I'm running into a problem while testing my install scripts on the
minimal CD. as I try to fix failures, and unmount disks to restart
installation process, reasonably frequently, I cannot unmount my target
drive even though there is nothing on the drive that I can see.
unfortunately lsof isn't
A. Khattri wrote:
Check you dont have /proc mounted on that drive (you should see that by
running "mount"). Im assuming you dont have a shell open using a dir on
that drive? Also check what else is running that might be using something
on that drive.
/mnt/gentoo/proc was the sticking point. I also
Ivan Lucian Aron wrote:
i have no idea, they stopped working for me 2 days ago. and they all timeout.
https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/pipermail/timekeepers-bulletin/2005/000569.html
may be of interest. maybe the gentoo project could contribute a server
or two to the project?
--- eric
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in playing with USB flash drives on systems with SCSI disks, every time
I boot with the flagstick installed, it gets assigned to /dev/sda and
the SCSI drives are assigned to subsequent /dev/sdX device names. But
when I remove the USB drive, all assignments shift down and things like
mount poin
Matan Peled wrote:
Better idea:
Write a udev rule so that you'll get symlinks, such as:
/dev/usbkey /dev/camera /dev/widget /dev/foo /dev/bar ...
should have pointed out that I am doing this from live CD. Looks like
I'm going to need a custom live CD version no matter what I do. hmmm
yet
Matan Peled wrote:
Better idea:
Write a udev rule so that you'll get symlinks, such as:
/dev/usbkey /dev/camera /dev/widget /dev/foo /dev/bar ...
I hate it when a thought occurs to me just after I hit to send button.
this means I would need to write udev rules to create symbolic links for
e
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml says:
# nano -w /usr/portage/net-mail/mailman/mailman-$ver.ebuild
MAILGID="280"
(Set MAILGID to the mailman group instead of nobody
This is needed for postfix integration.)
and building fails with
!!! Digest verification Failed:
!!!/usr/porta
Tim Igoe wrote:
try this instead
ebuild mailman-2.1.6_rc4.ebuild digest
thank you that helped. Now I am fighting problems that are my own
dammed fault.
---eric
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The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is t
I'm trying to migrate some people away from active directory and I'm
trying to figure out if there is anything better than NIS for directory
service. I know folks are using LDAP but my last encounter with LDAP
left me with flashbacks of the carnage especially in the area of
replication and bac
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:29 +, James wrote:
Hello,
I do not read as much as I should, but, I stumbled across this page [1]
that suggests that EVMS is dead. I see it is in portage, but is it
slated for the trash, as time moves forward? Sure it's Ubuntu site, but
they cl
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:01:28 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
If you machine dies and your backups are
"inadequate", you may want to try and recover the disc by putting it
into another system. How? If you didn't back up a bunch of magic
information fr
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
heap. It's a classic example of "second system syndrome" as defined by
"the mythical Man month".
Errh, what?
rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and the first five chapters
are as relevant today as they were when it was first published. It explains why
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What "VGA scan"?
sorry, speech recognition error.
WFM. You must be doing something strange.
no, I'm what speech recognition researchers call a goat. I take your bright
shiny toys, and just by hol
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
heap. It's a classic example of "second system syndrome" as defined by
"the mythical Man month".
Errh, what?
rtfb it was published in 1972, is still in print and
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Gentoo is not for newbies, nor for people who want to hide everything, that
is why I send asking newbies to SuSE (which is IMHO a nice base to start
from), or people, who just want something lean to slackware, and 'please
don't bother me with technicallities like - w
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no, sensibility. gentoo is in a big part a do it yourself distri, way to
overwhelming for a poor newbie. The first real error will freak him out and
if he had not some quality time with gentoo before by doing some basic stuff,
he will even not be able to disinguish a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:03:53 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Seriously, I have a half a dozen machines running here and the fact that
I have to spend hours every couple of weeks to update
Why does it take hours to type "emerge world -uavD", review the results
and p
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Saturday 09 April 2005 02:41, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:03:53 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Seriously, I have a half a dozen machines running here and the fact that
I have to spend hours every couple of weeks to update
Why
Peter Gordon wrote:
If you're further interested, I've posted a thread[1] in Gentoo's DT&T
forum
that has more information.
[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871.html
Peter, since I point out things that are bad, I should also point out
what I consider good and I consider your documen
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
Matthew Cline wrote:
I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to
deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile
and moving the kernel around and such.
What's wrong with make && make modules_install && make install?
prob
Mike Williams wrote:
On Monday 11 April 2005 23:18, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
;);) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error
came up)
I always leave it mounted since it makes little real difference
security wise. seriously, what does it protects you against when a
compromis
I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there
any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD
and install everything via serial console?
thanks,
---eric
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The result of the duopoly that curren
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
people has used the ps2 mouse attach too ;) some crazy boy that wanted
to attach 3 monitors and keyboard to one pc.
twisted man, twisted. ohh wait that is another system.. ;-)
No idea on how to change default input in a boot cd.
was afraid of
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there
| any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD
| and install everything vi
I frequently find myself fetching packages then building. Reading
through the emerged documentation that does not seem to be any way to do
both in one step fetch first, and then if successful, fetch second?
I tried:
emerge -fDva world && emerge -uDv world
which only mostly prefetched files (mis
Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:47, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
I frequently find myself fetching packages then building. Reading
through the emerged documentation that does not seem to be any way to do
both in one step fetch first, and then if successful, fetch second?
I tried
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
I tried:
emerge -fDva world && emerge -uDv world
which only mostly prefetched files (misssed a bunch).
Because you're missing the -u on the first emerge?
*Do'H* thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious.
--
ht
this is all portage's fault.. ;-)
my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk
space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I
clean up the mess)
what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonable set?
I clean but that never see
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
this is all portage's fault.. ;-)
my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk
space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I
clean up the mess)
what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonabl
since it is taking me forever to get around to writing these up in
putting them on a web page (web sites are so 1990s) I figured I would
cast these bits upon the electronic waters and accept any bug fixes that
may return.
I present for your amusement, a series of scripts which will, if I
haven
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
This is not totally true, default useflag changes because
"emerge --sync" update profiles or because you 've installed a
particular package.
This mean that after an emerge --sync sometimes run
emerge --update --deep --newuse world
is needed *twice* not only one time (t
last time I checked, one could not do two or more emerges at the same
time. Which raises the question would be OK to do an emerge fetch in
one process and a straight emerge on the same set of files on a second?
The rationale behind this is that if you can be fetching files prior
to the time y
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
Probably, I can't see the whole range of effects, not having --update in
the first emerge.
obviously, I need to do more experimentation to understand the behavior.
Although I will admit I'm running out of package I need to install. ;-)
BTW Why you want to "fetch-all
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
if I haven't forgotten something...
famous last words... I forgot a few things. but this version puts you
much closer to having a working system in 90 minutes or less. All you
need to do is:
boot off of life CD
mkdir /mnt/flash
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash #(
trying to put gentoo on a dell 5000 with an ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
chipset. Xorg native ati drivers gives me a blank screen, the ati
drivers don't support this chip, and the workaround driver (vesa) gives
me garbarge display.
any suggestions or am I hosed till some future Xorg release?
-
Richard Fish wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
trying to put gentoo on a dell 5000 with an ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP
2x chipset. Xorg native ati drivers gives me a blank screen, the ati
drivers don't support this chip, and the workaround driver (vesa)
gives me garbarge display.
any suggestio
Richard Fish wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Richard Fish wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109
nothing works. blech. time to load up w2k again and wait 6 months for
this lappy.
--- eric
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http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=xorg
how can I get the hard masked Xorg. notes indicate it has the ati
patches i need.
--- eric
--
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The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is that
prices and service suck. We
I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with
Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working
configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me
why or where.
so I'm looking for an alternative. What I need is something that has
th
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
I think cherokee can do most of those. Oh, and whatever you do, stay
away from monkeyd.
I've just installed the ebuild for Cherokee but I can't find the
documentation (only generic install and README). I've also looked on
the web site and the documentation
isn't apparently
Panos Laganakos wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
I've heard that roxen has a nice http server. Give it a try and give
some feedback if it turns out to be good.
having looked at it, it strikes me is being almost as complex as Apache
and it's not something I feel comfortable with. I
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2005 14:15:03 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
..
| the web site and the documentation
| isn't apparently there.
Uh, yeah, the docs aren't one of cherokee's strong points :)
the same is true Apache except they
A. Khattri wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
I have spent a way too much time in the past week screwing around with
Apache configurations. The final straw was when I took a working
configuration, change the domain name and it failed without telling me
why or where.
apachectl
any pointers on how to fix the emerge update based hoseage ??
*** Gentoo sanity check failed! ***
*** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
*** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) ***
Please run:
libtoolize --copy --force
if appropriate, please contact the maintainer of this
pa
Edward Catmur wrote:
libtoolize needs to be run within the ebuild (at the end of src_unpack).
Check bugs.gentoo.org.
thanks I see the problems listed there
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The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is that
prices and s
I'm helping some people using gentoo and one of the tasks is the
production of flash memory updates for the firewall. The script for
producing flash images contains calculations determining sector offsets
so that the disk image can be treated as a partitioned disk.
Is there anyway to treat a
Richard Fish wrote:
Maybe user-mode linux or vmware could be useful for this...
I'm using qemu to run the firewall which in turn creates a self flash
memory image of itself. Maybe you are right though I should look into
the virtual machine as the framework from which I generate the flash
Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
I'm using qemu to run the firewall which in turn creates a self flash
memory image of itself. Maybe you are right though I should look into
the virtual machine as the framework from which I generat
Colin wrote:
On Aug 2, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
Hi there,
I was wondering what tools should I use to detect security flaws to
my server and a few tips on how to use them. What are the most common
forms of attack and how do I avoid being attacked by one
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
He claims that if someone invades my machine, it will have direct
access to all data. That I have to distribute the database, put it in
another machine and have the web application access that database over
the network. I feel this is a bit overkill. N
I need feedback on this cunning plan.
I have five (virtual machine) systems which are mostly identical.
Originally I customized each one with a different set of use flags.
Each one has a different set of applications with a common core. I
started updating them last night and woke up this morn
Michael Crute wrote:
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
-Mike
no I had not. look like just what I need. also looks like putting it
in place would be faster than waiting for the current set of updates to
finish.
thanks!!!
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Michael Crute wrote:
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
-Mike
no I had not. look like just what I need. also looks like putting it
in place would be faster than waiting for the current set of
Michael Crute wrote:
Hmm not to be insulting but:
no, it is not insulting at all. One must always make sure that the
devices plugged into the wall.
* Is NFS Running
on the server and, yes showmount and mounting devices loopback work
* Is there a firewall on either host (and if so are th
Michael Crute wrote:
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host
to put it politely, this how-to is misleading. It should be removed.
problem 1: assumes automounter works. I was not able to get automounter
to function and had to resort
Michael Crute wrote:
Bingo... edit it please... share your experiences and put down the right
way to do it.
I will if I can extract the right way to do it from all the blind alleys
I've been down. I'm currently looking into the chroot jail problem for
shell scripts.
---eric
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trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error.
Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome
thanks in advance
--- eric
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Holly Bostick wrote:
Eric S. Johansson schreef:
trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error.
Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'
suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome
thanks in advance
--- eric
I just
for some reason I've got a couple of daemons that keep going out to
lunch on me. Are there any good tools for monitoring daemons and
possibly restarting them when they go away?
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updated a couple of machines to 2005.1+ sometime in the past month.
Everything went fine or so I thought. Had to reboot one of the machines
today. It wouldn't boot. Everything started okay or so it seemed
except eth0 wasn't present. The module was compiled in the kernel, the
configuration w
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
The problem was /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.lo were the
same. The net.eth0 code was overwritten with the lo code.
This happened on two machines and I&#x
Willie Wong wrote:
Is net.eth0 a symlink to net.lo? If not, remove net.eth0 and symlink
it to net.lo.
wasn't and did. now fighting with squirrelmail upgrade and apache ssl
not fun day.
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