Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

+ssl -vda 0 kB > > And when i telnet to 25 and issue the ehlo command, i do get AUTH > PLAIN lines... > > whats going on? > > please help > > im racking my brains. > > > > > Joe Strusz > > IT Assistant > Oxford Publishing, Inc. > 307 West Jackson Avenue > Oxford, MS 38655-2154 > 800-247-3881 > 662-236-5510x40 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nightclub.com -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

I was asked a similar question today at work. we have some new gentoo servers that do not have outbound access to the net. We'd like to have a local mirror. Is there a howto? On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi everyone, I am interested in creating a Gentoo mirror for

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

tc. I would STRONGLY second what the other guy said about lvm, though. If you buy a new hard drive, don't just put filesystems and partitions on it, go the LVM route, make the logical volumes small, and don't use the whole drive for lvs, you can grow anything you want later.

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie: Install process @ chroot

On Friday 07 October 2005 06:19, Subba Rao wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first installation of Gentoo. I am at the > section 6.a in the installation manual for 2005.1 > Handbook. I started the installation yesterday (upto > chapter 5.e) and left it since it was quite confusing > to get the syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

irewall. I have > searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any luck. Is anyone > doing this that may have a suggestion/advice for me? just edit sshd_config to tell sshd to listen on port 80 > > > Thanks for your replies, > James -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to know how the current USE variables are set. | I know that "emerge --info" displays a list of all of them, but it | doesn't discriminate where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from > my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am. What do you think? > > - Grant if you just need ssh, you don't need a vpn, just a port forward on your router. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

On Sunday 16 October 2005 15:44, Jonathan Wright wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > >>Basically I have a network back home with a couple Gentoo systems > >>connected and I'd like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from > >>my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

ory > `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make: *** [all] > Error 2 > > !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 83, Exitcode 2 > !!! compile problem > > > > > > > > > > > Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? add -radius to your USE flags? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

you have received this communication in error, > please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately." > > Is this even legally binding? I have a hard time believing that I can't > disclose something someone sent *me* if I didn't sign anything. > Also, every email

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

mount: /dev/sda3: not mounted > > Also, with this method of test, can I test mounting swap from > /dev/sda2? In my existing fstab sda2 is mounted to "none". Does it > make sense to do the following?... > > /dev/sda2/mnt/gentoo/swapswapsw0 0 > > > Thanks, > > Ian -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab? On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:05, Ian Brandt wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > what does "cat /proc/mounts" say? > > # cat /proc/mounts > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 > none /dev devfs rw 0

Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

mtab has the entry that's blocking youwonder if you can just copy /proc/mounts over /etc/mtab.. On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:51, Ian Brandt wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab? > > Not exactly: > > # cat /proc/mounts >

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

ould be looking at? Thanks! > > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ > --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

On Monday 24 October 2005 09:22, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 10/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 24 October 2005 08:33, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Um, ps is itself proprietary. Technically, adobe still owns the patent, > > don't t

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

(MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in place, but this > is the first step we've taken toward making anything available inbound, so > I'm cautiously optimistic. > > -- > Mark > [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- John Jolet Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

n our cable Internet goes out. I pay $99USD a month > for cable Internet with a static IP and the cable usually goes out for a > couple of hours on the weekends (grrr). Other than that I haven't > really had any problems with it... this might be a little off-topic, but zoneedit.com will

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

Anyone confirm? > Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the > default setup for users be located in /usr/home? > Would this cause problems? > Is it non standard? > > Thanks >

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

e this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng > config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. > > Thanks, Allan -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop i

Re: [gentoo-user] a second and third network card: init.d/???

On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:28, Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install a dlink atheros based wireless card (dwl g510). I am stuck at the point of creating initscripts in /etc/init.d/. I already linked /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/i

[gentoo-user] laptop

ll inspiron 1100 and gentoo slid on very easily. Oh, and they want it a grand or under (us dollars). Thanks. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:20, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:04, James wrote: > John Jolet jolet.net> writes: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' light laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0 + NFS = hang

On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bruno Lustosa wrote:On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2hangs. The rest of the applications are working fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:27 pm, John Jolet wrote: ... So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue Some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Elliott Clark wrote: I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some kind of gentoo community run mx bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: internet/lan access control

gt; your network again, with a variety of tools, to ensure robust content > control and sufficient security. > > I'll assume you want the easy, minimal_pain route to controlling your > networks, so I'll let the others pitch easy solutions, that allow > use of software packag

[gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

ssh authentication, and ssh as the transport. Thanks. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

On Thursday 27 October 2005 09:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:06:43 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > We're trying to set up a local portage repository for our webservers to > > use, as we'd like our webservers to NOT have compilers and other dev > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Veritas Backup Exec 10d

5629-0 > librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by VRTSralus-10.00.5629-0 > > So, My question is - Can I install the above and would this work or am I > on a loosing battle here... > > I guess I would just download the RPM's for the above and install - > right ? > > Anyone else using BEv10d and has had the same problem ? > > Thanks > > Mal -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

> > > > HTH. > > > > -- Joe > > > > -- > > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: > > Those who can count, and those who can't. > > > > Money can't buy everything. > > Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Digby R. S. Tarvin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

On Thursday 27 October 2005 16:43, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: > > Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses > > from the command line rsync --rsh="ssh -l username" server::module/files > > successful

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

ould be a hard disk failure > coming your way! sounds like a heating issue, maybe too. Although, if cpu usage is high, mayb ememory is, too. if you've got a bad spot on the disk where swap is, you'll get that behavior. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] local portage server

ome files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(513)" in my rsync log on the server. where is that timestamp file supposed to come from? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

On Friday 28 October 2005 12:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:23:08 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > Okay, thanks for the advice, turns out rsyncd must be running for the > > rsync:// syntax to work. Next step, when I do an emerge --sync, I get > > " r

Re: [gentoo-user] network questions

On Oct 28, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Richard Fish wrote: capsel wrote: 1. I have 2 computers, first is directly connected to lan with IP 10.0.0.3 and gateway 10.0.0.1 and has second NIC with IP 10.0.0.4 connected to second computer with IP 10.0.0.5 {LAN}--[10.0.0.3|GENTOO|10.0.0.4]---[10.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

ne another, not be miss manners. > In otherwords..."don't top post and trim your replies". > > -Richard -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

On Friday 28 October 2005 14:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:14:33 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > You should have got that when you synced the server with one of the > > > Gentoo mirrors. the file is at ${PORTDIR}/metadata/timestamp.chk > > > > s

Re: [gentoo-user] file with IP?

s and > take appropriate actions on change of IP. man dhcpcd. there's a .cache file and a .info file...I think in /var/lib/dhcpc > > -- > Jorge Almeida -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

x27;ve entered the realm of religious viewpoints. I prefer clamav. > > Many thanks > Robert > -- > Robert Persson > > "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." > (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT D

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL issue

On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 07:49 am, C. Beamer wrote: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) I googled for this and gather that it has something to do with the placement o

Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem

-- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem

that's one of those things that you can stare at ALL day and ever see the missing "s". I usually call another admin over after 30 minutes of that sort of thing. :) On Sunday 06 November 2005 17:09, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:30, John Jolet wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

ctly > entitled to stick to your no-so-bright way, but you can't stop us > thinking that defending those *wrong* ways are somewhat arrogant. > > Again, good luck with your server maintenance. > > -- Joe > > -- > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: > Those who can count, and those who can't. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 12:33, Michael Shaw wrote: > What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for > something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. acutally, vim will do php and perl syntax highlighting. > > Thanks, >

Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

areChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

0/24. And simply set > gateway on 3-5 to point at the gentoo box. Then setup IPtables to > prevent those machines from talking beyond local lan in or out. > > Something like deny everything, then allow only a list of `safe' IPs > on the local lan. > > So again: > Can I do all this without hardwiring 3-5 direct to the Gentoo box. > That is, just by setting it as gateway on each of them. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:56, Harry Putnam wrote: > John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. > > look at the schedule setups. set them up only to be able to access > > the internet for, say a second

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

> 1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) > server(good with gentoo). > > > > -- > ... > "The future lies ahead." > ___ > < Have you mooed today? > > > \ ^__^ > \

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

is one's a bitummm...graphic? > "Lagrangian Mechanics with Differential Equations is like masturbating. You > do what works and what makes you feel good." > ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21:59 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

you don't even need to chroot. just mount / on /mnt/gentoo, etc should be there, edit the file and sync;unmount; reboot On Nov 14, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Mark wrote: I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) wi

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Mark wrote: Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls all I see is boot and lost+found you sure /dev/hda3 is your correct partition? Did I make a bigger mess than I

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: (I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you new install). So instead of mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo you need mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo where

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

On Monday 14 November 2005 16:54, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the John Jolet: > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > > (I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) > > > > > > I looks as though you had /boot on a separat

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

not after that search engine crud they pulled a few years ago. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

t and Thawte are the best known (but I don't say they > are the best). ha! verisign bought thawte a few years ago... > > You may try using self-signed certificate, or get one from cacert\ > free of charge: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_cacert.org_SSL_certificates > > Jar

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

Thanks! > > > > You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then > > execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another > > editor if you like. > > > > Regards, > > Petteri -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

come home and ssh in to restart > > > everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. > ifplugd works, at least at the ethernet level. > > > many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to > > connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you

Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question

ount to any of them > gives me "not a valid block devices". > Cheers > Antoine -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Mick wrote: Guys, this is ridiculous! Every time I want to print something from my main Linux machine I have to physically disconnect the printer from the second box and connect it to this one. The way this is going I will soon need to buy another parallel po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:28 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thanks John, Let me understand this right: Have you installed cups on the laptop? Any printer drivers? When you run localhost:631 in a browser on your laptop, what do you see under printers when the laptop is connected to the mac and what w

Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing

silly question, but...any firewalling on the host? or client for that matter? On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thank you Holly, -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2005 13:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RE: Home Network Printing

allow port 631tcp and udp. On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Mick wrote: Richard Fish wrote: First, let me say that I don't have this setup, but based on /usr/share/doc/cups-1.1.23-r4/html/ipp.pdf, you should have something like: ipp://192.168.0.3/printers/Compaq-HP Wey-hey! It WORKS! :-D Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Add subject to mails CLI Postfix

mail -s On Dec 3, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, I'm using Postfix on my PC. Some of my programs send mails to me. For example Cron and Smartd. Cron mails have subject, but smartd try to use sendmail -s but sendmail says it is invalid argument. How can I send mails with subject

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

getting this to work?John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

ugh, so depending on your workload, your milage may vary. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux laptop. It's a gateway model M1675 laptop It has fairly standard hardware, all of which

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

that no longer exists.at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch.On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a "win4lin

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal i

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side I've not used others, but i've been using teamspeak with a co-worker

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:26 +0100, PayPal Security Service wrote: Dear valued PayPal member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your acc

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On 12/18/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1) ja

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd where is the docu

mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plowing thru the piles of documentation on gentoo.org looking for something that tells me where initrd's come from and how they are built. Amid the litterally thousands of hits

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? hmm, that may be. I prefer not to bother wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics?

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs to find out how must

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see it. I've opened up port 53 on my router so that extra-network hosts could use it, but they still can't. I'm not run

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:23 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

Sure, it's somebody's fault! We can start with blaming the Microsoft's Jscript development team, and follow up with the ECMA standards body for trying to compromise between the two existing versions of J[ava] script. After that, we should go after Netscape and IE both for creating two differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

On Dec 21, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: A mixed system is not stable. I doubt many people run all stable save for one package, not that there's anything wrong with that. But when you have a lot of packages in package.keywords, you're best of switching to a full testing system,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe... the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe). Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot runlevel it switches to runlevel 5 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that "rpm -ivh Win4Lin..." generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: office (2 floors) Can you drill through walls? yes! Are they all in the same room? no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors Why are you networking them? sharing Internet + other normal data sharing stuff What sort of traffic do you expect bet

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware tests

On Dec 23, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 12/23/05, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, not the gentoo question however i have box that is failing to work, constant reboots so there isn't way to install any OS. I was runing memtest86 from Knoppix without errors,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

On Dec 24, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Peter wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:35:37 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: snip... With respect, "officially" Pro and Server are separate products--that is, Pro will run Win2k and WinXP while the current Server product (WTS 3.0) will only run Win9x. I thought you mea

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/ files from one box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar" or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system Gabriel Dain or get another virtual terminal (with x running, it's shift-alt f2, or shift-control f2, i forget which). that will give

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight int

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

Thanks :) "Warning: Do not "just" change the values of these two monitor related variables without consulting the technical specifications of your monitor. Setting incorrect values lead to out-of-sync errors at best and smoked up screens at worst."

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, kashani wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: Wow, you got some wacky ass answers on this. First off telneting to the port should work as long as you're on the same box since it's supposed to be running

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:53 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:41 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife's home desktop is a De

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: Hi list! I'm having a bit of a problem with LVM2 on Gentoo. See, I have a computer with a couple of hard drives in an LVM, and when it boots, I can see it loading the driver modules for the controller cards properly (I've added them to /etc/mo

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