[gentoo-user] Re: OT: just a comment
* rh (2004-02-24 08:02 +0100) I have been using Linux for a while now and have been a pretty strong advocate of it to many of my friends. However, lately I am getting very frustrated. Maybe it's because I am tired tonight and for some stupid reason am still sitting here trying to figure something out (a question I posted earlier with no responses). But I have to say that even I am becoming frustrated with Linux and, God forbid, have contemplated changing my pure Linux box into one with a dual boot that includes windows. For the most part things work as they should but lately I have run into too many things that no matter if you follow the instructions letter by letter, it isn't going to work and will only work after hours of trial and error. I guess I am tired of trying to learn from badly written or outdated documentation. I think that is what is frustrating me tonight is not so much Linux itself but the lack of proper documentation of Linux. I wish there were as many people working on updating docs as there is working on updating actual code. Linux and most of the GNU applications are better documented than any other Operating System (Mac, Windows, NetWare). Some commercial applications under Windows are better documented than those free projects on SourceForge or Freshmeat but that's because you pay for them a lot of money. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?
* Alan (2004-02-11 22:43 +0100) On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:23:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Alan said, This removes the kde dependancy package, but leaves all the other kde packages (kdelibs, kdeutils, etc). I guess portage doesn't do reverse dependancy removals yet huh? emerge kde -P emerge depclean -p emerge depclean Cool, never even knew about that. Thanks! This will remove *all* packages without dependencies and this is certainly not what you want. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo
* john lawler (2004-02-13 18:12 +0100)
I've been having this problem ever since I installed gentoo. I use ssh
under Cygwin to login to my Gentoo box, and I've noticed whenever I try
to look at 'top', when it goes fullscreen, it seems to put one character
past the end of the line that the cygwin terminal can display, so that
character wraps to the next line and makes everything look messed up.
Forget the Windows Console and use rxvt or make your own .toprc.
Mine is:
BAcgHijklmnop|qrsuzyv{wTFEDX
3
Thorsten
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[gentoo-user] Re: where to define shell aliases?
* Sven Köhler (2004-02-13 05:32 +0100) till now i still write my aliases to /etc/portage, but shouldn't there be a better way? The expression my aliases along with the man page of your shell will give you some clue. T. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: what happened to supermount?
* Moshe Kaminsky (2004-02-09 07:00 +0100) With kernel 2.4 I had the following line in /etc/fstab: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0 which caused the cdrom (and similarly for the floppy) to be mounted automatically when accessed. It seems that kernel 2.6 no longer supports this. Aah, Kernel 2.4. That kernel 2.4. In fact the unpatched vanilla never did support supermount. Is there a replacement? Yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep supermount /usr/src/linux-2.6.2-gentoo/.config CONFIG_SUPERMOUNT=y # CONFIG_SUPERMOUNT_DEBUG is not set -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Portage update
* Anthony Hoppe (2004-02-07 22:08 +0100) Is it safe to update Portage? I've been reading about the problems some people have been having. Has anybody been successful with the update? Should I update? Yes. Emerge it manually (not as a part of emerge -uU world). The only problem I had was that it didn't like my opera entry in /var/cache/edb/world on my two Gentoo boxes. After removing that it was okay. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Private rsync mirror
* Gard Spreemann (2004-02-01 14:08 +0100) I want to run my own private rsync mirror, and have followed a guide I found on the forum for this. Why? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml ist the official one. The one on the forum offers just technical advice for a local distfiles mirror (FETCHCOMMAND, etc). I just want to make sure of one thing: The rsync-gentoo-portage.sh script should be set to sync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage right? No, for a /private/mirror rsync.tld.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage is the right one: * Rsync etiquette guidelines http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030505-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect3 I don't want to be doing anything I'm not supposed to, like syncing my private mirror with a server only meant for public mirrors. Also, is syncing my private mirror once every 24 hours ok? Twice a day is okay, but more often than once a day doesn't make sense. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel Ooops with new gentoo-sources and vmware
The new release 4 Kernel from gentoo-sources makes an 'Oops' starting vmware (newest version) with a virtual machine. I could reproduce this on a IBM Netvista Desktop machine and on a laptop. The release 3 Kernel was okay and 'gentoo-stable', too. Even unmerging and re-emerging didn't help... Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Compiling the kernel with CFLAGS from make.conf
Is it sensible to compile my kernel with the CFLAGS[1] of my /etc/make.conf that have proven to be stable?! I never thought of that but it could be an performance gain like for any other portage package, but maybe I am missing something important...? Thorsten [1] export CFLAGS=-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start
* Martin Gramatke (2004-01-04 11:40 +0100) Thorsten Kampe wrote: I'm looking for a solution to hook somekind of a boot menu into the boot process. Something like One more runlevels may be what you need. Default runlevel is /etc/runlevels/default. Most probably you have a link to /etc/init.d/xdm in it, which starts KDE. kdm :-) Create another subdir, e.g. noxdm beside default. Fill it with 'rc-update add INITDSCRIPT noxdm' with the same links as in default, except xdm. Now modify your /boot/grub/grub.conf or do analog with lilo. Add these three lines to its end: title=Gentoo Linux - noxdm root (hd0,1) kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage-2.6.0 root=/dev/hda6 softlevel=noxdm Note the parameter 'softlevel=noxdm'. This selects the bootscrips in /etc/runlevels/noxdm to be executed instead the scripts in /etc/runlevels/default. By the way, /etc/runlevels/boot are executed anyway before the 'noxdm' or 'default' scripts, you may want to move some common, very basic scripts here. Aah, thanks. I haven't tried it yet but this is almost exactly what I want. I will remove /etc/init.d/xdm from the default runlevel and will create another runlevel xdm with the appropriate link to /etc/init.d/xdm. Just one thing is ugly. Do I really have to copy all the linke from the boot and default runlevel to the new xdm?! This would mean that everytime I add or del from boot or default I would have to update xdm, too. The default runlevel already includes the boot runlevel. Is there a way to say something like softlevel=noxdm, include runlevel boot default? Thanks again, Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start
* Gerhard W. Gruber (2004-01-04 08:39 +0100) On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 04:40:46 +0100, Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Do you want to start the GUI (kdm)? [Y]es [N]o' If I select Yes within five seconds /etc/init.d/xdm start is executed - otherwise not. What's the best way to do this without changing or hacking baselayout (?) to much? Is there an API/hook that allows that? You can always create several bootentries specifiying different runlevels. Which loader do you use? Grub Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: can't find zip
* Glenn English (2004-01-05 01:24 +0100) There's a Zip drive in my computer, but I can't find it. But I'm glad you found my thread. Welcome. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start
Hello, I'm looking for a solution to hook somekind of a boot menu into the boot process. Something like 'Do you want to start the GUI (kdm)? [Y]es [N]o' If I select Yes within five seconds /etc/init.d/xdm start is executed - otherwise not. What's the best way to do this without changing or hacking baselayout (?) to much? Is there an API/hook that allows that? Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Daily job running
* Gerhard W. Gruber (2003-12-29 10:21 +0100) I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I switch my machine off when I don' t use it it can often happen that this will not run because the launchtime has been missed. I know that in Suse they had some mechanism for users like me, who don't let their machine run all the time. So is there something like that I can use in gentoo? Just use the default vcron; it does that by default (at least for the jobs in /etc/cron.[hourly|daily|weekly|monthly]. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Forgot to run make oldconfig on gentoo-sources
Hi, I forgot to run make oldconfig on the releases of gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r[6-9] and my old .config from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 (10 May 2003). I just used make menuconfig which resets possible CONFIG_ changes to their defaults without notifying me. So my question is: were there any CONFIG_ additions or changes in the releases between gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 (10 May 2003) and the following gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8 gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r9 that would have made make oldconfig ask about the new features/options? If so, does anyone remember which CONFIG_ did change? Thanks in advance, Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: ssh timeout?
* Ernie Schroder (2003-09-28 16:11 +0200) My KVM switch is dead so I'm doing a major update of my 2nd Gentoo box via ssh. 3 times now, the process has been interupted by what appears to be time outs. The only message seems to be connection reset by peer. My /var/log/ssh/xxx on that box doesn't show anything of use. Is there a config somewhere where I can set time out? man sshd_config -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 Basic-Installation CD really buggy (20030806)
The Gentoo Basic Installation CD is quite buggy. Just a few errors noticed while starting: 1. /proc/splash: No such file or directory 2. The bash history buffer is full of commands issued by the developer Okay, 1. and 2. where rather cosmetic, the stopping issues are really annoying: Rebooting or halting doesn't work (tested on a Acer Laptop, IBM NetVista and a VMware host). It hangs at various stages: stopping USB and PCI hotplugging or while shutting down the lo interface. A test installation under VMware went successfully until the final reboot: /sbin/rc: line 151: /bin/sync: No such file or directory /sbin/rc: line 151: /bin/sync: No such file or directory /sbin/rc: line 1: /prc/cmdline: No such file or directory /sbin/rc: line 153: /sbin/sulogin: No such file or directory /sbin/rc: line 151: /sbin/reboot: No such file or directory So it's not possible to reboot a freshly installed Gentoo box successfully at all! Sorry, what happened? RC4 was perfect... Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: portage logs
* Theofilos Intzoglou (2003-08-10 13:54 +0200) This was exactly what I was looking for! logrotate cannot handle the logs that emerge creates unfortunately [...] What's so special about the emerge logs that logrotate can't handle?! T. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Fetching updates with cron
* Michael Schreckenbauer (2003-08-07 16:37 +0200)
Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2003 16:15 schrieb Thorsten Kampe:
I have a vcron job[1] that syncs the portage tree und afterward
fetches available updates - at least that's how it is supposed to
work. The sync works fine and the fetch, too, at least according to
/var/log/emerge.log[2].
But actually the .tar.bz never reaches /usr/portage/distfiles, so I
have to execute emerge -fuD world manually. This happens with all
updates!
I even tried to search for the files - with locate - but they're not
on my harddisk.
Does anyone have a hint or idea?!
[1] 0 */12 * * * root /opt/gentoo-rsync/rsync-gentoo-portage.sh;
emerge -fuD world /dev/null [2] Started emerge on: Aug 07, 2003
12:14:020
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the '' at the wrong position? Afaik the line
should read:
0 */12 * * * root /opt/gentoo-rsync/rsync-gentoo-portage.sh;
emerge -fuD world /dev/null
Well (background) doesn't make much sense in a cron job in my
opinion.
I believe you are forcing your updates straight forward to /dev/null
Well no and yes:
man bash
There are two formats for redirecting standard output and standard
error: word and word. Of the two forms, the first is
preferred. This is semantically equivalent to word 21.
But the real culprit was *Prozilla*! I changed the $FETCHCOMMAND to
[1] and when I get back to the default wget - it works...!
Thorsten
[1] FETCHCOMMAND='/usr/bin/proz -r --no-netrc --no-getch --no-search -k=4
--timeout=300 -t=5 --retry-delay=15 --max-bps=0 ${URI} -P ${DISTDIR}'
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[gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?
Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing the big bad internet?! * gs-sources This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without compromising stability we add server related performance patches. [...] In other words, these sources are perfect for servers and High-Availability systems. * hardened-sources Hardened Gentoo's purpose is to make Gentoo viable for high security, high stability production server environments. The kernel provides [...] stability/security oriented patches. * wolk-sources It has been pointed out by Kurt Lieber that Gentoo is in the process of converting all of Gentoo's infrastructure servers over to WOLK 4.3. If that is so, why isn't Gentoo eating it's own dogfood (gs-sources) or replacing gs-sources with wolk-sources if WOLK is /that/ superior?! Any hints or meanings deeply appreciated! Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure xdm to accept connections from other boxes?
* Jussi Sirpoma (2003-08-08 17:39 +0200) Hi, I'm trying to configure xdm to accept connections from other machines in the network. I've done it once to a Mandrake box but I do not have those conig files available and I'm not getting very far with the default gentoo ones. This is what I have done: - I commented out the last line in xdm-config: !DisplayManager.requestPort:0 - Removed comments from these lines in Xaccess: * #any host can get a login window * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect... Is there some other things I need to set up? (Like permissions or..) kdmrc? http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie Portage Question
* Jordan Elver (2003-08-06 20:30 +0200) I was wondering how I can handle the merging of ~x86 packages. For example, I wanted to install opera 7 which is unstable, so I did: KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge opera Which gave the desired result. The problem now though is that everytime I do an emerge world it wants to downgrade opera to version 6. How can I tell portage that I want to keep ~x86 versions of certain packages? =net-www/opera-7 in /var/cache/edb/world I have the same problem with apache (but the other way around) as I want to keep apache1 but emerge insists on upgrading to 2. Similar to above - just ''. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: If is doesn't compile with -O3 -pipe is that not a BUG?
* Robert Young (2003-08-08 21:43 +0200) Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Robert Young (2003-08-08 18:39 +0200) I submitted a bug against Mozilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26068 It seems to be because of my CFLAGS CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer These are *exactly* my flags and Mozilla compiled with those (okay the second time - I had to reduce MAKEOPTS from -j(3+2) to -j(3+1) You have 3 or 4 cpus? Two hosts, each of them on CPU. or your not using the recommended values? The recommended values differ: man make.conf: CPUs+1 up to 2*CPUs+1 (-j3 up to -j5) man make: no recommendation distcc FAQ:2*CPUs (-j4) current Gentoo distcc maintainer: CPUs+1 (-j3) former Gentoo distcc maintainer: 2*CPUs+1 (each host!) (-j6) So I set up MAKEOPTS=5 and 'DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost/3 $REMOTE_HOST/2' which was fine until cross-compiling - meaning each of my hosts was compiling at the same time and using the other as a distcc host with the same MAKEOPTS/DISTCC_HOSTS setting. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Backups
* Matthias F. Brandstetter (2003-08-10 15:41 +0200) -- quoting Peter Ruskin -- == Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.9 kernel-2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ == Sorry, but what is Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.9? Has this something to do with Gentoo 1.2, 1.4_rc4, 1.4? cat /etc/gentoo-release -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: portage logs
* Theofilos Intzoglou (2003-08-10 21:33 +0200) The logs, that emerge produces, have no default name. Also, a log is created for every package that is being emerged and after that emerge, the log file will never be opened again for something to be added. At least installations of the same product on the same day go to the same log file. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Fetching updates with cron
* Chris I (2003-08-07 21:23 +0200)
On 2003.08.07 12:57, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
[1] FETCHCOMMAND='/usr/bin/proz -r --no-netrc --no-getch --no-search
-k=4 --timeout=300 -t=5 --retry-delay=15 --max-bps=0 ${URI} -P
${DISTDIR}'
Did you try checking to see if ${DISTDIR} is a valid variable outside
of portage? Try a cron script that does something like:
echo ${DISTDIR} | mail -s distdir check myemailaddress;
or even
env | mail -s env myemailaddress;
I think that this was an invalid destination, so the download completed
and it saved them to nowhere. Try replacing it and manually entering
the /usr/portage/distfiles path.
Sorry, no, I've been emerging and fetching for weeks with prozilla.
The only thing that doesn't work is the redirection. I changed back to
good ole wget.
Thorsten
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[gentoo-user] Fetching updates with cron
Hi, I have a vcron job[1] that syncs the portage tree und afterward fetches available updates - at least that's how it is supposed to work. The sync works fine and the fetch, too, at least according to /var/log/emerge.log[2]. But actually the .tar.bz never reaches /usr/portage/distfiles, so I have to execute emerge -fuD world manually. This happens with all updates! I even tried to search for the files - with locate - but they're not on my harddisk. Does anyone have a hint or idea?! Thorsten [1] 0 */12 * * * root /opt/gentoo-rsync/rsync-gentoo-portage.sh; emerge -fuD world /dev/null [2] Started emerge on: Aug 07, 2003 12:14:020 emerge (1 of 1) net-misc/rdiff-backup-0.12.0 to / === (1 of 1) Post-Build Cleaning (/usr/portage/net-misc/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.12.0.ebuild) *** Finished. Cleaning up... *** terminating. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: If is doesn't compile with -O3 -pipe is that not a BUG?
* Robert Young (2003-08-08 18:39 +0200) Just a thought I submitted a bug against Mozilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26068 It seems to be because of my CFLAGS CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer These are *exactly* my flags and Mozilla compiled with those (okay the second time - I had to reduce MAKEOPTS from -j(3+2) to -j(3+1) while using distcc; where m+n ist the ratio localhost to remote distcc host). Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...
* Steven Elling (2003-08-03 07:03 +0200) On Saturday 02 August 2003 15:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files. I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as /etc/fstab. One of my questions about etc-update and portage is, why etc-update / portage even consider critical files like /etc/fstab for a update? It seems to me that files like this should never be considered for upgrades because they are static in nature, only need to be set up once, and if changes do need to be made it is because the admin of the box has changed the hardware configuration. This is in fact the point it is all about. There is no sense in updating fstab or /etc/passwd so these types of files should be always omitted. Another possibility would be to have etc-update issue a red warning when used with -5. Just another point: is the -5 useful at all? I mean, has anyone used that in a senseful way? If you really want to overwrite, you could have done 'CONFIG_PROTECT=-* emerge -u whatever', right? By the way: I never use etc-update. If I didn't configure the service, I just overwrite the config file, otherwise I do it manually. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Non-root reboot
* Lares Weaselle (2003-08-02 03:13 +0200) I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I don't like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? Laptop? KDE/Gnome? This is the default... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: kdelibs Build Failure During Upgrade
* Steven Elling (2003-08-02 02:23 +0200) I'm trying to upgrade kdelibs from 3.1.2 to 3.1.2-r1 and the build fails with the following error: [...] !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.2-r1 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 138, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make = Has anyone else seen this? Yes, multiple times on one box. Disabled distcc, lowered MAKE_OPTS and did the emerge on the GUI and that helped (don't know which one) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Non-root reboot
* Lares Weaselle (2003-08-02 12:57 +0200) On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 10:51:08 +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Lares Weaselle (2003-08-02 03:13 +0200) I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I don't like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? Laptop? KDE/Gnome? This is the default... Laptop, Fluxbox, no xdm or the like... I like my interfaces light... ...and functionality reduced obviously... Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86
* Sebastian Hungerecker (2003-07-30 08:56 +0200) On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:25:30 +1000 Jonathan Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just wanted to clarify my understanding of x86 and ~x86. The prefix ~ says that a program (not the ebuild) is unstable, the prefix ^ means, that the package is nearly unusable and no prefix means that the app runs mostly stable. Never seen this ^ thingy mentioned anywhere. Can you give us some sort of reference? Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: vmware has stopped working
* William Kenworthy (2003-07-30 13:08 +0200) Doesnt help much. I have a 3 licence and the 3 series is fine: I cant justify the cost of upgrading to 4 - getting too expensive for the use I get out of it. I am using ver 3, and on the initial failure, the same vmware install had been working fine for months. It was sometime during the recent flood of upgrades that this occurred. CONFIG_PROTECT=-* emerge --noconfmem vmware-workstation; vmware-config.pl Your license and your virtual machines and personal settings will remain. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86
* Sebastian Hungerecker (2003-07-30 17:17 +0200) On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:27:29 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never seen this ^ thingy mentioned anywhere. Sorry, I was wrong: It's - not ^ Okay, I've never seen -x86 seen either. Where can I read about that? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo install
* Anders Eriksson (2003-07-26 10:16 +0200) I'd like to add a warning here. I (being a longtime Linux and distcc user, albeit a gentoo newcommer) tried emerge -e world with distcc. It turned out that zlib did NOT like that. For some reason it, during ./configure, decided that my system was not shared-object capable, and skipped building the .so files. Not fun at all. Even distcc with just 127.0.0.1 in the group trigged it. Is localhost the first entry in your DISTCC_HOSTS? According to the man page: 'The literal word localhost is interpreted specially to cause compilations to be directly executed, rather than passed to a daemon on the local machine.' Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP and AUTH
* Michael Gruetzner (2003-07-26 14:29 +0200) I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this supported by sSMTP? man ssmtp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: sSMTP and AUTH
* Brian Richardson (2003-07-26 20:37 +0200) On July 26, 2003 11:05, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Michael Gruetzner (2003-07-26 14:29 +0200) I try to send my mail via mutt and ssmtp from the console. The remote host is GMX wich wants ssmtp to authenticate via smtp-auth. Is this supported by sSMTP? man ssmtp Nothing in there. OPTIONS -auusername Specifies username for login authorization. (only tested with MS Exchange) -appassword Specifies password for login authorization. (only tested with MS Exchange) Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Xargs error on boot new installation.
* Kevin Hayes (2003-07-25 07:43 +0200) On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:54:21 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kevin Hayes (2003-07-24 07:29 +0200) On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:44:15 -0400 Robert Kruus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:15:54 +1000 it is rumored that Kevin Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get the following during boot, can anyone shed some light on the xargs: error message, * Configuring kernel parameters... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... xargs: environment is too large for exec[ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory...[ ok ] Check the gentoo bugzilla.. The module messages were generated by /etc/modules.devfs, but the xargs error message is still there. You mean it's supposed to disappear magically somehow? Check the gentoo bugzilla would have led to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 bootmisc 1.32 (2003/06/23) from CVS fixes the bug: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-apps/baselayout/files/rc-scripts-1.4.3.9.tar.bz2?rev=HEADcontent-type=text/plain Bug has already been pointed out to me by others, You mean the fact that this is a bug (which is more than obvious)? My point was about check the gentoo bugzilla (Robert Kruus) which would have enlightened you that updating baselayout doesn't fix anything. you obviously didn't bother reading the thread and are jumping in at the end of a thread you haven't read. Twice wrong. It really is a waste of bandwidth doing this, if you can't add something constructive, You mean a deep link to the bugzilla thread and the bootmisc from CVS (where the bug is fixed) isn't constructive enough for you? without sarcasm you shouldn't bother replying. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind (score adjusted). Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Some init.d problems
* Paulo da Silva (2003-07-25 02:28 +0200) I am trying to start hdparm before checkroot during the booting process. So, I put before * in the hdparm script and after hdparm in the checkroot. I used rc-update as follows: rc-update del hdparm rc-update del checkroot rc-update add hdparm boot rc-update add checkroot boot but I didn't get the efect I pretend! Am I doing anything wrong? Did you read the Gentoo Linux rc-script Guide? (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml) Note: These two types are only valid during a runlevel change. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Xargs error on boot new installation.
* Dhruba Bandopadhyay (2003-07-25 15:02 +0200) Michael Rasile wrote: On Thu Jul 24, 2003 at 12:39:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Kevin Hayes wrote: Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get the following during boot, can anyone shed some light on the xargs: error message, [...] The version you need is 1.8.6.9. Emerge it by doing the following (assuming x86). ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge --noconfmem baselayout You /really/ shouldn't emerge a masked *baselayout* because of a (mainly cosmetic) bug in bootmisc. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Only half the download speed with masquerading/routing
* Thorsten Kampe (2003-07-18 15:48 +0200) my Gentoo box acts as a Router for a Windows XP host. On the Gentoo box the download rate is about *7,5 kB/s* on the XP host just *3,8 kB/s*. But: when I use a Cisco router for the Windows host, the download is about *7,5 kB/s*. So it looks like as the Gentoo router is limiting the bandwidth... What can I do to make the full 7-8 kB/s available to the clients?! Neither on the Windows nor on the Gentoo host is a firewall or a virus scanner running. Kernel is 2.4.20. For the record: after updating the XP box to Gentoo the download speed is near the theoretic maximum. There is no point in blaming the XP machine because it had no problems with the CISCO router but obviously Gentoo and XP didn't work well together when Gentoo was the masquerading router. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: .bashrc ?
* raptor (2003-07-24 15:43 +0200) which are the packges that contain .bashrc/.bash_profile files ?! PS. etcat qpkg cant find them !? O really, dear ? % qpkg -f /etc/skel/.bashrc sys-apps/baselayout * Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: /var/log/messages absent
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[gentoo-user] Re: Xargs error on boot new installation.
* Kevin Hayes (2003-07-24 07:29 +0200) On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:44:15 -0400 Robert Kruus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:15:54 +1000 it is rumored that Kevin Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have just installed G2 using stage1-x86-20030717.tar.bz2 and get the following during boot, can anyone shed some light on the xargs: error message, * Configuring kernel parameters... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... xargs: environment is too large for exec[ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory...[ ok ] Check the gentoo bugzilla.. The module messages were generated by /etc/modules.devfs, but the xargs error message is still there. You mean it's supposed to disappear magically somehow? Check the gentoo bugzilla would have led to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 bootmisc 1.32 (2003/06/23) from CVS fixes the bug: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-apps/baselayout/files/rc-scripts-1.4.3.9.tar.bz2?rev=HEADcontent-type=text/plain Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: fstab and tmpfs
* Jean Magnan de Bornier (2003-07-23 13:40 +0200) I updated some packages yesterday (among which are glibc and gcc). In the new config files I have /etc/._cfgfstab, with the following line near the end: none /dev/shmtmpfs defaults 0 0 In the actual /etc/fstab I have the following, which I don't remember to have modified: tmpfs/dev/shmtmpfsdefaults0 0 The none is confusing for me. Is it necessary to replace tmpfs with none, and if so why? The man page says none is for swap. For tmpfs have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] killing pppd in local.stop
Hi, I'm stopping pppd in local.stop via killall pppd[1] - so the system doesn't hang with an open ppp connection. Unfortunately killall gives an error code != 0 when there is no pppd to be killed and therefor local.stop shows two red !! (for unsuccesfull). This is just somehow cosmetic but how can I avoid this? Thorsten [1] pppd has no hangup like isdnctrl hangup -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: killing pppd in local.stop
* Theofilos Intzoglou (2003-07-18 11:47 +0200) On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:09:41 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm stopping pppd in local.stop via killall pppd[1] - so the system doesn't hang with an open ppp connection. Unfortunately killall gives an error code != 0 when there is no pppd to be killed and therefor local.stop shows two red !! (for unsuccesfull). This is just somehow cosmetic but how can I avoid this? You could add something like: PPPDEX=`ps -e | grep pppd` if [ $PPPDEX != ];then killall pppd;fi Someone else proposed if ps -e | grep pppd ; then killall pppd; fi This and yours work fine. My own solution was test -f /var/run/ppp0.pid /usr/bin/killall pppd But this didn't work (because of the changing the error code?). Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Only half the download speed with masquerading/routing
Hi, my Gentoo box acts as a Router for a Windows XP host. On the Gentoo box the download rate is about *7,5 kB/s* on the XP host just *3,8 kB/s*. But: when I use a Cisco router for the Windows host, the download is about *7,5 kB/s*. So it looks like as the Gentoo router is limiting the bandwidth... What can I do to make the full 7-8 kB/s available to the clients?! Neither on the Windows nor on the Gentoo host is a firewall or a virus scanner running. Kernel is 2.4.20. I enable routing by: echo 1 | /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE This is my .config: http://www.thorstenkampe.de/tmp/config/view What else can I do or test?! Regards, Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Only half the download speed with masquerading/routing
* Jason Stubbs (2003-07-18 16:02 +0200) On Friday 18 July 2003 22:48, Thorsten Kampe wrote: my Gentoo box acts as a Router for a Windows XP host. On the Gentoo box the download rate is about *7,5 kB/s* on the XP host just *3,8 kB/s*. But: when I use a Cisco router for the Windows host, the download is about *7,5 kB/s*. So it looks like as the Gentoo router is limiting the bandwidth... What can I do to make the full 7-8 kB/s available to the clients?! Neither on the Windows nor on the Gentoo host is a firewall or a virus scanner running. Kernel is 2.4.20. I enable routing by: echo 1 | /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE This is my .config: http://www.thorstenkampe.de/tmp/config/view What else can I do or test?! I assume you have two net interfaces on the gentoo box? Do you get full speed on both interfaces from the gentoo box itself? ppp0? Yes. eth0? Well difficult to measure, but it feels allright. Looking at your config, I would suggest first trying kernel option pci=noacpi. Tried that. Cannot even get a connection to the internet with CAPI/ISDN. killall pppd doesn't even give an error when no pppd is running (instead of no process killed when acpi is enabled). There seems to be a few problems with acpi still. With my modem, if I don't use pci=noacpi I also get about 1/2 the full speed. If that doesn't work, try getting rid of apic as well - you have a single processor, right? I'll try that... Thanks. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] ipppd and CAPI
HI, I'm using pppd and CAPI (ppp, capi4k-utils and fcpci (AVM); all Gentoo ebuilds). Now I want to switch to ipppd[1] (isd4k-utils). The installation log of capi4k-utils says: ,--- | To use isdn4linux with CAPI replace I4L_MODULE=hisax with | I4L_MODULE=capidrv, start /etc/init.d/capi and load the module | capidrv. `--- But in which file should I replace this setting? Thorsten [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29991 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: add hardware wizard ...
* raptor (2003-07-16 12:05 +0200) Is there a app similar to kudzu kudzu, hwsetup Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: weird error after sync
* Susie (2003-07-16 23:01 +0200) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh, it's really you. Anyone else getting this: Updating Portage cache... ...done! Calculating world dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy =media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.1 have been masked. !!!(dependency required by media-libs/faad2-1.1 [ebuild]) !!! Problem with ebuild net-www/mplayerplug-in-0.80 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. I have libsndfile 1.0.5 installed and I have faad2 1.1 installed ... so weird error. Yes, but not with this package. Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Local mail
* edj (2003-07-15 03:31 +0200) My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, etc, to root -- Sendmail: cannot open port 25.No wonder - I do not have sendmail installed. Sure you have. Try which sendmail. I'd rather not install it. I have ssmtp, but my wanderings around Google tell me that it is not for delivery of local mail. That's exactly what it's for. Have a look at /etc/ssmtp. Is there anything smaller, less complicated than sendmail which I can get and use? * ssmtp * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=61606 * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633 Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Local mail
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2003-07-15 12:51 +0200) On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:12:23AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * edj (2003-07-15 03:31 +0200) My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, etc, to root -- Sendmail: cannot open port 25.No wonder - I do not have sendmail installed. Sure you have. Try which sendmail. I'd rather not install it. I have ssmtp, but my wanderings around Google tell me that it is not for delivery of local mail. That's exactly what it's for. Have a look at /etc/ssmtp. Thorsten, I think you're confusing the sendmail package with the sendmail executable. No. edj has got sendmail (which is a link to ssmtp). edj misunderstood the error message. It was not 'sendmail' not found but sendmail/ssmtp: I cannot open port 25 on mailhub 'mail' [...] But ssmtp is just a simple package for getting mail from a local system to a remote MTA; Yes. it doesn't handle incoming mail, which is what the original question was about. No, the original question was about sending localmail/delivery of local mail and that is exactly what ssmtp is for. He can always use his ISP's mailhub or his LAN's. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Starting Zope via xinetd
* CrPy (2003-07-15 16:22 +0200)
Am Montag, 14. Juli 2003 18:14 schrieb Thorsten Kampe:
I want to start Zope on my one computer via xinetd. This is obviously
not as trivial as [1] as the startup scripts /etc/init.d/zope-2_6_1
and /etc/conf.d/zope-2_6_1 are rather long and complicated.
Does anyone know how to achieve this?
[1] service zope
{
type= UNLISTED
port= 8080
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= zope
server = python z2.py
Where shoud python search? Try to use the full path to $ZOPE_HOME
Thanks, but that was not my question. It was about incorporating and
starting this in xinetd:
setup_exports()
{
local EXPORT_LST=INSTANCE_HOME SOFTWARE_HOME ZOPE_HOME
FORCE_PRODUCT_LOAD \
PROFILE_PUBLISHER SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE SUPPRESS_SITEROOT CLIENT_HOME \
ZEO_CLIENT EVENT_LOG_FORMAT EVENT_LOG_FILE EVENT_LOG_SEVERITY ZSYSLOG
\
ZSYSLOG_FACILITY ZSYSLOG_SERVER ZSYSLOG_ACCESS ZSYSLOG_ACCESS_FACILITY
\
ZSYSLOG_ACCESS_SERVER Z_DEBUG_MODE Z_REALM NO_SECURITY
ZOPE_SECURITY_POLICY \
ZSP_OWNEROUS_SKIP ZSP_AUTHENTICATED_SKIP DISALLOW_LOCAL_PRODUCTS \
ZOPE_DATABASE_QUOTA ZOPE_READ_ONLY ZSESSION_ADD_NOTIFY
ZSESSION_DEL_NOTIFY \
ZSESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS ZSESSION_OBJECT_LIMIT WEBDAV_SOURCE_PORT_CLIENTS
\
STX_DEFAULT_LEVEL ZOPE_DTML_REQUEST_AUTOQUOTE Z_MAX_STACK_SIZE \
FORCE_PRODUCT_RELOAD
for N in $EXPORT_LST ; do
if [ -n ${N} ] ; then export ${N} ; fi
done
}
and
start_zope()
{
local RESULT=
is_zope_dead /dev/null
RESULT=${?}
if [ ${RESULT} -eq 0 ] ; then
setup_exports
umask 077# Recommended by Zope
env /usr/bin/${python} ${ZOPE_HOME}z2.py ${ZOPE_OPTS}
RESULT=${?}
else
echo 'Zope is running independant of RC management.'
echo 'We are going to try and kill it.'
stop_zope
if [ ${?} -eq 0 ] ; then
echo 'Successfully killed zope. Try to start zope again'
fi
[gentoo-user] Starting Zope via xinetd
Hi,
I want to start Zope on my one computer via xinetd. This is obviously
not as trivial as [1] as the startup scripts /etc/init.d/zope-2_6_1
and /etc/conf.d/zope-2_6_1 are rather long and complicated.
Does anyone know how to achieve this?
Thorsten
[1] service zope
{
type= UNLISTED
port= 8080
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= zope
server = python z2.py
server_args = whatever
disable = no
}
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[gentoo-user] Re: Issue installing xfree
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[gentoo-user] Re: emerge and bootscript.sh
* Harlan (2003-07-13 05:00 +0200)
Thanks to Ian and Thorsten, I was able to get an existing client computer to
rsync from an internal server. This works great!!!
Did you emerge sync or emerge -fUD world?
Now, to get this working with a new system rebuild. I am installing gentoo
linux using livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso and connecting to my internal server.
The problem is that the bootscript.sh tries to connect to my server, but is
not successful.
There is no bootscript.sh. Do you mean bootstrap.sh? Please be
accurate - you expect us to be precise, too, don't you?
bootscript.sh then tries to connect to quite a number of
systems on the internet without success; the new install computer does not
have access to the internet.
Have a look at the script. It replaces make.conf and restores it
afterwards. But the SYNC/GENTOO_MIRRORS should be honored and those
variables are not cumulative so this shouldn't happen.
After getting the hard drive setup, and extracting the stage1 tar file, I
added some lines to the /etc/make.conf. The lines where for these variables:
FETCHCOMMAND, SYNC, GENTOO_MIRRORS.
FETCHCOMMAND='rsync -vcrtz --partial --progress --timeout=600
rsync://192.168.1.50/gentoo-packages/${FILE} ${DISTDIR}'
SYNC=rsync://192.168.1.50/gentoo-portage
GENTOO_MIRRORS=rsync://192.168.1.50/gentoo-packages
Ok, so what am I misssing? What did I do wrong?
Please tell us more. Can you ping the rsync host? bootstrap.sh calls
emerge which in turn calls rsync or $FETCHCOMMAND. Try emerge -pUD
world and have a look at /var/log/emerge.log.
Try \rsync -vvv rsync://192.168.1.50/gentoo-portage
and
\rsync -vvv rsync://192.168.1.50/gentoo-packages
which increases verbosity.
Have a look at /var/log/everything/current at the rsync host and be
sure that metalog doesn't cache (it's described in the install.xml)
Thorsten
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[gentoo-user] Re: Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests
* Jonathan Nichols (2003-07-13 07:15 +0200) Wow, Apache 2.x is now unmasked. Cool! But, I don't want it yet. I'm quite happy with 1.3.27 right now. Is there an easy way to just skip Apache 2.x and emerge everything else? The answer to end all answers ;-) ... Have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml - World Update. If apache is already installed by you manually (emerge apache) and not as a dependency, modify /var/cache/edb/world so it has a line like net-www/apache-2. This will ensure that you get updates for the 1.X branch but no /upgrade/ to 2.X. If you haven't installed apache yet or it is installed as dependency, edit /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages and add or modify net-www/apache-2. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Build own distfiles mirror
* Spida (2003-07-13 15:10 +0200) I want to setup a Gentoo Mirror for an install at my local Linux-User-Group (They have only ISDN/64kbit Inet). I did read that docs on this, and whereas the docs for setting up the rsync part of the mirror are ok, information on the distfiles-part isn't that complete. In the docs is mentioned that the distfiles mirror will be around 30-40GB, but in the Forums I read something about 3-4GB. The docs are for the official distfile mirrors. Yours is du -sh /usr/portage/distfiles Is there a method to choose just a specific subset of packages? Like only the highest stable version, if there is no stable, the highest unstable version? Or should I do something like: for i in /usr/portage do for j in /usr/portage/$i do emerge -f $j; done done It's always the highest version. If you want unstable: 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge bliblablup' Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge inject doesn't seem to inject
* Ian Truelsen (2003-07-13 13:23 +0200) On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:55:30 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you inject a stub for qmail there is no reason why ssmtp should be blocked too. Stubs are only good for the package which you specified and no others. However, my understanding is that ssmtp would not be installed if qmail was actually there, as it would satisfy the virtual/mta dependency. Therefore, if the system thinks that qmail is installed, then ssmtp would not be installed. Correct, it would be shown as blocked... Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Build own distfiles mirror
* Timo Boettcher (2003-07-13 16:43 +0200) Nachricht vom Sonntag, 13. Juli 2003, 16:04:21: * Spida (2003-07-13 15:10 +0200) I want to setup a Gentoo Mirror for an install at my local Linux-User-Group (They have only ISDN/64kbit Inet). I did read that docs on this, and whereas the docs for setting up the rsync part of the mirror are ok, information on the distfiles-part isn't that complete. In the docs is mentioned that the distfiles mirror will be around 30-40GB, but in the Forums I read something about 3-4GB. The docs are for the official distfile mirrors. Yours is du -sh /usr/portage/distfiles But that will give me only the space for what I have installed. I need the complete set because I don't know what the guys at my lug want. 30-40 GB. There is a rsync howto in the forums. You shouldn't try to mirror all distfiles - it makes no sense. Mirror only those that are requested. Q: I run a private source mirror for my company. Can I still access the private master source mirror? A: Because our resources are limited, we need to ensure we allocate them in such a way to provide the maximum amount of benefit to our users. As such, we limit connections to our master rsync and distfile mirrors to public mirrors only. Users are welcome to use our regular mirror system to establish a private source mirror. -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests
* William Kenworthy (2003-07-14 00:40 +0200) Please don't fullquote. Is there a way to specify a version you dont want? Why don't you try it yourself? app-office/gnumeric-1.0.13 app-office/gnumeric-1.0.13 or maybe ~ acts as != Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Silly question: Skipping stuff that emerge suggests
* William Kenworthy (2003-07-14 02:14 +0200) but is that the reccomended way? Wont create some problem for me in the future when an upgrade will arrive, and it wont see it? This is the recommended way. You'll just have to find out if the method I described works as !=. Even app-office/gnumeric-1.0.13 will work because gnumeric is already installed. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Tipp: more X sessions starting from kde panel
* Denny Schierz (2003-07-12 14:08 +0200) if you want to start more Xsessions on F8 F9 F10 you have to add this lines into /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: do the following: [...] Now you have in the K-Panel a new entry called something like Start new Session . Klick on this and after that, you can change with STRG + ALT + F7/8/0/10 change to this sessions and back. Thanks. This is SuSE default and I just wanted to ask how... Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge packages locally
* Harlan (2003-07-12 23:03 +0200)
I have another question. How do I get my local computer to serve files from
/usr/portage/distfiles?
It's described in the Howto:
[gentoo-packages]
path= /usr/portage/distfiles
comment = Gentoo Linux Portage packages (distfiles)
If you are using rsync-gentoo-portage.sh to sync you'll have to
point it to
#DST=/opt/gentoo-rsync/portage/
DST=/usr/portage/
Also add --exclude distfiles to OPTS in the script or you will
lose all your packages.
rsyncd.conf should contain
dont compress = *.ace \
*.arj \
*.bz \
*.bz2 \
*.cab \
*.deb \
*.gz \
*.iso \
*.jar \
*.lha \
*.lzh \
*.rar \
*.rpm \
*.sqx \
*.taz \
*.tbz \
*.tgz \
*.tz \
*.Z \
*.z \
*.zip
And finally:
FETCHCOMMAND='rsync -vcrtz --delete-after --partial --progress --timeout=600
rsync://local_server/gentoo-packages/${FILE} ${DISTDIR}'
I first omitted the -z and emerge sync hung at the first sync.
Thorsten
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[gentoo-user] Re: opera 7.11 and flash
* GëzimHoxha (2003-07-09 08:21 +0200) I just merged (silly me, was gonna say installed) opera 7.11, but my flash doesn't work. You know that you have to install it? ThorstenKampe -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Connect to kdm with VNC
Hi,
I want to connect to kdm so I can log in as any user. SuSE 8.2 does
this easily and VNC is started via xinetd with:
# description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login
# prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1024x768, 16bit depth.
service vnc10
{
type = UNLISTED
port = 5910
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
server = /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvnc
server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16
I tried this setting in xdm-config
! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests
! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm
!DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
...and this in kdmrc:
[Xdmcp]
Enable=true
Willing=/etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling
Xaccess=/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
...but I'm still getting the standard ugly fvm(?) Window! Has anyone
ever managed to get this working?
Thorsten
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[gentoo-user] Re: Ping: Failed to install socket filter
* Alex Radetsky (2003-07-07 11:48 +0200) After last update of system (emerge -u system) I can see this thing: $ ping some.host.name PING some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.433 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.397 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.369 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.397 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.377 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.420 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.354 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.383 ms WARNING: failed to install socket filter : Protocol not available How do you connect to the internet? I'm having the same thing when I run 'netselect'/mirrorselect. After a short period I cannot ping a host on the outside - just on the LAN. This happens only when I connect over a CISCO router - not when over ISDN on the Gentoo box. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: iptables and ftp connection
* Patrick Marquetecken (2003-07-02 10:49 +0200) i'm having trouble to get ftp working with my iptable settings. I can connect login , but can't see files, then my connection is beeing closed. if i stop iptables then everything workfine. Have a break, please. FTP (PASV) should work. If you want active FTP you have to enable * Connection tracking (required for masq/NAT) * FTP protocol support Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: my CD breaks after mount command
* Jose A Carrasco (2003-06-20 12:27 +0200) I have just installed Gentoo Linux under a Pentium 3 machine. Everything has worked fine and as presented in the installation guide. After I have the base system running, I enter as root and mount the CD with the command mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. At that moment the cd stops working. It seems to break and it is definitely broken. I have broken 3 CD readers this way! The CDs work until that moment since I install them and I am able to reboot the machine from them (and work this way) so I have discarded a harware problem since I measure good voltages for the power supply and the rest of the equipment woks ok. Could the Gentoo kernel with a bad configuration destroy my CD? Do you have hdparm settings[1] for your cdrom? I broke two drives last weekend with the safe performance-enhancing options[2] from the 1.4_rc4 Installation Instructions[3]. Thorsten [1] /etc/conf.d/hdparm [2] -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 -M128 [3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Zope initial login
* downtime null (2003-06-20 12:28 +0200) i just emerged Zope and it's not allowing me to login. i tried the generated first login and i changed it with zpasswd.py, neither worked. Did you set 'PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage' in make.conf? Then you should have a file -zope-2.6.1.log: ,--- | Note: | The initial user name and password are 'admin' | and 'fw3z51eX'. | | You can change the name and password through the web | interface or using the 'zpasswd.py' script. | | Note: Don't forget to edit ZOPE_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/zope-2_6_1 | * Need to setup an inituser (admin) before executing zope: | * zope-config --zpasswd `--- Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
