[gentoo-user] Firefox and Synaptics mousepad

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Cowsill
if there is some sort of firefox setting I can change to disable that function? Thanks, -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:56:13 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What interfaces was the win2003 server using previously for bridging > and connecting to the Internet? I'm not entirely sure windows 'bridging' is equivalent to linux Ethernet bridging. Specifically, wouldn't linux Eth

[gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
No capitalization, no spaces, no nonsense. And yet the hashes md5crypt returns are all different. Now, that's no good if you ask me. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Thanks. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/20/07, Vladimir Rusinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/21/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/20/07, Don Jerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > > > The follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

2007-08-22 Thread Dan Johansson
genericups' Could you please try to explain whats wrong? Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rolling upgrades, are you making sure everything gets restarted?

2007-08-23 Thread Dan Johansson
same URL as the old one. Still a no-go :-( I put in some dubugging lines (three print-lines), and the result is that the first time the program reaches the following program segment (line 118 ansd 119) everything works (no error). packages.setdefault(packagename,Package(packagename))

Re: [gentoo-user] "Treason uncloaked!" solution?

2007-08-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:48:55 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:18:16 -0700 > Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sometimes I get "Treason uncloaked!" in dmesg when running > > bittorrent. The solution here: > > > > http://www.linuxquestions.o

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
oot > > has something to do with wpa_ctrl. > > > > I hope you fine fellows can piece something together with this or give > > me some documentation I might read. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > No, it's always 5872. Before and after startup. Glad you could make it :D -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:54:23 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:55 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > What concerns me is that alsamixer nevers shows a volume control on > > Master anymore, and amixer says: > > > > Simple mixer co

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:41:39 +0200 "brullo nulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, Intel onboard videocards were well > supported open source... They do a really nice job on 2D in my experience. But if you are accelerating 3d opengl in hardware, like glxgears for example, expect artifacts to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:23:23 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:05:24 +0200, b.n. wrote: > > > The onboard Intels were a good lifesaver. I'm considering an Intel > > Core Duo... what's wrong with them that AMD does right? :) > > Nothing AFAICT. I have a Core2

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:36:38 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say if you stick with AMD, try the boxed cooler and test it. > Since it's not a dedicated silent system, it might be good enough. If > you switch to Intel, buy a good cooler from the beginning. > Furthermore, be su

Re: [gentoo-user] "Treason uncloaked!" solution?

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:17:17 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:55:06 -0500 > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It usually means that the other side of the TCP > > > connection reduced

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i586 install

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:53:28 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > journaling is just a waste of space > and time. not to mention breaking compatibility with older bootloaders. not that it's likely to matter, but yet another con. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Network Configuration

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:49:51 -0700 (PDT) BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to check into iproute2. Seems interesting...won't be able to > try until tonight (after I get home), but will certainly share the > results. > > Thanks, > > Ben. Ben, iproute2 is the latest and greatest

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:18:47 +0200 (CEST) Cipher van Byte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It isn't good idea to mount nfs over openvpn. Both are highly > unstable. Openvpn is highly unstable? really? mine's been up for days. NFS is highly unstable? Hardly. Perhaps you mean that it's unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:54:27 +0200 (CEST) Cipher van Byte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I'm concerned the structure of directories and links (hard > or symbolic) were invented to eliminate the _need_ of having such > searching engines. > > Using those search engines is like reinventing t

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:05:47 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. > > > > Why? > > I can make menuconfig and then: > > sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all > Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:44:34 -0400 "Ryan Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Ok, I've decided I'm doing more damage than good here. Arnau, if you > want to take this off list away from the static (much of it generated > by me, apologies), please feel free to email me, I'll help as far

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
#x27;nomce' to your kernel boot line in grub and you should be able to boot with MCE turned of to reconfigure. -- Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
s' similar questions) on the gentoo cluster mailing list, gentoo-cluster. perhaps the following link will be useful to you: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.cluster/ -- Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be > > considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed > > it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since s

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your solution is the better one, though. > > I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an > mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do > with it. The thing is, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval

2007-09-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was only trying out Amarok. What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid. audacious seems almost completely better to me > I suspect t

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Cowsill
mand like > that. Please show us the actual output of 'emerge -pv php'. > > Benno > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > It looks like he's trying to emerge from an ebuild file directly. Also not a good idea. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:50:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 this is not outlook express, it's kmail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:55:44 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > treat ~ # cd /etc/init.d > treat init.d # ./apache2 stop > * Stopping apache2 ... > No /usr/sbin/apache2 found running; none > killed. > [ !! ] > treat init.d # ./apache2 start > * WARNING: apache2 has already been

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:51:53 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sean wrote: > > >> > > I installed Audacious again and it works with error, I will just > > stick with that. I was only trying out Amarok. > That should have been without error. > -- as fun as errors are, I think we all we

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem yesterday, but rebooting the machine fixed it. > As for the KEEPENV, I was puzzled by that too but I didn't add > anything to env_whitelist and I left KEEPENV commented. Everything > seems to be fine. Pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:32 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today apache2 wants to upgrade to 2.2.4-r12. I've got cold feet. > Anyone tried this yet? I just started it out, to see what happens. I turned off the AC today, my feet aren't very cold ; ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:02:16 -0500 "Marzan, Richard non Unisys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goodluck friend > Thanks, I needed it. I finally found a nice list of the information I need here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/upgrading.html there's a message en route that covers all the major

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
I have discovered a really fun error message: >zeus dan # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Starting apache2 ... >(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address >0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down >Unabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
I have tracked down what appears to be the source of the difficulty with restarting apache 2.2 after an upgrade. to recap, here's the error: >zeus ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > * Starting apache2 ... >(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address >0.0.0.0:80 no listening

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:00:12 -0400 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm kinda desperate > at this point as I'm about to go on a very long tour through Europe > and I won't have time to troubleshoot this sorta thing then. well then I think there may be hope for you, for this isn't likely to pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade [solved]

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
well, if anyone has this problem, to fix it I commented out the Listen address in httpd.conf (defined for the default vhost anyway) I also had to comment out this section here. the comments said it was the default only if compiled with USE="-threads" but nevertheless it seemed to interfere. #

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 2.0 -> 2.2 upgrade

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:57:16 +0200 Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regards, > >Christian > > -- Thank you very much. that was indeed a mistake I made. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:23:25 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any luck? Can you just re-emerge the package and go through > etc-update properly? > > - Grant You will have to accept some of the changes to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. some of the module names and files have changed; I also ha

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd

2007-09-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:36:36 +0200 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Walter writes: > > > i've added myself to the vboxusers group with "gpasswd -a robert > > vboxusers". when i do a "id robert" with root i see the added group > > but when i start a new xterm with user robert i'm s

Re: [gentoo-user] Dspam/sql problem

2007-09-06 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:56:39 +0100 "Stuart Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now the problem is that no mails seem to get tagged as spam [other > than innocent] and it has been running prehaps 3 days now with at > least a couple of hundreds spam's going through it. is there any way to tell whet

Re: [gentoo-user] apache configuration woes

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:50:34 -0700 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either way, it seems like this should have been optional in the > upgrade, somehow. the names of the modules changed, so perhaps they were merged with httpd.conf erroneously becuase they were named differently. -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:50:20 +0200 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Cepek writes: > > > I had a similar issue after a previous update to ssh when I went to > > restart it to get it to use the new binaries. One of the nice > > features of sshd is that your current session will say a

Re: [gentoo-user] -x11-proto/xineramaproto Digest verification failed

2007-09-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 19:11:11 +0200 Herbert Laubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See message below: > > Herbert Laubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on > Sat, 08 > Sep 2007 10:14:01 +0200: > > > > I am installing xorg-x11 on an amd64 machine. > > > > On xext

[gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

2007-09-09 Thread Dan Johansson
can select an active configuration: /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1# echo 1 > bConfigurationValue /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1# cat bConfigurationValue 1 After this the device works as expected. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is print

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA / sound not working

2007-09-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:07:15 -0400 Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2007 04:05:15 pm b.n. wrote: > > Daniel D Jones ha scritto: > > > New install of amd64 with multilib on an Asus K8V Deluxe mobo. > > > Trying to get sound working. > > > > What is the actual prob

Re: [gentoo-user] awstats

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:51:44 +0200 Naga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you checked to see if mod_access.c is in apache-2.2.6? > If I'm not wrong the access modules have been reworked. They sure have. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:58:53 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I've got to be really careful here. I see the following processes > in 'ps -ef': > > root 2988 1 0 Sep04 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd > root 7573 2988 0 07:28 ?00:00:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:12:13 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. As a personal preference I don't usually chain commands > > together when trouble shooting something, but there is technically > > nothing wrong with doing so. > > And now I'm locked out. What do you think guys? > > -

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:39:35 -0500 "Stephen Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's why I usually have a telnet server up during ssh upgrade >> times. > The problem with connecting to the server via telnet is that your > password can be easily intercepted - which is one of the major reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:23:37 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My host is pretty good about issuing commands for me. Any ideas > there? > > - Grant start sshd manually to get back in. something like '/usr/bin/sshd -p 3' (that would listen on port 3 for ssh connections) ("absolute path is

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:03 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > default HOMER-KUBUNTU64 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0 What's this? I do not know if this should be here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:48:20 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is on what computer? On the "server" (I guess it's the router) the > last line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I > don't know why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting without it > and then s

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:14:20 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you but doesn't it look like there must be a problem that is > preventing my sshd from starting? Won't '/usr/bin/sshd -p 3' just > fail, or is that more likely to work than '/etc/init.d/sshd start'? It seems to me that th

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:48:12 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about just having them reboot and start my manual daemon? Would > that accomplish the same thing? That would probably work too, but I don't think rebooting is likely to help. At the very best it's an additional waiting p

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does my host get root access like that? > > - Grant > Auto-logged in console, perhaps? Or access to the filesystem on a locally administered fileserver or something? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:15:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this, but couldn't find a way to switch it off. Super glue the button to the case? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Dan Johansson wrote: > After upgrading to 2.6.22 one of my USB-devices stopped working "out of the > box". I've found a workaround (see below) to get it working. And my > question is how can I make this automatically? > > Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 "Colleen Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition > table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the > drive - any text file that I can "cat" displays fine. I just can't > get the

Re: [gentoo-user] usb suspend bug for mouse?

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:23:52 -0700 Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a run of the mill USB optical mouse which has worked fine for > several years. Recently it started "stalling" , "hanging" or > "freezing" from gentoo. > > Haven't yet tried a different mouse. Perhaps it's just worn

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36:56 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or > unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' looks like your libraries are a little off. Have you tried revdep-rebuild? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lenovo distro poll

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:42:30 +0400 Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not seen this link here, but I think it's worth it. > Vote, please! ;) > > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 > > "I'm going to put another poll question up asking which Linux you all > would like to see o

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:06:21 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One seemingly large problem is that > revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage > so you have to remove those from the rebuild or attempt to change > revision numbers by hand on the fly in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:58:16 -0300 "Ricardo Bevilacqua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl > > alcohol and a cotton swab? > > > > Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and > clean it with the alcohol. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:09:22 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > berkdb = sys-libs/db. apr-util is slotted and 0.9.12 is in a > different slot than 1.2.8. this might give you some idea of what packages might be effected by the nontrivial update of db: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eq

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:43 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said I think most of my home would be better > off with something like Ubuntu or Suse but I haven't the inclination > to learn it. Ubuntu's _really_ easy as long as nothing goes wrong with the kernel (there's no he

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:32:40 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The above command will show all installed packages > that *may* [1] depend on any installed version of sys-libs/db... Isn't that kind of the point, though? If you can't install the slotted version you need, the c

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:09:30 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last night my host sent out a message that their database had been > compromised. I contacted them this morning and it turns out that all > of their trouble tickets were exposed. I checked my records and > (stupidly) I had inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:47:37 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I recognize everything in 'ps -ef' I think, but I've never > > > > really used netstat before. Under "Active Internet > > > > connections" I don't recognize: > > > > > > > > tcp localhost:10030 > > > > tcp *:snpp > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: error scanning /

2007-09-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:13:02 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > age syncs. > > You won't be banned for the odd extra sync. Syncing every hour is > another matter. > I used to sync my main tree twice a day. Never banned, never any angry emails. (It was then served to my local ne

Re: [gentoo-user] disable dropping to -j1 when building certain programs

2007-09-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:28:45 +0200 Steen Eugen Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't that self defeating, when an ebuild contains enforced -j1 it's > because the program can't compile with -j2 or higher. Yeah, I think you're going to have to re-engineer the makefiles if you want to escape

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: error scanning /

2007-09-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:37:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's almost exactly what I do, except I run an rsync mirror, so each > machine syncs fro it. > That works OK, but then all the subordinate computers have to run a sync. If you use nfs, it's a little slower access fo

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: error scanning /

2007-09-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:16:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You get a speed hit every time you run emerge, I get it once, where > the computer syncs, which is handled by a cron task anyway. It's true, it's a little slower for me and a few gigs more wasted space (depending on the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:31:03 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That your Dad is a lawyer may be worth mentioning to them. Just don't > tell them it is NOT his area of practice. May help get that #1 deal. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Just be careful. Implying legal action could cause you a w

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:45:47 -0400 "John Blinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have 2 gentoo machines, lotus and tobey. tobey is an nfs server to > lotus. > Today I upgraded tobey, and now nfs doesn't work. Previously, it > worked for years. The symptoms are: > > 1) mount -v /

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-22 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:37:23 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > As I have previously posted about, my host sent me an email a few days > ago stating that support tickets for 5,000-6,000 of their clients had > been broken into. I checked my records and found that my root > passwo

[gentoo-user] Fail to start slapd after reboot

2007-09-23 Thread Dan Johansson
I've tried to restore a backup from before the reboot - but I still have the same problem. Any suggestions on what to do to solve this? -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:12:35 -0400 "John Blinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for > > nfs server. > > > I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and > /etc/init.d/nfs > fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't und

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to start slapd after reboot

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Johansson
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Naga wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:34:58 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 23 September 2007, Dan Johansson wrote: > > > Today I rebooted one of my servers and now slapd won't start (it's been > > > running OK until this re

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:00:22 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maxtor was very unhelpful and linux-illiterate. I > won't be buying another drive from them if I can avoid > it. MAxtor sucks in my opinion. Seagate will replace a warrantied drive without much hassle, and they ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:38:45 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into > hdb and vice versa by changing the jumpers on the two > IDE drives in this particular PC and telling the BIOS > to boot from the 2nd drive. And updating grub a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:54:36 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a dedicated server now and I'll never use a shared system > again. I think the problem would be the internet connection. I've > heard that most ISPs block port 80 so you can't run a webserver from a > "home" connection.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:00:37 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds awesome from a DIY perspective, but this server provides > 100% of my income and I feel like it should be hosted. Maybe I'm > wrong. Does anyone else house a money-critical server in their home? > > - Grant No, I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29:38 -0700 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hours Comcast was down last year: 140 (random outages) Clearly cable is pretty inconsistant; that having been said, mine hasn't ever gone out in the two years I've had it. Of course, I provided my own motorola cable modem

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:45:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Marzan, Richard non Unisys, > > > > > MAxtor sucks in my opinion. Seagate will replace a warrantied > > > > drive > > > > > > And who owns Maxtor?... > > > Microsoft Windows Sucks, but that doesn't mean Xbox

Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
ser. > > > > Any suggestions about available professionals or companies? > > > > thank you > > Pol > > I would be happy to do it. Do you cover travel expenses? > > -- > Albert W. Hopkins > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Ya, sign me up! -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:20:10 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:38:45 -0700 (PDT) > > maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:44 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with "cable-select" > enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard > drive (which are prone to error). > Some bioses also support swapping device

Re: [gentoo-user] No access as normal user to my own.ssh-folder

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:21:26 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ouch. That's file system corruption. You need to fsck that disk right > now. I once saw similar stuff on a reiser filesystem and the only > thing that helped was --rebuild-tree. Good luck on your end. Wrong! In this c

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:45 -0500 forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this, but I need help > finding a chipset for an admitedly cheap tuner. > > The product in question is the Sabrent TV-USB20 tuner (USB-powered). I > have searched google for aw

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:27 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never had cable select work for me - I find it is highly > dependant on the specific IDE cable, drive, and bios combination. I > _always_ use master / slave jumpers, and don't even bother with cable > select. Ev

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-09-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:03:59 -0230 Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to boot a diskless machine, using the instructions in the > alternative installation guide. > > The client boot process hangs, with the following dialog between the > server (192.168.0.2, 00:04:75:7

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:55:40 -0230 Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the configs were the same as the diskless install docs on the > Gentoo alt-install page, with suitable modifications of the ip and MAC > addresses in the dhcpd.conf. I _was using pxegrub but, on a whim, I > tried sy

Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:31:58 -0500 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes > > (during the boot phase)? > > I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot becau

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400 Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 > Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does something like > > '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar? > > > > - Grant > > Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the t

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Grant, > > > For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world, > > /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in > > /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var? > > Othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard > system? > > - Grant Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just the kernel and modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200 Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and > '/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.) > > def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ; > end > > pw = users "/et

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting [solved, I hope]

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:41:43 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dan Farrell, > > > I was going to suggest you avoid pxegrub, but I guess you figured > > that out for yourself. > > What's wrong with pxe grub. I use it and it works, so I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:47:37 +0200 Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, 30. Sep 2007, 20:15:06 -0500 schrieb Dan Farrell: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200 > > Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now I detect

Re: [gentoo-user] diskless booting

2007-10-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:57:05 -0230 Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I had it working on Friday but over the weeekend I tinkered some > more with pixegrub and broke it again. Now pxelinux won't work > either. I've attached my dhcpd.conf, sans rndc-key. Please note that this configu

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