Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios

2007-09-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I want to monitor that a webcam is up & functioning. When I use the > > check_http Nagios command the webcam returns a request for passwd > > authentication. This is bec

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios

2007-09-09 Thread Mick
hat setting up a plain unauthenticated user on his webcam will not be against his security policy. Thanks again. If you've got some more ideas please let me know - I was wondering if there is a Nagios plugin somewhere that manages the authentication part. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios

2007-09-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Thanks again. If you've got some more ideas please let me know - I was > > wondering if there is a Nagios plugin somewhere that manages the > > authentication part. > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multiple ethernets

2007-09-12 Thread Mick
net.examples but somehow I've missed something else. > > > > Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > > Yep, Never even thought about udev files.. > I need a vacation. You could run udevstart first and see how (what order) it picks them up in.

Re: [gentoo-user] Tomcat+portlet

2007-09-12 Thread Mick
led Tomcat and can't remember what I did to get it going. Have you had a look here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Apache_Ant_and_Jakarta_Tomcat The linked document suggest to cp your portletdriver.war into /opt/tomcat-6/webapps/ or something like that. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Automated "emerge -e world"

2007-09-12 Thread Mick
n has nothing to do with snakes, although it does share a common > history with spam :) There's also the update script mentioned in this GWN: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070723-newsletter.xml HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-15 Thread Mick
re if pam will allow you to do what you want (perhaps it is a matter of setting it up accordingly, but haven't looked into it). Have you tried removing pam to see if login without passwds can happen? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST

2007-09-15 Thread Mick
sr/share/zoneinfo/ directory. For example, some common values are > # "America/New_York" or "EST5EDT" or "Europe/Berlin". > > TIMEZONE="GB" or if you look into /usr/share/zoneinfo/ a bit deeper: TIMEZONE="Europe/London" -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-15 Thread Mick
60.0 360x20060.0 320x24060.0 400x30060.0 512x384 60.0 832x62460.0 == xrandr --output --auto doesn't change things and xrandr --output TV --on brings up the --help page. Anyone else noticed this & found a fix? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-15 Thread Mick
. Any ideas? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-16 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:56:32 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it happens I noticed that my TV out also stopped working recently. > > However, I run ATI not nvidia. I blamed the latest xorg-server for it &g

Re: [gentoo-user] In-Kernel Standby [Fork of Standby]

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
to hibernation taking place. Modems and USB devices are the usual suspects. If you run out of space it will tell you so in syslog. Now someone more knowledgeable could build this up a bit. ;-) HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007, Mick wrote: > > I am using playsound in KDE to play system sounds, but it has stopped > > working: > > > > $ /usr/bin/playsound chimes.wav > > /usr/bin/playsound: error while loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Mick, > > > $ /usr/bin/playsound MUSIC/chimes.wav > > /usr/bin/playsound: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.7: > > cannot open shared object file: N

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
nce this thread to resolve my confusion. Are we in agreement that there is something wrong on this occasion - should I file a bug? Or a 'feature request? Or wait until it happens again? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 September 2007, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Somewhat puzzled that a emerge -upDv world before I remerged flac did not > > pick these up . . . > > That can happen if sdl-sound is not in the worldfile and is not depended > upon, directly or indire

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 September 2007, Mike Williams wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007 15:33:54 Mick wrote: > > This is how I understood that is should work too.  If for what ever > > reason it doesn't rebuild the above packages itself, it should either say > > why (e.g. keywo

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 September 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007 12:29:20 Mick wrote: > > Checking dynamic linking consistency... > >   broken /usr/bin/playsound (requires  libFLAC.so.7) > >   broken /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflac.so (requires  libFL

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-18 Thread Mick
ibs/libdvdread BTW. win32codecs are necessary to play wmf and other types of files, so I would always set this flag On, just like you show in your emerge --info. Make sure that there is no package.use settings negating this. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-18 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007, Mick wrote: > > = > > # emerge -upDv media-libs/sdl-sound > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calcul

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail CRLF characters

2007-09-18 Thread Mick
=46or some users I want to only allow them to view the settings and status = of=20 different services, but not to allow them to change these. =2D-=20 === Is this a Kmail problem? Anything I can do about it? -- Regards, Mick signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
o want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
"-i810 -mga -nvidia -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 0 kB Do I perhaps need +enca? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
of tickets the database had the crackers may or may have not found out about your root passwd. On the other hand, if you can't sleep at nights it is better to format and reinstall. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 19 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: > > [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal': > >On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: > >> When I la

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 9/19/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make > > sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. > > I haven&

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal': > >On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On (19/09/07 22:45) Miroslav Puda wrote: > > On 13:13 Wed 19 Sep , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > When I launch mplayer from aterm I get this type of

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-20 Thread Mick
t > eu fa fi fr fy ga gl he hi hr hu is it ja km ko lt lv mk mn ms nb nds > nl nn pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw se sk sl sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ss sv ta tg tr uk > uz > zh_CN zh_TW" My LINGUAS just have: LINGUAS="en_GB el" -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-20 Thread Mick
good with regex so I would just run it plain and work tediously my way down the list, or start from the known suspects: check the port that snpp is using as well as 10030, e.g. # lsof -i @your_host_name.com:10030 (you can use the IP address here too) # lsof -i @your_host_name.com:snpp etc. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2007-09-21 Thread Mick
Options>>On replies and forwards>>When replying to a message, for the prefix thingy). HTH -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dhcp to a specific address, and thank you

2007-09-24 Thread Mick
quot;default via 192.168.1.1" ) > > substituting whatever is appropriate for your interface and addresses or > you can configure the router to always give the same IP address to the > MAC address of your main machine. Or you can set it at the router, i.e. assign static IP addresses

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

2007-09-25 Thread Mick
tions on what to do to solve this? Not sure if this will help, but if I recall correctly a new slot of sys-libs/db was brought out recently. Have you run etc-update and revdep-rebuild since your last update? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2007-09-25 Thread Mick
their load sharing, 8 CPU monsters, but as I assume that you are not running amazon or google you should be OK. ;-) It may be worth checking with your domestic DSL/cable ISP that they do not throttle traffic and that they allow you to run a server in their T&Cs. -- Regards, Mick signat

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

2007-09-26 Thread Mick
e (all I got was "?" as shown above). Add -r to chgrp to recursively change the files under it. Finally, if the character "d" is correct for directory, then your known_hosts is not a file as it should be, but perhaps by mistake you created it as a directory and have n

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Mick
o Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar, what does it do? > > Didn't find this option too! > > > Is it different that --atime-preserve? Thanks! Run tar from a LiveCD to back up the fs' in each partition. Virtual fs won't bother you then. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] doing minimall install from a pc within a lan

2007-10-03 Thread Mick
he corresponding entry in the system32/hosts file. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-04 Thread Mick
ryption algorithm by computation would only be necessary if the said person was not able to disclose the key due to absence, or due to an inability to recover from the vegetative (or worse) state that the questioning methods may have inadvertently induced. :P -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

2007-10-04 Thread Mick
b? Check the Installation Documentation list for a web page summarising all Grub errors and potential solutions. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
address. Occasionally, the odd service name (e.g. rpc, mysql, postgres, etc.) repeats itself, otherwise they seem to be randomly selected from a dictionary. I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Elias Probst wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 11:40:10 schrieb Mick: > > Hi All, > > > > Can you please advise what I could do to block IP addresses that have > > repeatedly failed to log in? > > I think you're lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Remy Blank wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users > > with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. > > This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real > problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Mick
lthough where I currently work I don't). So your concept of offering bandwidth for free seems somewhat strange to me. Furthermore, I would be concerned what different people may be using the Internet for and what trouble I could get into, for being the registered owner of the particular public IP address. That said, I would looove being your neighbor! :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2007-10-10 Thread Mick
ies already? They do? Have I missed something? > [d] can I just "not fix if it aint broke" and keep with what I have? Or > is this just a question of time before I start hitting walls of new > packages I can't use. I guess you could get away with it for quit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

2007-10-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Remy Blank wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users > > with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. > > This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real > problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-10-14 Thread Mick
tions, but that is exceptional as far as my usage of ssh goes. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-14 Thread Mick
ss to its OS, then you may be able to set up firewall builder on the Gentoo box and use that to access/setup the Zyxel firewall. If you are running OpenWRT (not sure if this would run on Zyxel, but just don't stop me guessing now) you should be able to cook something so that firewall builder could hook into it. Best of luck, -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Permissions, permissions

2007-10-15 Thread Mick
file in it I noticed that it is mick:wheel instead of mick:ftp. How do I set it up so that newly created directories/files inherit the parent group ownership? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions, permissions

2007-10-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > This is a simple question but I'm getting tired and can't think > > straight with this permissions problem: > > > > I am trying to creat

Re: [gentoo-user] recover log file

2007-10-16 Thread Mick
rately > > > > emerge testdisk and run photorec. > > But be sure it doesn't compile on the same partition that contained > the lost data! Suggest you try testdisk with a LiveCD and stop messing about with the drive in question in case you overwrite the disk space in qu

[gentoo-user] splash boot messages

2007-10-16 Thread Mick
ull in the /etc/init.d/splash script? Do I need perhaps to recreate my initrd (haven't done this for years it seems). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] splash boot messages

2007-10-16 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I updated splashutils and noticed the changed init scripts (from splash > > to fbcondecor) at etc-update. Anyway, when I boot I get warnings > > about "/etc/init.d/splash missing

Re: [gentoo-user] recover log file

2007-10-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:10:33 +0200 > > dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mick pisze: > > > On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Duane Griffin wrote: > > >> On 15/10/2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring

2007-10-17 Thread Mick
als on ebay. Also, what are the implications of violating the policy - speak to your HR department first and reiterate these in the same message; e.g. porn may be instant dismissal, but ebay may just result in a disciplinary hearing. Then check that (s)he (and others) don't just

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo

2007-10-18 Thread Mick
use public key authentication, instead of password authentication. Filezilla, for a ftp/sftp client (at this moment it only uses passwd authentication). WinSCP which can use a PuTTY style private/public key authentication. You should be able to dig out the relevant links in Google, otherwise give

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-18 Thread Mick
but my speakers are silent. > In Windows xp, both of them work very well. Headphones were after I > insert them and otherwise, the speakers loud . I too thought that this is a hardware issue . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios or Konqueror

2007-10-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 October 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am not sure if this is a generic browser issue, a server issue, or > > something wrong with my Konqueror-3.5.7-r3 installation. When I login >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios or Konqueror

2007-10-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 October 2007, Justin T. wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007 00:12:53 Mick wrote: > > > > > The process for the https://nagios.blah-blah.com protocol died > > unexpectedly. === > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nagios or Konqueror

2007-10-19 Thread Mick
now). Is there a link to a (factual) comparative summary between the two monitoring systems? Does JFFNMS have as many plugins as Nagios? I'd be grateful for your (subjective) views too. :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Nagios or Konqueror

2007-10-18 Thread Mick
loads, but only partly. Icons don't show and red/green colour status does not load either. This seems to be a recently developed behaviour. Other browsers do not have such problems. Any ideas what could be causing this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2007-10-22 Thread Mick
The latest stable splashutils (1.5.2.1) introduced /etc/conf.d/fbcondecor. Have you tried specifying your tty's in there? Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-22 Thread Mick
ot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic > installer, but it seems people don't like it much and prefer to do the > install manually. > > Alex Is there a good reason for not using ssh to transport any fs you want from one machine to the other? That's how I usually d

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2007-10-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It works now. > > Thanks!! > > I am just curious: can we just delete /etc/conf.d/splash file? I still have mine, but had to remove splash from the rc-update default level. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This

[gentoo-user] [OT] Pinging two devices on the same IP address

2007-10-23 Thread Mick
clever firewall rule I could concoct? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Pinging two devices on the same IP address

2007-10-24 Thread Mick
at arrive from the Internet to that LAN address. (On this implementation the AP is itself a Linksys wireless router). I wonder if I can play tricks with ping's ICMP headers to differentiate between them as they come into the router, or something clever that I haven't yet figured out.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Pinging two devices on the same IP address

2007-10-24 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Mick wrote: > > Thanks guys. The AP has a reserved static LAN IP address on the > > router (10.10.10.13). It also has a MAC. So it is simply a matter of > > forwarding (all) ICMP echo-repl

[gentoo-user] Corrupt files in OOo build?

2007-10-28 Thread Mick
files are owned by portage:portage, but chmod-ing them fails. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-28 Thread Mick
Pretty > useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for that > subnet. Even worse, if your DHCP server comes up later, your PC will still hold on to APIPA - not sure how this feature can be of any use to be honest, but most devices these days from MS Windows to PDAs tend

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files in OOo build?

2007-10-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Dan Farrell schrieb: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:50 + > > > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> After a mammoth session on an old machine, which crashed, I en

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files in OOo build?

2007-10-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Dan Farrell schrieb: > >>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:50 + > >>> > >>> Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 > > > > > > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Mark Shields wrote: > On 10/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + > > > > > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

[gentoo-user] (OT) ksmoothdock quirk

2007-10-30 Thread Mick
you please tell me how to nail those icons on the desktop so that they do not shift? :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) ksmoothdock quirk

2007-10-31 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have set up a KDE desktop for my wife to have ksmoothdock at > > the bottom and the default KDE menu panel at the top. > > > > On the left edge of

Re: [gentoo-user] re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-09 Thread Mick
ny that we lose. In conclusion, since (from what I hear) Gentoo does not have a slick installer and it definitely does not have a Ubuntu/MS Windows style zero-knowledge(TM) automated update system, I would vote to stay with the Gentoo handbook. Improve that if you wish. Thanks for listening. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-12 Thread Mick
pletion from the grub prompt to find devices and bootable partitions. > fdisk can see both drives OK. Both drives appear in > dmesg w/o errors. Both drives appear in the POST > screen -- first drive as '0', second drive as '1' > > I've scoured the web

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The setup program seems to have failed.

2007-11-12 Thread Mick
installer by > running "installer" now, but beware its experimental, and doesn't always > work". Such message on the liveCD welcome screen, would have saved me > quite some time. That's why I made a comment on having a really slick GUI installer, or better stick w

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

2007-11-12 Thread Mick
reboots, or to set up your BIOS to allow Wakeup-On-Lan. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Cable latency & Skype

2007-11-13 Thread Mick
rld and his wife are on the Internet these days and the infrastructure has not grown enough for it. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Cable latency & Skype

2007-11-13 Thread Mick
nox.co 6.7%15 141.2 140.4 138.1 141.5 1.0 23. te-8-3-ur02.west.tn.knox.com 0.0%15 141.2 140.3 139.1 141.2 0.6 24. ge-1-46-ur01.west.tn.knox.co 0.0%15 138.2 138.6 137.8 140.6 0.9 == Note some of these

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-13 Thread Mick
to only have the bootable flag set with fdisk on the WinXP partition (Linux /boot doesn't need it anyway). Finally, you could also try changing the device map from (hd1) /dev/hdc to (hd2) /dev/hdc. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-14 Thread Mick
ive in question. :p Well, it's worth giving it a shot I guess. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to detect the throughput in the lan?

2007-11-14 Thread Mick
ttp://iptraf.seul.org/ Description: IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor There are so many really. Look into /usr/portage/net-analyzer and browse the web for more info on these that look interesting. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:25:50 + > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know the drive is OK cause it boots when the boot > > > order in the BIOS starts with the first drive. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread Mick
assume that it would, because the LVM is sort of a superstructure, but I do not know how the conventional partition table relates to the LV tables.) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] portage rsync error

2007-11-16 Thread Mick
1081586 Nov 16 16:16 .ebuild.x drwxr-xr-x 38 portage portage4096 Oct 26 04:35 app-accessibility drwxr-xr-x 171 portage portage8192 Nov 16 15:36 app-admin == -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64

2007-11-16 Thread Mick
me specific kernel-flag in > /usr/src/linux/.config ? Check the various CONFIG_HIGHMEM options in your kernel .config. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage rsync error

2007-11-16 Thread Mick
On Friday 16 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:12:17 +0000, Mick wrote: > > As a result rsync fails. Any idea what this is about? > > > > PS. The file in question looks like this: > > =

[gentoo-user] Netvanta router will not read Gentoo MAC address

2007-11-17 Thread Mick
== The router compares the CLIENTID with the MAC address I have entered manually and it does not recognise the box as the one intended. I tried to specify a MAC address in /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 but it makes no difference. Any idea why MS Windows machines work fine and Linux do not? What can I change to get this going? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-17 Thread Mick
,0) > kernel /kernel-has-alsa root=/dev/hdb3 So, this has a file called kernel-has-alsa which is in the first partition of the *second* hard drive? > title=Gentoo Linux > root (hd1,0) *second* hard drive too? See if the above helps otherwise post back. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Netvanta router will not read Gentoo MAC address

2007-11-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 November 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 17 November 2007, Mick wrote: > > What can I change to get this going? > > Did you try the "-I" option to dhcpcd? (man dhcpcd) > Set it to your mac address and add the option in the "dhcpcd_eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-17 Thread Mick
to the Grub bootloader (which is firing up from the MBR of hda). Regarding the genkernel (which I have never used) it makes use of a initrd to bring up the necessary modules at boot up (before the kernel has been loaded). I hope that this helps, otherwise post back again. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-22 Thread Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Weird image-serving behavior

2007-11-22 Thread Mick
ing attack', which could have caused its firewall to drop all pings, inc. those from your client. This would only be valid if your client MTU is less than 1500. I wouldn't hang my coat on this, but it sounds like a good conspiracy theory anyway . . . :p -- Regards, Mick signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba basics

2007-11-22 Thread Mick
Thanks Stroller, On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote: > On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: > > ... > My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- > newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you > might expect. Hm

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread Mick
aster than it used to. The only reason that I would image a drive/partition with dd is if I had some fs corruption and wanted to try offline to fix it. Anyway, just my 2c's. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

2007-11-22 Thread Mick
users read the BBC sites" http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc?e I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Thanks! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 November 2007, b.n. wrote: > Mick ha scritto: > > It's your call of course, but why don't you just boot from a LiveCD, > > mount the lot and tar the contents of the suspect disk to the new > > disk/partitions? The size of the new disk and partitions c

[gentoo-user] Finely tuning access permissions (in Samba)

2007-11-23 Thread Mick
ated themselves. I want to make (only) george able to delete files that he has not created himself. How can I achieve that, without using ACLs - I will be setting up some tar, or rsync based back-up policy which I think does not retain POSIX ACLs. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BBC claim on low numbers of Linux visitors

2007-11-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 November 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is > > potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those > > of us who visit the BBC website. If you live in the UK you

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