Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

2009-07-09 Thread Mick
laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old hardware like mine. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > > from Cacti forums): > > > | grep -v NaN | grep '' | tr e ' ' \ > > > | awk {'print "Q"$2"qcq"$3"

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-12 Thread Mick
; > I wonder how much bandwidth I'm wasting by passing on Opera's code > compression. I'm only displaying cached images so the image > compression isn't helping. > > Anyone else tried Opera Turbo? I thought of trying it, but the issue of privacy (well, what's left of it) is important for me. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Help tweaking an ebuild

2009-07-12 Thread Mick
=== and this is line 42 (there is no line 43!): src_install() { dobin rtmpdump dodoc README ChangeLog prepalldocs } <--this is line 42--> Could you please hold my hand on this? -- Regards, M

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Help tweaking an ebuild

2009-07-12 Thread Mick
On Sunday 12 July 2009, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/12/09, Mick wrote: > > a)How should I specify the URI for the source file if it is already > > copied into my /usr/portage/distfiles? > > Add RESTRICT="fetch", plus add an informational function pkg_nofetch. >

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables firewall script

2009-07-17 Thread Mick
to another > #iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $IF_PUB -d $IP_PUB -p tcp --dport 444 -j > DNAT --to 192.168.1.254:443 > #iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -o $IF_PRV -p > tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT Then block anything else: iptables -A INPUT -p all -i any -j DROP Finally, run nmap from within/out your LAN on all ports and see what you get. HTH. -- Regards, Mick

[gentoo-user] Hard masked package

2009-07-17 Thread Mick
ing it from my local overlay? How do I allow a local overlay emerge, while respecting portage's hard mask for ebuilds in the main tree only? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard masked package

2009-07-17 Thread Mick
es not override > packages that are masked via KEYWORDS." Thanks! Added it and it works now - when I tried it before I sent the message I probably had the syntax wrong. The problem now is that the test ebuild fails ... oh well. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] apache https setup

2009-07-18 Thread Mick
hanged slightly since): http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Apache_VirtualHost_by_IP_Address HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-21 Thread Mick
built in kernel or as modules). 2)The "(II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 320 x 240" message is expressing the screen resolution in millimeters . This roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels. Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mick wrote: > > roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels.  Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' > > to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. > OK, there is possibly a little extra difficulty

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-22 Thread Mick
800x600" "640x480" > ViewPort0 0 > EndSubsection If you have mode "1280x1024" in your mothers xorg.conf, then it will try to render this resolution as long as the monitor supports it. It may be easier to if you ask them to login, fireup a terminal, run xdpyinfo fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-04 Thread Mick
1 root root 235 Apr 6 13:15 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 It cannot be unmerged (not there) and fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.5 completes immediately (unlike the few seconds it takes for any gcc packages that are still in my system). At this stage it may just be a matter of deleting relevant files in /e

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

2009-08-04 Thread Mick
-o loop and then perform any recovery with testdisk or what not on that image. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo forums.gentoo.org - error

2009-08-06 Thread Mick
t; > > > back then, yes. Maybe one of the new boxes suddenly combusted ;) > > Maybe someone searched for windoze and it blew a fuse. ROFLMAO > > Dale > > :-) :-) I noticed that (re)loading www.gentoo.org now takes around 10 seconds from the UK. This is a significant delay c

Re: [gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
t' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 . I think the No route to host means that your router interface is not up for some reason. Do you get the same problem if you run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and then you run ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 Otherwise also run: route add default gw 192.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
and practicing safe-hex. Of course the Linux machine has the added benefit that it should not be opening or listening on all sort of ports that you did not ask it to and as a rule in Linux you are not running a desktop and its applications logged in as root, but the basic premise of using a firewall is the same. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
mp3s out of a CD? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > > I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking > > at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files > > fine, I cannot pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > >>> I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: > > Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be > > ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC. > > I have started using flacs - because they can easily

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Mick
I have both files mentioned: # ls -la /etc/modules.d/alsa -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202 Jan 5 2009 /etc/modules.d/alsa # ls -la /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1028 Jul 4 09:27 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 August 2009, DPX-Infinity wrote: > 2009/8/15 Mick > > > I seem to have the same problem like this bug report: > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281434 > > > > which I am not sure why it has been marked as resolved/i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 22:23:14 Mick wrote: > > > Obviously, the existence of /etc/modules.d/alsa does not allow emerge > > > to continue. I think you must merge alsa file to alsa.conf and then > > > delete alsa. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers

2009-08-16 Thread Mick
hen things might improve. Until then, I'm afraid you > are SOL. Perhaps [O/T] but is webkit a fork of khtml, or was khtml stopped any development and webkit took over? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

2009-08-25 Thread Mick
like mad (very much a common UK ISP sport these days). Packets were being dropped continuously. If it is an ISP network probelm you may want to try websync instead of rsync and at a quiet time and see if there is a difference. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] moc on gentoo give me strange sound

2009-08-31 Thread Mick
ver-enthusiastic with the dashes: try -identify with one "-" only, or alternative for maximum verbosity try: -msglevel identify=6 HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir?

2009-08-31 Thread Mick
dev-libs/libmimedir... ] What would you advise? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-31 Thread Mick
uple of days ago a friend at work was reprimanded for not clicking on "safely remove", or whatever it's called in WinXP, after I used photorec to recover 350 photographs that she managed to 'lose' from her USB stick. I bet she won't remove another USB drive without u

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir?

2009-08-31 Thread Mick
On Monday 31 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2009 20:04:06 Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Not sure if I should trust qdepends or equery: > > > > # qdepends dev-libs/libmimedir > > dev-libs/libmimedir-0.4: sys-devel/flex sys-devel/bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-01 Thread Mick
ranslator urlpicpreview yahoo (-aqua) > -bonjour -debug -gadu -jabber (-kdeprefix) -latex -meanwhile -msn -oscar > -otr -qq -skype -testbed -v4l2 -webpresence -winpopup" 0 kB > > Any ideas on how to block or stop this? You seem to have sent your kopete info twice (once for kopete-3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
nd check the incoming logs of the external server for the change of the incoming IP address. The DynDNS solution must be the simplest though. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot connect hp 840c on parallel port.

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
igured parallel ports in your kernel? What are you getting when you run: dmesg | grep -i parport or, dmesg | grep -i lp. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
t; > USE="-* -nls hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \ > > python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog" > > Adding these entris to the USE flags: mmx sse -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
php?t=216892 Finally, I would recommend that you configure IP tables (there's loads of scripts out there). You never know if some application you're trying out decides to open a port just for laughs. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
x27;t > know if it is the modem or my iptables that is making me "stealthy" or > what. I'm just glad that me hiding appears to be a good thing. lol Aheam, if you re-read the previous paragraph of mine and the link I provided in previous message you'll see that being stealt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 September 2009, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Have you tried pointing your browser to: http://192.168.1.254 ? > > Yep, did that and bookmarked it. THAT was mistake #1. It bookmarked a > different part of the modem. Therefore, it didn't give me the other &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 September 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-09-05, Mick wrote: > > The cheapest solution by far to networking a second PC in the > > LAN is to use your first PC as a router and forward packets > > through it. > > Buying an Ethernet switch is probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-06 Thread Mick
ondemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it can't compare > favourably with its predecessor, what's it doing there at all? > > I'm working quite hard at getting used to it (it's even the default grub > choice), but it's uphill all the way. He, he, I think I will w

Re: [gentoo-user] After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-06 Thread Mick
ttp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml and http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA in case I have missed something important. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

2009-09-09 Thread Mick
time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I extract the .sys files from in there? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-20 Thread Mick
what goes wrong here? Google didn't help at > all. Did you try the usual; e.g. revdep-rebuild -p -v -i and perl-cleaner? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread Mick
ing the obvious: have you tried associating and connecting to the Internet without any encryption? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-23 Thread Mick
update > does). > I have just ran per-cleaner all ask. First I run as a normal user (as > a test; I was expecting it to complain about lack of permissions), > then as root. > Did I do any harm to my system? Nah, wouldn't think so. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-28 Thread Mick
ing that makes sense in the above CentOS response? Is there a fix? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > For some reason my Gentoo rsa public key is not liked by 3.9p1-11.el4_7 > > sshd, which is running on a CentOS server. On the Gentoo machine I am > > running net-misc/openssh-

[gentoo-user] Conditional TMOUT variable

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
Is there something to take account of user activity before allowing TMOUT to kick in? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: > lsof ? Both find and lsof are good to show what is/has been accessed/changed. However, you may want to think of setting up logrotate and giving it a max size for your log file(s) above which it will rotate them. -- Regards, M

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
star - or will I be able to restore a fs from an archive created with star, but using tar to do it as it comes in e.g. Knoppix? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
rom_name: unknown key type '-END' debug3: key_read: missing keytype The server messages are shown here: http://pastebin.centos.org/22705 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Conditional TMOUT variable

2008-12-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:48:15 +0000, Mick wrote: > > I've exported TMOUT=1200 to make sure an absent minded colleague does > > not leave his console logged in as root and walk away. > > > > This has the desired eff

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-12-01 Thread Mick
On Monday 01 December 2008, Mick wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > > What did you use to generate the key? Also, what does the client / > > server say for the key fail? > > I used something like: ssh-keygen -v -t rsa -b 2048. I have even generated &g

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-03 Thread Mick
ion functions. > > I can telnet to smtp.att.yahoo.com at either port 465 or 587 and get > a response, so nothing is blocking either port. > > Any insights or suggestions? > > John Blinka Have a go at adding: UseSTARTTLS=YES and remove: UseTLS=YES -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-03 Thread Mick
at the concatenated file often works (e.g. if it is a video file it'll play alright). Can you explain this? Should I be using a different check to verify the integrity of the ftp'd file? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Mick
is a script which will identify the compromised machine and promptly reformat its MSWindows OS - problem solved. Of course how you keep tabs on this tool not being misused is another thing. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-05 Thread Mick
lued up on the intricacies of tnftp? Anything else I could try? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 December 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 07:10 +0000, Mick wrote: > > Almost every time I split a large file >1G into say 200k chunks, then ftp > > it to a server and then: > > That's thousands of files! Have you gone mad?! Ha! sma

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot authenticate successfully with SSH

2008-12-07 Thread Mick
to discover that I had set up some parameter in the config file and forgotten all about it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest failure on net-firewall/iptables?

2008-12-07 Thread Mick
merge --sync again > > Every now and then a dev forgets to re-digest something before uploading > and you come along and download wrong stuff. There are other reasons too, > all solved the same way Yep, I had the same problem last night - a re-sync this morning fixed it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 15:39 +0000, Mick wrote: > > They are the the split files which I concatenate into the complete file. > > Well, unless you made another error in your OP, you are using md5sum > incorrectly. When yo

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-08 Thread Mick
- at least one box of mine does not have /etc/env.d/02locale at all. Am I supposed to create it manually? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Mick
want to be able to save the video on my drive so that I can watch it when I am offline. Any applications/tricks/ideas? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 December 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a way to capture a flash video like the one shown in this link? > > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 December 2008, KH wrote: > Andrey Falko schrieb: > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a way to capture a flash video like t

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Mick
my work's MSWindows PC is locked down completely). As you say it proves that the concept works - all we need to do is develop this for the Linux-land. I hope that someone who can, does and shares. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] OpenVPN and IPsec

2008-12-11 Thread Mick
nough to warrant me taking time off work to read it . . . and at least another day to try it ;) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN and IPsec

2008-12-12 Thread Mick
2008/12/11 Etaoin Shrdlu : > On Thursday 11 December 2008, 22:08, Mick wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I would like to set up a VPN connection to a router which is using IKE >> & IPsec: >> http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25474&seqNum=7 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenVPN and IPsec

2008-12-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 12 December 2008, James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > Well, the router is a Cisco clone so it might work - thanks for the tip! > > Adtran perchance? > > If so, drop me some private email Thanks James, private email follows. Meanwhile, vpnc returns th

[gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-13 Thread Mick
take me any further. I want it to check a series of files named tokena, tokenb, tokenc, ... , etc. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Mick
your suggestions. I think think that: md5sum -c token{a..z}.md5sum and md5sum -c token*.md5sum are the easiest on this occasion, although Alan's last two commands are indeed "insanely useful"! ha! They will be saving me hours of typing in the future. :) -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Clone that config: > >make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-17 Thread Mick
to ignore the zeros in 0001 and start counting from 1. Do I need to use some escape character for this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layout switching with Alt+Shift

2008-12-17 Thread Mick
"XkbLayout" "gb,de" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu" HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Webmin Question - was Print to cups printer from Windows?

2008-12-17 Thread Mick
allow logins as a plain user and then elevate privileges to root (just like you would su on the CLI sort-of-thing)? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Mick
t network printing > so I don't think this is an option. You shouldn't need a MS Windows network printing enabled driver to do this (with an lpd printer), nor a Samba client on your Linux boxen for that matter. Have a look here: http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-linux-tweaks/archives-howtos-discussions/378052-printing-linux-lpd-printer-no-samba-required.html -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-12-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I have now also tried to generate a key pair on the server, move the > > private key over to the client and then try to login - still no result! > > :-( > > > > It has to be some sort of incompa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-12-18 Thread Mick
the key in notepad++ it should work, if you just copy the generated file it won't. That's what I have found anyway when helping people with MSWindows machines. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-19 Thread Mick
additionally verify that that data was archived without corruption. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-19 Thread Mick
imary. Then when it's > time to backup you can stop the slave and make a backup without > disturbing the master instance. Aha! Never done this. How would you go about it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 December 2008, kashani wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Aha! Never done this. How would you go about it? > > To be honest I've never attempted it. Most of my recent installations > have been large enough where having an actual backup server was a > requirement. H

[gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-22 Thread Mick
such files. Same applies with pictures, videos, etc. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 December 2008, Erik Hahn wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:05:46PM +0000, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the > > way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Dale wrote: > Robert Bridge wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:34:26 -0600 > > > > Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2008-12-23 Thread Mick
ir ipp:// path to the printer being incorrect) you need to increase the verbosity of CUPS in its configuration file and then have a close look at: /var/log/cups/access_log /var/log/cups/error_log HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo rsync servers time out

2008-12-23 Thread Mick
later resync'ing happens without any problem. Why is this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > 081223 Mick wrote: > > I am running Fluxbox which is lighter than KDE > > and when I just want to poke around a GUI quickly > > I have found that Konqueror takes quite a few seconds to fire up. > > Gentoo (file manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2008-12-24 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 00:03:46 Mick wrote: > > If you are using SSL certificates you must set up the correct domain > > name, with regards to what the client machines see on the intranet/LAN. > > Clearly the IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rsync servers time out

2008-12-24 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I have noticed this phenomenon which I am not sure I can explain very > > satisfactorily. Just after midnight (GMT) any attempt to resync proves > > futile: > > =

[gentoo-user] Sound driver not found with kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r7

2008-12-26 Thread Mick
FIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y CONFIG_SND_DRIVERS=y CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE=y CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=5 CONFIG_SND_PCI=y CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3=y Have I missed out something? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain network activity stops the network

2008-12-27 Thread Mick
. While the gigabit card was negotiating speeds with the router everything else was unable to use the network. That could last for up to a minute or so. When I changed router the problem went away. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Mick
or your Debian experience - please report back in the future with a comparison between the two. The slots and portage make it relatively painless to combine stable and testing on Gentoo and from the little experience that I have with Debian, you got to be Klaus Knopper to get even close. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Mick
AGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf > > I'll just hay "ah, ah, ah" at that one :P OK, I'll also say that it > doesn't work. Everything lags even with 19. Is that measurable? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain network activity stops the network

2008-12-27 Thread Mick
uter*. The box with the gigabit card in my case would bring the network down whether I booted the said box in MSWindows or Gentoo. It's not a client OS issue. YMMV. Try a different router if you have that luxury. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Corruption of scp'd files

2008-12-28 Thread Mick
may be dropped, but this does not explain why ftp occasionally works. Can you explain why this seemingly random corruption occurs? Can I trust bzip2 and its CRC tests? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption of scp'd files

2008-12-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 December 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 28.12.2008, 14:12 + schrieb Mick: > > Can you explain why this seemingly random corruption occurs? > > Most likely a broken NIC or NIC-driver. I had this two times (once with > a rented root server). Prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Mick
bug on it - but if subsequent kernels do not fix it and my confidence that I have not performed some kernel configuration error increases I will do so. After all without bug reports how would the devs know what's borked for the users? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Mick
versions for years now. Or, it could be that it was half cooked and rushed to meet the Christmas hols. Time will show. I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev

[gentoo-user] file collision media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28

2009-01-02 Thread Mick
clear on the process, since I never had to deal with this manually in the past. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28

2009-01-02 Thread Mick
On Friday 02 January 2009, Robert Bridge wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:02:15 + > > Mick wrote: > > I do not have collision-protect in my make.conf. > > > > Emerging media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 gives me: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-04 Thread Mick
the problem with vim, and then only for user root as a normal > user it worked fine. So I disabled bash completion for vim. Check your relevant ~/.bashrc for this: ##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion: #[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && \ source /etc/pr

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