[gentoo-user] amavisd-new needed for spam-only filtering with SpamAsssassin?

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
I'm setting up my company's email server (Postfix), and I want to use SpamAssassin to weed out the spam messages. Do I need to use amavisd-new? Or can I just pipe Postfix to SpamAssassin directly without using amavisd-new? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • LOPSA Member #15248  •

[gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I'll answer myself: just pass the option. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html On 11/15/2011 08:58 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Do I need to set any particular USE flag to enable multi-threaded decoding with mplayer, or is it just a matter of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 09:55:55 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'll answer myself: just pass the option. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start- 75.html Also look at: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/247578/match=mplayer+2 -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/15/2011 12:24 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 09:55:55 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'll answer myself: just pass the option. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start- 75.html Also look at:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tempertaure of NVidia GPUs

2011-11-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de: is there any tool to read out the temperature of NVidia GPUs other than the NVidia Setting GUI and nvclock ? Perhaps this one? hafi@i5 ~ $ nvidia-smi Tue Nov 15 05:29:24 2011

CRTs and EDID (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:21 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Contrary to the FUD I've heard, X works just fine, thank you, without an xorg.conf.  Modern flatscreens with EDID info are set up automatically.  I suppose that old CRT monitors without EDID info might require xorg.conf, but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/14/11 20:54, Grant wrote: If you're intent on making a two-stage pull work; you can do it by creating a 'backups' user on your servers, and then using filesystem ACLs to grant backups+r to every file/directory you want to back up. That way, an attacker on the backup server can't decide

Re: [gentoo-user] amavisd-new needed for spam-only filtering with SpamAsssassin?

2011-11-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I'm setting up my company's email server (Postfix), and I want to use SpamAssassin to weed out the spam messages. Do I need to use amavisd-new? Or can I just pipe Postfix to SpamAssassin directly without using amavisd-new?

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:44:58 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:  Create the file if it doesn't already exist.  You now have a totally udev-free machine Sounds nice! However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer). So, the hardware devices are

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:44 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer). So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give any benefits? I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely static /dev,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 15, 2011 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:44:58 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Create the file if it doesn't already exist. You now have a totally udev-free machine Sounds nice! However, my Gentoo systems are

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 15, 2011 11:43 PM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:44 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer). So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give any

[gentoo-user] Re: The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-15 Thread Steven J Long
Michael Mol wrote: Isn't there a kernelland HTTP server? ISTR seeing the option. I don't know anything about it, though. Yeah there was; as I recall it got removed a while back. Google got me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server and khttpd at: http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/ ..both of

[gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Jarry
Hi, today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version 4.5.3-r1. I followed Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide: # emerge -uav gcc # gcc-config 2 # env-update source /etc/profile # emerge --oneshot libtool # emerge --depclean # revdep-rebuild But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Steven J Long
Dale wrote: Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on with something new. I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things a lot easier if and when you switch. It also

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:58, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version 4.5.3-r1. I followed Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide: # emerge -uav gcc # gcc-config 2 # env-update source /etc/profile # emerge --oneshot libtool # emerge --depclean

[gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-15 Thread Mick
Thankfully this didn't happen on my machine, but I have to fix this all the same ... Is it possible to press F5 (the user thought that this would just refresh the content) while in the Kmail address book and as a result all but the current contact being deleted? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Jarry
On 15-Nov-11 20:36, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:58, Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged and my world file is somehow larger. To my surprise, it contains these

[gentoo-user] Re: The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-15 Thread Steven J Long
Mick wrote: File /usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py, line 694, in finish self.wfile.flush() File /usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py, line 303, in flush self._sock.sendall(view[write_offset:write_offset+buffer_size]) error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Jarry wrote: On 15-Nov-11 20:36, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 13:58, Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged and my world file is somehow larger. To my surprise, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer). So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give any benefits? I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely static

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Steven J Long wrote: Dale wrote: Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on with something new. I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things a lot easier if and when

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.11.2011 20:39, schrieb Mick: Thankfully this didn't happen on my machine, but I have to fix this all the same ... Is it possible to press F5 (the user thought that this would just refresh the content) while in the Kmail address book and as a result all but the current contact being

[gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. My gcc now fails to work. I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync. I can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether I've got both of them. lipgmp has a lot to do with my problem. After my last emerge -uND world, I think libgmp was upgraded. At

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread covici
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. My gcc now fails to work. I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync. I can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether I've got both of them. lipgmp has a lot to do with my problem. After my last emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. My gcc now fails to work. I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync.  I can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether I've got both of them. lipgmp has a lot to do with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread William Kenworthy
symlink it to the later version, or copy the lib over from another system. Then rebuild dev-libs/gmp and dont delete the lib! I got bitten by this but only on one system - the file is supplied by the later ebuild so I dont know why it asks to delete it. Was in the middle of a major snafu when

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. My gcc now fails to work. I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync. I can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether I've got both of them. lipgmp has a lot to do with my problem. After my last emerge -uND world, I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:19:48 -0600, Dale wrote: Heh indeed; you can even keep an lvm setup across distros. I used to have `gentoo' and `debian' volume groups and it's easy to mount logical volumes in either direction (/home was on a separate large physical partition.) Learned

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mark On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:06:32PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: My gcc now fails to work. I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync.  I can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 21:36:14 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.11.2011 20:39, schrieb Mick: Thankfully this didn't happen on my machine, but I have to fix this all the same ... Is it possible to press F5 (the user thought that this would just refresh the content) while in the Kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

2011-11-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Mark On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:06:32PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: My gcc now fails to work. I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-13 12:56, schrieb Neil Bothwick: General desktop use, but that does include some image processing and plenty of virtualisation. It will also be a build host for some lower powered Gentoo systems, so fast compile times, and plenty of cores, are advantages. Nearly the same use here,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:51:44 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I play with the thought of getting myself a nice new machine for work, better to spend some money on hardware than on taxes (2012 is near ...). My thoughts exactly. Performance is one issue, another one is energy/noise ... the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 16, 2011 3:21 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer). So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give any benefits? I even am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Steven J Long wrote: Dale wrote: Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on with something new. I strongly recommend keeping a separate

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/15/2011 08:58 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version 4.5.3-r1. [...] But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged and my world file is somehow larger. To my surprise, it contains these lines: sys-devel/gcc sys-devel/gcc:4.4 I did full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I always make /home separate. Well, until udev needs it too I guess. lol Heh, I knew you'd bring up that monstrosity ;-) Rgds, I couldn't resist. Sorry. o_O Just shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 16, 2011 8:00 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/15/2011 08:58 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version 4.5.3-r1. [...] But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged and my world file is somehow larger. To my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:19:48 -0600, Dale wrote: Heh indeed; you can even keep an lvm setup across distros. I used to have `gentoo' and `debian' volume groups and it's easy to mount logical volumes in either direction (/home was on a separate large physical partition.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 16, 2011 8:07 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I always make /home separate. Well, until udev needs it too I guess. lol Heh, I knew you'd bring up that monstrosity ;-) Rgds, I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 8:07 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I always make /home separate. Well, until udev needs it too I

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
Plus, I'm feeling adventurous and will experiment with VirtualBox also ;) Rgds, On Nov 16, 2011 7:52 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 3:21 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote However, my Gentoo systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-15 Thread Adam Carter
Performance is one issue, another one is energy/noise ... the phenom 1090t seems to pull in a lot and need good (and maybe noisy) fans. I've just bought a 965 (a 1100T wouldn't boot despite being supported by the latest bios). The CPU fan is very quiet when the system is idling, but spins up

[gentoo-user] [OT] Where to discuss Xming

2011-11-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry about the OT, this was one of those times where I cannot think of a better place to ask this... and there are many well informed people here. I've been unable to turn up a mailing list about Xming. gmanes active list doesn't appear to have any group with xming in the name... googling turns

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-15 Thread yegle
I'm using systemd as init. Currently there's no .service file for mdev. Hope someone on this list can provide one :-) On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Plus, I'm feeling adventurous and will experiment with VirtualBox also ;) Rgds, On Nov 16, 2011 7:52

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Érico Porto
is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo? Érico V. Porto On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 8:07 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Érico Porto wrote: is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo? Érico V. Porto It looks like you can. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/simple-lightdm-manager-lets-easily-tweak-ubuntu-11-10-login-screen/ I have not tested this tho so no idea what it could/might break.

[gentoo-user] Re: swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/15/2011 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could swap CPUs. After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU boots up to the MythTv screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 02:07:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 8:00 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/15/2011 08:58 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version 4.5.3-r1. [...] But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could swap CPUs. After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:11, Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2011 02:07:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 16, 2011 8:00 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/15/2011 08:58 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2011 02:07:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: And if you're adventurous, add USE graphite, reemerge gcc, and reemerge world :) what does graphite add ? Thanks for reminding me; I meant to look it up

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 08:11 AM, Michael Mol wrote: Play with your BIOS settings. Look for things like legacy USB support. Also, double-check that all the relevant USB drivers (UHCI, EHCI, XHCI, HID, etc) are either built-into the kernel, or are loaded as modules. Consider rebuilding your kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: Play with your BIOS settings. Look for things like legacy USB support. Also, double-check that all the relevant USB drivers (UHCI, EHCI, XHCI, HID, etc) are either built-into the kernel, or are loaded as modules. Consider rebuilding your kernel. Just because one processor