Re: [gentoo-user] sed changing behavior

Hi Darren On 5/26/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was playing around with this, and it seems to be working fine for me. Areyou using two different versions of sed? Any major differences between thetwo systems? Identical scripts? The useflags are the same on both systems: # emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 01:50:26 +0100 Jan Drugowitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/26/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you use the usb-storage driver or the usb block device drive (which > > mentions things like "slow" and "cpu-hungry" and "unstable" in the > > kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

Hi, On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:43:32 -0700 Pingveno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get software suspend to work on my computer. While > configuring my kernel, I added in support for software suspend aka > hibernate. Alas, I have no idea what command to run to suspend the computer. # em

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

On Fri, May 27, 2005 2:27 am, Gabriel M. Beddingfield said: > This sounds like you need to re-emerge the driver for your NIC. For > example, every time I upgrade my kernel I have to do something like this: > > # cd /usr/src > # rm linux > # ln -s newkernel linux If you set the symlink USE flag,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

On 5/27/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Drugowitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/26/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you use the usb-storage driver or the usb block device drive (which > > > mentions things like "slow" and "cpu-hungry" and "uns

Re: [gentoo-user] maemo and scratchbox

Julien Cayzac wrote: > Is anyone interested in maemo (www.maemo.org) and (scratchbox.org/) ? Yes. Please open a bug for each of these. Post the bug id here, so I can add myself on CC. > I'm just asking to see if it's worth spending my week-end writing > those two new ebuilds... This would be gre

[gentoo-user] Question about ARPing

Hello people, I have a gentoo box with 2 NICs. eth0 with DHCP connected to the internet and eth1 with 192.168.0.1 ip, set manually; connected to the local network. This computer doesn't route anything and iptables is off. Recently I received a mail from the network admin who is really anal complai

Re: [gentoo-user] USB External HardDrive

please see the actual Thread Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk there might be some hints for you ... and have a look whether your system and the enclosure support USB 1.x or 2.0 Martin timothy johnson wrote: >I just bought a 120GB harddrive and an external cas

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

Hi! James Colannino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very against HTML mail, just for the record. That being said, > aren't there HTML filters for command line mail clients that will strip > tags from your view of the text and make it more readable? Just > wondering. I'm using Gnus in emacs t

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about ARPing

Martin Tedjawardhana gmail.com> writes: > I have a gentoo box with 2 NICs. eth0 with DHCP connected to the > internet and eth1 with 192.168.0.1 ip, set manually; connected to the > local network. This computer doesn't route anything and iptables is > off. OK, Why have the second interface set up

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > you need to be in /usr/src/linux - and I think make help is a 2.6 thing, > not 2.4 Yes. > yes, see under system admin in the kde control centre, however i have > been told this kde applet does not work well on gentoo. also on my > system it tells me that it d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

Walter, thanks for the useful tip. I've been looking to increase the efficiency of my server (Athlon XP (Thorton), 2400+ (2ghz), 133 fsb, 512mb pc2100), especially since now I've been looking at my log files I've noticed it's being hammered everyday by ssh break attempts. On 5/26/05, Julien Cayz

[gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

Hi I am looking for a compression program that covers creating and extracting archives including .zip , .tar , .tar.gz , .tar.bz2 etc. I am using fluxbox with rox. Thanks Rav -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

Ark ? On 5/27/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HiI am looking for a compression program that covers creating andextracting archives including .zip , .tar , .tar.gz , .tar.bz2 etc. Iam using fluxbox with rox.ThanksRav-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

Ryan Viljoen schreef: > Hi > > I am looking for a compression program that covers creating and > extracting archives including .zip , .tar , .tar.gz , .tar.bz2 etc. I > am using fluxbox with rox. > > Thanks > Rav > I've gotta say, I'm very fond of file-roller (the GNOME archive utility). I k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

Change the sshd port, the hammering will be smaller... 2005/5/27, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Walter, > > thanks for the useful tip. I've been looking to increase the > efficiency of my server (Athlon XP (Thorton), 2400+ (2ghz), 133 fsb, > 512mb pc2100), especially since now I've been lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

Hi Ryan, Do you need a GUI (graphic interface)? If so, I like using Ark, as Paul pointed out; It is really simple and support a large array of archive types. If not, using the tar command on a shell can be faster. To do so: tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 Creates a bzip2 archive tar -xjf archive.tar.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

I know Ryan personally and unfortunately I know he is still too bonded to winduz to be able to embrace the command line completely ;-) Just kidding slick. Try Ark. On 5/27/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ryan,Do you need a GUI (graphic interface)?If so, I

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > make menuconfig > make && make modules_install && make install > is easier and accomplishes the same, and also updates the vmlinuz and > vmlinuz.old symlinks in /boot, removing the need to alter your grub > config. OK, I but often I like to keep the olde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

What port do you suggest (sorry for hijacking this thread!)? On 5/27/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Change the sshd port, the hammering will be smaller... > > 2005/5/27, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Walter, > > > > thanks for the useful tip. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

> OK, I but often I like to keep the older kernel versions and grup entries > around for a while to test the differences in the various kernels. Won't > this approach overwrite entries in grub or does it just make another > entry? Some of my grub.conf files get pretty ugly... My expeirence with u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

James schreef: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > >>make menuconfig >>make && make modules_install && make install > > >>is easier and accomplishes the same, and also updates the vmlinuz and >>vmlinuz.old symlinks in /boot, removing the need to alter your grub >>config. > > > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

More Top posting... Great! You were right. I didn't know that putting "noauto" in fstab will also affect the starting of the RAID. I have noauto in my fstab because I have the keys for loop-aes on a usb device, which is of course not plugged in all the time. Therefore noauto. Cool now at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Multipurpose compression prog with GUI

Ouch, nah I am getting lazy. Ark is perfect, thanks Paul, file-roller has a hundred and one file dependancies. On 5/27/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know Ryan personally and unfortunately I know he is still too bonded to > winduz to be able to embrace the command line completely ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] bootstrapping or Linux from the scratch with Intel C++ compiler?!

Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people! > Has anybody of you ever bootstrapped / built Liunux from the scratch > with the Intel C++ compiler?! I would love to know the process itself, > if it was a difficulty step building linux from the scratch with a > different compiler (implemetnation to get it run).

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble connecting to foreign APs

> >Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my > >home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I > >do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me > >know if you might be able to help. > > > > > > Hi Grant, > > I will try to ge

[gentoo-user] Back up with no root

Hello, I'm trying to set up my computers so I make backups of my server from my workstation (we don't have a backup server). The thing is that I have a normal user on that server and I'm on the sudoers file to perform any root-task. Now, to back up, I'm running an rsync thru ssh to the server, b

[gentoo-user] What's up with KDE 3.4?

Hi, I was wondering what problem(s) might be with KDE 3.4 that prevents it to be in "x86" after few months since the KDE team released it? Thx -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with KDE 3.4?

On Saturday 28 May 2005 01:03, Radu Filip wrote: > Hi, I was wondering what problem(s) might be with KDE 3.4 that prevents it > to be in "x86" after few months since the KDE team released it? See message entitled "KDE 3.4 visibility support disabled" posted just under 24 hours ago to gentoo-user@

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about ARPing

Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:45:33 +0200 Martin Tedjawardhana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why is eth0 responding to 192.168.0.1 arping > although it does not have that address? How can I remedy this? How can I > block arping? read about the arp_filter sysctl in KERNELSOU

[gentoo-user] Re: Python kerflooie = portage kaboom; need help or advice

Nevermind. It seems to have fixed itself. I have no idea how, because I did not emerge anything and I did not reboot or restart anything. Go figure. ++ kevin On 5/26/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the portage here just died of a python bite. Skipping to the > bottom l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

On Friday 27 May 2005 07:50, Mark Shields wrote: > especially since now I've been looking at my log files I've noticed it's > being hammered everyday by ssh break attempts. Define "hammered". How many attempts per unit time are you seeing? By the way, I strongly suggest *not* changing your SSH

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 27 May 2005 07:50, Mark Shields wrote: > > >>especially since now I've been looking at my log files I've noticed it's >>being hammered everyday by ssh break attempts. > > > Define "hammered". How many attempts per unit time are you seeing? > > By the way, I s

Re: [gentoo-user] sed changing behavior

quoth the Antonio Souto: > Hi Darren > > On 5/26/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was playing around with this, and it seems to be working fine for me. > > Are > > you using two different versions of sed? Any major differences between > > the two systems? Identical scripts? > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

Pingveno wrote: I'm trying to get software suspend to work on my computer. While configuring my kernel, I added in support for software suspend aka hibernate. Alas, I have no idea what command to run to suspend the computer. gentoo-wiki.com has an article on software suspend 2, which is app

Re: [gentoo-user] sed changing behavior

On 5/27/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My version I tested with is also 4.1.4I just can't see this being the fault of sed here, for one to work and not theother just doesn't make sense.Have you diffed the two different tcupdate scripts to be sure they are exactly the same? What about o

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run sudo after you ssh. On my network, I backup my servers by setting up sudoers on the server I want to backup and running the following command from my workstation: ssh @ "sudo dump -uf- " | gzip > ...gz Pupeno wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

Hi, On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:51:21 -0700 Pingveno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just remerged hibernate-script and ran it (after saving everything :P > ). The one problem: I have to shut down X11 because the nvidia driver > has to be unloaded before hibernation is started. This is, of course, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble connecting to foreign APs

Grant wrote: >>>Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my >>>home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I >>>do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me >>>know if you might be able to help. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Hi Gra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

On Friday 27 May 2005 12:16, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Changing port is not about security, it save cpu (that can be true using > RSA auth only too). The question, though, is whether changing the port is worth the hassle. If you're getting 1000 SSH attempts per day, and each connection tak

Re: [gentoo-user] USB External HardDrive

timothy johnson wrote: >I just bought a 120GB harddrive and an external case for it. Just >wondering if its normal for it no to be fuild when writing to it. I am >backing up some data, and notice in gkrellm that its datatransfer is >spikey. > > > This depends greatly upon the filesystem and wha

[gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

When I try to bootstrap a Power Macintosh 8500, I get this error from /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh: >>> emerge (1 of 7) sys-apps/textinfo-4.7.-r1 to / !!! Cannot create log... No write access / Does not exist !!! PORT_LOGDIR: /var/log/portage !!! Cannot create log... No write access / Does

Re: [gentoo-user] maemo and scratchbox

On 5/27/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. Please open a bug for each of these. Post the bug id here, so I can add > myself on CC. 94211. I hope I get enough free time to work on these this week-end. Julien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

On 5/27/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C > compiler cannot create executables > See 'config.log' for more details. > > /var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.7-r1/work/texinfo-4.7/config.log is available > if needed. I really don't

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 5/27/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See 'config.log' for more details. /var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.7-r1/work/texinfo-4.7/config.log is available if needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

On 5/27/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I found it. I changed -fstack_protector to -fstack-protector and > now it's compiling. It bugs me how some CFLAGS use underscores, others > dashes, and some use both. That underscore is a Darwin specific thing. Darwin gcc maintainers are not con

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble connecting to foreign APs

> >>>Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to APs other than the one at my > >>>home. I use wpa_supplicant and the madwifi-driver (ath0). What can I > >>>do to debug this? Right now all I see is a timeout. Please let me > >>>know if you might be able to help. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Hi Grant

[gentoo-user] kde kioslave media problem

Hello! I have problems with usage of media kioslave in new-old kde 3.4.0. As i read, it can use fstab to detect hardware in system, and also additional tools like hal. I don't use hal, and rely only on manual configured /etc/fstab and udev to mount devices by hand, with mount commands. I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

This is a personal server (router/ftp/sftp/ssh home server), and I'm the only one that uses SSH. Changing the port, however "non-standard" it may be, fixed my problem. RSA auth is enabled by default in the sshd server, by the way. # cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep RSAAuthentication #RSAAuthentic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

I define "hammered" as more than a handful from the same IP. Between April 27th and May 22nd: # wc -l invalid.logins 1611 invalid.logins On 5/27/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a personal server (router/ftp/sftp/ssh home server), and I'm > the only one that uses SSH. Chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble connecting to foreign APs

Grant wrote: >I took your advice and dropped wpa_supplicant for iwconfig and this >sucker is online! Thank you RIchard! I sure learned a lot setting >this up. > > Your welcome. >Is my info sent via SSH or SSL (relatively) safe from the owner of the >network? I had to map a MAC address to an

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do you even get the grub prompt? > > is there any error number? > No. All I see is Loading Stage 1.5. Please wait... Then nothing. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protecti

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

> listing of the directory, are you _sure_ you had > /dev/hda2 mounted on > /boot, and were not looking at the contents of /boot > on the root filesystem? Let's see I boot the CD then, #mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo #mount /dev/hda2 /boot #swapon /dev/hda3 #mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc #ch

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

New to the list, but here goes - try: mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot -Original message- From: maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 00:51:17 +0100 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:50:29AM -0400, Mark Shields wrote > Walter, > > thanks for the useful tip. I've been looking to increase the > efficiency of my server (Athlon XP (Thorton), 2400+ (2ghz), 133 fsb, > 512mb pc2100), especially since now I've been looking at my log files > I've noticed it'

[gentoo-user] su authorization files all over the place; wheeeeeee !NOT

I finally solved local my user inability to "su -". Here's a short summary that'll hopefully help anybody else running into this problem. There appear to be at least 2 files which can deny a user the ability to "su -" if you are running shadow, not pam. If you get blocked by either one of them,

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 2:27 am, Gabriel M. Beddingfield said: > >> This sounds like you need to re-emerge the driver for your NIC. For >> example, every time I upgrade my kernel I have to do something like this: >> >> # cd /usr/src >> # rm linux >> # ln -s newkernel linux