[gentoo-user] example tomcat app package

2006-07-05 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, What should I use as a base example package for a java application running under tomcat? Also, should it be a webapp to be used with webapp-config? Any information on this would be appreciated. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Jul 4, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Urs Schuetz wrote: Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look at udev now. Philipp -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: See attached. It may help. DÆVID -Original Message- From: Philipp Riegger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:40 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant wrote: > I do log in via ssh (port 22 I think) and it's also a mail server. > How can I check which ports are open? Does shorewall handle that? You know, you shouldn't be asking such questions, if you operate a server, which is accessible via the internet. But that's IMO. Anyway. "netstat

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ryan Tandy wrote: > you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for > any publically accessible box), Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppose you mean packet filter, like iptabl

[gentoo-user] postfix + sasl

2006-07-05 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I'm trying to configure postfix + cyrus-sasl (with other things). I have a problem when I connect to local postfix: #telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 FQDN ESMTP Postfix EHLO localhost 250-FQDN 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 1024 250-VR

[gentoo-user] Re: example tomcat app package

2006-07-05 Thread Edwin Kapauni
Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, What should I use as a base example package for a java application running under tomcat? Also, should it be a webapp to be used with [...] As the only thing I am running under Tomcat is Cocoon-2.1.9 I would much appreciate Cocoon as a sample application too. :-

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
I'm sorry, i did not want so send what i sent. On Jul 5, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Philipp Riegger wrote: On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: I finally got this working it seems. These links were very helpful: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90047 http://forums.gentoo.org/view

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:37:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES="buildpkg". Then > > reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro. > The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation > you are also likely to be changing

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John J. Foster wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> John J. Foster wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: Warning: Cannot convert string "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type Font

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: example tomcat app package

2006-07-05 Thread Trenton Adams
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I'm looking for an ebuild file for a tomcat application. On 7/5/06, Edwin Kapauni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trenton Adams wrote: > Hi guys, > > What should I use as a base example package for a java application > running under tomcat? Also, should

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Trenton Adams
I would move ssh to a very high port number of your choice. Most ssh port scanners do not bother checking anything other than port 22, as it is too time consuming. I have not had any weird hits on my ssh port in years. It was hammered daily, even with attempted logins and such, with it running

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix + sasl

2006-07-05 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:42:11 +0200 Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure postfix + cyrus-sasl (with other things). > I have a problem when I connect to local postfix: [...] forget my question... I forgot to add sasl USE flag when I emerged postfix... now I see: EHLO localhost 250-

[gentoo-user] histappend shell option

2006-07-05 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, Where would I suggest a standard shell option to be incorporated into /etc/bash/bashrc? I can't stand it when I logout of multiple shells, and get only the history of the last one. Especially on root. So, I use the histappend shell option. shopt -s histappend Wouldn't it be good to i

[gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked, new version, ... Is there any service for that yet ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metu

[gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel
Good afternoon, I would like to ask what advantages does one gain from (not) putting packages in the world file? I know the use of "emerge --oneshot " emerges packages without recording them in the world set. I also know that all the packages installed as dependencies don't get recorded in the w

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel
james wrote: > Hello, > > I'm attempting to follow this wiki to build a test firewall running iptables: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_for_newbies#QuickStart > > Kernel is 'hardened' with netfilter et al activated. > > It looks reasonable and is suppose to be up to date. > > My nics ar

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:48:31 +0300, Daniel wrote: > I know the use of "emerge --oneshot " emerges packages > without recording them in the world set. I also know that all the > packages installed as dependencies don't get recorded in the world set > either. > > I see only one advantage in this -

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Daniel wrote: > BUT...What happens if there are "critical" updates for packages not > listed in the world? They won't get installed. That's why I always do "emerge --deep --update" (or rather: "emerge -Duvat"), as then packages which are installed to meet dependencies, will also get updated. But

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick wrote: > The only time I use --oneshot for new installs is when trying a package > to see if I want it. If I do, I add it to world with --noreplace. If I > don't find it useful, my next emerge --depclean reminds me to remove it. I use --oneshot, when the compilation of a package bre

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel
Grant wrote: > It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be > intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't > know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things > should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have > tim

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On Jul 4, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Urs Schuetz wrote: > > >Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. > > I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look > at udev now. They are essential, you want them. >From http

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Drake
� wrote: So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops pla

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel
Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: > > i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. > > So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the > cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread jarry
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for > > any publically accessible box), > > Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible > services > are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:18:20 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > But you'll still miss some packages this way - packages which aren't > in the world file and which are also no dependency of *CURRENTLY* > installed packages. Those are normally packages, which aren't used > anymore and could be removed.

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

2006-07-05 Thread Trenton Adams
Oh man, that would be s sweet. I want that too. :-P On 7/5/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked, new version, ... Is there any service for that

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Trenton Adams wrote: > I would move ssh to a very high port number of your choice. Most ssh > port scanners do not bother checking anything other than port 22, as > it is too time consuming. I have not had any weird hits on my ssh > port in years. It was hammered daily, even with attempted login

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:18:20 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> But you'll still miss some packages this way - packages which aren't >> in the world file and which are also no dependency of *CURRENTLY* >> installed packages. Those are normally packages, which aren't used >>

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

2006-07-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 5 July 2006 12:55, Trenton Adams wrote: > Oh man, that would be s sweet. I want that too. :-P Subscribe to some of the rss feeds on packages.gentoo.org, and you'll find out which packages come out daily, almost in real time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Rumen Yotov
Daniel wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:18:20 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: But you'll still miss some packages this way - packages which aren't in the world file and which are also no dependency of *CURRENTLY* installed packages. Those are normally packages, which a

[gentoo-user] P IV power managing error

2006-07-05 Thread Leonardo
Hi, I tried enabling the ACPI power management for my notebook by following the Gentoo documentation, but when I modprobe acpi I get the error: FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device however I can succe

[gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Mick
I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications (e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged the monolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta. So, I thought of trying emerging them individually. However, they seem to be masked. Is this beca

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Rumen Yotov wrote: >> > Hi, > In the contrary, i (at least) put in 'world' only things i emerge. > The reason - the world-file is smaller and eventually is scanned more > quickly. > Unless you also use "-D|--deep" option, which also scans the deps. > HTH.Rumen That is clear. Scans for updates tak

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread jarry
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... If I were a > script kiddie, I wouldn't bother looking at normally open > ports. But if there's something strange like 65350, I *would* imho, if someone wants to attack your server, he will scan all ports and will try to find which apps are using

[gentoo-user] Samba install fails

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, emerging samba results in the following error:- !!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile samba-3.0.22-r2.ebuild, line 104: Called econf '--with-fhs' '--sysconfdir=/etc/samba' '--locals

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:11:44 +0300, Daniel wrote: > Your replies make me feel I haven't done wrong trying to put every > single package in the world set. In fact you've completely broken the concept of a world set of packages on your Gentoo system. World should contain only those packages you wan

[gentoo-user] Re: Samba install fails

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 13:09, you wrote: > Hi all, > emerging samba results in the following error:- > !!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r2 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile > ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile > samba-3.0.22-r2.ebuild, line 104: Call

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Now portage has no idea of which packages > are there because you want them, which are there because they are > dependencies of something you want and which are redundant cruft installed > as a dependency of a package you no longer have installed. > > On your system, your

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
and to add another (a biggy!) defence in depth: if something goes wrong, its another barrier in the way of the troublemakers. What can go wrong?: 1. redhat used to install an anonymous ftp server by default (years back). Came in the next morning to the sysadmin swaring about traffic, its the on

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot access external network

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Raj Swaminathan wrote: > Hi, > > Im a gnu/linux newbie and have 2 problems > > 1. At boot, i get "net-mount failed on eth0" and ifconfig does not > list eth0. So i manually tried "ifconfig eth0 up" and eth0 is then > listed. Next I am unable to ping machines not listed on /etc/hosts. > > M

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Daniel Iliev wrote: > I have no problem with the redundant cruft - when I want just to try > some package I do "emerge --pretend" and record the list of dependencies > it wants to pull-in. If I decide the package is not useful to me, I > "un-emerge" not only the package, but also the dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] problem w/ portage tmp on nfs

2006-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:06 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I have some portage stuff mounted with nfs, the only way for portage > to work with those dirs was to set "no_root_squash" at /etc/exports at > the host machine... I don't know why, even with full permissions, > portage refused to work. B

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:53 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > That is correct. What are the disadvantages besides the longer seeks for > updates? What longer seeks? --update only check one level of dependencies for updates, a few seconds at most. That's nothing compared with the time you could spend

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Samba install fails

2006-07-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Paul Stear wrote: > Sorry to reply to my own post but I found a fix on the forums, it's now in > the > process of emerging. Care to point out, what the fix is? Or at least a pointer to the thread? This would benefit the list. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- The more laws and order are made promin

[gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:56:02 -0400, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to p

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Alexander, Neil thank you for pointing me out this problem. I think both of you refer to the same scenario and Alexander illustrated it with an example. For clarity I'll use the same letters to substitute package names in my next question. 1) I install "a" which pulls-in "c" 2) I *manually* inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Andrew Frink
On 7/5/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications(e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged themonolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta.  So, Ithought of trying emerging them individually.  However

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:16 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > The basic problem here is, that there's no way to see, which packages > depend on a given package - at least I don't know how to find that > out. equery depends Not always 100% accurate though, as someone politely pointed out yesterday

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:29:16 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > 1) I install "a" which pulls-in "c" > 2) I *manually* install "c". I install "a" > 3) I Install "b". "b" depends on "c". "b" doesn't pull-in "c" because > "c" is already *manually* installed along with "a" > 4) I uninstall "a" > 5) I *manua

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread James
Daniel ilievnet.com> writes: > > When I go to /etc/init to write my rules into firewall.sh > > as specified in the aforementioned wiki I automatically get > > this shoved into the script: > > > > #!/sbin/runscript > > # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation > > # Distributed under the terms of

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng + automatic respawn of target programs

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/4/06, thomas blomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/expanded-syslog-ng.conf look at the above link, it contains all functions syslog can have Ok. It is also in the documentation installed at /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-*/html/. So I guess it is just an omission

Re: [gentoo-user] histappend shell option

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, Where would I suggest a standard shell option to be incorporated into /etc/bash/bashrc? bugs.gentoo.org would be the appropriate place. File it as an enhacement request. I can't stand it when I logout of multiple shells, and get o

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications > (e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged the > monolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta. So, I > thought of trying emerging them individually. However, they seem to > be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) /etc/init.d/iptables save This will work if one loads the rules manually at the command line. Where do I put a scirpt of iptables command, so it is read the rule sets generated and then saved into /var/lib/iptables/rules-save? Anywhere you li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Dale
James wrote: > > What I'm looking for is the series of steps to > 1. Where best to locate my script? > 2. Insert (new) commands into the script. > 3. convert new scrited commands into rulesets > 4. Load rulesets into the /var/lib/iptables/rules-save > 5. Restart the iptables/netfilter firewall >

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is correct. What are the disadvantages besides the longer seeks for updates? Another disadvantage is that you defeat a big reason for having USE flags. For example, if you merge pkg A that USEs X to depend on pkg B, and you have X in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/5/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trenton Adams wrote: > I would move ssh to a very high port number of your choice. Most ssh > port scanners do not bother checking anything other than port 22, as > it is too time consuming. I have not had any weird hits on my ssh > port in

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Alexander Skwar wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for any publically accessible box), Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppose you mean pack

Re: [gentoo-user] P IV power managing error

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, Leonardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device however I can successfully load the modules: ac battery fan thermal button processor What's wrong? Below some more

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread James
Dale vista-express.com> writes: > Now figuring out the iptables command is another matter. It never has > really made much sense to me. I just searched for a good script and ran it. Well that I can help with. Get the book LINUX FIREWALLS Third Edition by Steve Suehring and Riboer L. Ziegle

[gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the modular-X upgrade. Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: > > so you go to a lot of trouble to circumvent portage's dependency > handling, then you rely on portage to fix things up after your break > them. You need to keep lists of what you have merged and unmerged simply > to compensate for having broken portage's own list for no g

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Mick
On 05/07/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mick wrote: > I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications > (e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged the > monolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta. So, I > thought of tryin

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: > If you later take X out of your use flags, and do an emerge -DNuv > world, the A no longer depends on B. But since it is still in your > world file, portage will assume you want this package, and continue to > compile updates for it with each new version. That can be a pret

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/5/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Now portage has no idea of which packages > are there because you want them, which are there because they are > dependencies of something you want and which are redundant cruft installed > as a dependency of a package you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Dale
James wrote: > Dale vista-express.com> writes: > > > >> Now figuring out the iptables command is another matter. It never has >> really made much sense to me. I just searched for a good script and ran it. >> > > > Well that I can help with. > > Get the book LINUX FIREWALLS > Third Editi

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)

2006-07-05 Thread kashani
Stroller wrote: Did you authenticate propery @smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk ? I believe so. There's nothing in the logs to indicate that I haven't, and the user:pass in /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd is correct, In my case I noticed that sasl auth on relay doesn't seem to work unless I set the followi

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:51, Richard Fish wrote: > Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging > out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the > modular-X upgrade. Indeed! -- "When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then

Re: [gentoo-user] P IV power managing error

2006-07-05 Thread Leonardo
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/5/06, Leonardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq > > > (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): > > No such device > > > > however I can successfully load the modules: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just merge the > top-level package, and if you don't like it, unmerge and use > --depclean --pretend to figure out what can safely be removed? > Because if I decide to keep it, all dependencies it pulls-in don't get updated until the

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > You're manually doying stuff that portage should do. This breaks > portage system, gives you more trouble (because you have to manually > "undo" stuff in order to not break your dependency list) and have > turned the whole dependency check lists and ebuils dependency check

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Wilson
Have you tried kmyfirewall ? Steve On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:27, Dale wrote: > James wrote: > > Dale vista-express.com> writes: > >> Now figuring out the iptables command is another matter. It never has > >> really made much sense to me. I just searched for a good script and ran > >> it. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > Where do I put a scirpt of iptables command, so it is read the > > rule sets generated and then saved into /var/lib/iptables/rules-save? > Anywhere you like. All that matters is that you run it so your > iptables are setup like you want, then run "/etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: > > Not if you use --deep on your updates. Then dependancies are also > considered for updates. Some people here will tell you that --deep is > troublesome, but I am not one of them, and it seems like what you want > to do. Then what is the purpose of: "emerge --update worl

[gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread James Colby
List members - I have a Gentoo install running inside of a vmware ESX server virtual machine. I am having a very strange issue though. Every few days the root filesystem will become read only and the only way that I can fix it is to reboot or power down the virual machine. Does anyone have an

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

2006-07-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
>> Hi folks, >> >> i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain >> package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked, >> new version, ... >> >> Is there any service for that yet ? >> >> cu >> -- >> -

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look at udev now. They are essential, you want them. From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml : Code Listi

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/5/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: > You're manually doying stuff that portage should do. This breaks > portage system, gives you more trouble (because you have to manually > "undo" stuff in order to not break your dependency list) and have > turned the who

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-07-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 03 June 2006 16:11, znx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow': > On 27/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Open to debate. I'd think it's not very dangerous at the *end* of > > the PATH. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then what is the purpose of: "emerge --update world" w/o "--deep"? To update only the packages in world, without updating dependancies. As I think I mentioned, some people do not like using --deep, because they don't necessarily want to update

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Gentoo install running inside of a vmware ESX server virtual machine. I am having a very strange issue though. Every few days the root filesystem will become read only and the only way that I can fix it is to reboot or power down the v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: or I've seen this: #!/sbin/runscript This is only for init scripts in /etc/init.d/. So no, don't use this...use #!/bin/bash instead. /usr/local/bin/ might be appropriate too? Yeah, that would work also... So my (edited) scipt issues new iptab

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > I'll just quote the "emerge" man page, that is pretty clear there: > --snip > > Note the words "DIRECT dependencies". So, your command "emerge > --update --deep world" is in fact just "emerge world", because every > direct/indirect dependency is part of your world file

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:53:42 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What happens if you reboot after unmerging "c", and its absence causes > > the system to fail to boot? What if you remove something that stops > > emerge working? > > > > Highly unlikely. For two reasons: > > 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging > out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the > modular-X upgrade. > ditto -- A lensatic compass weighted for the northern hemisphere will

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread James Colby
A disk timeout error could cause a filesystem to be remounted read-only. And if /var is on the same disk, you wouldn't necessarily see the errors (since, after all, it is now read-only!). I would start by making /var a separate filesystem if you haven't already. Heck, put it on a different vir

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:43, Daniel wrote: > > You could also disable all write caching by issuing the command: > > hdparm -W0 /dev/ > emm, no, That only deactivates the on-disk cache and has nothing to do with the kernel caches&buffers. In fact, it has nothing to do with the kernel at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel wrote: > Good afternoon, > > > I would like to ask what advantages does one gain from (not) putting > packages in the world file? > > I know the use of "emerge --oneshot " emerges packages > without recording them in the world set. I also know that all the > packages installed as dependen

Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

2006-07-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daniel Iliev wrote: 5) The best reason for manual removing individual packages from the world set is to prevent them from upgrading. I wouldn't call that a good reason. /etc/portage is there for that kind of thing. If you remove a package from world, and nothing depends on it, then it'll ge

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:43, Daniel wrote: > >> You could also disable all write caching by issuing the command: >> >> hdparm -W0 /dev/ >> > > emm, no, > > That only deactivates the on-disk cache and has nothing to do with the kernel > caches&buffers. In fact,

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Lord Sauron
Sorry to be a bit elementary, but if you're not colocating your box, and you don't often use SSH, you might want to consider disabling remote administrative things. All your Windoze "friend" will try to do is exploit MySQL to pop a DOS shell into your system. It's an older trick, however, it wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right quickly. I don't know enough to know if that'd be totally possible, but if the guy isn't terribly intelligent, that'll send him packing. net

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Steven Susbauer
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or > > something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right > > quickly. I don't know enough to know if that'd be totally possible, > > but if the guy is

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Steven Susbauer wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right quickly. I don't know enough to know if that'd be totally possible, but if th

[gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

2006-07-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Following emerge --sync I was informed a new update was available and directed to a file /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 which contains the following: move net-wireless/madwifi-tools net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools move net-wireless/madwifi-driver net-wireless/madwifi-ng move gam

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
This one is only to correct a BIG typo: "eclectic power" should be "electric power" (spelling checker + sleeping writer..) Sorry about that. Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:43, Daniel wrote: > >> You could also disable all write caching by issuing the command: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using Yahoo as Postfix relay? (Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my case I noticed that sasl auth on relay doesn't seem to work unless > I set the following in main.cf > > smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no ^ Are you sure you have to *disable* sasl auth on your (incoming) smtp server ? > it's

Re: [gentoo-user] / becomes read only

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I have moved /var to a separate virtual > disk. Hopefully this will give me some clue as to why the root > filesystem keeps becoming read only. If it does turnout to be a disk > timeout do you have any suggestions as how to f

[gentoo-user] ntpd problem: randomly refusing/dropping client requests

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've got an problem w/ ntpd: syncing w/ ntpdate against it fails from time to time. Sometimes just for a few minutes, sometimes longer. I know it will call itself stratum 16 (which is dropped by ntpdate) if it hasn't synchronized to a proper reference clock yet, so it will take som

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