[gentoo-user] [cifs] permissions of mounted share

2009-01-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Note this is a cross post here and debian.user.. the server is gentoo the client is debian. It's kind of a phony cross post though since I didn't think to do this until I'd already posted on debian user... So its really a second post with the same content. Some consider that a phaux paux(?)... S

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
> Grant wrote: > >> That sounds good, how can I do that? > > iptables module "owner" handles that stuff, just "man iptables" if > you'll have any trouble. > > iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner someuser -m tcp --dport http -j > REJECT > > Alternatively, you can use numeric uid or match user

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:48:10 -0800 Grant wrote: > That sounds good, how can I do that? iptables module "owner" handles that stuff, just "man iptables" if you'll have any trouble. iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner someuser -m tcp --dport http -j REJECT Alternatively, you can use numeric

[gentoo-user] nfs failing to start

2009-01-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I've apparently forgotten whatever little I may have know about setting up nfs from having used it long ago. I found a brief help page on google that I used to get this far along at: http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2008/09/howto-setup-nfs-server-on-gentoo.html Its very brief and has no debu

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-10 Thread damian
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Thanks Paul. I've been using model=acer and I just tried a couple >>> others, some worked some didn't. I also tried removing and replacing >>> my second USB sound card definition. The strange thing is I've come >>> back to my original config and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:45 +0300, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > > checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my > > CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd > > > As far as I know, the L

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
>> Thanks Paul. I've been using model=acer and I just tried a couple >> others, some worked some didn't. I also tried removing and replacing >> my second USB sound card definition. The strange thing is I've come >> back to my original config and it's working now. Could another file >> have gott

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-10 Thread damian
> Thanks Paul. I've been using model=acer and I just tried a couple > others, some worked some didn't. I also tried removing and replacing > my second USB sound card definition. The strange thing is I've come > back to my original config and it's working now. Could another file > have gotten ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
> The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to > troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it > doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. > Can anyone help with this? Chipset of the audio card? Laptop mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Matt Causey
>>> >> >> I think you would do well to setup a squid proxy and block outbound >> traffic for the affected machines. We've had great success with squid >> in our environment. This gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility >> on your access control, and it means you don't have to be concerned >>

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-10 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:04:31 -0800 Grant wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that > >> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed > >> only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > > > I don't think y

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
>> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that >> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only >> for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. >> >> - Grant >> > > I don't think you'll find anything faster except maybe written in C, which > is d

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
>> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that >> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only >> for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. >> >> - Grant >> > > There are bunch of python webmail systems, just type 'python webmail' > into goog

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
>>> 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as >>> some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources >>> >>> or >>> >>> 2. wget using ftp >>> >>> or >>> >>> 3. set up a proxy >>> >>> The easiest is #2 by far >> >> Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Grant
>> > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with >> > exceptions for the domains you need. >> >> Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges? >> >> - Grant >> > > Why not just put a limit to a traffic from/to a specific user > account(s) or groups, leaving ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:26:09 Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 10 January 2009, Dale wrote: > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +, Mick wrote: > > > >> Filed a bug and it was suggested to me that I try > > > >> bui

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-cluster] Iozone on multiple nodes using ssh

2009-01-10 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, thanks! On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:51 PM, t35t0r wrote: >> d...@node73 ~ $ iozone -R -s 64k -t 1 -+m clientlist >> [...] >>Throughput test with 1 process >>Each process writes a 64 Kbyte file in 4 Kbyte records I know what you mean. I just gave the example, in the case the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant with madwifi partially stopped working after remerge

2009-01-10 Thread Jan Ubben
Now the modules do correctly (I suppose) create the needed devices and the init scripts pull the interface up. But the boot messages complain about not having set WEP-Keys, which are set in the config file residing at /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. That results in my WLAN is associate

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Matt Causey
>> >> 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as >> some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources >> >> or >> >> 2. wget using ftp >> >> or >> >> 3. set up a proxy >> >> The easiest is #2 by far > > Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Peter Humphrey schrieb: > > Of course it should. It does not. I simply cannot find the necessary > invocations and USE flags etc. No matter what I try I cannot get printing > to work over the network. I always get a succession of success messages > from cups, followed by "printer does not exist"

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Graham Murray wrote: AllenJB writes: First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do "emerge portage" first. New versions of portage often have new or improved features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, the ability to automatically handle most blockers. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread Graham Murray
AllenJB writes: > First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do "emerge > portage" first. New versions of portage often have new or improved > features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, > the ability to automatically handle most blockers. Though even the por

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 14:20:24 BRM wrote: > From what I can see in this new thread this year, you just need to do the > couple steps to make your Workstations work as CUPS Clients by > configuring it as a client and then it should work. Of course it should. It does not. I simply cannot fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:26:09 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 10 January 2009, Dale wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +, Mick wrote: > > >> Filed a bug and it was suggested to me that I try > > >> building the alsa drivers as modules. I tried it on for size and

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread AllenJB
You have several issues here. First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do "emerge portage" first. New versions of portage often have new or improved features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, the ability to automatically handle most blockers. The block

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 09 January 2009 19:32:15 Grant wrote: > Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to > make it use ftp? $ grep -i wget /etc/make.conf FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget --progress=bar:force -t 2 -T 30 --passive-ftp \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}" -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread econti
Hi all, to-day I am having some trouble to update my system. Well, 'emerge --sync' and I received a message telling me a new version of portage is available and I should update it immediately. But, before upgrading it I ran 'emerge -NDpvu world'. Here is the output: >localhost ~ # emerge -NDpv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +, Mick wrote: > >> Filed a bug and it was suggested to me that I try > >> building the alsa drivers as modules. I tried it on for size and guess > >> what, it worked! > > > > AFAIR the Gentoo ALSA

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-cluster] Iozone on multiple nodes using ssh

2009-01-10 Thread Chuanwen Wu
> > exactly, he's doing something wrong, probably has the binaries in the > wrong place, the clientlist he's using has 1 host too Binaries? You mean the path of iozone? I am very sure the path of iozone is correct, and if the path is incorrect, I can see the error message: d...@node73 ~ $ iozone -