our server and so far I've not had a lot of success. Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They store the checksum of all know spam mails. Once I enabled that, my level of false spam went down massively. I very rarely get any spam in my Inbox any more (although I do get the occasional genuine mail there, usually mass-mail like from eBay, but a white-list solves that one). -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 14:34, 4 users, load average: 1.43, 0.66, 0.40 -- There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. ~ Elton John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player
Jerry McBride wrote: Yep, you're right. Mplayer is a wonderful application, but a bit too delicate to use all the time. I experience the same fail to shutdown problem you have and in addition to that, after a video plays, I can click on the open a file button and it will crash... almost every time. Personally, I prefer to skip the GTK interface and just use the standard mplayer version, not gmplayer. I've mapped all the keys to my liking, so I need nothing more :) It's a great program, just looking forward to the day it gains a good stable codebase :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 14:39, 3 users, load average: 0.71, 0.69, 0.46 -- The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~ Gore Vidal -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sudo
John Dangler wrote: Jonathan, Colleen, Holly~ Thanks for the additional comments. Am I to understand, then, that I can emerge sudo without the use of skey? Since I'm still not entirely sure what its function is, I'd feel better leaving it alone. If so, then I'll get it emerged and follow the posts to get it setup... That's probably best. As with most ebuilds, it's an optional extra, not a requirement to the installation. If you're simply looking to use sudo to run commands, the default settings are fine. They work for me just fine :) Then again, if you decide at a later date you want to add that feature, there's nothing stopping you adding the flag and re-compiling the code with skey support. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 15:39, 4 users, load average: 0.42, 0.27, 0.24 -- About a year ago I was a guest on a network news show in New York. They were showing film clips from a gay pride parade down Fifth Avenue, but they only decided to show the part with men in dresses and heels. I had seen the parade, and there were men in business suits as well. After showing the film, the newsperson made some comments, and I found the comments extremely offensive. This is what's wrong with the media, I said. You show a fringe position. You show one point of view. You're closing the minds of the people by not showing them what the reality is. I got up and walked out, and I've never been asked back again. ~ Kathleen Nolan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi
Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 17:07, Jonathan Wright wrote: In the end I had to remove all the modules (rm -Rf /lib/modules) and reinstall all the modules before rebuilding wireless-tools, madwifi-driver, madwifi-tools in that order. Thanks, that worked! (I haven't rebuild madwifi-tools though). I the end I just didn't care! :) I rebuilt/remove/reinstalled anything that was associated with the wireless system. However, it seams that removing the modules is the major step, as anything user /lib/modules is governed by the configuration protection system and therefore nothing will be deleted/removed on a unmerge or clean. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Yup... that works. Esp if there's already a DHCP server somewhere.. The issue that I face is if the network is a PC-Card. (my pccard has this issue. It can't detect the link) Agreed. I've noticed that with my new laptop that as soon as you insert (or at least the laptop discovers) the wireless cart it automatically runs net.ath0 and establishes the network connection. I'm not sure where or how it's one (haven't looked into it), but it's quite nice :) -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirroring
Matthias Bethke wrote: I just set up a local rsync mirror using app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror. Now I'm just wondering if it's necessary to do it like suggested and put a separate portage tree under /opt? I mean, apart from syncing to the official Gentoo mirrors it's read-only anyway, so pointing my rsync daemon to /usr/portage should be fine, shouldn't it? cheers! Matthias I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main machine and then let the others sync off it. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b5 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 1 day, 6:36, 2 users, load average: 0.45, 0.30, 0.16 -- If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~ Bert R. Sugar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?
Marshal Newrock wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0, so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the moment). My one piece of advice is to avoid RealTek chipsets (usually RTL-8139). These are the winmodems of the network world. Most of their processing is done by software, not in hardware. I've got about 10 Intel Pro/100 (Server, Desktop and Management variants) running across 3 servers and 3 desktop systems. I haven't has a problem with them in the 3 years I've been using them, they're well supported though the Becker driver (eepro100) and the Intel standard driver (e100). Plus with the e100 I think some processing can be off-loaded onto the card itself. You can pick them up on eBay for next to nothing - usually a few quid a card on BuyItNow options - you'll probably have it within a day or two, brand new. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel
neil wrote: timothy johnson wrote: May be a dumb question, but is there a version of the linux kernel for the intel dual core 64bit?? Yes, it is a dumb question. Gentoo users create their own kernel versions depending on their hardware and configuration. A little harsh I think! The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the system is concerned there are (or at least should be ;) two processors there. Just load up the kernel editor and make sure that SMP is enabled for at least as many processors are in your system (i.e. number of cores). If your running a dual-core, double-processor system, it's effectively a quad system (no dual), so SMP should be build for at least 4 processors. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel
Andreas Vinsander wrote: A little harsh I think! Agree! :) If your running a dual-core, double-processor system, it's effectively a quad system (no dual), so SMP should be build for at least 4 processors. Here's another dumb one: Is hyperthreading enabled in the dual-core procesors? Thus making a single dual core Xeon count as 4 processors kernel-wize? If I remember rightly, yes. As far as how the processor presents itself to the system, each core itself is an independent processor. This goes for the hyper-treading system from Intel aswell, as it's treated as 2 cores, but the processor controls what the core can do depending on what's available in the processor and the code is running at the time. Just interesting that if you bought 2 processors, now with dual-core hyper-threading your system suddenly thinks it's an 8-way beomoth! :D I'd hate to think of the licensing fees Micro$oft could charge for that if the mood caught them right! :-/ -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need help setting up Gentoo to access digital camera
Sarpy Sam wrote: On 5/28/05, Uwe Klosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should go through the USB HOWTO and SUBMOUNT HOWTO. That is working great for me and all devices i connet via usb. The system will recognize your camera as a mass storage device. If you are using gphoto2 to access the camera you will not access it like a usb mass storage device. Read the man gphoto2 and you can use it right on the command line real easy. I've got one camera (Sony) that just appears a a USB Mass Storage Device, but the Canon EOS-300D needs gphoto2. For that one I've found gtkam good for interfacing gphoto2 with the camera. It's not the most well build for feature complete programs (only really meant as a proof-of-concept), but it's fine for browsing though the photos and downloading them onto my system. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem w/o network
Hiya, Take a look in /etc/conf.d/rc --- # Set to yes if the default behaviour of at least one net.* # service starting beside net.lo is NOT enouth to consider # the 'net' dependency up and running. RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=no --- Matthias Bethke wrote: I have a feeling I'm missing something very obvious here, but I'm still at a loss: I have my laptop's ethernet set to use DHCP. Obviously, on the road this will fail. But then the net service that postfix (and a bunch of other stuff like sshd) depends on is not there. Of course I could edit the init.d file, but there must be a cleaner solution, right? After all, everybody on dialup-only systems has to have this problem. I also haven't figured out *how* the net dependency is provided. The postfix iniscript explicitely contains provide mta, but very few scripts use this provide keyword, especially not net.* On my previous SuSE system, if I went someplace networked with the machine running already, I used to say ifup-dhcp eth0, and I could mail and ssh into the laptop without any further ado. I suppose I could do the same with Gentoo's runlevels which I haven't explored yet, but it still doesn't solve the problem that I can't have postfix running and queueing messages I send while offline so they can be delivered once I plug in somewhere. regards Matthias -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions
Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's interesting although it felt a bit strange typing emerge -pv pv I prefer emerge -av pv ;) That way you don't have to re-run the search and everything if it's all OK! :D -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued
fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9 different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't exactly as clear as it could be. Info: without swapping: eth0: IRQ11, I/O 0xa800 eth1: IRQ10, I/O 0xa400 I tried all of the following arguments passed to the kernel: netdev=11,0xa400,eth0 netdev=11,0xa400,eth0 netdev=10,0xa800,eth1 netdev=10,0xa800,eth1 netdev=11,0xa400,eth0 netdev=10,a800,eth1 netdev=11,a400,eth0 netdev=eth1,eth0 netdev=eth1,eth0 netdev=eth1,eth0 netdev=eth1,eth0 netdev=eth0,eth1 netdev=eth0,eth1 netdev=eth1,eth0 Then I got tired of rebooting. Not one did I get them to swap, nor did the kernel complain about bad options etc. This is a test system, my actual goal is to swap eth0 and eth1 on a server. This server has one 32-bit 100Mbps NIC, and one 64-bit 1000Mbps NIC. I can't constantly reboot that server, so I threw in a second in my workstation to try and figure this out. I have to have this order for reasons that are too annoying to get into. Any more ideas? If you compile them as modules for the server, you should be able to use modules.conf to set the alias between the device name and the ethx bit. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued
fire-eyes wrote: Well, my fault for not mentioning. But I don't enable module loading support on servers, it is a security risk. Fair enough. I've done the same on my servers. What's the possibility of moving the cards around? The kernel will detect and load them in a different order then. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued
fire-eyes wrote: I would do this however one of them is built into the motherboard. I found a document which claimed with grub all Ihad to do was netdev=irq=24,name=eth0 however I tried this, a few variations, and even used two netdev statements, one for each card and it still didn't swap. Yeesh, would think this was a trivial thing to pull off. I've found this link http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-2.html which uses ether= instead of netdev= Worth a try? -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued
fire-eyes wrote: My understanding was that ether= was for 2.4 kernels, in fact the docs for 2.6 say netdev= is the replace ment, but at this point i'm willing to try. Continuing the search, I've found this page: http://www.science.uva.nl/research/air/wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames They've put irq= before the irq number. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
