Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?
On 2/15/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007, brullo nulla wrote: Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the system and niced times as well. p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies. Don't believe the readings they give, rather interpret them in context. sob. it's not the first time I hear this. What should I believe to really know my system state? You should use ps, top and free of course! Just realize that they lie... Seeing this thread reminded me of a blog article I saw on Virtual Threads a while back... http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html He does a pretty good job of explaining where top gets its numbers and how to properly interpret them. HTH -mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation and various programs.
On 12/6/06, Xamindar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hibernation set up on my laptop and am just wondering if there are any programs that are unsafe to have running when hibernating. One of the main ones im wondering about would be vmware. Can I hibernate while I have windows xp running in vmware and still have it exactly how I left it when I power back on? I will probably try it soon anyway but just wondering if anyone else out there has more experience. Also, I notice that my cpu governors and being able to change the clock speed of the cpu no longer function once I resume from suspend. One other thing is that any programs that use the sound device are killed when I hibernate (because hibernate is set to restart alsasound or else sound doesn't work any more)any way to stop that from happening? I have had problems with Firefox 2 crashing every time I resume, it spouts some nonsense about gnome-vfs and dies. I have also on occasion not been able to enter my password into xscreensaver after a reboot, for that Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login then kill xscreensaver works without harming anything else. HTH. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?
On 12/6/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using perl and I'd rather not install and maintain PHP just so I can use Squirrelmail. It sounds like I may need to though. Does anyone prefer another webmail client to Squirrelmail? We run RoundCube on Gentoo at work and it works very well, the interface is AJAXified which has its benefits. Overall I would say that if you are going to run PHP for your web-mail RoundCube is the best way to go. I don't know if it is in Portage or how easy it is to emerge, we manage our web applications with a different in-house system. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?
I am trying to run both davfs2 and subversion which depend on different and incompatible versions of neon. Can neon be slotted so I can run both at the same time? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?
On 12/4/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and subversion-1.4.2 both depend on just net-misc/neon, without any version deps, so I presume they both work with the current neon-0.26.1-r1. I'm running the latest stable versions of both which depend on different versions of neon. It does look like it will work if I run the ~x86 versions. Thanks for the tip. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox + macromedia flash plugin - I can't hear the sound
On 11/10/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have firefox 1.5 and macromedia flash plugin, but flash animation with sound, the sound is not played, any clue? IIRC sound in Flash will only play if you have the alsa libs installed. You may also want to try Flash player 9 from labs.adobe.com. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail system recommendations
On 11/8/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small network, consisting of three PCs. Each of these PCs has a public WAN address, and each runs Apache, vsftpd and sendmail (as well as ipkungfu for firewall protection). One of them runs mailman. I would like to replace sendmail with something not so...shall we say prehistoric? I've been advised many times to do so on this list and others. Would anyone please give me some recommendations for a new choice of mail server? I'd like one with plenty if documentation. For my money I would say run postfix. -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie stuck at starting gate
On 11/6/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you connect to the Internet via a router). This is covered in the FAQs. If you are going to allow connections on your WinXP firewall, it is safer that you limit these to the IP address(es) of the machine on which the VNC viewer is running. On Sunday 05 November 2006 19:59, Heather Howey wrote: Hello listmates, Have downloaded the free viewer to my friend's machine, installed the server program on my home computer, but cannot, from my friend's machine, connect. Following the instructions on how to find the IP address of the server machine, I got two. According to my ISP, one of them is static and one is dynamic. But they won't tell me which is which. So, how can I know which one to use in the VNC Viewer's dialog box to connect? Well, maybe that's not so important, because I've tried using both IP numbers and neither one works. I just get error message unable to connect to host. Connection refused (10061) Anyone out there who can see what I'm doing wrong? Grateful for tips, Heather Looks like you got the wrong list, and please don't top post. -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SNMP Security
On 10/30/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: I am using Cacti on a firewalled production server to do all manner of system monitoring and metrics. I would also like to setup SNMP on my development servers that sits behind a firewall at a different data center. Is there a way that I can securely allow SNMP access to my development boxen from the production box. The end result I am looking for is the ability to log in to a single instance of cacti and have access to all of my servers all over the world. Is this possible to do securely? Any recommendations? Hello Mike, JFFNMS is a NMS with many,many more features than cacti. www.jffnms.org snip James Thanks for the suggestion James, I will have to check it out when I get some time. Right now I'm stuck with cacti (I say stuck in the nicest possible way) so I really need to figure out if SNMP is secure enough to use across the internet. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder
On 10/6/06, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide UTF-8, but I cannot make actually having en_US.UTF-8. Here are some commands I ran: The locales I have (nothing changes even after I run the rest of the commands. localhost ~ # locale -a C en_US.utf8 POSIX localhost ~ # localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 localhost ~ # locale-gen * Generating 1 locales (this might take a while) * (1/1) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * Generation complete localhost ~ # locale -a C en_US.utf8 POSIX localhost ~ # env | grep -i LC_ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Uhm... how bout we NOT HIJACK THREADS. Please start a new thread when you have something new to say. Thank you. -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen
On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem is that all I see is a big grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas? Have you already tried emerge -C net-www/netscape-flash ; emerge net-www/netscape-flash? Yeah, several times, it doesn't seem to help. I also deleted my ~/.macromedia folder which didn't help. -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen
On 10/1/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem is that all I see is a big grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas? 1) Have tried to start your browser with the factory settings? E.g. mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak and start it. It doesn't matter if it works or not it's only for the test. Then you can revert to your settings by rm -r ~/.mozilla mv ~/.mozilla-bak ~/.mozilla I did try that but it didn't help. 2) Are you sure you are not trying to play a flash version 8? Because AFAIK there is no flash-8 for linux yet. ;-( Hmm... I have tried quite a few sites, I can't imagine ALL of them have spontaneously changed to Flash 8. It seems almost like an X rendering issue. Is there something about Modular X that flash hates? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen
Hi Everybody, I recently had a tragedy on my system (long story). In any case now when I try to play any Flash file in a browser (Firefox or Opera) all I get is a grey block where the presentation should be. Right clicking results in the usual flash menu, the cursor will even change to a hand when placed over links in the presentation and sound plays (e.g. Google Video or YouTube). The only problem is that all I see is a big grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simplified apache2
On 9/13/06, Michael Stewart (vericgar) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: net-www/apache mpm-prefork threads As a side note from the Apache maintainer: This USE-flag combination is pointless. The threads USE-flag is only used if you don't specify a MPM USE-flag, and caused the mpm to be mpm-worker. (If threads is not set, the MPM defaults to mpm-prefork) Hmm... I seem to remember some problem with PHP only compiling if threads was set to on. Maybe not, will have to test it to see if there is any good reason that I still have that in my package.use. Thanks for the tip. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2
On 9/13/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure I fully grasp what you mean by a 'hardened system'. If you mean
running a hardened kernel with only necessary software installed, then
yes, I run hardened kernels on most servers {dns, web, mail, firwalls}
If running a hardened system means more than that, please explain,
or point me to some docs.
I guess I should have clarified when I made my initial suggestion. A
hardened system is one that is running the hardened profile. All my
server systems are built from the hardened stage 1 tarball. So
basically, you should not use the hardened useflag if your system was
not built with the hardened profile.
Note that there is more to hardening a system than just using a
certain profile or a combination of useflags but its a good start.
-Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] Simplified apache2
On 9/12/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used 2006.1 livecd to install a pII machine. It's going
to become a (minimalistic) apache2 server. I just let the
installation
set the flags for the install so I have these flags currently:
snip
Those look a bit excessive for a minimalist machine. I would start over ;-)
Some of these flag look questionable, such as the one with
underscores (kernel_linux userland_GNU) as I only found
information on them, where they are describe as 'undocumented
use flags'. What's up with these flags?
My understanding is that these are set in the profile and simply tell
portage that you are using Linux. I don't think there is any way
(short of profile hacking) to change them. So don't worry about it.
Where do I look to discern the minimal list of (necessary) system
flags that
must be kept? (I want to avoid negating any flags that are critical).
These are my proposed list of flags:
snip
Still a little excessive in my opinion. The approach that I would (do)
take is to put only the bare minimum use flags in make.conf and
override the rest on a per-package level in /etc/portage/package.use.
So can I just use this list, or do I have to include a -{flag} for each one?
IS there simpler syntax to globally remove unwanted flags [-*], but, not any
critical system flags? (Is this the same as just leaving the flag out
of the USE param. setting in make.conf?
-* will work but be careful it can break things if you don't know what
your doing.
Are there default system flag settings that I can safely remove?
Where is the list and how do I know which ones can be removed or negated?
My (limited) understanding of flags are that the highest priority are
those set in /etc/portage/package.use, then /etc/make.conf then
the system default flags which may be located in several locations.
Is there any docs or listing of all of these location and details
on precedence?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2
OK, my advice to you would be to start over with a hardened profile.
While hardened is not specifically required I highly recommend it if
this is just going to be a headless server machine.
You probably want to set your machine up with a similar USE= string in make.conf
USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline
I believe that is the bare minimum if you use -*. Now you can compile
your system and you have a blank slate to start working with. As you
start emerging packages just make sure you use the -pv flags for
emerge and check out the available use flags and add the ones you want
to /etc/portage/package.use. Here is an example of my package.use line
for apache2
net-www/apache mpm-prefork threads
This setup works smashingly for me on my production servers by YMMV.
Best of luck.
-Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Stage 4 on similar hardware
On 9/8/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much hardware leeway is safe to accept when using a source 4 tarball for an installation? For example, I have 2 basic models of server one is a gateway pancake server - p4 3.0 ghz HT, about 512m of memory and 500Gb sata drives The other is roughly similar but in a standard case the processor and hdd specs are very close if not identical, but there may be some differences in the boards as these are not specifically server boards If the processor is in the same family (i.e. P4) you can get away with just a few tweaks to your kernel modules (mainly the drivers) and you should be good to go. The only time I can think that this wouldn't work is if the processor family is different (ie. P3 - P4) -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?
On 9/8/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am leaving my office in a moment to put the 2006.1 disk in a server to start a fresh build (it's a standby server and I can afford to have it off line for a day or 2) specifically to avoid having to do the gcc4 upgrade. Ive done one so far and it took me 5 days and nearly cost me my laptop -- and I followed the gentoo guide specifically. There has GOT to be a better way. Sadly I cant take each of my servers offline to do upgrade them this way -- some I will have to risk on the GCC upgrade, but for now im avoiding it like the plague. Tim I've followed the GCC upgrade guide before without problems, but now I'm scared. Is all the trouble because of how Gentoo works or how GCC works? What is the trouble like? Packages that won't compile, or different things breaking in the system? Methinks there is just a bit of FUD swirling around. I can't speak to GCC 4.1 (may do it this afternoon) but the last time I did a GCC upgrade (following the documentation) I had absolutely no problems whatsoever. If you are really worried tar up your system as a backup before you start. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12 breaks net.lo
On 9/7/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I upgrade from baselayout-1.11.15-r3 to baselayout-1.12.4-r7 and run etc-update I get lots of net.lo errors during bootup and net.eth0 fails to start. I think this is a problem with 1.12.4 because I had the same issues only with my wireless card. Would suggest you mask 1.12.4 manually and revert to the older version for now. Should I file a bug? Might as well, I don't see anything specific to this but it looks like a lot of people are having issues with 1.12.4x -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP4?
On 8/31/06, Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just installed SquirrelMail, and found that parts of it are not working. The version of PHP that is installed is 5.1.2. Searching the sqirrelmail website, it appears that squirrelmail doesn't work with php5. So, how do I downgrade PHP to version 4.1.4 (which seems to be the recommended version). Hi Anthony, I know this isn't the answer to your question but I would recommend you upgrade to Roundcube webmail instead of downgrading php to support SquirrelMail. Aside from the fact that I personally like RoundCube it also runs just swell with PHP 5.1 -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Bind (Named) SOA Records
On 8/23/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to write a scrip to maintain my Bind zone files and I was wondering if it is valid to cram the SOA all onto one line. I have scoured the internet and can't find anyone who does it that way. My question is... will it break stuff? Right now my SOA looks like: snip what I am proposing is this: @ IN SOA ns1.domain.com. admin.domain.com. ( 2006082201 12h 1h 2w 1h ) Are the two equivalent? OK, after a little testing I determined that it is valid to have it all on a single line and when it is on a single line the parens are optional. This works quite nicely and makes my script easier to write. Also, Bryan... just for your info the semicolons are simply comments and really aren't at all needed for the DNS server to function properly. Thanks for the help everybody. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to debug /sbin/init process?
On 8/25/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 09:10, fei huang wrote: no idea how to do it under Gentoo... As a last resort, you can compile it manually from sources with the appropriate options and copy the init binary under /sbin. Of course, be sure you know what you're doing. I suggest you rename the original init binary to use it again in case something goes wrong (with init= on the command line). Or you could patch the ebuild so that it allows debugging and put it in your overlay. Thats probably better than manually compiling from source. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File replication
On 8/25/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm prepared using an USB enclosure for data stroage. I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can be used as a mobile storage device and can be plugged in on any Linux PC. My first thought for this kind of setup would be a little Perl magic with inotify... not sure if something already exists like this. http://www.edoceo.com/creo/inotify/perl-inotify.php -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bind (Named) SOA Records
I am trying to write a scrip to maintain my Bind zone files and I was wondering if it is valid to cram the SOA all onto one line. I have scoured the internet and can't find anyone who does it that way. My question is... will it break stuff? Right now my SOA looks like: @ IN SOA ns1.domain.com. hostmaster.domain.com. ( 2006082201 ; serial number 12h ; Refresh 1h ; Retry 2w ; Expire 1h ; Min TTL ) what I am proposing is this: @ IN SOA ns1.domain.com. admin.domain.com. ( 2006082201 12h 1h 2w 1h ) Are the two equivalent? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba
On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick. Though as far as I know the only one Windows can actually mount (as a drive) is Samba. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Workpad Z50, which gentoo list should I write to?
On 8/7/06, nick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have an IBM workpad z50, and I am curious if there is a gentoo port that could possibly run on it. If not, what can I do to get one started? Also, if there is a better list to ask on, please let me know. You may want to ask the question on gentoo-laptop too, but this question is OK here too. I would suggest you take a look at the Gentoo MIPS page [1] though I would imagine that its going to be hard to find anything that is going to fit well onto a 16MB ram disk that was designed to be a thin client. Even so... a google for linux 16mb ram turns up some interesting and promising results [2][3] [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/mips/index.xml [2] http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/ [3] http://jailbait.sourceforge.net/ -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine right now. The partition structure looks like this: hda1 - NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3) hda2 - Swap hda3 - Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed) -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A couple questions
On 8/2/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple things that I am working on and I could use some help: 1. VPN http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=vpn 2. Backup http://gentoo-portage.com/app-backup 3. Work Log http://www.google.com/search?q=excel+time+difference Timothy A. Holmes Google and Gentoo-Portage are your friend... please use them! -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail
On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. sendmail has had numerous holes way back then. And I dislike the configuration language. So, I'd suggest postfix or exim. I personally use Postfix always. It's featureful and easy enough to configure. I would beg to differ with the statement about security. Qmail is arguably THE MOST secure mail server (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html). That said, I use postfix and love it. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail
On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: On 7/31/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. I would beg to differ with the statement about security. Qmail is arguably THE MOST secure mail server (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html). Actually, it is NOT. DJB made this statement but he doesn't stand to it. See http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html for a quite big collection of bugs and RFC violations of qmail. To quote from that page: I'm not here to start a war over the merits of any one MTA... but I think it's worth reading DJBs rebuttal of the accusations made by Postfix's author. http://cr.yp.to/qmail/venema.html -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How can I let user mount samba shares without sudo ?
On 7/19/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was hopping that some one know how I can let users ( not root ) mount samba share ( windows machines ). When I use root all work, when I try if not a superuser it says that only root can mount any clues ? Add user to your options in fstab. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bind with DLZ and MySQL
Has anyone got Bind 9 with DLZ working with MySQL? I am having some issues and just wondered if there is good documentation out there to guide me along my troubleshooting. Any pointers would be much appreciated. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Configuring Dovecot
Anyone have any experience configuring Dovecot? I am trying to get Dovecot to work with MySQL (preferably using the users table from postfix). My stumbling block at the moment is debugging. I can't for the life of me figure out where Dovecot is putting the debugging logs. I think it would be simple to solve my problem if I could just see the blasted SQL query that Dovecot is using. Any pointers would be much appreciated. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf
On 7/11/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you can break it up like this: # Multimedia USE_mplayer USE_ffmpeg USE_audio USE_video-players Where your selected categories are not so rigid as audio, stills, video, etc? But doesn't this idea kind of circumvent the package.use file? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC -- Palm Tungsten E, and Google Calendar
On 7/10/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking to be able to sync my palm tungsten E to my google calendar, and I am wondering if it would be possible to use evolution or other linux program to accomplish this -- I know it's a bit off topic for the list, so feel free to contact me off list if you want. Could sure use some help on this TIM Have not tried it but suggest you look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_sync_for_Palm_PDAs_with_Evolution_2.0_and_udev may also google for 'palm evolution' ;-) -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help
On 7/7/06, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, A. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred) wpa-supplicant? Is there anything else I have to do or install? Regards, Colleen Hello, May I suggest that you try first with wireless-tools? Things you need to know: 1. The interface id of the wireless card (eth0, eth1, wlan0 etc...) 2. The essid of the wireless access point you are connecting to. 3. The encryption key (if any) for wireless access (WEP) Once you have those you can run the following commands (after you have emerged wireless-tools) Using eth1 as the interface for example: iwconfig eth1 essid the essid of the access point iwconfig eth1 key the encryption key dhcpcd eth1 Okay, I emerged ndiswrapper which also emerged wireless-tools. I haven't yet created any configuration files. However, if I run iwconfig, this is what I get: localhost ~ # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:beam26wireless Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:10:99:9C:BF Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-60 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 So, I assume that eth1 would be replaced by wlan0 in the commands above, correct? If this works, then depending on how you want to configure your box you may want to set all this configuration in the file /etc/conf.d/wireless (BTW, please take a look at the file /etc/conf.d/wireless.example, it does have very good comments that would make this very understandable), or you may want to go for wpa_supplicant. Well, I already have wireless-tools on my laptop because it was installed with ndiswrapper. As you note, my access point (a wireless cable/DSL router) is recognized and I realize that there isn't an encryption key set. The thing is, I *have* looked at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example and it may as well be hieroglyphics. I don't know which section to alter. Right now, if I'm on my laptop, I want to be able to connect to the access point in my apartment. However, if I'm at someplace that has wireless access, I want to be able to scan for an available network. So, I don't know what section to changed. Hi Colleen, I would really recommend you use wpa_supplicant as IMO it is far easier to configure and supports more access methods than iwconfig. Since your wireless card is clearly detected it should be trivial to setup. Check out this article in the wiki (which you may have already looked at): http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup#Configuration_using_wpa_supplicant -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!
On 7/3/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I can reproduce this. Open Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4) Navigate to http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ILNproduct=N0Zoverlay=1110loop=yes I can't tell for sure, but the .xsession-errors grows by about 10K with every loop of the radar. Click on Stop to stop the loop, and the log stops growing. This is another issue that seems related to the xorg update, as I usually have that page running constantly (with AutoUpdate is ON). Any ideas why this might be happening? This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts installed. I am running: X Window System Version 7.1.0 Release Date: 22 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1 Build Date: 30 June 2006 With these font packages: [I--] [ ] media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.1 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-bh-type1-1.0.0 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.0 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0 (0) [I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-util-1.0.1 (0) [I--] [ ] media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2 (0) [I--] [ ] media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 (0) [I--] [ ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 (1.0) [I--] [ ~] x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.2 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.1 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-libs/libXfont-1.1.0-r1 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.2 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-proto/fontcacheproto-0.1.2 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-proto/fontsproto-2.0.2 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2 (0) Not sure if thats helpful but it may be a start. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] auto login
On 7/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine. I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it to work. Try searching for auto login in this [1] document. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_scratch -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Grub, Hardened, and AMD64
On 6/20/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute wrote: I am building a server (AMD Opteron 64) and as a matter of policy I always run the hardened profile on my servers. Now this is my first time doing an install on an AMD64 architecture with hardened and so far it has gone relatively well. The thing that is giving me the most problems is Grub. When I try to emerge it in the hardened chroot the config script bombs out with an error 'C compiler cannot create executables'. One suggested solution was to disable sandbox in features and try again, no such luck. My next thought was to build a second chroot with a regular (non-hardened) tarball and build a package of grub (compiled using the static useflag) then emerge that in the hardened environment. Does this make sense? Is it likely to work or should I be doing something else? Any help would be appreciated. Note that simply not using the hardened profile is not an option here. I emerged Grub in a separate non-hardened chroot, built a binary package and emerged it into my hardened chroot and everything worked like a charm. I did use the custom-cflags and static USE flag on the build, I'm not sure if custom-cflags is needed but I'm pretty sure static is required since the 32bit libs aren't available on my system outside of the chroot used to build the package. If I'm wrong on this let me know. If anyone else happens to be running an Opteron processor and would benefit from the package I would be glad to post it. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server
On 6/6/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I strongly advice your father-in-law not to use a GUI to start webmastering, use plain old text editing software to really learn what's going on. I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with VI and a good book, and do yourself a favor learning CSS and XHTML since that is where web design is headed. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server
On 6/6/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/6/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with VI and a good book, and do yourself a favor learning CSS and XHTML since that is where web design is headed. It is probably a good idea to start with a good text editor and a book, but trying to learn vi and web design at the same time might be a bit overwhelming! -- Evan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list [Timothy A. Holmes] In this sense I am afraid I cannot agree with you. While I agree that it is ABSOLUTLY essential to learn XHTML and CSS code, trying to start from a blank vi or notepad screen is an exercise in frustration -- been there done that -- as I was beginning to learn web programming, working under incredible pressure from the then resident administration, I was trying to hand code everything in Visual InterDev. The crowning moment was 5 hours spent to produce 2 lines of NON-WORKING code. I far more recommend a authoring package like Dreamweaver that allows you to flip views or even split the views, so you can see what is happening to your code each time you make an insertion. I tend to do the pretty stuff in the gui and use the code editor (which has autocomplete and some other nice stuff) to do the code. In some cases (like constructing querys etc) DW makes it very easy to accomplish and provides CONSISTANT and WORKING code, which is something that beginning web builders have a hard time with. Even if you are set on doing hand code, do it with a coding editor such as Dreamweaver - the color coding, line numbers etc make it much easier to debug I would at ALL COSTS -- stay away from Front Page -- the code that it produces is HORRIBLE. I can agree that you may want autocomplete and color coding, maybe even a gui preview but in that case (on Windows) use Notepadd++, Firefox, and ALT+TAB. If you start in a GUI editor it tends to make you lazy conseqently causes you to create bad sites. Its much more to your advantage to RTFM and not take shortcuts. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer
On 5/31/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil - I understand your suggestion -- I used the installer as an attempted shortcut after having done several (5+) installs via the basic disk and the handbook. I have paid for that error in spades - believe me -- since then I have done an additional 5 or so installations by hand from the basic disk. I understand the processes there, I was hoping to rescue the additional time for the snort install etc by being able to just recompile stuff rather than have to start over from the beginning, the system is currently running, so I may just end up putting off the rebuild till this summer when I have a bit more time -- I was hoping to be able to change the use flags, build a new kernel and be done with it, but that doesn't look to be the case Tim... I concur with Neil's assessment that you should just wipe the box and start afresh, the main reason being that you should be running hardened sources and USE=-* instead of trying to do a basic install. Security related boxes such as firewalls, routers, and IDS should be a slim as possible to eliminate potential for security holes and in all cases they should be running with the hardened profile. Just my $0.02. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo
I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and manufacture of a fax modem that is known to work with both Gentoo any Hylafax? Right now I am running the most recent gentoo-sources but I am not opposed to going back to the older 2.4 sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with a simple file share with samba
On 4/7/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all in the list, I was wondering if some one can help me with that, I am try to put to work a simple file share with samba where I will share a folder to any one, and one folder have to autenticate users at pam I try it like that: [global] workgroup = COMMODITY netbios name = thewho log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 [mp3] comment = Shared Musics path = /home/mp3 security = share writeable = no browseable = yes guest ok = yes printable = no guest only = yes [sandbox] comment = Sand Box to genrate releases path = /home/sandbox security = user user = allan longhin writeable = yes public = no printable = no create mask = 0765 what did I do wrong ? or how can I make this ? You may just be overthinking this. Here is a snip of my config file (only relevant portions). You may want to add the user guest to your smbpasswd file you can even use no password, then have your guest users authenticate with that. Maybe there is a better way but that works for me. [global] workgroup = akron netbios name = snoopy server string = Gentoo File Server ... map to guest = nobody security = user ... ... [public] comment = Public folder for all users. path = /home/pub public = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no [webroot] comment = Storage for public web files. path=/home/www public = no writable = yes valid users = cruteme -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole: I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is there a way of running tar so that: 1. Only part of /usr is untarred in a different partition (all of /usr/*, except /usr/portage which I want to eventually untar it and keep it in there). 2. Those directories which are untarred are also removed from the .tgz file so that there is enough space left behind to untar the /usr/portage directory. 3. Finally, /usr/portage is now untarred into the said partition and the tgz file is deleted thereafter. Could you please help with the command/piping syntax? Hmm... basics... I would start with `man tar` and see where that takes you. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... basics... I would start with `man tar` and see where that takes you. Not very far. ;-) That's why I'm asking for some quick help. I also need to add that I was seeking answers to the above questions in the context of having access only to the new machine and three more partitions on it, all of which are smaller than the total uncompressed /usr directory. In that case I would create /usr on one filesystem and /portage on another partition then create /usr/portage and mount /portage to it then untar your file. It should look like this: /dev/hdx1 (/usr) /dev/hdx2 (/portage) /usr/portage - /portage Seems to be the most straightforward way of doing it to me. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim
On 3/23/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to turn off the line wrap function in vim/gvim? I know it doesn't actually wrap lines in the file - I just want to turn off the visual line wrap in the editor. Is that possible? :set wrap! You can add it to your .vimrc and .gvimrc if you like. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] big trouble with emerge
On 3/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list wise guys, I am trying to run emerge --metadata on a fresh installed gentoo box and all I am receiving is segmentation fault What Can I do, I can not emerge the rest of the systems I have to use because emerge stops with segmentation fault every time .. :( Just a silly question, but did you emerge --sync first? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording
On 3/20/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need the ability to just have separate files? When I recorded the worship/sermon for my church I would plug in an old Archos MP3 player/recorder to the mixer. The Archos had the ability to record to MP3 and it let me just push the pause button during recording and a new MP3 file start. If the previous version of Audacity worked for you, is there any reason why you just don't keep using that version? MP3 isn't really suitable for this type of recording anyhow. If you are making CDs you want to capture as WAV. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording
On 3/20/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly, it turns out that ardour does not have the one specific functionality that I needed, but it may be useful anyway, and I would like to play with it. Tim... I'm not sure that you really need the track mark feature for what you are doing. The process we are using right now is that we just try to get a good clean 2 track mix on the computer (we have HD24s recording all inputs raw for mixdown later) and then sort things out later on. If your recording setup is half as hectic as ours you will be lucky if you remember to start the computer recording, let along get track marks placed at the right time. Just a thought. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've never done anything but a stage 1 installation, but I remember reading that those instructions were removed from the installation documentation, and now I see a GUI and a command line installer on the latest LiveCD. What is currently the best installation method if I'm in the stage 1 mindset? Note that nobody is forcing you to use any install method. If you fancy stage 1 installs... go for it. The stages are still updated and available on the mirrors. But as Nick said, it is slower. Also if you don't remember all the commands and you still want to do stage 1 I would recommend this doc [1], its the old x86 quickstart guide, the new one has been expanded (aka crapped up) to the point that it is no longer a quickstart guide but rather a handbook-in-two-pages. [1]http://web.archive.org/web/20050324081156/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. Holy crap... good thing you are here to tell me this... guess I will have to pull Gentoo off of all my 1/2 dozen or so production servers and go back to Fedora! flame In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD and a pile of docs for your first install then Gentoo is probably NOT for you. Also, there is no reason to go about insulting the developers by making blind statements about the stability of their software. Sheesh. /flame -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. First off, I have a laptop with only one ethernet port, so setting up an ad hoc network between us is out of the question. Also, my school has a one port - one computer rule that prohibits routers. Second, since we're both behind a DHCPd server, we both have dynamic IPs. There's no easy way to point his computer to the right server if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? It would seem that people are thinking about this problem just a bit too hard. Here is how my network is setup. All users have DHCP addys, its a mix of mainly Gentoo with the odd Windows box. The printers are all connected to Gentoo servers which have cups and samba setup. Cups serves printing for all the Linux boxes and is also hooked into Samba so the windows boxes can print. As far as IP addresses go... screw em... use the netbios name of the machines, for the Windoze box this will be its hostname and the same is true for the Linux box (I don't think I had to do any extra setup in Samba to make it broadcast a netbios name). You will then be able to print locally from the Linux box via CUPS and you can install the printer just like any other shared printer (\\your_gentoo_box\printer_name) under Windows. Gentoo has excellent Samba setup howtos if you need more info. In this case you break no rules and there is no complex DNS setup stuff. Hope all this makes some sense. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design
On 3/9/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials. Basically, I'm quite a newbie in this area. Any and all input is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Uhm... this is a Gentoo linux list... nothing to do with webdesign. Email me off list and I can offer some suggestions though. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: Welcome to Gentoo... I'm sure you will find it much easier to maintain then Fedora or Ubuntu, especially if you need newer packages. If you have any questions I would suggest you google them first, for example if you want to learn how to setup Samba on Gentoo I would google for Gentoo samba if you do a query like that the best pages are usually in the top 2 or 3 results. There are some excellent docs sites too... my favorites are: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml Regarding the specific questions you have... See list of all *installed* software. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge gentoolkit and read the man page for equery it does all of this stuff for you. I would also encourage you to read up on emerge as it is a very powerful tool for all things Portage. Browse available software that can be installed. You can do this with emerge -s packagename but IMO to get any really useful information check out http://www.gentoo-portage.com or http://packages.gentoo.org. Also if you need something that is exotic and not in Portage yet you can check out http://bugs.gentoo.org and search for an ebuild or write one yourself. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, in fact, I think it does. I forgot that the main problem was in fact just PRINTING... Yeah, cups and samba will take care of that. Samba will broadcast netbios stuff over the net so you can see your shared printer (and folders). You know, sometimes you just loose focus and forget about simple solutions for simple problems... Hehe... everybody wants to engineer an elaborate fix when sometimes all it takes is some duck tape ;-) -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache ?!?
On 2/28/06, William Meertens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just a question. Has anyone experienced the fact that Apache is eating up all the server resources and filling all swap space? Where do I find the reason why? Or in what log-file do I look for what reason? The server runs a Drupal based site if that should matter. Only after restarting Apache it directly goes true the roof. As well as I am at the moment. Depends on the MPM you are running. What MPM are you running? If you are using prefork then try setting some sane values for StartServers, Min/MaxSpareServers, MaxClients, and MaxRequestsPerChild. Any other MPM and you should RTM. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] is there any oracle GUI client in portage tree?
On 2/6/06, 조승현 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anybody recommend some good tools for me? ;) http://gentoo-portage.com/s?search=oracle -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a dependency, if you enable +oss use flag with alsa-driver On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound servers serve? If you check out mailing list archives of sometime back, you'll find me asking exactly the same question. At that time I was using aRts with KDE, and was experiencing nothing but problems. I did not get any concrete replies to this particular question i.e. Why use a sound server anyways?. Just to see how things turn out, I disabled aRts and don't face any problems till now. I am using ALSA directly. You can also try disabling esd and see how things go for you. If you face any problems then you can enable it again, but I personally don't see any reason to use a sound server. Thanks Abhay. I emerged alsa-driver and got more kernel modules than I ever hope to see again. After some hacking I got rid of that and emerged alsa-oss, started firefox with aoss and everything works like a charm. On the topic of sound servers I shutdown esd and started routing everything straight to alsa and have no problems so I can cut that overhead. I tend to agree with Richard, dmix obsoletes the sound servers. Thanks guys. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google search seems to get me nowhere. Any thoughts or a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. Flash still uses OSS to play sounds, and if you are using ALSA then it is using OSS emulation. I don't know how to do it with other browsers but I use aoss firefox to start firefox. This mixes sounds of Flash pretty well with any other sound producing app. I can even hear songs while Flash produces its sound in browser. A point to mention here would be that I am not using esd or any other sound daemon. Just plain jane ALSA with dmix. Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound servers serve? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
I seem to be having issues with the netscape-flash plugin. The plugin works for animation but no sound plays. You can get sound if flash is the first thing to get to the ESD daemon but if something else gets there first (amarok or totem) flash will not play sound. I have dmix running on the box and I know its working because totem, amarok, and gaim can all play sounds at the same time. So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google search seems to get me nowhere. Any thoughts or a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch
On 12/22/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 22 décembre à 17:02:52 Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | | ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on | Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work | | It's refering to an switch on your _case_ of the notebook, which turns | wireless on or off ... So it's hardware? IIRC with the ipw2* line it could also be an option in your BIOS and some laptops have a *magic switch* that requires a special software package to toggle (sorry for being so vague, I don't remember the name of the package). -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how2use gaim for google talks
On 12/19/05, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear friends, i configured gaim for google talks as they shown it on their guide(google.com). but i don't no how to use it to chat(not talk). when i click on 'Join a Chat' from the gaim menu. it asks Room: Server: Handle: Password: can any body help me... All you need to do is add your gmail contacts to your buddy list (add them as contact type: Jabber) and you can chat with them the exact same way as you would any other IM contact. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema
On 12/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:29:41 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! There are some major advantages to not re-installing. One is that all your settings remain untouched, whereas a reinstall requires you to reconfigure everything. A more important difference is that the computer cannot be used for anything else during reinstallation, whereas a clean up is performed on a running system. It is also a lot less work that a reinstallation, especially if you do it regularly. All you really need to do is clean the world file of any cruft, emerge depclean revdep-rebuild and run the script to clean orphaned files from /etc. I recently had a similar issue. I seriously b0rked my box by upgrading gcc, neglecting to read the upgrade guide, and pruning the old gcc thus breaking just about EVERYTHING. What I did was recover to a semi-usable state, create a chrooted environment on my disk, unpacked a stage and did a complete re-install, the whole time I was using the computer for some programming work. When all the builds completed I just tarred up the old / partition and the new one from my build environment, booted a livecd and unpacked the new / over the old one, no format involved. It was a major pain in the butt that I hope to never repeat but it gave me a new system while still letting me use my old system. Still, if all you want to do is clean up cruft there are far better ways than re-installing your whole system. That's something windoze users do ;-) -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php5
On 12/18/05, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I'm not wrong, build php5 with apache use flag and it mast be there Thats is how I build my webserver. Emerge php5 with apache2 use flag. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
On 12/5/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). You may wish to analyze different kernels for this matter. Get into the audacity mailing lists, too. I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. You will have no problems if you follow the alsa gentoo guide. and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) I repeat: check out specialized kernels for low-latency in audio applications. What recording hardware are you going to use? what mixers? mics? I can help off-list with that. I own a recording studio and use audacity, too. I even written a Cooledit Project import plugin for Audacity :) Tim, You might also pick through the archives of this list, I seem to remember some discussion on low-latency kernels and audio recording specifically a while back. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'
On 12/5/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? - Grant Because emerge -e re-installs every package on your system it also wants to re-install the config files. If you are fairly confident that you don't need these changes (as most of them will want to revert your config file back to the original) you can run etc-update letting it merge trivial changes and then tell it to keep all the files as is, discarding the updates. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm... yeah... would try putting that email addy in the TO box instead of the subject box, but just a thought. On 12/2/05, Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP
On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have the dev-php/php installed on my Gentoo machine. I am thinking of moving up to php 5 and must use the new dev-lang/php. Is the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know before I make the switch? Thanks, Jeff I have found that ezpublish cms causes 5.0.5 to segfault but other than that it has been running rock solid for me for several months now. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin
On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In an regular email I get from Apple a number of characters show upas little boxes that say 00 93 and 00 94. In the following quotethe quotes at 'launching' and the quote at the end are bad until I paste it into GMail which seems to take care of it. The two quotes atthe beginning are fine.In Hands-on with Aperture, David Schloss (pdnonline) offers a fairlydetailed overview of the application Apple expects to ship later this month. Aperture, says Schloss, is launching out of the gate with morefeatures and functionality than anything else to date. With Aperture,Apple has the ability to bring a whole new level of sophistication to the post-production market place.1) This is a font issue, right?2) If so, how do I determine what Apple's HTML is looking for?3) Generally, what fonts do folks load to get the best results on this stuff? Thanks,MarkI ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and everything works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X is a long painful process). -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts in Firefox-bin
On 11/11/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into this same issue only for me it was with Asian characters. I re-compiled X with the cjk (multi-byte characters) use flag and everything works perfectly now. I would try that first (even though re-compiling X is a long painful process). -MikeHi Mike, Tried it but no success. I'm still getting the little 2 character things. Here's how I did the xorg emerge. I wonder about the font server? Did you emerge with that option?lightning ~ # emerge -pv xorg-x11These are the packages that I would merge, in order:Calculating dependencies ...done![ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (-3dfx) (-3dnow)+bitmap-fonts +cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server-insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal (-mmx) +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk(-sse) -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kBMy X install looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc $ emerge -pv xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts +cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB I actually un-emerged the font server a while back and haven't suffered any adverse effects. Can you send me a link or a copy of this email (provided its not confidential or anything) to see if I can duplicate what you are seeing? -Mike -- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk.
Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL
On 11/8/05, Michael Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development.I'm looking forsomething with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit.Thanks,Mike-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listEclipse is the ultimate IDE from my perspective. I am running 3.1 with Pydev[1], Colorer[2], Web Standards Tools[3], C++[4], EPIC (Perl)[5], and PHPEclipse[6] which lets me do just about everything. The only thing with Eclipse (and it may just be me) is that there seems to be a bit of learning involved to figure out what it means by perspectives and natures and such, after that its the best IDE I have ever used. [1] http://pydev.sourceforge.net/[2] http://colorer.sourceforge.net/[3] http://eclipse.org/webtools/wst/main.xml[4] http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/[5] http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/[6] http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-view_articles.php-Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk.
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring fbsplash
On 10/28/05, Grimaldy Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day.Guys i wanna configure so i can see a beautiful background when my machine is upload it..I'm using the gensplash in 5 easy steps to do this, but there are something that i wanna know.. For example i'm using the 2.6.13-r6 Sources Kernel , i remembered that i active the framebuffer support, so i suppossed that i don't need to reconfigure and compile the kernel again..If not please let me know. Anyway i wanna know a way of to know if i need reconfigure the kernel again..i've emerge splashutils and also livecd 2005.1 bootsplash theme the which is the one that i wanna configure, i did #mount /bootlater this Create an initramfs image for fbsplash: # splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 -r 1024x768 emergenceand also this# splash_geninitramfs -v -g /etc/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1 -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.1But whichever command do i used i received the same error or warning o creating directory structure..o copying /sbin/splash_helper..o copying themes..- emergencewarning: config file for theme 'emergence' , resolution 1024x768 does not exist! o creating initramfs image..-o creating directory structure.. o copying /sbin/splash_helper.. o copying themes.. - default warning: config file for theme 'default' , resolution 1024x768 does not exist! o creating initramfs image..I have in /etc/splashthe folder livecd-2005.1 and the emergance tooCould somebody please help me??RegardsI'm reading right now http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplashBut i cannot find help If you follow the howto on the wiki you should get it working easily. I used that howto following the roll your own kernel build version (I never use genkernel) on about a dozen machines with varying hardware configurations and have always had success, it just takes some work sometimes. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Wearab le Gentoo Computer?
On 10/28/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote: If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a Knoppix CD and you have the same functionality as this device. Except the BlackDog only has a 400MHz PPC CPU and 64MB RAM. This is probably slower than the host computer will be and it probably has less RAM too. Also, everything like networking, video, and disk activity must be squeezed through the USB bus when you use this device. With Knoppix, you use the PCI and AGP busses of the host computer for these things. Knoppix should be much faster than this device for most purposes.Not trying to knock what you're saying but in terms of requirements, botha Knoppix CD and a Blackdog box require a host computer of some kind. Its not really wearable but has anyone considered tablet pc's? They are small (roughly the dimensions of a piece of paper) and about as thick as a pack of looseleaf paper. I had an HP TC1100 with Mandrivle on it and it worked pretty nice. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Test, please discard [OT]
On 10/29/05, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? I guess thats why im having issues. Is there any way to fix it?On 10/29/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 03:21:24 +, Ian wrote: Hi there. This is a test.Which you won't see in gmail.--Neil BothwickHe who laughs last thinks slowest! -- Cheers,Ian In gmail you won't see your own messages till somebody replies to them or you can click Sent Mail to see what you sent though. RTFM? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
[gentoo-user] Libxdiff ebuild
Does anyone happen to have an ebuild for libxdiff (so I can build the xdiff extension for php)? I can write one if need be but wanted to check here first. There isn't one in either portage or bugzilla as far as I can tell. Thanks! -MIke-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend
On 10/22/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a coupleof hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdripa couple of clicks, legal (in France it is even LEGAL to copy renteddvds!!!) backup of dvd. Why are things so much more difficult with doze?!? I think the problem you are seeing is precisely the reason people use Linux, windoze just SUCKS. To your question, I have previously had good luck with slysoft products. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without Internet connection
On 10/24/05, Gentoo Voyager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, My home gentoo box dos't have a internet connection, but i need to install Sendmail on my PC( for testing perposer), any one know how to do it without internet cennection.. You need to find a gentoo box on an internet connection and use emerge to fetch the sources then dump them in your distfiles directory and away you go. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation
On 10/24/05, Eric Waguespack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I wascurious, is there an unattended installation project for Gentoo? Itwould help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried toreinvent the wheel.Yes, check out the Gentoo Installer project and mailing list.-Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!
On 10/21/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hole linux box has crashed I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du worldit update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql. today my holesystem is against meI think in reinstall the full system has any one got a better idea, my backups are unavailable now What exactly is wrong? My whole system is against me doesn't give people too much to go on. Does it boot? Are services not starting? What software versions are you running? What specific error codes are you getting? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!
On 10/21/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then after some fight and gentoo doc I got mysql back. after that wasapache time, all configuration has changed and I got to go as crasy tofind where it was... Which is why you should ALWAYS have a backup of /etc. Just incase. I have a con job that tars up /etc and puts it in root's home every few days and it has saved my butt quite a few times. And as somebody else said let this be a good (albeit tough) lesson that you should never run updates on a production server that you haven't tested on at least a development box. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!
On 10/21/05, Jeff Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 07:21 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: which a) does not catch all the cases and b) would not be needed at all, if you don't do '--deep' updates.Your trolling, arnt you? Are you really so naive that you think not having --deep solves all your problems? You do realize what --deep does right sarcasmNothing important, just updates all your dependencies. Who needs up to date dependencies. Hell dependencies in and of themselves are overrated, I don't use them at all./sarcasm Sorry, couldn't resist. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?
On 10/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah ok we heard you the first time,and the second time and now a thirdtime.Just what has your answer go tto do with the question?On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:08:56 +0200DebianTux23 wrote: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ I checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?
On 10/17/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2005, at 2:18 pm, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2 I read that as your friend can download it for non-commercial use then distribute it to you for free under the GPL for you to use for commercial purposes. I don't agree. In my opinion the legal status of this document is that it carries two licences but no option to freely chose between them if you're using it commercially. OK I have read this thing probably a dozen times and here is really what I understand him to say. You are not buying licenses to the code or the use of that code. The code in itself is GPL regardless of who you are (commercial or not). The license you are paying for is the ability to download the code from his site. Private users can download the code as much as they would like but commercial users can only download once unless they buy a license then they can download as much as they want. Thus if you use a distro like Debian you can install the package and be legally OK because you didn't download the code from his site, you downloaded the binary from Debian. So its all about downloads not really selective licensing if I read this correctly. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] CDMA phone line for Asterisk?
On 10/17/05, Widyachacra Rajapaksha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, im very new to asterisk, even diz z my 1st mail to the list. am working for a smb company it has two main CDMA telepone connections. now they wants to deploy a pbx get out 20 nods(telephone extensions). so 1:) is this possible with Asterisk? our both CDMA phones are HUAWEI ETS2000 Series models, those came with USB serial converter data cable(diz can connect to de pc USB+work with linux ti_usb_3410_5052 kernel module). 2:) how can i configure the USB CDMA phone line for Asterisk(if 1st=yes)?so please guide me to do diz project...you can find de HUAWEI CDMA phone details http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=152 You will probably have better luck asking this on their forum [1] than you will here since this is the Gentoo Users list. [1] http://forums.digium.com/ -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] CVS problem
On 10/17/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Hi all,I just set up cvsd using the Wiki How-To here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_CVS_Server.Nice little How-To, and Iseemed to get every thing set up fine.I was able to import the firstmodule with the :pserver: protocol, but then decided that I should go with the SSH modification instead.So, I went through, added my userto the cvsd group, changed the CVSROOT to user the :ext: protocol.Now when I try to export the module, I get a permission denied error! [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:cvs server: cannot open /root/CVSROOT/config: Permission deniedCannot access /root/CVSROOTPermission deniedHere's the perms on the file:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ ls -l /var/lib/cvs/root/CVSROOT/config - -rwxrwxr-x1 cvsd cvsd 4082 Oct 17 13:15 /var/lib/cvs/root/CVSROOT/configI'm in the group, the permissions should be right.Why isn't thisworking? Check the directory perms too. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2 rc3 revdep rebuild
On 10/16/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip long-windedness and get to the point]Is anybody else seeing revdep-rebuild weirdness with the latest OOo's, rc2 and rc3?Yes, I too have the same problems, mostly it would seem, with some embedded python interpreter. I ignore it and things seem to work fine for me. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2 rc3 revdep rebuild
On 10/16/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:49:28PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:On 10/16/05, John J. Foster [1]Gentoo-[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Is anybody else seeing revdep-rebuild weirdness with the latest OOo's, rc2 and rc3?Yes, I too have the same problems, mostly it would seem, with someembedded python interpreter. I ignore it and things seem to work fine forme. Yeah, it works just fine here too. Something about revdep-rebuildcomplaints that just makes me want a clean run.Well the only thing I can think is emerge -C openoffice-bin. But that has other side-effects that you may like even less than a non-clean run of revdep-rebuild :-) -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?
On 10/15/05, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:43:18 +0600 Gentoo Shadow [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: is it free to use for commercial purposes?It's GPL. After a fashion. Read the pricing page. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount mac disks?
On 10/15/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found HFS HFSPLUS file system support in the kernel so I'mbuilding that now. Actually OS X disks are formated HFS+ so no need to build HFS support. There are also hfsutils and hfsplusutils but the later seems to bemasked in a way that I don't know how to get around: Hack the ebuild :-) (and submit the patch). lightning linux # emerge -pv hfsutils hfsplusutilsThese are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy hfsplusutils have been masked.!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:- sys-fs/hfsplusutils- 1.0.4 (masked by: missing keyword)- sys-fs/hfsplusutils-1.0.4-r1 (masked by: missing keyword)For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page orsection 2.2 Software Availability in the Gentoo Handbook. -- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Servers and Such
On 10/13/05, Robert Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:48 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: First I think I should start out saying that I don't have too much of a clue when it comes to Linux audio. Now that that's out of the way, I have a box that works at the moment with ALSA + ESD + Gstreamer + Gnome that allows me to do software mixing and all my sound works. The problem I am having is that I have this constant crackle when I'm listening to anything. I know its not EMF because the sound was clean when I had Windoze on the box. Its not so loud that it makes listening to anything unpleasant but it is quite annoying. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this? I saw on some of the newsgroups that people say this is an ESD issue but nobody seems to have a good solution. The card is some on board Intel High Def audio thing that Albatron ships with their mobos (can get specifics if needed). Any help would be appreciated. -MikeIt's the gstreamer-alsa plugin that is probably causing the crackle.There are several bug reports in Gnome bugzilla. If you are using dmix, you might want to look at this one:http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314689There are a few others, but the general solution is to either downgrade the gstreamer-alsa plugin or switch to using OSS instead of ALSA (whichis what I did). If want to do this in Gnome, go to the MultimediaSystems Selector in the preferences menu, and switch the Default Output Sink to OSS.OSS does it too, even worse than ESD. The only one that seems clean is ALSA. Now I guess my next question would have to be is there a way to remove the dmix middleman and still get software based mixing? Also would putting in Jack potentially fix the problem? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
[gentoo-user] Sound Servers and Such
First I think I should start out saying that I don't have too much of a clue when it comes to Linux audio. Now that that's out of the way, I have a box that works at the moment with ALSA + ESD + Gstreamer + Gnome that allows me to do software mixing and all my sound works. The problem I am having is that I have this constant crackle when I'm listening to anything. I know its not EMF because the sound was clean when I had Windoze on the box. Its not so loud that it makes listening to anything unpleasant but it is quite annoying. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this? I saw on some of the newsgroups that people say this is an ESD issue but nobody seems to have a good solution. The card is some on board Intel High Def audio thing that Albatron ships with their mobos (can get specifics if needed). Any help would be appreciated. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
On 10/13/05, Alexey Asprov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again,I have 10G HD which I would like to use for my new LVM2 installfollowing this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xmlI've decided to go with this doc using my physical partitions for /boot/swap and / and give the rest to LVM.So partitions /usr /home /opt /var /tmp will be using LVM I will also use JFS filesystems on all of them, except /swap offcourse.What is your suggestions regarding how much space to give to each?Your replies are appreciated as always.And yes, I know that my drive is small and old and I can shrink and expand those in the future, but, theoretically, this is developement laptop andI want to use it. I have a 120GB drive with a32M /boot a /10 GB / and the rest of the disk dedicated to /home. The setup works wonderfully for me. I have about 5 kernels in /boot and I'm not really pressing the limits of the space. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory
On 10/8/05, bruce harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ask because I can't get a complete compile of glibc.I have torestart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. I would doubt that you have memory issues if memtest doesn't say anything. What are the other symtoms? Error messages? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On 10/5/05, Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # emerge -p kde-metaThese are the packages that I would merge, in order:Calculating dependencies ...done![ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.1I tried emerging kde-meta.I then tried unmerging all the blockers it created and then emerging back kde, to get rid of kde-meta.When thatdidn't help I reversed the process and reemerged kde-meta, which iswhere I am now.I've rebuilt all of kde a couple of times now withthe situation getting worse, not better. Try `emerge -eDav kde-meta` to rebuild all of KDEs dependencies. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] portage question
On 10/5/05, Eric Crossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about usingportage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall under the used to work category.In the past, I've used a emerge system and emerge world to update tonewer versions of installed software. Usually also with a --pretend to see beforehand what it's going to do.Now if I run emerge --pretend system or emerge --pretend world itcomes up with no updates to install. If I add an --update to the command, it finds the updates correctly.Is this a syntax change or just a matter of a deprecated command/defaultbehavior? You should always have used the update flag. The best way to do update IMO is `emerge sync` `emerge -Davu world`. Also note you don't ever need to update system, if you do a deep update of world all the system stuff will get covered too. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On 10/4/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Are you sure that it has execute permissions for everyone? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On 10/4/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like this: reader ls -ld /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb/\ TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ drwxrwxrwx 9 reader users 392 Oct 4 11:15 \ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ Should it be something else? Well its probably further up the tree. Check the perms for TrainingVids and hpweb. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On 10/4/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Are you sure that it has execute permissions for everyone? Um, here's a question. Does the 'apache' entry in /etc/group have anything to do with these permissions, in this circumstance? Where can I read more about how the /etc/group entry affects who can do what with apache2? Is there another file that gives greater granularity of control over who can do what to an apache2 server? The Apache process run as user apache(2?) and group apache so it will only have access to directories owned by that user or group and who have the appropriate permissions. The way my server is setup is that the user who owns the vhost owns all the folders for that vhost then the apache group also owns those folders and all files and folders have 751 permissions. It looks something like: var L www L vhost1 -- userb/apache (751) L vhost 2 -- usera/apache (751) L cgi-bin -- usera/apache (751) L htdocs -- usera/apache (751) | L folder 1 -- usera/apache (751) | L folder 2 -- usera/apache (751) | L file 1 -- usera/apache (751) L auth -- usera/apache (751) Hopefully that explains what you are looking for, otherwise check out the docs at httpd.apache.org for the rest of the story. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds
On 10/3/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of timesin the past.I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during execution.Its something really simple like.smcmd 3Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc.and the number is number of seconds to wait.Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from set. (Using ksh)--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Pause, wait? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
