Forgive me for being naive and maybe asking a question asked before; I
have been away from active participation on this list for quite some
time. I have done a lot of google searching and can not find any answer
to the question of why is Gentoo 2006.1 the latest release? What
happened to the
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Sonntag, 15. April 2007, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
The mailing list is still active,
but the lack of a current release seems to indicate that the Gentoo
project is no longer truly active.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Veldhouse
a) gentoo is not about
Mike Markowski wrote:
Tony Stohne wrote:
hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list.
I'm 44...
I'm also 44, have been using Unix since 1981 and still have my hardback
book on the PDP 11/70 and my K&R C book from then. I remember being
told not to run 'vi' when too man
Grant wrote:
> > I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in question to
> > behave like a solid-state router that you can plug an ethernet jack
> > into and be on the network. How should eth1 and eth2 be configured
> > in /etc/conf.d/net ?
>
> They should be configured as part of a br
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:18:38 -0700, Grant wrote:
I've never used a switch before. Is there any proprietary software to
configure (like with a router), or is it just a button or two?
Just one button, the power switch :)
Sometimes two ... if you attempt to use th
Nick Rout wrote:
which leads top the point that if you update a daemon like sshd, yopu
need to restart it, or else you are still running the old daemon.
And ... if the startup scripts change or a major version bump occurs, a
clean shutdown should happen BEFORE the new package is installed.
Is there any documentation on setting up a native system on my 64-bit
Intel Core Duo 2 system (E6600)? I note there was mention of new
compiler options to build for core 2 duo, but I haven't seen anything
specific for a new install.
Thanks,
Tom Veldhouse
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Is there a tool or a script that will convert a PF script to IPTABLES?
I have a firewall that is working wonderfully under PF (on FreeBSD), but
I need to setup a nearly identical firewall on a Gentoo Linux machine.
I would prefer to simply convert it rather than reengineer it.
Any help will
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and can
log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on
http://localhost. For example, http://localhost/php/index.php in a browser
shows a whole lot of info re php, mysql and apache2. Howev
I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
>>> Updating Portage cache: 50%
Just trying to do a sync
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Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
cache update.
There are directions here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
Interesting ... an
Does anybody know if there are still squidGuard blacklist databases that
are actively maintained? It appears that the author of squidGuard
ceased maintaining the blacklist database there as of about 5 to 6
months ago.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Veldhouse
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Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
Although it seems this host is not a relay, that does not explain the
score or so of things languishing in my mail queue attempting to
contact sites I have no knowledge of, and which do not accept
the connection. Any hints how to explore this?
Look through
eaders
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output for /lib/libc.so.6 different than it used to be.
It used to state that "Native POSIX threads" were installed and
linuxthreads was not listed there?
I guess I just hesitate to believe that everything is correct.
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ng off some use flags
for stability purposes, maybe that one is masked as well.
No, I had nptl set, but not nptlonly. I used to run nptlonly systems in
the past and never had issues, but I don't mind running a dual system,
and as such, I chose not to set the nptlonly flag.
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starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9 8 7 6 5
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I have been away from Gentoo for awhile and I am going about building a
2005.1 system. I just finished a emerge --sync and have received the
following:
xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes/xfwm4-themes-4.2.2-r1.ebuild
413 100%0.00kB/s0:00:00
xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes/xfwm4-themes-4.2.2.ebuild
Is anybody seeing this in recent x86 stable?
I just built a stock 2005.1 system on a classic Athlon platform and I am
getting;
"/sbin/runscript.sh: line 32: /var/lib/init.d/softlevel: No such file or
directory"
when I try to start mysql. It seems to be an issue with the package
that runsc
Dave Nebinger wrote:
softlevel just contains the name of the level that you booted under, most
likely "default" on a line by itself.
It looks like this file is created when the system boots, as mine is dated for
when my system was cycled last.
Possibly you could try hand creating this file,
znx wrote:
How about Squid Guard?
http://www.squidguard.org/
With free blacklists
http://ftp.tdcnorge.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/
I use both of these and it works pretty darn well. Configuring per
user is straight forward, although setting up anything other than identd
is a bit
John Jolet wrote:
While we're at it, could people get a clue and stop including moronic
little tags in their email like:
this is required by many companies legal departments. Some places even add it
at the mta, not the client.
No, it is not required by ALL, or even MOS
Mark wrote:
Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of
bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting
provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in
the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL
provider we us
Marshal Newrock wrote:
I'd like to disagree with a couple points on here.
First off, a secondary MX is not necessary. If an email can't get through
due to a server being down, it will be retried and get through later when
the server is up.
That is true, if the down time is short in durati
kashani wrote:
1. Block mail up front.
Use greylisting as it stops spam before it enters the MTA's queue.
This keeps 90% of my spam from even entering the more resounce
intensive filtering processes.
This is a very effective filter. However, it does greatly slow down
delivery of legiti
Tamer Higazi wrote:
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Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
heh
I thought I was replying to the individual ... but the stupid list
configuration has the original poster cut out of the reply to options.
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Hello,
I have 4 gentoo systems. Three are 1-3 years old, the fourth has just
been rebooted for the first time after installing gento 2005.1 on it.
When I reboot any of the older three computers and simply type
emerge
it takes 14 to 20 seconds before I get a message
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Monday 31 October 2005 23:53, Michael Kjorling wrote:
On 2005-10-31 22:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make && make modules_install
then change /etc/lilo.conf to the new(and only) kernel
You need to copy the new bzImage (arch/*/boot/bzImage)
James wrote:
Grub is a superior alternative to lilo.in my opinion.
Superior ... definitely an opinion. I also use Grub, but only because
the interface is nicer and I don't have to load the boot sector every
time I update the kernel. However, there is a catch. The computer will
not b
b.n. wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to use the output from "hostname -i"? It needs no
parsing.
But it doesn't give the IP of my box...
Indeed, there are likely several.
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kashani wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if I've got a goofy
stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2. By default I get the no-nptl profile
instead of the 2006.0 profile I was expecting. Am I just grabbing the
wrong stage3 and would i686 or whatever be the correct one for a dual
P4 Xeon setup?
Probably wa
Hello!
I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron
group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However, when
I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER executed. Not
once, not ever! It seems that the ONLY jobs that run are via /etc/cron*
Chad Feller wrote:
I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux
distros:
from crontab(1):
If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein
in order
to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file
does not
exist but the cron
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It
does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are
allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding
users to
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
BTW ... following this document explicity ... it is still not working.
$ ps ax | grep cron
3469 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
3515 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep cron
$ ls -ld /etc/cron*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Mar 24
kashani wrote:
Hmmm I've never had to so more than add users to the cron group... is
it possible that the crons are running, but that the scripts have path
issues or something similar?
No. I have tried echo commands, which should hit the user email, I have
tried simple scripts that put a f
Chad Feller wrote:
Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to
the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular
user ran "crontab -e" and entered
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user'
I just tried this (
Chad Feller wrote:
Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to
the cron group (gpasswd -a cron), then as my regular
user ran "crontab -e" and entered
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user'
Well ... it's work
Does anybody know how to get NVI to word wrap in a similar manner to
VIM? With VIM, I could use:
vim -f '+set tw=78' and it would wrap at 78 characters at a word boundry
(great for emails and posts to USENET).
Thanks in advance,
Tom Veldhouse
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcs7'
class_uevent - name = vcs7
class_device_create_uevent called for vcs7
CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcsa7'
class_uevent - name = vcsa7
class_device_create_uevent calle
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Does anybody know how to get NVI to word wrap in a similar manner to
VIM? With VIM, I could use:
vim -f '+set tw=78' and it would wrap at 78 characters at a word
boundry (great for emails and posts to USENET).
Well, it seems nobody was able to help me
James wrote:
I appreciate your sharing this tidbit. I looked at:
http://www.bostic.com/vi/
and saw what they said are advantages. What do you believe are the
advantages of Nvi?
just curious,
BTW .. I used the following which fixed the wordwrap to 78 in an 80
column field.
TIN_VI_OPTION
What is the best way to go about doing this?
I would prefer to use dhclient over dhcpcd, as I already have it
installed and it has always worked nicely for me in the past (on BSD).
What is the best way to go about configuring this?
/etc/conf.d/net.example seemed a bit cryptic about the prope
Teresa and Dale wrote:
It is really rare that I have a drive to go out. Maybe I'm just lucky.
I do have a few drives that are over a decade old and some a
couple decades old.
I have owned dozens of drives over the years. The only reliable brands
that I have used are Western Digital, I
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
Maybe winscp is a better idea? It behaves like most windows ftpclients but
uses scp to connect to your box with all the ssh goodness for security..
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
Default configuration of SSH on Gentoo will not allow a user to leave
their home dire
Bob Young wrote:
Depends on what you consider sufficient. Although what the page recommends
was misquoted, it actually suggests:
emerge -e system
emerge -e system
emerge -e world
emerge -e world
That's probably is a little bit excessive, but the reason for doing the two
emerge -e systems is so
Bob Young wrote:
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On 6/7/06, Bob Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
chain. At th
Makara wrote:
Hi all,
I'm from Cambodia. I'm a new gentoo user and a new
member also. Could anyone tell me how to create my own
linux distribution? I have tried LFS but it's not
what I need it just tell how to build linux from
scratch. I tried to search on google but I got
nothing. Please give
What experiences have users had with using the DSPAM ebuild? I notice
that all versions of the ebuild are marked as ~x86, so I thought I would
followup.
Thanks,
Tom Veldhouse
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:04:44 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
What experiences have users had with using the DSPAM ebuild? I notice
that all versions of the ebuild are marked as ~x86, so I thought I
would followup.
I've been using it for a while, nearl
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
Maybe i am saying something stupid, but those are minimal, live or
stage cd's and i am looking for precompiled packages cd (found on the
2005 branch for example)
There is an installer and many precompiled packages on the live cd.
I am not aware of any other package C
Mike wrote:
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
There is an installer and many precompiled packages on the live cd.
I am not aware of any other package CD.
Tom Veldhouse
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
Gentoo 2006.0 Package CD
(up to 700 megabytes depending on arch)
amd64 ppc (ppc
Dale wrote:
Since this is a major upgrade you may want to reconsider. So I guess it
depends on how much risk you want to take with it. If anything, at
least do a emerge -e system. That should get you booted even if the GUI
fails for some reason.
Dale
:-) :-)
As has always been the case
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen
with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about
the majority of ports in the portage tree?
I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective responses,
but I am interested in them all.
Than
Shawn Singh wrote:
Hey all,
I've been trying to install Apache and PHP. With the installation of
apache, the install has been failing when the system tries to download
net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1. After trying in vain to connect to several
servers the system finally does succeed when connecting
How is it that the baselayout has changed and now the domainname script
is missing from /etc/init.d and all sorts of other ramifications because
of this?
It makes very little sense to ditch the unix norm of setting a
systemwide domain name in favor of doing it per interface! Now I see
that I
Richard Fish wrote:
On 9/18/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit.
Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the
drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo?
You'll only notice a speed increase with applica
Grant wrote:
I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF
keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for
interference problems?
Are you sure that the keyboard is 2.4GHz? Most do not operate in this
frequency.
Tom Veldhouse
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
Have you set the dns_domain in conf.d/net?
I have tried this and it does NOT work.
I'm afraid it gives nothing!
It sounds like dns_domain is not set.
Considering that I have tried it ... I know it not to work, so I have
little doubt tha
Stuart Howard wrote:
Hi folks
Does anyone know if Thunderbird can be configured to read
/home/user/.maildir ?
Not to my knowledge, but you could setup an IMAP client on your box
(wu-imapd, courier-imap, etc) that can [obviously] read this directory
and then have Thunderbird make an IMAP conne
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