Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. > i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. > > i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh > sessions, so my > focus may b

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh sessions, so my focus may be a bit different from others. tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

Boris Sobolev schrieb: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Thanks. Boris iftop is nice to watch, what connetions are currently open an how many traffic they produce. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 03:08 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I like that of the two replies, one was "hub" and one was "no hub" :) Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no hub. ;) -- Iain Buchanan Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 > does too? One could never determine something that basic from the man page supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it works. With a disk mounted under th

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

On 8/9/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Yes, use a hub. Then when Caladan, Ix, Draconus_IV, Salusa_Secundus, and finally Tleiax enter your network, they too can be connected to the Spacing Guild as well. ; ) [...] Thanks for completing the picture :) arrakis connects wirelessl

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

Gian Domeni Calgeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this >> > tool on board? >> >> ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a "knoppix style" >> CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. > > Hi > > On >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

On 09 August 2006 18:15, Boris Sobolev wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. > Any command to use for that? If you use KDE anyway try ksysguard. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

On 8/9/06, Boris Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect the same thing hapening now. Aside from I need a firewall ( and I deliberatly do not install one,) how can I track an activities that generate that traffic? If you just want to log TCP connection attempts and UDP packets sent to your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

On 8/9/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A packet analyzer would be fine, I think. Although me as a CLI-junkie would have suggested tcpdump instead of wireshark :-) Emerge tcpdump, wireshark works even for CLI-junkies...just run "tshark" :-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] weird dependencies

On 8/9/06, Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something weird is happening to my system. I executed (for no good reason): [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -pvu --deep gaim Add --tree. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want a setup such as at and am reading to that end. However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a secondary. There's al

[gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

I want a setup such as at and am reading to that end. However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a secondary. There's also a diagram at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

> > Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this > > tool on board? > > ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a "knoppix style" > CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. Hi On http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=292336

[gentoo-user] samba + ldap + script php

Hi... I wrote a php script to add users on a LDAP directory. I setup samba to auth against this directory. If I use smbldap-useradd, samba authenticate the user, but if I use my script not! My script set all attributes exactly like smbldap-useradd. What I am missing? []s Leandro. -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

Stroller wrote: > However my question is this: don't I need pam-login anymore? No, its function is part of shadow again. > On this particular system /etc/pam.d/imap calls pam_winbind.so to > authenticate off a Windows domain. Will this still work? Yes, as long as pam itself is still installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

On 19 Jul 2006, at 18:31, Matthias Guede wrote: Matthias Guede wrote: Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, I haven't emerged my system in a while because of this problem, and now it is getting back to me. pam-login reports that it is being blocked by >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2. ... Just unmerge sh

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:03:55 +0400 Boris Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. A packet analyzer would be fine, I think. Although me as a CLI-junkie would have suggested tcpdump instead of wireshark :-) Emerge tcpdump, and as root do $ t

Re: [gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard I assume you've got the cpufreq-utils installed and running. What you can do is (as root): $cpufreq-info This will give you some information about your CPU. It looks something like this: cpufrequtils 0.4: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodows

Re: [gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Richard You can also throttle the speed of your CPU with the command $cpufreq-set -u 80 This will set the upper bound to 800MHz, meaning your CPU won't be going any faster than those 800MHz. This is the way I am doing it. Not very nice but it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Google Earth

Jorge Almeida wrote: > I tried Google Earth, liked it, tried again, and, sure enough, it froze > my computer. By "froze" I mean no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the > X-server, no Ctrl-Alt-F?, no Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. I had to reboot by > pressing the button in the box. (The bottom of the window sai

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did notice that Knoppix recognized a specific monitor, wheras the Gentoo live CD only recognized a generic monitor. Why would Knoppix recognize a specific monitor where gentoo doesn't? I would've assumed things like that are (nearly) independ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 5 X Window System Version 6.8.2 Hrm, I assumed you were using the current version of x.org. I am betting that Knoppix is using xorg 7.0 (aka, modular X), so no, you will not be able to use the configuration file directly without fixing t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: iptables mac filtering

James wrote: > Hello, > > Continuing my quest for iptables enlightenmentI have a question > about 'mac address' syntax. All options for mac and arp have been compiled > into a gentoo-hardened kernel. > > I'm using variations of this syntax in my script. > > # Rule to only allow ssh by MAC addr

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc > client under Gentoo. > > Tony Thanks guys for all your input. Looks like I'll choose xchat. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neit

[gentoo-user] OT: iptables mac filtering

Hello, Continuing my quest for iptables enlightenmentI have a question about 'mac address' syntax. All options for mac and arp have been compiled into a gentoo-hardened kernel. I'm using variations of this syntax in my script. # Rule to only allow ssh by MAC address iptables -A INPUT -i et

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The knoppix CD seems to work fine, I'm in firefox, typing away at > gmail, with no lines/static on the screen :) [...] Here's the knoppix xorg.config file, which seems to work: [...] here's the error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Deskt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yes. It's called ntfs3g. There's an ebuild for it. Thanks for that tip, Alexander - it works well here. Peter or Alexander, can you give a few details of what you are able to do with it? I don't use it - I just read about

[gentoo-user] KDE fonts are only squares

hi all yesterday i made a mistake. i have unmerged qt-3.3.6-r1. then i've reinstalled it back. but i had the surprise to see that the characters in KDE are small squares instead of letters. i've remerged all packages from KDE but no effect. any ideas? P.S. gtk applications are working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

I' m not sure if I need packet analyzer or another tool. I can see network activity on my dsl modem led. Right before I switched to Gentoo, my windows box has died for a couple of days ( it had no firewall). It was bunch of viruses, worms and god knows what else. When I turned firewall, it blocked

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] The knoppix CD seems to work fine, I'm in firefox, typing away at gmail, with no lines/static on the screen :) [...] Here's the knoppix xorg.config file, which seems to work: Script started on Wed Aug 9 17:53:23 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

iptraf On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:15:42 +0400 Boris Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. > Any command to use for that? > > Thanks. > Boris > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > pgp1ZxtkXhtsb.pgp Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

On 8/9/06, Boris Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Do you mean a packet analyzer? Then you want wireshark. If you just want to see bandwidth, net-analyzer/nload, or any of the dozens

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I type in, for instance, this window (gmail in firefox) the > screen flickers with each keystroke. Also, if I'm in the terminal > window, for gnome, and type, same thing. [...] > (IIRC th

[gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? Thanks. Boris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I type in, for instance, this window (gmail in firefox) the screen flickers with each keystroke. Also, if I'm in the terminal window, for gnome, and type, same thing. [...] (IIRC the gentoo live CD didn't have this problem, but I might no

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

On 8/9/06, Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, epsxe, zsnes, and most emulators, have parts in assembler that will not compile or work as expected in any other arch than the one that they were made for. Epsxe is not keyworded for amd64, I suppose, cause it would not work in such archit

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:37:05 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: > Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use > toolchain-funcs.eclass It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore it. -- Neil Bothwick Some d

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

El Miércoles, 9 de Agosto de 2006 08:59, Andrew Syrewicze escribió: > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > >> I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? > >> how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and > >> portage. > >> > >> thanks a

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

cool, thx for the help, I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. I figured something like that would work cause I used to do similar things on debian. of course i've long since left debian for gentoo. :-)  I like gentoo MUCH better. thanks guys-AOn 8/9/06, Friedrich Göpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

[gentoo-user] Maillist+Forum+Newsgroup solution ?

Hi folks, does anyone know an Maillist+Web-Forum+Newsgroup solution ? Users should be able to access the discussion groups via all three interfaces. thx. -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:36:39 -0400, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > well instead of using the 64bit version of the program, is it possible > to emerge the x86?? I know that there are 32bit compatability packages > that allow you to run programs like t

[gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Why would it say that (rather than just doing it)? How would I comply (I truly have no clue)? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes. It's called ntfs3g. There's an ebuild for it. >> > Thanks for that tip, Alexander - it works well here. Peter or Alexander, can you give a few details of what you are able to do with it? Can I put that on a live CD and boot with the cd, then be ab

AW: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed.

> Julia Fischer wrote: > > Opengl was already set to xorg-x11. I didn't try the emerge -e > > xorg-x11 because I needed a running system today. I installed kubuntu. > > Thanks anyway! > > > > grottenolm. > >> > >> I don't think that this is the problem, because of the driver in any > >> case become

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

Thanks for the replies all. well instead of using the 64bit version of the program, is it possible to emerge the x86?? I know that there are 32bit compatability packages that allow you to run programs like this. (firefox-bin for example).  is it possible to mix in packages for other architecture li

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed.

Julia Fischer wrote: > Opengl was already set to xorg-x11. I didn't try the emerge -e > xorg-x11 because I needed a running system today. I installed kubuntu. > Thanks anyway! > > grottenolm. >> >> I don't think that this is the problem, because of the driver in any >> case become linked against xo

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed.

Opengl was already set to xorg-x11. I didn't try the emerge -e xorg-x11 because I needed a running system today. I installed kubuntu. Thanks anyway! grottenolm. 2006/8/9, Noack, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 8/8/06, Julia Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here everythin from the firs

[gentoo-user] KDE fonts are squares

hi all yesterday i made a mistake. i have unmerged qt-3.3.6-r1. then i've reinstalled it back. but i had the surprise to see that the characters in KDE are small squares instead of letters. i've remerged all packages from KDE but no effect. any ideas? P.S. gtk applications are working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:09:50PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc > client under Gentoo. I prefer naim (http://naim.n.ml.org/about). It does AIM, ICQ, and IRC. I actually use it along with bitlbee to use Jabber as well. --

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See the documentation mentioned above. In this case, both the ebuilds contain KEYWORDS="-* x86". this means they only run on x86 (the -* explicitly excludes everything else). You mentioned in your other post that you are using amd64, it appear

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:54:41 +, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > Calculating dependencies > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "epsxe" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - games-emulation/epsxe-1.6.0-r3 (masked by: missing keyword) >

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

Daniel Iliev wrote: Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. thanks all -ando Have you synced your portage tree recently with "emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:57:18 +, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. When you receive an error message, please

[gentoo-user] Re: copy xorg.conf from knoppix

The wiki mentions knoppix in relation to xorg.conf, but I don't follow what's happening in the knoppix configuration. The xorg.conf on the hard drive, generated by gentoo, is being moved so that knoppix can use it? ' Configuring Video in X11 Code: Configuring x.org # Text configuration xorgcon

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:35:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > You may also consider moving /usr/portage/distfiles and > /usr/portage/packages to another filesystem where you have more room. > Again, "man make.conf", and look for the DISTDIR and PKGDIR options. > On my system, the filesystem that contai

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:57:18 +, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? > how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and > portage. When you receive an error message, please post the exact message with some context.

[gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

Hi - I've been setting my laptop for power management by following the Power Management Guide and have successfully got cpufreqd running. However the CPU still gets hot on large compiles. I thought maybe changing the throttling state would cool things off but when I run the command from the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

Sorav Bansal wrote: > The /usr directory on my gentoo box is taking up 6.8 gigs of disk space, > 2.8 gigs of which is in /usr/portage. This does not seem right. Is it > possible to reduce this disk usage? Check out "eclean". Alexander Skwar -- The truth is not free. It's that simple. If you c

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ?

Moving this back to gentoo-user...after I accidentally replied off-list... On 8/8/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (hopefully) last questions on LVM: Here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml I read of the LVM-installation and usage. The text say: When you re

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

On 8/8/06, Sorav Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The /usr directory on my gentoo box is taking up 6.8 gigs of disk space, 2.8 gigs of which is in /usr/portage. This does not seem right. Is it possible to reduce this disk usage? eclean distfiles eclean packages eclean is part of app-portage/g

Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM?

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:30:59 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > It is still labeled ~x86, just like all other testing packages, because > there are open bugs within the last 30 days. The bugs mainly relate to the release of two new versions since the last dspam ebuild in portage. -- Neil Bothwick D

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space

Sorav Bansal wrote: > Dear gentoo-users, > > I have a disk space problem with my gentoo installation. > > The /usr directory on my gentoo box is taking up 6.8 gigs of disk > space, 2.8 gigs of which is in /usr/portage. This does not seem right. > Is it possible to reduce this disk usage? > > Regard

Re: [gentoo-user] espxe masked by missing keyword

Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > I've been trying to emerge epsxe but it is masked by a missing keyword? > how do i go about unmasking this package??? I'm new to gentoo and portage. > > thanks all > > -ando > Have you synced your portage tree recently with "emerge --sync" ? My system lets me insta