Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Jan 11, 2012 5:57 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user whose password is know to you. Afterwards you can log in an change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network configuration - Two ips one from dhcp other static

2012-01-09 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Mon 09 Jan 2012 10:44:02 PM IST, James wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan contact at nileshgr.com writes: Well, the title tells the question clearly; how do I configure network such that the first ip is obtained via dhcpcd and other is static? config_eth0=dhcp static doesn't work. Did you look

[gentoo-user] Re: Network configuration - Two ips one from dhcp other static

2012-01-07 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 07 Jan 2012 01:27:45 PM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Well, the title tells the question clearly; how do I configure network such that the first ip is obtained via dhcpcd and other is static? config_eth0=dhcp static doesn't work. As a solution I wrote a dhcpcd hook containing /sbin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network configuration - Two ips one from dhcp other static

2012-01-07 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 07 Jan 2012 01:53:18 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jan 7, 2012 3:13 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sat 07 Jan 2012 01:27:45 PM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Well, the title tells the question clearly; how do I configure

[gentoo-user] Network configuration - Two ips one from dhcp other static

2012-01-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Re: No mysql_install_db in dev-db/mysql-5.5.19?

2012-01-05 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: I know, mysql = 5.5 is masked even on ~amd64, but I need mysql 5.5 for the improved InnoDB support it has. When I run emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.5.19, it doesn't complete and I see

[gentoo-user] No mysql_install_db in dev-db/mysql-5.5.19?

2012-01-04 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
, tried that on the shell. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Read only root filesystem on linode64

2012-01-03 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
kernel, the xfs code in it seems to have some bug. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Read only root filesystem on linode64

2012-01-03 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:35:19 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's strange problem I'm facing. The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have this line in menu.lst: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.6-gentoo root

[gentoo-user] Re: Read only root filesystem on linode64

2012-01-03 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:42:48 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Wed 04 Jan 2012 08:35:19 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I am trying to run a custom kernel with gentoo on linode64, but there's strange problem I'm facing. The root always gets mounted read-only, I don't know why. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Where's the examples?????

2012-01-01 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
somewhere so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where this stuff is? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew I don't know about the examples, but the doc useflag installs documentation in /usr/share/doc/boost-ver -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my normal Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the

[gentoo-user] Python-updater always adds packages to list

2011-12-22 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
, but on the next run again I get this. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-27 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ?

2011-11-12 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
, but not necessary. Rgds, nginx. You can disable fastcgi/etc using use flags. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage files and dirs?

2011-10-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Mon 24 Oct 2011 11:37:00 AM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: Anyone knows of an exhaustive documentation (with examples) for the files and directories under /etc/portage ? Rgds, It's documented quite well in man portage. Don't know about examples though. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http

[gentoo-user] Strange issue about package.mask

2011-10-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from viruses. The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute Windows binaries. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Gnome 3 is stable?

2011-10-21 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
The gnome project's latest stable release is gnome 3.2 Why don't we have a proper method to install gnome 3.2 yet in gentoo? Using overlays is pretty messy and requires lot of work -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome 3 is stable?

2011-10-21 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Fri 21 Oct 2011 01:13:50 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:30 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: The gnome project's latest stable release is gnome 3.2 Why don't we have a proper method to install gnome 3.2 yet in gentoo? It's in the overlay because the ebuilds are not ready

[gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile

2011-10-19 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
masking networkmanager, but emerge won't allow me to do that when I try to install gnome-base/gnome-3.2.0 (layman overlay) -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile

2011-10-19 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
that again then, till now autounmask was active. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile

2011-10-19 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 20 Oct 2011 01:41:25 AM IST, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: This is what I get when I try to install networkmanager- which is required by gnome-3.2.0 # source='nm-session-monitor.c' object

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager-9999 won't compile

2011-10-19 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 10/20/2011 06:57 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Thu 20 Oct 2011 05:30:24 AM IST, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-10

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find driver for VGA in kernel source tree

2011-10-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
you tried lspci -v which gives verbose information about the device, including the modules involved? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups and Ricoh Aficio 270

2011-10-10 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
about this printer, have you checked the printer compatibility list? (openprinting.org I guess). See how good is your printer supported. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?

2011-10-08 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
, you have to do the things invisibly, so you can't see what the kernel emits befor panic. It turned out that I'd disabled RAID autodetection and wasn't using an initramfs either (which will load the arrays using mdadm). -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit?

2011-10-08 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 06 Oct 2011 10:40:35 PM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Thu 06 Oct 2011 10:32:14 PM IST, Michael Mol wrote: On Oct 6, 2011 12:57 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Thu 06 Oct 2011 09:06:06 PM IST, Alberto Luaces wrote: Nilesh

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?

2011-10-08 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
names are usually named according to a specific naming scheme like name of product manufacturername of model number.ko So here, 3c59x.ko is 3COM 59X device. 3COM ethernet cards are quite common. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Rootkit?

2011-10-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
:127.0.0.1 addr: Somebody is aware of a malware/rootkit which creates such files? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit?

2011-10-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 06 Oct 2011 09:06:06 PM IST, Alberto Luaces wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan writes: One of the servers I manage has a strange problem. Every 24h, someone starts a process shows up as perl in the list, but launching command is /usr/sbin/httpd. It shows just one process, but when I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit?

2011-10-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 06 Oct 2011 10:32:14 PM IST, Michael Mol wrote: On Oct 6, 2011 12:57 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Thu 06 Oct 2011 09:06:06 PM IST, Alberto Luaces wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan writes: One of the servers I manage has

[gentoo-user] Android 2.2 USB tethering?

2011-10-05 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
-specific guides on this if you know them. Can't find any good info on search. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Android 2.2 USB tethering?

2011-10-05 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel source servers compromised?

2011-10-03 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
-- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Large fonts in printing!

2011-10-01 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I have a dot matrix printer. Since it prints ASCII text, I used lpr output.txt and it prints large size text. Large in the sense, the thing which fits in one single page if printed using kwrite goes into 1.5 pages. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 09/29/2011 08:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Thu 29 Sep 2011 06:42:42 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: That's debian HCL, what about Gentoo? We compile the kernel ourselves man. It would be better if we don't use debian/Ubuntu HCL to decide HW for other distros

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating from single disk to software raid1

2011-09-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
into the kernel. In fact, I prefer w/o any initrd, all critical stuff right into the kernel. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Strange GCC behavior

2011-09-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
gcc version 4.5.3 (Gentoo 4.5.3-r1 p1.0, pie-0.4.5) Why is this happening? O_o -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange GCC behavior

2011-09-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 29 Sep 2011 11:10:00 PM IST, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Default function arguments in C are specified like this: int func(int a = 10) {} // just a dummy function Now I save that in a file called foo.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange GCC behavior

2011-09-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 29 Sep 2011 11:13:54 PM IST, Todd Goodman wrote: * Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com [110929 13:33]: Default function arguments in C are specified like this: int func(int a = 10) {} // just a dummy function No they're not. C doesn't have default function arguments. Now I

[gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
is awesome? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 09/29/2011 03:21 AM, masterprometheus wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I'll be soon getting a new desktop. I've fixed the CPU as AMD Phenom II 1075T These two motherboards came to my notice which support the above processor: Gigabyte 880GM - GA 880GM-USB3L 880GM-USB3 How good

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 09/29/2011 04:46 AM, Dale wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I'll be soon getting a new desktop. I've fixed the CPU as AMD Phenom II 1075T These two motherboards came to my notice which support the above processor: Gigabyte 880GM - GA 880GM-USB3L 880GM-USB3 How good is Linux support

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thu 29 Sep 2011 06:42:42 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 09/29/2011 04:46 AM, Dale wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I'll be soon getting a new desktop. I've fixed the CPU as AMD Phenom II 1075T These two motherboards came to my notice which support the above processor: Gigabyte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-26 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
/uefi_linux_lock_out_row_latest/ That feature is optional, see official word from MS: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi.aspx Microsoft has at least done something good for the Linux community :D -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for freetype that improves font rendering manifolds. So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the TrueType BC interpreter? -- Nilesh Govindarajan

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-26 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
) or a cracked boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least initially I know which one I'd pick if it came down to it :) And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will surely find out a way. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 24 Sep 2011 11:15:43 PM IST, JD Horelick wrote: On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity

[gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-23 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] shockwave on Gentoo ?

2011-09-16 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Shockwave Flash swf application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Any guidance is appreciated. James Shockwave is not supported in Linux IMHO -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Missing EndProlog!

2011-09-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
rebuilding evince, cups and their dependencies. Check for some useflags you might have missed. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng

2011-09-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
the details emerge asks you to, before terminating. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] RootFS not umounting at shutdown?

2011-09-12 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Mon 12 Sep 2011 08:07:27 AM IST, Dale wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Mon 12 Sep 2011 07:32:25 AM IST, Dale wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Ever since I have updated my system on 20th September, my rootfs (/dev/sda2) isn't umounted (remounted ro) on shutdown, due to which I see

[gentoo-user] RootFS not umounting at shutdown?

2011-09-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
nothing happened. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] RootFS not umounting at shutdown?

2011-09-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Mon 12 Sep 2011 07:32:25 AM IST, Dale wrote: Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Ever since I have updated my system on 20th September, my rootfs (/dev/sda2) isn't umounted (remounted ro) on shutdown, due to which I see recover messages by kernel at boot (before init starts up). What's going wrong

[gentoo-user] Cheapest dedicated gentoo servers?

2011-09-02 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, I'm looking for dedicated server providers whose rates are low, support Gentoo and most importantly are reliable. Service should be stable. Location is not important, but preferable in EU. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Cheapest dedicated gentoo servers?

2011-09-02 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
provided with a rescue system). If you know any more dedicated providers, please reply. I'll compare their rates :) Definition of cheap is fairly relative :) -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-08-31 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote: Hi, Is there any way to create some kind of on the fly compressed filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger but my external drive stays the same :) Btrfs supports on the fly compression -- Nilesh Govindarajan http

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-08-31 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/31/2011 09:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote: Hi, Is there any way to create some kind of on the fly compressed filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger but my external drive stays the same :) Btrfs supports

[gentoo-user] Mercurial Server

2011-08-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
no attribute 'ferr' abort: no suitable response from remote hg! Any clues? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Mercurial Server

2011-08-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/21/2011 03:43 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.comwrote: Hi, I managed to configure mercurial-server on my gentoo vps, and add my public key for the root user to it. I can ssh to hg@myvps. I started to write some

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
place the portage tree on an ext2 disk image to speed up things, / has got fragmented badly due to portage tree :-\ Thanks man! -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
else I've overlooked ? You'll lose the ability to run java applets, commonly found on the web for many critical things. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] TVSE MSP 240 Classic Dot Matrix Printer

2011-08-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
is a public holiday as well. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] TVSE MSP 240 Classic Dot Matrix Printer

2011-08-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
in India is, they don't focus much on their websites which leads to a bad impression to online users. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] TVSE MSP 240 Classic Dot Matrix Printer

2011-08-12 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
a dot matrix printer for the first time, please help. It's urgent. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] GCC 4.5.2 won't merge

2011-04-16 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
/ build log: http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/372839/ build environment: http://pastebin.ca/2047174 -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/nileshgr Website: http://nileshgr.com http://itech7.com