[gentoo-user] kernel 3.7 -> internal 'udev'; signed lkms; file hash validation

Found this interesting: Are there Gentoo guidelines on using these new kernel features? TIA

[gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete?

On 03/14/11 20:48, walt wrote: > On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: .. >> FWICT, devfs "mounts" /dev/pts , so how do we mount /dev/pts in a >> post devfs world? > > I just deleted several paragrap

[gentoo-user] devfs is obsolete?

As per the and I recompiled my kernel with pts support, installed udev, and used rc-update to remove devfs from sysinit. Everything seems to work fine, except that I can't create xterms. If I start up dev

[gentoo-user] ipv6 privacy random addresses

Have activated the privacy extensions on a dual stack (native) ipv6 configuration. A random local address is generated for each boot (for eth0). I'd like to be able to change it within a session. ip -6 address flush dev eth0; followed by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart; will generate a new random add

[gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel => superkernel

FYI. If anyone understands the bash tweak, please explain :-) TIA 1. Original article: "The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders" 2. The alternative (or additional) bash tweak:

[gentoo-user] Re: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

On 08/09/10 12:25, Paul Hartman wrote: [] > If anyone has advice on what I should look at forensically to > determine the cause of this, it is appreciated. I'll first dig into > the logs, bash history etc. and really hope that this very happened > recently. > > Thanks for any tips and wish me good

[gentoo-user] Re: anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?

On 07/12/10 01:52, Philip Webb wrote: [] Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? Hard to believe that the filesystem is causing a problem. Here's my conf (I have two kernels on the same OS; one ha

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/06/10 18:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: [] > > You can use tee to send the dd output to both the destination and md5sum. Dang! I'd forgotten about tee; a core utility! Yep... using tee as you described would be the classic way to md5sum the source; use ubiquitous dd and md5sum to quickly h

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/06/10 16:45, Andrea Conti wrote: >>> 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying, you >>> *must* mount it read-only (mount -o ro /dev/sdc /work) >> >> Not from my experience; I simply mount, exec, and go - Works fine > > Let's say you are 50% done copying a partition, when somet

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/06/10 15:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote: >>> I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # >>> md5sum /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (in

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/05/10 16:11, Manuel Klemenz wrote: I'm calculating checksums over partitions just by calling # md5sum /dev/sda1 or for the complete disk (incl. partition table + all partitions) # md5sum /dev/sda that's it :) - works with any distro/liveDVD Yep.. don't have to fool with an oddball p

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/06/10 06:19, Andrea Conti wrote: >> 1. boot up knoppix 2. create a partition: mkdir /work 3. mount >> /work to the root partition: mount /dev/sdc /work 4. cd >> /work/usr/bin 5. run dcfldd: ./dcfldd > > This is fine, provided that > > 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying,

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/05/10 15:23, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [] > That looks really interesting. The only problem I have with this is > that I have to have /dev/sda as /dev/sdb idle (not mounted) and > because of that I use knoppix as temporary system to boot. And I dont > think that knoppix has this tool "on bo

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

On 06/05/10 02:39, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [] > > Is there any faster and reliable way to checksum whole paritions (not > on "per file" base)??? FWIW, portage has a tool called "dcfldd" that works well for me. It is dd with the addition of: * Hashing on-the-fly - dcfldd can hash the i

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg "threads" parameter

On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >> Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass >> numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others >> (e.g. chromium) do not. > > First, m

[gentoo-user] ffmpeg "threads" parameter

Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. So I'm thinking of hardwiring a default threads number=6 into the ffmpeg source code; recompiling. Q: Has anyone done this; if so any surpr

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

On 03/26/10 17:08, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. Setting the "vdpau" use

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

Is there a file anywhere that I can edit, which mandates that to use the vdpau "use" flag, I have to have the vdpau package installed? geze.. there it is in the ebuild. Removed the dependency and all compiles/works well. Thanks for the time and help!!

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

On 03/26/10 14:29, Alex Kuster wrote: yes, because ffmpeg compiles against the shared library called vdpau to do the hardware acceleration ... so, the dependency IS necessary ... Thanks for the reply. Just downloaded the ffmpeg source distribution and FWICT, the ffmpeg source distribution inclu

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

On 03/26/10 13:25, Kaddeh wrote: do you have VIDEO_CARDS set in your make.conf? Yes; and VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" seems to be picked up just fine. Thanks for helping.

[gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)

I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag, but also brings in the "x11-libs/libvdpau" libraries which I think I do not want, as my NVidia proprietary driv

[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

On 03/01/10 18:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there. That didn't work for me; the current layman script still references the old location; which is why I added the soft

[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

On 03/01/10 13:26, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/01/2010 08:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (this is a rather obvious fix...) eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman to /var/lib/layman. It offers

[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

On 03/01/10 13:30, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-01 1:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: So layman users choosing alternative A. now may want to add a step; after moving the directory, put a soft link in the /usr/local/portage pointing to the new location; i.e. cd /usr/local/portage; ln -s /var/lib

[gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

(this is a rather obvious fix...) eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman to /var/lib/layman. It offers three ways to deal with this location change. I chose alternative A. (actually moving the di

[gentoo-user] Ping ElseCZ (re: Nvidia WAIT; (also KVM GPM passthrough ))

I tried to respond to your NVidia forums post; but couldn't join the forum (apparently they didn't like my gmail address). - FWIW I get that wait (WAIT (E, 0, 0x0887d, 0) ) when I activate the following kernel options: # set "Bus options (PCI etc.)" -> "Support for DMA Remapping Devices" to "

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P > It will require a rebuild of many packages though ("oss -alsa" in > make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay > and rebuilding your kernel with sound support completely d

[gentoo-user] Mmplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091113 (standard or multi-thread/multi-core support)

(This is the "FFmpeg-mt branch" which incorporates the mplayer-supported FFmpeg-mt, which speeds up the playback of 1080 H.264 files on multi-core cpus.) mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091113.ebuild 115 new ffmpeg-mt commits since the last ebuild and latest mp

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 02:55:55 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > >> NVidia updated their drivers at about the time you started having >> problems. Their latest driver update changed the permissions on >> /dev/nvidia0 nvidiactl ; resulting in VERY sl

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/30/2009 10:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 10/30/2009 09:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> > > do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the > problem? because it seems to

[gentoo-user] Mplayer multi-thread/multi-core ( FFmpeg-mt branch) upgrade

Speed up the playback of 1080 H.264 files in MPlayer, on multi-core cpus. Thank You, Nikos Chantziaras

[gentoo-user] Re: *WARNING* updating Xorg

daid kahl wrote: 2. The second guide uses a lot of "one-shot" emerges; could anyone please explain why I'd use a one-shot? ISTM that if a package is on my system, I'd want it routinely updated. If I need it only once, then instruct me to unmerge it after it's done!? The basic idea of --onesho

[gentoo-user] *WARNING* updating Xorg

1. FYI, There is a short, direct upgrade guide that should be referenced before upgrading to 1.6: It refers to another, short upgrade guide that should definitely be reviewed before proceeding:

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

walt wrote: [] > > I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. > It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my > newest machine with hardware virtualization support. > Some questions, please: 1. How would you contrast these two packages for "security

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/01/2009 03:00 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>>> On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >> 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files > > They play fine here. > > > Are you able to drag a link from this page: <http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/district9/> and play it on mplayer? TIA!

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle quicktime videos. FWIW, out of security considerations I run FF in a chroot jail with as little "other stuff" in the jail as possible So using an extension called "unplug"

[gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video

Paul Hartman wrote: > FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin > 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged > these packages: > > pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled) > gst-plugins-v4l2 > gst-plugins-farsight > gnome-media > > The last i

[gentoo-user] significant Mplayer multi-thread (multi-core) changes

Those using Nikos Chantziaras's fix to mplayer may wish to see his newest offering.

[gentoo-user] Re: "flip video" on gentoo

Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have received a "flip video, ultra series (records 60 minutes)" > digital camcorder for a present. > > This works fine on windows, but I would naturally much prefer to use > gentoo. The windows software can presumably do a bunch of stuff but > I would be very happy to

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [] > > I rolled my own and it works very nicely :) > > If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed > files: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154 > > > This worked fine on my core I7 (hardened) box. Thank You

[gentoo-user] Re: Supercookies

Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 08/20/2009 10:09 AM, Ted Smith wrote: >> You don't "lose most functionality" by using free software. > > Not picking on Ted, but this whole thread is off-topic. > Arguably, this is very much on-topic. We all know to disable active content when trying to maximize/optimi

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: AFAIK, the mudflap pointer checker is just a command line GCC switch. You need to enable it explicitly using "-fmudflap". ah o.k. I'm using the hardened overlay, and mudflap is a use flag defaulting to enabled. I'll post that second comment over in hardened.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/15/2009 03:33 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: [...] This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according to the upgrade guide. It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, but it does list a whole series of steps such as remerging system and worl

[gentoo-user] Re: f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

Jarry wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: at a customers site they have some company-license for f-secure-products. I run a mail-gateway there, using gentoo, it runs amavisd which utilizes clamav and fsav ... (the customer *wants* me to use both as he pays for the f-secure-licenses ...) What

[gentoo-user] Re: NVidia setup instructions?

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Brandon. I'm up in X now on the 6200 AGP so it's functional. glxgears seems sort of slow at about 230FPS b

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye & good riddance

Jorge Morais wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. Where have you got that from? I ha

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dale wrote: Justin wrote: Peter Ruskin schrieb: Well, I did the upgrade at last, with -hal and my proven xorg-config, and the result is unusable. I use kde-3.5.9 and the mouse doesn't work right - right-click has no ef

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: But the question is, why do I (and you) see jaggedness when looking at that jpeg? I can ignore it, and likely it'll be fine (no jaggedness when looking at that particular patter

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: So I figured that I should take a snapshot of the old xterm and post it next to yesterday's posting and allow folks an a:b comparison. But YIKES - when I looked at the photo on the

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2009 03:22:23 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: something similar on my system. That's it. It is the same gray "hash" that appears as the background if you were to start X using xorgcfg to self generate an xorg-config. It's obviously someth

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:33 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: Just upgraded to xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, and now I see some sort of pattern on th

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: Just upgraded to xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, and now I see some sort of pattern on the edge of my xterms; reminiscent of the gray background of basic xwindows. I seem to recall seeing this years ag

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 08 April 2009 20:35:24 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Just upgraded to xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, and now I see some sort of pattern on the edge of my xterms; reminiscent of the gray background of basic xwindows. I seem to recall seeing this years ago, and having to modify a

[gentoo-user] jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

Just upgraded to xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, and now I see some sort of pattern on the edge of my xterms; reminiscent of the gray background of basic xwindows. I seem to recall seeing this years ago, and having to modify a configuration somewhere (e.g. with "solid" or "black" or ??). Can't remember if

[gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [...] but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier' they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? wel

[gentoo-user] Re: hal requires cryptsetup!? will hal work with loop-aes?

ABCD wrote: I'm not sure if you will need sys-fs/cryptsetup for your setup, but I think you may have gotten confused over the difference between USE and IUSE. IUSE is a variable set by an ebuild to tell portage (or your PM of choice) that this package supports certain USE flags. See ebuild(5)

[gentoo-user] hal requires cryptsetup!? will hal work with loop-aes?

BACKGROUND: Am preparing for the xorg update, and hal wants to bring in cryptsetup: ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1', 'merge') pulled in by >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r8', 'merge') A quick look at the ebuild reveals this: IUSE

[gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to change the boot message "size" during boot? yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation. Thanks for the reply. Wasn't a

[gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

A few years back I installed gentoo and everything worked fine, except that the OS bootup messages were too "big", and scrolled by too fast. Somewhere I found a tweak (IIRC, it involved recompiling the kernel) that handled it fine - i.e. the font was reduced dramatically after the bios was boo

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling for an unbooted kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-09 20:23]: Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008 19:48:37 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible -- and how -- to compile/install this interface for the new kernel while the old one is still running? KERNEL_DIR=/lib/modules//source

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

Jan Seeger wrote: Hey list, I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless cards. Is the network card in this laptop (an Intel 82567L

[gentoo-user] arpstar (arp spoofing protection) work arounds?

Arpstar was out of commission as of kernel 2.6.24.x Two separate, weeks old gento bugzilla reports describing the specifics have not yet even been acknowledged. Given the importance of this program at hotspots, I'm guessing that laptop users are downloading and installing directly (as, for ex

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS poisoning fix

Mick wrote: Hi All, Have you seen this? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080709/ttc-us-it-internet-software-crime-e0bba4a.html and this? http://www.doxpara.com/ Is it merely a matter of using the right version of bind (for those who run a bind daemon locally), or does it go further than that?

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3 stability

Adam Carter wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? I find the -bin version is stable, and works well with embedded flash (e.g. youtube). (I find the new Opera is more stable, and when loaded without the mail programs (Opera -nomail -nolirc ) it abs

[gentoo-user] Re: Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

Sebastian Wiesner wrote: 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Friday 27 June 2008, 05:41:15 Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is cons

[gentoo-user] Re: Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security "Another thing: If I remember correctly, LUKS kee

[gentoo-user] recent updates (stunnel, vidalia, nmap, filezilla, rkhunter, ckrootkit)

I'm maintaining these directly from the authors' sites. This is an FYI for others who are doing the same. stunnel: 4.24 Vidalia: 0.1.3 nmap: 4.6.5 filezilla: 3.0.10 rkhunter: 1.3.2 chkrootkit: 0.48 HTH -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Fun with Foo (matic) ?

Mick wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for details: emerge -avC emerge -av  Yes; that worked. Thank you very much for patiently answering this question -- sigh -- again

[gentoo-user] Re: Best anti-virus

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 10 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: But I sure acknowledge the majority opinion - almost ALL Linux users, and many Windows users as well, choose not to run real-time AntiMalware scanners. I do this, and I do it for a perfectly obvious reason: Your suggestion

[gentoo-user] Re: Best anti-virus

forgottenwizard wrote: On 20:13 Fri 09 May , 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: I am extremely pleased with Antivir (aka Avira) and its realtime LKM, Dazuko! 1. The Antivir database and heuristics contain dozens of Linux-specific rootkits and Trojans. These in addition to Windows sigs. FWICT, the only

[gentoo-user] Re: Best anti-virus

Tony Caudel wrote: I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates well with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappointment with clamav. Not necessarily clamav's fault since T/B maintains its emails in one

[gentoo-user] Re: Fun with Foo (matic) ?

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: My printer stopped working yesterday (no ppds?), so I upgraded CUPS and hplip to the latest masked versions and everything worked fine. Today did an emerge -puDv world, and got this: [ebuild UD] net-print/foomatic-db-ppds

[gentoo-user] Re: Fun with Foo (matic) ?

7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: My printer stopped working yesterday (no ppds?), so I upgraded CUPS and hplip to the latest masked versions and everything worked fine. Today did an emerge -puDv world, and got this: [ebuild UD] net-print/foomatic-db-ppds-3.0.20060720 [20060720] 12,056 kB Any help

[gentoo-user] Fun with Foo (matic) ?

My printer stopped working yesterday (no ppds?), so I upgraded CUPS and hplip to the latest masked versions and everything worked fine. Today did an emerge -puDv world, and got this: [ebuild UD] net-print/foomatic-db-ppds-3.0.20060720 [20060720] 12,056 kB Any help would be appreciated (

[gentoo-user] Re: Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked

[gentoo-user] Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check

Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the manifest, ebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:46 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and requ

[gentoo-user] chkrootkit release 0.48

http://www.chkrootkit.org/#new -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: local caching DNS?

Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 09 April 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you

[gentoo-user] Re: local caching DNS?

Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? consider maradns - It is a recu

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

Stroller wrote: Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I try to avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair, sometimes the best thing to do is simply to back-up & reinstall. Think this is a great write up. The last paragraph seems most important - gi

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

Mick wrote: On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anti-Virus on Linux. No. (presuming that you don't run as root, and have lots of unprivileged users for individual applications.) Anti-Malware on Linux. Yes. (Malware gets to the box via spoofed or hack

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

Florian Philipp wrote: FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux box/downloads for malware (e.g. openoffice files, media files, et

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Thanks. FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and W

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

Enrico Weigelt wrote: You're talking about the NV's secret-code driver ? It makes heavy trouble with fbdev. Both together monst likely won't work. That's because they refuse to use the well approved DRI interface and do something completely own and obfuscated. Nobody outside of NV can reall

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

Sorry here's the link I should have posted: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

Steve wrote: I can't believe that I'm the only person with this, so it's probably worth asking. I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this service by configuration; strong passwords; no root l

[gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:05:00 -0500 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - The SSL connection is established within the Linux VM, so all the host sees is an encrypted connection to your bank. Wrong: It will also see all the virtual memory the virtu

[gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

Jan Seeger wrote: insane? What's insane: Presuming the windows host is compromised? or having your computer on a USB flash drive? or using two browsers to confirm the integrity of a site? The procedure is quite easy, once you've done it once or twice. But go ahead and do something less;

[gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

Steve wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy than a basic web-browser.

Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

Randy Barlow wrote: 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: OTOH, the good news is that a newbie like me can install an outdated package (e.g. Vidalia); resolve dependencies; uninstall the portage version; download and compile the current version from the developer. If you know how to do those things, learning

[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules]

Volunteer to pick up part of the load, I guess - something that I, as a newbie, am reluctant to do - but I guess I will if filezilla continues to languish. There is indeed an issue; e.g. TOR, a popular desktop package, is a release behind; Vidalia, is two releases behind - one a security re

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild question

Alan, Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand without causing damage? I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that things remained consistent. Makes sense to me - doing

[gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:33:39 -0500, Carl Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy

[gentoo-user] Re: Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:49:48 -0500, »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: qfpvajdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm interessted to buy a laptop on which I would like to install Gentoo GNU/Linux by using 100% all hardware functions of the laptop for which I have bought. I've just installed Gentoo on a

[gentoo-user] "DieHard" ? ( hardens against memory errors)

Anyone using this on a hardened box (e.g. to augment a precompiled, non-ssp binary, such as OOffice)? http://www.diehard-software.org/ (Emery Berger, UMass) "DieHard completely prevents particular memory management errors from having any effect (these are "double frees" and "invalid frees")

[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers vs gentoo-sources

This show the disadvantage of aggressively cleaning $DISTDIR. You have already downloaded this file once, when you installed 2.6.17-r1 (or even earlier when you first installed a 2.6.17 kernel). Patch level updates use the same source files, so cleaning out tarballs for installed packages res

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