Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:05:00 -0500 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The SSL connection is established within the Linux VM, so all the > host sees is an encrypted connection to your bank. Wrong: It will also see all the virtual memory the virtualized machine is using, including tho

Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?

2008-01-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:13:33 +0100 Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is nothing basic about a spreadsheet program. It is a very > advanced piece of software. From a developer's perspective unicode is > an obvious requirement, if he tries to write a program for many > differen

Re: [gentoo-user] Create mutli-file .zip archives from the command line?

2008-01-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:34:01 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file is the same size in bytes (8056211212) on the destination > XP machine as it is on the Samba host, but the md5sums (using Sumemr > Properties under XP) don't match. There is also the slight possibility that y

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing problem ?

2008-01-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:42:56 +0530 Holla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing, I cannot understand is the difference in traceroute > results. What does this say in plain english ? :-) > > At PC2 > # traceroute 218.248.240.46 (ISP's DNS server) > traceroute to 218.248.240.46 (218.248.240

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find USE flags of a tbz2?

2008-01-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:05:18 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if an ebuild was executed with --buildpkg, is there an easy way to extract > the USE-flags that were in place from the resulting .tbz2? qtbz2 -xO your.tbz2 | qxpak -xO - USE -hwh -- gentoo-user@lists.

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:09:15 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use evolution. I tried using Squirrelmail and got this: > > Message not sent. Server replied: > Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable > 550 Rejected: spam score 6.5 Ah, I see. Exi

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:12:10 -0600 (CST) "Michael Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I own espersunited.com, so it is on my end. ...and so should be exim's logs, right? I usually find it easier to read actual error reports than (stripped) configurations for complex software that is claime

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:08:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I'm getting closer now. > I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. > I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used > ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. > > Now, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is > > > part of the problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not > > > support the 8197? > [...] > At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make some notes on this: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c > [...] > I added the line > {USB_DEVICE

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:12 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to > be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions

2007-11-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:46:02 +0100 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your answer. I am afraid you go a little to fast for me. > What does "$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512" exactly do? Put 512 blocks of pseudo-random stuff in /tmp/md5src. I think Dan just did

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, oops, wrote too long. So here's the follow-up: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:42:54 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you put "GS_FONTPATH=" > I was trying to put it in .bashrc (re-log) didn't work; in /etc/profile > env-update && source /etc/profile > export > GS_FONTPATH=/usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:13:50 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript > >> Search path: > >> [...] > >> Where these paths are coming from? > > > >Compiled into the binary? > > Not a good solution but, it would be better if we input

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:25:48 -0700 Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "gs -h" gives me the following font path for Ghostscript > Search path: > [...] > Where these paths are coming from? Compiled into the binary? > According to > documentation: /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-esp-8.15.3/html/Us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > arrakis ~ # eix rails > [I] dev-ruby/rails > Available versions: > (1.1) 1.1.6 ~1.1.6-r1 > (1.2) ~1.2.0 ~1.2.1 ~1.2.2 ~1.2.3 > Installed versions: 1.1.6(1.1)(18:31:16 11/21/07)(doc fa

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:27:49 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the only option seems to be to properly install grub > > to the first HD. > > grub-install /dev/hda renders the PC completely > unusable Hm, yeah, that's why I generally distrust running grub from within an

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
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. > > Grub *should* be able to see what BIOS sees, but clearly this is not the case > here. Have you tried reinstallin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:02:58 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > > > > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > > > > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, > > > > e

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:35 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. > My external monitori

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:23:44 -0400 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 > > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network > has intermittent connection problems -- it connects to google just > fine, but not to Microsoft sites and other places. Does this computer use the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} preforking mysqld?

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:52:48 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have apache2 preforking and another important daemon preforking, and > after looking at my top process list, I'm wondering if I can get > mysqld preforking. It looks like there's only one mysqld process > running and it'

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:19:07 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, although this is somewhat popular and seen as a performance > enhancement to many, ...I don't think dynamic linking has *that* big overhead. I think most people do this in order to secure the kernel/userland bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:38:10 -0400 James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for some advice. We have a user on our network that we > belive may be making inappropriate forum posts, violating our TOS for > internet usage. I am looking for some recommendations of software > that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:15:33 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man > page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > (dependency required by "www-client/epiphany-2.18.3" [ebuild]) > > !!! Depgraph creatio

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:10:19 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.) If I have to run "make modules_install", can I do this before I > > run "make" to compile the kernel image? > > No. I was under the impression that the modules_install target will include the all ta

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:33:17 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is fixed now! > I tried the alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc3, which is used by the Redflag os, > and everything is fine, now. > > It's very weird. Just as what I mentioned above, the 1.0.14_rc3 > version one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:59:23 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and > therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native > binaries, am I correct? I think the gcj flag toggles if java support is ad

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:25:12 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes,both my Windows XP and another linux os Redflag have sound. Is > > > there anyway that I can use the Redflag's modules to driver my > > > gentoo? > > > > Only by using its kernel, too. Then you would just c

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:23:35 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes,both my Windows XP and another linux os Redflag have sound. Is > there anyway that I can use the Redflag's modules to driver my > gentoo? Only by using its kernel, too. Then you would just copy the kernel (and

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:59:28 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After this sequence, my ALSA sound finally started working again. I > don't know what happened. A wild guess is that "make" was trying to > "be efficient" and kept some code from a previous version, that > doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:50:16 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, /dev/dsp is OSS stuff. Aplay shouldn't use that. But it makes me > > wonder whether snd_pcm_oss is loaded? > Yes,have loaded it: > $ lsmod | grep snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm_oss39648 0 > snd_mixer_oss

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:53:42 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't find the /dev/dsp : > # ls /dev/dsp > ls: cannot access /dev/dsp: No such file or directory > > My os is a 64bit gentoo, so may it be the problem? No, /dev/dsp is OSS stuff. Aplay shouldn't use that. But i

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy way to know its public IP address

2007-10-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:43:15 +0200 Marc LEURENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know how is it possible to quickly know its public IP > address behind a NAT from the console... I'm using links + a My IP > search but it sucks You can craft a similar service that just reports

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:04:11 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just setup a gentoo in my dell1400 laptop,and until now,the sound > problem is not solved yet. > > Here is the problem: > $ aplay 01.mp3 > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > aplay:

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd: DBERROR db4: Database handles still open at env

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:52:25 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Error occurred while processing mail: > -ERR [SYS/PERM] Error initializing TLS > > > and I see this in log files: > > Oct 5 18:22:21 afrodita pop3[14410]: DBERROR db4: Database handles > still open at environment c

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than > the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge > and remerged glibc. Most probably no danger here. The interfaces of th

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:25:23 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right, I needed index.php... but now php does not work!!! > > I'm looking for some info in gentoo wiki and I think I have all fine: > > APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL -D PHP5" > in conf.d/apache And y

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:44:21 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: > The splice system call was added with 2.6.17 and corresponding headers. If > you build an application that has optinal (on compile time) support

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 "Hex Star" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no harm in doing so :) If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you think that. After all this isn't IRC. In fact, I would not suggest doing that. While kernel developers do their bes

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:23:38 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setting up NAT works using a sysctl (or the procfs). Restricting the > > NAT works using iptables. > > I don't think that's quite right. Correct me if i'm wrong (please) but > this should read, > > "Setting

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:42:42 -0500 "Walter Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have modem asdl zyxel 660 and activate loopback with command: "ip nat > loopback on" Where do you enter that and why? What is the thing _you_ call a loopback? On what device or machine does it exist? You don't s

Re: [gentoo-user] Standby

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:26:28 +0100 Paul Gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now when I press > the soft power button the system suspends ( all processes appear to > stop and the screen goes blank but for a flashing cursor in the top > left of the 2 screens of my dual headed system) but after

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

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:33:40 +0200 "Liviu Andronic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > However, it makes sense to clean up memory after ha

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

2007-10-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:47:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > And later on: "Now one problem is > > left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisation can get the > > contents after the system is powered off. With the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:42:58 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > another great thing about grub is that it has a limited command mode > that you can enter at boot time. If your grub config contains a typo > or error, you can still boot the computer without reaching for a CD. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > >> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, > >> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > > BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (<50US preferably) that > > is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. > > Analog

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what > > does the jumper do? > > Determines if the drive is master or slave in the > BIOS. > > But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm > astonished

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:16:09 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With netstat -lp it looks like *:snpp is associated with apache2 and > is using the same pid as *:http and *:https. I've never set up > anything having to do with a pager. I've never had a pager. What can > I do to inves

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:56:16 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I would definately prefer to always have a guaranteed working > > sshd running (I find OpenVPN/telnet a bit strange and an unnecessary > > potential security hole). > > If running permanently, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:15:24 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but > > these most often were due to some configuration changes. > > And exactly for this is why test-restart was propo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:25:07 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A "/etc/init.d/sshd stop" won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll > simply the sshd "master process". Because of that, additional > logins won't be possible. An /etc/init.d/sshd stop/restart can very well fail. Depend

Re: [ot] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:19:06 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other day something quite funny happened to me. I was with my Laptop > trying to find an open AP. > I found one, but couldn't browser the internet nor get my OpenVPN (against a > USA-based server

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

2007-09-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:07:02 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 070913 Daevid Vincent wrote: > > I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) > > or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. > > It's only the physical console that doesn't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

2007-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:10 -0500 forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, I did that. I tried to enable a few other options within SCSI, > and none of them did anything. Dmesg still says it sees the device, > knows it is USB, gives is an address, and designates it a configurati

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with USB subsystem after upgrading to 2.6.22

2007-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:44:23 +0200 Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found myself a solution to this problem (I don't know if it's the best way > to do it but it works for me). > > I added the following two files to my system: > > # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/00-local.rules > SUBSYST

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing [OT: Issues with an article on the wiki]

2007-09-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:35:41 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your patience, it's finally working! OK, that's good news :-) > If you don't edit the wiki, I'll do it (sooner or later). Just tell me > if you don't want to see your name when I give you credit fo

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:56 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does my host get root access like that? Different possibilities, but hardware access in most cases means root access (although maybe only to encrypted partitions...). Easiest: Reboot (CTRL-ALT-DEL, no password needed)

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:38:26 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now the kernel can handle connection state matching :) > > I can apply your rules with one exception: > iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE > > The same error message as before. But a different cause:

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:50:52 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My suggestion for a proper setup would be > > > > $ iptables -F FORWARD > > $ iptables -P FORWARD DROP > > $ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -m state --state > > NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:30:51 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, OK. This: > > snip > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > > target prot opt source destination > > ACCEPT all -- 10.8.0.1 anywhere > > ACCEPT

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:28:41 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can always start a seperate ssh server on a different port, to test > the new server and the config files. > > Then you can get in on a different port and fix it if your upgrade of > the usual ssh server gets b

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:03 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll attach relevant ifconfig, route and iptables -L output. Hm, OK. This: snip Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 10.8.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server for localhost

2007-08-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:16:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a setup like this - kmail connecting to dovecot @ localhost. > > I pop my mail off the various mail servers I use with > net-mail/getmail, the docs are quite clear. Performance is slower > than local mailboxe

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:22:56 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I have a working keyboard and a busybox shell, I'm trying > to mount a USB key. I did... > > mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 > mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 > > ...inserted a USB key, and tried mounting it. dmesg indica

Re: [gentoo-user] "Treason uncloaked!" solution?

2007-08-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:55:06 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It usually means that the other side of the TCP > > connection reduced the window to zero size, thus leading stupid TCP > > stacks to save information on a basically starved connection. The > > kernel just sends an

Re: [gentoo-user] "Treason uncloaked!" solution?

2007-08-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:18:16 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I get "Treason uncloaked!" in dmesg when running bittorrent. > The solution here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=127984 > > is: > > You'd best set iptables to block all packets fr

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:05:59 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Managed to install alsa-driver (the unstable ones were needed). > Nothing changes, except that now PCM has no volume bar, too. Sorry, I'm now left to some shots in the dark: Re-emerge alsa-libs and alsa-utils, too? There

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:55 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What concerns me is that alsamixer nevers shows a volume control on > Master anymore, and amixer says: > > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined *<--- no volume/pvolume* > Playback cha

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:09:39 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > b.n. ha scritto: > > I think I have to try with the Portage alsa drivers. > > Ok, alsa-driver does not compile. > Now I feel really lost. But the error isn't "I won't compile.", isn't it? With the information you provide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: phpMyAdmin

2007-08-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:09:48 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you read my earlier post? > > > > rewrite that line to APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5" and > > restart apache. > > Pardon, I may have been distracted, but I think I changed that entry > several times

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:33:49 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 > >> Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined > >> Playback channels: Mono > >> Capture channels: Mono > >> Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off] > > Where do you

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA hell : master channel permanently at zero volume, no sound

2007-08-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:37:27 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, is there a switch for analog vs. digital audio output? The > > screenshot only shows a few controls. > > Yes. Just tried to switch them but nothing changes. Hm. That would include playing with those settings: Mas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: phpMyAdmin

2007-08-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:45:28 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some more data, if it helps: > [...] > localhost ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/apache2 > [...] > APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST" > #APACHE2_OPTS="-D PHP5.2.2" Did you read my earlier post? rewrite that line to APACHE

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:03:46 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add: The recompile worked. Sometimes you can't see what's wrong for > looking Thanks again for all the help Fine! You're welcome, of course! (I somehow doubted that NLS support is required for FAT, too. But it

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:45:59 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trying to mount it from the command line didn't work, here's the > output from dmesg Hm, did you really use "-t vfat"? Your kernel log has other filesystems complaining after the FAT errors... > Unable to ident

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: phpMyAdmin

2007-08-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:24:10 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that Apache needs configuration? specifically the > documentroot? Is that required? No, in that case you wouldn't even see the directory listing. Your probably just not running the PHP module. Check your

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:30:08 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fstab doesn't mention /dev/sdb1 > normally I just plug the pendrive in, the icon pops up in media:/ in > konqueror, I click on it and do what I need to do Hm, OK, then other daemons come into action. Unfortunat

Re: [gentoo-user] phpMyAdmin

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:15:17 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I'd seen a phpmyadmin configuration gui at gentoo.org, but > can't seem to locate it again. gives a > list of files. If those files you see actually are the phpMyAdmin file

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:06:50 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using udev-104-r13 Hm, but udev doesn't do the mount, does it? I would really be interested whether there is a fstab entry (and what it is) and what mount command you use, if any. Some software actually mu

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows > vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got > the following output from dmesg: > [...] How is it mounted? fstab entry? CL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:48:30 + (UTC) Mateus Interciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, thanks a lot, this for sure cleared a lot of troubles I was having on > my head. :-) The thing is, the more deeper you look into things, the more you get aware that they are more simple than you thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:53:51 + (UTC) Mateus Interciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so my ISP gives my just one IP, as it you have already guessed, > and yes, probably I did mixed up a lot of stuff, and I'm terrible > sorry for this. Oh, that's just fine for me, it's probably yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:38:18 + (UTC) Mateus Interciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, basically, I want to share the internet using a Bridge on a pc > with two NICS, one for internet, the other for Internal Network. Uhm, yeah, I'd like a bridge to the internet, too. To bad the internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 & Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:19:31 +0300 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 6 tells me that it can't find libstdc++.so.5. I tried to > create this symlink manualy(pointing to the libstdc++ 6.0.8 ) but it > didn't give me any results Emerge libcompat to get libstdc++ 5. (and

Re: [gentoo-user] Native Language Support

2007-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:47:41 +0300 "Sergey A. Kobzar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a mail server with UK/US locales support only. Access to > console have limited number of users only. > > Do I need NLS support? What are consequences if I switch off NLS flag > in installed packages? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown Tool "hd"

2007-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:13:58 +0100 Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with a script refering to several tools, one is "hd" > -snip- > TESTECHO="$($ECHO -e '\061\062' \ > | hd \ > | grep -Eom1 '^[[digit:]]+[[:space:]]+[[digit:]]+[[:space:]] > | +[[digit:]]+' \ tr -s '\t ' ' ' >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Excessive processor usage

2007-08-07 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:36:36 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there > > isn't a rootkit: > > > chkrootkit can be used to check whether there _are_ _known_ > > rootkits. > > > BTW, there are other, similar programs th

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 "Xav'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I > advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on > your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:29:52 + Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to add text on top of a PDF, resulting in a new file. I'm > not concerned with encryption, authorization, nor really "editing" the > PDF itself -- just ending up with a new PDF with my text on top. > > I read

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to add gd and mysql to PHP.

2007-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:50:52 -0600 Mike Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2007 06:32:53 pm Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Mike Diehl wrote: > > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 23 17:59 apache2-php5 > > > > There you have it ;-) > > > > Look inside... > > Well, I'm getting cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to add gd and mysql to PHP.

2007-07-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:37:58 -0600 Mike Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm needing to update php to include both the gd and mysql extensions. > > I believe I have both packages installed. > > I emerged php with both extensions in my USE flag. > [...] Looks alright. > How do I get thes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but > what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of > them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is > different,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.21 and sundance.ko problems.

2007-07-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:08:42 +0200 "Dominik Żyła" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX NIC and running Gentoo with 2.6.21 > kernel. When I load sundance.ko there is no interfaces available in > my `ifconfig -a` output. Besides, all 4 interfaces are listed in > `lspci` ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem after 'fsck' on mounted filesystem

2007-06-29 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Xihong Yin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried fsck.ext3 on the unmount partitions. It is not fixing. I > still get the asking for input runlevel. No matter what runlevel you > input, it always response with "no more process left on this > runlevel".

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem after 'fsck' on mounted filesystem

2007-06-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:45:05 -0500 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xihong Yin wrote: > > I had run "fsck" on the mounted filesystem. I think this is the > > problem. > > What were the results? Irrelevant (since it was mounted) -- except if it was mounted read only. If the OP real

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos

2007-06-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:42:55 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downloader (which didn't > work) and Video Manager with Opera. It seems that the downloaded video is > very jumpy (drops huge number of frames) when played back using xine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel heat warnings at low temps

2007-06-26 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:27:30 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've noticed over time (mnths) that when the cpu gets hot, the hdd are > also at elevated temps. Maybe not critical but well above where the > run normally. OK, you made an observation. But that doesn't make it a rule. In fact, i

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