Re: [gentoo-user] Best and most gentoo-compatible PC

2009-01-08 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hi Max, I'll say a few things about the T3400 and nVidia graphics support since that's what I have personal experience with- On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:33 AM, iprmaster wrote: > 2. Dell Precision Workstation T 3400: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8200 > (2.66GHz, 4MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)375W,4GB (4 x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-08 Thread Hung Dang
»Q« wrote: > In <49657ecd.7060...@gmail.com>, > Hung Dang wrote: > > >> References: >> <58965d8a0901071528u464c7aa7w8cd5bcfab7530...@mail.gmail.com> >> <496544cc.5050...@xs4all.nl> <49656893.2040...@podgeweb.com> >> > > >> Hi all, >> I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I actually did an emerge -ef world already just to ensure everything > is here. I'm considering the emerge -C nss, remove any links left over > by hand, and then emerging evolution again and letting it pull it in > and build it in one step. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, James Ausmus >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > a "ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*"? >> >> >> > >> >> >> lightning ~ # ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3* >> >> >> /usr/lib/nss

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Martin
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: > Hi, > > Nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, James Ausmus > wrote: > > >> >> > a "ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*"? > >> >> > > >> >> lightning ~ # ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3* > >> >> /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.11 > >> >> /usr/lib/nss/libnss

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, James Ausmus wrote: >> >> > a "ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*"? >> >> > >> >> lightning ~ # ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3* >> >> /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.11 >> >> /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.12 >> >> lightning ~ # >> > >> > Aha! And which of the versioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:47:15PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:20:00 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do > > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? > > revdep-rebuild fixes broken packages, @preserved-libs prevents

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read a

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-08 Thread Kyle Bader
You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with exceptions for the domains you need. -- kyle.ba...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Best and most gentoo-compatible PC

2009-01-08 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:33:27 +0100 iprmaster wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am going to buy a new desktop PC and, because of some reasons I > cannot explain here in details, I have to choose among these > configurations (ordered by increasing price ;-) ): > > 1. FSC ESPRIMO P5625 E80+ uBTX: MCP78B

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, James Ausmus > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, James Ausmus > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 A

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, James Ausmus >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Knecht >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, James Ausmus > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Knecht > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Ausmus > >> wrote: > >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > /usr/lib/gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Ausmus >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: >> >> warning: li

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Ausmus > wrote: > > >> > >> > >> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > >> warning: libsoftokn3.so.11, needed by /usr/lib64/nss/libnss3.so.11, > >> not found (

[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

2009-01-08 Thread Phillip Sawbridge
Hi, Just another workaround for this problem. The ones presented in that thread didn't work for me. I used the "open with terminal option" in konqueror to get around this emacs probelm but didn't like the fact that there was always a extra terminal window hanging around so I use dcop to hide that

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Ausmus wrote: >> >> >> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: >> warning: libsoftokn3.so.11, needed by /usr/lib64/nss/libnss3.so.11, >> not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) >> /usr/lib64/nss/libnss3.so.11: undef

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Qian Qiao
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:15, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Qian Qiao wrote: > >> >> Such information is in the header of every message you get from the list. >> > > Thank you for that. I normally do not view headers detailed and had > overlooked it as an option. > Many list softwares add those informati

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James Ausmus > wrote: > > > >>> > >>> Right now I'm seeing that @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild want > >>> to do different things. revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread damian
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Dale wrote: > Daryl Styrk wrote: >> > > Did you fall and you can't get up or what? :-p ROFL! > Dale > > :-) :-) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
Qian Qiao wrote: > > Such information is in the header of every message you get from the list. > Thank you for that. I normally do not view headers detailed and had overlooked it as an option.

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Qian Qiao
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 03:05, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Tence T. George wrote: >> errr...what's seems to be the problem? >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: >> >>> >> > > Sorry I was looking for the list mailman.. I deleted the initial > "Welcome to the list" containing the usual

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
Tence T. George wrote: > errr...what's seems to be the problem? > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > >> > Sorry I was looking for the list mailman.. I deleted the initial "Welcome to the list" containing the usual (sometimes) commands for manipulating the subscriptions.

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Dale
Daryl Styrk wrote: > Did you fall and you can't get up or what? :-p Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Tence T. George
errr...what's seems to be the problem? On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > >

[gentoo-user] help

2009-01-08 Thread Daryl Styrk

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James Ausmus wrote: > >>> >>> Right now I'm seeing that @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild want >>> to do different things. revdep-rebuild is rebuilding nss which may or >>> may not fail. @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James Ausmus wrote: >> >> Right now I'm seeing that @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild want >> to do different things. revdep-rebuild is rebuilding nss which may or >> may not fail. @preserved-rebuild wanted to rebuild eveolution which >> did fail. > > I would

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read >>> about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> I guess then that the constant messages about doing an emerge > >> @preserved-rebuild aren't necessarily to be followed, o

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:53:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> OK, so the programs aren't broken but in my case the libs aren't >> rebuilding since the emerge step fails. > > It's the programs that need to be rebuilt, against the newer libraries.

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I guess then that the constant messages about doing an emerge >> @preserved-rebuild aren't necessarily to be followed, or at least not >> worried about if they fail as whatever program

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:53:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, so the programs aren't broken but in my case the libs aren't > rebuilding since the emerge step fails. It's the programs that need to be rebuilt, against the newer libraries. > What to do? Just sit and wait until someone updates somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess then that the constant messages about doing an emerge > @preserved-rebuild aren't necessarily to be followed, or at least not > worried about if they fail as whatever program needs the libraries > still has the old versions? They sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:20:00 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do >> that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? > > revdep-rebuild fixes broken packages, @preserved-libs prevents the > breaka

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 08 Januar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:20:00 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do > > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? > > revdep-rebuild fixes broken packages, @preserved-libs prevents the > breakage

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Graham Murray wrote: > "Mark Knecht" writes: > >> Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do >> that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? > > It allows the affected packages to continue working until the rebuild is > done. With the 'old' revdep-reb

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:20:00 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? revdep-rebuild fixes broken packages, @preserved-libs prevents the breakage in the first place. -- Neil Bothwick Use the Force, Luke,

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Graham Murray
"Mark Knecht" writes: > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? It allows the affected packages to continue working until the rebuild is done. With the 'old' revdep-rebuild, a program using a library whose version was incremented by

[gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
I've had this come up a few times over the last few weeks. Every time I've done the command the emerge has failed somewhere along the way. Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do that using revdep-rebuild doesn't? Granted, I have no way of knowing whether revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: >> Hi, >> >> Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read >> about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that >> way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a pas

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-08 Thread »Q«
In <49657ecd.7060...@gmail.com>, Hung Dang wrote: > References: > <58965d8a0901071528u464c7aa7w8cd5bcfab7530...@mail.gmail.com> > <496544cc.5050...@xs4all.nl> <49656893.2040...@podgeweb.com> > Hi all, > I have a strange problem that the resolv.conf file is reset to the > default file every tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-08 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, thank all you guys! I give up rsh and trying using ssh now. I stiil find some problem and have started a new thread. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > Chuanwen Wu wrote: >> >> I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. > > Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ag

[gentoo-user] Iozone on multiple nodes using ssh

2009-01-08 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I am trying to use iozone to test my cluster with ssh but not rsh, but I still can't running iozone on multiple nodes. I have two nodes node73 and node74 in my LAN. And each node is able to execute commands on another one without being challenged for a password with user "dnfs": d...@node73 ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Martin
Matt Harrison wrote: > Chuanwen Wu wrote: >> I guess maybe rsh does not allow to login as root. > > Probably not, RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are > any applications still around that haven't moved to ssh. > > Exposing the root user to an already unsafe transmission is asking

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:11:56 Dave Jones wrote: > > Entering a passphrase encrypts the private part of the key, which you keep > only on the server. You only need the public part of the key on the client. Try it the other way: private on the client. Public on the server. The private part

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsh failed : Connection reset by peer

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 08 January 2009 04:51:27 Matt Harrison wrote: > RSH was abandoned years ago and I'm surprised there are any applications > still around that haven't moved to ssh. $ equery l rsh [ Searching for package 'rsh' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] net-misc/netkit-

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with resolv.conf

2009-01-08 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Hi everyone, If you don't want dhcpcd to overwrite your resolv.conf then tell it not to configure the DNS. The configuration can be made through your /etc/conf.d/net file : config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis" That's the "nodns" which take care of not touching your resolv.conf