time=1267 ms
Does anyone know how to fix this?
- Grant
re Linux enthusiasts
> running Postfix on their Gentoo boxes.
Yeah, I was planning on setting up postfix on my home Gentoo box too.
I guess I could relay through my ISP to avoid delivery problems like
this.
Why hasn't greylisting been mentioned? I greylist and it ends up
blocking at least 9
se
> DNS to be your domain rather than the generic myhost.com address.
So if I have multiple websites on the same server, I will have to pick
a domain which will resolve for rDNS for all the domains?
- Grant
>> I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection.
>> I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed
>> ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking
>> images, and I'm wondering if there's a
uot; failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c005
I've tried deleting .wine and I've tried running as a normal user and
as root with the same results. Does anyone know how to fix this?
- Grant
l)!
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c005
>
> I've tried deleting .wine and I've tried running
, hence the JDK.
>
> Shawn
Can you tell me the best way to Gentoo all of this? I've now got:
# java-config -L
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1) Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.07 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
2) Sun JDK 1.5.0.16 [sun-jdk-1.5]
*) Sun JDK 1.6.0.07 [sun-jdk-1.6]
and dev-java/sun-jdk in my world file, and it wasn't there before.
Also, emerge world wants to install virtual/jre-1.6.0 and
virtual/jdk-1.6.0. Should I un-emerge sun-jdk-1.5?
- Grant
etter than others. SLC sounds vastly superior compared
to MLC, but also much more expensive.
- Grant
I'm only putting the main system on flash, I could use
a CFcard instead of an SSD. Storing music and videos on flash will be
too expensive for awhile. How does CFcard performance compare to SSD
or conventional hard disk performance?
- Grant
my IO
performance. I've got a 320GB Seagate SATAII drive. How much better
can I do with conventional hard disks? Is there a test I can run to
make sure my Seagate is performing as it should?
- Grant
I just upgraded my AMD X2 4000+ to a 6000+. The fan that came with
the 4000+ always sounded like it had one speed and it was quiet. The
6000+ comes with a fan that seems to have two speeds and the faster
speed is pretty loud. Can I get the fan to never increase to the
higher speed?
- Grant
ncrease to the
>> higher speed?
>
> Search for options in the BIOS. Mine has several profiles for fan behavior
> (temperatures/fan speeds). If yours doesn't, you can use the lm_sensors
> package to set up various fan speeds at various temperatures.
BIOS did it, thank you very much.
- Grant
#x27;http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk'
is not the same repository as
'http://svn.madwifi-project.org'
*
* ERROR: net-wireless/madwifi-ng-svn- failed.
Is there anything I can do about this or does the ebuild need to be
fixed? Does anyone know how to contact je_fro?
- Grant
http://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk
>> svn: 'http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk'
>> is not the same repository as
>> 'http://svn.madwifi-project.org'
>> *
>> * ERROR: net-wireless/madwifi-ng-svn- failed.
>>
>> Is there any
-linux-x86-compat installed and
I have IA32 Emulation enabled in my kernel. Does this mean I need to
set up a 32-bit chroot?
- Grant
e emul-linux-x86-baselibs and emul-linux-x86-compat installed and
> I have IA32 Emulation enabled in my kernel. Does this mean I need to
> set up a 32-bit chroot?
>
> - Grant
A guy on a 64-bit opensuse is telling me that tsmuxer runs fine for
him with emulation. Does anyone know what could be wrong with mine?
- Grant
Whenever I try to use an ebuild from bugs.gentoo.org in my local
overlay these days, I get:
# ebuild * manifest
!!! /usr/local/portage/media-sound/songbird/songbird-bin-1.0.0.ebuild
does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.
Does anyone know what's wrong?
- Grant
I guess the problem is that the directory name (songbird) does not
> match to the ebuild name (songbird-bin). Correcting one of them should
> solve the problem.
That was it, thank you very much.
- Grant
>> Does anyone know what's wrong?
>>
>> - Grant
to
start a virtual machine for the first time. There is no terminal
output. The user is in the vboxusers group and I've loaded the
necessary kernel module. I've tried 1.6.6 and 2.0.6.
Does anyone have any sort of idea on either of these?
- Grant
e a lot of noise and heat.
Just looking for advice from experienced storage folk.
- Grant
at info on Blu-Ray on Linux here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-691564.html
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143372
- Grant
inpoints have the reputation of
> being a good mix between cost effectiveness, speed and noise.
Do you think that would result in a greater speed increase than
another Seagate and RAID0?
- Grant
Do I need to do anything for my system to take advantage of AMD's
Hyper-Transport on my 6000+ CPU?
- Grant
arate backup system so I'm not worried about data loss.
I'm interested to hear from anyone who can comment on the perceived
noise increase involved with going from one drive to two. This system
is in the living room and the current hard drive can be heard from the
bedroom.
- Grant
>> Do I need to do anything for my system to take advantage of AMD's
>> Hyper-Transport on my 6000+ CPU?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> no, it should work even if you disable interrupts for hypertransport devices.
> It doesn't harm turning it on.
Great, thank you.
- Grant
y fan. My video
card blew a capacitor the other day and I think it was heat.
- Grant
er system which must be about 10 years old, I'd like to
replace the IDE hard drive with a high capacity drive. High-capacity
IDE drives are pretty much non-existent on newegg.com, but I'd like to
find one around 500GB. Is moving that system over to the new drive as
simple as plugging it in, partitioning, formatting, copying, and
rebooting?
- Grant
w drive as
> simple as plugging it in, partitioning, formatting, copying, and
> rebooting?
I forgot to ask, if the new drive is ATA100 and the old motherboard
can only do ATA33 or something, will they still work together?
- Grant
> Grant,
> I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this
> list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that
> partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do
> resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. I
bugged, that is a known quantity and that is proven to have excellent
> performance. In-kernel software RAID also has an impressive array of working
> features, and often out-performs even decent hardware RAID cards.
>
> Which isn't to say that hardware RAID is a bad thing, there are some
> spectacular cards out there. They do tend to be pricey though.
That's a great explanation, thank you very much.
- Grant
a hard drive. With all these
potential points of failure, how much greater system reliability do
mirrored hard drives really offer?
- Grant
an SLC SSD drive?
I actually did lose one or two laptop hard drives now that I think
about it. The other stuff:
power supply - cheapness
video cards - heat
modem - lightning
motherboard and CPU - overclocking (never again)
- Grant
what sort of issues the disparity in speed would cause.
I thought the drives had to be identical.
- Grant
avoid, etc?
- Grant
ing to watch
>> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
> You should take a look at this one:
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Move_Gentoo_Installation_to_new_hard_disk
Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
everythi
drive. Is there anything to watch
>>> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>> You should take a look at this one:
>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Move_Gentoo_Installation_to_new_hard_disk
>
> Thank you, I've booted t
on my new drive. Is there anything to watch
>>>> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc?
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>>
>>> You should take a look at this one:
>>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Move_Gentoo_Installation_to_new_hard_disk
ions
> would be nice. I mean, all system files, the portage tree, and the
> distfiles should fit into 50G with no problem, having a 50G reserved
> space really is silly.
Can I change the amount reserved for root?
- Grant
oo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
- Grant
complete reinstall. I'd like
to change to hardened/amd64/multilib but also have the option to
switch to default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop if I have problems with a
hardened profile like I do on my laptop. Can I do all that?
- Grant
ty quick.
I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a
hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't
do that.
You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will
accomplish the entire thing?
- Grant
gt; accomplish the entire thing?
>>
>
> Are you wanting to switch *to* hardened or *from* hardened? Your
> previous message seemed to indicate the former. If the latter, I
> honestly don't know but seriously doubt it.
I was wondering about both situations. Thanks, I appreciate your help.
- Grant
ke.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Aug 14 2007 /etc/make.profile ->
/usr/portage/profiles/hardened/x86/2.6
# eselect profiles list
!!! Error: Can't load module profiles
Killed
I just re-emerged eselect with the same result. Does anyone know
what's wrong here?
- Grant
;m really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a
>> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't
>> do that.
>>
>> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will
>> accomplish the entire thing?
>
> no, you have to do -e system first because system does not belong to world
> anymore (for a couple of month it does not belong to world anymore. 6 or
> something like that).
So a complete system recompile now requires 'emerge -e world' and
'emerge -e system'?
- Grant
dened
[4] default/linux/x86/2008.0
[5] default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
[6] default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
[7] default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
[8] hardened/linux/x86
Is there a difference between 1 and 8? I may switch to 8 since that
seems like a more current one.
- Grant
ghts? Maybe test on your rig to see if you get the same?
I think I'm getting system included within world too.
- Grant
>> I think I'm getting system included within world too.
>
> Check /var/lib/portage/world_sets
That file doesn't exist on my system.
- Grant
I have 3 Gentoo systems on a wireless network, one of which is the
firewall/router. Sometimes any traffic to one of the systems
effectively freezes traffic on the whole network. Does anyone know
what might cause that? It's tough to investigate because it doesn't
happen all the time.
- Grant
matic system connected wirelessly and the router being a Gentoo
system right?
- Grant
>> > Check /var/lib/portage/world_sets
>>
>> That file doesn't exist on my system.
>
> Which version of portage are you using? Sets are a feature of the
> 2.2 branch, as is the separate @system and 'world.
OK, I'm using portage-2.1.4.5. It's the latest amd64.
- Grant
The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to
troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it
doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system.
Can anyone help with this?
- Grant
>> The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to
>> troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it
>> doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system.
>> Can anyone help with this?
>>
pset of the audio card? Laptop model?
It's one of those built-in intel-hda cards and the laptop is an Acer.
The mic actually used to work.
- Grant
nyone have suggestions on this?
- Grant
> You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with
> exceptions for the domains you need.
Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges?
- Grant
;
> 1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as
> some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources
>
> or
>
> 2. wget using ftp
>
> or
>
> 3. set up a proxy
>
> The easiest is #2 by far
Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to
make it use ftp?
- Grant
Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that
doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only
for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit.
- Grant
>> > You could use iptables to block all traffic headed to port 80 with
>> > exceptions for the domains you need.
>>
>> Would that cause problems with fetching packages for emerges?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> Why not just put a limit to a traffic f
t;>
>>> The easiest is #2 by far
>>
>> Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to
>> make it use ftp?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>>
>
> I think you would do well to setup a squid proxy and block outbound
> traffic for th
>> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that
>> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only
>> for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit.
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> There are bunch of python web
>> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that
>> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only
>> for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit.
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> I don't think you'll f
good luck :)
> Paul
Thanks Paul. I've been using model=acer and I just tried a couple
others, some worked some didn't. I also tried removing and replacing
my second USB sound card definition. The strange thing is I've come
back to my original config and it's working now. Could another file
have gotten out of order and my playing with the settings got it back
together?
- Grant
del=acer
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
options snd cards_limit=2
- Grant
> Grant wrote:
>
>> That sounds good, how can I do that?
>
> iptables module "owner" handles that stuff, just "man iptables" if
> you'll have any trouble.
>
> iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner someuser -m tcp --dport http -j
> REJ
>>>> Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that
>>>> doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only
>>>> for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit.
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>
Whenever I get the following message in dmesg:
wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon miss count: 11)
the music playing on mpd skips. Does anyone know more about this?
- Grant
> Whenever I get the following message in dmesg:
>
> wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon miss count: 11)
>
> the music playing on mpd skips. Does anyone know more about this?
>
> - Grant
I think this is fixed by downgrading from madwifi-ng-svn- t
>> Whenever I get the following message in dmesg:
>>
>> wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon miss count: 11)
>>
>> the music playing on mpd skips. Does anyone know more about this?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> I think this is fixed by d
should be easy to hack. Should I do that via
an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else?
- Grant
e to access any others. I can
restrict it at the router if necessary because the router is a Gentoo
system.
I think this leaves a squid proxy setup as my only option?
- Grant
.10).
>
> I have to admit this is probably not the way I'd do it, but WHEN YOU WROTE
> IN ALL CAPITALS, I FELT COMPELLED TO REPLY TO YOU.
I was quoting the other thread. Guess I should have used [quote][/quote].
- Grant
> When I asked about content filtering a couple of months ago, e
too/user/175114
>>
>> I really should be implementing this internet filtering this weekend.
>
> Did privoxy go out of business... or just not suitable for the need?
>
> I used to use it a few yrs ago but haven't had the need for quite a
> while now.
What is the advantage of privoxy over squid? Maybe simplicity?
- Grant
too
>> system.
>>
>> I think this leaves a squid proxy setup as my only option?
>
> Restrict by source AND destination IP
>
> This requires only that the computer in question has a static IP or a
> permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of the
> web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, deny
> everything else to destination port 80.
That sounds good, but I won't be able to fetch all updates that
portage might want, right?
- Grant
the computer in question has a static IP or a
>> permanent lease (so you always know what it is), and you know the IP of the
>> web sites to be accessed (dig is a very good friend). Allow these, deny
>> everything else to destination port 80.
>
> That sounds good, but I won'
>> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else?
>
> You can:
>
> 1) use pam as described by Mike
>
> or
>
> 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers"
Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_config since sshd
is the only service ru
fraggod.net
Can anyone tell me how to find out which users on a system have a
login shell (e.g. not /bin/nologin)?
- Grant
ds in the way of gaining root access? The
problem is twice as many passwords to memorize. Even if the 2
passwords are the same, I suppose they would have to come up with the
username too which is a (thin) extra layer.
Is that done with 'AllowUsers user'?
- Grant
any user that has their shell set to /bin/nologin
can't log into a shell. How can I check on users' shell settings?
- Grant
into certain
>> services?
>>
>> For example, I know any user that has their shell set to /bin/nologin
>> can't log into a shell. How can I check on users' shell settings?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> To do this you configure each service separately (there is no ce
of users so that some can only log into certain
>> >> services?
>> >>
>> >> For example, I know any user that has their shell set to /bin/nologin
>> >> can't log into a shell. How can I check on users' shell settings?
>> >>
>>
ably mysql) and for what
>>> you
>>> use, should be listening on localhost only. If you need to connect over
>>> the
>>
>> How can I check to make sure mysql is only listening to localhost? It
>> doesn't show up with nmap.
>>
>> - Grant
>
tarts working again. I'm using
netscape-flash-10.0.15.3. Any ideas?
- Grant
I re-emerge
>> netscape-flash it starts working again. I'm using
>> netscape-flash-10.0.15.3. Any ideas?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> what arch are you running? If am64, try the
> net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha which is a native 64-bit (and
> you can unmerge ns
#x27;t work. If I re-emerge
>>> netscape-flash it starts working again. I'm using
>>> netscape-flash-10.0.15.3. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>
>> what arch are you running? If am64, try the
>> net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha which
I re-emerge
>> netscape-flash it starts working again. I'm using
>> netscape-flash-10.0.15.3. Any ideas?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> what arch are you running? If am64, try the
> net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha which is a native 64-bit (and
> you can unmerge ns
Does anyone know why I get strange output like this:
# uname -r
2.6.25-hardened-r132.6.11-hardened-r1
I should be booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r13.
- Grant
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION for
some reason. It's blank now. Did you write this OS or what?
- Grant
Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox?
This one for example:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html
?
- Grant
/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
[/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined
symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE]
Killed
and I'm re-emerging totem, xulrunner, and firefox to see if that fixes it.
- Grant
I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit
firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer
works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for
java to work?
- Grant
is
> is why it's crashing.
Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes
that's funny.
- Grant
> The only cure is to format the hard-drive. :(
Anyway, I'm getting this in the terminal:
>>
>> $ firefox
>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
>> [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined
>> symbol: _ZN13nsT
s java didn't have a 64-bit browser
> plug-in until very recently.
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java
That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell
me a package name?
- Grant
firefox plugins
> directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last
> time I ran into java on the web.
Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that.
- Grant
lient/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5' NOT merged due to file
* collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
* content of the above message.
- Grant
* /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js
> * /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
> *
> * Package 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5' NOT merged due to file
> * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
&
Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has
changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any
more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to
change this behavior?
- Grant
ound it for you. Go to about:config
>
> layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation
Thank you very much.
- Grant
Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
- Grant
>> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
>> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>>
>>
>
> yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the
> kernel.
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