Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
On 2003.08.16 15:19, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I just upgraded my development-sources to snapshot bk3 from bk1 through portage and moved my old bk1 config over. However, now I can't even get into the ACPI section under power management. I tried creating a new config without reusing the old one but at one point ACPI once again gets locked. Doing make oldconfig on the old config gets rid of all ACPI options too. Anyone else experience this? To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( I will confirm/deny this tomorrow after work, but from other posts of yours I have read, I have no doubt that I will acheive similar results. -- Chris I The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
On Sunday 17 August 2003 15:04, Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.16 15:19, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I just upgraded my development-sources to snapshot bk3 from bk1 through portage and moved my old bk1 config over. However, now I can't even get into the ACPI section under power management. I tried creating a new config without reusing the old one but at one point ACPI once again gets locked. Doing make oldconfig on the old config gets rid of all ACPI options too. Anyone else experience this? To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( I will confirm/deny this tomorrow after work, but from other posts of yours I have read, I have no doubt that I will acheive similar results. I've confirmed this. I usually run mm-sources, but there's a bug that manifests during fsck so I'm on development-sources for the time being. You can still run the kernel with SMP support, however. Just turn the number of CPUs down to 2 to save a little bit of RAM and there's practically no difference to a non-SMP kernel. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] LVM and disk failure
Hi, I'd like to install a LVM Volume on my distrib without striping, i read that a disk failure can cause the loss of a part of data or all data. I understand why a disk crash can cause a loss of part of data but how can it loss all data. For example if i had 3 disks of 80 Go on /data and one disk crashes, will i only loss 80 Go on data in /data or more ? Thank you for helping -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Unmasking GCC 3.3.1
Hello all, I know this was covered previously, but a proper solution was not given. I've done everything I can think of to unmask gcc331, but emerge -uDp world still wants to downgrade it. Even emerge -UDp world wants to downgrade it! I haven't bothered with packages.mask causing grepping it for gcc doesn't give anything for the version I want to use. In the ebuild itself I find KEYWORDS='-*' which I've changed to KEYWORDS='~x86' but it hasn't made a difference. /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1 also contained -* which I changed to ~x86 and it still makes no difference. I've even tried PORTAGE_OVERLAY but no cigar. I've checked all the dependencies and have all the required packages installed; i.e. it's not a package further down the tree that's masked. I honestly cannot see what I'm missing. The gcc33 forum says to unmask it in packages.mask but it's not in there - at least not anymore. Any suggestions? Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] most secure partition layout
hi gentoo-user, I wonder what would be the best partition layout for a really secure and performant system (running as router/server). current layout: /boot not mounted / readonly /usr/local readonly /var r/w /tmp r/w /usr/portage r/w this is seperated on two ide drives. but in a few days I will move the whole system to some scsi drives. 2 x 4,3GB 2 x 9,1GB 1 x 4,3GB destined to be an image of the base system for backup reasons what would you recommend and most important information: why? thx+regards /Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) 19-Sep-82 11:44Scott E Fahlman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Many ebuilds fail (cd failes after configure)
Hi everybody, I am trying to update my packages and most of them fail to emerge. So far I found libgtop, util-linux, gdm, libxslt, apache and apr having this problem. It looks like after the configure step make want's to cd into a directory that's not existing. It's always the same error ... cd: ... : No such file or directory. Here are the messages for apache and util-linux as example (similar behaviour with the other packages mentioned above): Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~mb1 root # emerge -b apache Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) net-www/apache-2.0.47 to / md5 src_uri ;-) httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.47/work patching file acinclude.m4 patching file modules/ssl/config.m4 patching file os/unix/unixd.c patching file support/apachectl.in patching file support/apxs.in * /home/httpd is your Apache2 data directory ... rebuilding srclib/apr/configure ./buildconf: line 146: cd: srclib/apr: No such file or directory ./buildconf failed for apr !!! ERROR: net-www/apache-2.0.47 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 127, Exitcode 1 !!! buildconf failed Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~mb1 root # emerge util-linux Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 to / md5 src_uri ;-) util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2 md5 src_uri ;-) util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.11z-r6/work Unpacking util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.11z-r6/work * Applying util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-parallel-make.patch... [ ok ] * Applying no-symlink-resolve.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-script.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-agetty-domainname-option.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-pic.patch... [ ok ] Source unpacked. configuring util-linux-2.11z You have scsi/scsi.h You have linux/blkpg.h You have linux/kd.h You have locale.h You have langinfo.h You have sys/user.h You have rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h You have asm/types.h You have linux/raw.h You have inet_aton() You have fsync() You have getdomainname() You have nanosleep() You have personality() You have updwtmp() You have fseeko() You have lchown() You don't need linux/tqueue.h You have term.h You have ncurses. Using ncurses.h. You have termcap You need -lcrypt You have libintl.h and gettext() You have __progname You have pty.h and openpty() You have wide character support You have __NR_pivot_root You have a tm_gmtoff field in struct tm Your rpcgen seems to work You have zlib /bin/sh: line 1: cd: po: No such file or directory make: *** [all] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 100, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed Code: mb1 root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) = System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo; CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/env.d PORTDIR=/usr/portage DISTDIR=/resources/dists/gentoo/1.4/distfiles PKGDIR=/resources/dists/gentoo/1.4/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR_OVERLAY= USE=x86 foomaticdb mad -3dfx 3dnow aalib -acl -acpi -afs -alsa -apache2 apm arts -atlas avi berkdb bonobo -canna cdr -cjk crypt -cups dga directfb -doc dvd encode esd evo -ev6 fbcon -flash -freewnn gb gd gdbm -ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk2 gtk gtkhtml guile -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib innodb -ipv6 java -jikes jpeg -junit kde -kerberos lcms ldap leim -libg++ libgda libwww -matrox maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg -mule mysql -nas ncurses nls nocardbus oav -oci8 -odbc oggvorbis opengl -oss pam -pcmcia pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png -postgres python qt quicktime readline -ruby samba sasl -scanner sdl slang -slp snmp -socks5 spell sse ssl -static svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype -trusted -voodoo3 -wavelan X xface xml2 xml xmms xv -zeo zlib COMPILER=gcc3
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking GCC 3.3.1
On Sunday 17 August 2003 08.54, Jason Stubbs wrote: Hello all, I know this was covered previously, but a proper solution was not given. I've done everything I can think of to unmask gcc331, but emerge -uDp world still wants to downgrade it. Even emerge -UDp world wants to downgrade it! I haven't bothered with packages.mask causing grepping it for gcc doesn't give anything for the version I want to use. In the ebuild itself I find KEYWORDS='-*' which I've changed to KEYWORDS='~x86' but it hasn't made a difference. /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1 also contained -* which I changed to ~x86 and it still makes no difference. I've even tried PORTAGE_OVERLAY but no cigar. I've checked all the dependencies and have all the required packages installed; i.e. it's not a package further down the tree that's masked. I honestly cannot see what I'm missing. The gcc33 forum says to unmask it in packages.mask but it's not in there - at least not anymore. Any suggestions? Just copy it to your PORTAGE_OVERLAY directory and make it stable. x86 tony -- Contract ASIC and FPGA design. Telephone +46 702 894 667 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindexsearch=0x633E2623 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Many ebuilds fail (cd failes after configure)
Just a guess, make sure you have this in /bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] tony # ll /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 2003-07-05 01:39 /bin/sh - bash On Sunday 17 August 2003 09.51, Paidhi wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying to update my packages and most of them fail to emerge. So far I found libgtop, util-linux, gdm, libxslt, apache and apr having this problem. It looks like after the configure step make want's to cd into a directory that's not existing. It's always the same error ... cd: ... : No such file or directory. Here are the messages for apache and util-linux as example (similar behaviour with the other packages mentioned above): Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~mb1 root # emerge -b apache Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) net-www/apache-2.0.47 to / md5 src_uri ;-) httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.47/work patching file acinclude.m4 patching file modules/ssl/config.m4 patching file os/unix/unixd.c patching file support/apachectl.in patching file support/apxs.in * /home/httpd is your Apache2 data directory ... rebuilding srclib/apr/configure ./buildconf: line 146: cd: srclib/apr: No such file or directory ./buildconf failed for apr !!! ERROR: net-www/apache-2.0.47 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 127, Exitcode 1 !!! buildconf failed Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~mb1 root # emerge util-linux Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 to / md5 src_uri ;-) util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2 md5 src_uri ;-) util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.11z-r6/work Unpacking util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.11z-r6/work * Applying util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-parallel-make.patch... [ ok ] * Applying no-symlink-resolve.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-script.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-agetty-domainname-option.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-pic.patch... [ ok ] Source unpacked. configuring util-linux-2.11z You have scsi/scsi.h You have linux/blkpg.h You have linux/kd.h You have locale.h You have langinfo.h You have sys/user.h You have rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h You have asm/types.h You have linux/raw.h You have inet_aton() You have fsync() You have getdomainname() You have nanosleep() You have personality() You have updwtmp() You have fseeko() You have lchown() You don't need linux/tqueue.h You have term.h You have ncurses. Using ncurses.h. You have termcap You need -lcrypt You have libintl.h and gettext() You have __progname You have pty.h and openpty() You have wide character support You have __NR_pivot_root You have a tm_gmtoff field in struct tm Your rpcgen seems to work You have zlib /bin/sh: line 1: cd: po: No such file or directory make: *** [all] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 100, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed Code: mb1 root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) = System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo; CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/env.d PORTDIR=/usr/portage DISTDIR=/resources/dists/gentoo/1.4/distfiles PKGDIR=/resources/dists/gentoo/1.4/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR_OVERLAY= USE=x86 foomaticdb mad -3dfx 3dnow aalib -acl -acpi -afs -alsa -apache2 apm arts -atlas avi berkdb bonobo -canna cdr -cjk crypt -cups dga directfb -doc dvd encode esd evo -ev6 fbcon -flash -freewnn gb gd gdbm -ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk2 gtk gtkhtml guile -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib innodb -ipv6 java -jikes jpeg -junit kde -kerberos lcms ldap leim -libg++ libgda libwww -matrox maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg -mule mysql -nas ncurses nls nocardbus oav -oci8 -odbc oggvorbis opengl -oss pam -pcmcia pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png -postgres python qt quicktime readline -ruby samba sasl -scanner sdl slang -slp snmp -socks5 spell sse ssl -static svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype -trusted -voodoo3 -wavelan X xface xml2 xml xmms xv -zeo zlib COMPILER=gcc3 CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 MAKEOPTS=-j2
Re: [gentoo-user] most secure partition layout
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:48:01AM +0200, Christian Sch?fer wrote: hi gentoo-user, I wonder what would be the best partition layout for a really secure and performant system (running as router/server). current layout: /boot not mounted / readonly /usr/local readonly /var r/w /tmp r/w /usr/portage r/w / rw /usr ro,nodev /opt ro,nodev /var rw,nodev /tmp rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev /home rw,nosuid,nodev /boot noauto,ro,nosuid Due to bad design of some system programs you need / to be mounted rw at boot :-(. It should be possible to later remount / as ro, but you certainly can't do it at boot. If you are certain you aren't going to run anything that puts suid code in /var, then add nosuid there. qmail, vpopmail and a few other programs do put suid code in /var, so I don't suggest it by default. The noexec on /tmp will save you from a LOT of trouble, as the great majority of rootkits try to run from there. On the other hand, it will break some scripts (the livecd creation script for eg), so YMMV. For security, i'd suggest you take a look at the Gentoo SELinux stuff. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( More information: This is now filed as bug [1]. Basically, the problem is that ACPI is dependent upon Local APIC being turned on. To me, this seems like a bad idea as my machine has no local APIC but requires ACPI. Judge for yourselves. [1] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1117 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] most secure partition layout
Christian Schäfer wrote: I wonder what would be the best partition layout for a really secure and performant system (running as router/server). current layout: /boot not mounted / readonly /usr/local readonly /var r/w /tmp r/w /usr/portage r/w Does this work? I was under the impression that /etc had to be writeable (/etc/mtab is the culprit I believe?), which forced / to rw (/etc still has to be in the same partition as /, right?). Anyway, I tend to use: /boot noauto / rw /var rw LVM /usr ro LVM (remount rw as needed) /usr/portage ro LVM (remount rw as needed) /tmp tmpfs /home/users/* rw LVM (one lv per user -- easier than quota :) ) which seems to work reasonably well. If there is a way to get / ro, I'd like to hear it... Regards, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking GCC 3.3.1
On Sunday 17 August 2003 17:08, Tony Clark wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 08.54, Jason Stubbs wrote: Hello all, I know this was covered previously, but a proper solution was not given. I've done everything I can think of to unmask gcc331, but emerge -uDp world still wants to downgrade it. Even emerge -UDp world wants to downgrade it! I haven't bothered with packages.mask causing grepping it for gcc doesn't give anything for the version I want to use. In the ebuild itself I find KEYWORDS='-*' which I've changed to KEYWORDS='~x86' but it hasn't made a difference. /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1 also contained -* which I changed to ~x86 and it still makes no difference. I've even tried PORTAGE_OVERLAY but no cigar. I've checked all the dependencies and have all the required packages installed; i.e. it's not a package further down the tree that's masked. I honestly cannot see what I'm missing. The gcc33 forum says to unmask it in packages.mask but it's not in there - at least not anymore. Any suggestions? Just copy it to your PORTAGE_OVERLAY directory and make it stable. x86 As I said, I tried the PORTAGE_OVERLAY but it didn't work. True, I used KEYWORDS='~x86' but I've got ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' in make.conf. But just to be thorough, I changed it to 'x86' and it still doesn't work. I emerged it before copying it to PORTAGE_OVERLAY, though. Perhaps I should unmerge and merge again? I can't find anything in /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1 that links that package to /usr/portage, however, so I don't think that'll work either. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installed packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 16 August 2003 04:19, William Kenworthy wrote: What gives? rattus# emerge -e --deep world -p|wc 135 5345612 rattus# wc /var/cache/edb/world 608 608 11445 /var/cache/edb/world rattus# Just out of curiosity... what does cat /var/cache/edb/world | sort | uniq | wc -l give you? - --Erik -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Pz1fds9m9uhAobARAhFGAJ4xct9ff/tTdEGEl/pyIzp/y0S8SACgl8D6 pNNIT8Z6Kl+pYFXONFsLJOQ= =jXZi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to duplicate a complete ebuild map?
Hi all, I've installed one server with Gentoo, and I'd like to duplicate it's configuration in terms of installed packages on another machine. How can I do that? Best regards, - Christian -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator GPG: 3C89AD72 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] most secure partition layout
hi Robin, Due to bad design of some system programs you need / to be mounted rw at boot :-(. It should be possible to later remount / as ro, but you certainly can't do it at boot. ok, didn't know that. If you are certain you aren't going to run anything that puts suid code in /var, then add nosuid there. how can I determine if there is suid code put into /var ? qmail, vpopmail and a few other programs do put suid code in /var, so I don't suggest it by default. is there a way to configure them to some other behaviour? The noexec on /tmp will save you from a LOT of trouble, as the great majority of rootkits try to run from there. On the other hand, it will break some scripts (the livecd creation script for eg), so YMMV. understood. thx! For security, i'd suggest you take a look at the Gentoo SELinux stuff. is already running! ;-) regards /Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) 19-Sep-82 11:44Scott E Fahlman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
On Sunday 17 August 2003 17:18, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( More information: This is now filed as bug [1]. Basically, the problem is that ACPI is dependent upon Local APIC being turned on. To me, this seems like a bad idea as my machine has no local APIC but requires ACPI. Damn, you're right. My machine has a local APIC, but when using it my PCMCIA modem drops down to 1kb/s which really sux. I checked into the kernel config files and found on line 33 of drivers/acpi/Kconfig: depends on IA64 || (X86 ACPI_HT) I changed that to: depends on IA64 || X86 That's allowed me to remove the APIC stuff as well as ACPI Processor Enumeration for HT - that I'm happy about to seeing I have an AMD! Recompiling now and will let you know how it goes once I've rebooted. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem exporting NFS directories
hi ! I have/had the same. My problem came from the sleep kill in the /etc/init.d/nfs - start nfs has a list of clients in /var/lib/nfs/xtab and in rmtab the state, I think. And it tries to reexport the dirs somehow, but if the clients are offline, then it hangs till the kill in /etc/init.d/nfs my understanding is, that this /var/lib/nfs/xtab and rmtab makes it possible, that the clients are not disturbed by a server-disconnect, they get reconnected automatically after the server comes up again. Nice if the server runs 24/7 but I turn my file-server off after use and sometimes I turn the server down when the clients are on and then the troubles starts. Did you kill the server befor the client? add -v in your /etc/init.d/nfs - start function and you can see, what gets exported: ebegin Exporting NFS directories $exportfs -v -r 12 I have changed my /etc/init.d/nfs -start-function to: if grep -q '^/' /etc/exports /dev/null; then ebegin Killing *tab and creating rmtab rm /var/lib/nfs/*tab touch /var/lib/nfs/rmtab ebegin Exporting NFS directories $exportfs -v -r 12 and now I have no problems anymore. If you use your NFS only at home, try it. It works for me, but I have never tired to understand this fully. Remeber: you loose the Client-Server-Connection if you restart nfs! joe On Saturday 16 August 2003 19:32, Gerar wrote: Hi! I`m having a really annoying problem with NFS. It was working quite good but this morning it crashed while starting. This is what my box told me: * Exporting NFS directories... /sbin/runscript.sh: line 527: 2140 Killed$exportfs -r 12 *Error exporting NFS direcotires The exports file can`t be the problem as it was working till this morning. Could someone help me?? I`m going crazy!!! Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
On Sunday 17 August 2003 17:38, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 17:18, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( More information: This is now filed as bug [1]. Basically, the problem is that ACPI is dependent upon Local APIC being turned on. To me, this seems like a bad idea as my machine has no local APIC but requires ACPI. Damn, you're right. My machine has a local APIC, but when using it my PCMCIA modem drops down to 1kb/s which really sux. I checked into the kernel config files and found on line 33 of drivers/acpi/Kconfig: depends on IA64 || (X86 ACPI_HT) I changed that to: depends on IA64 || X86 That's allowed me to remove the APIC stuff as well as ACPI Processor Enumeration for HT - that I'm happy about to seeing I have an AMD! Recompiling now and will let you know how it goes once I've rebooted. Recompiled, rebooted and running fine. I'm about to add a comment to your bug report as soon as my password arrives. I can't imagine ACPI being bad on machines without HT or APIC since it's been in the 2.5 series for a long time and even backported to the 2.4 series. I'd say it's just a small bug by whomever did the bk3 patches. The HT ACPI bit wasn't in the previous one - seems like that was integrated incorrectly. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] most secure partition layout
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:34:22AM +0200, Christian Sch?fer wrote: If you are certain you aren't going to run anything that puts suid code in /var, then add nosuid there. how can I determine if there is suid code put into /var ? 'find /var -perm +6000 -type f' Will return a list of all setuid and setgid files in /var. qmail, vpopmail and a few other programs do put suid code in /var, so I don't suggest it by default. is there a way to configure them to some other behaviour? Due to their design, unfortunetly no. I've tried moving them to other locations symlinking back, but I haven't had much luck in doing that. In theory, I believe all of their binaries belong in /usr/sbin. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] etc-update not showing differences
Hi,
When I run etc-update it no longer shows the differences between the
original and the update.
Showing differences between /etc/init.d/keymaps and
/etc/init.d/._cfg_keymaps
1) Replace original with update
2) Delete update, keeping original as is
3) Interactively merge original with update
4) Show differences again
Please select from the menu above (-1 to ignore this update):
When I run diff manually it shows differences:
# diff /etc/init.d/keymaps /etc/init.d/._cfg_keymaps
4c4
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/keymaps,v 1.16
2003/04/27 18:39:59 azarah Exp $
---
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/keymaps,v 1.17
2003/07/16 19:38:51 azarah Exp $
19a20,21
local WINDOWKEYS_KEYMAP=
40c42,45
[ -z ${EXTENDED_KEYMAP} ] local
EXTENDED_KEYMAP=windowkeys
---
[ ${SET_WINDOWKEYS} = yes ]
WINDOWKEYS_KEYMAP=windowkeys
/bin/loadkeys -q ${WINDOWKEYS_KEYMAP} ${KEYMAP} \
${EXTENDED_KEYMAPS} /dev/null
42d46
/bin/loadkeys -q ${EXTENDED_KEYMAP} ${KEYMAP} /dev/null
46c50
[ -z ${EXTENDED_KEYMAP} ] local
EXTENDED_KEYMAP=windowkeys.inc
---
[ ${SET_WINDOWKEYS} = yes ]
WINDOWKEYS_KEYMAP=windowkeys.inc
48c52,53
/usr/bin/loadkeys -q ${EXTENDED_KEYMAP} ${KEYMAP}
/dev/null
---
/usr/bin/loadkeys -q ${WINDOWKEYS_KEYMAP} ${KEYMAP} \
${EXTENDED_KEYMAPS} /dev/null
Petri
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to duplicate a complete ebuild map?
On Sunday 17 August 2003 01:29 am, Christian Aust wrote: Hi all, I've installed one server with Gentoo, and I'd like to duplicate it's configuration in terms of installed packages on another machine. How can I do that? Best regards, - Christian Easier said than done. I would suggest making a tarball of your / and unpacking it onto another machine. Although if you are really hellbent on copying over Portage's DB of install packages, you're going to want to work with /var/db. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and disk failure
On Saturday 16 August 2003 11:37 pm, Loopingz wrote: Hi, I'd like to install a LVM Volume on my distrib without striping, i read that a disk failure can cause the loss of a part of data or all data. I understand why a disk crash can cause a loss of part of data but how can it loss all data. For example if i had 3 disks of 80 Go on /data and one disk crashes, will i only loss 80 Go on data in /data or more ? Thank you for helping LVM containers accross multiple disks act like RAID0 in that if one disks fails, you've lost all your data. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall? - SOLVED
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 08:32:54PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Nathan, So, I'm tired, but am running correctly now. Downgrading the firmware in the LinkSys firewall has solved this whole rash of problems. I guess I should write LinkSys and point out the problems, but why should we accept Linux networking as being any different from Windows networking? (I know it will be in practice.) Should someone on the Linux side maybe try to understand what caused this? I Was using the latest and greatest firmware from LinkSys. They could start shipping this and then many people could have the same problems. When a problem is caused by two interacting systems, it's not easy to point a finger. The LinkSys firmware triggered the dysfunction - I'd talk to them first. It's far from certain that this is a fault in Linux. Windows has all sorts of non-standard behaviors in its networking, and it's easy to fall into the trap of depending on them. That's why using a network analyzer would be useful. Anyway... glad you're back in business. Please bang on LinkSys loudly enough to get their attention on this problem. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome installation problem
You are supposed to copy all packages to /usr/portage/packages. Are you sure there aren't any packages on the first CD too? well ye, you first copy over the contents of the first CD to /usr/portage/packages/ and /usr/porage/distfiles However this is *only* for sthe first CD. The sedond CD contains only ythe packages/All directory and according to the install guide, this has been done. Well guess what! There is a make.conf :-) You can make some changes there that will affect emerge. Well can't say I haven't tried that but in a different way. emerge -k /path/package name would find the dependencies to that particular package and install that . Now I did try fiddling with that and installed gnome* from the pakcages/All. However, I'm unable to find which of those packages has the gdm that starts up gnome. I will try listing the contents and 'grep'ing for gdm but well just wanted a lean mean system and this would bloat it up a bit. cheers, Sharath = -Sharath __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
Jason Stubbs wrote: Recompiled, rebooted and running fine. I'm about to add a comment to your bug report as soon as my password arrives. I can't imagine ACPI being bad on machines without HT or APIC since it's been in the 2.5 series for a long time and even backported to the 2.4 series. I'd say it's just a small bug by whomever did the bk3 patches. The HT ACPI bit wasn't in the previous one - seems like that was integrated incorrectly. Thanks for testing and reporting back. Yes - please add useful feedback such as your messages on this thread to the bug report that I filed. I'm a little concerned that the kernel.org bugs are progressing so slowly but hopefully it will get looked at sometime. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to duplicate a complete ebuild map?
I've installed one server with Gentoo, and I'd like to duplicate it's configuration in terms of installed packages on another machine. How can I do that? Best regards, Hey all, I've seen this requested before (by myself as well), how do I request a feature for portage that might work something like... emerge --newworld ./world-file-from-some-other-machine So that it would make that world file it's new goal and try and merge everything in there? I'm not saying it would necessarily be easy but it would be useful if it could be done. Thanks! Matt Neimeyer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Having Issues with X
Followed the doc on the gentoo site for setting up X, but all I get is the following: (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400, mgag550 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found Screen blanks out then comes back with the following error. I know the setting for the monitor and video card and plugged those in when asked during the X config. So I am ata loss as to where my problem is. I have looked thru the log file and up to the point of failure I have not seen any error msg's. Any thoughts on where my problem lies? Here is the info at the top of the log file: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-xfs-r2 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 11 August 2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Having Issues with X
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:33:05PM -0400, Mark Johanson wrote: Followed the doc on the gentoo site for setting up X, but all I get is the following: (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400, mgag550 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found What this is telling you is that you've set up your X server to load the drivers for a certain type of display, and that it's not finding that type of display. Do you have one of the Matrox models listed? My guess is you ran xf86config and didn't give the right answers for your hardware. It's not very user-friendly, unfortunately, but most Linux distros (except Mandrake, that I know of) aren't very good at helping you figure out X configuration. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Screen blanks out then comes back with the following error. I know the setting for the monitor and video card and plugged those in when asked during the X config. So I am ata loss as to where my problem is. I have looked thru the log file and up to the point of failure I have not seen any error msg's. Any thoughts on where my problem lies? Here is the info at the top of the log file: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-xfs-r2 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 11 August 2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes on .wav
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Andrew Farmer wrote: Yep. The problem lies in Linux's unusual approach(es) to handling sound output: - OSS sound. This is still the standard method (though it's being supplanted by kernel ALSA) -- programs access /dev/dsp directly. Only one program can use this at a time. OSS is generally only used by full-screen games and other programs requiring quick response. - ESD sound server. A single server program accesses /dev/dsp and accepts connections through a UNIX domain socket to mix sound together. Good idea, but ESD is fundamentally broken -- it introduces large delays (sometimes as much as 1/2 second) in the process. ESD is used primarily by GNOME. - Userland ALSA. Similar to ESD, even with similar problems. I don't know much about ALSA, really, because it's used primarily by KDE. - Kernel-space ALSA. Since the kernel can preëmpt user programs, it's a fine choice of a place to put the sound mixer. Still quite experimental, as I understand it. But this is still a good choice, if you can get it. Some sound servers support shims to allow the use of programs written for one server under another -- for example, ESD has esddsp, which will reroute accesses to /dev/dsp into ESD. Hopefully, something similar exists for ALSA. To get back to your question, XMMS actually supports both OSS and ESD sound, and apparently ALSA as well (through a masked plugin). You could try emerging the plugin to see if it works, though... Thanks for your comments. I use kernel-space alsa. I don't use masked ebuilds, because I don't feel lucky! Pity that some parts of KMix and KRec are badly documented, but this is another matter... -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking GCC 3.3.1
Hi, try this: emerge -p sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.3.1.ebuild and/or change profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages (after that, it don't try do downgrade anymore) Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Logrotate
Hello, Can someone help me out with logrotate configuration. I've emerged logrotate, but I don't understand how to configure it. I can't seem to find a good tutorial on this. Thanks, Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] X is not accepting connections
Hi, I have a problem: I cannot display windows from a remote machine. when I log in to another machine and want to see the window displayed on my machine I set up the DISPLAY variable on that machine and on my machine I use xhost to grant the other machine access. But I get an error that it can't open the display... my setup: client (legolas): DISPLAY=gandalf:0.0 server (gandalf): xhost legolas legolas:~ xmessage test Error: Can't open display: gandalf:0.0 also when I use `xhost +` I still cannot connect... so what did I miss? Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] distored xmms output
Hi all, I have recently noticed that the sound output from xmms is distorted ...seriously enough for me not to want to listen to what's playing. The funny thing is playback from mpg123 or even dvd audio in mplayer for example is perfect...and my speakers are definitely not bad. I have an SBLive, and upgraded to the latest alsa drivers ...even if I use the other output plugins like OSS or eSound...they are also distorted... Any help would be appreciated Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] portage issues ..is it my fault?
Hi once again, I am having a problem wit the portage system ..after I do an emerge rsync I get this output: - Updating Portage cache... - -aux_get(): (2) Error in app-editors/teco-1.00-r1 ebuild. - Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. -(--debug) - -/^\ -aux_get(): (2) Error in media-libs/libsdl-1.2.5-r1 ebuild. - Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. -(--debug) - -|!!! eclass 'http://www.libsdl.org/' in 'media-libs/libsdl-1.2.5-r2' -does not exist: - ...done! I assume these are just errors that someone left when they wrote the ebuild right? No fault of mine or my machine? Ok then when I want to see what;s new in the world I try this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon # emerge -up world -These are the packages that I would merge, in order: -Calculating world dependencies | -aux_get(): (0) Error in media-libs/libsdl-1.2.5-r1 ebuild. - Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. -(--debug) - -!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy =media-libs/libsdl-1.1.5 have been -masked.!!!(dependency required by media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc0-r2 -[ebuild]) - -!!! Problem with ebuild media-gfx/pornview-0.2.0_pre1 -!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. - -!!! Depgraph creation failed. And that's all I don;t get the list of new ebuilds. Is it a problem with my system or what? Thanks Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Logrotate
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Brian Auty wrote: Can someone help me out with logrotate configuration. I've emerged logrotate, but I don't understand how to configure it. 'man logrotate' has some detailed info. But in a nutshell, logrotate looks at /etc/logrotate.conf, which includes all files in /etc/logrotate.d. You can set defaults and override them in the settings for certain files, or have no defaults and explicitly state everything for each file. In order for logrotate to work, it should be called in cron.daily. If you have specific questions, I can try to answer them. -- Caution: product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Many ebuilds fail (cd failes after configure)
It's there. mb1 root # ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Aug 15 17:58 /bin/sh - bash On Sunday 17 August 2003 10:12, Tony Clark wrote: Just a guess, make sure you have this in /bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] tony # ll /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 2003-07-05 01:39 /bin/sh - bash On Sunday 17 August 2003 09.51, Paidhi wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying to update my packages and most of them fail to emerge. So far I found libgtop, util-linux, gdm, libxslt, apache and apr having this problem. It looks like after the configure step make want's to cd into a directory that's not existing. It's always the same error ... cd: ... : No such file or directory. Here are the messages for apache and util-linux as example (similar behaviour with the other packages mentioned above): Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~mb1 root # emerge -b apache Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) net-www/apache-2.0.47 to / md5 src_uri ;-) httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking httpd-2.0.47.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.47/work patching file acinclude.m4 patching file modules/ssl/config.m4 patching file os/unix/unixd.c patching file support/apachectl.in patching file support/apxs.in * /home/httpd is your Apache2 data directory ... rebuilding srclib/apr/configure ./buildconf: line 146: cd: srclib/apr: No such file or directory ./buildconf failed for apr !!! ERROR: net-www/apache-2.0.47 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 127, Exitcode 1 !!! buildconf failed Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~mb1 root # emerge util-linux Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 to / md5 src_uri ;-) util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2 md5 src_uri ;-) util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking util-linux-2.11z.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.11z-r6/work Unpacking util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.11z-r6/work * Applying util-linux-2.11z-crypt-gentoo.patch.bz2... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-parallel-make.patch... [ ok ] * Applying no-symlink-resolve.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-script.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-agetty-domainname-option.patch... [ ok ] * Applying util-linux-2.11z-pic.patch... [ ok ] Source unpacked. configuring util-linux-2.11z You have scsi/scsi.h You have linux/blkpg.h You have linux/kd.h You have locale.h You have langinfo.h You have sys/user.h You have rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h You have asm/types.h You have linux/raw.h You have inet_aton() You have fsync() You have getdomainname() You have nanosleep() You have personality() You have updwtmp() You have fseeko() You have lchown() You don't need linux/tqueue.h You have term.h You have ncurses. Using ncurses.h. You have termcap You need -lcrypt You have libintl.h and gettext() You have __progname You have pty.h and openpty() You have wide character support You have __NR_pivot_root You have a tm_gmtoff field in struct tm Your rpcgen seems to work You have zlib /bin/sh: line 1: cd: po: No such file or directory make: *** [all] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 100, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed Code: mb1 root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) = System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo; CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/env.d PORTDIR=/usr/portage DISTDIR=/resources/dists/gentoo/1.4/distfiles PKGDIR=/resources/dists/gentoo/1.4/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR_OVERLAY= USE=x86 foomaticdb mad -3dfx 3dnow aalib -acl -acpi -afs -alsa -apache2 apm arts -atlas avi berkdb bonobo -canna cdr -cjk crypt -cups dga directfb -doc dvd encode esd evo -ev6 fbcon -flash -freewnn gb gd gdbm -ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk2 gtk gtkhtml guile -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib innodb -ipv6 java -jikes jpeg -junit kde -kerberos lcms ldap leim -libg++ libgda libwww -matrox maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg -mule mysql -nas ncurses nls nocardbus oav -oci8 -odbc oggvorbis opengl -oss pam -pcmcia pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png -postgres python qt quicktime readline -ruby samba sasl -scanner sdl slang -slp snmp -socks5 spell sse ssl -static svga tcltk
[gentoo-user] OpenGL problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good day all, I've got the Intel 845G chipset using the i810 driver. I know OpenGL is working nicely because the xmms OpenGL plugins render beautiful without any lag whatsoever. However, 3d games are a different story. Return to Castle Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory keeps wanting to use Mesa to do the rendering, when I pass the correct command line to do that it works, but is so slow its unusable. If I dont pass that line and let it think its using OpenGL it crashes after it calls for a VidMode change...the log reports that call, and that it succeeds, but no errors. Same with Neverwinter Nights. I've got it working fine on my laptop with an nVidia GeForce but it refuses to work on my desktop...exiting with Error and nothing else. Has anyone else had these problems? If so how did you manage to get them working right? Thanks! - -Matt B. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/P6IjvK2Q1x8WUwYRApvpAKDMXYXjPsufYgyfb/OAQKRHph3SaACgwZ6O /Hl6v5p6hliRu7WSiXnnyI8= =MTm4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Adding a dir to perl's library path
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not strictly Gentoo related, but while attempting to emerge mod_php, app-text/sablotron-0.97 is being installed as a dependancy. Its compilation is failing as portage is unable to find a specific perl lib, running 'perl - -V' shows that the actual location of the lib isnt listed [ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i586-linux ]. Is there a way of easily adding the dir to the @INC path that doesnt invlolve re-compiling perl? - -- Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P/EpzrmqzOOQUj8RAvVqAJoCrlMcRmxkG3R3t69I8I1Dwt+9XgCdF2Yw Zs7EjX8C7g4cEm3SPNY030Q= =r/Mk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem exporting NFS directories
It works now but I haven`t done anything. I hate this kind of things. Thanks anyway. I`m saving your post to my doc folder in case ;) On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:45:32 +0200 Joe Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ! I have/had the same. My problem came from the sleep kill in the /etc/init.d/nfs - start nfs has a list of clients in /var/lib/nfs/xtab and in rmtab the state, I think. And it tries to reexport the dirs somehow, but if the clients are offline, then it hangs till the kill in /etc/init.d/nfs my understanding is, that this /var/lib/nfs/xtab and rmtab makes it possible, that the clients are not disturbed by a server-disconnect, they get reconnected automatically after the server comes up again. Nice if the server runs 24/7 but I turn my file-server off after use and sometimes I turn the server down when the clients are on and then the troubles starts. Did you kill the server befor the client? add -v in your /etc/init.d/nfs - start function and you can see, what gets exported: ebegin Exporting NFS directories $exportfs -v -r 12 I have changed my /etc/init.d/nfs -start-function to: if grep -q '^/' /etc/exports /dev/null; then ebegin Killing *tab and creating rmtab rm /var/lib/nfs/*tab touch /var/lib/nfs/rmtab ebegin Exporting NFS directories $exportfs -v -r 12 and now I have no problems anymore. If you use your NFS only at home, try it. It works for me, but I have never tired to understand this fully. Remeber: you loose the Client-Server-Connection if you restart nfs! joe On Saturday 16 August 2003 19:32, Gerar wrote: Hi! I`m having a really annoying problem with NFS. It was working quite good but this morning it crashed while starting. This is what my box told me: * Exporting NFS directories... /sbin/runscript.sh: line 527: 2140 Killed$exportfs -r 12 *Error exporting NFS direcotires The exports file can`t be the problem as it was working till this morning. Could someone help me?? I`m going crazy!!! Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X is not accepting connections
On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:31, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, I have a problem: I cannot display windows from a remote machine. when I log in to another machine and want to see the window displayed on my machine I set up the DISPLAY variable on that machine and on my machine I use xhost to grant the other machine access. But I get an error that it can't open the display... my setup: client (legolas): DISPLAY=gandalf:0.0 server (gandalf): xhost legolas legolas:~ xmessage test Error: Can't open display: gandalf:0.0 also when I use `xhost +` I still cannot connect... so what did I miss? if you have this in ps aux: root 1414 0.8 4.3 288108 22216 ? SL 19:53 1:35 /etc/X11/X -nolisten tcp comment this line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp BUT that is huge possible security leak! Be carefull with your passwords. Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem exporting NFS directories
Over the last few years I've had numerous anomalies with NFS. WHat I've come to conclusion is that sometimes the exported resource isn't let go when unmounted or accidentally dropped. The next atepmted mount will then fail. Lucky for me there's SHFS and SAMBA to make up for NFS's bad habits. I've never looked much farther than these three linux filesystems, but on that looks and reads well is OpenAFS. When I find the time, I may set it up for evaluation and report back, Till then, have fun. On Sunday 17 August 2003 06:44 pm, Gerar wrote: It works now but I haven`t done anything. I hate this kind of things. Thanks anyway. I`m saving your post to my doc folder in case ;) On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:45:32 +0200 Joe Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ! I have/had the same. My problem came from the sleep kill in the /etc/init.d/nfs - start -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 4:10pm up 38 days, 2:08, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.00 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installed packages
I know this is bad rsync ettiquette that you shouldn't do it on a regular basis, but how about deleting /usr/portage/* and syncing again..? Actually, I'm not sure that you need to delete the portage tree - shouldn't rsync ensure that when you `emerge sync` it matches the tree on the rsync server..? Stroller. On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:26 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Identical, however, I suspect that rather than a general problem, I might (well, probably did) cause it by ctrl-C'ing an emerge sync that hung when the modem dropped off line - was impatient. this was a few weeks ago, but this is the only anomaly I can identify that might have caused it. Just out of curiosity... what does cat /var/cache/edb/world | sort | uniq | wc -l give you? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to duplicate a complete ebuild map?
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:44 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: I've installed one server with Gentoo, and I'd like to duplicate it's configuration in terms of installed packages on another machine. How can I do that? Best regards, Hey all, I've seen this requested before (by myself as well), how do I request a feature for portage that might work something like... emerge --newworld ./world-file-from-some-other-machine So that it would make that world file it's new goal and try and merge everything in there? I'm not saying it would necessarily be easy but it would be useful if it could be done. I don't think that's necessary as a new feature. I think you just need to `emerge -U `cat ./OLD.world`` You might want to add the -e flag, and *definately* do a `-Uv --pretend` first to check your USE flags, but that's essentially it. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to perl's library path
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:18:29PM +, Mark Fisher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not strictly Gentoo related, but while attempting to emerge mod_php, app-text/sablotron-0.97 is being installed as a dependancy. Its compilation is failing as portage is unable to find a specific perl lib, running 'perl - -V' shows that the actual location of the lib isnt listed [ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i586-linux ]. Is there a way of easily adding the dir to the @INC path that doesnt invlolve re-compiling perl? You could set the PERLLIB (or PERL5LIB) environment variable to include the directory. See 'man perlrun' for details. - PK - -- Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P/EpzrmqzOOQUj8RAvVqAJoCrlMcRmxkG3R3t69I8I1Dwt+9XgCdF2Yw Zs7EjX8C7g4cEm3SPNY030Q= =r/Mk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Was: Norwegian language setting in console Now:Slightly different
//Spider et al, I'm new to the list will soon be replacing my long, irrevalent dependance on RedHat by going with Gentoo. I find this post from Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen about Nrowegian fonts not too unlike a problem I've had in RH hope I can fix in Gentoo. I plan to move to Poland next year receive more more mail in Polish, as well as do most of my Web browsing in w3m. While Mozilla produces Central European fonts fine, bash /or pine w3m don't. Is there a consolefont I would be able to use in Gentoo like this for Kenneth Norwegian: CONSOLEFONT=lat0-08 -- (or other last number, check /usr/share/consolefont ) should give you working åæø //Spider which will produce Central European fonts properly? Meph -- My pants just went to high school in the Carlsbad Caverns! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to perl's library path
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 August 2003 9:22 pm, Pat Kerwan wrote: Is there a way of easily adding the dir to the @INC path that doesnt invlolve re-compiling perl? You could set the PERLLIB (or PERL5LIB) environment variable to include the directory. See 'man perlrun' for details. Thanks muchly, worked a treat :) - -- Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QBi6zrmqzOOQUj8RAmRUAJ9TD5te1ggw4pP4nSzrxsO0UHAMrwCfanNe 2O1vgtbAGqLhZLU24i0Rib0= =9AD9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] update-modules returns error
I get the following error msg when I do a update-modules: bash-2.05b# update-modules depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs-r3/kernel/drivers/net/starfire.o What is starfire.o and why am I just now getting error msg's after setting up alsa when I didn't get error msg's about doing a update-modules before? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] NFS Home Dir Lock Problems
Hey all, I've got three machines at home all running the same versions of everything (so far as I can tell). Machine A is running NFS and exporting several home directories. If I go to Machine B first and log on to my profile it works but when I log out and walk over to Machine C it gives me the following error. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem: Could not resolve the address xml:readwrite:/home/matt/.gconf in the configuration file /etc/gconf/2/path: Failed to lock '/home/matt/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable) If I go to either Machine B or Machine C first it works. If I log out then reboot I can go anywhere. If I don't reboot the first machine I log in to I can't log in anywhere else. This is for any profile and any order of machine log in/out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Automatic Update of KDE menus
Hi there. Is there a way to update automatically the kde menus with new programs, as soon as they get installed? Thanks, Stefano -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Update of KDE menus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 18 August 2003 01:02, Stefano Marinelli wrote: Hi there. Is there a way to update automatically the kde menus with new programs, as soon as they get installed? kappfinder searches for new programs, adds those you wish to the menu, but doesn't find everything and needs to be run manually. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QBuMInuLMrk7bIwRAqnFAJ4jcP1Jo+XKJTIOG+oBqJxAeHrJKgCfZw6h pWQG7SXAVKyX/FY0c420pbk= =pkTE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] error building t1lib
Greetings Gentooers! While doing an emerge world -UD it fails on t1lib: Details: arch=~86 Error: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/t1lib-5.0.0-r2/work/t1lib-5.0.0/doc' latex t1lib_doc.tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! make[1]: *** [t1lib_doc.dvi] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/t1lib-5.0.0-r2/work/t1lib-5.0.0/doc' make: *** [doc] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-libs/t1lib-5.0.0-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 44, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Any help apreciated. Thanks, ooM. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking GCC 3.3.1
On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:12, Tony Clark wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 10.19, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 17:08, Tony Clark wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 08.54, Jason Stubbs wrote: Hello all, I know this was covered previously, but a proper solution was not given. I've done everything I can think of to unmask gcc331, but emerge -uDp world still wants to downgrade it. Even emerge -UDp world wants to downgrade it! I haven't bothered with packages.mask causing grepping it for gcc doesn't give anything for the version I want to use. In the ebuild itself I find KEYWORDS='-*' which I've changed to KEYWORDS='~x86' but it hasn't made a difference. /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1 also contained -* which I changed to ~x86 and it still makes no difference. I've even tried PORTAGE_OVERLAY but no cigar. I've checked all the dependencies and have all the required packages installed; i.e. it's not a package further down the tree that's masked. I honestly cannot see what I'm missing. The gcc33 forum says to unmask it in packages.mask but it's not in there - at least not anymore. Any suggestions? Just copy it to your PORTAGE_OVERLAY directory and make it stable. x86 As I said, I tried the PORTAGE_OVERLAY but it didn't work. True, I used KEYWORDS='~x86' but I've got ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' in make.conf. But just to be thorough, I changed it to 'x86' and it still doesn't work. ok I did a little test, what I said before worked ok with glibc but not with gcc. I copied the gcc-3.3.1.ebuild to gcc-3.3.1-r1.ebuild and x86 in portage local and that fixed the problem for me. k, found and fixed the problem. I tried changing default-x86-1.4/packages like Volker said and got a depgraph creation failure due to glibc depending on gcc-3.2. Checking glibc-2.3.2-r1.ebuild, sure enough I found =gcc-3.2*. Unmasking glibc-2.3.2-r3 fixed everything. Thanks for all your help! Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Update of KDE menus
On Monday 18 August 2003 09:02, Stefano Marinelli wrote: Hi there. Is there a way to update automatically the kde menus with new programs, as soon as they get installed? There is a project to get this into portage. Check the forum Gentoo Common Menu at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66754 for details. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
In a moment of lessened attention, I executed 'setup (hd0,0)' in grub, rather than the 'setup (hd0)' that I intended to use. The problem now is that I can't boot XP that's installed on the (hd0,0) partition. It says Disk error\nPress any key to retry. I have tried the XP fixboot utility to rewrite the bootsector on that drive, but to no avail. Is there a way I can undo the changes that grub made to this partition? TIA Vincent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
On 2003.08.17 21:12, Vincent van de Camp wrote: In a moment of lessened attention, I executed 'setup (hd0,0)' in grub, rather than the 'setup (hd0)' that I intended to use. The problem now is that I can't boot XP that's installed on the (hd0,0) partition. It says Disk error\nPress any key to retry. I have tried the XP fixboot utility to rewrite the bootsector on that drive, but to no avail. Is there a way I can undo the changes that grub made to this partition? Not that I know of to 'undo' something written to a disk easily. It is possible that some sort of data recovery tool would be possible to recover the previous boot record. When I had done the same thing last year, I believe I had run both fixboot and fixmbr on the xp recovery cd (not neccessarily that order, but i do not believe it would matter). Then I booted off a *nix boot cd and redid the grub installation properly. -- Chris I In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes on .wav
At 17 August, 2003 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 00:57, Andrew Farmer wrote: - Userland ALSA. Similar to ESD, even with similar problems. I don't know much about ALSA, really, because it's used primarily by KDE. I think you're confusing alsa with arts. Indeed I am. Thank you. For Userland ALSA, read artsd mixer. Well, they both start with an 'A'... -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
Thanks for the advice. Tried it, but it didn't work. Even reinstalling can't continue because after rebooting I get this error. Is there maybe another lowlevel disk format that Windows is expecting to see? It's a double boot partition. I can see that there's a bootsect.dos, I don't remember that there has to be an .nt (or whatever) counterpart to that, but if there has to be, it's not here... Are there other possibilities, or is this a case of backing up (all data is present and can be read/copied/moved from another XP setup) and remove partition create partition and make the best of it? Thanks! Vincent Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.17 21:12, Vincent van de Camp wrote: [...] Not that I know of to 'undo' something written to a disk easily. It is possible that some sort of data recovery tool would be possible to recover the previous boot record. When I had done the same thing last year, I believe I had run both fixboot and fixmbr on the xp recovery cd (not neccessarily that order, but i do not believe it would matter). Then I booted off a *nix boot cd and redid the grub installation properly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
Have you tried booting from a startup disk and using fdisk /mbr ? Is that what you meant with the xp fixboot utility? Heres the ms link to the fdisk /mbr command http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q69/0/13.ASPNoWebContent=1 In a moment of lessened attention, I executed 'setup (hd0,0)' in grub, rather than the 'setup (hd0)' that I intended to use. The problem now is that I can't boot XP that's installed on the (hd0,0) partition. It says Disk error\nPress any key to retry. I have tried the XP fixboot utility to rewrite the bootsector on that drive, but to no avail. Is there a way I can undo the changes that grub made to this partition? TIA Vincent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list _ This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. --UK-Net.org Advanced Mailing System ---UniX/LinuX Ninja'z at work! _ _ This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. --UK-Net.org Advanced Mailing System ---UniX/LinuX Ninja'z at work! _ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in fact you should be able to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not sure how you have your partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l /dev/hda). (AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition higher than 0 anyway) But something like this in your grub.conf may do the trick: -- # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -- also man grub also have a look thru the grub.conf.sample provided. It would be wise to mount and backup what you can from the XP partition if you are worried. -- ooM. On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:19, Vincent van de Camp wrote: Thanks for the advice. Tried it, but it didn't work. Even reinstalling can't continue because after rebooting I get this error. Is there maybe another lowlevel disk format that Windows is expecting to see? It's a double boot partition. I can see that there's a bootsect.dos, I don't remember that there has to be an .nt (or whatever) counterpart to that, but if there has to be, it's not here... Are there other possibilities, or is this a case of backing up (all data is present and can be read/copied/moved from another XP setup) and remove partition create partition and make the best of it? Thanks! Vincent Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.17 21:12, Vincent van de Camp wrote: [...] Not that I know of to 'undo' something written to a disk easily. It is possible that some sort of data recovery tool would be possible to recover the previous boot record. When I had done the same thing last year, I believe I had run both fixboot and fixmbr on the xp recovery cd (not neccessarily that order, but i do not believe it would matter). Then I booted off a *nix boot cd and redid the grub installation properly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
I'm assuming that Disk error is coming from Grub, since I don't remember seeing that from Windows' boot loader. I guess it could be your motherboard. Knowing which would be a big help. I've done what you did before, and I was able to fix it with a combination of fixboot and fixmbr (despite its name, it seems to do partition boot records as well in Rescue mode. fdisk /mbr probably couldn't hurt either. You said you reinstalled Windows? Wow. Drastic. That *should* have fixed *everything* :-p Since it doesn't seem to have, either I'm missing something, I misunderstood what you said, or you broke something completely different. In any rate, if you're sure that the problem is that the Windows partition boot record is clobbered, you can make a backup pretty easily. I was going to write out the commands to do all this stuff but then I was googling and I found this page, http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jhall/grub_install_hda1.html , which, heh, seems pretty well targeted to you :-p The only problem is that this is designed to restore a 9x windows, not XP. XP doesn't have any equivalent command to sys, I don't think, so you'll need to copy a good bootsector, like this: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot.bin bs=512 count=1 then get it to your Linux install on the broken machine, and do: dd if=boot.bin of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 I've never personally done this myself, but there ought not to be any important information in that area anyway (now that you've clobbered it) but you still might want make a back up. Which I shouldn't need to explain. If that doesn't do it for you, you might have broken something else. Alternatively, if you don't have a functioning Windows machine, I think I can muster up the 512 bytes of bandwidth to email you a good boot sector off one of my machines. Just ask me off-list. -Heschi In a moment of lessened attention, I executed 'setup (hd0,0)' in grub, rather than the 'setup (hd0)' that I intended to use. The problem now is that I can't boot XP that's installed on the (hd0,0) partition. It says Disk error\nPress any key to retry. I have tried the XP fixboot utility to rewrite the bootsector on that drive, but to no avail. Is there a way I can undo the changes that grub made to this partition? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 These are the results from the fourth gentoo poll. The question was: What is your favorite way of installing gentoo? a) From stage1 b) From stage2 c) From stage3 Select only 1 option only. And as a separate question Do you use binary (GRP) packages? (Y/N) There was a rather dissapointing 57 respondants. Votes Percent Reason 47 82% Install from stage 1 1 2% Install from stage 2 916% Install from stage 3 There were 52 who responded to thew second question 48 92% Do not use GRP packages 4 8% Do Use GRP Packages 2 of the 4 who use grp packages specifically mentioned OpenOffice In addition I received 3 spam messages to my gentoo-poll address. This address has never been used for any other purpose so perhaps someone is harvesting addresses from the mailing list. I received one new question that will be used in a future poll, thanks Thomas. Gentoo poll #4 will be posted after the weekend. Any suggestions about new poll questions are welcome. Please keep them gentoo related. - -- Fred Van Andel [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: 76526AD599455482 GPG fingerprint: 64E4 4BAB 9C99 D565 3E3C F5D0 7652 6AD5 9945 5482 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QFjNdlJq1ZlFVIIRAnBZAJ9CZ43yKSQqM5er62fowwnP3fCgeQCgyaOP BvHk3b5RZeIscJcyCYnu0QI= =gxUn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] building a file server
I'm about to build a file server, or add a service to existing server .. and I had a couple questions you guys might be able to help with. Having very little experience with NFS/Samba and other directory services I am at a loss as to where to start my investigation. I know http://www.tldp.org has a lot of documentation about the administering the various services, but is there a doc that compares the different ones available ? Is there a doc that would compare and contrast different file systems available and how those do/don't work well with the various services ? It will basically be hosting mp3/ogg files and a few movies ... so the file sizes will be varied, but mainly music. It will mainly be for other linux clients, but I would like to be able to plug my win2000 work laptop into the network and have the files available also. Is samba my only choice for supporting the windows clients, or is there another option ? Is it possible to use Samba in conjunction with other services and would I want too ? (i.e. would something work better for the linux clients that would justify using two different services to provide the same functionality ?) any thoughts or suggestions/comments you would provide me would be helpful. -Dave -- How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb ? Answer : None, they just declare darkness a new standard. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
On 2003.08.17 23:50, oom wrote: You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in fact you should be able to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not sure how you have your partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l /dev/hda). Unfortunately, the problem that Vincent is having (and I have had in the past) is that he accidently wrote grub to (hd0,0) instead of (hd0). To the best of my knowledge, the windows bootloader is on hd0,0 (the windows mbr simply boots the first primary partition with the boot flag set, usually hd0,0) Whether he was to reinstall grup properly or not, this leaves an unbootable windows partition. Usually windows isnt kept around purely for bragging rights, so he probably wants to fix it ;) (AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition higher than 0 anyway) you can with any of the NT-based windows versions, iirc, and at the very least with xp. -- Chris I The sheep died in the wool. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] building a file server
On August 17, 2003 10:44 pm, David H. Askew wrote: It will mainly be for other linux clients, but I would like to be able to plug my win2000 work laptop into the network and have the files available also. Is samba my only choice for supporting the windows clients, or is there another option ? Is it possible to use Samba in conjunction with other services and would I want too ? (i.e. would something work better for the linux clients that would justify using two different services to provide the same functionality ?) This is, of course, my own personal opinion, but I've always preferred using NFS for my internal networks. Realistically, there is not a lot of difference between Samba and NFS to someone who's not overly technical, as the methodology is the same. Choose something to export, edit some configuration files, and make sure the file permissions are correct. Samba and NFS will both work over an encrypted tunnel. Samba and NFS both support user/group ownership and the like. NFS is more of a UNIXism, and hence has slightly better support for setting up file permissions correctly between multiple machines. You can configure on the server exactly how much access a client machine has to the exported file systems by mapping certain UIDs and GIDs to other users/groups on the server. Essentially, that would be the main difference. Samba, on the other hand, allows you to interface with Windows boxen. The downside to Samba is that SMB filesystem support isn't default. You have to maintain two separate password files to keep Samba working correctly (even though there is usually a 1 to 1 correlation between Samba users and Unix users.) In the end, Samba's overhead makes it a poor choice for sharing files between Unix systems exclusively. If it's there and you don't want to have to keep track of two sets of exports, then by all means compile in SMB support and use smbmount instead. Once it's part of your filesystem, you really don't notice the difference. My 2 cents, Brian -- Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow? [Public key available at http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] error building t1lib
On August 17, 2003 06:28 pm, oom wrote: Greetings Gentooers! While doing an emerge world -UD it fails on t1lib: Hmmm. It appears that t1lib has an optional dependancy on tetex (which is a virtual package, BTW.) Have you tried: USE=-tetex emerge -U t1lib? Failing that, I don't understand why the dependency is not being picked up and installed. Is this a problem with virtual packages? (ie. Does a virtual dependency need to be installed prior to all other operations) HTH, Brian -- QOTD: Talk about willing people... over half of them are willing to work and the others are more than willing to watch them. [Public key available at http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: ezmlm warning
On August 17, 2003 06:50 pm, bob bob wrote: Hmm.. Anyone else getting this warning.. or is it reserved for lamer hotmail users like me? :-P The earlier reply from Brian Downey is something to consider. But this mail transcript does in fact not like @hotmail.com addresses. It's bad netiquette, but a lot of smaller mail servers do it because _they_ don't get mail from HotMail. Sorry. Maybe try a less objectionable address. shrugs Regards, Brian -- If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours. -- Clarence Day [Public key available at http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] building a file server
On August 18, 2003 12:44 am, David H. Askew wrote: Having very little experience with NFS/Samba and other directory services I am at a loss as to where to start my investigation. ... any thoughts or suggestions/comments you would provide me would be helpful. i have a little pII 233 here and it's running both samba and nfs. nfs is stupidly easy to setup, just edit one file and you're ready to go. how to edit that file wasn't a lot of reading, but like everything in linux, if you don't take the time to read, you're setting yourself up for pain. i have samba running only for the lone windows box on my network, as well as my dual boot desktop. the configuration is considerably more complicated, and imho a pain in the ass... but once it's running, you don't have to worry. why do i use both? because nfs is linux native and supports file permissions, executable scripts etc and because it's easy. samba is just there for the windows boxes, and i'd toss it if i didn't need it. configuring nfs was easy once i read 2 pages out of o'reilly's tcp/ip network administration, and samba was a trial/error thing, reading various docs... 'course it might have gone smoother had i had a book on the subject. my 2cents. -- it's hard not to believe tv it's spent so much time raising us - bart simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:50, Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.17 23:50, oom wrote: You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in fact you should be able to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not sure how you have your partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l /dev/hda). Unfortunately, the problem that Vincent is having (and I have had in the past) is that he accidently wrote grub to (hd0,0) instead of (hd0). To the best of my knowledge, the windows bootloader is on hd0,0 (the windows mbr simply boots the first primary partition with the boot flag set, usually hd0,0) Couldn't he change the active partition with fdisk ? Whether he was to reinstall grup properly or not, this leaves an unbootable windows partition. Usually windows isnt kept around purely for bragging rights, so he probably wants to fix it ;) Hmm, i'm not an NT/XP expert, but I had a similar situation with a '98 box where lilo blasted away the windows partition, fdisk /mbr fixed it no problem. Shouldn't he be able to start with a bootdisk configure grub with (hd0) and add XP to the list of O/S's to boot ? Or do you also need the boot code sitting on /dev/hda2 to load windoze ? (AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition higher than 0 anyway) you can with any of the NT-based windows versions, iirc, and at the very least with xp. Hrm, well I don't know why after installing linux on a friends laptop and then trying to install XP to /dev/hda3 an error popped up saying something to the effect of Windows must be installed on first partition of disk fortunatly it was just a debian/knopix install and he just wanted linux for curiousity's sake ;-) me being enthuiastic and thinking microsoft wouldn't complain about not having their O/S first on the disk, just slapped linux /dev/hda1 swap /dev/hda2 xp /dev/hda3 grr. after xp /dev/hda1 linux /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 all worked fine.. Or did I miss something to do in XP ? -- ooM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes on .wav
On August 17, 2003 12:02 pm, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Andrew Farmer wrote: Thanks for your comments. I use kernel-space alsa. I don't use masked ebuilds, because I don't feel lucky! Pity that some parts of KMix and KRec are badly documented, but this is another matter... This came up a week or two ago. The xmms-arts plugin is being deprecated as it isn't being maintained any longer. However, for me, the plugin works great. The other options is to run xmms as 'artsdsp xmms', and use the OSS output plugin. HTH, Brian -- You teach best what you most need to learn. [Public key available at http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: ezmlm warning
I like the hotmail setup because whatever machine I am at I can get instant mail notification when I recieve it.. Thats pretty much the entire reason I use it. But add to that the very nice spam filter ability.. and this is one of my most usefull and productive e-mail accounts I have.. I will consider swapping to one of my spare real e-mail accounts.. but in reality, this account is perfect for mail list/forum reply type usage.. Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. - Peter Cochrane From: Brian Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: ezmlm warning Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:18:40 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from gentoo.org ([204.126.2.42]) by mc10-f33.bay6.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:18:55 -0700 Received: (qmail 31709 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Aug 2003 05:18:43 - Received: (qmail 24955 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2003 05:18:42 - X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+YDSEg8qKPPD Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail gentoo-user.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2003 05:18:55.0726 (UTC) FILETIME=[388C10E0:01C36548] On August 17, 2003 06:50 pm, bob bob wrote: Hmm.. Anyone else getting this warning.. or is it reserved for lamer hotmail users like me? :-P The earlier reply from Brian Downey is something to consider. But this mail transcript does in fact not like @hotmail.com addresses. It's bad netiquette, but a lot of smaller mail servers do it because _they_ don't get mail from HotMail. Sorry. Maybe try a less objectionable address. shrugs Regards, Brian -- If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours. -- Clarence Day [Public key available at http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/] attach3 _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] error building t1lib
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:16, Brian Richardson wrote: On August 17, 2003 06:28 pm, oom wrote: Greetings Gentooers! While doing an emerge world -UD it fails on t1lib: Hmmm. It appears that t1lib has an optional dependancy on tetex (which is a virtual package, BTW.) Have you tried: USE=-tetex emerge -U t1lib? Failing that, I don't understand why the dependency is not being picked up and installed. Is this a problem with virtual packages? (ie. Does a virtual dependency need to be installed prior to all other operations) YES! that worked. Well.. tetex was installed on my system already, as aide depended (and a bunch of other stuff according to etcat -d tetex) , so I don't understand why that failed, mayhaps I should have added -tetex to my useflags right from the start since it's a huge compile! Main thing though, problem is solved! thanks alot! -- ooM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] building a file server
On Monday 18 August 2003 13:44, David H. Askew wrote: (B It will basically be hosting mp3/ogg files and a few movies ... so the (B file sizes will be varied, but mainly music. (B (B It will mainly be for other linux clients, but I would like to be able (B to plug my win2000 work laptop into the network and have the files (B available also. Is samba my only choice for supporting the windows (B clients, or is there another option ? Is it possible to use Samba in (B conjunction with other services and would I want too ? (i.e. would (B something work better for the linux clients that would justify using two (B different services to provide the same functionality ?) (B (BIf you want only one service, why not use ftp? W2K has a pretty interface for (Bftp that looks the same as explorer. Linux clients will get all the correct (Bpermissions and such. That would be my suggestion if you need to mix the two. (B (BAs far as NFS goes, support is available for W2K but you have to purchase it - (Bsurprised? Samba would be okay but it's maybe a little heavy for what you (Bneed. (B (BRegards, (BJason (B (B (B-- (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] error building t1lib
On August 17, 2003 11:16 pm, Brian Richardson wrote: Failing that, I don't understand why the dependency is not being picked up and installed. Is this a problem with virtual packages? (ie. Does a virtual dependency need to be installed prior to all other operations) Yadda yadda yadda... Apologies for bad netiquette... Talking to self. I realized that virtual packages would probably not be automatically installed unless there was a 'default' package to fill in the virtual slot. And from what I've seen, this isn't the case. Is this a feature or a bug? ;) Regards, Brian -- To make tax forms true they should read Income Owed Us and Incommode You. [Public key available at http://www.cubik.ca/~brian/] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
