Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-27 Thread Martin Tedjawardhana
Have a look at this benchmark http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html and the interview article http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=69 Someone mentioned that reiserfs slows down after a while because of fragmentation, to be honest I've been running a quite busy web/file storage server using re

Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Colin Copley schrieb: > Hi List, > > Any comment on the best filesystem to use for Gentoo None. > running a > webserver, Ah, that's something, that can be answered :) > I prefer more speed and less journaling, Those are no contrasts. > is there a standard? No. I'd suggest, that you do t

Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Thomas Harold schrieb: > Colin Copley wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> Any comment on the best filesystem to use for Gentoo running a >> webserver, I prefer more speed and less journaling, is there a standard? > > Probably can't go wrong with ext2 (personally, I'd still go with ext3 > because you g

Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-27 Thread Petteri Räty
Robert Crawford wrote: > > For a server, I'd stay away from reiserfs, as it does appear to have serious > fragmentation over time- this is becoming more and more apparent. Check this > thread out on Gentoo forums- I posted links to a lot of good info. > If you serve only static content, you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:20:15PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > Now wvdial, it dials out, then sits for a minute, then disconnects with > the error that my password is wrong, which is crap because it is > correct. I only got wvdial to work once on another rig. It has never > worked on this one though.

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread b.n.
Alan E. Davis wrote: I have tried alot of approaches. Wvdial is superior for detecting hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't found it. What I cannot seem to do is set up for my family to dial in from their accounts. I have tried changing permissions of various

[gentoo-user] ciphiremail client

2005-11-27 Thread Qv6
Folks, I'm trying to install ciphiremail and just wanted to find out from those users familiar with it what, if any, issues they've encountered using it. Although they claim to have no government backing, has anyone been able to verify this claim? TIA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I put in this email, I get a new Firefox window, mplayerplug-in seems to be downloading, but then never plays. If I look at processes using top and ps aux I do not see mplayer at all. http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2005/11/more-music.

[gentoo-user] Re: How serious is revdep-rebuild failure

2005-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Run "equery belongs /usr/lib/libxmlparse.so", and rebuild (with > emerge --oneshot ) whatever package that is a part of. I got that one cleaned up but revdep still doesn't come up clean. I've uninstalled 2 items from the broken list that I don

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread maxim wexler
> > Well, I use ppp and the comand pon and poff. It > works pretty well. > emerge ppp and then config with pppconfig. To > connect, pon, to > disconnect, poff. That would be as root, there > should be a way to make > users do it though. I'm not sure how. $sudo /usr/sbin/pon(poff) > > Now

Solved - Re: [gentoo-user] autoexpect?

2005-11-27 Thread Antoine
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:00:09PM +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote If you create a private-public pair with ssh-keygen you can access to the other machine without a password. Then your script would call ssh and probably "sudo /sbin/poweroff" as a parameter to halt the r

Re: [gentoo-user] CyMotion keyboards

2005-11-27 Thread Ted Ozolins
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >Gary Richards wrote: > > >>I think somebody on this list was looking for one of those new Cherry >>CyMotion Linux keyboards. There's a new seller on eBay that has them. >>http://cgi.ebay.com/Cherry-CyMotion-Master-Linux-Keyboard-Tuxs-Revenge_W0QQitemZ5834892820QQcategor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Security problem? - Apache access.log has: CONNECT ... 200

2005-11-27 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:26 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2005 23:56, Joseph wrote: > > I just have noticed that my Apache2 access.log has few entries: > > > > 220.189.234.182 - - [27/Sep/2005:03:21:59 -0600] "CONNECT > > 202.165.103.38:80 HTTP/1.1" 200 17505 61.232.83.

Re: [gentoo-user] directive inside

2005-11-27 Thread Manuel McLure
On Saturday 26 November 2005 23:00, Joseph wrote: > Any Apache guru on the list? > > Is directive permitted inside directive? > example from Gentoo /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf file: > > > > . > . > > > > If I comment out the # directive, the dire

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Manuel McLure
On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I > put in this email, I get a new Firefox window, mplayerplug-in seems to > be downloading, but then never plays. If I look at processes using top > and ps aux I do not see mpl

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Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:33:09 + "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan E. Davis wrote: > > I have tried alot of approaches. Wvdial is superior for detecting > > hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't > > found it. > > > > What I cannot seem to do is set up f

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Nicolas Litchinko
Hello, On 11:03 Sun 27 Nov , Manuel McLure wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I > > put in this email, I get a new Firefox window, mplayerplug-in seems to > > be downloading, but then never plays

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/27/05, Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I > > put in this email, I get a new Firefox window, mplayerplug-in seems to > > be downloading, but then never plays.

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Manuel McLure
On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:03, Manuel McLure wrote: > What version of mplayerplug-in are you running? I *greatly* recommend using > at least 3.11 (which is still marked ~x86) - it's the first that works > really well for me (the earlier releases would crash firefox when you left > the page with

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On 11:03 Sun 27 Nov , Manuel McLure wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I > > > put in this email, I get a new Firefox wind

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Nicolas Litchinko
On 11:33 Sun 27 Nov , Mark Knecht wrote: > On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 11:03 Sun 27 Nov , Manuel McLure wrote: > > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-11-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 27 November 2005 14:10, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote: > unsubscribe NO! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I haven't tried setuid for the wvdial binary.  I have joined the users to the groups "dialout" and "uucp".  I have also changed the owner of various binaries to include users, including "wvdial".  I followed someone's advice on the Inet and set pppd setuid for the group "ppp" which I also joined al

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 26 Nov 2005 10:12 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > . OK, I understand this to some extent (meaning I get it that > Portage is not going to be revised in this way), but I must question > that last statement, "it seems desirable to compile against the latest > kernel that is installed." > >

Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-27 Thread kashani
Colin Copley wrote: Hi List, Any comment on the best filesystem to use for Gentoo running a webserver, I prefer more speed and less journaling, is there a standard? Webserving is a general enough case where there aren't going to be huge advantages between filesystems. I'd go with ext3, may

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:47:38 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > 1) disable the symlink USE flag and manage the redirect manually, which > would enable me to download any kernel at any time without concern for > whether a kernel module was upgrading in the same operation; or That's one approach. In som

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in downloads but doesn't play

2005-11-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11:33 Sun 27 Nov , Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On 11:03 Sun 27 Nov , Manuel McLure wrote: > > > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller

2005-11-27 Thread Stroller
On Nov 24, 2005, at 6:42 am, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/23/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Is there any way to get the kernel to choose an IRQ for the HPT302? I thought this was what plug & play operating systems were about. Can the kernel be invoked with an append which will assign

[gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
My KDE got seriously broken and I'm trying to rebuild it as in: # emerge --emptytree kde 214 files to merge WOW. Anyway, when building pam, I get the above error. What do I need to do here? * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP

2005-11-27 Thread Michael Crute
On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently have the dev-php/php installed on my Gentoo machine. I am > thinking of moving up to php 5 and must use the new dev-lang/php. Is > the dev-lang/php pretty stable? Is there anything I should know > before I make the switch? > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-27 Thread Ernie Schroder
More info: /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_xauth.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r3/image//lib/security test -d /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r3/image//usr/share/man/man8 || mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r3/image//usr/share/man/man8 /bin/install -c -m 644 pam_xauth.8 /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r3/image//us

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread Dale
John J. Foster wrote: >On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:20:15PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>Now wvdial, it dials out, then sits for a minute, then disconnects with >>the error that my password is wrong, which is crap because it is >>correct. I only got wvdial to work once on another rig. It has never >

[gentoo-user] BTTV Mini-HOWTO -- how do I use multiple inputs?

2005-11-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
Followed the howto here: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/BTTV.html (which by the way is 5 years old) I have an old hauppauge bt878 card with 4 inputs on it. I have the video1 working fine, but how do I enable the other inputs? They're all the same RCA kind. I ran the MAKEDEV script, but it d

Re: [gentoo-user] Pam merge error

2005-11-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ernie Schroder schrieb: > My KDE got seriously broken and I'm trying to rebuild it as in: > # emerge --emptytree kde > 214 files to merge WOW. Anyway, when building pam, I get the above > error. What do I need to do here? You should check bugzilla. Search for "have dependencies in /usr". You'll fi

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-27 Thread Graham Murray
Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > imho that is certainly not the way things should work. Why not build with > latest libraries when you already have them? To do what you want, all kernel > packages will have to be left alone from dependency tracking and I don't know > whether it is poss

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 emerge fails.

2005-11-27 Thread Ric de France
Chris, I had a similar problem, where my xorg compile stopped at the same point... I cleared stuff off my hard-drive (ie. freeing up some space), and then attempted the emerge again... this time it worked fine... I can't seem to replicate the problem since... Sorry if this is a little vague in s