Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head setup
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 10:03, Andrew Gaffney wrote: As for Xinerama, can any recommend a good doc on setting it up? Thanks. The canonical reference is: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ Cheers, AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia: +61 2 9977 6866 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with qmail an vpopmail...
okay, it was a late yesterday so i couldn't provide more information... here is my /service/qmail-smtpd/run script: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail` NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail` exec /usr/bin/softlimit -m 800 \ /usr/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ `hostname --fqdn` /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 21 could someone tell me whats wrong here? the authentification works now but the server said that the password is wrong... but i'ts the right one... regards hanez On Tuesday 04 November 2003 00:45, Johannes Findeisen wrote: hello all, can some please send me the /service/qmail-smtpd/run file? it must be configured for use with vpopmail... i' sitting here since some hours now and don't know what i'm doing wrong. i want to use smtp after pop or smtp authentication and i have destroyed my run file... i have read all documentaion but arhhh, i don't find the error. i have set it up before but i'm missing something... :-( thanks hanez -- BASH Boy for life! Key fingerprint = DCD0 990F 6BD8 6E5F 439D 4257 D5ED FB77 F58D 4435 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=you%40hanez.orgop=index -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time
I agree with this, but if at boot time gentoo says clearing, i suppose it must doing something in those two directory's, otherwise this message is completely useless. Patrick Op ma 03-11-2003, om 23:59 schreef Bryan Whitehead: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, but I still find files from months ago in there. Is this normal?, I would say no, but how do i fix this? Patrick This is fine according to LSB/FHS. /var/tmp should *not* be cleared after reboot: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.15.html The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp. Files and directories located in /var/tmp must not be deleted when the system is booted. Although data stored in /var/tmp is typically deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that deletions occur at a less frequent interval than /tmp. /tmp *can* be cleared after reboot, but is not required: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.15.html Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are preserved between invocations of the program. Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted whenever the system is booted. FHS added this recommendation on the basis of historical precedent and common practice, but did not make it a requirement because system administration is not within the scope of this standard. -- Please, Spock, do me a favor ... 'n' don't say it's `fascinating'... No... but it is... interesting... -- Spock PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: Dit berichtdeel is digitaal ondertekend
[gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
This is results of simple CFLAGS test. Maybe it will be useful for someone so I post it here. I was wonder if results for old processors will be same as for the fast ones so I made this simple test. You can compare this test with Javier Villavicencio's (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/51881)). I was compiling gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html) with various CFLAGS settings. For each compiled gnuchess I ran these commands: ./gnuchess depth 8 go quit and wrote down duration of go command (gnuchess prints it). Following numbers are average values of five (or more) values. Each test was performed two times. One in X with many processes running (mostly sleeping). Second in console with minimum of processes and with niced priority (nice -18) of gnuchess. Values are in seconds. In parentheses is place (best is on 1st place, worst on 14th place). Lines marked with X are values from test in X environment and C lines are values from console test. Here are the results: 1. Without optimizations X 22.12 (14) C 17.65 (14) [slowest of course - 14th place] 2. Basic O2 test (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer): X 16.73 (8, 9) C 13.29 (6) [much better] 3. Changed to O3 (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer): X 17.23 (12) C 15.25 (13) [slower than O2 - same result as in Javier Villavicencio's test] 4. Trying O3 being faster (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.62 (7) C 13.50 (7) [almost same as basic O2] 5. Don't give up with O3 (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -fforce-addr): X 17.09 (11) C 14.39 (12) [bad results :-(] 6. Piece of O3 in O2 (O3 implies -frename-registers) (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers): X 16.44 (4) C 13.19 (5) [pretty fast - as in Javier Villavicencio's test] 7. Trying somethin else (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.25 (1) C 13.11 (3, 4) [bingo! first place in X environment; also close to second and first place in console] 8. Combination of two previous (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.73 (8, 9) C 14.03 (10) [aargh! slow; why???] 9. Trying -fforce-addr (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr): X 18.33 (13) C 13.74 (9) [slower - like with O3; Javier Villavicencio's test shows same results; this is much slower in X (almost last place) - why?] 10. Just for a record (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frename-registers): X 17.02 (10) C 13.51 (8) [little bit faster] 11. Let's see clean O2 (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2): X 16.58 (6) C 14.14 (11) [much slower in console (11th place)] 12. And clean Os (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -Os): X 16.28 (2) C 13.11 (3, 4) [great! I didn't expect this] 13. Let's play with Os (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -Os -fomit-frame-pointer): X 16.49 (5) C 13.03 (2) [hmm, strange - faster in console and slower in X] 14. Go Os Go! (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.31 (3) C 12.99 (1) [fastest in console! very close to first and second place in X; this is different result than Bill Kenworthy got (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50998)] Note that this test is specific to one task in one application. Effect can be different for whole system (see different effects of some options when application is running in X (system with many processes) and in console (minimum processes)). Machine specs: $ uname -rmip 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i586 Pentium MMX GenuineIntel Kernel is compiled with preemptive multitasking. Processor: Pentium 166 MMX, RAM: 64MB Robert. -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:07, Belinus wrote: It's working fine here. Maybe you have an rsync mirror in /etc/make.conf? If so, remove it - then try again. :-) I commented out the GENTOO_MIRRORS line and up'd the retries to 25 in make.conf but I still get the same error. GENTOO_MIRRORS is where portage will download source tarballs from SYNC is where portage will sync from (the default is just fine) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p4WCInuLMrk7bIwRAhyKAKCObH7iWv4uiwMBEHpDyt+f3IWSPQCfRd2S LRSKGkqYEtBcgPb2cVsuz/M= =Xyqs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:10, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am getting the following error when I run emerge: '/etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/' I read an FAQ section in the gentoo user guide and issued the following command: ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ /etc/make.profile but it doesn't appear as though a link was make and I still get the same error. How did I mess up the command in linking these and how do I do it correctly. Thanks and looking forward to updating! If /etc/make.profile really is a file (ls -lh /etc/make.profile), then delete it (rm /etc/make.profile) and redo the symlink. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p4XMInuLMrk7bIwRAloSAJ9uVuc+F2ide1EL/2Rlco97CIpFFgCgnnz/ li4YDuzE0s6v8lKr/vlZt9s= =MQdI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
If youre logged in as root try this one: mount -oloop -tiso9660 bootcd.iso mnt/ (make shure loop-devices are activated in kernel) What do I have to change to get this working? $ mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso mnt/ mount: only root can do that Thanks. -- Stephen From here to there and there to here, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr Seuss -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- i was wrong. there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's a flame thrower. -Terry Pratchet, in one of his famous Discworld Novels- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question About Iptables Script and Sound
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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 00:58, Kathy Wills wrote:
I have searched the forums and connot find an answer to either of my
questions. I will be changing from Slackware 9.1 to Gentoo 1.4 starting
later tonight. My computer acts as the firewall/gateway for my small
home network.
With slackware I use a script file /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables to povide this
funcionality. It is based on a conf file in /etc. My first question is
do I place these two files in the same location in Gentoo as in
Slackware in order to provide the same functions?
If your rc script contains raw iptables commands, then run them and do an
'/etc/init.d/iptables save'. This will use iptables-save to save your rules
to IPTABLES_SAVE in /etc/conf.d/iptables.
Running '/etc/init.d/iptables start' will then use those saved rules
('/etc/init.d/iptables stop' WILL NOT SAVE YOUR RULES).
/etc/conf.d/iptables also has a variable to enable IPv4 forwarding.
If it's an iptables-save formatted file
(
*nat
:PREROUTING
)
The just stick in place of IPTABLES_SAVE and start iptables.
Next, I have a Soundblaster Live sound card. I plan to use alsa for
sound. Do I need to emerge emu10k1 along with the alsa?
Nope.
You can optionally set ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 in /etc/make.conf so alsa-driver
will only compile the emu10k1 driver, can save quite a bit of time.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
Hi Robo, I'm really glad to see that someone else is with me on these kind of tests. About your test, pretty cool, and with a real world program like a game, that's a benchmark, just to explain that optimizing for size is a lot faster on machines with slow or small cache, or with already good branch prediction (years ago, IIRC I readed somewhere that the pentium-mmx has good branch prediction, at least better than cyrix and amd at that moment). This may be the cause of why!?s on your message :+) some optimizations mixed makes bigger code, and, sometimes with these mixes the compiler doesn't uses the same pseudo-random branch prediction on code. Again, would be really nice to see that this kind of benchmarks would make our Gentoo faster than light :+) Salu2. Javier Villavicencio. On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:36:30 +0100 (Central Europe Standard Time) Robo Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is results of simple CFLAGS test. Maybe it will be useful for someone so I post it here. I was wonder if results for old processors will be same as for the fast ones so I made this simple test. You can compare this test with Javier Villavicencio's (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/51881)). I was compiling gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html) with various CFLAGS settings. For each compiled gnuchess I ran these commands: ./gnuchess depth 8 go quit and wrote down duration of go command (gnuchess prints it). Following numbers are average values of five (or more) values. Each test was performed two times. One in X with many processes running (mostly sleeping). Second in console with minimum of processes and with niced priority (nice -18) of gnuchess. Values are in seconds. In parentheses is place (best is on 1st place, worst on 14th place). Lines marked with X are values from test in X environment and C lines are values from console test. Here are the results: 1. Without optimizations X 22.12 (14) C 17.65 (14) [slowest of course - 14th place] 2. Basic O2 test (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer): X 16.73 (8, 9) C 13.29 (6) [much better] 3. Changed to O3 (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer): X 17.23 (12) C 15.25 (13) [slower than O2 - same result as in Javier Villavicencio's test] 4. Trying O3 being faster (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.62 (7) C 13.50 (7) [almost same as basic O2] 5. Don't give up with O3 (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -fforce-addr): X 17.09 (11) C 14.39 (12) [bad results :-(] 6. Piece of O3 in O2 (O3 implies -frename-registers) (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers): X 16.44 (4) C 13.19 (5) [pretty fast - as in Javier Villavicencio's test] 7. Trying somethin else (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.25 (1) C 13.11 (3, 4) [bingo! first place in X environment; also close to second and first place in console] 8. Combination of two previous (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.73 (8, 9) C 14.03 (10) [aargh! slow; why???] 9. Trying -fforce-addr (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr): X 18.33 (13) C 13.74 (9) [slower - like with O3; Javier Villavicencio's test shows same results; this is much slower in X (almost last place) - why?] 10. Just for a record (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frename-registers): X 17.02 (10) C 13.51 (8) [little bit faster] 11. Let's see clean O2 (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -O2): X 16.58 (6) C 14.14 (11) [much slower in console (11th place)] 12. And clean Os (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -Os): X 16.28 (2) C 13.11 (3, 4) [great! I didn't expect this] 13. Let's play with Os (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -Os -fomit-frame-pointer): X 16.49 (5) C 13.03 (2) [hmm, strange - faster in console and slower in X] 14. Go Os Go! (-mcpu=pentium-mmx -march=pentium-mmx -mmmx -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4): X 16.31 (3) C 12.99 (1) [fastest in console! very close to first and second place in X; this is different result than Bill Kenworthy got (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50998)] Note that this test is specific to one task in one application. Effect can be different for whole system (see different effects of some
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
Interesting. Most of the machines I use have around 1G ram and 2 to 4 gbytes of swap, so -Os looks like it creates a real loss on systems with ram to spare (see http://wdk.dyndns.org/flags.png - pick -Os !), but gains when ram is short. Some people are saying (no figures though) that -Os helps on a desktop system with responsiveness. -falign-functions=4 created a slight loss , = 8 or 16 a bit more, but =32 gained some (32 bit addressing?) The more I test, I am coming down on the side of using some basic flags for the system, compiling desktop stuff with -Os (if I can confirm it does work) and then specific apps with the best flags for performance. Examples here are zip/gzip/bzip, mysql, gimp : basicly things that run a lot and for a long time where long term speed is required. One point to make about running in X and console: running an application in an xterm, gnome-terminal, text console or frame-buffer console all produced different results when tested. So to be valid, you will need to do the tests in as close to the way you intend to use the program as possible. The golden rule is test, test, and dont accept someone elses flags without testing BillK On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:36, Robo Cernansky wrote: This is results of simple CFLAGS test. Maybe it will be useful for someone so I post it here. I was wonder if results for old processors will be same as for the fast ones so I made this simple test. You can compare this test with Javier Villavicencio's (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/51881)). I was compiling gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html) with various CFLAGS settings. For each compiled gnuchess I ran these commands: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] sed Unterminated `s' command
hi, i want to install a fresh gentoo system on the pc from my boss, but it fails on the most packages with something like that: sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe config.status: creating panel/Makefile sed: file /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r2/temp/cs4BDf2a/subs-2.sed line 7: Unterminated `s' command or from (-u portage/world) coreutils: sed: file ./confstatobTiw4/subs-2.sed line 14: Unterminated `s' command sed: couldn't write 29 items to stdout: Broken pipe sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe config.status: creating tests/uniq/Makefile sed: file ./confstatobTiw4/subs-2.sed line 14: Unterminated `s' command sed: couldn't write 29 items to stdout: Broken pipe sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe config.status: creating tests/wc/Makefile sed: file ./confstatobTiw4/subs-2.sed line 14: Unterminated `s' command sed: couldn't write 29 items to stdout: Broken pipe sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe config.status: creating config.h config.status: linking ./lib/ftw_.h to lib/ftw.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: creating po/POTFILES config.status: creating po/Makefile GNUmakefile:21: /Makefile.cfg: No such file or directory GNUmakefile:22: /Makefile.maint: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/Makefile.maint'. Stop. !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 64, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) gentoo01 root # he started with stage 3. any sugegstions? cu denny - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 November 2003 23:27, Brian Doob wrote: Changing that didn't seem to fix my problem. Here's what happened: root # iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.1.3/16 modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.7a: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. This is my network/netfilter configs (for ck-sources 2.4.22-ck1): # # IP: Netfilter Configuration # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_AMANDA is not set # CONFIG_IP_NF_TFTP is not set # CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC is not set # CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y So what do I need to do to get NAT working? Any thoughts, anyone? Thanks. You need way more than that. Select 'IP tables support (required for filtering/masq/NAT)' then scroll down to and select the NAT option and it's options. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p5PkInuLMrk7bIwRAp7FAJ9PWBdHpLUznyzH2/JX6NXHhQkP+gCeNnE5 9amORTZq3cv6BU7Y7SwazZ8= =5RgA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: sed Unterminated `s' command *SOLVED*
hi, the problem was in the make.conf . I wrote the gcc flags into two lines with an \ on the break. After removing this and write the whole statement into one line, it works. Quoting Denny Schierz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe config.status: creating panel/Makefile sed: file /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r2/temp/cs4BDf2a/subs-2.sed line 7: Unterminated `s' command - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:56:12 +, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:10, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am getting the following error when I run emerge: '/etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/' I read an FAQ section in the gentoo user guide and issued the following command: ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ /etc/make.profile but it doesn't appear as though a link was make and I still get the same error. How did I mess up the command in linking these and how do I do it correctly. Thanks and looking forward to updating! If /etc/make.profile really is a file (ls -lh /etc/make.profile), then delete it (rm /etc/make.profile) and redo the symlink. - -- Mike Williams Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey $ ls -lh /etc/make.profile/ total 21K lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 38 Nov 3 09:49 default-x86-1.4 - /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ -rw-r--r--1 root root 789 Jul 16 09:52 make.defaults -rw-r--r--1 root root 3.5K Jul 25 21:43 packages -rw-r--r--1 root root 485 Oct 16 2002 packages.build -rw-r--r--1 root root 1.2K Jul 20 10:11 use.defaults -rw-r--r--1 root root 1.6K Jul 27 10:23 virtuals It looks as though the directory is symlinked correctly, but I still get the message. Should I still delete the directory and all files in it, then recreate a directory called /etc/make.profile symlinked to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/? Thanks, Trey -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:10, Trey Sizemore wrote: Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey $ ls -lh /etc/make.profile/ total 21K lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 38 Nov 3 09:49 default-x86-1.4 - /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ It looks as though the directory is symlinked correctly, but I still get the message. Should I still delete the directory and all files in it, then recreate a directory called /etc/make.profile symlinked to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/? Nope, it's not. /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4 is a symlink. Drop the trailling / (ls -lh /etc/make.profile -- no final slash), if you still get a listing of files it's is a directory. I can't remember, but doubt, if you were to rm -rf /etc/make.profile it would follow the symlink down and delete a small part of /usr/portage/profiles/, so I'd still rm /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4 rm -rf /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 /etc/make.profile - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p5p/InuLMrk7bIwRAuA5AKCsJjUxFLyKb9re7kDp/d7rkUhYxACgg/bj mRWgXDbfXcZihjMSNPJjCgs= =XFnX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time
/etc/init.d/bootmisc
76 #
77 # Clean up /tmp directory
78 #
79 ebegin Cleaning /tmp directory
80 rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/esrv* /tmp/kio*
/tmp/jpsock.* /tmp/.fam* /dev/null
81 rm -rf /tmp/.esd* /tmp/orbit-* /tmp/ssh-*
/tmp/ksocket-* /tmp/.*-unix /dev/null
82 # Make sure our X11 stuff have the correct
permissions
83 mkdir -p /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix /dev/null
84 chown root.root /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix /dev/null
85 chmod 1777 /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix /dev/null
86 eend 0
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 23:26, Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
I agree with this,
but if at boot time gentoo says clearing, i suppose it must doing
something in those two directory's, otherwise this message is completely
useless.
Patrick
Op ma 03-11-2003, om 23:59 schreef Bryan Whitehead:
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Hi,
At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared,
but I still find files from months ago in there. Is this normal?, I
would say no, but how do i fix this?
Patrick
This is fine according to LSB/FHS.
/var/tmp should *not* be cleared after reboot:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.15.html
The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require
temporary files or directories that are preserved between system
reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data
in /tmp. Files and directories located in /var/tmp must not be deleted
when the system is booted. Although data stored in /var/tmp is typically
deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that deletions
occur at a less frequent interval than /tmp.
/tmp *can* be cleared after reboot, but is not required:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.15.html
Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are
preserved between invocations of the program.
Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner,
it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted
whenever the system is booted. FHS added this recommendation on the
basis of historical precedent and common practice, but did not make it a
requirement because system administration is not within the scope of
this standard.
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[gentoo-user] how to build only new packages
Hi All! Is is possible to build only packages which I don't already have (in the /usr/ portage/packages)? If i execute emerge --buildpkg xyz-package then it generates a package (as expected), but if I execute the same command again, emerge builds it again, and doesn't see that there is already a packaged version of this package. - that's not what I want. my probelm: I want one pc to compile all the packages I need and use them also on other pc's. I'd like to update the packages once in a week. But I don't like to recompile all of them, but only the packages for which a new version is available. Thanks for your help! Erwin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 13:08, Erwin Lang wrote: Hi All! Is is possible to build only packages which I don't already have (in the /usr/ portage/packages)? If i execute emerge --buildpkg xyz-package then it generates a package (as expected), but if I execute the same command again, emerge builds it again, and doesn't see that there is already a packaged version of this package. - that's not what I want. my probelm: I want one pc to compile all the packages I need and use them also on other pc's. I'd like to update the packages once in a week. But I don't like to recompile all of them, but only the packages for which a new version is available. emerge -k package Remember that the PC need to have at least the same CPU. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p6Y0InuLMrk7bIwRAjsxAJwLDAPBI4XFFlIEHN3hYqJVQA4tGwCeJVW/ 9aWyBSrYtbPvuI9knJFhsuE= =TJqC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
At 11:21 PM 11/3/2003, you wrote: OK so wait - you say to NOT have /boot mounted during normal use. Does normal use include compiling a new kernel? First let me clarify that I USED to have /boot mounted all the time. When I tried Gentoo, the install docs suggest that it's not necessary and I understand that they're correct, so I figured, what's the harm ?? In other words.. do I mount /boot when I run genkernel?? And by watching the genkernel output doesnt it just basically DO the same things as the old-fashioned way ? I'm not sure what all genkernel does, but yes, it basically does 5-6 or more steps for you. Now, does it run mount /boot ?? I don't know. :-) The last two steps I do when compiling a kernel are 'mount /boot make install'. And /boot is in my fstab.. but either way.. does that really matter? It's in my /etc/fstab also, but mine has a noauto flag specified. In this case, it just saves you from typing mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /boot. Just an observation.. I may be wrong.. but this is still driving me nuts. I see from your other post that you've solved it now too. :-) Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2003 14:14 schrieb Mike Williams: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 13:08, Erwin Lang wrote: Hi All! Is is possible to build only packages which I don't already have (in the /usr/ portage/packages)? If i execute emerge --buildpkg xyz-package then it generates a package (as expected), but if I execute the same command again, emerge builds it again, and doesn't see that there is already a packaged version of this package. - that's not what I want. my probelm: I want one pc to compile all the packages I need and use them also on other pc's. I'd like to update the packages once in a week. But I don't like to recompile all of them, but only the packages for which a new version is available. emerge -k package Remember that the PC need to have at least the same CPU. with this command I can install a prebuild package on a pc. but I want to know how I can avoid to build the same package every week if there is no new version available (as I said, emerge --buildpkg builds a package regardless if there already exist a packaged version of this package in /usr/portage/ packages or not.). Assume a script execute once a week: `emerge --buildpkg apache tomcat samba ... (and other packages I need)`. So I don't have to build packages manually if there is a new version available. And I also need'n look for new versions of certain packages in portage. Erwin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 05:38, Erwin Lang wrote: with this command I can install a prebuild package on a pc. but I want to know how I can avoid to build the same package every week if there is no new version available (as I said, emerge --buildpkg builds a package regardless if there already exist a packaged version of this package in /usr/portage/ packages or not.). Assume a script execute once a week: `emerge --buildpkg apache tomcat samba ... (and other packages I need)`. So I don't have to build packages manually if there is a new version available. And I also need'n look for new versions of certain packages in portage. You can use the --update option along with buildpkg. Assuming you don't unmerge the packages after you build them, using 'emerge --update --buildpkg packagename' will only build a new package if a new version is available.. Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2003 14:51 schrieb Doug Weimer: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 05:38, Erwin Lang wrote: with this command I can install a prebuild package on a pc. but I want to know how I can avoid to build the same package every week if there is no new version available (as I said, emerge --buildpkg builds a package regardless if there already exist a packaged version of this package in /usr/portage/ packages or not.). Assume a script execute once a week: `emerge --buildpkg apache tomcat samba ... (and other packages I need)`. So I don't have to build packages manually if there is a new version available. And I also need'n look for new versions of certain packages in portage. You can use the --update option along with buildpkg. Assuming you don't unmerge the packages after you build them, using 'emerge --update --buildpkg packagename' will only build a new package if a new version is available.. But this only works if all the packages I want to keep up to date are installed on that one pc which builds the packages. Erwin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:36:30 +0100 (Central Europe Standard Time) Robo Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RC RC This is results of simple CFLAGS test. Maybe it will be useful for someone so [...] RC I was compiling gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html) with RC various CFLAGS settings. For each compiled gnuchess I ran these [...] I forgot to tell version of gcc - it is 3.2.3. Robert. -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
I am not sure what it is about gentoo but I have lost /boot a couple of times now when shutdown with it mounted (mounts as ext3, runs as ext2 on boot). Never happened on Mandrake or redhat. After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not needed. BillK On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:31, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 11:21 PM 11/3/2003, you wrote: OK so wait - you say to NOT have /boot mounted during normal use. Does normal use include compiling a new kernel? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation w/ Wireless PCMCIA
I've got an old Winbook Xl2 that I've been testing GLIS on for the past couple of weeks. (glis.sf.net) I'm using a WPC11 card in it as the primary NIC. Here's what I do. Boot with gentoo dopcmcia form a 1.4 Live CD cd /etc/conf.d nano -w net Now replace every instance of eth0 with wlan0. Make sure you change and uncomment your gateway line if you need it and setup your IP address or DHCP. (I'm using DHCP) Now save (CTRL-O). cd /etc/init.d cp net.eth0 net.wlan0 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start This works for me every time. (BTW, if you are using GLIS, then start with step 2 since you already have the network started. =C= * Cal Evans * http://www.eicc.com * We take care of your IT, * So you can take care of your business. * * I think inside the sphere. Brent L Johnson wrote: I've been searching around the web and on the forums but I haven't found a definitive solution to my problem. I just purchased a Linksys WPC11 ver.4 PCMCIA card. I'm new to the Gentoo distribution but I've got a slower (900mhz celeron) laptop and Redhat didnt run so well. I'm trying to install Gentoo.. but I don't really want to do the stage3 install (this is where it doesnt compile or optimize everything right?). But stage1 and 2 both require a network to be available. If I boot the kernel with dopcmcia and I check iwconfig and ifconfig I do not see my wireless adaptor listed. It seems (after searching the internet, mailing lists and forums) as though the WPC11 works with gentoo.. but requires getting pcmcia-cs with emerge. Doesnt emerge use the network? I cant very well run emerge for getting my networking modules/drivers. Anyone have any ideas, pointers.. or know of somewhere I could look for help with this? Thanks so much, - Brent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:02:41 +0100 (MET) Matthias Witschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If youre logged in as root try this one: mount -oloop -tiso9660 bootcd.iso mnt/ (make shure loop-devices are activated in kernel) What do I have to change to get this working? $ mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso mnt/ mount: only root can do that 1. emerge sudo 2. update /etc/sudoers (allow desired users with or without password) 3. sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso mnt/ -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure what it is about gentoo but I have lost /boot a couple of times now when shutdown with it mounted (mounts as ext3, runs as ext2 on boot). Never happened on Mandrake or redhat. After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not needed. Security freaks will complain, but I have been with gentoo almost since the beginning, and I have never created a /boot partition. I never have to remember to mount /boot when needed. No problems ever. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA with new KernelB
Hi Brent, I had to compile support for the YENTA socket into the kernel in order to get my wirless card to work. # # PCMCIA/CardBus support # CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_YENTA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y # CONFIG_I82092 is not set # CONFIG_I82365 is not set # CONFIG_TCIC is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y --- MARKUS On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Brent L Johnson wrote: I compiled PCMCIA support into a new kernel and when I reboot I get no lights on my linksys wpc11 v4 wireless pc card.. as though PCMCIA support isnt working. Any ideas why this is happening? Im recompiling the kernel now and specifying PCMCIA support as a module instead of compiled directly into the kernel. If I boot from the LiveCD and use the dopcmcia boot option the light on my Linksys WPC11 v4 comes on and it sees the card in the slot (not correctly of course.. since I havent gotten the driver working yet). I got my driver over to the machine without MTools though.. I just formatted the floppy to ext2 fs on my dell poweredge server and just copied it to the floppy. The server is running Redhat.. its a shame too.. Im thinking of running Gentoo on that baby.. will Gentoo run on a 2.4Ghz Xeon? Thanks, - Brent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Making .ebuild
thanx,
i solved the problem..
I had to set ./configure --install-dir ${D}usr
tring to make an .ebuild for tcng but in the make install stage I'm getting errors
i.e. tcng install script tries to write
outside the sandbox..
This is the problematic part of the Makefile :
-
install-tcc:tcc check-install-dir scripts/localize.sh
ln -sf scripts/localize.sh .
tar cfh - $(TCC_BINDIST) | \
(cd $(INSTALL_DIR) tar xf -)
cd $(INSTALL_DIR) ./localize.sh
rm -f localize.sh $(INSTALL_DIR)/localize.sh
-
Is there a way to correct this... i.e. what u do when some program tries to write
oustside of the sandbox
I had some other minor problems such as .ebuild not enetering the correct
directory.. so that I have to add
cd ./work/tcng and so...
-installation log
.
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/tcng-9f/work/tcng/tcc'
make -C ext
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/tcng-9f/work/tcng/tcc/ext'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tcng-9f/work/tcng/tcc/ext'
[ -r ports.tc ] || make ports.tc
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tcng-9f/work/tcng/tcc'
ln -sf scripts/localize.sh .
tar cfh - localize.sh bin/tcc bin/tcc_var2fix.pl lib/tcng/bin/tcc-module
lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-err lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-null lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-file
lib/tcng/lib/libtccext.a lib/tcng/lib/tcm_cls.c lib/tcng/lib/tcm_f.c
lib/tcng/include/tccext.h lib/tcng/include/echoh.h lib/tcng/include/tccmeta.h
lib/tcng/include/default.tc lib/tcng/include/meta.tc lib/tcng/include/fields.tc
lib/tcng/include/values.tc lib/tcng/include/fields4.tc lib/tcng/include/fields6.tc
lib/tcng/include/meters.tc lib/tcng/include/ports.tc lib/tcng/include/idiomatic.tc |
\
(cd /usr/bin tar xf -)
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/localize.sh
tar: localize.sh: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/bin/tcc
tar: bin/tcc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/bin/tcc_var2fix.pl
tar: bin/tcc_var2fix.pl: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/bin/tcc-module
tar: lib/tcng/bin/tcc-module: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-err
tar: lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-err: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-null
tar: lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-null: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-file
tar: lib/tcng/bin/tcc-ext-file: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/lib/libtccext.a
tar: lib/tcng/lib/libtccext.a: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/lib/tcm_cls.c
tar: lib/tcng/lib/tcm_cls.c: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/lib/tcm_f.c
tar: lib/tcng/lib/tcm_f.c: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/tccext.h
tar: lib/tcng/include/tccext.h: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/echoh.h
tar: lib/tcng/include/echoh.h: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/tccmeta.h
tar: lib/tcng/include/tccmeta.h: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/default.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/default.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/meta.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/meta.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/fields.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/fields.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/values.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/values.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/fields4.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/fields4.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/fields6.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/fields6.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/meters.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/meters.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/ports.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/ports.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/bin/lib/tcng/include/idiomatic.tc
tar: lib/tcng/include/idiomatic.tc: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
make[1]: *** [install-tcc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tcng-9f/work/tcng'
make: *** [install] Error 1
!!! ERROR: net-misc/tcng-9f failed.
!!!
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile is not a symlink error message
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 07:24, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:10, Trey Sizemore wrote: Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey $ ls -lh /etc/make.profile/ total 21K lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 38 Nov 3 09:49 default-x86-1.4 - /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ It looks as though the directory is symlinked correctly, but I still get the message. Should I still delete the directory and all files in it, then recreate a directory called /etc/make.profile symlinked to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/? Nope, it's not. /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4 is a symlink. Drop the trailling / (ls -lh /etc/make.profile -- no final slash), if you still get a listing of files it's is a directory. I can't remember, but doubt, if you were to rm -rf /etc/make.profile it would follow the symlink down and delete a small part of /usr/portage/profiles/, so I'd still rm /etc/make.profile/default-x86-1.4 rm -rf /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 /etc/make.profile - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p5p/InuLMrk7bIwRAuA5AKCsJjUxFLyKb9re7kDp/d7rkUhYxACgg/bj mRWgXDbfXcZihjMSNPJjCgs= =XFnX -END PGP SIGNATURE- That did it...thanks Mike! -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
At 09:49 AM 11/4/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure what it is about gentoo but I have lost /boot a couple of times now when shutdown with it mounted (mounts as ext3, runs as ext2 on boot). Never happened on Mandrake or redhat. After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not needed. Security freaks will complain, but I have been with gentoo almost since the beginning, and I have never created a /boot partition. I never have to remember to mount /boot when needed. No problems ever. Don't worry, many feel that you HAVE to have seperate /boot, /home, /usr, /var, and so on partitions Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
At 09:49 AM 11/4/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure what it is about gentoo but I have lost /boot a couple of times now when shutdown with it mounted (mounts as ext3, runs as ext2 on boot). Never happened on Mandrake or redhat. After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not needed. Security freaks will complain, but I have been with gentoo almost since the beginning, and I have never created a /boot partition. I never have to remember to mount /boot when needed. No problems ever. Don't worry, many feel that you HAVE to have seperate /boot, /home, /usr, /var, and so on partitions Thats because the theory goes, if something happens to one of your partitions, your not having to fix the entire drive.. Also, you can then mark usr as read only, and eliminate many of the root kits. But then, I hear many times your firewall computer shouldn't run any services.. Yet I still have not gotten and answer on how forwarding a port to another machine alleviates getting hacked.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
Hello, I don't know what happened but at some point my KDE desktop completely froze-up. Couldn't move the mouse but I could still ALT+Tab through programs running at the bottom of the screen. Luckily I had a Console session open and the only thing that I knew how to do was to do a shutdown -ah now I powered back up and everything was fine. What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session and restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop like that? As well which logs would tell me possibly why this happened? Thanks, Jbanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Power management
Title: Power management I need help! This is definitely a noob question but how do I change the Power management settings in gentoo 1.4? I'm running xfce4 as my desktop manager and have done a few searches in google which say that the power management settings are in /etc/X11/XF86config but I don't see them anywhere I've also tried using xset with no effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:45, Joshua Banks wrote: Hello, I don't know what happened but at some point my KDE desktop completely froze-up. Couldn't move the mouse but I could still ALT+Tab through programs running at the bottom of the screen. Luckily I had a Console session open and the only thing that I knew how to do was to do a shutdown -ah now I powered back up and everything was fine. What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session and restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop like that? I've had something similar happen to me before. It was a quite long running bug in CVS whereby if I hit 'v' in kmail to see the message source and closed the window kwin/kded would eat up all system resources. To fix it, get a console by whatever means and kill kded and kwin, they will show in a ps listing as 'kdeinit: kwin' and 'kdeinit: kded'. Then, if your not at Konsole in the frozen session, 'export DISPLAY=:0' (or whatever X display the frozen kde session is on) and run 'kdeinit kded' 'kdeinit kwin' one will attempt to start the other I think. As well which logs would tell me possibly why this happened? dmesg, or /var/log/messages *might*, but I doubt it. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p8xdInuLMrk7bIwRAsdQAJ41epbCtuwboJ9IlWd0MPKbmL+X9wCePpJu 2/JXzMOYnUcGELil6LtKKFU= =aL+6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session and restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop like that? Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
--- Chris Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session and restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop like that? Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Thanks for the reply Mike and Chris. To funny. As I was logged-in via dialup reading Chris's response, I hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This brought me back to what looked like the tail end of my bootup sequence just before KDM starts when Gentoo first starts up, but had a text login at the very bottom of the screen. It stayed like that for about maybe 5 seconds and then switched to the KDM login box. When I logged back in I noticed that the modem never disconnected but nothing was running in the bottom of the desktop. So I'm assuming that all of the browser sessions along with KPPP were still running even know nothing appeared to be running visually at the bottom of the desktop. This allows me to logback in again but do I need to go and kill the prior running processes first? Sorry.. I've never done this before so this is a little new. I guess I got my homework cut out for me today, reading wise. Heh.. :P Thanks, JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
--- Chris Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session and restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop like that? Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Thanks for the reply Mike and Chris. To funny. As I was logged-in via dialup reading Chris's response, I hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This brought me back to what looked like the tail end of my bootup sequence just before KDM starts when Gentoo first starts up, but had a text login at the very bottom of the screen. It stayed like that for about maybe 5 seconds and then switched to the KDM login box. When I logged back in I noticed that the modem never disconnected but nothing was running in the bottom of the desktop. Josh, I've had this happen also. Try changing the /etc/inittab default runlevel to 3 instead of 5. This takes you to a console when boot up instead of kdm. You log in and type startx and you're in KDE (or whatever you are using.) Setup like this, when I've had to Alt-Ctl-Backspace out of X it's always stayed at the console. You could also try Alt-Ctrl-F2 (or F3-F6) and go to a different console. From their you can run top and kill some runaway process, or KDE itself if you need to. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
This allows me to logback in again but do I need to go and kill the prior running processes first? Sorry.. I've never done this before so this is a little new. I guess I got my homework cut out for me today, reading wise. Heh.. :P Joshua, I'm not absolutely certain but I think KPPP is a front-end to a background process. Hence when you exit X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), the PPP backend process continues to run. Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
Hi
As far as I'm aware this is not true (since runlevels 3,4 and 5 are all
the same in gentoo). The only way to avoid booting into kdm is to either
change the value of DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/rc.conf to something else
(gdm or xdm or ome of the new e managers) or to remove xdm from the
default runlevel
rc-update del xdm default
as root
changing the runlevel from 5 to 3 only stops X loading on RedHat and
RedHat derived linux distros.
Have Fun,
Joel.
Try changing the /etc/inittab default runlevel to 3 instead of 5.
This takes you to a console when boot up instead of kdm.
You log in and type startx and you're in KDE (or whatever you are using.)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
Thanks everyone. You've all been very helpfull. Much appreciated. I've gotten closer to figuring out what the problem is caused by I think. I didn't even think about but I just installed a Belkin OmniCube 2port ps/2 switch thee other day so that I could share my big monitor between my win2k box and gentoo. Well I just had win2k freeze completely. No recovering from that no matter what I try. Atleast gentoo allows me to recover. So it looks as though this probably has to do with the new switch. Yee-Haw.. using linux is like being a super computer detective. Now I have something new to diagnose and figure out today. Geesh...and to think the day was going be boring. Heh.. never with linux. :D Woo-hoo Thanks again, JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
Hi As far as I'm aware this is not true (since runlevels 3,4 and 5 are all the same in gentoo). The only way to avoid booting into kdm is to either change the value of DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/rc.conf to something else (gdm or xdm or ome of the new e managers) or to remove xdm from the default runlevel rc-update del xdm default as root changing the runlevel from 5 to 3 only stops X loading on RedHat and RedHat derived linux distros. Have Fun, Joel. Joel, You may well be right. I'm no guru about this stuff, and I don't know much about the specifics of Gentoo runlevels. I don't emerge KDE or Gnome under any circumstances on my machines, and I'm not even sure if I have kdm. (Boy, I'm dumb!) ;-) My Gentoo machines get built with just a text type login and happily run nothing but fluxbox for X. This strategy works for me on my Gentoo machines, and works on my Redhat machines where 3, 4 5 are a bit different. Maybe I'm speaking out of school here. Sorry if I've not contributed. Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working with 2.6.0-test9
I have a problem which has been driving me nuts today. I decided to have a bit of fun and build/install a 2.6.0-test9 kernel on my PC, which is a fairly standard AMD Athlon based PC which has worked fine with SuSE 8.[012] , and also with Gentoo 1.4 which is currently my day to day working distro. Had a few teething problems with the 2.6 kernel, and ironed most of them out, but the one I can't seem to fathom, is that the mouse won't work. I've looked in the dmesg output, and there's nothing untoward there, looked through the kernel config lots of times and built lots of kernels, all to no avail. When XF86 starts the mouse won't move, even tried doing a: cat /dev/misc/psaux while moving the mouse, and it gives nothing. My current mouse is a USB mouse, but connected via a PS/2 adapter, but that isn't the source of the problem as an ordinary Micr*s*ft PS/2 mouse doesn't work either. Did check the interrupts info from /proc, but that is the same on the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I feel sure I've overlooked something blindingly obvious, so hopefully it'll be case of just pointing me towards a simple fix. Anyhow, I'd be really grateful for any advice on what to check, or where to look to get further info towards resolving this. Thanks in advance, -Bruce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop session frozen..
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi As far as I'm aware this is not true (since runlevels 3,4 and 5 are all the same in gentoo). The only way to avoid booting into kdm is to either change the value of DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/rc.conf to something else (gdm or xdm or ome of the new e managers) or to remove xdm from the default runlevel rc-update del xdm default as root changing the runlevel from 5 to 3 only stops X loading on RedHat and RedHat derived linux distros. Have Fun, Joel. Joel, You may well be right. I'm no guru about this stuff, and I don't know much about the specifics of Gentoo runlevels. I don't emerge KDE or Gnome under any circumstances on my machines, and I'm not even sure if I have kdm. (Boy, I'm dumb!) ;-) My Gentoo machines get built with just a text type login and happily run nothing but fluxbox for X. This strategy works for me on my Gentoo machines, and works on my Redhat machines where 3, 4 5 are a bit different. Maybe I'm speaking out of school here. Sorry if I've not contributed. No worries Mark. I knew what your were getting at and I new it didn't apply to my situation specifically for KDE. I run fluxbox on 2 of my other machines. The one with the problem is the womans pc and she has to have her nice kool gui or she's lost. Thanks anyways, Joshua Banks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo binary packages
i dont know how, except for setup some ftp, and let ppl download from there, and btw, if you do this, i would like to contribute, because i have compiled some big things, with athlon-xp optimization, and got everything working, many ppl have problems with that, like for openoffice-ximian1.1 :-) On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:31, adixor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me and some of my colleagues were thinking on making an archive of precompiled gentoo packages, used for easy installing/reinstalling/ duplicating gentoo systems. It would contain precompiled gentoo packages that we use, with different optimizations (architecture etc...). It would be easier to install a new system, having the packages already compiled and ready for merging.. Have any of you any idea on how we could do this ? Any docs/scripts available ? Thank you, guys - -- adixor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p+KOHMw8JJ+r9ucRAsZoAJ9iN9BenVOT+huKXhjqeM1NH3GlGwCg1RBG Vq9woXZKIibfyd3w7HN2BzM= =Adim -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
I have finally gotten alsa to work for my SoundBlaster PCI 64 (ens1371), but it's still a bit hokey. I've seen a few reports but no real answers on forum. Maybe someone knows the answer. Bugzilla is down, so I can't search there at present. 1. You should be able to compile the 2.6 alsa modules as built in, but this does not work. The kernel reports that the soundcard is not working. 2. Alsa compiled as modules does work with a little tinkering. a. If I add alsasound to the boot level scripts as recommended, sound does not work. Devfsd does not build the /dev/dsp ... entries. b. If I add alsasound to the default level scripts as recommended, same results as for a. A few extra dependancy complaints, since alsasound is design for executing at boot time. c. After either of these approaches, if I issue /etc/init.d/alsasound stop and then /etc/init.d/alsasound start, sound works. So, what I do for now is to add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start /etc/init.d/alsasound start /etc/init.d/alsasound stop /etc/init.d/alsasound start Messy (lots of dependancy errors) , but it works. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this POS? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power management
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 16:50, Chase Jeffery D wrote: I need help! This is definitely a noob question but how do I change the Power management settings in gentoo 1.4? I'm running xfce4 as my desktop manager and have done a few searches in google which say that the power management settings are in /etc/X11/XF86config but I don't see them anywhere.. I've also tried using xset with no effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I assume you mean the monitor power? then you have to set this in the Monitor section in your XF86config: Option DPMS and then you can use xset to set the timeout values: xset dpms standby suspend off or if you use xscreensaver then you can use that to change it, Settings-Screensaver will launch the xscreensaver preferences panel. Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] open office calc - border/grid question
hi is there a way in oocalc to get different border width to frame different sections in the grid (like this is possible in M$ windowz)? regards, eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xlib error
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:40:04 -0500 rh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone tell me what this error is and how to fix it. I get it all the time when i am working in a terminal under 'su -'as a regular account user in a terminal, never see it. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xset: unable to open display :0.0 Before issuing 'su', as your normal user, you must issue 'xhost +localhost' in order to allow the root user to have access to the display. This is considered a security exposure, so as soon as you exit from the root environment, issue 'xhost -localhost'. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xlib error
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:40:04 -0500 rh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone tell me what this error is and how to fix it. I get it all the time when i am working in a terminal under 'su -'as a regular account user in a terminal, never see it. Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xset: unable to open display :0.0 Thx. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Your program is trying to work under X. What you need to do is to copy ~user/.Xauthority to ~root where user is the one running X. Another way is to allow everybody to use X but I can't remember how to do it. Good luck :o) Meka[ni] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's
Hello I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no medium found, no matter what I do (mount with filesytem options...) Thanks for any help Guy -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
Do you get any error messages in any logs? Here, alsa has worked like a champ. I build it (and rebuild if I do another kernel). After that I copy my saved alsa file to /etc/modules.d and do the modules-update. Works fine. On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:09:38 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finally gotten alsa to work for my SoundBlaster PCI 64 (ens1371), but it's still a bit hokey. I've seen a few reports but no real answers on forum. Maybe someone knows the answer. Bugzilla is down, so I can't search there at present. 1. You should be able to compile the 2.6 alsa modules as built in, but this does not work. The kernel reports that the soundcard is not working. 2. Alsa compiled as modules does work with a little tinkering. a. If I add alsasound to the boot level scripts as recommended, sound does not work. Devfsd does not build the /dev/dsp ... entries. b. If I add alsasound to the default level scripts as recommended, same results as for a. A few extra dependancy complaints, since alsasound is design for executing at boot time. c. After either of these approaches, if I issue /etc/init.d/alsasound stop and then /etc/init.d/alsasound start, sound works. So, what I do for now is to add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start /etc/init.d/alsasound start /etc/init.d/alsasound stop /etc/init.d/alsasound start Messy (lots of dependancy errors) , but it works. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this POS? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's
I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no medium found, no matter what I do (mount with filesytem options...) Funny. I have the same brand DVD and same kernel. I had some problems mounting as a normal user but not root. I had to find the right /dev and add it to fstab, problems gone. If you've enabled ide-scsi for it, then it should be symlinked somewhere under /dev/cdroms. Cheers! Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's
At 02:11 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: Hello I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no medium found, no matter what I do (mount with filesytem options...) What mount command are you using ?? The filesystem to specify should be ISO9660. Something like mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd, with the device and mount point changed to match *your* system, of course. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xlib error
At 02:09 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:48:48 -0800, Collins Richey muttered: Before issuing 'su', as your normal user, you must issue 'xhost +localhost' in order to allow the root user to have access to the display. This is considered a security exposure, so as soon as you exit from the root environment, issue 'xhost -localhost'. NO, NO, NO. xhost is EVIL. Use xauth properly instead: run `xauth list' as user, run `xauth add' with the output as root. Agreed. People get chastised to no end on Debian-User for suggesting 'xhost'. Sure, it's quick and easy... I've got what's supposedly the proper and safe way to solve this, but it's on my Debian box at home. If no one posts it, I can in a few hours. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Logging alerts for multiple emerges from bash?
Hi all. Some newbie questions for you Gentooers: Are alerts logged when emerging packages? How can I view alerts after running emerge given that I usually do my merging after booting into a bash console? I've tried changing the terminal settings in Gnome to 10MB in order to scroll up and view alerts, but don't like to run emerge while Gnome is running if not absolutely necessary. What I've been doing lately is merge from a bash console, startup Gnome, and view the Gentoo CVS from mozilla -- all of the alerts are conveniently in CVS. But there has to be a better way to view alerts on multiple emerges. Thanks, -Greg Yasko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Logging alerts for multiple emerges from bash?
This has been a issue for a long time and there is a bug in gentoo's list to do something about it. Your only option is to turn on portage logging and tail the end of all the logs you just did.. just depends on which idea you like better, yours or mine.. ;) Hi all. Some newbie questions for you Gentooers: Are alerts logged when emerging packages? How can I view alerts after running emerge given that I usually do my merging after booting into a bash console? I've tried changing the terminal settings in Gnome to 10MB in order to scroll up and view alerts, but don't like to run emerge while Gnome is running if not absolutely necessary. What I've been doing lately is merge from a bash console, startup Gnome, and view the Gentoo CVS from mozilla -- all of the alerts are conveniently in CVS. But there has to be a better way to view alerts on multiple emerges. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's
At 02:12 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no medium found, no matter what I do (mount with filesytem options...) Funny. I have the same brand DVD and same kernel. I had some problems mounting as a normal user but not root. I had to find the right /dev and add it to fstab, problems gone. If you've enabled ide-scsi for it, then it should be symlinked somewhere under /dev/cdroms. Actually, I believe /dev/cdroms is a devfs thing and if he's not using devfs, he should look under /dev/scdX instead. Using ide-scsi, the drive will appear as a SCSI device, hence the /dev/scd items. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] two pcmcia network cards of the same type are not functioning!
I do not remember it exactly, but in a past (over 4 years ago) I had the same problem on red hat and probably 3c509 cards. I had to add something like eth0=... eth1=... to boot command in lilo.conf. ... you have to replace by something reasonable, what you should find in kernel driver documentation. The problem occured because the eth card driver is not able to recognize more than 1 card itself, so you have to specify it explicitly. noro James Rey wrote: Hi, I've got two 3 Com 3C589 pcmcia cards that won't play nice. Each work separately but plugging a second one in when the system is running, which is what i need to do, causes my /var/run/stab to look like this: Socket 0: 3Com 589 Ethernet 0 network 3c589_cs0 eth0 Socket 1: 3Com 589 Ethernet So it looks like cardmgr recognizes the card properly but there is failure somewhere along the line because it is not brought up as eth1 as it should. Perhaps this is a feature or design issue rather than a bug? I really don't know. Reading man pages and google didn't help me solve this. Where should I begin? I want it to brought up as eth1 with a manual configuration of the IP address, netmask, etc. Thanks, GENLIN()()1 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:17:31 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you get any error messages in any logs? Here, alsa has worked like a champ. I build it (and rebuild if I do another kernel). After that I copy my saved alsa file to /etc/modules.d and do the modules-update. Works fine. Small note. This is 2.6 kernel. There is nothing to rebuild after generating a kernel. alsa is now a part of the kernel tree. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:43:46AM -0600, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: [snip] Thats because the theory goes, if something happens to one of your partitions, your not having to fix the entire drive.. Also, you can then mark usr as read only, and eliminate many of the root kits. But then, I hear many times your firewall computer shouldn't run any services.. Yet I still have not gotten and answer on how forwarding a port to another machine alleviates getting hacked.. I'm not a security guru, but I think the point is to make sure the *firewall* isn't hacked. An uncompromized firewall may limit what an attacker who's compromized a server behind that firewall can do. But a server visible to the outside world is probably not any safer from outside attack whether it's behind a firewall or not. But as I said, I'm not a security guru. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will point it out. - PK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Logging alerts for multiple emerges from bash?
Jeffrey Smelser wrote: This has been a issue for a long time and there is a bug in gentoo's list to do something about it. Your only option is to turn on portage logging and tail the end of all the logs you just did.. just depends on which idea you like better, yours or mine.. ;) Hi all. Some newbie questions for you Gentooers: Are alerts logged when emerging packages? How can I view alerts after running emerge given that I usually do my merging after booting into a bash console? I've tried changing the terminal settings in Gnome to 10MB in order to scroll up and view alerts, but don't like to run emerge while Gnome is running if not absolutely necessary. What I've been doing lately is merge from a bash console, startup Gnome, and view the Gentoo CVS from mozilla -- all of the alerts are conveniently in CVS. But there has to be a better way to view alerts on multiple emerges. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Shame about the bug, but tailing the portage log sounds like the way to go. Thanks -- Gentoo CVS will get a lot less traffic from me:-O -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
I am asking because I simply want to know.. I am not asking to try to be hard on anyone.. Here is my thing with that, depending on what and how your hacked, once your behind the firewall, you pretty much have access to everything. Very few networks I know of shield the internal workings from the firewall. Hell, I have seen people here admit, like me, once a hacker is behind the firewall, you pretty much have free access to the rest of the network. Obviously, since each computer in my network would need different ways of getting in unless they are using some kind of kernel in, there is no firewall either. I know for a fact people on here could ssh to another machine without a password.. ;) I have seen them ask how to do it. So my question still stands.. once you have someone behind the firewall, what are you really going to be able to do UNLESS you firewall each computer. That becomes a nightmare since your having to configure firewalls every time you want to do something, and I know I am not the only one that doesn't want to be doing that. My work uses sub nets so if they got on the firewalled server, they wouldn't be able to get far since there are no routes past that. But I am sure no one does that at home. But they would get the app servers and db.. On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:43:46AM -0600, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: [snip] Thats because the theory goes, if something happens to one of your partitions, your not having to fix the entire drive.. Also, you can then mark usr as read only, and eliminate many of the root kits. But then, I hear many times your firewall computer shouldn't run any services.. Yet I still have not gotten and answer on how forwarding a port to another machine alleviates getting hacked.. I'm not a security guru, but I think the point is to make sure the *firewall* isn't hacked. An uncompromized firewall may limit what an attacker who's compromized a server behind that firewall can do. But a server visible to the outside world is probably not any safer from outside attack whether it's behind a firewall or not. But as I said, I'm not a security guru. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will point it out. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Logging alerts for multiple emerges from bash?
Well, its not a bug parse, its more of a feature request. Sorry if I mislead you.. Shame about the bug, but tailing the portage log sounds like the way to go. Thanks -- Gentoo CVS will get a lot less traffic from me:-O -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Video 4 Linux in kernel?
I'm trying to get my TV card (Avermedia Cph03x) going with Gentoo 1.4. I see that the support for it is in the source tree of the kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8. There is no module in the /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r8/drivers directory. I have seen docs saying there should be a 'media' directory there, but it isn't there on my system. insmod bttv doesn't work.confirming no module. How can I be sure I have the support actually compiled into the kernel and then generate the appropriate module? I'm learning this stuff fairly rapidly, but I'm not sure what to look at nextand the docs all assume a specific starting point - which I'm not at - and I'm having trouble working out exactly where I am and which way to go. Mythtv installed perfectly and runs great - except for the lack of a video capture device defined on the system to point it at. :-) -- Steve Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Video 4 Linux in kernel?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 21:04, Steve Withers wrote: I'm trying to get my TV card (Avermedia Cph03x) going with Gentoo 1.4. I see that the support for it is in the source tree of the kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8. There is no module in the /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r8/drivers directory. I have seen docs saying there should be a 'media' directory there, but it isn't there on my system. insmod bttv doesn't work.confirming no module. How can I be sure I have the support actually compiled into the kernel and then generate the appropriate module? I'm learning this stuff fairly rapidly, but I'm not sure what to look at nextand the docs all assume a specific starting point - which I'm not at - and I'm having trouble working out exactly where I am and which way to go. Mythtv installed perfectly and runs great - except for the lack of a video capture device defined on the system to point it at. :-) I assume you used genkernel to compile your kernel, if so simply do a 'genkernel --config' and poke about. The option selection is the default config, so there is no need to worry about sorting the rest to suit your machine. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qBWqInuLMrk7bIwRArv+AKCgL3tEfxCQjBYVSpHy99mLnon4uACgluGZ 3w/FsJ9nIAqSqEGjHao0ReE= =D7SJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with qmail an vpopmail...
-- quoting Johannes Findeisen -- could someone tell me whats wrong here? the authentification works now but the server said that the password is wrong... but i'ts the right one... If you have problems with auth., then best would be to check vchkpw. I had similar problems with vmailmgr, but then it turned out that I gave the wrong directory for the password checking program in my run file... just my first thought, HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- Oh everything's cruel according to you. Keeping him chained us in the backyard is cruel. Pulling his tail is cruel. Yelling in his ears is cruel. Everything is cruel. So excuse me if I'm cruel. -- Homer Simpson Bart Gets An Elephant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user-de] UUCP xinetd, keine Verbindung von draußen
service uucp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = uucp
server = /usr/sbin/uucico
server_args = -I /etc/uucp/config -l
type = UNLISTED
wait = no
}
You have to add only_from = your_subnet, or you have to edit
/etc/xinetd.conf and change only_from = localhost to something less
restrictive. I would advice to add the option to the service, leaving other
services restricted to localhost.
Greetings, Dennis
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user-de] UUCP xinetd, keine Verbindung von draußen
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[gentoo-user] openssl upgrade
Hi all, Just a quick warning: I just upgraded my openssl to current and suddenly programs wouldn't start, complaining of no libssl-0.9.6. Just so people know, creating a symbolic link to 0.9.7 seems a solve it, at least so far -- Tom Wesley signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade
Is that version masked? btw, did you try revdep-rebuild? That's supposed to rebuild dependency packages to the new version.. Hi all, Just a quick warning: I just upgraded my openssl to current and suddenly programs wouldn't start, complaining of no libssl-0.9.6. Just so people know, creating a symbolic link to 0.9.7 seems a solve it, at least so far -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade
Just a quick warning: I just upgraded my openssl to current and suddenly programs wouldn't start, complaining of no libssl-0.9.6. Just so people know, creating a symbolic link to 0.9.7 seems a solve it, at least so far Running 'revdep-rebuild' (part of gentoolkit) is IMHO the right way to solve it. That rebuilds every package still in need of the old libssl-0.9.6, so that they from now on use the new libssl-0.9.7. Creating a symbolic link will work too, but it looks more like a hack than a solution to me :) Greetings, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot mount DVD's
I think I tracked down the problem... It seems that my drive has intermittend problems reading DVD's, which made me think it always failed on gentoo, and always worked on Mandrake. A couple of minutes ago, I managed to get one disc working in Gentoo, so I may need a new drive :-( Thanks for your help! Guy On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 20:21, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 02:11 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: Hello I just discovered that I can't mount DVD's with Gentoo. I'm on Gentoo 1.4 kernel 2.4.20 (gentoo-sources-r8) The drive is an LG IDE and works with the discs I tried under Mandrake. Both Mandrake and Gentoo use ide-scsi for this device. I get the message no medium found, no matter what I do (mount with filesytem options...) What mount command are you using ?? The filesystem to specify should be ISO9660. Something like mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd, with the device and mount point changed to match *your* system, of course. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xlib error
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:23:11 -0500 Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:09 PM 11/4/2003, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:48:48 -0800, Collins Richey muttered: Before issuing 'su', as your normal user, you must issue 'xhost +localhost' in order to allow the root user to have access to the display. This is considered a security exposure, so as soon as you exit from the root environment, issue 'xhost -localhost'. NO, NO, NO. xhost is EVIL. Use xauth properly instead: run `xauth list' as user, run `xauth add' with the output as root. Agreed. People get chastised to no end on Debian-User for suggesting 'xhost'. Sure, it's quick and easy... I've got what's supposedly the proper and safe way to solve this, but it's on my Debian box at home. If no one posts it, I can in a few hours. Hall Thank you. I kind of thought it was going to be something like that. I would be interested in seeing your 'proper and safe' way of correcting it also. I might as well as this as wellthis error only comes up when I have xdm or gdm running as my login. If I log on without either, issue startx, open a terminal and then 'su -', I don't get thsi error. Is that normal as well. rh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:35, Dennis Freise wrote: Just a quick warning: I just upgraded my openssl to current and suddenly programs wouldn't start, complaining of no libssl-0.9.6. Just so people know, creating a symbolic link to 0.9.7 seems a solve it, at least so far Running 'revdep-rebuild' (part of gentoolkit) is IMHO the right way to solve it. That rebuilds every package still in need of the old libssl-0.9.6, so that they from now on use the new libssl-0.9.7. Creating a symbolic link will work too, but it looks more like a hack than a solution to me :) Greetings, Dennis Reply to both, evolution and Galeon (together with gdm?) required this, and the rebuild didn't work, so I got bored and added a link, although I am sure this will be fixed better within a few moments of hitting the send button. -- Tom Wesley signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:35, Dennis Freise wrote: Just a quick warning: I just upgraded my openssl to current and suddenly programs wouldn't start, complaining of no libssl-0.9.6. Just so people know, creating a symbolic link to 0.9.7 seems a solve it, at least so far Running 'revdep-rebuild' (part of gentoolkit) is IMHO the right way to solve it. That rebuilds every package still in need of the old libssl-0.9.6, so that they from now on use the new libssl-0.9.7. Creating a symbolic link will work too, but it looks more like a hack than a solution to me :) Greetings, Dennis Reply to both, evolution and Galeon (together with gdm?) required this, and the rebuild didn't work, so I got bored and added a link, although I am sure this will be fixed better within a few moments of hitting the send button. Didn't work?? Was it a compile issue or? Sounds like a bug from what your saying that needs to be submitted.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:53, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:35, Dennis Freise wrote: Just a quick warning: I just upgraded my openssl to current and suddenly programs wouldn't start, complaining of no libssl-0.9.6. Just so people know, creating a symbolic link to 0.9.7 seems a solve it, at least so far Running 'revdep-rebuild' (part of gentoolkit) is IMHO the right way to solve it. That rebuilds every package still in need of the old libssl-0.9.6, so that they from now on use the new libssl-0.9.7. Creating a symbolic link will work too, but it looks more like a hack than a solution to me :) Greetings, Dennis Reply to both, evolution and Galeon (together with gdm?) required this, and the rebuild didn't work, so I got bored and added a link, although I am sure this will be fixed better within a few moments of hitting the send button. Didn't work?? Was it a compile issue or? Sounds like a bug from what your saying that needs to be submitted.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The compile went ok, I will hold of the bug report until morning, maybe lunchtime tomorrow, am very tied up this end and may have missed something. I would appreciate anyone that remembers cc'ing me personally on a fix reply though -- Tom Wesley signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
On Nov 4, 2003, at 1:58 pm, Robo Cernansky wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:36:30 +0100 (Central Europe Standard Time) Robo Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RC RC This is results of simple CFLAGS test. Maybe it will be useful for someone so [...] RC I was compiling gnuchess (http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html) with RC various CFLAGS settings. For each compiled gnuchess I ran these [...] I forgot to tell version of gcc - it is 3.2.3. Ah! I was just about to ask you that!! I hope you will consider reporting the results should you change gcc versions. I'm given to understand this can make quite a big difference. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
I forgot to tell version of gcc - it is 3.2.3. Ah! I was just about to ask you that!! I hope you will consider reporting the results should you change gcc versions. I'm given to understand this can make quite a big difference. I've done some quick test with gcc-3.3.2 and povray 3.50. I only did test the -O things... what I found out: povray compiled with -O3: took ~55 secs to render picture povray compiled with -O2: took ~50 secs to render picture povray compiled with -Os: took ~68 secs to render picture -frename-registers and -finline-functions both did no good, making slower executables. However, this was really a quick test. CPU was a pentium-mmx 233 mhz with 256mb ram. Greetings, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Samba encrypted passwords will not work with Gentoo
Hi Marshall, Thanks for your advice - just to finish the thread .. I re-emerged Samba as you suggested with USE=-ldap emerge samba and got the message below when the compile finished: * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. I ran find /etc -iname '._cfg_*' as suggested by emerge --help config which found a file called /etc/init.d/._cfg_winbind. I overwrote /etc/init.d/winbind in this directory with /etc/init.d/._cfg_winbind and everything seems to be running fine. Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Andrew Heberle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Samba encrypted passwords will not work with Gentoo Alan Watson wrote: Hi Marshall, Thanks -- no I don't need it. So how do I turn it off..? Alan Samba makes use of LDAP if the ldap USE flag is set, once it is compiled with LDAP support you cannot turn it off without a recompile. So either edit make.conf and remove ldap from your USE flags, the re-emerge samba or re-emerge samba with the following command: # USE=-ldap emerge samba This will just disable LDAP support while building samba. -- Andrew Heberle Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really. -- Dave Parnas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple CFLAGS test on Pentium MMX
Did you note the size of the binaries? Something I neglected to with the tests I did. BillK On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 06:34, Dennis Freise wrote: I forgot to tell version of gcc - it is 3.2.3. Ah! I was just about to ask you that!! I hope you will consider reporting the results should you change gcc versions. I'm given to understand this can make quite a big difference. I've done some quick test with gcc-3.3.2 and povray 3.50. I only did test the -O things... what I found out: povray compiled with -O3: took ~55 secs to render picture povray compiled with -O2: took ~50 secs to render picture povray compiled with -Os: took ~68 secs to render picture -frename-registers and -finline-functions both did no good, making slower executables. However, this was really a quick test. CPU was a pentium-mmx 233 mhz with 256mb ram. Greetings, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found
* Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-04 07:49]: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not needed. Security freaks will complain, but I have been with gentoo almost since the beginning, and I have never created a /boot partition. I never have to remember to mount /boot when needed. No problems ever. When I first installed the instructions (PPC install) said not to create a separate /boot partition. But I wasn't planning on it anyway. I've done the same with the x86 installs I've done since. I don't see any point for desktop. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage Tree
Out of curiousity, how often does it get updated? I am seeing that at least one of the programs I want to emerge is behind the actual site. The specific one is nmap and gentoo.org reports it at 3.45 and its homepage saus 3.48. Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
Ahha - I'm on 2.4.x series. When 2.6,7, or whatever is stable then I'll go for that! On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:18, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:17:31 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you get any error messages in any logs? Here, alsa has worked like a champ. I build it (and rebuild if I do another kernel). After that I copy my saved alsa file to /etc/modules.d and do the modules-update. Works fine. Small note. This is 2.6 kernel. There is nothing to rebuild after generating a kernel. alsa is now a part of the kernel tree. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Tree
I guess one answer would be whenever the developer can get to it G. Nmap may have released a version but the Gentoo developer(s) who work on that have to make an ebuild, check it enough to make sure it's ~arch and then release it. Once that's done it's there for you. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 17:06, you wrote: Out of curiousity, how often does it get updated? I am seeing that at least one of the programs I want to emerge is behind the actual site. The specific one is nmap and gentoo.org reports it at 3.45 and its homepage saus 3.48. Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: xlib error
Andrew Farmer: Use xauth properly instead: run `xauth list' as user, run `xauth add' with the output as root. This works for me, but needs to be repeated each time X restarts. Hall Stevenson: I've got what's supposedly the proper and safe way to solve this, but it's on my Debian box at home. If no one posts it, I can in a few hours. I'd very much appreciate your posting it. I've been trying to get this working for nearly a year and while I've received many suggestions, none have worked. Reg Hughson: I might as well as this as wellthis error only comes up when I have xdm or gdm running as my login. If I log on without either, issue startx, open a terminal and then 'su -', I don't get thsi error. Is that normal as well. Actually the last time I tested it, the problem only occurred with kdm. With gdm there was no problem su'ing to root and running X apps. If there really is a security issue with setting things up the way every other Linux distro I've used does things, it would seem that the gdm maintainer is (or was) violating it as well. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xlib error
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 23:22, Jonathan Singer wrote: Andrew Farmer: Use xauth properly instead: run `xauth list' as user, run `xauth add' with the output as root. This works for me, but needs to be repeated each time X restarts. Hall Stevenson: I've got what's supposedly the proper and safe way to solve this, but it's on my Debian box at home. If no one posts it, I can in a few hours. I'd very much appreciate your posting it. I've been trying to get this working for nearly a year and while I've received many suggestions, none have worked. Here it is: # allow root to run programs when another # user is running X if [ ! $USER = root ]; then export XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority fi Add this to root's .bashrc file. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] no workstation OS from RedHat so more chances for Gentoo?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33760.html seems to indicate that redhat will stop shipping a workstation OS. So probably no more up2date (the tool to update redhat Linux with the latest versions of your installed sw). Maybe they should put a link to Gentoo on heir website ;-)
[gentoo-user] wireless network issues
Hi! I recently read on slashdot about a great little program that emulates certain windows wireless network card drivers, called driverloader (see www.linuxant.com). I was especially glad to hear about this because it supports my Intel Centrino PRO/Wireless mini-pci card (for which there are currently no real linux drivers, at least not to my knowledge). Anway, I got driverloader working, and things seem to be working on some level. I got eth1 to run and it's even correctly connecting to my wireless network. I disconnected by ethernet cable, stopped eth0, and then fired up MozillaFirebird. To my delight, everything seemed to be working great! But then I fired up evolution, and it was unable to resolve the address of my pop email server. I thought, what the heck? So I went to my command line and tried to ping the address. Ping returned nothing. So I tried www.yahoo.com. Still nothing. It seems that the only program that can actually resolve host names is MozillaFirebird, and nothing else. Any ideas why this may be? Is there something I need to do to get eth1 setup right? Here's what I did: 1 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 2 rc-update add net.eth1 default 3 edited /etc/conf.d/net to include the line: iface_eth1=dhcp 4 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start And it started up with no errors. 5 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop But like I said, only MozillaFirebird seems to be able to establish any kind of connection. It may likely be a problem with driverloader, and if it is, then I'll try out their user list, but I'm still not very familiar with gentoo, and I just wondered if there's a step I missed in configuring eth1 to work right. Do I need to somehow tell all my programs that they need to use eth1 instead of eth0? Any ideas? Thanks! Eric Heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
Hi I am basically a FreeBSD guy but need to install a Linux server for some special java stuff. I installed a aa-sources kernel using gentoo 1.4-release stage3 non GRP on a dual athlon 2800+ system gigabyte MB with 3gig RAM. I would like to know what I have to do to have the kernel recognize all 3 gig of RAM. When I boot the kernel that was configured using genkernel --config and set the user addressable RAM parameter under the CPU sectiom to 2 GB, I get Warning only 1920MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 1920MB LOWMEM available. If I set that to 3gb, the system won't boot. I get to LILO I boot (my entry is called Gentoo) and it says Gento. and there it freezes Please enlighten me on what I need to do to have the system use the 3gb. Thanks Chad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Portage Tree
Jon, If your feeling adventurous, there is a masked ebuild for nmap 3.48: # emerge /usr/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-3.48.ebuild -pv Regards, Luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
There is an option in the kernel build to let it recognize that. I've never used genkernel so I don't know where or if it lets you get to that. I'd cd to /usr/src/linux then run make menuconfig and select the options from there. Use the install instructions for a non-genkernel to build your kernel. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:49, you wrote: Hi I am basically a FreeBSD guy but need to install a Linux server for some special java stuff. I installed a aa-sources kernel using gentoo 1.4-release stage3 non GRP on a dual athlon 2800+ system gigabyte MB with 3gig RAM. I would like to know what I have to do to have the kernel recognize all 3 gig of RAM. When I boot the kernel that was configured using genkernel --config and set the user addressable RAM parameter under the CPU sectiom to 2 GB, I get Warning only 1920MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 1920MB LOWMEM available. If I set that to 3gb, the system won't boot. I get to LILO I boot (my entry is called Gentoo) and it says Gento. and there it freezes Please enlighten me on what I need to do to have the system use the 3gb. Thanks Chad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] no workstation OS from RedHat so more chances for Gentoo?
That's one of the reasons I came over to Gentoo and loaded it on my laptop. Now to decide whether I should load it on my 2.4Ghz Xeon server. Has anyone successfully loaded Gentoo on a server type box? It's a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server with 512MB ram.. not sure of the motherboard but when I cracked it open it was some server motherboard with PCIX slots or something. - Brent -Original Message- From: HvR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] no workstation OS from RedHat so more chances for Gentoo? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33760.html seems to indicate that redhat will stop shipping a workstation OS. So probably no more up2date (the tool to update redhat Linux with the latest versions of your installed sw). Maybe they should put a link to Gentoo on heir website ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] wireless network issues
Not sure why Firebird would work and nothing else. But do you have your DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf or are you using DHCP? - Brent -Original Message- From: eric heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] wireless network issues Hi! I recently read on slashdot about a great little program that emulates certain windows wireless network card drivers, called driverloader (see www.linuxant.com). I was especially glad to hear about this because it supports my Intel Centrino PRO/Wireless mini-pci card (for which there are currently no real linux drivers, at least not to my knowledge). Anway, I got driverloader working, and things seem to be working on some level. I got eth1 to run and it's even correctly connecting to my wireless network. I disconnected by ethernet cable, stopped eth0, and then fired up MozillaFirebird. To my delight, everything seemed to be working great! But then I fired up evolution, and it was unable to resolve the address of my pop email server. I thought, what the heck? So I went to my command line and tried to ping the address. Ping returned nothing. So I tried www.yahoo.com. Still nothing. It seems that the only program that can actually resolve host names is MozillaFirebird, and nothing else. Any ideas why this may be? Is there something I need to do to get eth1 setup right? Here's what I did: 1 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 2 rc-update add net.eth1 default 3 edited /etc/conf.d/net to include the line: iface_eth1=dhcp 4 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start And it started up with no errors. 5 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop But like I said, only MozillaFirebird seems to be able to establish any kind of connection. It may likely be a problem with driverloader, and if it is, then I'll try out their user list, but I'm still not very familiar with gentoo, and I just wondered if there's a step I missed in configuring eth1 to work right. Do I need to somehow tell all my programs that they need to use eth1 instead of eth0? Any ideas? Thanks! Eric Heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:26:18 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahha - I'm on 2.4.x series. When 2.6,7, or whatever is stable then I'll go for that! On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:18, you wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:17:31 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you get any error messages in any logs? Here, alsa has worked like a champ. I build it (and rebuild if I do another kernel). After that I copy my saved alsa file to /etc/modules.d and do the modules-update. Works fine. Small note. This is 2.6 kernel. There is nothing to rebuild after generating a kernel. alsa is now a part of the kernel tree. Unless you have a very unusual configuration, it's rock solid now. I've been on board since 2.5.x (now 2.6.0_test8) without any glitches - several months. I'm sure this is in part due to the fact that I use plain ole ext3 instead of the more adventuresome filesystems grin. Even nvidia has updated their modules. 2.6 is a lot more stable at this point than 2.4 was in its early stages. Getting alsa support to work for my ens1371 has been the only problem, and that is nothing new - never worked on for me on 2.4. Now at least I have a workable (if clumsy) solution. Prior to this on 2.4 and 2.6 I could only get the OSS support for ens1371 to work. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 00:07, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: There is an option in the kernel build to let it recognize that. I've never used genkernel so I don't know where or if it lets you get to that. I'd cd to /usr/src/linux then run make menuconfig and select the options from there. Use the install instructions for a non-genkernel to build your kernel. genkernel --config punts you into menuconfig. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qEDOInuLMrk7bIwRAoZuAJsHmj7IRU0H1acTVaoqFXZQGCs0SQCdGbXI OwDHA+fawwQUIUPGBgN2enU= =EopO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
Has Linus released it G. I guess sometime I'll delve into but I get the idea it's still in development. Right now I need to run and don't have time to mess with it - maybe later on. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 19:16, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:26:18 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahha - I'm on 2.4.x series. When 2.6,7, or whatever is stable then I'll go for that! generating a kernel. alsa is now a part of the kernel tree. Unless you have a very unusual configuration, it's rock solid now. I've been on board since 2.5.x (now 2.6.0_test8) without any glitches - several months. I'm sure this is in part due to the fact that I use plain ole ext3 instead of the more adventuresome filesystems grin. Even nvidia has updated their modules. 2.6 is a lot more stable at this point than 2.4 was in its early stages. Getting alsa support to work for my ens1371 has been the only problem, and that is nothing new - never worked on for me on 2.4. Now at least I have a workable (if clumsy) solution. Prior to this on 2.4 and 2.6 I could only get the OSS support for ens1371 to work. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no workstation OS from RedHat so more chances for Gentoo?
Check the archives here. There have been extensive discussions on the use of Gentoo for a server. In short - yes it works. RH and others distribute server versions but I suspect all they've done is tweaked the desktop version with some settings and what gets installed by default. Any Linux distro should be able to run as a server (well, maybe not Lindows G). The only thing is the admin has to set up what he wants - but that's good and what Gentoo is about. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 19:04, you wrote: That's one of the reasons I came over to Gentoo and loaded it on my laptop. Now to decide whether I should load it on my 2.4Ghz Xeon server. Has anyone successfully loaded Gentoo on a server type box? It's a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server with 512MB ram.. not sure of the motherboard but when I cracked it open it was some server motherboard with PCIX slots or something. - Brent -Original Message- From: HvR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] no workstation OS from RedHat so more chances for Gentoo? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33760.html seems to indicate that redhat will stop shipping a workstation OS. So probably no more up2date (the tool to update redhat Linux with the latest versions of your installed sw). Maybe they should put a link to Gentoo on heir website ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no workstation OS from RedHat so more chances for Gentoo?
Brent L Johnson wrote: That's one of the reasons I came over to Gentoo and loaded it on my laptop. Now to decide whether I should load it on my 2.4Ghz Xeon server. Has anyone successfully loaded Gentoo on a server type box? It's a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server with 512MB ram.. not sure of the motherboard but when I cracked it open it was some server motherboard with PCIX slots or something. I've got Gentoo running on a dual Athlon MP 2200+ that is a medium load web/mail/mysql server. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head setup
Andrew Cowie wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 10:03, Andrew Gaffney wrote: As for Xinerama, can any recommend a good doc on setting it up? Thanks. The canonical reference is: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ That thread was a month and a half ago! Anyway, thanks for the link :) -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
