Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Willie Wong schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > Is it possible to compile the complete system with the >> > icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? >> >> afaik, no. Too many things

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] An iptables like setup on windowsxp

2005-08-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:20:42AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote > These machines will also be internet connected and there for will need > some onboard protection beyond my gateway/firewall. > > I want to find a packet filter like iptables for use on windows. That > is, a text based/editable driven

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-04 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: After a while, it gets old telling etc-update after each emerge update that no, I do *NOT* want to change... - my clocktime setting from "local" to "UTC" - my console font from "lat0-10" (48 rows with vga=2) to "default8x16" (30 rows with vga=2). - the hostnames of

[gentoo-user] Standby not working

2005-08-04 Thread Ian K
Hi guys! Im on a Toshiba Satellite A70, and was wondering how to get the suspend to RAM working. KDE can initiate a hibernate, which will basically make the system hang when it should turn off. Thats ok though, I really only want suspend to ram working, and for my purposes, couldn't care less about

[gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-04 Thread Walter Dnes
After a while, it gets old telling etc-update after each emerge update that no, I do *NOT* want to change... - my clocktime setting from "local" to "UTC" - my console font from "lat0-10" (48 rows with vga=2) to "default8x16" (30 rows with vga=2). - the hostnames of *BOTH* my Gentoo mac

Re: bad howto warning: Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Michael Crute wrote: Bingo... edit it please... share your experiences and put down the right way to do it. I will if I can extract the right way to do it from all the blind alleys I've been down. I'm currently looking into the chroot jail problem for shell scripts. ---eric -- gentoo-use

Re: bad howto warning: Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Crute
Bingo... edit it please... share your experiences and put down the right way to do it. -MikeOn 8/4/05, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/4/05, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Michael Crute wrote:> > Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?> > http://gentoo-wik

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:41:03AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > If you're going to learn Linux, why not start with a distribution which > caters for newbies when making design decisions, rather than one which > assumes that its users know what they're doing? > I partially agree. In my mind, l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:53:38 -0400 Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | >DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to > | >Linux should turn to? > | > > | > > | In one word... YES!. If you're going to learn your way around Linux > | well, why not start with somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:53:38 -0400 Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to | >Linux should turn to? | > | > | In one word... YES!. If you're going to learn your way around Linux | well, why not start with something that doe

Re: bad howto warning: Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-04 Thread Justin Patrin
On 8/4/05, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Crute wrote: > > Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki? > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host > > to put it politely, this how-to is misleading. It should be removed. > Well, since this is a wiki...why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge monodevelop -> dependency with mozilla

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Catalin Trifu wrote: Thanks for the answer. I tried to hack the ebuild too and same result. I guess I would have to emerge mozilla too, but I don't like the idea at all. Perhaps the maintainers will find a solution to get rid of mozilla. Hopefully they will split out the SDK into its o

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread C.Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I don't believe I can actually answer this one. I'm a "noob" to Gentoo! Stewart Taylor wrote: > Hi all > > I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for > me so I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 > inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Zac Medico
Chris Cox wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:41 pm, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe check your genkernel command to compile the kernel. Whats wrong with compilin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Paul Kain
My girlfriend, who has never used windows properley before, let alone linux, uses my server to irc with using irssi no gui, all command line, hardc0re girlfriend... not really but damn I wish... On 8/4/05, Bryan Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread George Roberts
Craig Zeigler wrote: Chris Cox wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? You never asked a stupid question? No I thought not. Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... *sigh* I was of course just kidd

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:41 pm, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd > and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe > check your genkernel command to compile the kernel. > Whats wrong with compiling a kernel the n

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Zac Medico
Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi all I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for me so I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 install, as this failed the second time I tried a stage3 install, if it failed less time wasted. Both times I opted for a genkernel inst

bad howto warning: Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Michael Crute wrote: Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host to put it politely, this how-to is misleading. It should be removed. problem 1: assumes automounter works. I was not able to get automounter to function and had to resort

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Bryce
I would also make sure that your /boot is mounted. Gentoo is not setup by default to mount /boot. So i would double check that. bryce Daniel da Veiga wrote: >Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd >and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe check your genkernel command to compile the kernel. On 8/4/05, Stewart Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I've been trying to install Gentoo. I > wa

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about a complaint from webalizer

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
Whenever I run webalizer on my server box I see this: Error: Unable to open DNS cache file /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db but that file does exist: bullet ~ # ls -l /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 69632 Aug 3 09:15 /var/www/webalizer/dns_cache.db Why can't webalizer

[gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for me so I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 install, as this failed the second time I tried a stage3 install, if it failed less time wasted. Both times I opted for a genkernel install, everything see

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Paul Kain
nice signature Ryan http://chill.vault9.net/forums/Ravilj-m2166.html email me that image please? thanks :D On 8/4/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The original point of this was to promote Gentoo. You guys and gals > are all so proud of it but want to keep it to yourselves. When a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Yeah, I think its great! I would buy the t-shirts if I wasn't so far away! Once you get it well configured, its nice, its fast, its Gentoo!!! I've been "migrating" a lot of users after showing my own box to them, and most say the same, Gentoo is a learning experience, people start installing it an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
The original point of this was to promote Gentoo. You guys and gals are all so proud of it but want to keep it to yourselves. When a mate asks me what OS I am running I say Gentoo Linux. If he or she wants a copy I gladly give it to them and help them out cause someone awhile back took the time to

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
Yes... that would maybe be good idea. I'm using now the touchpad instead of the mouse and, until now, no weird behaviours! Thanks. FernandoOn 8/4/05, Luke Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should subscribe to the enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list and post this same message

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:20:43PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible to compile the complete system with the > > icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? > > afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extension

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking recommdations for multi-card reader.

2005-08-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:01:17PM -0400, Colin wrote: > John J. Foster wrote: > > >Good evening all. My San Disk ImageMate dual reader said goodbye to our > >family today. She should have left a few months ago. > > > >So, what I'm searching for is a replacement reader. I saw some good > >reviews

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:19:00PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to compile the complete system with the > icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? afaik, no. Too many things rely on gcc-specific extensions. BUT! if you add "icc" to your USEflags, portage will compile things wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread kashani
Philip Webb wrote: Gentoo is for people who want to manage their own machine in their own way & the real bouncer at the door is the DIY installation test. This thread is a bit more rational, so no Elitist Chowderhead subject this time. However... Does this mean now that I've been admining

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Daniel da Veiga wrote: The facts are: - Internet is powerful. - Gentoo and internet talk like friends. - If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program with a fair documentation and bit of geekness. - Gentoo is widely documented. - There's always us to point newbies to RTFM and

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Luke Albers
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:26 +, Fernando Meira wrote: > Thanks anyway Luke! > > This looks like a crazy mouse behaviour... suddenly jumps to another > place and open the menu. > I think E17 never crashed (as I said before), but, in fact, what > happen (at least the last time) was that when the

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
Thanks anyway Luke! This looks like a crazy mouse behaviour... suddenly jumps to another place and open the menu. I think E17 never crashed (as I said before), but, in fact, what happen (at least the last time) was that when the pointer jumped away, opened the menu and (because I was trying to mo

Re: [gentoo-user] ?VIDEO_CARDS="matrox"? in make.conf - which package?

2005-08-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Willie Wong schrieb: > I am pretty sure that x11-drm uses that. The ati cards can also use > "rage128" and "radeon" in that spot depending on the card: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml Okay. > According to the ebuild for x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 > IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="3dfx gamma i810 i830 matrox

[gentoo-user] Using Intel's icc to compile the whole system?

2005-08-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Is it possible to compile the complete system with the icc from the Intel C++ Compiler? Are there any (performance) gains to be expected on a system using a Celeron M340 CPU? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #69: knot in cables caused data stream to become twisted and kinked -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I'm not sure what's worse.. the elitist chowderheads, or you bloody top posters that don't trim replies!! :P Solve the top posting problem. If you see a co-worker top posting, club them with a shoe. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Luke Albers
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 17:53 +, Fernando Meira wrote: > Ok, thanks Christoph. > So, from these, does it look like a bug, mouse bad-config or something > else? I doubt its a big, since I haven't had this happen. I have had e17 crash a few times, but not as often as it sounds like yours is. S

Re: [gentoo-user] ?VIDEO_CARDS="matrox"? in make.conf - which package?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
I am pretty sure that x11-drm uses that. The ati cards can also use "rage128" and "radeon" in that spot depending on the card: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml According to the ebuild for x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="3dfx gamma i810 i830 matrox rage128 radeon sis mach64" HTH W On

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
Ok, thanks Christoph. I'm just trying E17 for the first time now, and the first impression is good. However, there a weird behaviour with the mouse. The mouse pointer disappears very frequently, crashing from time to time one application. xterm blew aways few minutes ago. In fact, this is the seco

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Craig Zeigler
Chris Cox wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? You never asked a stupid question? No I thought not. Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... *sigh* I was of course just kidding. I do like Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Craig Zeigler
Fernando Meira wrote: Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters (between 2 rooms) is enough. I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode. # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Luke Albers
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:22 -0700, Bryan Green wrote: > I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of her asking me questions > about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could > help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with. Just wanted to share that... > > Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
050804 Chris Cox wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen sighed: >> Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? >> You never asked a stupid question? >> No I thought not. >> Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > I was of course just kidding. > I do like Gen

[gentoo-user] »VIDEO_CARDS="matrox"« in make. conf - which package?

2005-08-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! I'm currently cleaning up my make.conf and stumpled upon the line VIDEO_CARDS="matrox" Sadly, I forgot to add a descriptive comment :( So I know wonder, which package the VIDEO_CARDS setting influences. Could somebody please be so nice and tell me? Further, I'd like to know, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Green
I put Gentoo on my mom's computer. I got tired of her asking me questions about her computer concerning the Windows OS, so I installed an OS *I* could help her maintain, and not feel disgusted with. Just wanted to share that... Has anyone else out there put Gentoo on their parents computers?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
The facts are: - Internet is powerful. - Gentoo and internet talk like friends. - If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program with a fair documentation and bit of geekness. - Gentoo is widely documented. - There's always us to point newbies to RTFM and/or search at Google :) a

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ghostscript to use?

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:15:00AM +0800, Yuan MEI wrote: > There are three versions of ghostscript inside the portage, they are > `ghostscript', `ghostscript-gnu', `ghostscript-afpl'. In my opinion, > afpl is used more widely, however, the latest version of afpl is not > inside the portage. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off > f

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge monodevelop -> dependency with mozilla

2005-08-04 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, Thanks for the answer. I tried to hack the ebuild too and same result. I guess I would have to emerge mozilla too, but I don't like the idea at all. Perhaps the maintainers will find a solution to get rid of mozilla. Catalin Michael Crute wrote: Nope its required to run mo

[gentoo-user] Which ghostscript to use?

2005-08-04 Thread Yuan MEI
There are three versions of ghostscript inside the portage, they are `ghostscript', `ghostscript-gnu', `ghostscript-afpl'. In my opinion, afpl is used more widely, however, the latest version of afpl is not inside the portage. So, which to choose? -- Yuan MEI -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Differences: halt, shutdown, init 0?

2005-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
Michael Crute wrote: Init 0 does a shutdown just without the -r now (which you could add). Here is the line from my stock /etc/inittab "l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown" Read that entry again, what you said is not correct. For runlevel 0, init runs "/sbin/rc" with an argument of "shutdown". Th

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters (between 2 rooms) is enough. I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode. # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: lsbcmnds    driver pres

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Crute
At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Gentoo was my first serious distribution, I first tried Red Hat and got completely put off. I was than introduced to Gentoo and have been there ever since. Putting a Gentoo Badge in your sig or on your forum will attract both n00bs yes and other linux users alike. Does it really mean that the end o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Agreed in all terms!!! On 8/4/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote: > > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > > > You never asked a stupid question? > > > No I thought n

[gentoo-user] Re: Network Monitoring (graphical web app)

2005-08-04 Thread james
Chris Frederick cdf123.net> writes: > > Hi all, > > I've been looking for a monitoring app that I can run on my > server/gateway. The more graphical the better jffnms http://freshmeat.net/projects/jffnms/ www.jffnms.org James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, Chris Cox wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > > You never asked a stupid question? > > No I thought not. > > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > > > > *sigh* >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
Refer to the "Elitest Chowderheads" thread on [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:50 +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > You never asked a stupid question? > No I thought not. > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > > *sigh* >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > You never asked a stupid question? > No I thought not. > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > > *sigh* I was of course just kidding. I do like Gentoo but hey, it isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? You never asked a stupid question? No I thought not. Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... *sigh* On 8/4/05, Chris Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 06:20 pm, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > [quote] > > Let the wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 06:20 pm, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > [quote] > Let the world know that you run on Gentoo Linux. > > Put a Powered by Gentoo image on your Gentoo powered web sites or use > a Gentoo Badge on your web page, blog, forum signature or elsewhere > and link back to http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Essential : * Must be secure against remote attacks. * Must support username-and-password based authentication. Desirable : * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server) * As lightweight as

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-04 Thread Oscar Carlsson
I think lighttpd might be something like what you're looking for. It's pretty lightweight, fast enough and php/ruby/perl works with it (through fastCGI). http://www.lighttpd.net/ And of course it's in portage :) Oscar Thursday 04 August 2005 15.08 skrev Steve [Gentoo]: > Having recently had h

Re: [gentoo-user] Differences: halt, shutdown, init 0?

2005-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
Minn M Soe wrote: Hello, Is it harmless if we shut down with the command init 0? Are there big differences between halt, shutdown -r now and init 0? See the man pages for 'halt' and 'shutdown'. Unless told otherwise, shutdown operates by signalling init, so "shutdown", "halt", "init 0",

[gentoo-user] Simple HTTP servers question.

2005-08-04 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Having recently had hassle with dependencies for Apache2 for my configuration, I had a sudden thought that I don't really need most of the Apache features... and there are many http servers available in portage. I can classify my priorities as essential and desirable: Essential : * Must be

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

2005-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 03 August 2005 12:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, from /etc/logrotate.conf: - # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } -

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Craig Zeigler
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA card isn't very high. Do you risk burning ou

Re: [gentoo-user] BackupEXEC

2005-08-04 Thread Craig Zeigler
Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: Craig, I'm looking to use Veritas BackupEXEC 10 on several of my servers, and would like to know if anyone knows how to get a backup exec agent to work properly with gentoo. It seems a simple enough question, but I've found nothing useful through the documentation, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
C.Beamer wrote: Hi Michael et al, Michael Crute wrote: Colleen, Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do is run "Xorg --c

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-04 Thread Peter De Zutter
This document should give you some info http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking Peter On 8/4/05, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joseph wrote:> I have port knocking installed on firewall, to further protect any SSH> attacks.> So port 22 is closed (in stealth mode) and only opens if it receive

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-04 Thread Jarry
Joseph wrote: I have port knocking installed on firewall, to further protect any SSH attacks. So port 22 is closed (in stealth mode) and only opens if it received the right knock sequence, moreover it is only opened to an IP address from which received successful knock sequence; all others see

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something > like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA > card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by

RE: [gentoo-user] BackupEXEC

2005-08-04 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
Craig, I'm looking to use Veritas BackupEXEC 10 on several of my servers, and would like to know if anyone knows how to get a backup exec agent to work properly with gentoo. It seems a simple enough question, but I've found nothing useful through the documentation, and their support folks don't e

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Craig Zeigler
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, I wanted to provide wireless connection to the internet for other laptops at home. To do this, one laptop is connected via eth0 and wlan0 should work as AP to all others. I have been following the HOWTO:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Buildin

Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Michael Crute wrote: Hmm not to be insulting but: no, it is not insulting at all. One must always make sure that the devices plugged into the wall. * Is NFS Running on the server and, yes showmount and mounting devices loopback work * Is there a firewall on either host (and if so are th

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring (graphical web app)

2005-08-04 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Em Quinta 04 Agosto 2005 00:37, o A. Khattri escreveu: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Chris Frederick wrote: > > I've been looking for a monitoring app that I can run on my > > server/gateway. The more graphical the better, I really like the looks > > of the graphs from ipac and grapher. But I'd like to g

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: Also found other scripts to compile directly from cvs, without using portage. Can anyone tell me what the advantage of doing so? I'd suggest using portage since it allows you to uninstall, query information and doing other nice package managment stuff. Christoph, is the

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: And in the E docs, there is this sentence: "Note that you should not mix -* and ~x86 ebuilds." So is it enough that I just change everything to -* and all packages will be upgraded, or will I need to unmerge every package before? Just keyword all packages -* and update

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Fernando Meira wrote: Christoph, I can't find the screenshot I saw and made me think about moving to E, but this one is also good and has the panel (right under the IM app) I was talking about: http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~uriel/images/screen.jpg In the browser window you can see

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/3/05, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying e17 as well after reading this ;-) Great Justin :) I suggest emerging edge before epsilon or you'll get compile errors. I just finish compiling it and I got no problems (at least that I'm aware of)... so it also works with this sequenc

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, I wanted to provide wireless connection to the internet for other laptops at home. To do this, one laptop is connected via eth0 and wlan0 should work as AP to all others. I have been following the HOWTO:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_W

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring (graphical web app)

2005-08-04 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Haven't tried it, but it seems to be worth a look, so I would add http://www.zabbix.com/ 2005/8/3, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use Nagios and Cacti with much success. > > http://www.nagios.org/ > http://www.cacti.net/ > > -Mike > > > On 8/3/05, Chris Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECT