Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: sounds like you're using device mapper as a module...compile it into the kernel. module loading happens too late Thanks for your reply, but I seriously doubt that to be the problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Mick wrote: On 06/04/06, evader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, netstat -rn Your default gateway is likely to be the proxy. Sorry guys, I should have explained better: These WinXP desktops have been locked down beyond belief! Most commands have been removed fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Mick wrote: On 06/04/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: they locked the desktops down, but still let you boot from a cd? how moronic. He, he, they didn't lock the BIOS. ;-) you're probably dealing with a transparent proxy. the defaul

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs troubles

2006-04-14 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 14, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 14 April 2006 03:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: If you have smart enabled (and you should have) and smartmontools installed (you should have done that too), smart can tell you, if it is a hardware problem (which is pretty probably

[gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread John Jolet
Trying to set up a new server using evms, but the howto on the gentoo site seems very old and incomplete. is there a better/more complete one? basically, i've got 3 hot-swappable scsi drives, but no raid controller.. I want to end up with lvm logical volumes on top of a software raid-5.

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 09:14, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] evms': Trying to set up a new server using evms, but the howto on the gentoo site seems very old and incomplete. basically

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:22 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used the info on the EVMS site and there is a wiki entry which helped quite a bit. I'm not at home so I don't have the wiki entry but I found it via a search on evms + Gentoo. I like EVMS as it makes managing the disks much easier

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread John Jolet
> I've never needed any of the few additional features EVMS provides. (The > only one that comes to mind right now is BBR, which modern HDs already > do.) It /can/ make things a /little/ easier, since it allows you to resize > a block device and the filesystem (or whatever) on top of it with a sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 2:25 PM, "Bob Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
>> echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> next time you execute 'startx', kde will startup. >> >> for GNOME, execute this command first >> >> echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> then startx will bring gnome up. > > I think the more "offical" way is to uncomment the following lines >

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 11:41 PM, "Martins Steinbergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / >> >> When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get >> a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 1:41 PM, "Erik Zeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote: >>> You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files >>> could accidentally get owned to another users or have its perm

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 6:22 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a postfix mailserver setup on my system that uses pam for > authentication. I can recieve email just fine, but whenever I try to > send mail, my logs say that the connection to the server timed out on > port 25. Does a

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 6:40 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #netstat -an|grep 25 > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 109125 > > > On 4/25/06, Jo

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
ed out (port 25) > Apr 25 19:15:52 casusbelli postfix/smtp[23908]: 9CA9636623: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=30, status=deferred > (connect to smtp.freeshell.org[192.94.73.18]: Connection timed out) > > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 7:48 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not at all. I wanted to actually get the server up before I got that set up. > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/25/06 7:16 PM, &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
65, and the > windows computer on the netwok is 192.168.1.64, so in main.cf, > mynetworks is set to 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.0/8, is this correct? > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so you are attempting to send the email from a windows box, through the ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 8:47 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't > want anything to do with my ISP's mail. I just mentioned the router > and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was > right, becau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes On 4/25/06 9:11 PM, "Maurice E Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, Here's how this works. Many (nearly all)  primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP (this means y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 9:14 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NO!!! I HAVE SBC!!! AND IT HANGS! I guess I will just have to gateway > through my isp. Thanks for the help. > > Well, my co-worker called them and they unblocked it for him. You could try that. Gating through your isp isn

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread John Jolet
On 4/26/06 1:55 PM, "Teresa and Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harald Arnesen wrote: > >> "Michael Crute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >>> I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel >>> 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the

[gentoo-user] openvpn multiple tunnels

2006-04-27 Thread John Jolet
ed on my system and i can't find any reference to the format/options. can someone point me to a readme or howto on how to start a particular tunnel? 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] openvpn multiple tunnels

2006-04-27 Thread John Jolet
> What you need to do is create a .conf file for your second > tunnel, and then link /etc/init.d/openvpn to /etc/init.d/. > Then you can start the second tunnel with either "/etc/init.d/ > start", or by using rc-update to add to the runlevel of your > choice. For example: > > cp /etc/openvpn/open

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

2006-04-29 Thread John Jolet
d /mnt/gentoo > tar -zxvpf tmp/dev.tar.gz > cd / > umount /mnt/gentoo > reboot > > Jim that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll encounter other problems down the road is udev enabled in the kernel? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 51

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
get to the grub command line and do "find /boot/grub/grub.conf"? what drives/partitions does it show that being on? if you set this up right, it should find it on both. also, remember in fdisk to set the /dev/sda9 partion's boot flag. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:30, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. > In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel > receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool > if you graduate from the simple command line.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
7;ed > environment tabs are just moving the cursor to the right. > >Let me know what other info you might need to make another guess. > >Thanks again for your help! > > Cheers, > Mark the find command i meant for you to run was at boot time..hit "e" when

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
ires a storage system that can take > 2gb files of those, the systemimager is the only one you can really do a pxeboot and install from. but as I said, it requires some work and an infrastructure (including an image server and dhchp server you control) -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Depar

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage > > system that can take > 2gb files > > I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, > can

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
/spool/mail/${USER} | formail +1 -ds sendmail -oem ${USER} > > > > I don't know if it is working, it is not my idea. But you must have > > alias defined before, otherwise it would be delivered probably to > > the same mailbox (maybe infinite loop?)... > > > > Jarry > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread John Jolet
gt; as usual. > > What happened to sshd??? > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD is UseDNS set to yes? maybe that value changed, or for whatever reason your looksup are no longer working. sounds like a dns timeout. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 5/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. > > > It u

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread John Jolet
On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths o

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimu

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 7:15 AM, El Nino wrote: pls see my below answers... On 5/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: > dear list friends, > > i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb

Re: [gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 4:48 PM, ted leslie wrote: Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble. I assume things are alot more refined now. I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin

2006-05-11 Thread John Jolet
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello list, I am setting up rsh and rlogin services between machines x1 and x2. Following info on the web I go it working from x1 to x2. However when going from x2 to x1 I get: x2$ rsh x1 uptime poll: protocol failure in circuit setup x2$ rlogin x1 rcmd: x1: Conne

Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-12 Thread John Jolet
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if D

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- Sorry to be a pest on this, but I was unable to verify this

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-18 Thread John Jolet
Jerry wrote: I am setting up gentoo on another computer and cannot get shorewall to start properly. I had used another version of shorewall previously but cannot get 3.0.4 to work. I have read and tried to follow the instruction in /usr/share/doc/shorewall-3.0.4/Samples/one-interface but no

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread John Jolet
On May 25, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken. I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even remember how I set them up. They Just Ran (TM). For a short while, ssh connection

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
Password: debug1: packet_send2: adding 32 (len 25 padlen 7 extra_pad 64) debug2: input_userauth_info_req debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 0 debug1: packet_send2: adding 48 (len 10 padlen 6 extra_pad 64) debug1: ssh-userauth2 successful: method keyboard-interactive debug3: clear hostkey

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
Okay, I set LogLevel=DEBUG3 and reloaded sshd, but I got no more output than usual: May 27 09:14:55 treat sshd[11739]: Received SIGHUP; restarting. May 27 09:14:55 treat sshd[2352]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. May 27 09:15:31 treat sshd[2356]: Connection from 64.166.164.53 port 32776 Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
That was the hint I needed. It's /bin/bash, which reminded me I just changed something in .bashrc which outputs a message and does some other stuff which must be confusing scp. In fact, I just confirmed that by commenting it out. Now scp works too. So: PROBLEM SOLVED. Now I just have t

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
That does not work for ssh/scp sessions. I usually test $PS1 to tell if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an scp session, although .bashrc gets called. can you give us an example of what your .bashrc looks like? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-28 Thread John Jolet
On May 28, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 5/27/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That does not work for ssh/scp sessions. I usually test $PS1 to tell > if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an > scp session, > although .ba

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHD running under Linux, SSH running under Windoz

2006-05-29 Thread John Jolet
On May 29, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, Sorry you all because of the Windoze usage. I have a SSHD server running in my computer at home, and it does work really well (as the apache server that I have too). I've configured SSHD server to forward X11, so when I do co

Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-05-31 Thread John Jolet
On May 31, 2006, at 2:57 AM, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in order to run backups to the server from my other machines. I have a very simple rsyncd.conf file, (see below), and from what I can tell, I should be able to rsync some

Re: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem... - Email found in subject

2006-05-31 Thread John Jolet
On May 31, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi John, unless you say otherwise, rsync uses ssh. unless you set it up to use key authentication, ssh will require a password. Ah. Makes sense. How do I tell it *not* to use ssh? As I said, I don't need it to be secure, just simple - the rsy

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