[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then can't log in via GDM. Makes sense. I want the user to be able > to log in via GDM but not via ssh. Is that configured in ssh? Yes, you can configure that in SSH. There are the DenyUsers DenyGroups keywords for sshd_config. Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 14 December 2007, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using flat hubs (netgear 104EN is my favorite) for some > time to sniff out ethernet traffic. Now days, it's difficult to find > flat hubs for this purpose, that are new. Ideally I like to find a > 10/100/1000 flat hub for sniffing,

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
> > I'd like to create a really restricted user on my laptop. I don't > > want the user to be able to do much of anything but browse the web, > > use skype, and maybe look at photos on a CD or something. I did this: > > > > useradd -m -G users,audio,cdrom -s /sbin/nologin newuser > > > > How does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
> > then can't log in via GDM. Makes sense. I want the user to be able > > to log in via GDM but not via ssh. Is that configured in ssh? > > Yes, you can configure that in SSH. There are the > > DenyUsers > DenyGroups > > keywords for sshd_config. > > Alexander Thanks Alexander.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/12/14, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > > Nowadays CFQ and deadline are the best choices. > > > Why not built all three and switch between them with the apropriate kernel > > command line. That way you can easily test which one is the best for

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > Nowadays CFQ and deadline are the best choices. > Why not built all three and switch between them with the apropriate kernel > command line. That way you can easily test which one is the best for you. Hello Hemmann, This sounds interesting.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there is anything as sati

[gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread James
Etaoin Shrdlu unlimitedmail.org> writes: > Of course, we're not talking of low-end switches here. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_mirroring > Alternatively, although this is not exactly the same thing, you might > want to consider using a network tap COST is the key factor. Why pay someb

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier googlemail.com> writes: > Take a look in the kernel docs. It is not that difficult. It should be > under Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt > You can build the schedulers as module or directly in the kernel, > maybe you need to load the module before when using them as mod

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. > It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a > special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message > reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the o

[gentoo-user] OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread James
Hello, I have been using flat hubs (netgear 104EN is my favorite) for some time to sniff out ethernet traffic. Now days, it's difficult to find flat hubs for this purpose, that are new. Ideally I like to find a 10/100/1000 flat hub for sniffing, but I'd settle for some new 10/100 devices. I reall

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Jason Carson wrote: > > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which > > says... > > > > AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems > > and IDE disks >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
> > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > > things being improved as quickly as possible. > > Where do you find it is slowed? I don't have statistics to support this, but it seems obvious to

[gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading something and the connection just died on me. (I have my Gentoo box behind a firewall box [also Gentoo, of course]; I moved the cable that connects the firewall [to my ADSL modem] directly to my Gentoo box to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:12 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
James wrote: > COST is the key factor. Why pay somebody for something, when you can get > equivalient functionality for very few dollars. A flat hub is all > I need (want).. With a flat hub and a portable, you can mix in > any amount of target software and do many things with a flat but > and

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Thanks guys. I got it figured out last night with the help of someone on Gentoo IRC help. The drivers were compiled as modules, which only works if you have an initial ramdisk. Once I compiled the correct SATA driver into the kernel, it found the drive and allowed me to boot. Jeff -Origin

[gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread James
Randy Barlow electronsweatshop.com> writes: > > I'd consider an embedded (linux) board with a few ports, if they > > are or can be setup as a flat hub. > This seems like something that you should be able to do with OpenWRT and > a Linksys WRT54Gl... Yep, that device was on the short list. I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible. Where do you find it is slowed? > FreeBSD is supposed to > be the closest relation, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:39:11 -0500 "Andrey Falko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably want to use CFQ as it is currently the fastest It is? I though anticipatory was still considered the fastest. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
> > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > > be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
James wrote: > Have you set one up to sniff and remotely display the result on a workstaion > before? No, I definitely haven't done anything like that. Mine is just a router/WAP/firewall/QoS thing with some fun port forwarding rules. Funny that it's default firmware doesn't let you forward outsid

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:32:06 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. > It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a > special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message > reports that t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:12 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > be the close

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Dec 14, 2007 5:30 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > > > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > > > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > > > be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Christopher Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 5:30 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD i

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Jason Carson wrote: > > > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which > > > says... > > > > > > AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
> > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > > be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > > Otherwise, I'm interested in what your definition of "forward" is. > How about anything? More than nothing. I'd agree with this. I think gentoo is having growing pains in directions the (gentoo) pundits are not really interested in. Take for example JAVA. IMHO j

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

2007-12-14 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Grant wrote: > > > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > > > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > > > things being improved as quickly as possible. > > > > Where do you find it is slowed? > > I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: Gentoo's foundation is great. I can't think of any major changes that should to happen to it. But Gentoo is at this point *only* a foundation. It needs more (removable) layers. FreeBSD created extra layers on its own foundation and called the result PC-BSD which is aimed at the m

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

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
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 how to make the ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT:hardware sniffer equipment

2007-12-14 Thread kashani
James wrote: COST is the key factor. Why pay somebody for something, when you can get equivalent functionality for very few dollars. A flat hub is all I need (want).. With a flat hub and a portable, you can mix in any amount of target software and do many things with a flat but and a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: > Let me in on that. What can I do too? Find bugs on b.g.o. and help out! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 13:58 -0600, Christopher Dale wrote: > > Feel free to post any ideas you have to enhance Gentoo's base > functionality to the list though, I think you've roused everyone's > curiosity Grant :D > > Christopher > > Okay, here it goes: I think we could need a better suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: >>> Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking >>> at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like >>> things being improved as quickly as possible. >> Where do you find it is slowed? > > I don't have statistics to support this, bu

Re: Documentation about ebuilds (was: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules])

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Randy Barlow ha scritto: > 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 thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: > I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation > page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20) > Sad. Can you link the thread? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Documentation about ebuilds (was: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules])

2007-12-14 Thread Andrey Falko
On Dec 14, 2007 6:15 PM, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy Barlow ha scritto: > > 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 curr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Roy Wright
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading > something and the connection just died on me. > > Howdy, I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found that if I kill dhcpcd then restart it then my connection r

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
Florian Philipp ha scritto: > Other things to improve? A better documentation on USE-flags. In my > opinion every maintainer should provide as much information as possible > on what exactly a USE-flag changes. At the moment it's the > administrator's responsibility to find this out. Not really a g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:59:09 -0800 "Hilco Wijbenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading > something and the connection just died on me. > > (I have my Gentoo box behind a firewall box [also Gentoo, of course]; > I moved

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

2007-12-14 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
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 ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: > > Okay, here it goes: > > I think we could need a better support for binary packages. > There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary > packages for customers. As far as I remember the problem was (and still > is) that there is no easy way to check

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 14, 2007 3:37 PM, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading > > something and the connection just died on me. > I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance? Nope, I've tried a tulip and a 3COM NIC. Pretty run-of-the-mill. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-12-14 Thread Randy Barlow
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > My concerns with this, other than my abilities, are: > 1. Showing proper respect to the guy who pioneered the effort to date, > and who may simply be out of town. (This disrespect would be alleviated > if there was an official policy encouraging "volunteer ebuilds".) It's no

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Grant
> Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't thi