Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-07 Thread Dan Cowsill
Alright, so... I haven't mentioned it up until now because I didn't feel it would have any bearing on the problem, but the installation in question is a VirtualBox guest operating system running on a Windows host. Since I didn't have any particular attachment to the installation, I decided to fdi

Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-04 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, YoYo Siska wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Hey list, > > > > A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the > > ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I ca

[gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-03 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in /etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to /etc/init.d/xdm, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB wrote: > Happy Holidays, Everyone, > > To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an > issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). > Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the > mo

[gentoo-user] Troubleshooting the Virtualbox init script

2011-05-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hey list, I noticed a little while ago that virtualbox-bin came with an init script and decided to try it out. Trouble is, the script starts a virtualbox VM just fine, it just can't stop one. Check out /etc/conf.d/virtualbox.my-vm: # Username to start vbox as, must be part of vboxusers group.

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/20/2011 12:15 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky > <mailto:mich...@orlitzky.com>> wrote: > > > > On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Daniel Wagener wrote: > > > Have you ever looked at the size world or maybe even into it? > > World file contains a list of the packages I've installed. Nothing new there. It's about 1.5kb in size.

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: >> > Hi list, >> > >> > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a wor

Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update > > (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, ins

[gentoo-user] You have no world file

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi list, I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv to check for dangling packages and I will get the following: !!! You have no

Security considerations: CAST-128

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Cowsill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I understand that there are *some* security considerations when using CAST-128 (CAST5, as used in GnuPG), but this is typical of many ciphers in use today. In particular, a paper[1] on the linear cryptanalysis of reduced round versions of CAST

Changing secret key encryption algorithms

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Cowsill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I was inspired by a thread on a friend's mishap with his secret key to look into the various ways that a GnuPG secret key can be encrypted prior to its storage on disk. On 20/10/2010 1:24 PM, Faramir wrote: > > Well, then the private key wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 15/10/2010 10:47 AM, Mike Diehl wrote: > On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: >> Instead of your brute-force "yes to all" approach, newer kernels also >> support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in >> the running kernel and compiles them into t

Re: Confirmation for cached passphrases useful?

2010-10-14 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 13/10/2010 4:02 PM, MFPA wrote: > The user can type their password once per session into a text file and > paste it every time it is requested. This reduces the annoyance factor > and does not train the user to constantly re-type the passphrase. > I use a program called KeePass to keep track of

Paranoid People's User Group?

2010-10-13 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi everyone, Almost-but-not-quite my first post to this list. I am very interested in encryption technologies, and PGP in particular. Of course, this is only a hobby and I don't have any trade secrets or international intrigues to protect, so that leaves me at a bit of a disadvantage when it com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Dan Cowsill
You could still be looking at a hardware failure situation here. I have seen hard drives with absolutely perfect SMART attributes pass all the tests but still show the classic signs of a hard drive beginning to fail. A significant slowdown is one of those signs. What I would suggest is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 > disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. > ... > My comment about RAID was that I am learning the hard (alas expensive) > way that not all disks can actuall

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man > pages, they are covered in "ESC".  This does not occur when using normal > user accounts or the root account through su.  Wondering what is going > on.  Thanks. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

2010-01-18 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my > desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a > file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped. > > I'm not ruling out the cabl

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > Mikie wrote: >> I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS >> root. >> >> My question is: >> >> Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for >> certain root dir? >> >> Should Tmp  be local

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-16 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and > install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any > more).  I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo.  How > would you take it from there?  I'm l

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I determine the motherboard make and model?  I mean without > opening the case. > > Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not > give that information (far as I can tell). > > In fact syscriptor cannot even re

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: >> On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:58:42 Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Hi list! >>> >>> I recently updated one of my systems to KDE4. Now I have the problem >>> that only one application can access the audio output at a

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, andrey larin wrote: > let suppose > sda and sdb is raid 1 md1 > and new sdc > remove sdb from raid > mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/sdb > mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb > then create degraded raid 5 > don't forget md1 is still running > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 5 -n 3 /

[gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello list, Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited disk space and not enough room to back up all of the data on the array in its current

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow samba transfers from gentoo to gentoo, any way to improve them?

2009-11-21 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:56 AM, App Des wrote: > I have a gentoo server running stable fully updated, and I share a folder > with samba on a gigabit network. > > The client dual boots Gentoo (stable again) and Windows 7. > > Under windows 7, getting a file from the server achieves around 70MB/s >

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
Arthur D. wrote: > The first option works fine, but ... how much time should the user > spend to get things just work as expected? Plainly put, Gentoo isn't an easy-to-use distro. If it were, I don't think I would be using it, paradoxically enough. If spending a little time learning about and pl

[gentoo-user] [OT] PGP User Groups?

2009-10-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello list, I've noticed that with linux geekery comes the pursuit of PGP-based email privacy. A great many frequent posters to this illustrious list boast PGP keypairs and frequently sign their correspondences. Some of you even have photo ID's of yourselves in your public keys! (Hello Neil!)

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
Arthur D. wrote: > Hello, happy Gentoo users! I'm new on this distro, so I'm sorry if you > consider to be stupid what I gonna say. > > Many of us prefer editors other than nano. Some of us believe in ideas of > freedom and choice which Gentoo provides us with. But... > > There're ones who prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I know...

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:26 AM, David Juhl wrote: > How do I know I am actually subscribed to a list.  I sent a email to the > second address asking for verification. > > Thanks, > Dave > > > > Is easy. If you can see this email, you are subscribed. Ta! Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-06 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Grant wrote: >>> > I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems >>> > pretty high.  Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? >>> >>> $ eix ^ntop >>> [I] net-analyzer/ntop >>>       Available versions:  3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Support Ticket Opened [#521935]

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Charlie Nolan wrote: > Did someone seriously sign their support ticket email up to gentoo-hardened? > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:44 AM, wrote: >> >> -- do not edit -- >> >> A support ticket has been created (#521935) and a representative will get >> back to you s

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello again list, After having tried every suggested method of scrolling or pausing kernel output and failing, I decided to mess about with the kernel config a little more and eventually came out ahead. I am happy to report no kernel panics and I thank everyone for their contribution. D signa

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Dan Cowsill
Adam Carter wrote: > Have you tried + ? I have no idea if it will work in that > circumtance... > > Remember that depending how you setup the kernel the IDE devices could be hdX > or sdX. > > Thanks, Yes, I've tried shift+pgUp and it doesn't appear to work. And yes, I've verified that my ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Dan Cowsill
James Ausmus wrote: > If you have a serial port, you can enable serial console in the kernel > config, and boot with a "console=ttyS0" kernel parameter, to see all > the output on a serially attached (via null modem cable or adapter) > computer... > > -James > Hey, thanks for the advice. Would t

[gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello list, I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any way to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for scrolling u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I would still think its a problema. > People would install Gentoo, get a functional system, not read the > handbook, and flood the forums and this mailing list with already > answered and handbook questions. > Daniel da Veiga > I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Grant wrote: > I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One > netbook and it's just so slow.  The only things I can think of to > speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's > possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a

Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE

2009-02-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Andrei Hanganu wrote: > helo group, > > i've been trying the past 2-3 years to find the most usable and nice ide > for c/c++ code writing. I've been through vim/vim + plugins/emacs + > different modes/anjuta/kdevelop/codeblocks/eclipse/netbeans ... every > single

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing Lists

2009-02-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2009/2/16 Dan Cowsill : >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Kaushal Shriyan >> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> is there a mailing lists to discuss about perl or python or bash scripting >>> la

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing Lists

2009-02-16 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi > > is there a mailing lists to discuss about perl or python or bash scripting > language ? > > Thanks and Regards > > Kaushal > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=perl+mailing+list http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+mailing+list As far as I can tell, ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 1/29/09, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't > DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets > hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? > > Does WPA2 require hardware support? > > > - Grant > > Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: > Thanks for the detailed information. I have some news, but it requires me to > put on my embarrassed face. No need to be embarrassed! I work in the repair industry and I can't tell you how many times I've run into the same thing. The worst

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when running > 3d applications. > > Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until I > got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
Looks like they're both down for me too. For future reference, this site is extraordinarily useful... http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ KH wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot reach: > > http://gentoo-portage.com/ > http://gentoo-wiki.com > > Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
mv /etc/portage/package.mask /etc/portage/package.mask.back emerge -uDNp world Helmut Jarausch wrote: > This doesn't contain a mask but > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask contains >> =app-admin/system-tools-backends-2 > > So, is this a bug? > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi guys, I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID. Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs linux kernel RAID? Thanks, D Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > I'm in the process of

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Продажа квартир.Скидки становятся меньше...

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi! 2001/4/27 Удобно и уютно <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > СРОЧНАЯ РАСПРОДАЖА > В ЭЛИТНОМ ПОДМОСКОВЬЕ > Застройщик РАСпродает супер квартиры в городе Одинцово: > 2-КОМНАТНАЯ - 88 кв.м, 4-КОМНАТНАЯ - 178 кв.м > 3-КОМНАТНАЯ - 110 кв.м > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Cowsill
It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring network bandwidth utilization

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Not too long ago, I set up a router powered by Gentoo Linux and old >> computer hardware. So f

[gentoo-user] Monitoring network bandwidth utilization

2008-06-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
g too much bandwidth? Thanks a bunch -- Dan Cowsill -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
RMA'd hardware isn't 'repaired' in the technical sense. You're typically given a new motherboard. In my experience, overclocking typically doesn't damage unrelated components. The CPU is likely the only problem with your rig, unfortunately. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BASIC compilers/Interpreters?

2008-04-13 Thread Dan Cowsill
y. > -- Benjamin Franklin > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > Dude. Google. First hit. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:45:49 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I had read that if you don't copy > > the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
ong, but I had read that if you don't copy the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on the machine you're cloning to and all hell will break lose. Also, iirc, I believe I tarred a running machine (including /dev, excluding /sys) and the clone was successful. Any thoughts? -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-22 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Today I had some really serious problems with my Gentoo router. I > > coul

[gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-22 Thread Dan Cowsill
. So my question is this: what could have caused the router's connection tracker to overflow? -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 20,

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > Right, so I have an exte

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my > > machine. I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot. >

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my > > machine. I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot. >

[gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

2008-03-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
leading me to believe that localmount tries to mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices. How could I resolve this? Thanks -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to do port-based routing?

2008-03-03 Thread Dan Cowsill
grante Yow! I want another > at RE-WRITE on my CEASAR >visi.com SALAD!! > > -- > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I hate to plug a non-gentoo distro, but if you're building yourself a linux firewall and you want to do so without rtfm'ing, smoothwall is the way to go. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] using torrent

2008-03-03 Thread Dan Cowsill
able to run unrar -x and you'll get your iso. Now load it up into k3b or your burning program of choice and burn! -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Cowsill
g list > > That's what I get for posting drunk. My apologies for being belligerent! -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-24 Thread Dan Cowsill
dialog. So > printing is now impossible. Fortunately, I have seamonkey, which is working > just fine. > > But I'd like firefox to work too. > > ++ kevin > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > Might want to bring this up with the firefox people, not the Gentoo peo

Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
ser. > > > > Any suggestions about available professionals or companies? > > > > thank you > > Pol > > I would be happy to do it. Do you cover travel expenses? > > -- > Albert W. Hopkins > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Ya, sign me up! -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Cowsill
mand like > that. Please show us the actual output of 'emerge -pv php'. > > Benno > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > It looks like he's trying to emerge from an ebuild file directly. Also not a good idea. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
oot > > has something to do with wpa_ctrl. > > > > I hope you fine fellows can piece something together with this or give > > me some documentation I might read. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > No, it's always 5872. Before and after startup. Glad you could make it :D -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/20/07, Don Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > > > The follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/20/07, Vladimir Rusinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/21/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > >

[gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
No capitalization, no spaces, no nonsense. And yet the hashes md5crypt returns are all different. Now, that's no good if you ask me. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Thanks. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Synaptics mousepad

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Cowsill
if there is some sort of firefox setting I can change to disable that function? Thanks, -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and > > deleted his home folder. After that, I made the user agai

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/14/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I updated to the new gnome. After battling the expat problem, I was > > able to get a clean emerge and an empty revdep-rebuild (with Bo's > > help

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Dan Cowsill
blem seemed to be .gnome2 and .metacity. Perhaps it's a problem with metacity? Either way, I'm by no means a guru, but I'll try to help as much as possible. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I successfully battled the expat problem (with Bo's help) and > > revdep-rebuild reports no further need to recompile. > > > > But gnome seems

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Dan Cowsill
in believing that this is not likely to make > things worse. For example emacs-22 and firefox-2.0.0.6 work fine now. > > thanks > allan > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > I'm currently updating the world tree on my machine and I did run into the expat issue. L

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Cowsill
e no one was being paid to address it in a prompt fashion. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/10/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:01:09 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > If there was a little explanation earlier on, we could have > > avoided the panic and dissemination of false information that > > followed. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/10/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 09:27:17 Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Albert W. Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and > > > hopefully after that we'll have a better way of de

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Cowsill
t possible you may have touched some of the contacts on the chip? If so, your CPU may be fried. On the plus side, the chip might make an interesting geek accessory if you hung it from some sort of chain. -- Dan Cowsill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-08 Thread Dan Cowsill
I've always prefered gentoo-portage.com to the alternative. On 8/7/07, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's being closed until further notice. > > So would it not be a good idea to announce this on the front page[1] or at > least redirect

[gentoo-user] Stop net.eth0 from starting?

2007-08-02 Thread Dan Cowsill
I've got wifi configured with madwifi and use my wifi interface a lot more than the ethernet I had thought that removing net.eth0 from rc-update, but that didn't seem to work. Every time I booted, the interface tried to go up and get dhcp information. I then read about and used a preup function t

[gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

2007-07-31 Thread Dan Cowsill
Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually built kernel? Thanks. -- -·=»Ðŧħ«=·- ï¿½ï¿½í¢‹ï¿½z���(��&j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Dan Cowsill
othly... Does anyone know of any special considerations I should take with the processor? Thanks. On 7/30/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I've done some reading and indeed it probably is overheating. > I'll probably prop it up on some jewel cases and blow a fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Dan Cowsill
CTED]> wrote: > On 7/30/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just got myself a new laptop and wanted to install Gentoo on it. > > After getting a working base system installed, I tried to install > > Xorg-x11, but the machine froze while trying to com

[gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Dan Cowsill
I just got myself a new laptop and wanted to install Gentoo on it. After getting a working base system installed, I tried to install Xorg-x11, but the machine froze while trying to compile gcc. Keep in mind, there were no error messages, logs or anything of that nature. Just a straight up lack of

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
Then the idea that the Gentoo Foundation might 'cease to exist as an entity' isn't really bad news? Some clarification might be in order. On 7/27/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18315/The-F

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Dan Cowsill
I read a little bit of the new license, and restrictive though it may be and also strange for a pillar of the open source community to suddenly change is directive so drastically, I am still comforted. I believe the essential beauty of this community is that we cannot be governed by software lice

Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Saturday 26 May 2007 15:58, Albert Hopkins wrote: > [ Since I gone ahead and polluted the list I'll give my take ] > > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 14:36 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file > > permissions of >

Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
e > 03. Another one you sent a few days ago was dated 31 May. > -- > Albert W. Hopkins I wasn't aware, thanks :) -- --- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.danthehat.net/wp-content/uploads/public.asc pgp17hrz3EeS7.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] File permissions and such

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
user so I can work on them... But I have to chown them so that is possible. It just occured to me that there must be an easier way to do things like this and I was wondering if you fine fellows could guide me down the right path. Thanks. -- --- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net/ GnuPG Publi

[gentoo-user] Copy/Paste Functionality in Konsole

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Cowsill
. Then, you can just right click to paste it into the input line. How would I engineer such functionality in Konsole? --- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.danthehat.net/wp-content/uploads/public.asc pgpDGhrua2LaJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Dan Cowsill
LOL! On 5/19/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can't stand it anymore! Since the KISS word appeared on the subject line of gentoo-user I had this idea, and now you're gonna MAKE FUN OF ME, ok? For you, from the bottom of

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to configure an email server

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Cowsill
>>> server under my own domain name. >>>>> >>>>> So what I'm asking you guys for is documentation, software packages, >>>>> recommended setups, anything you can add. I am not looking for an all >>>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to configure an email server

2007-05-13 Thread Dan Cowsill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey there, thanks for the tip! I didn't expect to find a complete HOWTO, as I said, but then again I've never seen a HOWTO that big. Question, though. Do I need to do anything very special to use MySQL instead of PGSQL? Thanks again, - --- dantheh

[gentoo-user] I want to configure an email server

2007-05-13 Thread Dan Cowsill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But I have no idea where to start. Frankly, so many possibilities and incredibly complex setups have deterred me somewhat from embarking on this venture. However, I would very much like to have my very own email server under my own domain name. So w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-05-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
Ah, thanks a bunch. That did the trick. On 5/1/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:14:53 Dan Cowsill wrote: > As per the gmail question, perhaps some clarification is in order. > I'd like to use gmail's smtp server to send ma

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