Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird/Thunderbird
This is a bug in gtk2, remove gtk2 USE flag recompile mozilla and you are fine. - Original Message - From: Cristiano Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:35 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird/Thunderbird -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Substitute for Kdevelop
Why did it suck :-) - Original Message - From: Jakub Krajcovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Substitute for Kdevelop -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables error
Emerge iptables again. - Original Message - From: Catalin Constantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:28 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] iptables error i get the following error when trying to add an iptables rule. /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod ip_tables failed iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. gentoo root # epm -qf /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/ vanilla-sources-2.4.22 any hints ? thank you ! -- Catalin Constantin Bounce Software www.bounce-software.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa sound not great
- Original Message - From: Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] alsa sound not great After switching alsa for the sound system, their's a lot of noise when I play musi, sometimes it's only noise and I have to restart the app. I've tried multiple players, but all suffer the same problem. I'm wondering if this is a problem with alsa or is it because I didn't enable the alsa use flag before and I need to recompile the apps? If alsa is not compiled in , then usually you cannot select alsa as audio output. Did you set alsa as output driver in your sound apps? Mplayer xmms for example have it in their preferences Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa sound not great
- Original Message - From: Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa sound not great After switching alsa for the sound system, their's a lot of noise when I play musi, sometimes it's only noise and I have to restart the app. I've tried multiple players, but all suffer the same problem. I'm wondering if this is a problem with alsa or is it because I didn't enable the alsa use flag before and I need to recompile the apps? If alsa is not compiled in , then usually you cannot select alsa as audio output. Did you set alsa as output driver in your sound apps? Mplayer xmms for example have it in their preferences I'm currently using beep-media-player. I checked the preferences and only see oss_plugin as an option (after recompiling it). I see no such option for juk. Would arts need to be recompiled? Arts can use alsa as output driver, but using arts to play songs through alsa is still no good, I recommend to install alsa-xmms and use xmms, you can even use winamp2 skins with xmms. If you want to use arts with alsa, then you need to recomplie arts now. Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] D-link usb wireless adapter
You can try acx100.sourceforge.net I'm not sure how well this driver works with the usb-adapter but support for the 120+ was added in pre5 I'm using the driver with a 520+ and kernel 2.6 and 2.4. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] D-link usb wireless adapter Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to use a D-link (dwl-120+) USB wireless apdaptor with gentoo?, and how to install it. TIA Patrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: svgalib on 2.6 headers
I already submitted to bugzilla:-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37812 I just updated the patch, since I had a little bug in it, so now the patch should work fine, until the patch is in the ebuild, just edit the ebuild add the epatch line and trow the patch into the distfiles directory. - Original Message - From: Miklos Bagi Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:58 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: svgalib on 2.6 headers Hello, Oh boy oh boy, I had to change a couple of lines now in order to avoid redifinition of some structs and defines in those source and header files. Would you be so kind to make a patch available or share your changes with the public? :o) hm? ;o) pleez ;P So compiling svgalib is now working on my box , with headers 2.6 installed :-) Great, I'd love that too :P MBJr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone interested in a fix compiling XFree86 with headers 2.6.0???
I just managed to compile my xfree 4.3.0-r3 with linux-headers 2.6 it needs a patch and a little modificatio in the ebuild. If anyone is interested I'm going to post it here, I already saw a bug report at bugzilla I will also add my fix to bugzilla as soon as I find my bugzilla password :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem running vmware after install
Mmmmh, have you tried after a reboot? Make sure vmware is added to runlevel default! - Original Message - From: Adrian Pirciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem running vmware after install -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 19:19, SN wrote: Did you run vmware-config.pl as root!! of course, otherwise I would get Please re-run this program as the super user. Yes, it completed all the questions. All of them. twice even. The modules are ok, i loaded them. other ideas ? And did it complete all the questions? - Original Message - From: Adrian Pirciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:24 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] problem running vmware after install I've just merged vmware (4.0.5-6030), i've run vmware-config.pl, but when I try to run vmware, the following message appears. VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run vmware-config.pl. For more information, please read file INSTALL in the VMware Workstation documentation directory. and nothing. Any ideas ? the modules were built correctly, they are loaded, everything's fine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- - - Adrian Pirciu - Senior IP Engineer CCNA - Registered Linux User #189176 - LFS User #10079 Romania Data Systems - Bucharest NOC Tel. +4021-30.10.850, Fax. +4021-30.10.851 http://www.rdsnet.ro/ - - Public key: http://air.rdsnet.ro/adixor.gpg - - Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message If you are not the addressee indicated in this message or responsible for delivery of the message to such person, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABtHFHMw8JJ+r9ucRAnOdAJ9Nu0K9zzxs5TJ0EMHSmLRGiOO3WACgmc86 lpSGQtGuIsz4Bo8sVB8PBkM= =hWwj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone interested in a fix compiling XFree86 with headers 2.6.0???
- Original Message - From: Frank J. Mattia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone interested in a fix compiling XFree86 with headers 2.6.0??? I just managed to compile my xfree 4.3.0-r3 with linux-headers 2.6 it needs i have always been a little unsure about what the purpose was to upgrade your linux-headers.. it seems like that should be something you do everytime they're upgraded but apparently people still use old ones... what needs to be done after you emerge them.. do they overwrite the existing ones or do they get another folder..etc.. -Frank The old ones get deinstalled and the new one installed. The purpose of kernel headers is: glibc and xfree use kernel functions, those are defined in the kernel-headers therefore you need these headers to compile those apps, usually you don't always need kernel headers that math the running kernel, as long as there are no big changes in kernel functions, but for example a jump from 2.4 to 2.6 will introduce lots of new functions and if xfree or glibc wants to make use of them you need to upgrade them, for example if you want to compile glibc with nptl you need the new headers, since kernel2.6 introduced support for nptl. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib on 2.6 headers
I'm still compiling the last couple of kde packages, but I'll check what's wrong with svgalib after those are done. - Original Message - From: Jani-Matti Hätinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] svgalib on 2.6 headers Hiya Has anyone been able to get svgalib to compile on 2.6 headers? There's a bug filed on it as well as a forum thread, but neither of those have a solution. -- Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib on 2.6 headers
Just tried to compile it, no way, svgalib currently doesn't compile with 2.6 headers, I had a quick look at the include files and bingo it is not ready to be compiled with 2.6 headers, so Ville you definitely didn't have 2.6 headers installed :-) I see if I've got some time left to make the neccessary changes - Original Message - From: Ville Leskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib on 2.6 headers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 21:49, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: Hiya Has anyone been able to get svgalib to compile on 2.6 headers? There's a bug filed on it as well as a forum thread, but neither of those have a solution. There's svgalib-1.9.17-r3 ebuild(still masked ~arch) in the portage that applies a patch to make it work with 2.6 kernels. Using it here with 2.6.1-mm2 and it's working great. - -- - -Ville Leskinen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABvs9goR0Vryv7LYRAkxFAKDccj7YeuPg1pf82Y99J3jQF6HVEACgoAaz QH0V9FSx577KrxVhPX9k6xA= =Srhu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] svgalib on 2.6 headers
Oh boy oh boy, I had to change a couple of lines now in order to avoid redifinition of some structs and defines in those source and header files. So compiling svgalib is now working on my box , with headers 2.6 installed :-) - Original Message - From: Jani-Matti Hätinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] svgalib on 2.6 headers Hiya Has anyone been able to get svgalib to compile on 2.6 headers? There's a bug filed on it as well as a forum thread, but neither of those have a solution. -- Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge svgalib-1.9.17-r3 fails INCLUDEDIR wrong.
Since I was just hacking around with svgalib, I saw there is already a patch in svgalib-1.9.17-r3 which should correct this. So it looks like there is either something wrong with your install or the patch doesn't work for you. I compiled it earlier on with linux-headers 2.4.23 and didn't have any problem with it What linux-headers have you got installed? P.S. I just patched my svgalib in order to be able to compile with linux-headers-2.6.0 - Original Message - From: Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:52 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge svgalib-1.9.17-r3 fails INCLUDEDIR wrong. Hey all, just did an emerge sync to catch up with the arts package checksum, and did an emerge -uD world. It died on svgalib saying INCLUDEDIR not set up correctly. What should I set it to? Is this a bug in the make file I should report or is this something I failed to do? Cooper. ###begin svglib error### gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libvga.so.1 \ -Xlinker --retain-symbols-file -Xlinker ../src/exports \ -o libvga.so.1.9.17 vga.o vgaio.o vgadraw.o vgaclear.o vgaline.o vgapix.o vgap al.o vgacol.o vgamodesel.o vgamisc.o vgadump.o vgaconvplanar.o vgaaccel.o timing o vgaregs.o interface.o accel.o vgapci.o vga_helper.o vga_console.o vgarelvgaio o vgammvgaio.o vgacursor.o vganullio.o mouse/mouse.o joystick/joystick.o keyboa rd/keyboard.o ramdac/ramdac.o ramdac/normal.o ramdac/attdacs.o ramdac/sierra.o r amdac/icw.o ramdac/s3dacs.o ramdac/IBMRGB52x.o ramdac/ics_gendac.o clockchip/icd 2061a.o vgadrv.o regextr.o modetab.o drivers/cirrus.o drivers/tvga8900.o drivers /trident.o drivers/s3.o drivers/ark.o drivers/ali.o drivers/chips.o drivers/apm. o drivers/vesa.o lrmi.o drivers/nv3.o drivers/savage.o drivers/g400.o drivers/pm 2.o drivers/millennium.o drivers/r128.o drivers/mx.o drivers/paradise.o drivers/ rage.o drivers/banshee.o drivers/sis.o drivers/i740.o drivers/i810.o drivers/lag una.o drivers/et6000.o drivers/neo.o drivers/fbdev.o drivers/rendition.o -lm make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.17-r3/work/svgalib-1.9.1 7/src' make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.17-r3/work/svgalib-1.9. 17/threeDKit' rm -f lib3dkit.a ar rcs lib3dkit.a make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.17-r3/work/svgalib-1.9.1 7/threeDKit' make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.17-r3/work/svgalib-1.9. 17/kernel/svgalib_helper' Makefile:10: *** INCLUDEDIR is not set up correctly. Stop. make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.17-r3/work/svgalib-1.9.1 7/kernel/svgalib_helper' !!! ERROR: media-libs/svgalib-1.9.17-r3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 52, Exitcode 2 !!! Failed to build kernel module! ###end svgalib error### -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What kind of filesystem encryption options are available in portage?
Bestcrypt is very easy just emerge it read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/bestcrypt.. on how to create containers and format the container. - Original Message - From: Brenden Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] What kind of filesystem encryption options are available in portage? I'm searching portage now, but I suspect it may be hard to find all the options. What I'd like is fairly simple encryption of selected filesystems for my laptop.. I looked into doing the loopback bit, boy does that appear to be a headache I just want to keep the casual thief outta my data, without having to manually encrypt and unencrypt. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] run /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 as regular user?
Just install sudo and create an entry for your users so he can either start stop net.ppp0 with or without password, there is a tutorial about sudo on the gentoo doc webpages. - Original Message - From: Aaron E. Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:04 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] run /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 as regular user? Hi, I've configured ltmodem and the net.ppp0 script to connect to the Internet (on a laptop with built-in modem that hasn't worked on many --any-- distros, but works beautifully with Gentoo!). Is there a way to connect as a regular user? This is for a relatively non-technical user so I'd like to provide him an icon to connect. Changing permissions on just the init script obviously doesn't get me too far and sudo sort of defeats the purpose of simplicity. Thanks for your thoughts, Aaron E. Klemm Axiom Open Solutions -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE printing doesn't work with qt 3.2
Haven't had any problems with kde 3.1.4 and qt 3.2.3, maybe your compile flags are too agressive. Did you recompile all the kde apps after emerging qt? - Original Message - From: Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:03 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE printing doesn't work with qt 3.2 I found out that on my system kde printing doesn't work with the latest stable release of qt. It hangs the application. This even happens when trying to print to a pdf file. However when recompiling everything with qt 3.1 everything works fine. There are no problems with printing outside of KDE, like openoffice. Is there anyone knowing what the problem is, I thought KDE 3.1.4 worked with qt 3.2 and otherwise the depency in the ebuild shouldn't be qt 3.1. Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates
- Original Message - From: Mickey Mullin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates SN wrote: As soon as gentoo starts to create scripts for any crap I switch again to another distro, the advantage of not having tools for anything is, that those tools can't break. Look at Suse RedHat Mandrake, 30% of their bugs come from the tools they wrote. Having tools available doesn't mean that you are required to use them. I don't use RedHat any more, but when I *was*, I would edit configuration files by hand rather than use the tools provided with the distro. One, I don't like installing a GUI on a server (it seems that the graphical configuration tools are better known in later RH versions). Two, if I have to first find and then read about a tool that simply writes text to a file, I'd rather edit the file by hand. I find that easier. (Finding distro-specific config tools is much more difficult on a CLI, since you can't just browse to System Tools in the application menu.) However, there are probably hundreds or thousands of people using those tools in place of file editing. Seriously, do you still append users to the end of /etc/passwd with vi, or do you use useradd? (I do both, depending on circumstances.) Well there are already lots of distros out there, that can satisfy the need for guid tools and people that are looking for a windows like config use mandrake or suse. Just ask Gentoo users why they switched, it is definitely not because they wanted everything done with tools. mickey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rsync-2.6.0 ?
- Original Message - From: Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/rsync-2.6.0 ? On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:04, Joshua Banks wrote: When I emerged net-misc/rsync-2.6.0 it says: * * Please make sure you do NOT disable the rsync server running * in a chroot. Please check /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf and make sure * it says: use chroot = yes * This patch enables usage of user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port * in the RSYNC_PROXY environment variable to support * the Basic proxy authentication scheme if you are * behind a password protected HTTP proxy. * But when I look in /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rsync $ cat rsyncd.conf # Minimal configuration file for rsync daemon # See rsync(1) and rsyncd.conf(5) man pages for help # This line is required by the /etc/init.d/rsyncd script pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid ** Is it safe to assume that I only add use chroot = yes When I'm behind a password protected HTTP proxy like it says? Or am I missing something other than the obvious? Don't know about that, but since you don't have a use chroot = yes statement in /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf it defaults to yes (see man rsyncd.conf). Exactly and secondly, if you don't have rsync daemon added to the runlevels, rsync daemon isn't even running, most people don't have the daemon running, but only use the rsync client for emerge. Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sdl issues
recompile the programm you are using to watch the video. - Original Message - From: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] sdl issues i just upgraded sdl, and now it says: Error: I could not initialize video! The Simple DirectMedia error that occured was: No available video device how to solve? thanks! -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] failure to compile gcc-3.2.3-r3
I'd say some bad links or config files of the current gcc install. I'd boot with the live cd chroot into the installed system and then emerge gcc again. - Original Message - From: Sascha Cunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] failure to compile gcc-3.2.3-r3 hi folks, after doing an emerge sync and emerge system on a freshly installed gentoo, compiling gcc fails with this error: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc/xgcc -B/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/b in/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -c -DSkip_f2c_Undefs -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/libf2c/libF77 -I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/libf2c/libF77/.. -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DIEEE_drem=1 -DSkip_f2c_Undefs=1 -DIEEE_COMPLEX_DIVIDE=1 -O2 -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/libf2c/libF77/d_cos.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/d_cos.o xgcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations make[3]: *** [d_cos.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libf2c/libF77' make[2]: *** [f77] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libf2c' make[1]: *** [all-target-libf2c] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build' make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 411, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) This is on a box of a friend of mine. On all my systems it works just fine. What could be the cause for this problem? Regards Sascha -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] samba filesharing problems
Could ne network issue or firewall issue, do you run any firewalls on these two boxes? - Original Message - From: Brendan Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 8:40 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] samba filesharing problems Hello everyoneHere's another fun problem i can't pin down... When I try to pull/put files from my samba shares on my linux box from my XP box, sometimes it will pull a partial file, or a few files, and then a partial...and then stalls and gives me an error. Trying to move the same files to the same places from the linux box is *more* reliable, but sometimes it still times out or something and i have to cancel the operation and restart it. I know everyone here loves windows ;) but does anyone have any ideas? I dont know how to tell if it's samba that's the issue, or if it's Micro$hit's wonderful explorer that's screwing things up. I've tried recompiling samba (2.2.8a) and run testparm on my smb.conf file to make sure it doesn't see anything wrong. Not exactly sure how else to test to see if it's on the window's end of things, and i dont have any other linux or windows machine's i can test with. Is it possibly a network issue? Everything is set up DHCP with a router controlling IP assignments. However, all other network related operations seem to be functioning normally (d/l's from internet, IM, email etc etc) TIA for any ideas. -- Brendan Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking
- Original Message - From: Tom Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 4:42 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking Hi, I recently got a new machine, as some of you may remember from my FS post before xmas. The CPU I have is an AMD Athlon 2000+ and I'm running an Abit KD7A mobo. I can get the system to overclock no problem; I've had it as high as 1.8 Ghz(Stock speed is 1.67Ghz), but the system starts behaving abnormally then. When I push it to 1.725 ghz or 1.75 Ghz, the system behaves just as it should, but linux starts going screwy. I can never get past INIT running, it refuses to start any of my processes or mount the drives. Could this be just a fluke of overclocking and nothing I can do about it? Or is there a setting somewhere in the kernel? Thank you for any help. Tom The only thing you can get some more out of that machine without crashes etc is to set the vcore voltage higher. I have a Duron 850 running at 1100Mhz, that only went up to 950 with standard vcore, after raising vcore I was able to go up to 1100. Also make sre you have got good memory chips, if you don't have any good ones, don't tune them in bios. Just checkout some overclocking sites and you get lots of info on how to really overclock without loosing stability. I usually run 24h tests with 100%CPU time to make sure, that everything is ok. I used to do a lot of overclocking, my first overclocked box was a pentium 75 at 90Mhz, but nowadays I kind of lost interest in it, cpus are so fast lately and need quality coolers etc, years ago we build the cooling ourselves, now you pay $50 for a cooler, so it kind of got expensive without much benefit. My latest box(XP 2400+) is rather trimmed for silence, you can't hear my server at all, if you don't look at the lights, you won't know it is on or off. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X cpu usage
3d acceleration not working Have you tried to run: glx or glxgears, I'm not sure which one comes with your driver. If you have 3d support enabled you should see those moving gears - Original Message - From: D.Wilkening [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 4:33 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X cpu usage I have a question about X cpu-usage: Is it normal to have about 70% usage while watching tv or video on a 1 GHz PIII? No that is not normal, I run mplayer on a 400Mhz with a 8mb ati graphiccard, cpu usage there is only 40% while watching a divx in fullscreen. Any idea what could be the Reason? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Tip Winamp 2 Skins for XMMS
Just for those who didn't know, I found out today, that you can use winamp 2 skins *.wsz with xmms just download the for example at customize.org and throw them into your ~/.xmms/Skin dir and you can select them through skin browser. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking
- Original Message - From: edj [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird System Behavior after Overclocking On Sunday 04 January 2004 11:39 am, SN wrote: My latest box(XP 2400+) is rather trimmed for silence, you can't hear my server at all, if you don't look at the lights, you won't know it Mind giving any pointers as to how? Powersupply without fan but passive outside cooling fins, frozen-silicon: http://www.frozen-silicon.de/index.html?fid=310fpar=YToyOntzOjI6IklkIjtzOjQ6IjEwMTUiO3M6NDoicGNpZCI7czozOiIxNjUiO30%3DisSSL=0aps=0blub=4de8b7dbfed3f9cabb6150d41c20cbea + passive cpu cooler , big tower to have more air volume, harddisc silencer -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X cpu usage
- Original Message - From: D.Wilkening [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 5:08 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] X cpu usage Happy new year, listmembers! I have a question about X cpu-usage: Is it normal to have about 70% usage while watching tv or video on a 1 GHz PIII? No that is not normal, I run mplayer on a 400Mhz with a 8mb ati graphiccard, cpu usage there is only 40% while watching a divx in fullscreen. I use: Video-card: voodoo3 2000 PCI, Gnome, Driver: tdfx, Haupauge Wintv, Xine, Mplayer This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates
Well guys if you have a good solution, then bring it up to the developer, but writing a script for every shit and putting it into portage is not what I want, gentoo is still lean but mean, if you have problems with manually checking those kind of files after emerge, I think you are not using the right distro. I updated baselayout once, so I checked those files, I think it is no big deal, it even forces me to check if there were any changes or improvements. As soon as gentoo starts to create scripts for any crap I switch again to another distro, the advantage of not having tools for anything is, that those tools can't break. Look at Suse RedHat Mandrake, 30% of their bugs come from the tools they wrote. - Original Message - From: Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates SN wrote: - Original Message - From: Andy Arbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates Hello, I'm just wondering if anyone here knows if anything is being done with etc-update or the baselayout package to stop it pointlessly trying up update a load of configuration files that I'm never going to let it touch every time it is updated? It seems like baselayout's changed quite regularly recently (this is in the x86 branch) and every time it does I get asked to update: 1) /etc/DIR_COLORS 2) /etc/devfsd.conf 3) /etc/fstab 4) /etc/group 5) /etc/passwd 6) /etc/rc.conf 7) /etc/shadow 8) /etc/conf.d/net 9) /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Aside from rc.conf and maybe devfsd.conf I can't think of a single one of those that should ever be replaced or merged with a vanilla copy. In fact with most of them accidentally replacing the file with a vanilla one would be somewhere between an annoyance and a major headache. What if baselayout introduces a new group or user Think about it. In that case it should be done by script, which at first checks the presence of the new user and then adds it to the copy of existing system passwd file (if necessary). I am sorry, but I thing, that adding a new user by replaceing passwd file with new uniform passwd file (from baselayout), which do not fit to any configured system (except of just installed one) is a the most stupid way how it can be done. And I am sure that it's not only my opinion. Happy New Year to everybody! noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates
- Original Message - From: Andy Arbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates Hello, I'm just wondering if anyone here knows if anything is being done with etc-update or the baselayout package to stop it pointlessly trying up update a load of configuration files that I'm never going to let it touch every time it is updated? It seems like baselayout's changed quite regularly recently (this is in the x86 branch) and every time it does I get asked to update: 1) /etc/DIR_COLORS 2) /etc/devfsd.conf 3) /etc/fstab 4) /etc/group 5) /etc/passwd 6) /etc/rc.conf 7) /etc/shadow 8) /etc/conf.d/net 9) /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Aside from rc.conf and maybe devfsd.conf I can't think of a single one of those that should ever be replaced or merged with a vanilla copy. In fact with most of them accidentally replacing the file with a vanilla one would be somewhere between an annoyance and a major headache. What if baselayout introduces a new group or user Think about it. Is there anything that is/has being/been done about this? Thanks, Andy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] APM howto
Unresolved symbol usually means, that the module you are trying to load was not compiled on the currently started kernel. Reboot your machine and check dmesg output, to see if your kernel tries to load acpi or apm. - Original Message - From: Fabian Braennstroem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] APM howto Hello, I am trying that gentoo shut my computer off, when I switch to 'init 0'. Under Debian I just loaded the module 'apm' (which doesn't work under my gentoo: /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved symbol default_idle /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved symbol machine_real_restart /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: insmod apm failed ) I use the linux.2.4.22 standard-kernel with these configs: CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_APM=m # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y # # ACPI Support # CONFIG_ACPI=y # CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY is not set CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y # CONFIG_ACPI_AC is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_FAN is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML is not set Is that correct? I installed the 'acpi'-ebuild too, but I think I don't need that!? Could anybody give me an advice? Greetings! Fabian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] double account adsl howto
Thinking two seconds about it I'd say, seup first account. Then cp /etc/ppp to /etc/pppacount1 Setup account 2 and copy it to cp /etc/ppp to /etc/pppacount2 Now remove /etc/ppp and create a link: ln -s /etc/pppacount1 /etc/ppp Now you either create a lttle script or an alias the switches the links between pppaccount1 and pppaccount2 and runs adsl-start, There may be a some tool or script that already does this, but since I don't know one, that would be my first idea - Original Message - From: Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:35 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] double account adsl howto hi, I have 2 adsl accounts, how can I setup adsl with the 2 accounts? so, I can easily switch between each other. PLS help me . ~~~ China Cell Phone Rental http://www.pandaphone.com Start with Gentoo,Start with Freedom ~~~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?
I you have one machine, that acts as a router for the rest of the machines in the local network and if those machines only have private ipadresses like 192.168.1.10 then yes you need nat nat NAT what NAT does is to map local IP adresses and sockets to outgoing ip adresses and sockets., for example: - NAT Table box 2 insideppp0 remote machines 192.168.1.10:4000 -- 212.123.56.1:4000 www.gentoo.org When the data returns from www.gentoo.org the router 212.123.56 looks up the nat table and sends the data to box2. So to answer your question yes you need NAT unless you have public ips on those machines inside your network - Original Message - From: Ian Truelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:22 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.22 kernel and masq problem
You have to emerge iptables again !!! - Original Message - From: Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] 2.4.22 kernel and masq problem I just built the 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 kernel and am now having a problem with IP masquerading. It worked fine under 2.4.20-gentoo-r9, so I copied the .config from that version, ran make oldconfig, then make menuconfig and checked things. Now, when I'm running the 2.4.22 kernel I get an error on the following iptables command: # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j MASQUERADE iptables: Invalid argument If I leave off the -j MASQUERADE, I don't get the error. I show the following modules loaded (others deleted for brevity): ipt_MASQUERADE 1560 0 (autoclean) iptable_nat19832 5 [ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_irc ip_nat_amanda ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_ftp] ip_tables 12832 8 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_multiport ipt_state iptable_filter iptable_nat] ip_conntrack 22216 6 [ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_irc ip_nat_amanda ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_amanda ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_ftp ip Has anyone else had a problem with masquerading and 2.4.22? Any suggestions of what to look for? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources vs gs-sources
I would use vanilla with ck patches for a desktop system, it has got all the cool preempt low latency O1 seduler stuff in :-) - Original Message - From: Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:33 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources vs gs-sources The Gentoo Kernel Guide says gs is supposed to be more stable then gentoo-sources. How much more stable and reliable is the question or conversely, how much difference is there in performance. I'm running a desktop system used for programing, gaming, and audio work. What is the experience of those who have used both? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying to be hacked?
This is no worm, but some kiddy is using a simple security tool to check if he finds old IIS servers that aren't patched against those redirect and unicode vulnerabilities. Lots of kids out ther that use these tools :-) If it is a worm, then you usually have only one or two strange lines in there, but here you have the typical check for several vulnerabilities. - Original Message - From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] trying to be hacked? A week or so ago, I setup my cable router/firewall to forward port 80 to one of my machines so I could run Apache. Last night while at work, I checked to see if it worked, and it did. So just now, I went to check out the access_log and noticed some funny looking stuff, that doesnt look like normal activity snipped from /var/log/apache2/access_log 218.145.25.11 - - [28/Dec/2003:19:40:17 -0500] GET /scripts/nsiislog.dll HTTP/1.0 404 286 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:40 -0500] GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 282 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:41 -0500] GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 280 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:41 -0500] GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 290 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:41 -0500] GET /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 290 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:41 -0500] GET /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 304 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:41 -0500] GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 321 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:42 -0500] GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 321 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:42 -0500] GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/sy stem32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 337 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:42 -0500] GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 303 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:42 -0500] GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 303 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:42 -0500] GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 303 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:42 -0500] GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 303 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:43 -0500] GET /scripts/..%%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 400 294 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:43 -0500] GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 400 294 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:43 -0500] GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 304 - - 65.27.204.81 - - [28/Dec/2003:20:34:43 -0500] GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 304 - - 221.13.152.198 - - [30/Dec/2003:04:58:50 -0500] get /scripts/..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af/wi nnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c%20dir 501 336 - - is this someone trying to exploit apache? Thanks, Aaron -- /usr/bin/fortune says: A woman did what a woman had to, the best way she knew how. To do more was impossible, to do less, unthinkable. -- Dirisha, The Man Who Never Missed -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY
- Original Message - From: Gerhard W.Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:12:56 +0100, SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you know, if you wanted to get a developer's opinion, there IS a gentoo-devel list :-P this is gentoo-user... So you have to be on the developer list to be a developer? Funny very funny. No. But the attitude of the orignal poster is not exactly nice. Just because you need some advice it is not a good idea to crosspost to any ng/mailing list your mind can imagine. The argument of the OP is somewhat silly. Just because gentoo is (among others) written in C it is not the proper forum to asko for a C book. Actually I don' t mind such questions if they are not too much, but he argument is plain silly. With the same argument I can rationalize that I can ask about motherboards in comp.lang.c++. After all the language C++ requires some hardware to operate which means that it requires a motherboard wich means that is the proper ng to ask for motherboard stuff. Apart from that you probably get better answers if you ask in the right forum. Just because somebody posts to gentoo-user doesn' t make him a qualified C programmer who can give good advice about books or related stuff. So posting to gentoo-dev does make you a qualified C/C++ programmer Anyone who read a C book can give good advice, why do you have to be a developer to give such an advice, I am a professional developer, but I think also people who are not pros can give good advice, you don't have to be a pro to rate a book. Also most developers on the dev list probably haven't read a book about c++ in years and may not know all cool books that are around, so asking on this list is just as good as asking on the dev list. And he didn't want anything specific, if he asked about a book that covers sheduling in kernel or so he may be better off with dev list, but a general thing like a C book I think some people on this list think only newbies watch this list. This list is open for anyone as long as nobody is trying to cuase trouble. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL
- Original Message - From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NTPL Stefan Vunckx wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 04:04, Ani Adarsh wrote: hi ppl, I've been tryin and cant seem to find out how to enable NTPL in the 2.6 kernel ... I know it gotta be easy ... Somebody tell me how ... cheers Ani You don't have to enable it in the 2.6 kernel ... You have to recompile glibc WITH nptl support Bonx I have been wondering how this works when glibc is still using 2.4.x headers by default rather than 2.6 headers. If you want nptl you have to recompile glibc with installed 2.6 headers :-) Of course nptl has to be enabled through use flag 'nptl'. But I warn you not all apps support nptl, for example top doesn't show correct values anymore. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CD- recording
If you use kernel 2.4 you have to use ide-scsi emulation, did you enable ide-scsi in your bootloader? for examplein bootloader lilo: append=hdc=ide-scsi after that one needs to run k3bsetup. - Original Message - From: Goran Kavrecic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:00 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] CD- recording I have Gentoo 1.4 on my PC, an CD-R, installed k3b(with cdrecord beneath) but it does no recognize/find the burner. What to do? Regards, Goran -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running
crontab -e is your friend:-) - Original Message - From: Gerhard W.Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Daily job running On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:37:27 +, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can stick any jobs you wish to run on startup in /etc/conf.d/local.start, and conversly jobs to run on shutdown in /etc/conf.d/local.stop Yes. but as I said it will be run everytime I reboot, yes? Of course if this is the only option, then I have to do this, but it would be great if I can limit it to the same day. I could write a small script that checks if it is the same day, but if something already exists I would prefer using this. :) -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] font question
Set the font patch in /etc/X11/XF86Config Just add another line: FontPath /pathtoyourfonts - Original Message - From: JurLan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 6:54 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] font question Hi all .. I looked around the net a bit but did not find an answer that satisfied my needs for the following: I emerged freefonts, sharefonts and corefonts Everytime I boot, I have to do xset fp+ /path/to/fonts before I have the fonts available How can I do this automatically? Second question: xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/corefonts gives: xset: bad font path element (#141), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Anybody have any idea why this is? Thanks in advance for any replies. -- Kind Regards JurLan Sysinfo: Bliksem running Gentoo Linux Kernel: 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 Compiled: Mon Dec 22 00:24:07 CET 2003 On: i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r3, propolice) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY
- Original Message - From: Scott Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY you know, if you wanted to get a developer's opinion, there IS a gentoo-devel list :-P this is gentoo-user... So you have to be on the developer list to be a developer? Funny very funny. On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:43:17 + Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Everyone, I was had this pointed out to me, by Simon Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with my reply): On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 8:49 pm, you wrote: 1) Please do not cross-post. (This means sending the same message to many lists.) OK, guilty, but I wanted a varied response, as different people subscribe to different lists. 2) Please stay on topic. This has nothing to do with Fedora. Fedora is GNU/Linux, there are C programmers, like you that use Fedora, and it is a general discussion list. What's the problem? I'm not asking for money for for you to join some crazy scheme. This kind of attitude annoys me about GNU/Linux, I am not wasting anyones time, so I don't see what the problem is. And his last reply: On December 27, 2003 16:11, you wrote: This kind of attitude annoys me about GNU/Linux, I am not wasting anyones time, so I don't see what the problem is. Yes, you are wasting time (and bandwidth, as there are some people on very slow connections) when you are not on topic. This list is not even about GNU/Linux, it is about Fedora. General Linux questions do not belong here. This is Fedora-related stuff only. There are tons of Linux and C mailing lists. This is a quick lesson (that everyone must learn, I did too) on netiquette. You should Google a bit on that topic, particularly on stuff related to mailing lists. I am sorry if I have wasted everyones time and bandwidth, but I have spent the last 3 days searching for up to date links and book reviews, some things you never find, like the website: http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/public/ recommended by another user. I admit, I have cross posted, as I not only use Fedora, but Debian, SUSE and Gentoo. These are all different distro's with different user bases. I wanted to get a good feel of what are good texts from all the C programmers out their. I didn't get a response like above from anyone else. Even Alan Cox replied to me. What I don't understand is, and I quote, This list is not even about GNU/Linux, it is about Fedora. What is Fedora then? Again, sorry to waste everyones time, but you have all helped me out. Gavin. - -- Regards http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://www.suretecsystems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7fz2gNqd7Kng8UoRAsRbAKDmXsCtqO7IvpTTj6Ys4C9y5fUlPwCgue/Y iBHi+X1LZ2h4Qdgk0/in+18= =MgX7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot
I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM. The one thing they don't have is the tremendously broad availability of standard packages (a la portage). Hunting down a suitable RPM package is now the worst aspect of an I don't think so, look at mandrake cooker and you will notice, that they have at least as many apps in rpm form as gentoo ebuilds. I have never counted them, but I thought they even have more rpms for apps than gentoo, at least I have seen rpms there for apps that gentoo still doesn't have. So that doesn't count. I have used rpm distros for years, but portage was not the reason for me to switch to gentoo. Mandrake for example has an extraordinary rpm system urpmi with some scripting skills you can even use it to download srpms and compile everything from source, it is better that apt-get. But most people think rpm can't do much more than install and deinstall packages. RPM based system. Of course, in you install all the -dev packages, you can always just build from source. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot
- Original Message - From: Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] almost totally ot On Saturday 27 December 2003 00:41, SN wrote: I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM. The one thing they don't have is the tremendously broad availability of standard packages (a la portage). Hunting down a suitable RPM package is now the worst aspect of an I don't think so, look at mandrake cooker and you will notice, that they have at least as many apps in rpm form as gentoo ebuilds. I have never counted them, but I thought they even have more rpms for apps than gentoo, at least I have seen rpms there for apps that gentoo still doesn't have. So that doesn't count. I have used rpm distros for years, but portage was not the reason for me to switch to gentoo. Mandrake for example has an extraordinary rpm system urpmi with some scripting skills you can even use it to download srpms and compile everything from source, it is better that apt-get. But most people think rpm can't do much more than install and deinstall packages. Sorry, this message went to the wrong list, but thanks for the info about Mandrake. My experience with Mandrake Cooker in the past (2 years back) was that nothing was really cooked even medium rare, i.e. there was a lot of subtly broken stuff. Maybe they've improved with age. The problem is, that people mix cooker packges with stable packages, if yu run stable and you just need 2 or 3 packages, then you should use the srpms from cooker and recompile them.The reason why you should do it is: when you install a unstable ackage in a gentoo box, you still compile it. But if you install a package from cooker, the problem is if you install the package some month after the initial stable release the cooker boxes have already updated packages of glibc gcc perl etc. and if they compile the packages now they get incompatible to the stable release, that is why lots of packages don't work correctly on a stable box, therefore if you use cooker there are two choices, either update everything or recompile certain packages you want. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas?
- Original Message - From: Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [normal] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie: cant seem to emerge telnet - any ideas? No, it's not meant to be a joke - I'm trying to help you. I don't run smtp so I can't duplicate the exact thing you're trying to do. However, I have used ssh as a substitute for telnet when I had to connect to other services. As a matter of fact I did run ssh localhost smtp before I sent the last message. It asked to authenticate, then obviously, since I don't run smtp it didn't find it. Look, you can do what you want. My whole point was that in case you didn't know it you might want to check out ssh. You didn't tell us what you were trying to do. Unfortunately, many people use telnet for a lot of reasons and don't realize how insecure it is - I know I didn't and when I finally took the time and learned ssh it's all I use now. But you may already know it all. How can someone give advice on security issues if he doesn't even know what a 'telnet mailserver 25' can do That is basic networking knowledge. If you want to debug a mailserver telnet is the best tool out there logon to a mail server. I quote from some earlier post of yours: I would assume ssh localhost smtp and see what you get back. I hate it if people try to sound smart if they come up with: Unfortunately, many people use telnet for a lot of reasons and don't realize how insecure it is First time I emerge telnet I kind of was pissed that you cannot emerge telnet daemon and telnet client as single packages, because I don't know how much sense it makes to install telnet server on a linux box, but I'd rate telnet client as a must have tool on any linux box. As I said - I was only trying to help. On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:05, you wrote: Please check it before u send it here ... is it meant to be a joke ? noro Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I would assume ssh localhost smtp and see what you get back. On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:08, you wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Or use openssh instead of telnet. It does everything telnet does and is more secure. U must know something I do not ... how can u substitutetelnet localhost smtp using ssh to check if mailserver is alive ? noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?
A defacto standard is: Kernighan, Ritchie The C rogramming Language I'd also recommend : O'Reilly Prof C Programming. The second shows you how to actually programm for and in a unix, linux environment. If you want to do system programming , kernel, hardware, drivers ec. then you should definitely learn C. If you want to do GUI programming etc. then C++ is probably the better start, becuse of the object orientation which is a must in case you design larged apps , user interfaces and similar. I'd also vote for Java. I myself started with languages like vb, delphi, asp then later on switched to Perl, C, C++, Java. The biggest problem was for me to adopt my programming style, the procedural style I learned in C to the OO style of C++, but as son as I went into Java I used OO more which also improved my C++ skills. Lots of authors say the same, sometimes it is better to skip C if you don't really need it, because you will always be tempted to use the C way in your C++ programms. So it really depends on what you want to do with it, if you have lots of time learn em all, if you want to achive a certain aim, then you should tell us, then we might be able to give you the best advice - Original Message - From: Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:20 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point with GNU/Linux. I want to get my old skills back and write something or help on some projects etc. I need some good books. I used to have one called A Book On C, but sold it, and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted websites. Anyone have any recommendations? One more question, should I go for C or C++? Which will benefit me more with GNU/Linux? Thanks for your time, Gavin. - -- Regards http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://www.suretecsystems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7feqgNqd7Kng8UoRAjZhAJ0YWrrwdHA79Qp/rJfucnVr5KxMcwCeKkRl YSXYaGO5D/qDPudtESz6T4U= =tV0V -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vanilla sources on amd64
- Original Message - From: Reno Romanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] vanilla sources on amd64 I'm trying to use vanilla sources 2.4.23 on my amd64 box. I installed with the 2.6 cd. 2.6 will boot fine, with the exception of my network card won't work. 2.4.23 stops, and says NMI recieved, dazed and confused, will try to go on. You probobly have a problem with your RAM chips. This is very unlikely that i have any hardware issues, seeing that it all works fine with other OS's (win xp and freebsd) Did you run a ramtest from within your windows box? The gentoo cd also has memtest onboard, just chose it at the boot prompt you receive right after you boot with it. Any fix? TIA --reno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resierfs blocksize
Well well, I guess you didn't read the manpage to the end did you Read the last couple of lines of man mkreiserfs it says there: Bugs: No other blocksizes but 4k available :-) - Original Message - From: Gerhard W.Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 11:28 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] resierfs blocksize I' m using resierfs for my filesystem. I formated a new partition with mkreiserfs and used the -b 1024 option to get a blocksize of 1024 bytes. When I tried to mount the partition I always got the errormessage that there is a wrong superblock on the partition. It only worked when I used the default value supplied by mkreiserfs. What good is this option when it doesn' t work? Or is there some trick to do this? -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 test must read !!!!
- Original Message - From: Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo.org ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:13 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 test must read Did you ever think CPU accounting might be slightly different? Well I'm not sure what are you trying to say now, because you don't refer to a certain part of my post, it would certainly help if you would refer to the part in text you have doubts about. Maybe another explanation helps, top only gets confused when nptl is compiled into glibc, if not top is fine and shows correct values. So what CPU accounting are you talking about ??? The procps version I updated to is supposed to support nptl(so top should support it), however that is not the issue here(only a sideeffect), the issue is the cpu time used by overnet and without nptl I can be absolutely sure, that my programms show the correct cpu time values. Since I ran tests with overnet over the last few weeks with kernel 2.4 to determine the effects, that kerneltuning has on the tcp performance of overnet, I know exactly how much cpu time overnet uses in a specific state. That's why I ask for someone with a webserver or database server to run a test in case he has old statistics with kernel 2.4. I will continue to run a few tests and try to locate the cause for this issue, after I reemerged my apps wthout nptl again. Unless you know how to really profile the app I'd defer to the wisdom of others. Sounds like you think a syntetic test is worth more than a real life performance test. Kernel 2.6 is supposed to be faster, but did a lot of people prove it in real world yet On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:16, SN wrote: Okay, I want to summarize my experience with kernel 2.6 now. I upgraded to the 2.6 final yesterday and ran some tests yesterday and all day today. First of all, kernel 2.6 worked fine, no crashes , all my drivers worked all my apps worked, all my hardware worked. Test with overnet however revealed some issues, overnets CPU time usage is much higher with kernel 2.6. The first test I ran was overnet with glibc without nptl, overnet used about twice as much cpu time as before with kernel 2.4. For the second test I installed linux-headers 2.6-beta11 and compiled glibc with nptl (use flag nptl was set), the result stayed the same. So overnet used about 15-20% cpu time with kernel 2.6 , with 2.4 it was around 5-10% . To be able to compare the two results I ran the tests for hours and compared the cpu time whenever overnet build up aproximately the same number of tcp connections(measured with netstat) and the same number of openfiles(measured with lsof). Another effect: After compiling in nptl I noticed, that top gets confused by nptl the values it shows are not correct anymore. For example while compiling the accumulated cpu time is 90% but the compile process cc1 shows that it is using 2-5% cpu time and all other processes show about 0%, cc1 normally is around 90% while compiling, I upgraded procps to the latest release because top belongs to procps, but that didn't help it. So top is not working corectly with nptl. Although the system seems very responsive now I think something is wrong with 2.6 I'm not really sure what causes this, it could be due to the new TCP Stack, a result of the new sheduling, or thread handling. Who knows??? I would love to see a discussion about that and maybe some other tests with other applications, for example a webserver or database server under high load. Gre Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Crypto trouble...
- Original Message - From: Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:11 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Crypto trouble... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have my homedir encrypted, with a cryptoloop device. It works great for almost a year now. I would like to test the 2.6 kernels without giving up the possibility to boot 2.4. It seems however that the encryption algorithms in 2.4 and 2.6 are not compatible. When I try to mount an encrypted device in 2.6 that is made in 2.4, it doens't want to mount, it's giving the error mount: you must specify the filesystem type indicating that decyption doesn't work as expected. The other way around the same thing happens. Moreover, on 2.4 util-linux-2.11 is required, and in 2.6 util-linux-2.12 is necessary to get the mount and losetup commands working without messages that modules should be loaded into the kernel or that the cipher doesn't exist. Now the question is, has anyone managed to get a dual-bootable(2.4/2.6) setup working with encryption? The cryptoapi has indeed changed in 2.6 kernels and they are incompatible. So I don't think you have a chance to get it working Please send me some input on this... Thanks, Elton -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5CBPlkLE/x/YPu4RAoHwAJ4yqalndWEi23xHrzdMfobDecL9ZgCgn81Q DDM/fkgMwo3wVXvl8X/GDw0= =HqEr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Disk trouble
Did you turn on debugging in kernel 2.6? My guess is, that you have problems with the kernel 2.6 and the ide controller either due to apic probs or just ide driver probs, which can cause this. If debugging is turned on you might see some error messages, that could reveal what's wrong. - Original Message - From: Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Disk trouble -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have another problem with 2.6, this time it's lilo ;-) Some time ago, I tried to install 2.6 along 2.4 on the same rootdisk. However, after two boots, my reiserfs root partition lost a whole series of files, causing me to reinstall the entire system with 2.4 and ext3. Now I'm taking a second try (with ext3), but it seems that reiserfs was not to blame for the previous problem. Lilo gives me the following error: Warning: Kernel BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x80 Kernel: 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors BIOS: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors Added Gentoo-2.6 Added Gentoo-2.4 * I assume this can cause some serious trouble. So does anyone know why this happens in 2.6 but never in 2.4 (my system has been rock solid since I first installed it this summer)? I have a nvidia motherboard (asus a7n8x) Thanks, Elton -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5CIUlkLE/x/YPu4RAmdPAKD1IuMuzci6ZudYhvVZjvIfBhtK1wCg5AUg jDo+DkbtplV1qaMrPkWKBMk= =RIgd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Disk trouble
Yes this could probably be also the cause for your problem, I'm not using oss emulation, so that may be a reason why I didn't run into this yet. Thanks for the links. Do you use any programms that are configured to use oss? - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Disk trouble On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 02:18, Elton Algera wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have another problem with 2.6, this time it's lilo ;-) Some time ago, I tried to install 2.6 along 2.4 on the same rootdisk. However, after two boots, my reiserfs root partition lost a whole series of files, causing me to reinstall the entire system with 2.4 and ext3. Is this possibly it? http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1708 It resulted in this yesterday: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6798907 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vga=791 no longer works with 2.6.0
You have to use certain options for the kernel config, just do a search in the mailinglist archive for nvidia framebuffer and you will find the correct options you have to use. By the way I'm running 2.6 stable since yesterday, on my box everything is working X, nvidia drivers, sensors, alsa, sysfs. I just have one little issue at the moment, one programm while running needs about 20% of cpu time now with the old kernel it was between 5-10 percent, I'm just recompiling glibc and xfree to see if that helps. - Original Message - From: Frank J. Mattia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vga=791 no longer works with 2.6.0 I have this same issue. I use 795 i think for 1600x1200 and i get the same blank screen. i know that someone mentioned something about their nvidia drivers or something but im using a plain jane matrox parheila 512 card and have never needed any external drivers.. not only that but when i take away the vga parameter (which im sure you must have tried) and gdm starts up.. if i ctl-alt-Fx anything.. i get a garbled output... its like all the vtermals are corrupted after any g/xdm starts... i would love to know a solution to this because its one of the few things hanging me up with the 2.6 kernel (that and i cant find the post on how to get 2.4 mouse behavior or how to get alsa working on generic ac97 onboard soundcard)... thanks, frank sorry for my poor english - im not usually that lazy. its just that its 3:30 am and i have work in 2 hours... and still need to sleep. Sebastian Bergmann wrote: I updated my GENTOO/Linux laptop to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.0 -- and am quite happy with it. Except for one thing: The vga=791 boot parameter that I used with the 2.4 kernel series to have a 1024x768 console during boot no longer works. If I pass it to the kernel I get a blank screen until gdm has been started. Any idea on what the correct parameter would be? Thanks in advance, Sebastian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?
Yes it is possible, but to setup a real secure webserver you need years of experience. If someone claims he can setup a real secure box, but only used linux for a few month he is nothing but a swank. - Original Message - From: fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo? I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? bye fisch -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kampagne.conne-island.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS partition: strange permissions..
The reason for this is, that ntfs in 2.4 kernels only allows read access or write access if compiled in up to ntfs of nt4. 2.6 kernels have a more advanced ntfs module that can write ntfs, but not fully supported - Original Message - From: Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 6:25 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] NTFS partition: strange permissions.. Hello everyone, I'm facing some strange permissions when I mount an NTFS partition. After mounting with umask=227, the mount point becomes the following permissions: drxr--1 root users umask=220: dr--rx1 root users umask=777: d--xr--r--1 root users umask=000: dr-xr-xr-x1 root users My /etc/fstab contains the following entry (as used with the first example): /dev/hdb5 /mnt/Hntfs defaults,user,nosuid,nodev,noexec,ro,noatime,gid=100,umask=227 0 3 Strange thing... I've also mounted two vfat partitions; the permissions are always correct there, no matter which umask I choose. Is this a bug in the NTFS handler ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vga=791 no longer works with 2.6.0
I guess I have to give it a try, but I doubt it will help. It just monitored overnet again during 1h time period, again after recompile of glibc the app needs about 20%cpu time after it has build up a couple of connections. So I think it has to do with the new implementation of the TCP Stack, since cpu time increases a lot as soon as you have a couple of connections. - Original Message - From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vga=791 no longer works with 2.6.0 SN wrote: You have to use certain options for the kernel config, just do a search in the mailinglist archive for nvidia framebuffer and you will find the correct options you have to use. By the way I'm running 2.6 stable since yesterday, on my box everything is working X, nvidia drivers, sensors, alsa, sysfs. I just have one little issue at the moment, one programm while running needs about 20% of cpu time now with the old kernel it was between 5-10 percent, I'm just recompiling glibc and xfree to see if that helps. Are you using nptl? Give that a try (recompile the entire system if you can .. at least glibc). Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge nvidia-kernel fail
You say you compile inside a chroot, did you boot the 2.6 kernel? If you build kernel modules you always have to boot the kernel for which you build modules. - Original Message - From: Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:55 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge nvidia-kernel fail I don't know why this module fails when I try to emerge it. I compiled the sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources kernel (2.6.0) with the MTRR option checked [*]. I'm building gentoo from a chroot in fedora 1. Any counsel or ideas on where I should go from here? archimedes linux # emerge --verbose nvidia-kernel Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 to / md5 src_uri ;-) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0.run * This version needs MTRR support for most chipsets! * Please enable MTRR support in your kernel config, found at: * * Processor type and features - [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support * * and recompile your kernel ... !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 failed. !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 30, Exitcode 0 !!! MTRR support not detected! Justin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 test must read !!!!
Okay, I want to summarize my experience with kernel 2.6 now. I upgraded to the 2.6 final yesterday and ran some tests yesterday and all day today. First of all, kernel 2.6 worked fine, no crashes , all my drivers worked all my apps worked, all my hardware worked. Test with overnet however revealed some issues, overnets CPU time usage is much higher with kernel 2.6. The first test I ran was overnet with glibc without nptl, overnet used about twice as much cpu time as before with kernel 2.4. For the second test I installed linux-headers 2.6-beta11 and compiled glibc with nptl (use flag nptl was set), the result stayed the same. So overnet used about 15-20% cpu time with kernel 2.6 , with 2.4 it was around 5-10% . To be able to compare the two results I ran the tests for hours and compared the cpu time whenever overnet build up aproximately the same number of tcp connections(measured with netstat) and the same number of openfiles(measured with lsof). Another effect: After compiling in nptl I noticed, that top gets confused by nptl the values it shows are not correct anymore. For example while compiling the accumulated cpu time is 90% but the compile process cc1 shows that it is using 2-5% cpu time and all other processes show about 0%, cc1 normally is around 90% while compiling, I upgraded procps to the latest release because top belongs to procps, but that didn't help it. So top is not working corectly with nptl. Although the system seems very responsive now I think something is wrong with 2.6 I'm not really sure what causes this, it could be due to the new TCP Stack, a result of the new sheduling, or thread handling. Who knows??? I would love to see a discussion about that and maybe some other tests with other applications, for example a webserver or database server under high load. Grüße Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel
But you said grub is telling you to supply a valid root= , no? Now you say, that your kernel panics, I'm not sure where you are at the moment, because if you get message to secify a correct root=, then we are still in grubs part, if you managed to pass that and now we have a kernel panic then you are a ste further. Also what do you want to tell us, with I configured this for the disks and my kernel panics. There are two options in th kernel config which are related to the sis chipset: a) sis chipset agp support b) sis chipset ide support Be a little more precise where you encounter the problem(kernelpanic) , maybe messages before, and which sis options in kernel you used and what else you thought you configured that you think has to do with sis. - Original Message - From: Gerhard W.Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:20:29 +0100, SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you supply your grub.conf so we can tell you what you did wrong :-) I played around and I noticed that it isn't my understanding of GRUB but that I configured the kernel wrong. I don't understand what is really wrong because I looked into /proc/pci and there I I saw that my motherboard (Asus P4S333) has SIS chipset. I configured this for the disks and my kernel panics. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] defragmentation
- Original Message - From: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] defragmentation hi, is it possible to defragment ext3 or any other unix filesystem? Yes it is, but usually not needed fragmentation occurs under linux filesystems only if partitions are close to full. Basically a linux filesystem will self defrag over the time unless partitons are always filled up to the last byte. If you only use up to 75% of you r partition you won't get any fragmentation. The easiest way to defrag a linux partition is to just move data to one partition and then back to the other, this already defrags a partition. -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with GRUB not booting from second controller
Why don't you supply your grub.conf so we can tell you what you did wrong :-) - Original Message - From: Gerhard W.Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 11:17 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with GRUB not booting from second controller I have installed my gentoo on /dev/hdd1 and also compiled the kernel with reiserfs support included. The problem that I have is that I can't boot the kernel because it tells me that it can't mount the hdd1 partition and I should provide a valid root= entry. I did that but it is just the same, so I wonder how I must configure GRUB so that it is possible to boot a kernel from the second controller. I had the same configuration with lilo working. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What does this crash output mean?
- Original Message - From: Nick Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does this crash output mean? Hia, I have been having a few odd stability problems with one of my gentoo machines. It's a dual PIII500 with 768MB of ram running two SCSI drives in a software RAID 1 array. It had crashed a few times so I used the NMI Watchdog to try and figure out what was going on. Anyhow it's crashed again, this time I got to see the watchdog output Bank 3: b202010a Kernel Panic: CPU Context Corrupt CPU Context is what you call the state of registers, flags, programm counter at a certain point, for example you have 2 processes p1 and p2, when timeslice for p1 is over and process p2 gets the ressource CPU then the CPU context of p1 is saved, after execution of p2 the process p1 gets the ressouce CPU again the old contect is restored. Now you might be able imagine what CPU Context Corrupt can mean. Since the CPU Context is usually stored in RAM it is very likely, that your RAM has prolems. For fast task switches the CPU context can also be stored in the CPU tself, so there is also the chance, that your cpu is bad. Hope that helps, I'd run a memtest again, if you don't find anything it is probably the CPU. Intresting.. takes me back to my C and assembler days ;) Can anyone tell me what the other two mean? The 'bank' line appears to be an address could that be a clue as too what DIMM has gone squiffy (There are three in there)? Could it be as simple as DIMM Bank 3 at b202010a is where it was trying to retrive the data that was corrupt? If it were that simple I could just replace that DIMM Yes I think this message is probably trying to say, that it is in Bank 3. And what of this Idle task not syncing? What's that all about? Is that just the upshot of the error on the previous line? Idle task is the main process which runs if there is no other process running, just to keep the processor busy with nothing :-) The error of course is definitely a result of that bad cpu context. What I did forget to say is that it actually could be also a problem with the kernel itself, if there is some bug in it that stores a bad cpu context in memory you would of course have the same effect. So trying a different kernel would be also an option to make sure, that you don't buy new hardware before you are sure that it's absolutely broken. Also if anyone has any good links to articles or posts dealing with these issues I would appreciate you posting them. Kernel crash debugging (basic) is an area I could do with a few more good sources on I think O'Reilly Understanding The Linux Kernel might cover those things. I haven't read the complete book though, just some parts concerning sheduling. Many thanks Nick In Idle Task - Not Syncing I've found parts of the error on google... references to various things. The one almost exact match I got was here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/0382.html Sometimes the quoted problem is memory, or clock speed. However before I built this instance of Gentoo on there it was running as a Gentoo test machine for quite a while. During that time I ran memcheck and cpu_burn for days. No probelms found and no crashes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6test11+ framebuffer + nvidia
Hi guys, did anyone manage to get framebuffer going with the latest 2.6 kernel? I have tried all kinds of options, recompiled about 10 times and still can only boot without framebuffer , when I supply the vga argument I get a darkscreen although machine boots. Some options even cause a completet lockup. I can only boot and watch messages if I don't supply the vga=xxx argument. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6test11+ framebuffer + nvidia
- Original Message - From: Ciortea Cristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6test11+ framebuffer + nvidia -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 December 2003 20:38, SN wrote: Hi guys, did anyone manage to get framebuffer going with the latest 2.6 kernel? I have tried all kinds of options, recompiled about 10 times and still can only boot without framebuffer , when I supply the vga argument I get a darkscreen although machine boots. Some options even cause a completet lockup. I can only boot and watch messages if I don't supply the vga=xxx argument. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list What driver are you using ? I suggest using vesa Okay I can try that, so far I've tried vga16 and rivafb. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBP9oL2r4Dc84tIPwxAQIyJw//XcYSwRXwZV23FT4Xdn+RAOlH05nmiBA2 1d3dsj/EqneZD51ZuDVaIa0ZcE9l5+16wx2dUAVhiNvhrepdMc37i7nrOhT7xvvA AMqILE3FRq8AXnFeVIS3c/n3L6NxJJyblt6UFlxVTJbbCw1sVYLd27nAkvEQKwRr yJmfX4dMX2zpIAHHz3FNjktLg1ItqaZPW6q0aZkh2LI/oVlMOx1Iwq52/fVP3iKm vXIBHz78rk9Q4JvhVTXW7T3exF+/3aFc6dJll0Y9PwoOY9NFvlyQ9TLIX1caPPEb courGeUXlL1KwKhgHtMcAt2iLAQM0wz20AB2QlFnYlDmTcxZNCoS3rSdNG75CKd/ /YsBt606Iq0dFX5kvxxPTYvsLhZBlpZWfT1DduKBXH45S097954VgbSIIg+SjkkV gVqd1GzGnJQyE3611n41zcjtTxMQQ0zeXPZ6ewt0wnNsi53Iwnsm3xHGsrRD3zRn kCoEe03r8EKgtVDk5BoJQpiUeImde1dyvwo2eW1Dg+0A7A8Nwj3k9HLTW3QXv55T Sv3eVkb30CXY3nslQ2FecdLDM/z2beU2J2ufX/At7ambxRQx7rwdJtayj1nHgC/q AW831BN88NlTBQYlZd8tEULd3XR+2kcIz904a8xME497YhjTLoD2Oyck/YpftYMy 2umNKnVHZ80= =StuI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6test11+ framebuffer + nvidia
Yeah, looks like the only working option is to use the vesafb , I tried rivafb and vga16 and the other settings for console framebuffer ad so on, just didn't think vesa would do. Kernel is already compiling, will see if it works that way in a couple of minutes - Original Message - From: mathieu perrenoud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6test11+ framebuffer + nvidia On Friday 12 December 2003 19:38, SN wrote: Hi guys, did anyone manage to get framebuffer going with the latest 2.6 kernel? I have tried all kinds of options, recompiled about 10 times and still can only boot without framebuffer , when I supply the vga argument I get a darkscreen although machine boots. Some options even cause a completet lockup. I can only boot and watch messages if I don't supply the vga=xxx argument. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 works fine here. lilo.conf [...] image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test11-gentoo-r2 vga=0x31A [...] kernel config attached -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade
- Original Message - From: Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Upgrade On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:02PM -0800, Joshua Banks wrote: I found the following on Gentoo web forum and just wanted someone to take a look at this and tell me if this is outdated or still in its correctedness. It also looks as though its missing some steps concerning System.map. Can someone please confirm the following steps. And whether or not after step 11 I should cp System.map to /boot Yes you should copy System.map to /boot if you want to do kernel debugging, if you don't want to do any kernel debugging System.map is useless for you and you don't have to copy it there. Not sure about that, I do my kernel by hand and I don't copy System.map. Might have to do with using initrd. I also don't have anything referencing bizImage linux directory tree. Maybe its because I used Genkernel last time? bzImage is a file name for the kernel file, it's not a directory. [snip] [1] cp /usr/src/linux/.config /usr/src/linux-2.x.xx-yy/.config [2] cd /usr/src [3] rm linux [4] ln -s linux-2.x.xx-yy linux [5] cd /usr/src/linux [6] make oldconfig [7] make menuconfig or make xconfig [8] make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install **My Comments** shouldn't this be make dep make clean bizImage modules modules_install ?? I usually use make dep make ... but the other command probably works fine too. And don't I wan't to cd to the new 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 kernel tree before issuing this step 8 command? The ln -s command is making linux a link to linux-2.x.xx-yy, so you already did cd there when you did the cd /usr/src/linux [9] mount /boot (where /boot is an entry in your /etc/fstab, which should [normally not be mounted during normal use) [10] mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.old [11] cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage [12] edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry for your new kernel and replace the reference to bzImage in your previous kernel entry to point to the deprecated kernel file (bzImage.old) [13] if you are using nvidia- emerge nivdia-kernel [14] if you are using alsa - emerge alsa-driver [15] edit /etc/modules.autoload to reflect any changes in modules to be auto loaded [16] unmount /boot (ie. umount /boot) [17] shutdown -hr now and voila you new kernel entry should appear in the grub menu waiting to be tried These instructions are almost exactly what I do and it works fine. I would point out that if you previously have run genkernel in a kernel src tree, then you should remove the tree and reemerge it before trying to use it for a manual build. hth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What does this crash output mean?
- Original Message - From: Nick Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:19 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] What does this crash output mean? Hia, I have been having a few odd stability problems with one of my gentoo machines. It's a dual PIII500 with 768MB of ram running two SCSI drives in a software RAID 1 array. It had crashed a few times so I used the NMI Watchdog to try and figure out what was going on. Anyhow it's crashed again, this time I got to see the watchdog output Bank 3: b202010a Kernel Panic: CPU Context Corrupt CPU Context is what you call the state of registers, flags, programm counter at a certain point, for example you have 2 processes p1 and p2, when timeslice for p1 is over and process p2 gets the ressource CPU then the CPU context of p1 is saved, after execution of p2 the process p1 gets the ressouce CPU again the old contect is restored. Now you might be able imagine what CPU Context Corrupt can mean. Since the CPU Context is usually stored in RAM it is very likely, that your RAM has prolems. For fast task switches the CPU context can also be stored in the CPU tself, so there is also the chance, that your cpu is bad. Hope that helps, I'd run a memtest again, if you don't find anything it is probably the CPU. In Idle Task - Not Syncing I've found parts of the error on google... references to various things. The one almost exact match I got was here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/0382.html Sometimes the quoted problem is memory, or clock speed. However before I built this instance of Gentoo on there it was running as a Gentoo test machine for quite a while. During that time I ran memcheck and cpu_burn for days. No probelms found and no crashes. Can anyone give me any background on this? Or ideas? Relevent URLs? I'm starting to shoot in the dark here ;) Many thanks. Nick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3
GCC 3 is more strict then GCC 2.x, either check your code and get rid of the warnings or switch of some checking that gcc does. I'd check the code and see if you can improve it. - Original Message - From: Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:06 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] gcc 3 Hello everyone, I've problems with compiling an own project with GCC 3.2. Everything compiles well under GCC 2.95.3, but with GCC3, i get linker errors like this: warning: undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)' warning: undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)' warning: undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__si_class_type_info' These are calls from a C function which is using a C++ class. What's the difference between GCC2 and GCC3 ? Is it a missing software package ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config
- Original Message - From: collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:12, Jonathan Stickel wrote: SN wrote: Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it useses plain files ere you can insert ports or hosts and so on, very flexible. You can even use it for scripted actions. Firestarter seems to meet my needs. I had to do a little hacking to have it start on boot, though. The gentoo emerge of firestarter didn't install a /etc/init.d script. Shorewall is an excellent and easy-to-configure product. If shorewall wasn't so buggy all the time I'd say yes, but everytime the guy releases a new version there is some major bug in there. Shorewall is very powerful, but often just broken. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Gentoo stable -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config
Ah boy, now it made the round and people get crazy. Hey you don't have to block traffic from inside to outside, then in general you should block all ports and only open up ports you need for services that want to be accessed from outside. . The rsync problem only affects rsync servers not clients, clients aren't vulnerable, to do emerge sync you only need the client. Guys please do me a favour don't get crazy now because a server got hacked through rsync, rather read some basics about firewalling. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config I've setup a firewall with Guarddog, which I use because it is relatively simple but seems to be comprehensive. However, it does not have rsync in its protocol list. I've tried to make a user-defined protocol for port 873 (which is the rsync port I believe), but it doesn't seem to work. I cannot use rsync unless I temporarily deactivate the firewall. As you know, allowing rsync is necessary to do an 'emerge sync'! I'm wondering if anyone else uses Guarddog and has come up with a solution. If not, I will entertain simple iptable snippets that I can manually enter into the Guarddog generated /etc/rc.firewall. Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
what baselayout do you guys use?
- Original Message -
From: Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Christian Anthon wrote:
Same problem here. I had to comment out rootfs checking in checkrootfs
during bootup since I had no old kernel to use. The problem probably
lies with reiserfs tool and not the kernel.
My problem does occur in /etc/init.d/checkroot, but the checking
of the filesystem goes fine, it's the remounting that fails. The
output looks like this:
* Checking root file system
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x304 of format 3.6 with standard
journal
Blocks (total/free) 15526822/2297961 by 4096 bytes
Files system is cleanly unmounted
Filesystem seems mounted read-only. Skipping journal replay
Checking internal tree..finished [ok]
* Remounting root files system read/write...
* Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write:( [!!]
The code which does this in /etc/init.d/checkroot comes right after the
check:
# Should we mount root rw ?
if mount -vf -o remount / 2 /dev/null | \
awk '{ if ($6 ~ /rw/) exit 0; else exit 1; }'
then
ebegin Remounting root filesystem read/write
mount / -n -o remount,rw /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
eend 2 Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write:(
/sbin/sulogin ${CONSOLE}
else
eend 0
fi
fi
So that mount / command is failing. Maybe I will learn more by removing
the /dev/null from the end of the mount command.
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Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config
Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it useses plain files ere you can insert ports or hosts and so on, very flexible. You can even use it for scripted actions. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config I plead ignorance. I didn't see the gentoo announcement about the rsync vulnerability until _after_ I made my post. I understand the basics of what you are saying, but apparently Guarddog blocks all incoming and outgoing traffic except on specified ports. I'll have to try another firewall gui (firestarter?). I want a simple firewall for feel good security, but I don't want to learn all about them. Jonathan SN wrote: Ah boy, now it made the round and people get crazy. Hey you don't have to block traffic from inside to outside, then in general you should block all ports and only open up ports you need for services that want to be accessed from outside. . The rsync problem only affects rsync servers not clients, clients aren't vulnerable, to do emerge sync you only need the client. Guys please do me a favour don't get crazy now because a server got hacked through rsync, rather read some basics about firewalling. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config I've setup a firewall with Guarddog, which I use because it is relatively simple but seems to be comprehensive. However, it does not have rsync in its protocol list. I've tried to make a user-defined protocol for port 873 (which is the rsync port I believe), but it doesn't seem to work. I cannot use rsync unless I temporarily deactivate the firewall. As you know, allowing rsync is necessary to do an 'emerge sync'! I'm wondering if anyone else uses Guarddog and has come up with a solution. If not, I will entertain simple iptable snippets that I can manually enter into the Guarddog generated /etc/rc.firewall. Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config SN wrote: Firestarter is pretty good and it allows easy manuall adjustments. Since it useses plain files ere you can insert ports or hosts and so on, very flexible. You can even use it for scripted actions. Firestarter seems to meet my needs. I had to do a little hacking to have it start on boot, though. The gentoo emerge of firestarter didn't install a /etc/init.d script. no it puts a line in /etc/ppp/if-up, since this will restart firestarter whenever you get a new if assigned through dialup. Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [postfix] Mails to root@ are sent to nobody@
The config for that is in /etc/mail/aliases run postalias ater editing the file. If you had read the last couple of lines ater emerging ostfix you would have seen the message, that you need to do this for the first time. - Original Message - From: Thomas Preissler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:17 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] [postfix] Mails to root@ are sent to nobody@ Hello folks, I recently merged postfix-2.0.11. Now I am missing mails, which are sent to root and via .procmailrc they are resent to my local user-account. This was working properly with sendmail. I can't use an alias root-user, because some mails *must* be sent to root... Now I determined, that mails to root never arrive in that mbox, they are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The .procmailrc from root is never executed. I did not configure postfix very much. For my user account all is working properly. My mails are rewrited with [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's working fine ;-)) and I use SMTPAUTH on GMX, fine. So, where must I skrew up my postfix configuration, that the user root can get the mails again? I've already search postfix.org, but it seems, that that problem has never existed... [/var/log/mail/current] Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/pickup] 3FDC7DCE2D: uid=0 from=root Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/cleanup] 3FDC7DCE2D: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/qmgr] 3FDC7DCE2D: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=294, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/local] 3FDC7DCE2D: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=0, stat us=sent (|/usr/bin/procmail) I tested it with rewriting the user root to [EMAIL PROTECTED], too. But - it did not help. my /root/.procmailrc should write a logfile - but that never happens. Any ideas, please? Greets, Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user
You are absolutely wrong, I'm subscribed to a couple of the mandrake mailinglists as well, never got any spam through that list. The mailinglist should prevent adress collection, of course if the mailinglist and webfrontends show the plain emailadress spiders easily pick them up. - Original Message - From: Helgi Örn Helgason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user On 2003-12-01, Redeeman wrote: i thought about make an account for mailinglists too, but i didnt do it, sadly :( On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:27, SN wrote: Yeah I have about 8 email accounts: work-related, private and so on, but this one really gets spammed heavily.I'm just happy, that I setup a mail adress only for the gentoo mailinglist, so I don't depend on this adress. I almost don't see any spam in those other accounts although I've been using them for years.I also think, that the freemail provider lycos sucks because he lets all thos spam viri to me. Perhaps some of you should RTFM before starting to use an email list. Fact is: as soon as you expose your email address on a public email list it WILL be used by spammers, the Gentoo list is no exception. Some clear signs of a mailinglist newbie: * Top mailing. * Never tidying up a RE: message. * Lot of OT stuff. Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~~ Gentoo 1.4 * Kernel 2.4.20 * KDE 3.1.4 ~~~ /// -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user
I guesss you were confused and dizzy in the first place. - Original Message - From: Helgi Örn Helgason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user On 2003-12-02, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Helgi Örn Helgason -- Some clear signs of a mailinglist newbie: * Top mailing. * Never tidying up a RE: message. * Lot of OT stuff. And? You got born as a mailinglist expert super pro? No, absolutely not. I learned from people who wrote similar things as I did now. Sorry, this isn't ment as offensive as it might look, but I don't like this anti-newbie posts. No offence, I did expect this kind of responce but I took the risk. I can remember the times when I started reading and posting to technical mailinglists and newsgroups some years ago, and it was a pain in the a** for me, especially the newsgroups. One wrong post and 1.000 answers with man this and man that and learn to quote and things like hey n00b, ask google for such silly questions! ... all, because I asked my questions in a wrong manner. But: where should I have learned it, if not on the list itself? Again, sorry if my first line was to rude, but I really can feel with those always-unlucky mailinglist newbies... No, I am sorry, i know I was not being polite. After a few weeks reading this list I got kind of frustrated by all these top-postings, they make me dizzy and confused...:o| Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~~ Gentoo 1.4 * Kernel 2.4.20 * KDE 3.1.4 ~~~ /// -- It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. - Robert Bly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
I use reiserfs for my root partition since 2.4.21 and never had a problem, so it is definitely not a kernel problem. - Original Message - From: Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:37 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs 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? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user
Yeah I have about 8 email accounts: work-related, private and so on, but this one really gets spammed heavily.I'm just happy, that I setup a mail adress only for the gentoo mailinglist, so I don't depend on this adress. I almost don't see any spam in those other accounts although I've been using them for years.I also think, that the freemail provider lycos sucks because he lets all thos spam viri to me. - Original Message - From: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user hi, before i subscriped to this list i got no spam at all, but after subscribing it startet, anyone else experienced this? if yes, then i recommend spamasassin for filtering it :D -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat
Maximum partition size of Fat32 is 128GB. - Original Message - From: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat i have a 130gb fat32 filesystem, it wont get any bigger, why? :) On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:18, Ben Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a vfat fs larger than 8G. I've read that I can't do this. However, I just did it a few months ago on a different partition. I don't remember having this problem at that time. Plus Windows does it, right? Here's my output: gentoo root # mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda3 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system from fdisk: /dev/hda369 2501 19543072+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) any thoughts? Thanks, Ben _ Groove on the latest from the hot new rock groups! Get downloads, videos, and more here. http://special.msn.com/entertainment/wiredformusic.armx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.
I feel sorry for you, those banks that use stupid plugins are slow in loading time, my bank uses ssl connection, I can use any ssl capable browsers, the cool thing is with konqueror and mozilla the site just looks like using IE no crappy webdesign. - Original Message - From: Jonas Widarsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop. Tom Wesley wrote: (Anyone jealous?) Haha I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows at all, and dual boot for the sake of windows is something rare among this freedom loving crowd. I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my internet bank system doesn't support mozilla. Jonas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat
uuups sorrry guys what I meant is on some boards you have no chance to use the space beyound 128GB. You need a compatible bios that can adress more than 127GB. - Original Message - From: Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Maillinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat i have a 130gb fat32 filesystem, it wont get any bigger, why? :) On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:18, Ben Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a vfat fs larger than 8G. I've read that I can't do this. However, I just did it a few months ago on a different partition. I don't remember having this problem at that time. Plus Windows does it, right? Here's my output: gentoo root # mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda3 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system from fdisk: /dev/hda369 2501 19543072+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) any thoughts? Thanks, Ben _ Groove on the latest from the hot new rock groups! Get downloads, videos, and more here. http://special.msn.com/entertainment/wiredformusic.armx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?
I'm getting lots of spam and virus mails to the account I use for the gentoo mailinglist lately. CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 68,000 companies and 80,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place twice in every six years. This lottery is partly promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates, President of the World Largest software, we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year (USD$5M) five million United States Dollars international mega lottery. To file for your claim, please contact our assigned official agent/claims and duty officer: Dr. Mtisi Colby ASTRAL SECURITY AND FINANCE BV NL. (Subsidiary Of Delta Lottery NL) e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct telephone Tel:0031-630-326-755 Fax:0031-641 770 994. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] share internet with dlink wifi device?
- Original Message - From: Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] share internet with dlink wifi device? SN wrote: I have a DWL 520+ which shares my dsl connection. Can you please answer following questions ? (related to your card) 1. Which driver do you use ? acx100.sourceforge.net 2. Which modes does it support ? (AP, client, bridge, repeater ...) I know it doesn't support AP, I run a 520+ and 650+ in AdHoc mode, the server shares connection to the laptop 3. Is there a possibility to check what channels are already busy (taken by another wifies) and their signal strength ? signal strength yes, not sure if you can check taken channels. (DWL 900AP+ is a crap from which you can't take such very usefull info.) 4. Have/had you some troubles with it? no easy install and works perfectly, currently doesn't support the turbo mode(like in windows) though, speed is aroung 360KB/s. But since the driver is opensource I'm sure the driver gets better, has more features with every release. ro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] User input during boot, how to catch input
Cool thanks I'll try that today. - Original Message - From: Frank Schäfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User input during boot, how to catch input On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 01:01, SN wrote: You have a laptop probably, this is a weekly topic... The idea is, create different runlevels for including/excluding network, then configure grub/lilo to select the correct runlevel. Ah that was just an example, actually I want to do something more complex and I need userinput for it. In the init script which needs the input: put a ``read'' command at the point u need the input. (if your init scripts are sh/bash) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] User input during boot, how to catch input
You have a laptop probably, this is a weekly topic... The idea is, create different runlevels for including/excluding network, then configure grub/lilo to select the correct runlevel. Ah that was just an example, actually I want to do something more complex and I need userinput for it. - Original Message - From: Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User input during boot, how to catch input -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot
Mhhh, I haven't actually checked if the version baselayout-1.8.6.12. still has got the error, when I had this problem I fixed it myself, changed the script /etc/init.d/halt.sh and wrote a bugreport, I was told that time that it is fixed in cvs, this was a few weeks ago. So I still use 1.8.6.10 with some changes to /etc/init.d/halt.sh So just check /etc/init.d/halt.sh. Since I applied my fix to the script I haven't had a problem with reiserfs messages, that state there was no clean shutdown, before I applied the change I ad the message on every second or third boot. - Original Message - From: Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:04 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot SN wrote: Do you really unmount the partitions by hand, or do you assume, that the reiser partitions were umounted during a clean shutdown??? I assume that they are unmounted during a clean shutdown, yes. Because in the current stable version of baselayout there is a bug, which prevents clean umounting of / reiser partitions As I said, I am using baselayout-1.8.6.12. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5: http://professionelle-softwareentwicklung-mit-php5.de/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clock drift must read, possible solution for some folks
Did I say something about windows? I only run gentoo on this box. As I said before, it ran for month, then some days ago I used the kde tool to change only the date, I just set the date forward for two month, because I wanted to test an application I wrote. I did a reboot tested my app, changed the date back went to bed, next day I realized time was off, date was still correct, timezone setting in kde was fine, timezone setting in rc.conf was still okay. So on everyboot the time was set back by 11 hours, deleting the /etc/adjtime file fixed it, it was created automatically again and is fine now. - Original Message - From: Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clock drift must read, possible solution for some folks On Saturday 22 November 2003 08:18 pm, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Hi Folks, I have seen them messages a couple of times: strage clock drift and so on. I usually thought, that this is some setup problem or some hardware prob, but now I got affected and I found the sucker. I played around with kde and adjusted the clock via kde's little config programm kcmshell clock yesterday. Then today I realised, that my clock was off by about 11 hours, I set the clock in bios to the correct time again, then after a boot into gentoo the clock was 11 hours off again. I did this about 3 times, and everytime the clock script set the time 11h back. Since that clock didn't have a problem for the last couple of month on this install I figured it had something to do with the kde proggie, so I looked around and checked everything manually, the setup in the config files was still okay, since I saw, that the clock script checks /etc/adjtime I decided to delete this file and bingo that did it. So I assume, there is some bug in the kde prog, it somehow fucks up and then adjtime is bad. So if you come across this problem, tell those folks to delete /etc/adjtime __ Holen Sie sich die aktuellsten Chartbreaker als polyphonen Klingelton auf Ihr Handy Angel Of Berlin - Never Leave You - Ab in den Sden, megagnstig bei Lycos Mobile Klingeltne und Logos - http://mobile.lycos.de I don't think so. This would be bad advice. I have this script and my machine works fine. It may be that you are dual booting with windows, and have one operating system storing time as the local time, and the other operating system storing time as GMT time and offsetting the GMT time by a certain number of hours for display. The other possiblity is that your time zones between your operating systems is screwed up. Or finally that your adjtime script was hosed in a more unique manner as different. -- Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot
Eine ganze simple Lösung ist an geeigneter Stelle in halt.sh, z.B. vor Remounting remaining filesystems, folgendes einfügen. ebegin Remounting ReiserFS Partition mount -n -o ro,remount / eend 0 Das mounted das reiserfs mit mountpoint / in readonly mode, somit ist es sauber heruntergefahren, weil davor der cache geflushed wird. - Original Message - From: SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot Mhhh, I haven't actually checked if the version baselayout-1.8.6.12. still has got the error, when I had this problem I fixed it myself, changed the script /etc/init.d/halt.sh and wrote a bugreport, I was told that time that it is fixed in cvs, this was a few weeks ago. So I still use 1.8.6.10 with some changes to /etc/init.d/halt.sh So just check /etc/init.d/halt.sh. Since I applied my fix to the script I haven't had a problem with reiserfs messages, that state there was no clean shutdown, before I applied the change I ad the message on every second or third boot. - Original Message - From: Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:04 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot SN wrote: Do you really unmount the partitions by hand, or do you assume, that the reiser partitions were umounted during a clean shutdown??? I assume that they are unmounted during a clean shutdown, yes. Because in the current stable version of baselayout there is a bug, which prevents clean umounting of / reiser partitions As I said, I am using baselayout-1.8.6.12. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5: http://professionelle-softwareentwicklung-mit-php5.de/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nmap can detect my OS
Do you run any services? SSHD Apache Mailserver??? If you do, then it makes no sense, to apply kernel patches or change some variables in the kernel before you compile em, to fake your os. An attacker can always find out what kind of box is running, even if you fool tools like nmap, you won't fool a real pro. Only if you use this box as a router without any services running it can be of advantage, but if you already asked the question, then I don't think you run any critical servers :-) - Original Message - From: SMS WebMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 5:41 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] nmap can detect my OS Hi When I scan my PC using nmap I can get my PC OS (linux 2.4.X) , how can I disable this in my PC, so when someone scan my PC he can't get any information at all about me ? Thank you -- http://www.4-SMS.Com http://eShop.4-SMS.Com http://Mozilla.4-SMS.Com -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nmap/iptables
- Original Message - From: Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 4:33 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] nmap/iptables I have in my home box a iptables firewall configured via shorewall with the standalone machine standard configuration (no services whatsoever to the outside world). Just for good measure, I tryed portscanning from a computer at work: (my dynamic IP number edited) $ nmap -vv IP number Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) No tcp,udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect( ) scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want t o see what hosts are up). Machine IP number MIGHT actually be listening on probe port 80 Host IP number appears to be up ... good. Initiating Connect() Scan against IP number Adding open port 80/tcp Bumping up senddelay by 1 (to 1), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 2 (to 3), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 3 (to 6), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 4 (to 10), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 5 (to 15), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 6 (to 21), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 75000 (to 285000), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 75000 (to 36), due to excessive drops Bumping up senddelay by 75000 (to 435000), due to excessive drops The Connect() Scan took 1038 seconds to scan 1601 ports. Interesting ports on (IP number): (The 1597 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 6/tcp filteredunknown 25/tcp filteredsmtp 80/tcp openhttp 135/tcpfilteredloc-srv Okay the output here means, the firewall is blocking 6, 25,135, since they show up here you didn't completely drop all packages, but only block them, this is usually safe. 80 is completely open, if you run apache, then apache will be available from outside Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1038 second s The scanning from the home box itself gives a more reassuring outcome: $ nmap -vv localhost No tcp, udp, or ICMP scantype specified, assuming vanilla tcp connect() scan. Use -sP if you really don't want to portscan (and just want to see what hosts are up). Starting nmap 3.27 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-11-22 14:54 WET Host localhost (127.0.0.1) appears to be up ... good. Initiating Connect() Scan against localhost (127.0.0.1) at 14:54 Adding open port 1/tcp Adding open port 6000/tcp The Connect() Scan took 0 seconds to scan 1623 ports. Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): (The 1621 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 6000/tcp openX11 1/tcp opensnet-sensor-mgmt The reason why you get a completely different out put is, first of all, if you scan localhost, then you scan only services that are bound to localhost. Depends on your setup, just run nmap on your localbox but instead of nmap --vv localhost specify your real IP of the interface that connects to the internet. Also because shorewall is usually setup to block only traffic coming in from the device that connects to the internet the output will look different. Therefore the scan from outside is much more important. Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.633 seconds Now, why should nmap at the remote machine report that port 80 is open? I assume that this happens because nmap is not supposed to be used when the target has a firewall. Can I be right? And, if so, how can I check whether the firewall is really working as expected? Thanks for any help, Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot
Do you really unmount the partitions by hand, or do you assume, that the reiser partitions were umounted during a clean shutdown??? Because in the current stable version of baselayout there is a bug, which prevents clean umounting of / reiser partitions, I reported this problem some time ago and it is already fixed in the cvs version. - Original Message - From: Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:19 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] reiserfs always replays log transactions during boot For some time I know (IIRC since I upgraded to baselayout-1.8.6.12) reiserfs always replays a couple of log transactions during boot although I always unmount my partitions correctly. Any hint appreciated, Sebastian -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5: http://professionelle-softwareentwicklung-mit-php5.de/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking my TightVNC session
vncserver -geometry 1024x768 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Shrinking my TightVNC session G'day list, Quick question: my Gentoo PC runs at 1280x1024, but the XP laptop I VNC into it from only goes up to 1024x768. How can I change this so the new resolution runs at the smaller resolution? Thanks again, Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard monitor
You just have to make sure you didn't compile i2c into kernel, it is not a problem if it was compiled as module, but it is a problem if it was enabled with y in kernel. If the above is ok, then you are al set by emerging it, since emerge will compile and install the kernel modules which are created by i2c and lm-sensors into the kernel modules dir. - Original Message - From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard monitor Redeeman wrote: what you are looking for is lm-sensors, first you emerge i2c (the version in 2.4.x kernels is outdated, 2.6 is new) and then you emerge lm-sensors, and gkrellm, and gkrellm sensors then you are set! I was wondering this question also.. so you do not have to do anything to the kernel? Thanks, Aaron On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:38, Gezim Hoxha wrote: Hi guys, I'm just looking for some utility like motherboard monitor (http://mbm.livewiredev.com/) that works in gentoo, and what do I have to enable in the kernel for this? Thanks, Gezim __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice
There is already a prebuilt binary available, just emerge openoffice-bin :-) - Original Message - From: Chris Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice I have a request then: Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? My laptop can't handle this ebuild. please, -chris Jeffrey Smelser wrote: yes does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available diskspace to compile? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH - further file handling question
Simple answer No. - Original Message - From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] SSH - further file handling question Hi folks, Example: On machineA Konsole window == 1. Slogin machineB 2. Start konqueror of machineB displaying it on machineA 3. Start an openoffice document on konqueror of machineB 4. Editing openoffice document Would it be possible to save it directory on machineA? Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE
Then I have to translate it first, it is currently in german :-) - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE You don't need that package use rfb it includes x0rfbserver, that's all you need. I was writing a tutorial on how to use vnc x0rfbserver + ssh tunneling in order to have a secure way of connecting to remote desktops easily, maybe I send it to the newsletter team. Send me a rough draft, on list of off, so I can test it, OK?!? :-) Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE
You don't need that package use rfb it includes x0rfbserver, that's all you need. I was writing a tutorial on how to use vnc x0rfbserver + ssh tunneling in order to have a secure way of connecting to remote desktops easily, maybe I send it to the newsletter team. - Original Message - From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:53 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Desktop sharing - Need kfrb from KDE Hi, I wonder if anybody would know what part of the KDE environment the kfrb program comes from and whether it could be run on a fluxbox machine? I need to do desktop sharing and neither TightVNC or RealVNC do this yet. (They only create new desktops.) kfrb is the only app I've found so far that suggests they can do this. I'm interested in any application that would allow me to view an operating desktop on one Gentoo machine from another. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos
I don't have to try it :-) I was sitting next to the guy who implemented Yahoo launch, if you know what I mean :-) So I just know it ain't possible can't tell you more. - Original Message - From: Michele Di Trani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos They like to watch the videos that on Yahoo. I have not been able to Wich kind of codec is used for these Yahoo Videos? In Linux you can easily watch divx, xvid, mpg, wmv, asf, realmedia, avi, mov.. (have you tried emerging Xine or Mplayer?) -- == Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 OS: GNU/Linux - 2.4.22 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IDS
- Original Message - From: rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IDS What are you using to modify iptables after snort detects something bad? With ipchains, I used to use 'guardian' (available from link on snort web page), but have not updated it so it will work with iptables yet. Is your work GPL? I am sure many more experienced IDS users would be interested. Since I'm a professional perl programmer, I wrote a script for our company in perl that reads out snort logs and creates rules for iptables. But it ain't gpl, only for internal business, sorry. -rdg --- SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MessageIf it's a single maschine, then I'd suggest snort. But as I followed the thread, you don't seem to have ever worked with either snort or prelude, this is bad, gentoos preconfigured scripts suck, to get some out of it you will have to reconfigure a couple of things.. I have setup snort on several distros , but they usually had one thing in common a bad start configuration. I have written some additional scripts, that add better snort support for dialup users and I have added support for automatic blocking through iptables in case snort detects critical attacks. The thing is as someone mentioned earlier, if you don't have a lot of knowledge of real attacks, network setup etc. and if you are not experienced with an ids all you will get is a load of information that you don't know how to interpret. - Original Message - From: Chase Jeffery D To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:07 PM Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] IDS single machine. This is going to be installed on my firewall machine.. -Original Message- From: SN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IDS Depends on your network, single machine or a whole set of machines? - Original Message - From: Chase Jeffery D To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 7:48 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] IDS Hi everyone, Just wondering what Network intrusion detection software is the best. I've heard the main two programs to use would be Snort or Prelude and am wondering which of the two gives you more flexibility(configuration) and better detection/reporting? Thanks for your help, Jeff __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos
- Original Message - From: Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos --- SN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No chance, there is no linux player that will work at the moment. You must know something that we don't Stefan. Yes I do know a bit more about it, the codec isn't the problem, you just don't get the stream, sorry but I'm not sure if I'm athorized to comment on this. Linux can play every codec that I know of. Atleast the popular ones that everyone else seems to use. Which Yahoo video's are you assuming that Harlan is talking about? Yahoo Launch, Musik Videos etc, which are streamed, otherwise he wouldn't have a problem with them :-) Just curious. :P Thanks, JBanks - Original Message - From: Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:42 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos I have some family members that want to switch to Gentoo Linux, they are getting very tired of M$ windows constantly failing, slow performance, etc. They like to watch the videos that on Yahoo. I have not been able to find any software that will play these. Any ideas??? I have installed Windows Media Player 6.4 under Wine, but have no idea how to get it working with a web browser. I would prefer a native Linux solution. Thanks, Harlan... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos
No chance, there is no linux player that will work at the moment. - Original Message - From: Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:42 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos I have some family members that want to switch to Gentoo Linux, they are getting very tired of M$ windows constantly failing, slow performance, etc. They like to watch the videos that on Yahoo. I have not been able to find any software that will play these. Any ideas??? I have installed Windows Media Player 6.4 under Wine, but have no idea how to get it working with a web browser. I would prefer a native Linux solution. Thanks, Harlan... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
