Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome startup configuration
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 03:42:48 -0800, Wazow muttered: I have one additional questions: what is your window manager of choice for gnome? I find it pretty annoying that metacity does not allow me to strip window decorations (or I do not know how). Sawfish is cool this way; I was easily able to create a theme with 2-pixel yellow borders (only). Probably possible for Metacity too, but I don't know how, and it'd get tricky to use. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms playlist editor ?
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 03:40:22 -0800, Jean Jordaan muttered: ...I miss cute things like fadeout that WinAmp has these days... There are some plugins for XMMS that'll let you do that sort of thing. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Why don't I have /dev/dsp?
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:58:57 -0800, Spider muttered: begin quote On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:39:23 -0800 Collin Starkweather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this will be quite so easy as my last post. I recently installed Gentoo on my Dell Inspiron 4150 and can't seem to get any sound. esd seems to be running as expected but nothing comes out the speakers. The culprit seems to be freak linux # ls -L -l /dev/dsp* ls: /dev/dsp*: No such file or directory but I don't know what to do about it. The contents of /proc/pci and lsmod are included below in case that's helpful. I used genkernel to configure and build the kernel and, according to my untrained eye, appropriate modules seem to be loaded. Well, you need to modprobe : snd_mixer_oss , snd_pcm_oss , and you should be ready to go. If you've installed ALSA, esd should be able to run without OSS (/dev/dsp) support. Check in alsamixer to see that your main output isn't muted. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Win NT 2k
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:20:28 -0800, senectus muttered: ... It's a hoax.. and not a very good one I believe.. It looks pretty real to me. It's hard to make up ~700MB of fake source code, and I'll be doing some spot-checking (on Reversi, perhaps) to see if some behaviours match. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Opera invocation very slow with KDE 3.2
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:35:22 -0800, Paul Oldham muttered: I have Opera set to be my default browser in Evolution, so when I click a hyperlink in an email it open it a running instance of Opera. Since I've gone to KDE3.2 there's now a pause of about 10 seconds between clicking the link and Opera starting to move. I've now eliminated Evolution from the equation: if I type opera url from a shell there's a ten second pause, just like there is in Evolution, before it says opera: Activated running instance of Opera and a running instance of Opera bursts into life and opens the URL. I've also tried this with Firebird and opens the URL instantly so it's not KDE3.2 per se. It seems to be down to some interaction between Opera and KDE3.2 as it wasn't an issue with KDE3.1. Has anyone else seen this? And do you have a cure? Try stracing the program to see if it's waiting for something obvious. Emerge strace if you don't have it already. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] WM that can handle dual-head
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:04:40 -0800, Andrew Gaffney muttered: I have a dual-head setup. The main display is running at 1024x768 and the secondary is 800x600. I'm not using the Xinerama extension, so I effectively have 2 separate X sessions running. I'm currently using fluxbox as my window manager. I want to try something new. I tried Openbox, but it doesn't initialize anything on my second display. What window managers are recommended that will handle my setup properly? If you have two separate X sessions running, you'll have to run two separate window managers - one for each display. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:04:37 -0800, LoneStar muttered: Nickolay Savchenko wrote: Hello. I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and it works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80 or to the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows stealth status). I've flushed all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network services, tried to change webserver (tried boa and apache), but my port 80 still isn't opened. Thanks in advance. /etc/services check that these lines are not commented out ... www 80/tcp http# WorldWideWeb HTTP www 80/udp # HyperText Transfer That wouldn't disable the service. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch Restriction
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:43:45 -0800, Anthony Hoppe muttered: Is it possible to turn off fetch restriction on some or all files? If yes, how? I'm sure there is a logical reason for fetch restrictionwhat is it? lol Legal nonsense. For example, I'm pretty sure the fetch restriction on the JDK docs is because Sun wants you to agree to their TOS and license before you use the files. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms and gtk warnings
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:57:28 -0800, Mike muttered: What is causing these warnings when I start xmms: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: libxfce.so, You've probably got a theme selected (in $HOME/.gtkrc) that doesn't exist or isn't installed. Try deleting your gtkrc and see if things start working. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after install
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 01:00:48 -0800, Jean Magnan de Bornier muttered: Le 02/07/04 riki [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Oh, I've got a followup question. If I'm logged in as a regular user, I open up a terminal, su to root, then try to launch emacs. I get the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified. [...] as regular user type xhost + before trying to open emacs as root, or open emacs in the terminal with emacs -nw NO. That'll open up your machine to anyone who tries to connect to it - a SERIOUS security issue. Use sudo to run X programs as root. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] grep rotated-log ?
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:08:14 -0800, raptor muttered: is there a easy way to grep rotated logs... when they are gziped... I mean a quick way.. i.e. ready console tool.. zgrep? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:39:18 -0800, Mark Knecht muttered: I'm just using mkisofs -o EXILE_DISK_1.iso /mnt/cdrom which seems simple and straight forward, but maybe it's not good enough? How about just unmounting the disk and trying: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso perhaps? That'll give you an exact (and burnable) copy of the disk. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] office (or at least excel)
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:20:00 -0800, Meka[ni] muttered: Is there some kind of office that is not so huge like Open Office? I actually need Excel, but if there is an office that is small enough (source not above 20mb) I would like to test it. Please anyone. I need it for some test on the university. Thanx. :o) If all your need is a spreadsheet, try gnumeric. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:53:20 -0800, Ted Ozolins muttered: In setting up a new system on gentoo I get no masked or unmasked vcron. I take it that it is now vixie-cron? Yup. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging cyrus-sasl
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:49:51 -0800, Thomas T. Veldhouse muttered: If you are going to post PGP signed messages, will you please post your public key ... otherwise it is just a waste of all of our bandwidth. Thanks... and by that we mean post to a public keyserver, like pgp.mit.edu. Though there are some reasons for *not* posting a PGP key publicly -- there may be some methods by which one could take a public key and turn it back into a private key that can be used for signing messages. Nobody's managed to do it yet, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HOw much power does a computer consume?
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:57:58 -0800, S. Krishnan muttered: Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:28 PM Check your clock? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug problems - hheellpp!!
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:05:48 -0800, Mark Knecht muttered: However, and this is the bigger problem, when attempting to shut down the machine I get the following sort of message: (typed here from notes) Stopping USB and PCI hot plugging... usb.c: deregistering driver hiddev... usb.c: deregistering driver hid... devfs_put(c3e427c0): poisoned pointer Forcing Oops kernel BUG at base.c: 914 Talk to the good folks on LKML; this looks like a kernel bug. What kernel are you using? If you aren't using vanilla 2.4.24 or 2.6.1, try either of the two and see if the problems persist. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compiling error
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:45:43 -0800, LoneStar muttered: Judging by your prompt ( $ ), you're trying to make your kernel as your normal user. Try it as root and see if there's a difference. It shouldn't make a difference. Kernel builds really *should* be done as a user, but Gentoo's silly system (/usr/src/linux*) doesn't allow you to do that properly. It sounds like the real problem here is that the curses libraries aren't installed (properly?). -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:46:55 -0800, Aaron Walker muttered: Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be separate package for each unicode character class (latin-a, latin-b, hebrew, ...). Sorry about the broken replies... lost the original message thread. But: There will *always* be some characters that gucharmap can't display, for the simple reason that not all 2**16 (or is it 2**32?) Unicode characters aren't defined yet, and, even so, you're unlikely to have the fonts for, say, ancient Borzoovian runic glyphs. The only reason you should be concerned about getting the code-in-rectangle is if that appears as part of a document you want to read. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:00:15 -0800, Brendan Sullivan muttered: I can't help you find that info...but i do know (at least in laymans terms) what the basic differences of -O2 and -O3 are. The -O2 option when compiling, puts references to header files in the locations where they are called. The -O3 option, actually pulls the sections out of the header files, and inserts them into the executable code. Wrong, that's nonsense. Header files don't contain executable code. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:26:26 -0800, Brendan Sullivan muttered: k, maybe not header files, i'm not a programmer so i dont really know my terminology...but it's something to do w/ the code being inline, and having to jump out to get other information. Better explanation: -O3 (as opposed to -O2) enables some expensive optimizations which can sometimes make the code run faster, but almost always make the code much larger. In most cases, however, the increased size of the program makes it run slower, as it will no longer fit in the instruction cache as well, and will also take longer to load from disk. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vga=ext
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:55:57 -0800, larryB muttered: I have successfully installed gentoo. In my grub.conf file, I included the line, kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.24-2004-01-10 root=/dev/sda5 vga=ext. This line successfully changes the startup kernel screen from 25 lines per screen to 50 lines per screen, which is as intended. However, sometime before the login prompt (probably when init begins), the consol returns to 25 lines per screen. I am migrating to gentoo from Linux From Scratch (LFS) distribution, where I used the same technique, but with LFS, there was no shift back to 25 lines. I often operate as root from the agetty login consoles. 50 lines per screen is more user friendly than 25. I have looked diligently for the location in startup scripts where this change is made, but have not been able to find any video altering commands. How can I have 50 lines on my login agetty consoles? There's a startup rc-script that messes with fonts. Can't remember exactly what it's called, but rc-update remove scriptname will set you right. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] joystick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:10:29 -0800, Redeeman muttered: hi, i am going to buy a new joystick soon, and i dont know which, i want it to be supported well in linux :) it only needs to work on linux 2.6 thanks! Any standard USB joystick should work (there's a standard for these things, called HID). -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org not working?
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:14:12 -0800, Jose Gonzalez Gomez muttered: Is there any known problem with the rsync gentoo servers? Yes. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] appletalk iptables
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:07:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered: I'm going to install netatalk but i have a question babout using a ip firewall with it. If i'm wrigth Appletalk has nothing to do with the TCP/IP protocol or even the OSI model, but it is compleetly different, so i can not use a iptables firewal to protect those machines ? Wrong on all counts. First of all: by default, netatalk uses AFP over TCP/IP, not the old-style Appletalk protocol. Second: Even so, old-style Appletalk was just another IP protocol (on a level with TCP/IP). Firewalls can deal with it, though it isn't really necessary, as Appletalk shouldn't be used across a WAN. Third: check your spelling. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help! ACCEPT() returns an Invalid argument error after an emerge?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:21:27 -0800, Hareesh Nagarajan muttered: On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:01, Erik S. Johansen wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 15:07, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: if( (newClientFD=accept(serverFD, (struct sockaddr*) newClientAddress, addrLength)) 0 ) perror(accept:); Do you set addrLength before this call? I did not, but now I do! Whew! Any idea why it works on some systems/configurations and fails on others? Differing address lengths on different machines? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:33:46 -0800, Richard Revis muttered: Kernel options are (2.4.22): snipped IDE options From the performance I am getting it definitely isn't enabled. Options on the 2.6.1 kernel are set in a similar way. Try enabling some of the chipset options. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] distcc on linux and mac
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:49:45 -0800, Lotas T Smartman muttered: right. i asked this in the forums (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119717highlight=distcc+mac) and i just wanted to find out something. apple released some patches and code for GCC to make it customized for the mac. if i download and install this, is there a chance it will work? also, is there a chance i could kill GCC Standard for my PC? the reason is because my mac is seriously underpowered. there is a few things i need to compile on it and distcc makes sence. it would use the power of my dual athlon, a duron 700 and a soon to be added to the network 1.33Gz Athlon too. Any tips would be handy. there is more on the distcc site here (http://distcc.samba.org/faq.html#cross-to-darwin). I supose the major question though is will it kill my system? can i still use the old compiler? If I remember correctly, distcc requires that all systems be the same architecture and have all the same include files available. Unless you want to try to port Apple's GCC patches (for Frameworks and the like) to Linux, I'm afraid you're out of luck. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa and kernel-2.6.x
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:31:37 -0800, Jernej Zidar muttered: I think the system tried to load a module that was builtin the kernel already. Did you built the snd_intel8x0 as module or did you incorporate it in the kernel directly? JZidar - Original Message - From: Roberto Griso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:45 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Alsa and kernel-2.6.x I've found this problem with alsa and kernel-2.6.x when i try to restart tha alsa services : * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Unloading ALSA... * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels * Unloading modules [ ok ] * Loading ALSA drivers... * Loading: snd-mixer-oss * Loading: snd-pcm-oss * Loading: snd-seq-oss * Loading: snd_intel8x0 FATAL: Module snd_intel8x0 already in kernel. * Loading: snd-seq-oss FATAL: Module snd_seq_oss already in kernel. * Running card-dependent scripts * Restoring Mixer Levels [ ok ] ; Anyone knows what do you means? What's probably happening is that stopping ALSA doesn't unload the drivers, so the ALSA service complains when you try to load the module a second time. Harmless, then. You can probably ignore this. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry - Switch from a 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 kernel to 2.6 ?
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 04:47:03 -0800, Daz-Manu muttered: Hi folks, I use Linux for 6 monthes now, and I've never switched from one kernel to another . Kernel 2.6 is out now and I'd like to use it instead of my 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 . I tryed to use it as soon as the first 2.6 was out (unstable) but it needed lot of configuration and I gave up . ( I could boot up but no GUI, FB, ...) 1/ Is it possible to export my 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 config to a 2.6 config ? (I agree , the options are differents but at least main options .) Not really - there've been too many changes for oldconfig to work. 2/ What is the difference between 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and 2.6 (or others) from kernel.org ? 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 is a 2.4.20 patched ? If yes , where can I read differences ? Read the ebuild. It loads a bunch of patches, mostly from files/ in the ebuild directoryr but some from ...portage/distfiles -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Simplifying USB keychain permissions
I recently got USB working on my box, and found that permissions on USB keychain devices is still a mess, especially on multi-user machines. (Mine isn't, but...) Most devices are handled by /etc/console.perms, which basically just grants console devices to the user at the console, but (at the time of writing) it didn't handle keychain devices. console.perms also didn't seem to handle hotplugging, so I'v eput together these system patches to rectify these problems. Obviously, you'll have to run this all as root. The code's simple enough that you can probably verify its safety yourself. If you have any problems with it (or notice any possible ones), please tell me. Without further ado... HOWTO handle permissions on keychain disks -- First create the flash permission tool and its helper files... cat EOF /usr/local/bin/flash-perms #!/bin/sh [ -d $1 ] exit [ ! -e /root/flashtag ] exit chown `stat -c%U /root/flashtag` $1 EOF touch /root/flashtag Then add the device to /etc/security/console.perms: cat EOF /etc/security/console.perms flashdisk=/dev/sd* /root/flashtag console 0600 flashdisk 0600 root EOF And to devfsd: cat /etc/devfs.d/flash-support REGISTER ^sd* EXECUTE /usr/local/bin/flash-perms $devpath EOF NOTE that you'll have to change this last script if you have any other SCSI disks: exclude them from the regexp or create special cases in flash-perms. Finally, let's add some fstab entries. Again, remove any that don't apply to your system. If you expect more than four flash disks, create more entries in the same pattern as these. cat EOF /etc/fstab /dev/sda/mnt/flash-avfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash-a1 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/flash-a2 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sda3 /mnt/flash-a3 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/flash-a4 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdb/mnt/flash-bvfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash-b1 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/flash-b2 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/flash-b3 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdb4 /mnt/flash-b4 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdc/mnt/flash-cvfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/flash-c1 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/flash-c2 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdc3 /mnt/flash-c3 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdc4 /mnt/flash-c4 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdd/mnt/flash-dvfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/flash-d1 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdd2 /mnt/flash-d2 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdd3 /mnt/flash-d3 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 /dev/sdd4 /mnt/flash-d4 vfatnoauto,owner0 0 EOF pushd mnt mkdir flash-a flash-a1 flash-a2 flash-a3 flash-a4 mkdir flash-b flash-b1 flash-b2 flash-b3 flash-b4 mkdir flash-c flash-c1 flash-c2 flash-c3 flash-c4 mkdir flash-d flash-d1 flash-d2 flash-d3 flash-d4 popd And there you have it. Flash disks will be given to the console user on login or insertion, and revert to being owned by root at logout. You can also mount flash disks (as vfat - feel free to add to or modify the list of filesystems) without being root - ideal for a multiuser system. These instructions were written with Gentoo Linux in mind, though they would probably work just as well on any other system that uses devfs(d) and PAM. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] worm games
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 04:03:24 -0800, William Kenworthy muttered: Nah, totally different animal. This one has worms that shoot each other (from guns to nuclear bombs!). Sorta arcade style - something like the atomic tanks game on steroids! xscorch? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo - off topic question
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:12:12 -0800, Michael Balamuth muttered: Hello List, I've been following this exchange with some interest since this gentoo-user list is one of the most polite and helpful I've ever encountered. You all have finally mentioned something I've never heard of. Could someone please explain what a 1337 is and how it relates to language?? Sorry to be so uninformed, but I'm eager to learn. 1337 is a term used for the stereotypical 1337 [EMAIL PROTECTED], or script-kiddie. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_TMPDIR
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:46:51 -0800, Yrjö Hatakka muttered: Viestissä Maanantai 15. Joulukuuta 2003 01:24, Oliver Lange kirjoitti: you may well delete /var/tmp/portage/* as long as you're not currently emerging some software. For example: rm -R /var/tmp/portage/* Don't do this! do : cd /var/tmp/portage/ rm -R * or disaster awaits What's the difference? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_TMPDIR
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:33:41 -0800, Patrick Börjesson muttered: None, but if not careful you might delete more than you intended. For example if you accidently hit a space between portage and the last slash. If you first see to it that your in the correct directory you have at least some more security... Ah, fair enough. I wasn't considering operator error... silly me. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate with accented chars
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:28:00 -0800, Ciortea Cristian muttered: Isn't there a way to load them on the fly ? I would have to restart KDE 3-4 times to get it right ... There sure is. xmodmap inputfile -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mp3 effects
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:56:58 -0800, Oliver Lange muttered: I'm searching for a similar tool. Something that is able to display the waveform and allowing to hear and cut a file graphically. Should be no problem to specify fine cutting positions, because MP3 chunks are only a few 1/100 seconds long. Try mpcut. It isn't in portage, but it's easy to compile by hand. Allows for just this sort of cutting. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim problem docked, gnome 2.4
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:18:27 -0800, Christoph Schäfer muttered: Hi all, I'm trying to use gaims (0.71) systray icon - if I click on the x, the window hides and I stay online. If I get a message, it pops up. But there is no icon in the systray of gnome 2.4 anywhere :( Any suggestions? I have to activate the plugin eacht time I start gaim. Otherways gaim will not hide but close on clicking on x, though the systra option is activated. You have to add a specific applet to the GNOME panel to give the systray icon somewhere to dock to. It's part of the standard applets package, and is called something like system tray applet. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] no profile directory
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:06:55 -0800, john gennard muttered: Following the install write-up (ignoring a net connection), I get to the point where after copying portage-20030911.tar.bz2 to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage and chrooting and then running 'env-update', 'source /etc/profile' (don't yet understand that!) and 'export CONFIG_PROTECT=-* /etc/make.conf', the command 'emerge -up system' still fails with the message no profile directory .. system mode unavailable. I think what you've forgotten to do is unpack the portage image. After copying portage-.tar.bz2 to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage, cd to that directory and tar xvjf portage portage-.tar.bz2 to unpack it. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:58:55 -0800, Wes Gray muttered: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:37:13AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: I ran into this problem a while back upgrading from 2.4.20 to 21 or 22 where when it booted up the new kernel it would fail mounting my / partition which is running reiserfs. I posted, and while no solution was found, others mentioned the same problem. I just tried 2.4.23 and it also does not work. Since there is an exploit now I have to figure out a way to upgrade, so I am still seeking solutions if anyone has heard of any. Maybe the 2.6 kernel fixes the problem? I have finally fixed my problem. My root fstab entry had nothing in the field which usually has noatime in it. Putting noatime in fixed it. Possibly without something in the field I had my subsequent fields off by 1, and 2.4.21 became pickier than previous kernels have been. Either that, or 2.4.21 doesn't like logging atimes. Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions. If you don't want anything in the flag field, put in defaults as a placeholder. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:51:54 -0800, Scharf Yuval muttered: Hello, I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4 characters. How do I tell the browser to use Hebrew fonts? What is that funny font that Firbird is using? This'll happen when you don't have any font installed for the characters the web page is using. You'll have to install a Hebrew font to get Hebrew characters -- apparently you don't have any installed (or Firebird isn't using them properly). Also check the font preferences. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup
Here's a set of scripts I use to automatically sync/fetch/emerge all
packages over a modem. Works great (for me at least).
Note that you'll need gentoolkit installed. Intended usage is to run
prepare-updates (as root) with an optional argument (which gets passed to
sleep) to update your system. The scripts *should* fail gracefully if
something is wrong (blocking packages, failed downloads, broken
dependencies, etc). You'll also need zsh, though it'd probably work under
bash with a few changes.
Without further ado:
/usr/local/bin/prepare-updates
#!/bin/zsh
[ $# -gt 0 ] { echo Sleeping for $1...; sleep $1 }
echo -n Loading package list...
PACKAGES=`qpkg -I -nc`
echo done!
emerge sync exec /usr/local/bin/do-updates
/usr/local/bin/do-updates
#!/bin/zsh
echo -n Loading package list...
PKGS=`qpkg -I -nc`
echo done!
echo -n Finding dependencies...
EMERGEOUT=`echo $PKGS|xargs emerge -up --columns`
if echo $EMERGEOUT|grep '\[blocks'; then
echo Blockage: $EMERGEOUT
exit
fi
if echo $EMERGEOUT|grep masked or unmasked; then
exit
fi
UPGRADES=`echo $EMERGEOUT|gawk 'BEGIN{FS=[][]}/^\[/{print $3}'`
echo done!
if [ x$UPGRADES = x ]; then
echo Nothing to upgrade\!
exit
fi
echo Going to fetch:
echo $UPGRADES
echo Type Control-C to abort, Enter to continue
read x
echo $UPGRADES|xargs emerge -uf
echo
echo Fetch complete.
echo Type Control-C to stop, Enter to perform upgrades.
read x
echo $UPGRADES|xargs emerge
/usr/local/bin/list-updates
#!/bin/zsh
echo -n Loading package list...
PACKAGES=`qpkg -I -nc`
echo done!
echo $PACKAGES|xargs emerge -up --columns
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] About emerge sync...
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:14:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered: It takes so much time to sync the tree here... because i have a slow (modem) connection. can i use portage-2003xxyy.tar.bz2 files downloaded in another place? Yes, but it'll always take longer to download a portage snapshot than it would to sync the tree. I would know - I'm on a modem myself. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No hyphenation patterns were loaded (latex)
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:56:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered:
I have begun a document like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % char encoding
I get this error message:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `Swedish'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
No, that's correct -- the problem's just that there aren't any hyphenation
dictionaries available on your machine for Swedish. Install some, or live
with the warning (which won't keep the document from building, by the way)
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Support for 48bit lba Addressing
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:44:09 -0800, Yogesh Sharma muttered: Mike Wojcikiewicz wrote: Not sure if this helps, but I have a 180gig WD drive mounted on /home with no special patching or anything (ext2, vanilla 2.4.22).. Just 2 more qn ? Is it a single parition or multiple parition ? Are you able to access 180 gb completely ? I'm not the person in question, but I've got a 120 GB drive with one partition 100GB. I've been able to use this drive since I got it, which was back around 2.4.19 or so. 48-bit addressing's been in Linux for a while now, though I wouldn't know since when. It's not a special feature, though. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help: libfwbuilder-1.0.2
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:11:26 -0800, Al Raq muttered: Hi all, I could not install libfwbuilder-1.0.2. Please if you can help. Thanks. Here is the error message: ... /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 33: --disable-shared: command not found Looks like a bug in the ebuild. File it: bugs.gentoo.org. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] reiser, fsck
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:20:27 -0800, Jonathan Stickel muttered: In switching from Red Hat to Gentoo, I have started using reiserfs rather than ext3 for my Linux partitions. For ext3 partitions, I know how to make fsck run on boot (shutdown -F, or set the mount count with tune2fs). Is there something analogous for reiser? I think reiserfsck may be running every boot, but I'm not sure because it happens so fast; is this typical? Yes, reiserfs doesn't really need a full-blown fsck every boot. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 worker|perchild ebuild
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:04:40 -0800, Erwin Lang muttered: hi all! is there an ebuild available for compiling apache with the worker or perchild module or must i change the ebuild by myself? AFAIK you can set this in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging OpenGL program returns error
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:15:52 -0800, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos muttered: Hi all, I'm reading the OpenGL Programming Guide, latest edition. I've been able to check that after compiling OpenGL code and running it with GDB 6.0, an error will arise. In particular, select any OpenGL program from the book. Try the following: ... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pmatos/ist/mvt/labs/openglbk-edit/wrap [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 16384 (LWP 5583)] Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 5583)] 0x406567ff in _mesa_test_os_sse_exception_support () from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so (gdb) Do any OpenGL programs run? This looks like you've added SSE support on an architecture that doesn't support it. Try recompiling X11 with USE=-sse and see if that fixes it. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome: empty bottom panel
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:41:53 -0800, Oliver Lange muttered: Hello everybody, My gnome bottom edge panel crashed, now after rebooting i got an empty panel with no 'show desktop' button, no window list and no workspace switcher. In a nutshell: the panel is absolutely empty. How can i fix this ? Right-click on the panel to add items. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:29:45 -0800, Redeeman muttered: hi, i am seeking and application for easy building iptables scripts, its not anything advanced, it just gotta block some ports from public, and route some ports to another machine on my LAN, anyone can suggest an app? rc.firewall - at projectfiles.com IIRC. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Network problem
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:28:57 -0800, Simon Cahuk muttered: my /etc/conf.d/net: iface_eth0=192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface_ippp0=192.168.0.100 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway=ippp0/192.168.0.100 I can't ping my other machines before I connect to the internet. After connecting ping works ok. As it stands, your PPP interface is set as an IP on the local network. This is wrong (unless your ISP gives you a 192.168.0.x address, in which case you'll need to choose another prefix). Change iface_ippp0 to use some nonsensical address (0.0.0.0?) by default. It'll get changed once you connect. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome session changes...
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:18:09 -0800, Andrei Ivanov muttered: I'm having some trouble convincing gnome not to save changes to the session. By default, gnome saves the changes, so if I logout of gnome with some programs running, when I logon the next time it starts them again. So I closed all the applications and logged out, and then I logged in again (no applications were started automatically... good). I disabled Applications- Desktop preferences- Advanced- Session Options: Automatically save changes to session and logged out. But when I logged in, the Sessions configuration dialog appeared, and, after it, Nautilus also started and this happens now every time... :( What can I do ? One way to fix this would be to log out, log in on a VT, and delete .gnome2/session -- this'll clear anything you have saved for the session. Btw: why can't I use the `win` key on my keyboard as a shortcut ? (it seems gnome doesn't see the key press) You may have to mess with xmodmap. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in Gnome 2.4 -- crash after launchers added to panel???
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:37:06 -0800, Greg Yasko muttered: Hi Gentooers. After adding launchers to the panel in Gnome 2.4, Gnome got crashy. Then after removing the launchers and rebooting, Gnome was back to normal. Is this bug in bugzilla? I used all of the search terms I could think of all + gnome, panel, launcher and nothing turned up. Sounds like a GNOME problem. Check with the folks at gnome.org to see if this is a known issue. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] proxy
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:37:48 -0800, Redeeman muttered: i am need of a a proxy server, because my brother is on the lan, and he wants to make daemons, and i have all the ports :D i dont know anything about it, and i dont have much time, so i am in need of a secure and easy proxy server, i have heard about squid, not much, and i see that almost any programs support socks proxy (i dont know what it is). can anyone recommend a small easy and secure proxy that is socks compatible and that supports accounts made, without making system accoutnts for any user (like with proftpd)? thanks!! Well, I'm not sure exactly how squid would help you (it's just a web proxy: all it'll do is mirror HTTP requests), and a SOCKS proxy is just a similar thing for generalized *outgoing* connections. What you probably want to look into is port forwarding with iptables or ssh -- this'll make a port on the gateway machine forward connections to another machine behind the firewall. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel problems
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:15:21 -0800, Joel Konkle-Parker muttered: I have a Logitech Cordless Navigator Duo set (keyboard mouse on one USB), which includes a wheel mouse. When I try using the wheel though, nothing happens. I've tried it in several different apps, too, and nothing. Here's my XF86Config: -- Section InputDevice Identifier Logitech Wireless Mouse Driver mouse Option Protocol Auto Try: Option Protocol ImPS/2 It's probably auto-detecting as PS/2 (which doesn't support a wheel AFAIK). -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] sawfish-1.3r3 patch failure
Dunno what's going on here... * sawfish-1.3-state-below.patch * = PATCH COMMAND: patch -g0 -p0 /usr/portage/x11-wm/sawfish/files/sawfish-1.3-state-below.patch = patching file sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl Hunk #1 FAILED at 125. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl.rej = PATCH COMMAND: patch -g0 -p1 /usr/portage/x11-wm/sawfish/files/sawfish-1.3-state-below.patch = can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- /var/tmp/portage/sawfish-1.3-r2/work/sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-11-16 16:13:33.0 +0100 |+++ sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-03-16 21:56:48.0 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored = PATCH COMMAND: patch -g0 -p2 /usr/portage/x11-wm/sawfish/files/sawfish-1.3-state-below.patch = can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- /var/tmp/portage/sawfish-1.3-r2/work/sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-11-16 16:13:33.0 +0100 |+++ sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-03-16 21:56:48.0 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored = PATCH COMMAND: patch -g0 -p3 /usr/portage/x11-wm/sawfish/files/sawfish-1.3-state-below.patch = can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- /var/tmp/portage/sawfish-1.3-r2/work/sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-11-16 16:13:33.0 +0100 |+++ sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-03-16 21:56:48.0 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored = PATCH COMMAND: patch -g0 -p4 /usr/portage/x11-wm/sawfish/files/sawfish-1.3-state-below.patch = can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- /var/tmp/portage/sawfish-1.3-r2/work/sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-11-16 16:13:33.0 +0100 |+++ sawfish-1.3/lisp/sawfish/wm/state/wm-spec.jl 2003-03-16 21:56:48.0 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Time Adjustment
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:21:49 -0800, Mike Roberts muttered: Simple question, I think. Using Gnome2 i can not adjust my time. I right click on the time displayed in the panel, menu pops up, click on 'adjust date time...', and I get the following message: Failed to locate a program for configuring the date and time. Perhaps none is installed? I don't know what the GNOME2 date/time issue is, but you can adjust the time from the command line using a command like: date 111720102003.29 where the number is of the form MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] (M = month, D = day, h = hour, m = minute, s = second, C = century, Y = year) man date for details. Note that this command must be run as root. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Speaking of fish
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:13:21 -0800, Ernie Schroder muttered: Lately there has been a bit of discussion of the fish protocol, which seems to be an ssh file browser plugin. Has anyone gotten it working with MozillaFirebird? I have used it with konqueror on one box but the other uses Windowmaker and thus has no konqueror. AFAIK it's a KDE thing. Won't work with Mozilla derivatives. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] strange boot message Xargs: environment is too large for exec
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:02:12 -0800, Andreas Schmitzer muttered: recently i installed gentoo 1.4 for ahtlon-xp. while booting the message appears : cleaning /var/lock, /var/run, Xargs: environment ist too large for exec It's 100% harmless. But I think it's fixed by a recent-ish update to baselayout. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone have success with daap (itunes sharing)?
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:24:18 -0800, Alan muttered: I'm trying to get daap going to share the mp3s and oggs on my fileserver via itunes sharing, with little success. I'm following the directions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030711140157143 I have the files downloaded, but whenever I try to compile libhttpd-persistant I get tons of g++ errors, and I'm not sure why :( make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/libhttpd-1.3-persistent-e/src' gcc -I../src -g -I../ -I/usr/local/include -D_OS_UNIX -c protocol.c In file included from protocol.c:41: select.h:29:20: iostream: No such file or directory This looks like it's a c++ file (it's trying to use c++ headers) but you're trying to compile it with gcc, not g++. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:16:18 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: gabor wrote: Andrew Farmer wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 06:29:35 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: - snip - Well, the problem is that you can only mount an image as a user if the image and mountpoint are specified in the fstab. I still don't know why mount (or the kernel or something) can't start allowing mounts of a file readable by a user over a directory the user owns... :-) :-) :-) ... security reason ! If you like to allow your users to mount just anything, (doesn't matter in which dir) it's the same, like give them root password ... never heard about Trojan horse ? :-) PS. it's typical question of people who use windblowz (where security issues were made by diletants, if at all), but know nothing about unix security ... hmmm.. could you give an example? let's imagine that i allow all the wheel users to mount loopback-files (iso images). how could that be a security risk? thanks, gabor at first just read again, the question and what I wrote ... to prevent misunderstanding. ready ? so, go on ! User is running commands under it's (effective) id. Correct ? Password is stored in /etc/shadow, (which has not rw permissions for users ... try cat /etc/shadow). Now, I have a question to you: How is it possible, users can change their password ? The right answer is: Due to set uid/gid mechanism. ( run ls -l /bin/passwd) man mount See information for the user flag. Specifically, nosuid. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer with SSH
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:19:40 -0800, Stephen Liu muttered: H Mike, MAL, Alberto and others scp remote:file localfile # user will be the user being used scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file scp is part of openssh. # epm -q scp/sftp could not find them on Gentoo box # emerge search sftp found dev-perl/net-sftp gnome-extra/gnome-vfs-sftp net-ftp/vsftpd # emerge search scp found net-misc/scponly x11-plugins/ascpu Which of them are the right application to download and install None of them. scp and sftp are part of the openssh package, which you probably already have installed. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] libssl: error
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:22:25 -0800, Gëzim Hoxha muttered: I was trying to update my gnome with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u gnome but after merging some packages it said (a whole bunch of times): /usr/bin/wget: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Then at the end it said: !!! Could not download openssl-0.9.61.tar.gz. Aborting. Re-emerge wget. The SSL update causes all sorts of havoc with packages. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
Okay, let's try that again. On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:16:18 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: User is running commands under it's (effective) id. Correct ? Password is stored in /etc/shadow, (which has not rw permissions for users ... try cat /etc/shadow). Now, I have a question to you: How is it possible, users can change their password ? The right answer is: Due to set uid/gid mechanism. ( run ls -l /bin/passwd) Right, /bin/passwd *is* suid and can write to the passwd file. So, is it a problem on your linux (where you are root) to copy some program (e.g. /bin/cat, but the best your own statically linked prog to new directory, and set uid flag on it? No ! (man chmod, if yes) Yes, it is. Setting the suid flag on a file makes it run as the owner of the file, which will not be root unless root created the file and set the suid flag. Linux doesn't allow the giving away of files (user chowning files to another user), but even so, a user writing to or changing flags on a suid file not owned by them will clear the suid flag. Now just make an iso image with Rock Ridge extension from that directory and copy (man scp) it to the system you like to crack ... If you can mount just anything (without restrictions, which are setable in /etc/fstab), mount it and ride your Trojan horse like this: path_to_your_mount_dir/cat /etc/shadow The 'user' flag to mount will clear the suid file on a mounted file system. And it'd obviously be a Bad Idea to allow users to mount disks as root! However, most systems have fstab entries for the floppy and CD drives which use the user flag to mount. If physical disks are OK, then what's wrong with disk images? Is it clear now ? If not, try it ... but on your own risk, I am not responsible for any damage! It doesn't work, for reasons I've outlined above. Unless you've somehow managed to get root to set some flags for you, in which case the system is as good as compromised anyway. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:46:51 -0800, Spider muttered: snip if you however allow me to mount /tmp/my.iso /mnt/loop iso9660 loop,user 0 0 and then allow me to mount that, and I can replace my.iso, its enough to have software access to my.iso to be able to crack your machine, and do it quite well. How'd that work? I don't see how being able to mount an arbitrary ISO would translate into a security risk, unless: a security-related program reads from /mnt/loop, in which case the use of a disk image doesn't directly cause problems -- it's the fact that the program uses an untrustable file as a data source. A buggy filesystem could also possibly cause errors, but only if there exist serious kernel errors that don't detect corrupt file systems. as for user disabling suid that isn't the case, you can have both user and suid on the same mountpoint. Yes, but user implicitly sets nosuid, and that's how it _should_ be used. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 06:29:35 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: - snip - Well, the problem is that you can only mount an image as a user if the image and mountpoint are specified in the fstab. I still don't know why mount (or the kernel or something) can't start allowing mounts of a file readable by a user over a directory the user owns... :-) :-) :-) ... security reason ! If you like to allow your users to mount just anything, (doesn't matter in which dir) it's the same, like give them root password ... never heard about Trojan horse ? :-) PS. it's typical question of people who use windblowz (where security issues were made by diletants, if at all), but know nothing about unix security ... Not a security problem if you require that user loopback mounts be mounted user (like the fstab option). Darwin runs user mounts this way with no resulting security issues. And I haven't used Windows seriously in the last five or six years. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Add new user with a specif password in script
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:41:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered: Hello. What command(s) should I use in order to add a new user to my system (from a bash script) and specify a default (not null) password for this user? I see that the command useradd does have the -p passwd option, but the passwd should be encrypted, as returned by crypt(3). Then how can I obtain the encrypted password? Any clues? Two possible solutions: 1. don't set a password with useradd; just run passwd after adding the user 2. set the password for one user, read the crypted password out of /etc/shadow (as root), then use that as input to useradd -p 3. python script below (call it anything _except_ crypt) #!/usr/bin/python2.2 import crypt, getpass hash = crypt.crypt(getpass.default_getpass(), xy) # salt print Hash:, hash -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting an ISO image problems
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:38:01 -0800, Norbert Kamenicky muttered: Stephen Boulet wrote: 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 I have seen the advices you received, and have another solution: just add a line to /etc/fstab and put user option to options column The complete line can look like this: path_to/bootcd.iso /mnt iso9660 noauto,user,loop 0 0 and any user can mount it, there is no need to be root :-) Well, the problem is that you can only mount an image as a user if the image and mountpoint are specified in the fstab. I still don't know why mount (or the kernel or something) can't start allowing mounts of a file readable by a user over a directory the user owns... -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] copy/paste using mouse keyboard
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:19:11 -0800, Ernie Schroder muttered: On Friday 07 November 2003 08:05 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:56, Ernie Schroder wrote: This works for me. # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice Option ChordMiddle EndSection OK, tried it, but no change. Thanks though -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If the mouse had a scroll wheel on the middle button, you might try changing the protocol to IMPS/2. I'm not certain how ChordMiddle would work on PS/2 but I would suppose that if you have 3 button emulation set, pressing both buttons at once would paste. HTH I think the option you want is Emulate3Buttons. ChordMiddle is a Logitech extension -- not what you want. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Word wrap non-html
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 07:32:52 -0800, Hall Stevenson muttered: ...I used to use Mutt and it did. Two config file options dealt with html-formatted messages and non-wrapped lines: text/html; lynx -dump %s ; copiousoutput set smart_wrap Hmm... where do you put the text/html line? Stuffing it into .muttrc doesn't work for me... -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD for HPPA?
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:28:01 -0800, Brian Downey muttered: Hey folks... I have the once, maybe twice in a lifetime chance to try and install Linux (Gentoo, of course!) on an HP 9000/V2600. For those not aware of what a V-class is... think 32gb of RAM, 16 CPU PA-RISC powerhouse that's the size of a freezer. After Linux is on it, it's running [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a few days :) The ESIEE site claims that the V-class is unsupported/untested, but I'm gonna try anyway. Question is... anyone know where I can download the HPPA Live CD? I've dug through a few mirrors and only found x86 and PPC...? There probably isn't one. My advice would be to look for *any* kind of Linux distribution for the HP9000 and see if you can boot from that. After you've got some sort of Linux running, *then* you can try to make it Gentoo. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using new kernel versions
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:02:50 -0800, Jordan Elver muttered: snip, in regard to 2.6.x Do I need to re-emerge ati-drivers? I thought it would use the same modules as th other kernel as listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? Yes -- 2.6 uses a different module format than 2.4. I don't know if the ebuild can make new-format modules yet, though. Try it and see if it works? (And aren't most of the ATI drivers available in the kernel anyway?) -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:32:31 -0800, Brian Doob muttered: I'm trying to get IPTables to work under Gentoo (to connect my Linux PDA (with USB ethernet) to the net). This is what happens when I try to use IPTables: snip # CONFIG_FILTER is not set There's your answer... -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 15:27:09 -0800, Brian Doob muttered: Changing that didn't seem to fix my problem. Hmm. Try re-emerging iptables? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:05:16 -0800, Rick [Kitty5] muttered: What do people do / recommend for backing up? I rsync my $HOME to a secondary hard disk. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:24:35 -0800, MadMax muttered: Can you share the script/crontab etc you use to accomplish this? The script follows. Note that I'm just synchronizing some directories from my $HOME -- stuff left sitting in there won't get synchronized (though one could probably fix this pretty easily). (The crontab line is: 30 5 * * * $HOME/bin/sync-stuff so it'll run every day at 05:30) #!/bin/zsh # location to back up to LOC=/mnt/backup/andfarm-home # list of directories to back up BACKUP='bin MozillaFirebird doc evolution cdev' cd $HOME # Back up dotfiles echo Backing up dotfiles rsync -a --delete .* $LOC # Back up other important stuff (except MP3s) for x in `echo $BACKUP` echo Backing up $x rsync -a --delete --delete-excluded --exclude /doc/mp3** $x $LOC echo Backup/sync process complete -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel bug on shutdown (umount segfault)
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:10:37 -0800, Eamon Caddigan muttered: kernel BUG at inode.c:1105! invalid operand: ... /sbin/rc: line 141: 7079 Segmentation fault umount -a -r -n -t nodevfs,noproc,nosysfs,notmpfs /dev/null I suppose that means that umount is segfaulting. I've STFW'ed, and only found a similar error on the kernel mailing list, and one reply claimed that it was fixed in 2.4.20-pre11. Apparently not -- I'm using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8 Actually, it means that the *kernel* is segfaulting at unmount. Yikes. Try a 2.4.22+ kernel and see if it persists? (OT: How the heck does the shell manage to spit out a segmentation-fault message after a kernel panic?) -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] More disk performance data
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:48:09 -0800, Matt Garman muttered: I haven't studied the results too closely yet. I just thought I'd post them and maybe generate some interesting discussion. My first impression is that ext3 (apparently) eats up the processor, at least compared to FFS (which I think is non-journaling). Unless FFS has changed significantly since I last heard of it, it's non-journalling. FFS was created well before journaling became a consideration. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH over vpn gives problem
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:38:36 -0800, Anupam Kapoor muttered: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) writes: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:53:27 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered: From the computer you are connecting from run xhost + server_your_connecting_to as whatever user started X. No, no, NO!!! Host-based authentication is *bad*. Use ssh -X to do X11 forwarding over SSH. Encryption is *good*. and -C for compression, which is even better !!! Compression is only a Good Thing when you're running over a slow connection -- if you're running over a fast connection, it'll just slow you down. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gaim
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:58:37 -0800, Selentek 24331-03 muttered: Is it possible to have a blink buddy icon when message arrive. I don't want to get pop-up window with message to reply. I think there's a plugin to do this in gaim 0.6 and later. Unfortunately, it also mutes the message-arrival sound until you open the window... -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] squid
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:06:48 -0800, Jeffrey Smelser muttered: Your always going to get a speed boost as far as the web sites you frequent a lot.. These images will be saved in squid and you won't need to download them again.. Actually, with a slow last-hop, you'd want to run squid behind the dial-up gateway. Squid caches the files, but you'd still be reloading them every time you revisited the site with this configuration. It just all depends.. It depends on the pages you go to and how much squid can cache of it.. I use it more for a logging perspective and anything going through port 80 must go through squid. I just figured out how to use Webmin to change this. The reason I setup Squid is because I'm dialing-in to a server that's running on a partial T1. Right now, I have the server NAT'ing my connections out to the internet. I'm hoping to get a bit of a speed boost by using a proxy on the server instead. Am I wrong here? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome/Mozilla install problem
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:09:39 -0800, Spider muttered: As you see in the message, you need to run : export USE=gtk2 emerge mozilla Uh, no. That'll emerge all the following packages with gtk2 as well, which could cause havoc with packages that don't have gtk2 100% ready yet. You'd want to do something more like USE=gtk2 emerge mozilla perhaps. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink question
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:14:51 -0800, Rodney Arne Karlsen muttered: From what I have read, prelinking speeds up the start up of aplications. Does prelinking speed up the rest of the app after startup? No. Prelinking just speeds up the initial launch. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge system prob
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:28:30 -0800, James Ferguson muttered: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -mcpu=athlon -03 -pipe -yet_exec ) works no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. -yet_exec?! I don't think that's a valid flag. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH over vpn gives problem
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:53:27 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered: From the computer you are connecting from run xhost + server_your_connecting_to as whatever user started X. No, no, NO!!! Host-based authentication is *bad*. Use ssh -X to do X11 forwarding over SSH. Encryption is *good*. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Need libgd with gif support
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 03:15:08 -0700, Denny Schierz muttered: I need libgd with the gif support. I emerged giflib, but it doesn't work, so emerged libungif, nothing changed. How can i complie libgd with gif support? Do make sure to emerge libgd again. Also note that you will probably need +gif or some such in your USE flags. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Security bugs in Gentoo ?
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:36:28 -0700, SMS WebMaster muttered:
I have Gentoo 1.4 (updated) in my laptop and I executed the commands :
/usr/bin/find / -type f \( -perm -2 -o -perm -20 \)-exec ls -lg {}
\; 2/dev/null writable.txt
/usr/bin/find / -type d \( -perm -2 -o -perm -20 \) -exec ls -ldg {}
\; 2/dev/null writable.txt
/usr/bin/find / -type f \( -perm -004000 -o -perm -002000 \) -exec ls
-lg {} \; 2/dev/null suidfiles.txt
You shouldn't be checking for -perm -20. This specifies group-writable
files, which are safe.
-rw-rw-r--1 games 0 Oct 12 23:05
/var/lib/games/gnotski.7.scores
...
Normal. Games need to be SUID (dangerous!) or have these files set
world-writable to save scores properly.
-rw-rw1 mysql1064 Sep 18 07:12
/var/lib/mysql/Programming/CodeLibrary.MYD
...
Looks fine to me. It isn't world-writable, so it's safe.
-rw-rw-r--1 utmp 2436096 Oct 19 06:14 /var/log/wtmp
...more group-writable files in /var/log -- this one MUST be set
group-writable to get it to be updated properly...
-rw-rw-r--1 portage 276 Feb 13 2003
/var/cache/edb/dep/x11-plugins/gkrellsun-0.2
...portage group-writable files are OK, I would think...
-rw-rw-r--1 root 4909 Aug 19 16:41
...and more group-writable files. All safe.
Should I report this bug to Gentoo bugzilla ??
No.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nautilus sound preview
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:43:33 -0700, genttin muttered: I think I am getting closer to the core now... I have searched through other forums and found others facing the same problem suggested to disable the system sound to gain back the sound preview function. I tried and it really works but... It reveals to me that nautilus sound preview is trying to output sound through oss ( in my system ) but /dev/dsp is being occupied by system sound which is using esd. Therefore, my question now is how can I alter nautilus to output through esd, i.e. add esdsink support in gstreamer ( I have merged esound but only get osssink in gstreamer ) or the other way round force system sound to output through oss? esddsp nautilus (though getting this to work with sessions may require that you write some wrapper scripts) -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vi errors as root
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:51:55 -0700, zzd muttered: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I run vi as root I get the output below. I do not get these errors when using sudo or as a normal user. Any ideas why this started happening? E575: viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: b0VIM 6.2 Looks like you've somehow managed to get a corrupted /root/.viminfo -- delete it and the problems will probably go away. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: power pc simulator and mac on linux
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:11:54 -0700, Lotas Smartman muttered: right. i have a question about something. im always looking to try get a powerpc emulator, but never found one. now, there is a powerpc simulator. not 100% sure the difference of a simulator and a emulator, but anyway. the simulator will run linux power pc apps under linux on an i386. my question is has anyone played with this yet? could it run mac on linux fast enough to run mac os under it? it would be pretty sweet to play with, and a fairly normal(ish) machine now would, or at least i think they could, run it fast enough. i hope. any one tried this? As far as I know, there are currently no functional PowerPC [sim|em]ulators that run under x86 machines. There's MOL (Mac-On-Linux), but that only runs under PPC machines. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firebird extensions
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:36:52 -0700, Andrew Kirilenko muttered: Hello! I'm wondering is it possible to install any extensions for firebird 0.6.1. The first thing I have tried is installing extension simply clicking xpi link in the browser. And it told me that I don't have permissions to do this. I have tried to do this via root (it's really not good) and it installed it correctly and I even can access it, but only while running firebird as root. More, after some experiments I have totally broked firebird (luckely, I have backuped /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird). Copy /opt/firebird (or wherever MozillaFirebird installs to) to your home directory. Run it from there. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:03:14 -0700, Lotas T Smartman muttered: has anyone tired to get iTunes running on Linux yet? will wine or winex run it? any one tried yet? i have fallen in love with iTunes in just over 3 days and now im moving to linux tomorrow. i would like to bring my new toy with me. I haven't tried it myself (as I've got a real Mac to run iTunes on), but I've read that the install crashes under Wine. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa with TS2 and AAO and es1371
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:17:13 -0700, Alex Nelson muttered: Has anyone had any luck with running multiple applications accessing the sound card under ALSA with an es1371 card? I am trying to get TeamSpeak 2 and Americas Army to run at the same time. I run TeamSpeak and then AAO and AAO complains that it can't open /dev/sound/dsp. Anyone out there solved this without two sound cards? I'm not using Alsa, but I have in the past. You'll have to use some sort of real sound mixer program to get multiple programs to multiplex the card. Try using esd (ulch!) with esddsp. (esddsp program1; esddsp program2) -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop Session Saving
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:41:05 -0700, Matt Neimeyer muttered: How do I stop the session manager in Gnome 2.4 from remembering anything? I want each session to start with nothing open no matter what I was doing last time. I've tried save-session enabled with nothing open followed by un-selecting save-session in the hopes of the last saved session having nothing... I've tried other mixtures of enabled and disabled session saving and nothing seems to work. Log out of GNOME2, log in to a console, and edit your $HOME/.gnome2/session to remove all programs you don't want to open at startup. Retain numbering starting at 0, and change the num_clients setting at the end. Log back into GNOME2 and open the Sessions control panel. Remove the setting to save settings at logout. This ought to fix things for you. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms and gnome?
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:02:16 -0700, Abilio Carvalho muttered: Why do I make emerge -p xmms and see a lot of Gnome 1 libraries? Even ~x86 doesn't help. I'm forced to USE=-gnome to be able to install it... Are there plans for a Gnome-2 based xmms ebuild? As far as I know, XMMS doesn't yet support GTK+2/GNOME2. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] updating portage broke portage
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:31:21 -0700, Lewis Powell muttered: I just installed the new portage update, and the result is this output from any portage command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ultraman $ emerge -p world Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 10, in ? import emergehelp,xpak,string,re,commands,time,shutil,traceback,atexit,signal File /usr/lib/portage/bin/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? from output import * ImportError: No module named output The only thing I can think of that might be a problem is that I upgraded to python 2.3, and then I remember running some program that updated portage to use python 2.3. Is is possible that I need to rerun that program, and if so, what is it? This is probably the problem. Portage does *not* work with Python 2.3 yet, and AFAIK, any patches to make it work are unofficial. I guess the new Portage probably broke the patch -- I'd suggest you roll back to Python 2.2 and wait for an official release. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] possible to routing ssh connection to a different shell?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:47:25 -0700, Andrew Gaffney muttered: Look for a line similar to this in your /etc/passwd that has the user's name. agaffney:x:1000:100::/home/agaffney:/bin/bash Change the last part (/bin/bash) to the full path of your program. Be sure to add the full path of your program to /etc/shells also. You do know about ssh -t host command? -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] possible to routing ssh connection to a different shell?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:25:33 -0700, Christian Schäfer muttered: hi Andrew, You do know about ssh -t host command? no, I don't think so. tell me. ;-) Try 'ssh -t host /bin/sh'. It'll give you a login shell (with /bin/sh) even if your $SHELL is set to something like /bin/false. In short, there's really no way (that I know of, at least) to keep a user from getting a login shell as long as they have an account. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] glibc won't install locales, and make check fails
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:48:21 -0700, spiff.devotion muttered:
I've been having a problem with glibc not installing any locales for a
longer period of time now. It all started when glibc was upgraded from
2.3.1-r4 to 2.3.2-r1. I've tried emerging glibc a few times to no avail.
Last time I emerged I noticed that iconvconfig dies on execution
(whatever relevance this might have.) The last few lines of an strace
shows this:
gettimeofday({1065835459, 393102}, NULL) = 0
getpid()= 3741
open(/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache.S2AjmY, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
0600) = 3
brk(0) = 0x8081000
brk(0x8084000) = 0x8084000
brk(0) = 0x8084000
brk(0x8085000) = 0x8085000
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
Looks like you're getting bitten by the OOM killer: your system's probably
running out of memory if processes are dying at brk(). Make sure you have
virtual memory turned on.
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