Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Skining Windows 98 or ME
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 23:36 +, Ian K wrote: > Hey everyone, > I have Windows ME on the family computer, and was wondering if there are > any open or free programs that could go about it? I have tried both > Chroma and > Window Blinds, but they are a general pain in the rear. Has any one else > come across one? > Ian Too OT for this list IMHO mate. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Display managers
kdm allows pics - click your pic and type your login (however it _has_ been broken on my machine for a while, the pix no longer show up) i am pretty sure gdm will do the same. it'd be unlike those gnome guys to let kde have a feature they didn't have, and vice versa! On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 23:33 +, Ian K wrote: > Hi there. > I was just wondering if anyone has come across a display/login manager > that allows to > to theme it kind of like Windows Xp's? You know, click your pic, and > type your password. > That is the /one/ thing Bill Gates did right with Windows XP. are you sure XP had it first? > > If not, I guess Ill just have to wait until KDE 3.4 comes out with its > themed login screen! :) > Ian -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Skining Windows 98 or ME
Hey everyone, I have Windows ME on the family computer, and was wondering if there are any open or free programs that could go about it? I have tried both Chroma and Window Blinds, but they are a general pain in the rear. Has any one else come across one? Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: "PentaQuad"=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] Display managers
Hi there. I was just wondering if anyone has come across a display/login manager that allows to to theme it kind of like Windows Xp's? You know, click your pic, and type your password. That is the /one/ thing Bill Gates did right with Windows XP. If not, I guess Ill just have to wait until KDE 3.4 comes out with its themed login screen! :) Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: "PentaQuad"=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout a écrit : | On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:37 -0700, Mike Melanson wrote: | |>Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |> |>>Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail |>>but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives |>>to procmail. |> |>When I decided to dump procmail, I switched to getmail: |> |>* net-mail/getmail |> Latest version available: 4.2.5 |> Size of downloaded files: 120 kB |> Homepage:http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/ |> Description: A POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox |>delivery |> License: GPL-2 |> |>Nicest part is that it does not require an SMTP server to be running |>locally. | | | isn't getmail a replacement for fetchmail? Either you are confused, or I | am. Yes, *getmail* is fetching mail, note quite a replacement of fetchmail though, but aims at the same basic functions, while *grepmail* can do the same as procmail, not quite a replacement either. Fetchmail and procamil may be sometimes hard to deal with, but I believe they are the most powerful tools in their respective categories - -- Jean Magnan de Bornier Cours Victor Hugo 13980 Alleins T 08 70 39 34 03 P 06 09 17 35 87 e-mots: jean at bornier.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCKqNO2MXc8v/2IeARAh1HAKCZmJsmQ6i6rEtPojBCK48o/P07pwCgmCfK kKs08acUAavLiN91zWZ+Xbs= =MhAP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
Nick Rout wrote: isn't getmail a replacement for fetchmail? Either you are confused, or I am. Yeah, I am confused. Sorry about that. Holdover from the days when: fetchmail retrieved the POP mail, then passed it off to... qmail which processed the mail, which handed it off to... procmail for sorting and filtering, which also called... spamprobe for Bayesian spam filtering, and in the end... pine read the email These days I just use Thunderbird and life is much simpler. -- -Mike Melanson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:37 -0700, Mike Melanson wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail > > but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives > > to procmail. > > When I decided to dump procmail, I switched to getmail: > > * net-mail/getmail >Latest version available: 4.2.5 >Size of downloaded files: 120 kB >Homepage:http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/ >Description: A POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox > delivery >License: GPL-2 > > Nicest part is that it does not require an SMTP server to be running > locally. isn't getmail a replacement for fetchmail? Either you are confused, or I am. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 12:43 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and > > cons of each. > > > > Thanks. > > > I think maildir is better for handling small files, and maildir stores > each mail in seperate files, while Mbox stores them in one, so if > anything bad happens to your mails, you won't lose all in maildir case. Think of a mbox with thousands of messages totalling many Gig's. to get to the most recent message you need to open one file and read through those gigs, to get to the last one. All of the file has to be loaded to memory. mbox chokes on big mail folders. maildir is more efficient in that situation. Anyway there are plenty of analyses of the differences between the two and their comparative strengths and weaknesses. google will help. This has damn all to do with gentoo. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail > | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to > | procmail. > > I use maildrop... > > * mail-filter/maildrop > Latest version available: 1.8.0-r2 > Latest version installed: 1.8.0-r2 > Size of downloaded files: 1,966 kB > Homepage:http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ > Description: Mail delivery agent/filter > License: GPL-2 I think maildrop can only deliver to Maildirs... -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:57:36AM +0100, Mariusz P?kala wrote > Wouldn't some PAM magic skip over this? > > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_localuser.so > > > Hovewer, if an attacker can configure PAM, she does not need an entry in > /etc/passwd ;-) I got rid of PAM some time ago. Total PITA for very little security gain for a home user. Mind you, if this was a system offering shell access to outsiders, that would be a different story. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:26:24PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users > >just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand > > No, this is all pretty standard. Plus, the fact that the shells are > all /bin/false makes it impossible to log in as those user and get > an interactive shell. For added peace of mind, check your /etc/shadow > directory, where the actual passwords are kept. The passwords fields > are '*' or '!' which are impossible to hash to using the password > hashing algorithm. That makes it doubly impossible to ever log in > as those users. Thanks for the info. All except no-login root, "regular user" and my "development/admin user" accounts. > Hope this puts some of your fears to rest... Thanks again. lsof -i shows only sshd listening, and that's locked down (behind NAT, iptables, and inetd). I use sshd to transfer files to and from my backup machine. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and > cons of each. > > Thanks. > I think maildir is better for handling small files, and maildir stores each mail in seperate files, while Mbox stores them in one, so if anything bad happens to your mails, you won't lose all in maildir case. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. Hey Brett, There are probably more advantages for each than I'm aware of, but here's what I'm aware of: .maildir is less prone to corruption, because where mbox is just one large file, maildir consists of many small files, so if one email message gets corrupt, the rest of your mail won't be lost. There should be more advantages than that, but that's all I can think of. (I do use maildir myself on my server.) As for mbox, for one, while .maildir requires a lot of read/write operations (at least one for each file), mbox is just one large file, so it's less of a tax to the system in that respect. Also, .maildir has the tendency to fill up your inodes really fast if you have a large scale server, so in some cases where you're dealing with large scale stuff, mbox may be preferable. That's all I can think of right now. Hope that helps :) All that being said, I'd say use .maildir unless you have a specific reason for using mbox as, at least in my opinion, it's easier to work with mail in that format, especially if you're doing things like filtering mail for viruses/spam, or even just using a filter to drop mail into different folders. My 2 cents :) James -- My blog: http://www.crazydrclaw.com/ My homepage: http://james.colannino.org/ "Black holes are where God divided by zero." --Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:11 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Chris Cox wrote: > > > Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC > > address filtering but I'll look into it. > > Usually this can be setup in the web page for your access point. > > > I guess I just never expected > > anyone to connect to my wireless network besides me. > > I live in a loft in New York and because of the density of buildings and > people, there are 7 access points I can see from the front of the loft! Im > now thinking of investing in a booster antenna because its easier for me > to log onto my neighbors access point than my own (which in the front over > 40 feet away). Most people have no clue how to secure their computers, let > alone their network equipment I wish i could do that and get rid of the 50$ internet bill every month. > . > -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP" d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ "$$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P" " Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P `" """" Q$$$P "Q$$$P" "Q$$$P" `Q$$P" """ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Mbox vs maildir
Is there any advantage to one over the other? What are the pros and cons of each. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mounting 1.68mb floppy
On 2005-03-05 19:36:07 -0700 (Sat, Mar), Joseph wrote: > but I have a problem mounting it, I have tried: > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt > I added to fstab: > /dev/fd0u1680/mnt/floppy vfatnoauto,rw,users 0 0 > > What am I missing? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/floppy maybe? ...and the exact error message. -- $ ls -lart /bin/ls: you must be root to use LART pgpEmPoP4SXNs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
Ralph Slooten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > A. Khattri wrote: > > Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed > > anyway. > > Any idea how they could get your MAC address, or the only one the AP > accepts? I don't think they would use brute force, but still don't know > if it's possible to get too. When wep is enabled, any machine in the vicinity with a wifi card in promiscuous mode can still see the bssid, source mac, and dest mac of traffic flowing through the AP. Thus, they have the mac addresses that are permitted. They wait till you shut off that machine, and they have access. Assuming they have the wep key, which is trivial to retrieve. Take a look at WPA authentication, not used much yet, so there are fewer tools available for hacking it. Plus, the tools are dictionary attacks, which limits their effectiveness. Honestly, if you are that concerned about it, switch to a wired network. hth, Cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 Forwarding over SSH
On 2005-03-05 17:12:34 -0800, James Colannino wrote: > I enabled X11Forward in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine I'm > connecting to, and I'm using the command ssh -X -C hostname on the > computer I'm using to connect to it. I can get in, and I can run > simple X apps and have them forwarded just fine (for example, xclock, > kcalc, etc.), but a lot of applications fail due to a "BadWindow" > error. ssh -Y -C hostname Using -Y instead of -X tells ssh to use "trusted" X11 forwarding. In my experience it's almost always necessary, though I don't know whose fault it is. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] digest errors for some days when trying to upgrade to media-libs/win32codecs-20050115
I am getting digest errors for some days when trying to upgrade to media-libs/win32codecs-20050115. Is anyone else seeing this or is it just me. There's nothing on bugs or forums I can find so I think it might be the source I am getting. BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:54 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
> > > I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB
> > > stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys,
I had the same issue. I travel a *lot*, and so sooner or later a hard
drive will die, or a laptop will get stolen, or...
So I carry (wear around my neck) a USB key. Whenever I've done more than
a few lines of work on something, I just simple copy it onto the usbkey
- a draft document, some source code - no big deal.
But corporate documents, my archive of presentations, my web site code
and source code-in-progress, taken together, that certainly needs to be
encrypted.
> > Use GPG and encrypt the files.
So a few months ago, I wrote something to make tarballs of important
hierarchies in my home directory and then sign/encrypt them, and then
push them to { usbkey | remote server }. I just use standard GPG
encryption with myself as the recipient.
That, of course, implies I have my private key to decrypt those
tarballs...
> I've been reading a bit about GPG (I haven't used it before) and it
> seems ... only difference between
> them seem to be that GPG trust is based on a decentralized web of
> trust
[ remember that trust is irrelevant if you are using asymmetric
encryption when "sending" something to yourself - you by definition have
the private half of the your own key pair. (In GPG terms, that's
"ultimate trust") ]
> I guess in this case I should include the private key as a unencrypted
> file in my USB stick and protect it with a good password, as it will
> be used whenever I need to decrypt any file. Am I right?
Even more important than all the documents and what-not are my ssh keys
and pgp keys + trustdb. Naturally, if I'm storing those against the
possibility of loosing my machine (naturally causes or otherwise), using
asymmetric encryption is no good because I wouldn't have the private key
available to recover the data!
So, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, I store the private crypto
information in a separate tarball which I encrypt using gpg's symmetric
facility.
++
Naturally, a script to do all this is a natural idea. Well, I wrote one,
and it got out of hand. :) You're welcome to use it. It's called
"geode".
http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/software/scripts/#geode
[You'll need to customize it a bit, as it's obviously specific to my
paths and usage cases]
If nothing else it's a good example of how to use some of the more
obscure gpg options.
It's also a good example of how to use zenity (a little command line
front-end for creating GTK dialog boxes). I used it to ask for the pass
phrases and to pop up a progress bar of how far it has worked through
the .tar.bz2 creation.
AfC
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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting 1.68mb floppy - WAS: format floppy to 1.8mb
> superformat will give you about 1.72 MB. Don't know if it's included > with the kernel but you can definitely download it somewhere (plus a I decided to stick with 1.68mb floppy as I need to use syslinux to make it bootable. I was format it 1.68mb: fdformat /dev/fd0u1680 but I have a problem mounting it, I have tried: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt I added to fstab: /dev/fd0u1680/mnt/floppy vfatnoauto,rw,users 0 0 What am I missing? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to procmail. When I decided to dump procmail, I switched to getmail: * net-mail/getmail Latest version available: 4.2.5 Size of downloaded files: 120 kB Homepage:http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/ Description: A POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox delivery License: GPL-2 Nicest part is that it does not require an SMTP server to be running locally. -- -Mike Melanson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
Thanks. I think that was it. I'll check it out. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to | procmail. I use maildrop... * mail-filter/maildrop Latest version available: 1.8.0-r2 Latest version installed: 1.8.0-r2 Size of downloaded files: 1,966 kB Homepage:http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ Description: Mail delivery agent/filter License: GPL-2 Regards, Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail | but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to | procmail. I use maildrop... * mail-filter/maildrop Latest version available: 1.8.0-r2 Latest version installed: 1.8.0-r2 Size of downloaded files: 1,966 kB Homepage:http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ Description: Mail delivery agent/filter License: GPL-2 Regards, Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Procmail replacement
Some time ago someone on this list mentioned an alternative to procmail but I can't find it in the archives. Does anyone know any alternatives to procmail. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Are you sure the file is readable and free of mistakes? Thank you. Thought of everything but to check to see if the file was readable, I just assumed it was. Now back to upgrading my system : ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] X11 Forwarding over SSH
Hey everyone, I enabled X11Forward in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine I'm connecting to, and I'm using the command ssh -X -C hostname on the computer I'm using to connect to it. I can get in, and I can run simple X apps and have them forwarded just fine (for example, xclock, kcalc, etc.), but a lot of applications fail due to a "BadWindow" error. Here's the error I get from trying to run Gaim for an example: The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 199 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Any idea what my problem may be? Any help would be greatly appreciated :) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd
On 2005-03-05 17:26:24 -0700 (Sat, Mar), Mike Melanson wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users > >just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand > > No, this is all pretty standard. Plus, the fact that the shells are > all /bin/false makes it impossible to log in as those user and get an > interactive shell. For added peace of mind, check your /etc/shadow > directory, where the actual passwords are kept. The passwords fields are > '*' or '!' which are impossible to hash to using the password hashing > algorithm. That makes it doubly impossible to ever log in as those users. Wouldn't some PAM magic skip over this? auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_localuser.so Hovewer, if an attacker can configure PAM, she does not need an entry in /etc/passwd ;-) Just my 2 euro.. -- $ ls -lart /bin/ls: you must be root to use LART pgpMm1dpFF4ky.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
"Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this working. Anyone? Is it that sound is just not working in Myth or sound is not working at all? Sound in Myth required some additional configuration changes for me. For example I couldn't bring sound in through my capture card, so I had to bring it in through standard line-in. Then you would have to make sure you check off the capture setting for line-in in alsamixer. I'm also fairly sure I had to change the default permissions udev gave to /dev/sound. Scott. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd
Walter Dnes ha scritto: Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:/bin/false operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false ftp:x:21:21::/home/ftp:/bin/false squid:x:31:31:Squid:/var/cache/squid:/bin/false gdm:x:32:32:GDM:/var/lib/gdm:/bin/false named:x:40:40:bind:/var/bind:/bin/false mysql:x:60:60:mysql:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false postgres:x:70:70::/var/lib/postgresql:/bin/bash apache:x:81:81:apache:/home/httpd:/bin/false nut:x:84:84:nut:/var/state/nut:/bin/false cyrus:x:85:12::/usr/cyrus:/bin/false vpopmail:x:89:89::/var/vpopmail:/bin/false alias:x:200:200::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/false qmaild:x:201:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmaill:x:202:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailp:x:203:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailq:x:204:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailr:x:205:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmails:x:206:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false postfix:x:207:207:postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false smmsp:x:209:209:smmsp:/var/spool/mqueue:/bin/false guest:x:405:100:guest:/dev/null:/dev/null nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/:/bin/false rpc:x:111:111:added by portage for portmap:/dev/null:/bin/false I am not running uucp, and I don't have squid, bind, mysql, postgres, apache, nut, cyrus (what is it?), vpopmail, alias (what is it?), qmail, postfix, or smmsp installed. I grab my inbound email via POP, and push my outbound email via ssmtp to my ISP's MTA. I *HOPE* I'm not running any publicly visible servers. My machine sits behind a NATing router-cum-ADSL-modem, and iptables rejects all externally-initiated connections, and blocks all traffic coming and going to/from my ports 0..1023 excepting to/from lo. All the distro I knew distribuite a pre-filled /etc/passwd and /etc/group , it can be used for reference and also to be help when you create a tarball that must be moved on a different machine with the same distro. This because in a tarball the numerical uid are saved rather the user names. (i.e. is not goot to have portage with uid 100 on a box and mysql with the same uid 100 on another box) short answer don't worry, it's ok ;) -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd
Walter Dnes wrote: Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand No, this is all pretty standard. Plus, the fact that the shells are all /bin/false makes it impossible to log in as those user and get an interactive shell. For added peace of mind, check your /etc/shadow directory, where the actual passwords are kept. The passwords fields are '*' or '!' which are impossible to hash to using the password hashing algorithm. That makes it doubly impossible to ever log in as those users. I am not running uucp, and I don't have squid, bind, mysql, postgres, apache, nut, cyrus (what is it?), vpopmail, alias (what is it?), qmail, postfix, or smmsp installed. I grab my inbound email via POP, and push my outbound email via ssmtp to my ISP's MTA. I *HOPE* I'm not running any publicly visible servers. My machine sits behind a NATing router-cum-ADSL-modem, and iptables rejects all externally-initiated connections, and blocks all traffic coming and going to/from my ports 0..1023 excepting to/from lo. Audit yourself. 'emerge' the 'nmap' port-scanning program. Run it on your ethernet interface (not your localhost interface). Run '/sbin/ifconfig' to find your actual ethernet address and run 'nmap '. This will tell you which ports are listening on eth0. This is a good test to do because it is exactly what the bad guys would do. Hope this puts some of your fears to rest... -- -Mike Melanson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
* On Sat Mar-05-2005 at 01:02:09 PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb said: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: > > >On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: > >or, in my case, I'm using xfce: > > > >startxfce4 -- :1 & > > > >you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one > >on "ctrl-alt F7" and one on "ctrl-alt F8". Now the question is, how to > >get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate > >keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave > >that for you. > > From what I've seen you set up xorg.conf for two screens then in the > Xservers file (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers if you use xdm) you can tell it what > screen to use. I've done this using the TV-out on my video card, but using one keyboard & mouse for both the monitor and tv. I'm unsure about the keyboard, but for the mouse I think it would be sufficient to list the pointer as "/dev/input/mouseX" rather than "/dev/input/mice". -- Sami Samhuri pgp7up2hhn5TB.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] [OT] Dedicated Gentoo servers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you know any company offering Gentoo dedicated servers for less than 50u$s/month (and I'm talking about 1280MB of RAM, 40GB of HD, a full computer of over 1.5GHz, etc). I am currently working with a company that is offering that for 29.95u$s, but I'd like to see/try others. Thank you. - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pupeno.com Reading Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCKkZlfW48a9PWGkURAiBxAJ43qtqwxGWmXej3hXYPnZwiEaWCrQCffXb9 LwLyWnczz3LicgfHVT26V30= =oGs+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Tons of users in /etc/passwd
Am I compromised, or does Gentoo go around creating a bunch of users just for the hell of it? here's a bunch of users I don't understand uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:/bin/false operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false ftp:x:21:21::/home/ftp:/bin/false squid:x:31:31:Squid:/var/cache/squid:/bin/false gdm:x:32:32:GDM:/var/lib/gdm:/bin/false named:x:40:40:bind:/var/bind:/bin/false mysql:x:60:60:mysql:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false postgres:x:70:70::/var/lib/postgresql:/bin/bash apache:x:81:81:apache:/home/httpd:/bin/false nut:x:84:84:nut:/var/state/nut:/bin/false cyrus:x:85:12::/usr/cyrus:/bin/false vpopmail:x:89:89::/var/vpopmail:/bin/false alias:x:200:200::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/false qmaild:x:201:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmaill:x:202:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailp:x:203:200::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailq:x:204:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmailr:x:205:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false qmails:x:206:201::/var/qmail:/bin/false postfix:x:207:207:postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false smmsp:x:209:209:smmsp:/var/spool/mqueue:/bin/false guest:x:405:100:guest:/dev/null:/dev/null nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/:/bin/false rpc:x:111:111:added by portage for portmap:/dev/null:/bin/false I am not running uucp, and I don't have squid, bind, mysql, postgres, apache, nut, cyrus (what is it?), vpopmail, alias (what is it?), qmail, postfix, or smmsp installed. I grab my inbound email via POP, and push my outbound email via ssmtp to my ISP's MTA. I *HOPE* I'm not running any publicly visible servers. My machine sits behind a NATing router-cum-ADSL-modem, and iptables rejects all externally-initiated connections, and blocks all traffic coming and going to/from my ports 0..1023 excepting to/from lo. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb
Joseph wrote: Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb superformat will give you about 1.72 MB. Don't know if it's included with the kernel but you can definitely download it somewhere (plus a version for DOS/Windows, too). -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb
Joseph wrote: Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb Have you tried specifying /dev/fd0H1840 as the floppy device rather than /dev/fd0? For more info you may want to read the manual page: $ man fd -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:43:18 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > You're safer now, but it has been reported that sniffers can decode > WEP if they scarf up enough data (it seems like a few weeks is > enough). Probably a good idea (tm) not to leave your wireless powered > on 24x7. Or change your WEP key every week. -- Neil Bothwick Where do you think you're going today? pgpyGEqH8Dx6Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] format floppy to 1.8mb
Is it possible to format floppy to 1.8mb under linux with vfat? fdformat only goes to 1.4mb -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help finding files
On 09:21 Sat 05 Mar , maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > emerge -av requires the following: > > net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb > net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb > media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb Those are dependencies to whatever it is you're trying to install. Portage will handle these for you. No need for any manual intervention. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
I've not been following the thread, but a quick thought would be using 'alsamixer' to check that the right volumes are set. I remember with mythTV on my Audigy was fun, it didn't follow the standards to get the capture working correctly. I have seperate capture channels, and an 'aux mix' and 'aux mix capture' (iirc) - first had to be down, 2nd up for myth to get sound without it reverberating. Tim Christoph Eckert wrote: "Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this working. Anyone? Did you run 'alsaconf' to adjust the /etc/conf.d/alsa file? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide "Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working!" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:56:48 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | In my "/etc/portage/package.keywords" I have "app-arch/dar ~x86" | Yet when I try to -uvpD world, I get: | Calculating world dependencies - | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-arch/dar-2.2.0" have been | masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to | complete your request: | - app-arch/dar-2.2.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) | - app-arch/dar-2.2.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) | | Isn't package.keywords the purpose to enable the "masked by: ~x86 | keyword" package to be emerged? Am I missing something here. Are you sure the file is readable and free of mistakes? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpO0469amSH5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Khattri wrote: > Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed > anyway. Any idea how they could get your MAC address, or the only one the AP accepts? I don't think they would use brute force, but still don't know if it's possible to get too. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCKi2jAWKxH5yWMT8RAg49AJ9+NybuUadeH6j3qO87Fk4XoVadoQCeNpmA 1uFEXW3G8K+LOOthlw+xtP8= =9fuG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] package.keywords
In my "/etc/portage/package.keywords" I have "app-arch/dar ~x86" Yet when I try to -uvpD world, I get: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-arch/dar-2.2.0" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-arch/dar-2.2.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - app-arch/dar-2.2.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) Isn't package.keywords the purpose to enable the "masked by: ~x86 keyword" package to be emerged? Am I missing something here. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
> "Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no > sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't > install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just > the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a > gentoo system) and loaded alsa > (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound > settings using alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have > alsa in my "USE" flags, so mayber that's it, but I'm not > sure what else to try next to get this working. Anyone? Did you run 'alsaconf' to adjust the /etc/conf.d/alsa file? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Chris Cox wrote: > MAC address filtering is also enabled. Does that mean nobody can come in my > Wireless network now? Yes and no. While it will block most people, MAC addresses can be spoofed anyway. -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
Checked that last night - alsa is loaded as a module. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:04:21 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > > > It is - 2.6.9. > > So look in your kernel config: > > # cd /usr/src/linux > # make menuconfig > > Under "Device Drivers -> Sound -> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture" > > -- > AK > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:27:00 -0600, Chris Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:49 am, Chris Cox wrote: > > On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > > Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but > > > helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). > > > > Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup > > MAC address filtering but I'll look into it. I guess I just never expected > > anyone to connect to my wireless network besides me. > > MAC address filtering is also enabled. Does that mean nobody can come in my > Wireless network now? > You're safer now, but it has been reported that sniffers can decode WEP if they scarf up enough data (it seems like a few weeks is enough). Probably a good idea (tm) not to leave your wireless powered on 24x7. -- Collins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Coldplug Mounting confusion!!!
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, James Nicolson wrote: > I also have a sd card reader writer which > I would like to mount as swap. Probably not a good idea since most flash cards only have a finite amount of writes before they "wear out". -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: "Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this working. Anyone? Is this a 2.6 kernel? Because ALSA is in the kernel config now... Please read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml lfa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Chris Cox wrote: > Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC > address filtering but I'll look into it. Usually this can be setup in the web page for your access point. > I guess I just never expected > anyone to connect to my wireless network besides me. I live in a loft in New York and because of the density of buildings and people, there are 7 access points I can see from the front of the loft! Im now thinking of investing in a booster antenna because its easier for me to log onto my neighbors access point than my own (which in the front over 40 feet away). Most people have no clue how to secure their computers, let alone their network equipment. -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:49 am, Chris Cox wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but > > helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). > > Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup > MAC address filtering but I'll look into it. I guess I just never expected > anyone to connect to my wireless network besides me. MAC address filtering is also enabled. Does that mean nobody can come in my Wireless network now? -- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 15:25:37 up 2:21, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.08, 0.15 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > It is - 2.6.9. So look in your kernel config: # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig Under "Device Drivers -> Sound -> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture" -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Partimage
I installed partimage on my system, set up the daemon and then tried to backup another system. I am using the 0.6.4-r2 version. Partimage is compiled with ssl. On the client machine I booted with the SysRescu-CD and run partimagessl. I find that as long as I set up the server partimaged to use -L (no login) things work fine. However, if I do not use the -L option then I get errors about "incompatible networx connections". Short term the -L works but I'd like to fix it. I'm using this command line (when it doesn't work) partimagessl -sx.x.x.x save /dev/sda1 savedir/savefilename /etc/conf.d/Partimaged has the options -d /files/Images What am I doing wrong? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
It is - 2.6.9. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:49:29 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > > > "Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The > > simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead > > to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd > > alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa > > (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using > > alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so > > mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this > > working. Anyone? > > Is this a 2.6 kernel? Because ALSA is in the kernel config now... > > -- > AK > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > "Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The > simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead > to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd > alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa > (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using > alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so > mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this > working. Anyone? Is this a 2.6 kernel? Because ALSA is in the kernel config now... -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound
"Finished" my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my sound settings using alsamixer - but nothing. Now, I don't have alsa in my "USE" flags, so mayber that's it, but I'm not sure what else to try next to get this working. Anyone? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email
Uwe Thiem wrote: What he meant was: If you send out encrypted messages you want your counterpart to be able to decrypt them. It's a fair assumption that some of the receivers of your email are using outlook unless you are one of those who simply refuse to communicate with MS users. ;-) Ha ha. Oops. >_< Sorry about that! I am so out of it today. Maybe I need more caffeine :-D ... -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed 1.9.4 and aspell
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:11:19 +0100 Marc Ballarin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:05:25 -0500 > reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I recently installed Sylpheed 1.9.4 and prefer it over any other version of > > sylpheed or sylpheed-claws. However, I have been unable to get the spell > > checker to work. Not being an ebuild expert, I figured that the ebuild, as > > found in portage, did not enable spell check so I edited it to do so. > > Watching the emerge process, it says that is compiling with spell check > > enabled. But the spell checker tab does not appear in common preferences > > configuration popup. Does this version of Sylpheed have spell checking or > > am I just doing something terribly wrong? > > > > As I understand, it does not support spell checking (yet?). A look at the > source tree seems to confirm this. > > However, you can use an external editor that supports spell checking. > > But woh neds taht anywey? > Thnak yuo. > Regards > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogers US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rgh.ca pgpchMD1GQujL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed 1.9.4 and aspell
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:05:25 -0500 reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed Sylpheed 1.9.4 and prefer it over any other version of > sylpheed or sylpheed-claws. However, I have been unable to get the spell > checker to work. Not being an ebuild expert, I figured that the ebuild, as > found in portage, did not enable spell check so I edited it to do so. > Watching the emerge process, it says that is compiling with spell check > enabled. But the spell checker tab does not appear in common preferences > configuration popup. Does this version of Sylpheed have spell checking or am > I just doing something terribly wrong? > As I understand, it does not support spell checking (yet?). A look at the source tree seems to confirm this. However, you can use an external editor that supports spell checking. But woh neds taht anywey? Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Annoying syslog entries
I use syslog-ng along with a configuration I found at gentoo-wiki.com. It works pretty well. As many of you know, I'm have a mailman problem I'm trying to solve currently. I also have an inbox monitor that checks my mail server for new messages every ten seconds and evolution checks for new messages every minute. As a result I have a lot of entries in my mail log that look like this: Mar 5 12:56:06 bullet imap-login: Login: michael [192.168.1.3] Is it possible to syslog-ng ignore these entries until further notice? If so, how would I accomplish it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:11, Peter Gordon wrote: > Julien Cayzac wrote: > > But reiserfs keeps telling me it can't replay the journal because it's > > read-only... > > Use a more mature filesystem? ^_^ > *runs and hides* Run far, hide deep deep down an enormous cave, don your asbestos suit and bear with the cancer thread. ;-) ;-) ;-) Just couldn't resist - like you. I have set up more boxes with ReiserFS than I care to count without such a problem on any of them. Something is wrong with his setup but I can't figure out what from his posting. :-( Uwe -- Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email
On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:09, Peter Gordon wrote: > Dion Sole wrote: > > One would hope though, that being on Linux, he wouldn't be using Outlook > > :P > > His message headers say he's using Novell Evolution. =P What he meant was: If you send out encrypted messages you want your counterpart to be able to decrypt them. It's a fair assumption that some of the receivers of your email are using outlook unless you are one of those who simply refuse to communicate with MS users. ;-) Uwe -- Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
fire-eyes wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:09 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that popped up; say a page and a half of them. (and here's the stupid question part) does this mean I need to drop $60 on a new PC3200 stick? Is there an acceptable level of error? My experience has been that if memtest finds a single error, the RAM is not worth using. Computers are sensitive devices, and if in just once place you get a 0 where you should get a 1, or the other way around, there will be serious problems. Such as random crashes. Apps segfaulting left and right. Merges failing in unrepeatable ways. You need to replace this. But that's not always the case. Random errors will crop up every now and then using unbuffered memory (which is what most people use), and less so, but even with registered memory. Nothing is fool-proof. If you read the README that comes with memtest86 it will tell you the same thing. Now if memtest86 constantly produces the same error every time you run it, even if it's only one or two, then I'd replace the RAM. But if it passes a few times and you only see one or two intermittent errors that don't ever repeat at the same address, it's probably not bad RAM. You have to run multiple passes of memtest86 to really get a good idea of whether or not the RAM is good. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
Chris Cox wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address filtering but I'll look into it. I guess I just never expected anyone to connect to my wireless network besides me. Chris, A good thumbrule for security is this: if it can be done, regardless of why, it will be done. Keep that in mind anytime you set something up and you'll be far better off :) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
Julien Cayzac wrote: But reiserfs keeps telling me it can't replay the journal because it's read-only... Use a more mature filesystem? ^_^ *runs and hides* -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email
Dion Sole wrote: One would hope though, that being on Linux, he wouldn't be using Outlook :P His message headers say he's using Novell Evolution. =P X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email
Ralph Slooten wrote: No, it works fine on Windows aswell (gnupg and enigmail with thunderbird). I use them both from work where I have to use Windows2000 without a problem. Also it's 100% compatible with Linux (haven't had any issues yet). Cool! ^_^ You learn something new everyday... -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Sylpheed 1.9.4 and aspell
I recently installed Sylpheed 1.9.4 and prefer it over any other version of sylpheed or sylpheed-claws. However, I have been unable to get the spell checker to work. Not being an ebuild expert, I figured that the ebuild, as found in portage, did not enable spell check so I edited it to do so. Watching the emerge process, it says that is compiling with spell check enabled. But the spell checker tab does not appear in common preferences configuration popup. Does this version of Sylpheed have spell checking or am I just doing something terribly wrong? Reg pgpimU3qyelt3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
From what I've seen you set up xorg.conf for two screens then in the Xservers file (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers if you use xdm) you can tell it what screen to use. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Sami Samhuri wrote: snipped or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 & you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on "ctrl-alt F7" and one on "ctrl-alt F8". Now the question is, how to get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:34 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but > helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). > Ok I disabled SSID Broadcast and enabled WEP. I'm not sure how to setup MAC address filtering but I'll look into it. I guess I just never expected anyone to connect to my wireless network besides me. -- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 11:44:51 up 3 days, 14:28, 13 users, load average: 1.68, 1.93, 1.53 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:59:22 -0600 Chris Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > someone in the area was using my bandwidth/ broadband connection. So my next > question is how should I prevent this in the furture? Should turning on WEP > on my router fix this? Yes, but do it *soon*. There is no reason not to use WEP. It does not reduce bandwidth and should not consume additional CPU time. Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SMTP protocol violations from Robin? Looking For Others Seeing This
I mentioned this before, but I am interested if anyone else is seeing this issue, before I file a bug as suggested. I get this error plenty when spammers try to abuse my MTA, but ever since the switch to robin, i've been seeing dozens of these daily: exim[22073]: 2005-03-05 12:45:30 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from H=robin.gentoo.org [140.105.134.102] input="" A few do make it through, then later I'll get a bounce alert. I am using exim 4.50, however I've seen this back to exim 4.44. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error Compiling Kernel 2.4.28-r5 with OpenMosix
Humm, I don't use that variable. My make.conf file looks like this: CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" USE="fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow" The funny thing is that it only happens when I'm compiling a 2.4 kernel. And the kernel works ok, but the modules are corrupted. On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:46:25 -0500, James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:22:34 -0300, Raphael Melo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know why, but it is only happening in one of my Gentoo > > machines. Perhaps I should cross compile it. > > Check MAKEOPTS in /etc/make.conf on the problem machine - it's > possible that it's got "j0" instead of "-j0" in it, or something like > that... > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Reinstall Toolchain From avenj's Rescue Bins - How?
I am having various major problems, summed up basically by the fact I get unrepeatable segfaults left and right. It's gotten to the point where it is not possible to merge medium to large software. Now, I already suspect my hardware. However I'd like to rebuild my entire toolchain, because I used insane CFLAGS from stage1. I've since backed off to near-default CFLAGS. I've tried this through portage the following way: emerge linux-headers && emerge linux-headers glibc && emerge glibc binutils gcc && emerge binutils gcc && emerge -e system && emerge -e system Now I don't know if that's the correct way, but a user on #gentoo told me this and many agreed. I have tried, however when I hit glibc the first time I run into unrepeatable segfaults, and I can't move on. So from what I hear, avenj has rescue bins for all the toolchain components. I'm nervous about this as I realize it's a critical portion of Gentoo. How do I go about this safely? What do I need to know? Is there another way to approach this, other than the obvious "reinstall"? Thanks! - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help finding files
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, emerge -av requires the following: net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb googling uncovers the files(supposedly) but the links lead to something quite different. Are there viable alternatives? I'm using 2004.3 with the distfiles(mostly) that came from the livecd. -mw Am I the only one confused by this question? Firstly, emerge -av *what*? World? System? PackageName? Secondly, why is emerge requiring the files a problem? Thirdly, why are you "Googling" for the files? packages.gentoo.org links to the homepage for every package in Portage (and the homepage is usually correct). Fourthly, alternative to what? wvstreams, wvdial and mpg123? There may be alternatives, but since we don't know what is requiring them in the first place, it's hard to know if any alternatives would be appropriate. You might just as well be able to remove the flags from the requesting programs USE options and not require these programs at all. So the first thing I would suggest is doing an emerge -avt and seeing why these packages are being installed in the first place, then you can make a more informed decision about what you want to do. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes Chris, as well as MAC address filtering (not bulletproof, but helps). Also you should not advertise your SSID (turn it off). But please excuse my ignorance, if you run a "public" access point to which no control is done, do you really expect people not to log in when they discover it? It's like people running public ftp servers where anyone can upload / download... not the smartest thing in the world to do. Basically they are using your network, and are IN your network (bye bye firewall rules and certain things specific to internal interaction aswell). If you run an smtp server too in your network, you had better pray he's not a spammer (unlikely, but still the risk is there). Nice computer by the way ... Oh, I just let myself into your house ~ the front door was unlocked and open, with a big sign above the door telling me that ;-) Greetings Ralph Chris Cox wrote: > Last night I just happen to connect to http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm and > noticed > something odd that I haven't seen before. There was a 2nd Wireless IP > address on my local LAN. But I only have 1 wireless card connected on a > Windows 2k machine. This one had a different Hostname on it so I'm thinking > someone in the area was using my bandwidth/ broadband connection. So my next > question is how should I prevent this in the furture? Should turning on WEP > on my router fix this? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCKe2YAWKxH5yWMT8RAtGAAJ4oJoQOTDU7olUkQ2P2+W3ugQMuaQCfWQgA zl6w/olXG+nGOclHtpmB7cc= =LTIk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help finding files
Hello everyone, emerge -av requires the following: net-libs/wvstreams-3.70-r2 178 kb net-dialup/wvdial-1.53-r1 66 kb media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r6 245 kb googling uncovers the files(supposedly) but the links lead to something quite different. Are there viable alternatives? I'm using 2004.3 with the distfiles(mostly) that came from the livecd. -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
On Saturday 05 March 2005 18:29, fire-eyes wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:18 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:08:46 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > > look for the temps in bios/with sensors. CPU>60°C check you fan. mobo > > > >35°C check all fans. Check your PSU, try the stick in a different > > > slot. > > > > Ahhmy CPU runs, according to my BIOS, usually between 70-80 degC, > > perhaps this is the problem. MB is ~34-35 usually, unless I'm running > > a long compile or a heavy game. Perhaps I need a new CPU fan. [ all above this agreed on ] > Have at least one fan, on the back, as high up as possible. Two is > better, again on the back. You can go overkill with fans. Don't go overkill. Fans produce noise. > The thing to > remember is you want the same ammount of air coming in, as going out, to > get a good balance. Hehehe. This is a good one! > > If you have more air coming in than going out, heat will be held in. Gawd! Is it already 1st of April? (/me looking at the calendar.) No, it isn't. How do you suppose could that happen? You would end up with a case full of liquid air - and boiling liquid air, that is. ;-) Uwe -- Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure
> Course I'd much prefer using > Grub over Windows, or Lilo to boot my system. right, linux good, Windows evil, but this way I can easily swap many different drives with different OSes on them without re-configuring a thing. And, technically, lilo *is* being used to boot the linuxes. Besides, as the guy who discovered this method puts it,(paraphrasing) "Bill Gates would tear out his hair if he knew this was going on." -mw __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails
Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:59 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > >>Ow Mun Heng wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:08 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: >>> >>> Holly Bostick wrote: >ZeeGeek wrote: > > > >>Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >> >>>ZeeGeek wrote: >>> >>> >>> Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the error I get is "/usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"", other things are alright. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > ...SKIP... > >>>I found that PGP/MIME is needed if you want evo users to be able to read >>>the mails in-line (or get prompted to input a password) >>> >> >>thanx, I think I'll just use it without PGP/MIME. >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> > > Hi, > Using Thunderbird-1.0 with enigmail (and Evo-2.0.4). > Both TB-1.0/Evo-2.0.4 when using OpenPGP and S/MIME work w/o problems. > Can sign/encrypt with gpg or certificate. > Maybe you need to rebuild TB/enigmail or gnupg, Have you tried > revdep-rebuild? > HTH yeah, I tried revdep-rebuild, it's still not working. I'll try a rebuild of thunderbird some time later. thanx for reminding me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] new wireless IP address on my LAN
Last night I just happen to connect to http://192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm and noticed something odd that I haven't seen before. There was a 2nd Wireless IP address on my local LAN. But I only have 1 wireless card connected on a Windows 2k machine. This one had a different Hostname on it so I'm thinking someone in the area was using my bandwidth/ broadband connection. So my next question is how should I prevent this in the furture? Should turning on WEP on my router fix this? -- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 10:54:08 up 3 days, 13:37, 13 users, load average: 1.71, 1.18, 0.96 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird crashes when sending signed or encrypted mails
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:59 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:08 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > > > >>Holly Bostick wrote: > >> > >>>ZeeGeek wrote: > >>> > >>> > Holly Bostick wrote: > > > >ZeeGeek wrote: > > > > > >>Thunderbird crashes when I try to send a signed or encrypted mail, the > >>error I get is "/usr/bin/thunderbird: line 392: 12794 Segmentation > >>fault > >>$mozbin "$@"", other things are alright. > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> ...SKIP... > > I found that PGP/MIME is needed if you want evo users to be able to read > > the mails in-line (or get prompted to input a password) > > > thanx, I think I'll just use it without PGP/MIME. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi, Using Thunderbird-1.0 with enigmail (and Evo-2.0.4). Both TB-1.0/Evo-2.0.4 when using OpenPGP and S/MIME work w/o problems. Can sign/encrypt with gpg or certificate. Maybe you need to rebuild TB/enigmail or gnupg, Have you tried revdep-rebuild? HTH -- Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Add files to Live-CD
On Friday 04 March 2005 03:21 am, Mark Brier wrote: > Quoting Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I really would like to see an answer to this, as I've just built a stage4 > from my install (8Gb down to 900Mb with bzip2) and would like to > incorporate it into > a Live-DVD for system rescue purposes. Have you looked at: * app-admin/livecd-ng Available versions: ~1.0 Installed: 1.0 Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org Description: Gentoo LiveCD creation script -- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 10:33:15 up 3 days, 13:16, 13 users, load average: 1.01, 1.50, 1.52 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:18 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:08:46 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann > > look for the temps in bios/with sensors. CPU>60°C check you fan. mobo >35°C > > check all fans. Check your PSU, try the stick in a different slot. > > Ahhmy CPU runs, according to my BIOS, usually between 70-80 degC, > perhaps this is the problem. MB is ~34-35 usually, unless I'm running > a long compile or a heavy game. Perhaps I need a new CPU fan. That is FAR too hot, that will significantly shorten the life of any processor, and at the very least cause it to spew errors and bad data. I would be surprised to see any processor last over 2 weeks with that temperature. The motherboard temperature seems fine. Sounds like your fan/heat sink might be fine, but the critical part in all of this is the thermal paste that sits between the die on the CPU, and the heat sink. Take it all apart. Scrape off what you can from the cpu and heat sink. Then, use light rubbing alchohol on rags to clean it up as good as possible. I would also use a very fine sand paper on the bottom of the heat sink. But NOT on the cpu die. A few seconds of very light pressure should be enough. A key is to use GOOD thermal paste, not some no-name store stuff. I always go with Arctic Silver. Remember, the thinner the layer, the better it will conduct heat. If it is too thick, it will retain heat in the CPU. The way I pull this off is apply the thermal paste on the entire die of the CPU with the very edge of a new razor blade. Assuming your heat sink is reasonable, and your fan is reasonable, you should notice a significant heat drop. If you don't, then that means that the case itself is not circulating air properly. Have at least one fan, on the back, as high up as possible. Two is better, again on the back. You can go overkill with fans. The thing to remember is you want the same ammount of air coming in, as going out, to get a good balance. If you have more air coming in than going out, heat will be held in. Something else that helps a lot, if you have a tower, is using a power supply with a fan on the bottom of the power supply, that pulls up. Then, the fan on the back of the power supply pushes that out. Hope this helps. Do this SOON, or you WILL destroy the CPU. It's also likely the CPU is permanently damaged, already, and may need replaced. Good luck. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Maintenance
On Saturday 05 March 2005 04:38, Michael Haan wrote: > I've just about got my mythtv box finished and I'm turning my eyes to > the job of maintaining it. I know there are several routine things I > should be doing, but I'm curious just how often I should be doing > them. Any advice as to when I should be doing some of the routine > portage/package version maintenance things? Personally, I'd say there should be no routine things you need to do to it. As the old adage says, "if it ain't broke don't fix it." In my experience, there are two areas that need to be covered in daily usage; one is running out of disk space and the other is security updates. The former is best covered by log rotation and, if lengthy logs are required, backuping up to another box. Security updates can be covered in a few ways. Two ways that come to mind are either updating the portage tree of the box (without updating the packages) and running glsa-check, and subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reading the securing updates as they come in. Personally, I prefer the latter as it means that I don't have to touch the box that I'm concerned about. Really, how you do it is up to you though. The best advice I can give is "if it ain't broke don't fix it." Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:09 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: > My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and > I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone > could help me understand what the diagnosis is. > > There were definately errors that popped up; say a page and a half of > them. (and here's the stupid question part) does this mean I need to > drop $60 on a new PC3200 stick? Is there an acceptable level of > error? My experience has been that if memtest finds a single error, the RAM is not worth using. Computers are sensitive devices, and if in just once place you get a 0 where you should get a 1, or the other way around, there will be serious problems. Such as random crashes. Apps segfaulting left and right. Merges failing in unrepeatable ways. You need to replace this. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:08:46 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann > look for the temps in bios/with sensors. CPU>60°C check you fan. mobo >35°C > check all fans. Check your PSU, try the stick in a different slot. Ahhmy CPU runs, according to my BIOS, usually between 70-80 degC, perhaps this is the problem. MB is ~34-35 usually, unless I'm running a long compile or a heavy game. Perhaps I need a new CPU fan. Harald Arnesen: >It could also be an overworked power supply. If you have a modern >graphics card, several disks og similar power hungry stuff, you may need >a better PSU. I've got an ATI Radeon 9600 (which is a barrel of fun in itself), one HD, CPU fan and a case fan. 300W PSU; does this sound ok? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
I think you'll need to actually start two X servers, one for each of the video cards. How the kbd and mouse get mapped I don't know but there will probably to be separate X configurations for each server and maybe the input devices can be specified there. The last I looked at running X was a lng time ago. - Alex -Original Message- From: Bill Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: > Sami Samhuri wrote: > > >There's at least one interested person... > > > > > > Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) > Here's a neat little trick I learned on this list a couple of days ago that might help. If you open up a second console by doing "ctrl-alt F2", login as a second user, and type startx -- :1 & or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 & you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on "ctrl-alt F7" and one on "ctrl-alt F8". Now the question is, how to get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage broken by emerge --sync
I was runnning a "emerge --sync" and portage died at the end: deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.11.11 deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.10.4 Number of files: 113281 Number of files transferred: 2980 Total file size: 88664800 bytes Total transferred file size: 5950431 bytes Literal data: 5950431 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 2551394 Total bytes written: 59781 Total bytes read: 8636699 wrote 59781 bytes read 8636699 bytes 80897.49 bytes/sec total size is 88664800 speedup is 10.20 >>> Updating Portage cache: 100% Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' [EMAIL PROTECTED] (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2630, in ? reload(portage) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7241, in ? do_upgrade(mykey) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7132, in do_upgrade db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4555, in move_ent fixdbentries(origcp, newcp, pkgdir) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3837, in fixdbentries f = open(dbdir+"/"+myfile, "r") IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory And now everything falls over. Is there a known problem and a way to fix this? -- Alex Bennee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.
Fantastic... Thanks everyone... It's ordered :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Maintenance
Michael Haan wrote: I've just about got my mythtv box finished and I'm turning my eyes to the job of maintaining it. I know there are several routine things I should be doing, but I'm curious just how often I should be doing them. Any advice as to when I should be doing some of the routine portage/package version maintenance things? I'd recommend updating as little as possible. If the box is exposed to a network of any kind it's worth doing security updates recommended by glsa-check. Anything else you change has the possibility of breaking the box, so if it aint broke, don't fix it! -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
On Saturday 05 March 2005 13:47, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: [..] > 2) some time ago there was a project that was aimed to mark block of > ram bad, the idea is that the ram fails alwais in the same place, > marking that place as bad and denying the access to those regions > solves the problem. I'm sorry but I can't remember where to found it > (seems to remember that it's a kernel patch) http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.11, Compiled #1 Wed Mar 2 22:47:05 CET 2005 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 02:26 -0800, Luke Ravitch wrote: > On 2005-03-05 02:10, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ck wrote: > > > In any case, what you need is GNUPG (gpg); most, if not all email > > > clients I am familiar with have some facility to encrypt and decrypt > > > mails using it as a backend. > > > > Not if you're using outlook. > > My German isn't good (more like nonexistent), but it appears even > LookOut users have options... > > http://www3.gdata.de/gpg/download.html > > FWIW, I do have firsthand experience with commercial PGP and their > Outlook plugin. (That would certainly let you exchange encrypted > communications with a GnuPG user.) I suppose GnuPG-Plugin works in a > similar fashion. > I tried that out because I wanted secure comm with my other half. During my trials... all it did was crash. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:12:57 up 3:02, 4 users, load average: 2.09, 1.75, 1.44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:28 +, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Steve wrote: > > I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) > > to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which > > prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a > > problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software > > (under windows.) [The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.] > > > > I'm not getting anywhere looking for BIOS updates - can anyone tell me > > if this BIOS limitation will be an issue for Gentoo? Is there some > > kernel configuration which would achieve the same goal as using the > > "drive overlay software"? > > IIRC, so long as the BIOS can see the whole of the boot partition (i.e. > whatever /boot is on), then it'll be fine. The kernel will normally > perform it's own probe and lookup on the hard-drive during booting and > then work from there. So long as the kernel can support large hard > drives, it shouldn't be a problem. For as long as I can rememeber, I never had problems with large disks and Bioses. I even have a 200GB drive on a PII 300 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:11:17 up 3:00, 4 users, load average: 2.27, 1.70, 1.39 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?
Ryan Sims ha scritto: My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is. There were definately errors that popped up; say a page and a half of them. (and here's the stupid question part) does this mean I need to drop $60 on a new PC3200 stick? Is there an acceptable level of error? I've been assuming that the random crashes (usually only happens in Windows, but *sometimes* Gentoo will develop some tics) were heat problems or buggy software; but now I'm not so sure. Any help would be appreciated. 1) I had problems one time with ram overheating, cooling it with a fan placed over them solved it. 2) some time ago there was a project that was aimed to mark block of ram bad, the idea is that the ram fails alwais in the same place, marking that place as bad and denying the access to those regions solves the problem. I'm sorry but I can't remember where to found it (seems to remember that it's a kernel patch) good luck -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + PHP5
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77556 You need the masked dev-php/mod_php-5.0.3-r1 On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 20:10 +1300, Ash Varma wrote: > Hi. > > I have been using apache-2.0.52-r2 and PHP5 for a while... Recently > upgraded to apache-2.0.52-r3 and moved all the configs to the httpd.conf > > However, I cannot get PHP5 to work... All browsers try to download the > file, rather than display it... > > What could be wrong? I have included what I think are the relant > sections of my config files... Any pointers / help very much > appreciated. > > > - /etc/apache2/httpd.conf-- > Include conf/modules.d/*.conf > --- > > > - /etc/conf.d/apache2 - > APACHE2_OPTS="-D PHP5 -D SSL -D DOC" > --- > > > - /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf - > > # Load the module first > > LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so > > > # Set it to handle the files > > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php5 > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > > --- > > > > -- Ivan Yosifov. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.
I dont have a HP, but had a similar problem in the past. Linux in general doesnt pay much attention to bios disk sizes. The problem is booting - many bios's cant easily boot from an oversized drive. Easiest is keep the 17 G for the boot partition (and in my case a second "rescue" install of linux so when it all goes pear shaped I can recover quickly) Once the bios has handed over to the kernel, the drive worked fine. (4.5 bigfoot/80G seagate) BillK On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:07 +, Steve wrote: > I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) > to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which > prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a > problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software > (under windows.) [The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.] > > I'm not getting anywhere looking for BIOS updates - can anyone tell me > if this BIOS limitation will be an issue for Gentoo? Is there some > kernel configuration which would achieve the same goal as using the > "drive overlay software"? > > Thanks in advance, > > Steve > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.
Steve wrote: I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software (under windows.) [The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.] I'm not getting anywhere looking for BIOS updates - can anyone tell me if this BIOS limitation will be an issue for Gentoo? Is there some kernel configuration which would achieve the same goal as using the "drive overlay software"? IIRC, so long as the BIOS can see the whole of the boot partition (i.e. whatever /boot is on), then it'll be fine. The kernel will normally perform it's own probe and lookup on the hard-drive during booting and then work from there. So long as the kernel can support large hard drives, it shouldn't be a problem. I've had an 80Gb hard drive on both a P233MMX (old dell model) and currently on my Compaq SSF server (a PII-450). The trick is to just have small partition for hda1 for the boot partition, then run wild! :) The kernel will do the rest! :D -- Jonathan Wright Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 250GB H/D in old PC linux requirements on PC BIOS.
I'm looking to upgrade a 17GB H/D in an old HP Brio BA (~400Mhz Celeron) to a 250GB one. I am warned that there are BIOS limitations which prevent me directly accessing more than 66GB - which sounds like a problem - but that I can circumvent this using drive-overlay software (under windows.) [The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.] I'm not getting anywhere looking for BIOS updates - can anyone tell me if this BIOS limitation will be an issue for Gentoo? Is there some kernel configuration which would achieve the same goal as using the "drive overlay software"? Thanks in advance, Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: > Sami Samhuri wrote: > > >There's at least one interested person... > > > > > > Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) > Here's a neat little trick I learned on this list a couple of days ago that might help. If you open up a second console by doing "ctrl-alt F2", login as a second user, and type startx -- :1 & or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 & you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on "ctrl-alt F7" and one on "ctrl-alt F8". Now the question is, how to get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
