[gentoo-user] bind and bind-tools out of sync
I have created a bug and NOBODY seems to respond to it. It is listed below: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79718 So, I have posted it here for more public exposure. Does anybody else feel that havnig libraries for bind and bind-tools out of sync is a bad thing? Thanks, Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bind and bind-tools out of sync
Mike Noble wrote: There really is no reason why bind and bind-tools need to be the same revision. Bug/security updates to bind do not have any relevance to bind-tools. At the same time you can add functionality to bind-tools which does not effect how bind works and thus why change the revision because of the other. Mike Sure there is. The libraries for each package differ. They really need to be kept in sync so that the tools match the server. Do we install mysql client tools for a different version of mysql [as an example]? Plain and simply put, these need to be synced or a solution that includes matching binaries should be considered [as an example, freebsd server ports ALWAY include the client tools, so the client tools are not needed to be rebuilt ... and even if they did need to be rebuilt, the versions match]. Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with firewall please
Nick Smith wrote: im going to try and setup a firewall on my home server this weekend, but im unsure as to all the ports i have to open in order for my mail server to stay operational, this is a list of what i think i need to make accessible from outside, please let me know if i need to open anything else and suggestions please. im using 1 nic at the moment with a 2nd installed but not active yet, going to hook the machine straight up to my cable modem and bypass the router for now and run nic2 to the router/switch when i go to set this up. here is a list of what i think i need open, and question next to the ones im not sure of. courier-imap - 143 courier-imap-ssl - 995? courier-pop3 - 110 courier-pop3-ssl - ? The above SSL ports are probably alright, but don't open the non-ssl ports, 110 and 143. If you aren't going to use the SSL ports from the outside, then disable those too [I always tunnel via SSH rather than open them up]. postfix - 25 apache - 80 Good. proftpd - 21 Again, if you actually plan to use this from the outside, go ahead and open it, otherwise don't. Remember that passwords are most often passed in the clear with FTP. webmin - 1 DO NOT expose the webmin port. Period. distcc - 3632 Why? ssh - 22 Excellent idea. ntp - ? what port does it update itself? No good, do not expose this to the internet, period. clamav - same as above NFS - ? might try sharing drives across internet, what port? squid - 8080 tor - ? does it need a port? privoxy - ? openldap - ? when i get this running does it use a port? Do not expose any of these to the internet period. Why would you want any of these available outside your network? since im not to sure about iptables right now and dont fully understand it, ive been playing with webmin's shorewall 'plugin' and am going to try setting it up with that. it seems newbie friendly. It is still not newbie friendly. More importantly, if you don't know what you are setting up, it doesn't really matter which firewall you use. Perhaps you should consider reading up on firewalls, which essentially try to hide your services from the rest of the world, rather than make them secure outright. also, how do i know if a packet/port is TCP, UDP or IMCP? when i go to set this up i need to know that, is there a way to tell? im kinda new at this. first firewall...woo-hoo, never figured i needed one until now :-/ thanks for any and all help. Nick Essentially, IP traffic is ICMP, TCP or UDP. Most that you care about is TCP. ICMP is used for pings and traceroutes mostly [other stuff you aren't likely aware of like resets]. TCP is the most common traffic, used in about everything popular [http, ftp, telnet, ssh, nntp, etc]. UDP is used in broadcast type information such as some times of broadcast video or audio. To get an idea of the services and their types, take a look around in /etc/services. Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice
David Busby wrote: You should watch what you say. I know this will abuse the system, which will it abuse the least? A database would not work because I wouldn't be able to #1 make this easy tree structure to scan #2 it will be smaller storage wise in files and in a DB with all that overhead #3 digging through the tree is faster than an index scan in mysql, postgresq or DB2 with as many records as I'll have. The projected database structure would be =3Tb, but by using directories as my index I can eleminate much of that overhead and shring my storage requirement to a maintainable 750G. You don't learn that in programming class, you learn that building financial software for the last 10 years. You #1 didn't have enough information to tell me how to arch. my software, #2 assumed the wrong info and made the wrong suggestion and #3 didn't provide any helpful information #4 attempted an insult on a list that is supposed to assist. Why even send your post? (don't bother with answer) Why couldn't you implement this in a database. I can think of several easy implementations in doing so. What you have described is a simple tree. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] squirrelmail
David Corbin wrote: I have squirrelmail emerged (w/apache 2.0), but it won't work. There doesn't appear to be anything in the apache configuration that allows it run php, instead of just returning the source. Pointers? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Put -PHP4 in your apache configuration file (/etc/conf.d/apache2). Restart apache and you should be set. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?
Paul Kain wrote: when I type /etc/init.d/dhcp start I get an error saying setting ownership on dchp.leases[!!] starting dhcp [ok] I much prefer isd-dhcp. Take a look at that if you want. I find it more robust and quite configurable. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp or dhcpd ?
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I much prefer isd-dhcp. Take a look at that if you want. I find it more robust and quite configurable. That is 'isc-dhcp'. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe
Dabi wrote: unsuscribe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Send an email to the below address from your subscribed address. Next time it would be wise to visit the subscription site, read the email headers, or otherwise do the leg work. ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
I just build my 2004.3 system from a stage3 install and went to update and I am seeing the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy # emerge --update --pretend world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (from pkg sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2) What does this mean? How do I fix it? -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I just build my 2004.3 system from a stage3 install and went to update and I am seeing the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy # emerge --update --pretend world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (from pkg sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2) What does this mean? How do I fix it? Hmm ... I guess it helps to have PAM in my USE variables. I thought this was a default and that it wasn't explicitly required? USE=x86 3dnow X509 acl acpi acpi4linux activefilter alsa apache2 bash-completion bcmath bzip2 bzlib cap caps cddb cdr clamav cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbm dhcp encode erandom fastcgi flatfile foomaticdb ftp gcj gcl gd gif gmp gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gsl iconv idea imap imlib inifile innodb java jpeg kerberos lcms libclamav lzw-tiff maildir mcal memlimit mhash mime ming mmx mng mono msession mysql mysqli nptl ntlm objc odbc pam pcntl pcre pdflib pear-db perlsuid php pic pie posix quotas rtc samba sasl session skey slang soap sockets softquota suid szip tiff usb vhosts xml2 xmlrpc xpm xsl xslt yaz -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
Bob Sanders wrote: No. Pam is not required. You may or may not want pam. Some apps may need the pam libs, or think they need it, but strictly speaking, pam is not required. The choice is yours. Bob I understand it is not required. However, it always was the default. When did it cease being a default USE variable. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
Grendel wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Matthias F. Brandstetter uttered the following... -- quoting Grendel -- ... trust me that bmf and bogofilter are better than spamassasin. I tested that with the last 1000 emails I recevied 200 were spam, and only 1 got through. I have similar results using SpamAssassin over a year now. So why do you think is bmf better than SpamAssassin? Well spam assasin is not very accurate, ie my ISP runs spam assasin but out of the 4000 mails I get per day I find that about 80 spam get through, which is annoying, so I used bmf and it is very accurate, now only one spam per day gets through. spammers are trying to cope up with this by adding a lot of dictionary worrds to the end of a spam but the filters learn about this. If you have shell access at your ISP (with about 6MB free space) you could turn on Bayes Learning with Spam Assassin. That might require a little work on your part to train it and perhaps some scripts to automate some useful processes, but that is what I use and my false positive rate is 0% and my false negative rate is about 3% (meaning it catches 97% of the spam). Tom Veldhouse signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
Mike Williams wrote: spamassassin. It does bayes by itself, if it's learnt enough. A few thousand hand picked spam and ham should suffice. Yes, it does Bayes by default. However, the feature is useless unless trained. Further, if trained per user, it will require about 6MB of disk space to keep database. -rw--- 1 veldy veldy 1359872 Feb 15 19:59 auto-whitelist.db -rw--- 1 veldy veldy 6234 Feb 15 19:59 bayes_journal -rw--- 1 veldy veldy 1327104 Feb 15 19:59 bayes_seen -rw--- 1 veldy veldy 5259264 Feb 15 19:59 bayes_toks -rw-r--r-- 1 veldy veldy 111 Nov 11 12:27 user_prefs Tom Veldhouse signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail confirmation requests
Grendel wrote: 2. Which gives better results, feeding a large spam and ham archive at once, or starting from scratch let the filter make the decisions and correct it appropriately? I thought that starting from a clean slate and letting the filter make its choices and correcting them will give better results. This is the approach that Spam Assassin takes. It does not start considering bayes results until some large number of email has been fed to it. I think it is several thousand, but I did not check. It usually takes about 1 week for my email to start getting filtered using bayes criteria, and I receive a couple of thousand emails per day, of which about 150 to 200 are typically spam. Tom Veldhouse signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anybody getting the CPU overload warning strange audio problems with KDE 3.2.0? I am finding it quite annoying. I don't seem to have any problems with Gnome 2.4.2 and using esound. I have tried this with both the latest Gentoo sources and ALSA and with the mm-sources 2.6.3-rc1 kernel (also with ALSA). Tom Veldhouse -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFALWPJARgTFXYf0wARAoKeAKCcjUXe1+SaqvdFPGogr+c/fOmMHgCgvvfq SApnlL3AMy9JRyydJMeg3rw= =uhNM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jens Mayer wrote: | | I encouter this CPU overload problem while running artsd with the | Open Sound System output chosen, as well as running artsd with | the autodetect setting turned on (which seems to use OSS, too). | | Switching to ALSA solves this problems, so maybe you want to have | a look at your Sound System Settings. | | All this is pretty annoying since artsd with the ALSA device chosen | produces a quirky sound on my laptop, while using OSS, the sound is | good - until the CPU (P4 1.8 GHz) burns. | | On my Desktop PC (AMD TB 800 MHz), ALSA works fine, but OSS also eats | my CPU. I'm running the same kernel there. | | Both kernel have ALSA compiled in with OSS emulation, not OSS itself. | | Regards, | Jens | You are awesome! That seems to have solved the problem. At least, I have not had that irritant pop-up even once since I set it to ALSA. Tom Veldhouse -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFALXDXARgTFXYf0wARAqdQAJ9u6RutLcLqaPTUTfiO2Ran+CvJOgCgt3Dr ye87nPljfDAKdaTNYQb4saQ= =6PWr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql wont start ?
raptor wrote: as shown after emerging and config I started postgresql : /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting postgres... * Please see log file: /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.log it doesnt start and there is no such log generated ?! even after i done updatedb, locate cant find such file.. what can be the problem [ebuild R ] dev-db/postgresql-7.4.1-r1 Check the permissions on /var/lib/postgresql/data did you initialize the database first? # ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db/postgresql-7.4.1-r3/postgresql-7.4.1-r3.ebuild config Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] my sound went away
Nickolay Savchenko wrote: Wazow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nickolay Savchenko wrote: Right click on sound button, uncheck mute item. ;) I have also seen that, and have to admit that it made me tinker with alsa config, which was just a waste of time :). So why gnome sound (or system mixer?) gets muted occasionally? Andrzej I don't know exactly, but it seems like gnome has a problem accessing /dev/mixer after restarting X server. So, it thinks you have no sound card, and mutes itself. However, it's not gnome's problem, i've noticed this using other WMs. I'm not an Xfree or alsa hacker and I cannot say something other than my (maybe stupid) suggestions. It sounds like gnome is looking for OSS compatible devices (/dev/mixer, /dev/dsp, etc) and OSS emulation is not installed and running with ALSA. In particular, alsa drivers must be compiled with --enable-oss or some such switch. This necessitates have OSS in the USE flags. Of course, with the 2.6 kernel, these options need to be chosen in the kernel config. Also, the lines in /etc/modules.d/alsa need to be uncommented for OSS emulation as well. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] my sound went away
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:27 pm, Nickolay Savchenko wrote: You've misunderstood. Gnome sound works, but ocassionaly it becomes muted. I think the problem is related to permissions. 5 minutes ago my father logged out from his gnome session and I logged in. And there is an error: Every user that wants to use sound needs to be a member of group audio. Is your Father a member of group audio? Tom Veldhouse -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALBzIARgTFXYf0wARArr0AKCB+OUYcjTPFZxxd73yVyYmuLX49QCgm9BN Sf5JzjaSy5m/LuM+V2geikU= =SnAx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?
Has anybody else had this happen? I have OSS emulation setup. I try to run mpg123 and it complains that there is no /dev/dsp ... and there isn't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] modules.d # /etc/init.d/alsasound start * Loading ALSA drivers... * Using ALSA OSS emulation * Loading: snd-emu10k1 * Loading: snd-emu10k1-synth * Loading: snd-seq-midi * Running card-dependent scripts * Restoring Mixer Levels [ ok ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] modules.d # * media-sound/alsa-driver Latest version available: 1.0.2c Latest version installed: 1.0.2c Size of downloaded files: 1,664 kB Homepage:http://www.alsa-project.org/ Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture kernel modules License: GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 Any fix for this? Is it a bug? Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?
Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd does not generate the device file! Reported as bug, but no fix in sight. No problem using OSS, however. HTH, Well, doesn't that modprobe sequence actually load the OSS module and not the alsa module? ... that is why /dev/dsp was created I assume. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?
Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd does not generate the device file! Reported as bug, but no fix in sight. No problem using OSS, however. HTH, Well, doesn't that modprobe sequence actually load the OSS module and not the alsa module? ... that is why /dev/dsp was created I assume. Tom Veldhouse To be more exact, snd_ens1371, which is the alsa module. The problem is real and alsa, I assure you. Yes, I know the problem is real ... it has hit me. But you mentioned that the fix [for you] to get /dev/dsp is to: modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 and that would load the OSS (default in the 2.4 kernel) and that does create /dev/dsp. I have tried unloading alsa and loading the OSS version, emu10k1, and I get /dev/dsp. Upon unloading it and reloading the alsa modules, the device again disappears. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?
Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:19:52 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd does not generate the device file! Reported as bug, but no fix in sight. No problem using OSS, however. HTH, Well, doesn't that modprobe sequence actually load the OSS module and not the alsa module? ... that is why /dev/dsp was created I assume. Tom Veldhouse To be more exact, snd_ens1371, which is the alsa module. The problem is real and alsa, I assure you. ALSA does not build the OSS compat code into it unless OSS is set in the USE variable. Is this the way we want it? Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Appropriate Stage3 tarball?
Is there a decent stage3 tarball that I should consider downloading to get a machine up and running quickly and yet have it as close to up-to-date with x86 as possible? I would prefer a tarball that is of a known good quality, and not an experimental or testing version. Thank you in advance, Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and Mailman
Tom Caudron wrote: I've emerged Postfix 2.0.16-r1, Mailman 2.1.4, and Fetchmail 6.2.3 on the same server. I've set up Postfix with inet_interfaces = localhost so that it should be listening on 127.0.0.1:25. Checking with netstat, I see that it does seem to be listening: # netstat -nlp |grep 25 |grep tcp tcp00 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1274/master I've set up Mailman with 2 lists (mailman and test) and I've added 1 member to test. I added my own address to see if I'd get a confirmation message telling me I'd been added (which would help me confirm that mailman is able to tell postfix to send messages out. This is my first issue. I added my address, never got an error, but also never got confirmation. I have not yet set up Fetchmail, as I figured that would be the last step. For now, I just want to be able to add and remove members from the test list. When I added myself to the test list, I looked in /var/log/mail/current and I saw this: Feb 7 11:33:27 [postfix/smtp] 6C30418B04: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mx00.1and1.com[217.160.230.10], delay=0, status=bounced (host mx00.1and1.com[217.160.230.10] said: 550 rejected: unknown local-part in sender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) I have no idea why it says it's bouncing a message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just because [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist. Does this mean I'll need to set up a listname-bounces account for each list I create? To be clear, in the above log entry, 1and1.com is the remote mx host for my domain. Anyone have an idea as to how I could proceed from here? I can send any relevant logs/output/whatever needed to help clarify things if asked, I just wasn't sure what output was relevant. My experience with mail servers is limited (which I'm sure is obvious by this message). -Tom Caudron Try puting 217.160.230.10/32 in mynetworks. Also, make sure you run 'newaliases', as the default installation doesn't (or didn't) used to run that. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] NPTL, PIC and SMP?
Has anybody tried building their Gentoo (~x86) system using NPTL, PIC and SMP? I have a hyperthreaded P4 3.06 system and I run it using an SMP (2.6.1) kernel. I rebuilt my system using NPTL and PIC and at first things would go very quickly. However, every time I have tried this, at some point a threaded process gets stuck (i.e. there were four perl processes that could not be killed, even with -9) that make the system essentially stop responding. I have tried this several different times over the last few months, and at some point I will eventually see the system slow to a crawl and essentially go non-responsive. I have managed to build KDE and others that work fine, but then a simple build of say, nmap will suddenly never end, and slowly the system becomes unresponsive. Has anybody else noticed this? It is certainly repeatable, but it seems arbitrary when the problem will arise. I have been anxious to try some speed comparisons between FreeBSD's KSE and Linux's NPTL ... but so far, it appears that any extended test will favor KSE on my machine, as NPTL is arbitrarily failing. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with ntpd...
Benoit Joseph wrote: Hello all, I have a very strange problem with my ntpd server. Its configuration resets all the time... My config file is very simple, server ntp.belnet.be logfile /var/log/ntp.log driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift After a reboot, my config file becomes restrict default noquery notrust nomodify restrict 127.0.0.1 restrict 217.117.42.0 mask 255.255.254.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 3 server 127.127.1.0 driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log And this without any operations of me. This is quite annoying! Anybody has an idea? It will be welcome! Thanks for advance, Benoit This just happened to me and Spider posted the solution. I won't rant on the merits of using isc-dhcp3 over dhcpcd. So, you are using DHCP to get your network configuration? In /etc/conf.d/net, put the following: # For DHCP set iface_eth? to dhcp # For passing options to dhcpcd use dhcpcd_eth? # iface_eth0=dhcp dhcpcd_eth0=-N In particular, it is the -N parameter that will fix this. dhcpcd choses the most silly default behavior ... it is a rather destructive attitude I see on the part of the dhcpcd developers. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 ?
Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Anyone running with ~x86 set system wide? Good, bad, simply broken? Generally pretty good. I wouldn't muck with it though unless you are willing to get dirt on your hands and dig in when things do break (which is fairly rare really). I think it is far more problematic to mix ~x86 and x86 then it is to work with all one or the other. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Recommended 2.6 kernel
What is the recommend Gentoo portage package to use for the 2.6 kernel? I would like to use the latest, but a semblance of stability will override that concern I guess. Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Anybody seen this before?
emerge (2 of 2) sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1-r1 to / /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 56: [: too many arguments Downloading http://gentoo.noved.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 Is this a problem with the gentoo-dev-sources ebuild or is this a problem with portage? Is this a cause for concern? Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended 2.6 kernel
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:32:54 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is the recommend Gentoo portage package to use for the 2.6 | kernel? | I would like to use the latest, but a semblance of stability will | override that concern I guess. If you want stability you shouldn't be running a 2.6.x kernel. Wait for another half dozen or so .x releases before you switch. I said relative stability. I have used 2.6 in the past, but I am simply looking for the recommended version of 2.6 to use with Gentoo. If there are obvious OOPS, I would prefer to avoid them ... hence my inquiry here. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Peter Wu wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:06PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: What if root on a Linux box open an attachment to a mail he receives today and that attachment happens to be some executable that can ruin the system? I really doubt switching to Linux can stop virii from spreading. Most Linux users don't read email as a priveledged users. So, switching to Linux would definitely help. But in the case of email worms, a non-priveledged user can send email, so a non-priveledged user can execute the worm effectively. The problem is not the platform of choice in any event, it is the rights of the executing user. Microsoft needs to work on getting its users to use their machines as non-Administrative users, and currently, there are too many requirements made on users that require Administrative rights (and no simple ability to su) to allow this. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Collins Richey wrote: 2. No one with a lick of sense (except maybe Lindows users) processes mail as root. Almost all viruses rely on the wide open nature of windows to inflict their harm. Converting to linux (or even to Apple OS X or BSD) will eliminate 99% of the problems. These worms don't require root or administrative rights. They only require themselves to be executed by somebody with the right to send email, presumably with outlook products. So, lack of administrative rights is no real protection. Tom Veldhouse P.S. Please fix the length of the lines in your messages ... to under 80 characters. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
lukas wrote: Hi folks, since I'm posting to this list, I receive more and more viruses every day. A few minutes ago, I received a bounced virus-mail reputedly sent by me. I wan't to advert, that mails with my sender-address that are not signed with my pgp-key are not originate from me! What are your experiences with posting to this list and the amount of viruses you get? cu lukas Viruses are usually sent by somebody you know originally and then your address is passed on to other virus infect machines and you get more and more of these things. I run a mailing list that has suddenly been targetted by an infected members computer infestation and now the address is spreading all over the place and more and more viruses are being sent to that list. So far, clamav is keeping up with the definitions and all is well. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] viruses
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: emerge Mail-SpamAssassin Read http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=bYySnE2hp_lva=p_faqid=329p_created=1039628948p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTImcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1zcGFtYXNzYXNzaW4mcF9wYWdlPTE*p_li= Run every two or three weeks: sa-learn --showdots --spam --mbox [your SPAM box] sa-learn --showdots --ham --mbox [your other boxes] At the beginning is not perfect; the more you train the Bayesian filter, the better it gets. Canek Every two or three weeks? I process spam a few times per hour. I have a script that checks a couple of Maildir folders for the false negatives or the false positives that I drag into them and then bayes is updated. My wife sees a lot more spam because she is not as diligent and only updates her bayes every few days. I suspect that doing this every few weeks would be nearly completely ineffective [from a bayes approach] with the way spam changes. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten
rd wrote: Spider -- Thanks man! You're the best. I have been fighting this for months, although I hadn't posted it. You don't boot linux often enough to remember this bug. ;-)) -TacticalJack Maybe this could be put into /etc/conf.d/net as a comment? Now I wish gentoo would move over to using isc-dhcp3, as it doesn't have these unreasonable defaults. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] samba and wireless
rh wrote: Hello. I had Samba working perfectly when I had my Gentoo box and my (shudder) Windows box plugged directly into my router. Now that I have moved the Windows box to a wireless connection to the router, neither computer can see each other anymore. Is this more likely to be a Samba (config) issue or a hardware (router) issue? Or both? I have been looking but want to know which direction I should be leaning more towards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list It is likely your wireless base station. Usually, if it is behind your firewall, you only need to run it in bridge mode (indeed, I always purchase an access point and not a router as there is no sense adding latency when I already have a firewall). Samba can also be configured to listen on only a given interface or network, so you might look at those settings. From here I lead you to all the online doco or your routers doco. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail and clamav
Paul Stear wrote: hi all, I use kmail and have installed clamav. I updated clamav db using freshclam and then run clamscan on my mail dir, it found 4 infected files:- /home/paul/Mail/trash/cur/1075475535.2312.nh0h: Worm.Gibe.F FOUND /home/paul/Mail/trash/cur/1075475726.2312.qiyM: Exploit.IFrame.Gen FOUND /home/paul/Mail/trash/cur/1075475722.2312.Z2xn: Worm.Gibe.F FOUND /home/paul/Mail/trash/cur/1075475538.2312.xlv0: Exploit.IFrame.Gen FOUND I have 3 questions 1. How can I get freshclam ( runs as root ) to run once each day when I switch my computer on? 2. How can I set things up so that clamscan runs and checks the mail either during or straight after loading from my isp? 3. How do I get the infected files deleted automatically so there is no chance of anybody opening them? Thanks in advance for any help Paul Since you are running gentoo ... the package installs a script to do this. # rc-update add freshclam default # /etc/init.d/freshclam start If you want to start it manually as a daemon: # /usr/bin/freshclam -d -c 2 -l /var/log/clamav/clam-update.log As far as getting to scan your mail ... it is best for clamav to do it at your mail server. It depends upon the MTA as to what solution to use. I use postfix and amavisd-new and email is quarantined immediately upon arrival and never makes it to any mailbox at all. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Your GPG signatures...
lukas wrote: Hi folks, Someone told me, that he can't verify my key. You can read this mail and my answer below. Does anybody know if it is ok, that my key on pgp.mit.edu differs from my localy stored public key? cu lukas It is working perfectly. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Are you running dhcp? If so it will do that but you can add some | parameters to the config file to stop that. Yes, I am running dhcp ... however this does not happen on my FreeBSD box also running dhcp. Is this perhaps a bug in dhcpcd? FreeBSD uses isc-dhcp for its client software, and there is no trouble with overwriting this file. I do know that my dhcp server is not setup at all to configure ntp resources on the client. So ... what can I do to fix this? Thanks, Tom Veldhouse -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAGQ8aARgTFXYf0wARAvuWAJ9wYcVFgzmYD1qW0F4o2ueNvFzDkACgp5TB LQ3DqEMIXlDRY6dmfJr8LsQ= =tOov -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spider wrote: | begin quote | On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:22:56 -0600 | Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |Does anybody know why /etc/ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten? On my |machine, it does not get rewritten if I start or stop the service via |/etc/init.d/ntpd stop or start, however it is ALWAYS rewritten with a |version that points locally when the machine is rebooted. I have not |found what is causing this. | | | | Yeah, dhcp does that. | | | add a -N to the options (etc/conf.d/net ) for dhcpcd and it won't do | that anymore. | Awesome! Thank you. Tom Veldhouse -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFAGQ/kARgTFXYf0wARAnK7AJ0S1jwL/Vo+1F9tb+5JXghwST7QTACWPOjc kY5peVYYtm0zoHA0Bf0mxA== =WiFA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Line Mail Clients?
Matt Garman wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:20:31PM -0800, Anupam Kapoor wrote: emacs -nw -f gnus but that's not the same as mail now is it ? gnus will do both news and mail. I assume it was originally meant to be just a news client, but there's plenty of documentation describing how to use it as your mail client as well. mh (and nmh) are other command-line mail programs. I'm not sure if they support gnupg or not. Personally, I use mutt. Matt The reason I don't like Mutt is that it doesn't handle folders well. I have it look in my Maildir and it can't differentiate my folders. When I change the mask, it shows them all ... but the names are something like this: 16 drwx-- 6 veldyveldy 512 Nov 03 18:05 .Linux/ 17 drwx-- 6 veldyveldy 512 Nov 03 18:05 .Linux.Gentoo/ 18 drwx-- 6 veldyveldy 512 Jan 27 17:40 .Linux.Gentoo.Anno 19 drwx-- 6 veldyveldy 512 Jan 27 16:25 .Linux.Gentoo.Bugs 20 drwx-- 6 veldyveldy 512 Jan 21 09:11 .Linux.Gentoo.Secu 21 drwx-- 6 veldyveldy 512 Jan 29 10:55 .Linux.Gentoo.User I would like to see the folders listed in a more threaded way ... similar to the way TIN organizes USENET messages (when you press 'l'). I have some folders that just have too long of a name for the directory listing approach to be usable. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Line Mail Clients?
John S J Anderson wrote: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason I don't like Mutt is that it doesn't handle folders well. You should take a look at Gnus, unless you have pathological Emacs hatred. john. I will take a look at it. I am not familiar with Emacs (other than in X11) and don't really know it. It doesn't really bother me to pick up a new mail client, as long as it is not aggravating in appearance, and relatively easy to use [after the usual learning curve is climbed]. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Full ACK. I only use signing and ecryption if communicating with certain people, but it doesn't make sense to sign or encrypt to a mailinglist. Actually, it does make sense to sign all public communication. I post in some newsgroups from time to time, and I have been impersonated once. I had no trouble establishing that it wasn't me, and indeed caused some trouble for the offender, but signing messages pretty much solves that problem. I still don't use signing in many forums. With email, it is easy, so it is not a big deal either way. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten
Does anybody know why /etc/ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten? On my machine, it does not get rewritten if I start or stop the service via /etc/init.d/ntpd stop or start, however it is ALWAYS rewritten with a version that points locally when the machine is rebooted. I have not found what is causing this. Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging cyrus-sasl
Mauro Arnoldi wrote: snip If you are going to post PGP signed messages, will you please post your public key ... otherwise it is just a waste of all of our bandwidth. Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
All people on these lists that use GPG ... please, a heads up! If you are going to use PGP or GnuPG to sign your email messages, it does absolutely no good for anybody, and indeed, wastes some bandwidth, if you do supply a public key to the keyservers. Please, post your public keys or quit signing your emails. All but one email tonight from the Gentoo lists, that were signed, had no public keys listed at the keyservers. So, if you are going to sign your messages posted into a public forum like this one, please, post your public keys to a keyserver like belgium.keyserver.net. Thank you in advance, Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
lukas wrote: Hmm, then it must be one of my mails, because my key is already on the keyserver pgp.mit.edu :) I've checked all mails posted on this list since 27.01.04 00:00 and this is the result: Keys found (on pgp.mit.edu): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregory Staggel [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mauro Arnoldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keys NOT found (on pgp.mit.edu): Jakub Krajcovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rainer Sigwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] !! It would seem that pgp.mit.edu and keyserver.net do not communicatie ... and frankly, that surprises me alot. Any idea why they do not? These are two major servers! Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Command Line Mail Clients?
Can anybody recommend a command line mail client for UNIX (shells)? One requirement is that it is fully compatible with GnuPGP and Maildir format mail storage. I have been trying to use Mutt but I have found it tedious and ugly when it comes to traversing Maildir mailboxes (and the navigation is completely non-intuitive IMHO). Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE
Neal Lippman wrote: Same problem, solved with the help of this list. You need to emerge gcc and then retry the emerge of arts. That fixed it for me, and I am told a bug has been filed on this already. nl The bug should be against GCC and not against Arts ... I didn't look to see if that is the case. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible BUG in gentoo
Koala Gnu wrote: sorry for my english To restart the build process, should I clean some directories or I can give directly the scripts/bootstrap.sh command? Restart from what point? Is this a fully installed machine that you are just trying to rebuild? If yes, then emerge -UuDep world will do the job nicely. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE
Dan Egli wrote: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?' I searched on the net and found on a mailinglist archive that you need to install STLport package. So I emerge STLport, no prob. Re-run emerge kde, and it still dies at the same place! Help? Why isn't emerge finding the dependancy of STL for ARTS and pulling the package? --- Dan STL is the standard template library for C++. It is free as part of the headers for the GNU C++ compiler (part of gcc). I believe the SGI implementation is supplied, although I did not see any SGI licensing in the headers (and the libraries of course). You should not be missing them if you have gcc installed. Any chance you built everything static? I just noticed that you have libstdc++-devel as the error. You didn't try to install a development version of gcc did you? Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE
Eric Paynter wrote: Dan Egli said: I am trying to emerge KDE. But everytime I do it starts compiling arts which then dies in the conifg script saying unknown STL type. 'configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?' There is an open bug (I don't have the number on hand) that suggests you re-compile gcc to fix this. I'm doing that right now, but it takes some time so I don't know if it will work... anybody else do this yet? -Eric Any chance you are running ~arch rather than arch? The default stable gentoo tree seems to create the libraries (which contain STL) and the headers correctly. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] STL for KDE
Krikket wrote: Then let me eliminate that one. Fresh install, complete to repartitioning hard drives, and I've got the same problem. I've never used the ~i386 or any other ~ flags. One reason I'm switching to gentoo us because I'm tired of the unstability of some of the other distros... (IE: Fedora) (Plus the stage 1 install is easier to do than Debian, beleive it or not.) Krikket It sounds to me like there is a problem with the bootstrap build and it does not seem to be replaced in the system build. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel depression
Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:38:44 +0100, Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every kernel since 2.4.20-r8 fails on my system 2.4.20-r9 and -r10: USB crashes 2.4.22-r1 reiser extremely slow 2.4.22-r4 and -r5 NFS timeouts I have been running all these kernels as vanilla kernels, and I had no problems with them. Either its your hardware or maybe your kernel is not properly configured. I assume he is referring to the Gentoo sources. I have had multiple oops with them myself. Too many patches. Vanilla sources also work fine for me. I simply patch my own kernels if I need a feature. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC
Jaime Diaz wrote: Avoid the 3Com SOHO. A 3Com 3c905 an Intel EtherExpress or, even a Realtek 8139 will do. I would avoid the realtek cards as well. Most netgear work well (natsemi driver) and the Linksys cards work well (tulip driver) if you want to buy economically. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC
Al Raq wrote: I also use Linksys LNE100TX cards too for almost four years. Very happy. How do I found out if I run mine in full duplex at 100mbps ??? Regards. Al You can't run full-duplex unless you are connected to switch rather than a hub ... or directly to another card using a crossover cable that supports full-duplex. eth0: link up. eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. When the module is loaded and the interface is brought up, this information will be output. I don't really know how to get it at runtime however. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC
Or course, nowadays, most everybody is using this on a machine better than an overmuscled 400MHz P2 cpu :) Tom Veldhouse PS. I hate topposting, but OE and these attachments forbid me to do otherwise. - Original Message - From: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:07:16 +0100 Dennis Freise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have seven realtek 8139 cards in use here and never encountered a | single problem with them. Performance is also okay. Ok, since someone actually made the realtek cards don't suck statement... Check out the comments in the FreeBSD driver for the card, they explain why their performance is so poor compared to other cards: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c?rev=1.56content-t ype=text/x-cvsweb-markuponly_with_tag=HEAD Sure, the cards work, but unless you're really really really short on money I'd suggest staying clear of them (you can get NatSemi chipset cards as cheaply anyway... or an e100pro off eBay...). -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System can't find modules
Rob2 wrote: I recently upgraded a box from 1.4RC2 to 1.4. I emerged -U world, made a new kernel from the new source, then erased the old kernel source and the old modules. Now the system can't find the new modules. What have I missed? Thanks, Rob Did you forget to mount /boot before you copied the kernel to /boot? If so, you are still booting the old kernel. The fix: # mv /boot/bzImage /root # mount /boot # mv /root/bzImage /boot # reboot Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] What happened today?
Can anybody explain what happened to the email lists and the rsync server today? I notice that there is still a stale posting on the website about the rsync problem (doesn't mention that the lists were down yet again), but no update. Anybody? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's the f**k?
John Helliwell wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:09, Aleksandr wrote: Please help me how to get out of this shit... If it's a bug, it's a really BIG bug... http://www.gentoo.org Did you even look? :-) It only said the servers were not up and running, not that it was deleting local files when you ran rsync. Further, it said it would be fixed in a couple of hours ... and that was many hours ago with no update. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org unknown?
gabriel wrote: in a case like this, where something major (rsync) that worked yesterday and isn't working today, it's likely that it's a system-wide problem and therefore it would have a post on both of the above urls. I think the central server requirement for rsync needs to be revisitted. FreeBSD has a good idea with cvsup and choosing the most local mirror and sticking with it. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happened today?
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody explain what happened to the email lists and the rsync server today? I notice that there is still a stale posting on the website about the rsync problem (doesn't mention that the lists were down yet again), but no update. Anybody? Also note that this email was delayed by more than 3 hours ... something else systemic is going on with Gentoo. Not just the rsync servers. For awhile, this list was not functioning at all (all mail was queueing somewhere). Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge
Yes, you got hosed by something that appears to have been done to the Gentoo rsync server and you are not alone. They are remaining hush about what has really happened. They state on their webpage that the master rsync servers are down, but they have not stated the problem that has developed (like you have posted about), nor have the indicated a more systemic problem like the non-function and now long lag of the email lists. In other words, I am a little irritated with the lack of communication from the Gentoo teams on this. I am subscribed to the email lists and will look here or on the website for any published issues, but you won't find me digging through forums for something that should be up front and immediate. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Gregory Staggel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:10 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge Hello, I tried to update my portage install today and I got this error. -- giveme / # emerge -vu portage !!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: ~x86 !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable. giveme / # Any ideas ? -- Gregory * Computers are like air-conditioners: both stop working, if you open windows. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge
Jan wrote: http://www.gentoo.org Did you even look? :-) That site explains almost nothing ... like how all the profiles have been deleted during an rsync. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Rsync Outage
It doesn't explain the email slowdown ... something else was up. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:23 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Rsync Outage As seen on gentoo.org: update: Service should be largely restored now, though traffic seems to be high on most mirrors because of the outage. The cause of the problem seems to be localized to some filesystem corruption on the root partition. Well?! Which filesystem was it running? -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Blender
Simon Prosser wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 4:40 pm, Thomas Degris wrote: My question: what do I have to do to get the ebuild of the version 2.31 of Blender ? ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge blender -pv If blender were to have a lot of dependencies, how would you keep the ~x86 versions from being installed (assuming blender would run with the x86 versions)? It is for this reason why I would like to see ports and basesystem as separate entities in portage. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing qmail
Pawel Maczewski wrote: Hi, I've installed ssmtp as it was required by vixie-cron. Now I wanna install qmail, but it seems net-mail/ssmtp blocks it. What I get is: test portage # emerge -pv qmail These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-apps/ucspi-tcp-0.88-r5 +ssl -ipv6 [ebuild N] net-mail/queue-fix-1.4-r2 [ebuild N] net-mail/dot-forward-0.71-r1 [ebuild N] net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.22 [blocks B ] net-mail/ssmtp (virtual/mta from pkg net-mail/qmail-1.03-r13) [ebuild N] sys-apps/daemontools-0.76-r3 [ebuild N] net-mail/checkpassword-0.90-r1 [ebuild N] net-mail/qmail-1.03-r13 +ssl what could I do to install qmail? tia pawel # emerge unmerge virtual/mta # emerge qmail Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Blender
David Gethings wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:04, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: If blender were to have a lot of dependencies, how would you keep the ~x86 versions from being installed (assuming blender would run with the x86 versions)? If I understand your correctly; installing with ~x86 will only pull in the necessary masked ebuilds. Then to insure that future updates don't down grade the ~x86 packages use -U (upgrade only) when you next emerge. Although I have to admit -U is a bit hit an miss. On at least on occasion I had to downgrade even with -U specified. I the re-upgraded once the update was complete. Cheers -- Dg No, my concern is that a bunch of system packages may be upgraded as well to testing version when doing this (maybe not for blender, but when using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86). I don't want the compiler, gettext, autoconf or anything else upgraded from stable and if a package will work with the stable version (even though it is itself a testing version), then it should use them ... using the keyword change does not allow for this. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update for samba
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Should samba be started at boot or default? Thanks, Mark default ... after net.eth0 starts. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub
Boot the XP disk. Let setup go until you can get a prompt (fixit). Then use the fixboot and fixmbr utility. After that, boot back to linux and setup grub correctly. Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Thomas Buntrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:59 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub Hi there, I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had grub reinstall it. The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0), write it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on a hdb, so there is no effect. Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling xp? Thanks, Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!
Peter Eis wrote: Roger wrote: Hi, I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Sorry what's wrong? you must be in the 'wheel' group! edit the file /etc/group. Look for a line similar like 'wheel::10:root' and add your account name: wheel::10:root,youraccount' Yes, I don't think etc-update should allow complete replacement of /etc/group! It should have logic to merge new groups into it, or note them for manual entry ... but it should NOT allow replacement (remove option 1 for critical files). Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hello
Jonathan Nichols wrote: waaap? ;) Guys ... can we save the bandwidth please? Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Still subscribed
W. Blaine Dowler wrote: Hi all, I sent out e-mails last week about not being unsubscribed. The automated unsubscription addresses just don't respond to me. I sent messages to the list owner on Christmas Day, and I'm still subscribed. (I decided to wait until the holidays were over before hounding them again.) Does anyone know of another way to get me off the list? Blaine So, did you send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per header information; List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure you send the email from the address you are trying to unsubscribe. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] same portage version on x86 and ~x86
Stefan Vunckx wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 14:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Yesterday, I found it odd that both my x86 and ~x86 box wanted to upgrade portage to 2.0.49-r19. Today, they both want to upgrade to 2.0.49-r20. What's up with that? Usually portage on my x86 box is a few revisions behind my ~x86 box. Because portage 2.0.49-r19 is stable on x86 and 2.0.50_pre9 is hardmasked. Those are the only 2 versions in portage currently. Bonx Who determined it to be stable? Last time I used ~x86 portage had a nasty clean but in it that threw out all sorts of errors messages (although apparently harmless). Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin doesn't want to learn anymore
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, since my upgrade from SA version 2.55 to 2.60-r1 I cannot sa-learn anymore. With the previous version I could do a $ sa-learn --dir --spam /path/to/mail/cur and got a learned from xxx message(s). But after the upgrade, I get a Learned from 0 message(s) (193 message(s) examined). when I want to sa-learn. Has anybody an idea what could be wrong here? Greetings and TIA, Matthias I am using it with great success (version 2.60-r1). I have been for quite sometime. sa-learn runs as a batch job periodically, so I don't examine the output, but it has been working fantastically. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] which is the best for Server
Roger wrote: hi,all: I want to setup a server, which hosts small business on Internet. Which is the best one? Redhat 9? debian 3? gentoo? PLS advice. -- ~~~ China Cell Phone Rental http://www.pandaphone.com Start with Gentoo,Start with Freedom ~~~ It depends upon your familiarity with each of these. However, if I had to pick one that could benefit the most anal retentive of admins, I would pick Debian. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable!
Hello all ... to the list .. welcome back after the unexplained hiatus. Often, after an emerge of a particular package, I see this error: Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd I have followed all the directions according to the link below ... EXCEPT for manually patching portage. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31881 Nothing has worked. However, what I need to know is if there is an actual process to fix this. If not, the patch needs to be commited to stable (x86) ASAP or the current version of portage in stable needs to be revoked as unstable. Is there anything I should do in the meantime? I don't relish the patch because of the possibility of the bug coming back if the package were refreshed. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable!
It doesn't justify not committing the fix to stable either. Certainly, it is not clear to anybody starting out that it is a cosmetic bug. My point is that it wasn't tested and it is not stable (although it is functional). Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd ... in x86 stable! On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:32:26 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Nothing has worked. However, what I need to know is if there is an | actual process to fix this. If not, the patch needs to be commited to | stable(x86) ASAP or the current version of portage in stable needs | to be revoked as unstable. Why? It's a minor cosmetic bug that doesn't cause any data loss. That doesn't justify making everyone downgrade. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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
Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?
N. Owen Gunden wrote: Well, I finally found the answer to my problems. I needed to re-emerge nvidia-glx (that's right--nvidia-glx, *not* nvidia-kernel!). mplayer works, wine works, xmms works. Though I'm not overly impressed with wine's performance. It's slower than it was on 2.4 without nptl. Though to be fair it doesn't seem to be wine that's going slow, it's X that's hogging all the resources. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get DGA to work in starcraft for battle.net.. I have had the 2.6 kernel slow to almost a halt on my P4-3.06GHz (HT enabled with SMP). It will work fine for a couple of days, and then for some reason the screen saver power saving mode seems to cause the kernel to slow and virtually halt. It is nearly impossible to even shutdown as saving ALSA settings takes many many minutes. This slowdown is a rare thing but it has happened too me three times so far. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sa-learn fails
Do you suppose that you ugraded berkley DB from perhaps 3 to 4 (and upgraded Spam Assassin) and now the files are incompatible? Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo energe -e world and no booting
Michael Evaniuck wrote: Gentoo I recent made some changes to my /etc/make.conf and I want to recompile my system so I did an emerge -e world. Everything went fine and after it completed I shut down my PC and when rebooting grub now is now not working. When booting it displays a grub prompt and does not go any further and I can not type anything else. I booted to my CD and mounted my /boot and my grub.conf file seems to be fine. Has anyone else ran across this? Thanks ahead of time for any help. Mike Did you mount /boot before you [re]installed grub? I am not sure that it should matter, but it might be worth trying it again. # mount /boot # emerge grub # grub Reinstall the bootloader as before and see how it goes. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?
N. Owen Gunden wrote: I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing now include: - The nvidia kernel module doesn't work (freezes during initialization) - wine segfaults - mplayer segfaults Note that I did these things carefully with testing in-between. After upgrading the kernel (and re-emerging nvidia-kernel), all three of the above worked fine. It seems that as soon as I emerged glibc with +nptl things started breaking. I tried re-emerging wine and mplayer to no avail. Maybe I should try some other apps that use pthreads? Anyone know of any? I will happily divulge more information in exchange for any tips :). I found it best to set the NPTL use flag and then rebuild the entire system at once: # emerge -DeU world Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.
Tom Wesley wrote: I think that there is a high degree of probability that portage-ng(-ng(-ng)) ;) will include some form of tree selection. I personally would like to see something like this. Either pointing to a completely different rsync server set, or having a extended set of architecture definitions. I prefer the latter, as in x86-server, ~x86-server, x86-desktop, x86-testing and the like. Security updates would of course need to penetrate all types here. Maybe ~x86 and x86 simply isn't enough of a split between what is stable and what isn't anymore, especially because enterprise server people are looking at Gentoo. Just my 2p... I would like to see portage based upon a CVS repository in much the way FreeBSD port collection is. It would be nice to be able to go back to a snapshot from 1 year ago if need be. How this would be implmeneted with portage in front of it, I am uncertain, but that would be a nice goal IMHO. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3
Josh Helmer wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:35 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote: After doing some googling, I know I can't mount a music cd. So if I want to rip the songs of the cd to mp3's with a program like lame, how do I tell it where the input wav file is? Or is there some better way to ripping music cd's? The easiest way that I know of is to just use konqueror. If you enter audiocd:// in the address bar it will show you the contents of the CD in wav, mp3 and ogg-vorbis format. Just select the files and copy them to your hard drive. Doesn't get much easier than that... Josh It is hard to set your lame or ogg options this way. I have found KAudioCreator (part of kde-multimedia) works pretty well. There are still some bugs in it though. It doesn't seem to fetch the genre or year CDDB information, but that is easy enough to fill in. It also doesn't like to keep the lame or ogg settings between instances of KAudioCreator, that is a more irritating bug. Still it will rip in batches with the exact options you want for your MP3s. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3
Redeeman wrote: now we talk about this, what encoder for mp3 supports 320kbps variable bitrate joint sterio ? that is the thing that generates best sound for the disk cost, but now i want to test ogg too, (and maybe stop use mp3). i did this with audio catalyst in windoze can ogg/vorbis do the same? in case, what encoder for ogg/vorbis? and how to use. 320kbps is the theorectical maximum for MP3, so if you are looking for average bitrate of 320, then it really can't be a variable rate, but instead becomes CBR. Either way, lame supports it well. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ripping music cd to mp3
Redeeman wrote: so, to produce the best quality mp3 with variable bitrate joint sterio 320kbps i shall do: lame -m j -q 0 -v -b 32 -B 320 -V 0 i guess 0 is best in -V too? for ogg to get 320kbps joint sterio and variable bitrate i dont understand? does it do that automatically? I have had very good results with this: lame -V2 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 19.7 --cwlimit 10.7 --scale 0.99 -mj -b96 This seems to be the new default for --alt-preset extreme, as it has worked well apparently. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup
Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: Hi, I am very interested in using Gentoo compile from source. However, I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also says that using the stage 3 tarball requires a 686 processor. I am running an AMD K6-2 475 Mhz. Does this chip qualify as 686? Thanks, Larry No, that is a pentium or p5 processor. There is a stage3 tarball for this that you can download. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to fix Invalid db entry in portage?
What causes the below and does anybody know how to fix it? Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Couldn't find match for dev-perl/SGMLSpm No outdated packages were found on your system. Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user
Redeeman wrote: 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 That is because the archive for this list doesn't munge email addresses. Piss poor if you ask me. Tom Veldhosue -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] domainname
There is a bug in the startup scripts that was fixed later on. # emerge sync # sys-apps/baselayout # etc-update Have fun! :) Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:58 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] domainname in issuing domainname it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net in /etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for hostname returns the proper name. TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XFS server eating too much CPU
Martin Hudec wrote: It does respond to kill -9 (the Force is definitely not with my XFS :)), but I need to XFS running and not using so much CPU :(. XFS initially needs to index the available fonts. It should only have to do this the first time, and it should save the index for future use. If you let it finish, I doubt it would remain a problem in the future. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Squidguard blacklists
Does anybody happen to know what happened to the squidguard blacklists? They used to update them a couple of times a week and now they are not being updated at all, as of a couple of weeks ago. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] dhcpcd and Linux 2.6 ...
It seems that dhcpcd works fine when used to option an IP address and configuration for the 2.6 kernel. However, it doesn't seem to report that it was successful correctly (presumably it should be using the /sys filesystem to determine this). As a result, if net.eth0 starts up and is instructed to use DHCP, it will think it failed and all subsequent network dependencies will also not start. So, is anybody aware of a fix for dhcpcd for the 2.6 kernel? If not, perhaps dhclient will work better? Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XFS
Redeeman wrote: now we talk about filesystems, i have lost my respect to many filesystems, if the power fails while doing stuff on reiserfs and ext3 i loose files, that _NEVER_ happend to me with fat32, and it doesent even have a journal, and yet, i have fat32 for my stuff, and ext3 for my system, and if power goes, i might loose files on my ext3, but NEVER on my fat32 Hah! I have ONLY lost files on FAT[16,32]. NTFS is rock solid. I use ReiserFS and XFS exclusively with Linux and I use UFS with softupdates on FreeBSD and never a lost file on any of them, even through considerable power failures. I don't use UPS equipment, but my server is not a high load machine either. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XFS
Patrick wrote: you mite also notice that they had to build it like that to survive all the reboots it had to endure other file systems we designed with performance not saftey in mind :) P Unless a user on this list can only claim a very small term experience with FAT[16,32], you can be pretty sure that the dreaded Lost Clusters became a problem at one time or another .. unless the filesystem was never maintained, at which point Windows was probably blamed and the OS was simply reinstalled after a reformat. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XFS
Patrick wrote: Secure u mean resiliant :) P I dare say it is neither. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap or cyrus-imap
Eric Paynter wrote: Marius Mauch said: That's wrong, Cyrus is using it's own format which is neither mbox or maildir. The major difference is that Cyrus doesn't permit direct access to the mailboxes (they are stored in /var/spool/imap, not in $HOME and users don't have access to it), you can only access it over POP or IMAP. Personally I like that approach but if you want/need direct access to your mailbox files Cyrus isn't designed for you. Which of them is faster depends on your custom setup (especially harddisc setup), but from what I heard Cyrus scales better. That sounds a little inflexible. I like the approach of using a standard mailbox format so that POP, IMAP, SMTP, Webmail, etc., can all be selected independently. However, I guess it all depends on your needs. -Eric I use Courier-IMAP. I think it is a great choice because it performs well, it allows concurrent access to email (mbox format does not, it will lock other processes out) and the email is stored in my local directory. This last point gives me greater flexibility with the use of procmail and spam/virus filtering. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
