Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com Gigabit NIC's in Linux?
Hi, * fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 9:49:30 PM: I can't really tell if these 3com gigabit NIC's work in linux, anybody happen to know? 3C996B-T 3C2000-T 3c996b-t works here, don't know about the other. Timo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...
Hi Steve, * Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED], Saturday, April 2, 2005, 6:21:18 PM: I realised that the madwifi-driver package is masked and that this indicates that I may experience problems, but I suspect I'm more problems than others - considering that loads of people appear to have the madwifi drivers working with other distributions. I've hunted on the web for definitive information about the madwifi-driver and while I can find a fair bit of information I can't find a specific gentoo sample configuration against which I can compare mine - nor can I find people reporting the same fault. There is the madwifi FAQ http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm the madwifi-homepage http://madwifi.sf.net the madwifi mailinglist http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=82936 and the madwifi IRC-channel irc://irc.freenode.net/#madwifi So far I've used emerge to merge the madwifi-driver (madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20050224) which went without a glitch. This version is fairly old... Since madwifi is in constant development, perhaps you could try a cvs-snapshot from http://madwifi.otaku42.de I then added a few lines (details below - which I assumed appropriate from a weblog-style howto) to my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (I am using the 2.6 development kernel): [snap] as already noted, ath_pci is enough When I reboot I get as far as probing modules then see a load of errors... [snap] Noting that the first error is generated by the wlan module, following a session with Google I suspected that my kernel needed wireless network support... I used menuconfig and made these selections: [snap] (see other posts for comments on this) Can anyone tell me if they've got the madwifi-drivers working under Gentoo (with a 2.6 kernel)? If so - where do our approaches differ? I have madwifi working with 2.6.11.5, on multiple cards (even at the same time). In fact, I had it working with about all kernels except 2.6.10, IIRC. The problem is to find state of the madwifi cvs that supports your choice of kernel. Obvious solution to that is to take a new kernel, and use a recent cvs-snapshot. What kernel options are actually required? (already discussed) Do I really need all the modules I've got in my autoloading (already discussed) (I don't care about security Bad, but with below stated explaination ok. - the only service I'll expose over this interface will be SSH - the same one as I expose to the internet at large)? Timo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid 1 howto
Hi, * Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED], Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:54:10 PM: It is a bit tricky, but works very well. I wrote a rough HOWTO in this message: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/118475 Very Cool, especially as this is using mdadm. But this might be a problem, if you don't have mdadm available. Then you have to use the failed-disk parameter in /etc/raidtab and the raidhotadd -command. There is also method 2 of http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4 Timo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Screenshot in X (How?)
Hi, I am looking for a possibility to create a screenshot of a running X session. As this machine has no Mouse/Keyboard attached (its my MythTV VideoBox and I am to hold some presentation about it) it would be fine when I could initiate the screenshot remotely, without using the mouse to select regions, but if there is no other possibility, I would find a mouse/keyboard and use it. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screenshot in X (How?)
Hi Moshe, * Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:45:53 PM: You can use xwd -root or xwd -id If you need a specific window (xwd is part of X). Works as I was hoping. THX! Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot in X (How?)
Hi Ciaran, * Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:14:06 PM: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:42 +0100 Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am looking for a possibility to create a screenshot of a running | X session. USE=X emerge imagemagick DISPLAY=:0 import -window root screenie.png Thats was what I was looking for. THX! Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?
Hi Nickolay, * Nickolay Savchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:36:49 PM: I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and it works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80 or to the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows stealth status). I've flushed all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network services, tried to change webserver (tried boa and apache), but my port 80 still isn't opened. Is the webserver started and keeps running? run ps axu and look for the webserv process. There should be a line like apache2716 0.0 1.6 17656 8508 ?SFeb10 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D PHP4 When it is running, does it listen on any port? check with netstat -lnp, that should display a line like tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1192/apache2 If neither shows your webserver running, have a look at your log-files, /var/log/apache2 when you are running apache. Post results of that research here. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Matrox G550 Dualhead
Hi, I am trying to get both connectors (VGA and DVI) working at the same time. However, I was not able to build a working XF86config for that. Is here anybody who has that working? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Time planner?
Hi Matt, * Matt Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Monday, February 2, 2004, 5:54:45 PM: Hey folks, Just wondered if anyone could recommend a good 'time planner' in portage? By which I mean something I can log what I've worked on for specific periods of time[*] ... if that makes any sense. Matt [*] ie. I click start on project X then it times how long before I click stop work on project X... make sense? There is something like that in the horde project, www.horde.org, named hermes www.horde.org/hermes. Its web based, probably overkill, and afaik not in portage, but if you need webmail anyway... *g* Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ser-vey
Hi Andrew, * Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED], Saturday, January 10, 2004, 7:00:52 PM: Ben Munat wrote: What do folks think about webmin or some tool like that? Webmin-1.110 (a MUST have) Why? I do not think that way. I consider every program (especially ones I don't need) a security-risc. and a few other misc. daemons. like what? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dell inspiron 8600 (gentoo) linux compatible?
Hi Christian, * Christian Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED], Saturday, December 20, 2003, 2:29:10 PM: can anyone tell me, whether the dell inspiron 8600 is fully (gentoo) linux compatible? http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~dgupta/articles/linux-dell-8600.html http://www.koeniglich.de/dell_8600.html especially these compoents: - - ati radeon 9600 pro turbo - - 10/100mbit lan according to given pages, yes - - modem according to given pages, yes - - Dell Truemobile® 1300 802.11b/g Wireless Mini-PCI-Card - - internal bluetooth module Don't know about these last two things, but I'll find out soon, as my 8k6 is just being built *g* Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo as a router
Hi Oliver, * Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED], Friday, December 12, 2003, 10:18:14 PM: Hello everyone, And again i can't find the solution for a trivial task such as setting up my gentoo box as a simple router for my home LAN. Just for the record (I saw you got your solution) there is also the Gentoo-Router-Howto on the wiki of the Gentoo-Server-Project http://www.subverted.net/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=RouterHowto The site was down over the last few days, so I couldn't give you the link earlier. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Howto backup w2k with streamer in Gentoo machine?
Hi, I have two machines here, one workstation that has Windows 2000 Pro installed, and one server that runs Gentoo and has a Streamer. How can I backup the W2K workstation with the streamer in the linux server? I had some ideas, but I am not sure which of them is best. 1. Boot the workstation with the installed Windows, and use smb-network-shares to mount the partitions on the server, backup them with tar there. I guess it will fail because of the files in use. 2. Boot the workstation with linux (knoppix or gentoo bootcd), then mount all partitions (ntfs) and ssh it on the server. tar cv /mnt/ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/dev/nst0 or would that be tar cv /mnt/ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -f /dev/nst0 3. Boot the workstation with linux (knoppix or gentoo bootcd), then dd all partitions and ssh it on the server. dd if=/dev/sda1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/dev/nst0 or would that be dd if=/dev/sda1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -f /dev/nst0 Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Managing Distributed Gentoo Boxes
Hi, * Celestial Wizard, Monday, December 8, 2003, 8:01:24 AM: By boxes I mean both servers and SOE desktops. Basically our rules are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops etc... On these boxes we also dont install compilers or other development tools (unless of course its a development server / workstation). One way to look at this is as images - but not :) What we want to do is replace our RedHat boxes with Gentoo (for new installs) due to the EOL announced. What I am thinking is something akin to the following - Point each remote box to our image server (or for deskops possibly one out at the client site) to sync a portage tree. (do we just expose /usr/portage via rync?) - However what we want to do when we run an emerge [system|world] is to get binaries instead of source. I've read that you can emerge a binary with a -K but haven't played with it yet. - Our distribution server would keep the packages upto date, mostly by hand at the minute, but someway to separate USE (etc...) settings for different profiles would be nice What would be involved in doing something like the above? That sounds alot like the gold-server approach that has been discussed on the gentoo-sysadmin (now gentoo-server) Mailinglist. You may want to browse their archives and have a look at http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] external firewire hd
Hi Joe, * Joe Stone, Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 2:12:12 PM: I use a 2.6 test kernel, they have much better firewire-support than 2.4. Could you tell us some details about this? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Low memory build
Hi GREGORY, * MARTINSON, GREGORY, Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 2:21:26 PM: I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with 48 Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and ftp as well as maybe a music player). I won't be installing tons of software on it, but I do want to eek our every last ounce of performance from an old beast. Do any of you have general tips, hints or things to avoid in developing such a system? I have a pentium-75 notebook with 14mb ram running with gentoo, it's generally no problem. You may want to use distcc, if you have any other gentoo-systems (network-wise) nearby. Perhaps you may even tar an image together and do any emerges on another machine and rsync the changes over (I am doing that for my notebook, as emerge sync alone takes about 12 hours (not the sync, but updating portage cache)). If you have any chance, put more memory in. [...] Anyone know of a simple low-resource window manager? I am using Openbox after reading http://www.windowmaker.org/features-performance.html What compilation make.conf settings should I try? use -Os (optimizing for size) instead of -O2 or -O3 Thanks to any and all responses! Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH problem - no roote to host
Hi Stephen, * Stephen Liu, Sunday, November 30, 2003, 5:22:12 PM: Hi all folks, MachineA - RH9 (IP: 192.168.0.1) (server) # ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.2 port 22: Connection refused SSH running on machine you connect to? netstat -lnp Machine you connect to reachable? ping 192.168.0.2 Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] raid5: Operation Continuing on 0 devices?
Hi, I am having problems with a software-raid5 device in my system. Because of some hardware-issues all 3 disks of that array fail after each other, the kernel/raid-module does notice it, but does not act upon this. raid5: Disk failure on sde1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 2 devices raid5: Disk failure on sdd1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 1 devices raid5: Disk failure on sdf1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 0 devices Why does the kernel/raid-module not make the array read-only or take it offline? System is a Dual P3-933 on a Supermicro 370DE6 Mainboard, HDDs are all scsi, problem occurred with IBM DPSS 18GB drives on 2.4.22 and now with IBM DPSS 36GB drives in 2.6.0-test11. I am aware that there is a hardware-problem involved, however I guess that a software raid should be taken offline when there are not enough drives to get the full data, at latest when there is no hdd left :-). Here is a part from my kernel-log, as all events occurred in the same second, I have cut all timestamps out for better readability. If you need more information, I 'll gladly provide it. Thanks for any help. == BEGIN Paste from kern.log == SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Current sde: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11557887 raid5: Disk failure on sde1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 2 devices SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Info fld=0x0, Current sde: sense = f0 b Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11557895 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Info fld=0x0, Current sde: sense = f0 b Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11557903 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Info fld=0x0, Current sde: sense = f0 b Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11557911 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Current sde: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11558911 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Current sde: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11555871 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Info fld=0x0, Current sde: sense = f0 b Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11555879 SCSI error : 2 0 11 0 return code = 0x802 Current sdd: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 11556919 raid5: Disk failure on sdd1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 1 devices SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Current sde: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11558919 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Info fld=0x0, Current sde: sense = f0 b Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11555887 SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Info fld=0x0, Current sde: sense = f0 b Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 11558927 SCSI error : 2 0 13 0 return code = 0x802 Current sdf: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 11559871 raid5: Disk failure on sdf1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 0 devices SCSI error : 2 0 12 0 return code = 0x802 Current sde: sense = 70 b ASC=47 ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x47 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE woes
Hi POLAX, Nachricht vom Montag, 24. November 2003, 08:14:06: I have an IDE hardrive that gets misdetected by my BIOS (there's a flaw in the drive - nothing to do with BIOS CHS limits or anything) Are you sure that you want to trust that drive with your data? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA HDD
Hi Tracy, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 19. November 2003, 20:07:16: Ok I got it working now but the problem is it only shows up as 2.1 gigs and it is a 5 gig device is that because there are 2 gigs worth of info stored on it right now or is it really only going to let me use 2 gigs? -Original Message- From: Tracy LCpl Derek E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA HDD Does anyone know how to get a 5gig PCMCIA HDD working on the 2.6.0-test9 kernel? I have emerged pcmcia-cs and still do not know how to get it working. Did you have it working with 2.4.* ? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way to start iptables on boot time?
Hi Tiago, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 19. November 2003, 20:59:22: Hi, Sorry for this newbie question but what is the best way to start iptables (and rules) on boot time? I liked the way it is done in the gentoo-security guide and moduified that script to my purposes (modular, understandable, ...) It is on the gentoo-server-project-wiki on www.subverted.net www.subverted.net/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=FirewallScript Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] 1st ever Apache question
Hi, * Ernie Schroder, Monday 17 November 2003, 03:42:03: On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:00 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: For now I only need to handle a single domain. I have a few simple web pages and would like them to be the pages that Apache gives out. How can I do this? Can I replace the file Apache serves up by default, and if so, where is it? The easiest way for you to go at this point would be to replace the file index.html with your page. The file is at /home/httpd/htdocs/index.html by default. You could park it elsewhere by editing the default location in /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf Wasn't that changed to /var/www/localhost/htdocs recently? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] OpenLDAP or mySQL : how to choose ?
Hi Uwe, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 13. November 2003, 20:11:29: Hellom Am Thursday 13 November 2003 17:10 schrieb Spider: What should I use ? LDAP or SQL ? What would be the 4 or 5 reasons in favour of one or the other ? I'd say LDAP, simply because this is ldap's hometurf, user management and information. However, ldap interface is clunky at times. SQL would be usable, but I don't think it'd be the optimal for this usage area, as sql is more generic, and thus not as wellperforming. Besides, LDAP is a treeview, whereas SQL is flat down, which gives LDAP a better state for a thing like this. There are reasons why people went away from hierarchical databases. As soon as you have entities that might be sorted into different branches of the ldap tree, the problems start. Do you store these entities in both branches? If so, how do you make sure that it will be in sync? Or do you store it in only one and hope that everybody who needs to access it will find it? You could work areound these problems quite easy in a relational database. Best possible solution IMHO would be to use ldap as an directory access protocol and use a relational backend for storage. Of course you'd need an interface to translate the ldap queries into SQL. man 5 slapd.conf states: BACKENDS The following backends can be compiled into slapd: [some other backends] perl This backend works by embedding a perl(1) interpreter into slapd. The configuration file then specifies Perl subroutines that will service LDAP requests. shell This backend executes external programs to implement LDAP operations. It is is primarily intended to be used in prototypes. sql This backend is experimental. It services LDAP requests from an SQL database. You can do ldap from an sql backend, but why should one want to do that? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mod_phps for apache1 AND apache2
Hi, I am testing apache2 with php now, and after doing USE=apache2 emerge mod_php apache1 didn't have php anymore... USE=-apache2 emerge mod_php gave me php for apache1 but killed it for apache2. Is there any way to have portage maintain mod_php for BOTH apaches? Similar Problem: I didn't manage to get pcmcia_cs installed for more then one kernel... I guess that'll be the same with nvidia_kernel, alsa_driver, Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Data Recovery NEEDED, very important
Hi Redeeman, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 2. November 2003, 13:20:49: something happend, and i lost all files in a dir, i think i know what happend: i had made a link to the directory in a dir, so that i could share it on ftp, but when i removed the link, the dirs content got deleted too, its around 12gb og zip archives, and windows executables. i have NOT wrote to the disk since, in hope it can get recovered, i had a situation before: i had deleted some files in windows though, and i tried ontracks tool, it found files, but with the name b0rked, but runtimes software found with the correct name, this time i tried ontracks and the name was borked again, but runtimes didnt find anything, not even the files on the dir beyond, so i guess runtimes tool is capable of doing it, but maybe some stuff is needed in order to do it. some of you know how i might be able to recover? maybe its best with a linux tool? the filesystem is fat32 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help i will apreciate ANYTHING, and i am willing to pay if some of you can help I would suggest you copy the whole drive bit-wise to another drive of the same size (or bigger) using dd dd if=/dev/brokendrive of=/dev/newdrive You'll then have a copy to work on. Also I have had good results with CIA Unerase http://esd.element5.com/product.html?cart=1productid=502983currencies=USD but that is commercial. They have a test-version that'll show you which files will be recoverable to what percentage. HTH Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where to download md5sum
Hi Stephen, Nachricht vom Montag, 27. Oktober 2003, 21:18:45: Hi all folks # emerge search md5sum # emerge search md5summer could not locate it on Gentoo website. Kindly advise where can I have it downloaded. server linux # type md5sum md5sum is hashed (/bin/md5sum) server linux # qpkg -f /bin/md5sum sys-apps/coreutils * server linux # its in the package coreutils, which you should have already installed. Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] old p 133 laptop
Hi, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003, 08:34:06: someone gave me their old fujistu laptop - 133 mhz processor, 16 megs of ram (i can buy 64 more megs for about $20), and 1.3 gig harddrive. i'd like to use it for email mainly, maybe for mp3s (is it powerful enough?). anyway, would GRP install on this old machine, or is it optimized for something newer? i see no reason to not use gentoo just because i'll never compile it on this relic. I am running (and, occassionally, compiling) gentoo on a pentium-75 notebook with 14mb ram. Buying a 3,5hdd to 2,5hdd adaptor is certainly a good idea, I did that for my first install, too. But I found that for updating the machine it is much easier to have a complete image of the laptop (use cd /; tar --exclude=./proc -cv . | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd \ of=/home/user/mylaptop.tar to get the image on another machine) and chroot in for emerge sync and updates, and then rsync the image (or, at least, the changes in it) back. If you don't want to remake the image on every update, be carefull to exclude your /home (and everything else that changed) when rsyncing back. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Has anyone successfully built OO 1.1 (recently unmasked)
Hi purslow, Nachricht vom Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003, 23:51:52: 031018 Andrew Gaffney wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no problem here using GCC 3.2.3 . it took 5 h 45 m , incl download. You must have a very fast connection and a *very* fast computer. ordinary ADSL ( c 45 min IIRC), Athlon XP 2500+ , Soyo mobo, 512 MB DDR400. what worried me was that it threatened to run out of HD space, using c 2,5 GB for its temporary files. Are you using reiserfs? 2.5GB weren't near enough for me, 2.7GB neither, it worked with 3.3GB (being a total of 30hours cpu-time) Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sshd on startup
Hi Monah, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003, 19:04:24: Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I read somewhere you need to create a link in a directory to sshd, but I forgot where. run rc-update add sshd default Thank you Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on RAID1 and Grub
Hi Thomas, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003, 16:21:29: Hello, I've installed Gentoo on a RAID1 System with 2 x 40GB Harddisks and I use Grub as bootloader. My 'grub.conf' looks like this: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo-Platte1 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1 root=/dev/md2 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1 title=Gentoo-Platte2 root (hd1,0) kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1 root=/dev/md2 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.23_pre6-gss-r1 I thought it was possible to boot from the second disk too, if the the first fails, but when I try to boot from the second disk, the only thing I get is, the whole screen filled with the word grub. At the moment the system is working quite well, but what will happen when the first disk fails? Is there a possibility to boot gentoo from both disks with grub? Maybe someone else has had the problem before and got a solution. I have that working on about 5 machines. Make sure you do have grub installed on BOTH disks MBR's and marked the partitions on both installed on disks as active. Thanks for any help, Thomas Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
Hi Spider, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 20:49:33: I'd actually suggest having : USE=-* ncuses nls libwww cups crypt xml2 readline slang berkdb gpm ssl perl python ldap firebird mmx nocardbus foomaticdb the -* will disable just about anytning , and then you set only positive things that you know you do want. (Just like when you create a firewall ;) I just had a look at the docs on www.gentoo.org and didn't found the possibility to use -* documented... Did I look at the wrong place or is that *really* undocumented? If so, it would be cool to have that documented. //Spider Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
Hi Spider, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 13:50:45: Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? A few of theese strikes me as possible reasons, can you please paste the USE section from emerge info (No, not just make.confg. emerge info |grep USE ) Router root # emerge info | grep USE USE=crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms gdbm berkdb slang readline gpm tcpd ssl perl python ldap -3dfx -3dnow -acpi -alsa -arts -apm -avi -dga -directfb -dvb -dvd -esd -ev6 -evo -fbcon firebird -flash -gb -gnome -gphoto2 -gps -kde -lirc -matrox -mbox -moziolla -oci -oss -opengl -pam -pcmcia -pda -ruby -scanner -sse -voodoo3 -wavelan -X -Xaw3d -xface -xinerama xv -zeo -ppc -sparc -alpha -mips -hppa -arm mmx nocardbus x86 zlib Router root # My first guess is that you have +gtk or +gtk2 in (some buggy ebuilds still think they should work if you have +gtk2 ) That was gtk (according to ufed). I took it out, do I have to restart the still running (it will run for some time, it only a 233MHz machine) emerge -uUD world ? //Spider Thx Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
Hi Stroller, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 15:20:40: On 15 Oct 2003, at 12:15 pm, Timo Boettcher wrote: When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? Router root # emerge -uUD world -p Hihi, Could you post the output of `emerge -uUDpv world`, please..? I think the -v flag will be helpful. taking gtk out of USE fixed it. Router root # USE=gtk emerge -uUD world -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 -doc +zlib -bindist [ebuild N] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.1 [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 [ebuild N] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9 [ebuild N] app-arch/cabextract-0.6 [ebuild N] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse +mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype +nls -cjk -doc -ipv6 -debug -static -pam -sdk -gatos [ebuild N] x11-libs/pango-1.2.5 -doc [ebuild N] dev-libs/atk-1.4.0 -doc [ebuild N] x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.4-r1 -doc -tiff +jpeg Router root # Stroller. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless nic
Hi dickie, Nachricht vom Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003, 19:49:53: Some time lurker first time poster... I have a modest home lan - I have a few dual booting windows PCs (for the games!!) that also run different distros (mandrake/suse and of course Gentoo) I've also set up a wireless lan so I can use my Palm Tungsten C... I've just bought a Belkin pci wireless nic (F5D7000). The card works fine through windows...but.a quick search on Google suggests that there are no linux drivers available for it. I've emailed Belkin's tech support but I just wondered if anyone out there has any experience of the card... Many thanks all.. dick http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html is a great source of Information on Wireless-cards Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Knoppix for ancient laptop?
Hi Carl, Nachricht vom Dienstag, 16. September 2003, 05:14:48: Hi, folks! Ok, here's the machine: 133 MHz (yes, *mega*, not giga or tera) Pentium! 48 MB RAM, 1.8 GB hard drive. (This is a Compaq LTE 5300.) [...] It has a floppy drive and CD drive that *SHARE* a bay, and a NetGear Ethernet card in the PCMCIA slot. Cool box. I am running Gentoo on a Pentium 75MHz (yes, thats about half your clock) with 14MB ram (third of yours). I DID change the original 262MB HDD for a 10GB one, though. Perhaps you should think about this, too. You might want to find out if you could put any additional Ram in that thing... [...] Since I am fairly used to the way Gentoo works now, I am thinking that I could install it on this laptop, either using distcc to let my dual-P3 box do most of the building, or by using only binary packages. On the other hand, Knoppix has its appeal as well, since (if I could only get it to boot!) that would mean I could use the entire HD for just swap space and personal files. Yes, running it from a 4x CD would be slow and painful, but I wouldn't be trying to load KDE3 or anything... just Windowmaker or icewm or something lighter. I installed my laptop with a hdd adaptor to get the notebooks hdd working in my Athlon TB 1,2GHz. For maintaining it, I have an tar.gz image of the notebook on my dual P3 (these thinks rule, don't they? *g*), chroot in and rsync it over. I seem to have read that it is possible to install Gentoo from binaries only, so can it be done without installing GCC? [...] It is possible to get a Gentoo Base-system in 800MB (including GCC AND Sources (that one was a server)). You might want to go really low with your fs-blocksize (1kb or so) to minimize loss. [...] I *have* made a GRUB floppy, but when I boot with it and then swap out the floppy drive for the CD drive, and try to boot a CD with (hd1,0), it does not work. (The Knoppix floppy also does not work -- it says it cannot find any CD drives and drops me to a horrible shell.) If you think a shell is horrible, are you sure you are right here? [...] My question to those who, perhaps, have tried something similar, is: Should I continue to struggle with Knoppix, or is there a good way to get Gentoo on this thing? If you know Gentoo and like it, than the trouble *IS* worth it. My thanks in advance for any suggestions! :) np Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo or Knoppix for ancient laptop?
Hi Carl, Nachricht vom Dienstag, 16. September 2003, 14:47:28: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:39:48 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: I installed my laptop with a hdd adaptor to get the notebooks hdd working in my Athlon TB 1,2GHz. For maintaining it, I have an tar.gz image of the notebook on my dual P3 (these thinks rule, don't they? *g*), chroot in and rsync it over. That's a good trick... probably makes upgrades much faster! Yeah. emerge sync takes about 10hours for me (the actual sync is something of minutes, but updating dependency cache... takes endless. My hdd is attached via ISA-Bus to CPU (that laptop has no internal PCI), so I get 2500Kb/s max from the hdd. With 14MB ram, that makes swapping really slow. It is possible to get a Gentoo Base-system in 800MB (including GCC AND Sources (that one was a server)). You might want to go really low with your fs-blocksize (1kb or so) to minimize loss. That is a good idea! I could go even lower... I think DOS floppies use 512-byte sectors; that would be good if most of the files are small. Thats something to experiment with, calls for loopback-devices on the bigger machines... A server running in 800MB? Yeah, without X and lots of user programs, I can see that! Hey, I could go really retro and *not* install X... use Emacs for everything... ;) You may want to have a look at framebuffer-things... you can run some higher resolutions, have graphical browser, even video-playback via mplayer (if it doesn't work, there is still that asci-art mode... *g*) with (hd1,0), it does not work. (The Knoppix floppy also does not work -- it says it cannot find any CD drives and drops me to a horrible shell.) If you think a shell is horrible, are you sure you are right here? It's not that I think *a* shell is horrible (Bash rocks!), but *that* shell is! It doesn't even have ls or tab completion, so if you want to run something, you'd better already know where it is. :) OK, I know that kind of shells. Like DOS. Anyway, I think I will have another try this weekend. Maybe I could put QNX or something there if Gentoo doesn't work. ;) Gentoo DOES work. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge
Hi Mark, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 3. September 2003, 16:41:49: Hi, This has been an ongoing problem for me. Can anyone recommend a UPS for a Linux desktop type machine that can do an automated shutdown and runs in the neighborhood of $100? I have no trouble with this in Windows, doing it with $60 USB versions from APC, but I haven't found anything similar for Linux. If you've solved this problem, please respond back with both the UPS model number (if possible) and where to get the drivers. APC-SmartUPS 700 go for $65 (used) on ebay, with a set of new batteries you would be near $100. They work with nut (network-ups-tools, in portage). Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge
Hi Mark, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 3. September 2003, 19:19:19: Chip, Do you have a model number for your USB APC? Is it by chance a BackUPS CS-500 ($110) or CS-350? ($74) the Smart-UPS-Series has some cool monitoring functions (temperature, line-voltage, batt-voltage, batt-percentage, load-percentage)... I wouldn't want to miss them. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge
Hi Mark, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 3. September 2003, 19:24:51: APC-SmartUPS 700 go for $65 (used) on ebay, with a set of new batteries you would be near $100. They work with nut (network-ups-tools, in portage). Timo Timo, I'll keep ebay in mind. I was sort of avoiding APC serial based units. My project studio PCs are all dual boot (for instance Windows running GigaSampler and Linux running soft synths) and in the past APC made you change which model of serial cable you had to use for Windows vs. Linux. Weird 'eh? For that reason I'm focusing on USB if I can possibly find one, which it appears I can. I have three smart-ups working with the standard-cable with linux (haven't tried windows yet, but you could connect the UPS's serial cable to a different machine then the one you get power with, and get the UPS's state via network. (See Monitoring Diagrams on http://www.exploits.org/nut/features.html) That works fine for me, btw. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moded gentoo distro?
Hi Stephen, Nachricht vom Montag, 25. August 2003, 08:12:10: hey love the kernel gen thats super cool, :-p never seen my pc turn off before after powering down! well anyways are there any plans for a gentoo firewall/router? how about server specific spin offs? kinda like a minimalist webserver almost embedded or somthing? just curious what others thought especially about the gentoo high performance firewall :-p There is the Gentoo-Server Project. http://www.subverted.net/wakka/index.php irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-server Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] most secure partition layout
Hi Christian, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 17. August 2003, 09:48:01: hi gentoo-user, I wonder what would be the best partition layout for a really secure and performant system (running as router/server). current layout: /boot not mounted / readonly /usr/local readonly /var r/w /tmp r/w /usr/portage r/w this is seperated on two ide drives. but in a few days I will move the whole system to some scsi drives. 2 x 4,3GB 2 x 9,1GB 1 x 4,3GB destined to be an image of the base system for backup reasons what would you recommend and most important information: why? You may want to have a look at the gentoo-security guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml especially the partitioning section http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml#doc_chap3_sect5 thx+regards /Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.21 and broadcom
Hi Kees, Nachricht vom Freitag, 8. August 2003, 00:39:00: I am looking in the menuconfig from the gentoo-sources 2.4.21 but I can't see any support for my broadcom network card anymore :-( Has it gone? It was supported in the 2.4.20-r5 kernel Can you tell us more about that card? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing APC-UPS
Hi, Nachricht vom Montag, 4. August 2003, 15:51:25: Hi, Nachricht vom Samstag, 2. August 2003, 23:59:46: Hi, I just bought a used APC UPS, being a Smart-UPS with a SmartSlot. In this SmartSlot is 9607 management card, which provides the second and third serial management-port. I can access the UPS via the first (built-in) serial-port just fine (using nut with the newapc driver) but I can't get anything of the ports on that expansion card. That card has a series of four DIP-Switches on it, but I have no documentation about that UPS, the expansion card or the DIP-Switches. Any hints? Anyone who can tell me anything about that card? Anyone who could just read of his settings of the DIP-Switches and tell me? Any help appreciated. Timo I got a very helpful reply in the forum http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=72116 , but I am still looking for docs on the exact settings of these DIP-Switches. Timo Again, answering my self... I found this on the back of the card... +-+-+ | MODE SWITCH | 1 2 3 4 | +-+-+ | CONFIRMED | 0 0 0 - | | UNTIL LO-BATT | 0 0 1 - | | 2 MIN TIMER | 0 1 0 - | | 5 MIN | 0 1 1 - | | 10 MIN | 1 0 0 - | | 15 MIN | 1 0 1 - | | 30 MIN | 1 1 0 - | | 60 MIN | 1 1 1 - | +-+-+ | ADV = NORMAL| - - - 0 | | ADV = CONFIRMED | - - - 1 | +-+-+ Does anybody know what that means? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1
Hi Wolfram, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 10. August 2003, 17:26:00: Hi, i started emerge -up world and found a new version of mod_ssl. The emerge wanted to downgrade my Apache2 to Apache1. I know, it's not a real downgrade but an install into another slot but I dont like unused software fill up my harddisks. So I tried to cheat with emerge insert net-www/apache-1.3.xx - worked ok. Then I tried to emerge mod_ssl but without success. The ebuild said something like mod_ssl for apache-1-3-xx. and stopped. How can I emerge mod_ssl WITHOUT emerging apache-1.x as well? http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/en/new_features_2_0.html#module lists mod_ssl-support as builtin. = You don't need to emerge it, just use it. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing APC-UPS
Hi Timo, Nachricht vom Samstag, 2. August 2003, 23:59:46: Hi, I just bought a used APC UPS, being a Smart-UPS with a SmartSlot. In this SmartSlot is 9607 management card, which provides the second and third serial management-port. I can access the UPS via the first (built-in) serial-port just fine (using nut with the newapc driver) but I can't get anything of the ports on that expansion card. That card has a series of four DIP-Switches on it, but I have no documentation about that UPS, the expansion card or the DIP-Switches. Any hints? Anyone who can tell me anything about that card? Anyone who could just read of his settings of the DIP-Switches and tell me? Any help appreciated. Timo I got a very helpful reply in the forum http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=72116 , but I am still looking for docs on the exact settings of these DIP-Switches. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Accessing APC-UPS
Hi, I just bought a used APC UPS, being a Smart-UPS with a SmartSlot. In this SmartSlot is 9607 management card, which provides the second and third serial management-port. I can access the UPS via the first (built-in) serial-port just fine (using nut with the newapc driver) but I can't get anything of the ports on that expansion card. That card has a series of four DIP-Switches on it, but I have no documentation about that UPS, the expansion card or the DIP-Switches. Any hints? Anyone who can tell me anything about that card? Anyone who could just read of his settings of the DIP-Switches and tell me? Any help appreciated. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync taking forever
Hi Bering, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2003, 01:51:04: Agreed! Just put emerge sync in a cron job or during the night, and you'll never know how much time it took ;) I will know, because it will still be running at the morning. With my old laptop (Pentium-75), I sleep less than an emerge sync takes, which is about 10 hours (!). Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nailing a particular version locally
Hi Jonathan, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2003, 02:48:25: Hi, I was wondering, is there a way of nailing particular versions on my system(s), sort of like a local /etc/make.profile/packages, that won't get overwritten everytime I emerge sync ... I was guessing I could just copy /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 somewhere and point /etc/make.profile at that, but then I'd have to update that manually. I guess I'm hoping there's some sort of overlay feature in portage for the _contents_ packages file. Cheers. Jonathan. With latest portage (2.0.48-r5 or something) you can use /etc/portage/packages.mask (you will have to create it). For Example, you could put net-www/apache-2.* there, if you want to keep apache1. Its not documented, and I don't know if it is stable but it works for me. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Ruined 3 HD's ??
Hi Michael, Nachricht vom Samstag, 26. Juli 2003, 22:05:19: I have the disc, trouble is with the drive plugged in I can't even boot a floppy or CD. If I leave the drive unplugged and boot the WD floppy, then plug it in, it finds it and everything is fine according to the SW. Call/Email WD and with these effects. This is NOT normal. Have you tried the drives on another Mainboard? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 802.11 cards
Hi Ian,
Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003, 13:10:02:
Which 802.11{b,g} PCI cards work well with (gentoo) Linux? More
specifically, which D-Link or NetGear cards work well?
Check the Wireless-Lan-Howto at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
especially its The Devices, the drivers section at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html
Timo
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Re: [gentoo-user] apache
Hi Bernhard, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003, 16:23:51: My apache2 will nor start, just before, it functionned good How about some more details? What did you change? Error messages in System or in Apaches logs? Is the Apache process shown in ps axu? gentoo WOApps # apache2 -k start gentoo WOApps # apache2 -k restart httpd not running, trying to start gentoo WOApps # Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache
Hi Matthias, Nachricht vom Montag, 21. Juli 2003, 12:28:46: -- quoting Bernhard Huber -- no, it was not a reply .. Strange, because I can see your message as a reply to the thread which Gentoo version for Celeron 566. Maybe my kmail thread the mails wrong? But I had no problems so far... Does anybody else see Bernhard's Apache mail as an reply or is it just me? If so, then sorry Bernhard! TheBat! shows it as a reply, too. Greetings, Matthias Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 tarball for a celeron
Hi RVick, Nachricht vom Montag, 14. Juli 2003, 20:29:42: I am lookging for a stage3 taball for my celeron, but am uncertain as to which one to grab. Below is a snippet from dmesg, can anyone tell which tarball I should get with the information below? CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 00 Have a look at the stages in: ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc4/x86/x86/stages/ of the last official release 1.4rc4. It doesn't really matter which version you have when you install from stage 1. Since you seem not to like that, you should take the best fitting actual version, which is the generic (i guess its i386 or even i586, but that wouldn't matter) stage3 for you. Since you son't want to recompile, i would strongly vote against taking the older i686-optimized-stage3 from 1.4_rc2 (that was AFAIK the last rc where they build all stages). I would choose a stage1-install. Thanks- Ryan == --- PRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES DISCLAIMER --- This message originates from Presbyterian Healthcare Services or one of its affiliated organizations. It contains information, which may be confidential or privileged, and is intended only for the individual or entity named above. It is prohibited for anyone else to disclose, copy, distribute or use the contents of this message. All personal messages express views solely of the sender, which are not to be attributed to Presbyterian Healthcare Services or any of its affiliated organizations, and may not be distributed without this disclaimer. If you received this message in error, please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Timo -- Against Stupid Email Disclaimers: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 tarball for a celeron
Hi Ted, Nachricht vom Montag, 14. Juli 2003, 23:50:54: A celeron is a Pentium with less cache. If it is a p4 celeron, you can use the p4 CFLAGS for gcc. If it is a p3 celeron, you use the p3 flags. Same goes for optimized stages. If you have a look at http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html you see that the Mendocino that the original poster was saying to have, is a pentium2 (celeron1), so it gets P2-flags. Timo PS: Please reply ONLY to the list (Yes, I read the list). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] gentoo is slow
Hi Mark, Nachricht vom Samstag, 12. Juli 2003, 21:50:49: The argument seems to go that on a DP machine one processor will handle the GUI/OS/drivers and the second processor will handle the audio application. However, no one (that I know of anyway) has really measured this quantitatively and shown it to be true. (It might be to subjective anyway...) Any thoughts? AFAIK the trick of SMP (Symetric Multi Processing) is that it is symetric, there is no cpu dedicated to some (OS|Driver|Gui|App) Task. If thats wrong, please correct me. My concern has generally been that every SMP machine I've looked at (admittedly not that many) seems to be a generation behind in chipsets and memory technology which goes against the goal. If I agree to pay more money for a second processor I'd at least like the rest of the machine to be equivalent technology. I guess thats a question of money. What are you missing on dual-boards? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Build own distfiles mirror
Hi Thorsten, 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. 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 Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] [DEBATE] Gentoo on laptops
Hi Chris, Nachricht vom Samstag, 12. Juli 2003, 19:51:00: On 2003.07.11 07:27, Timo Boettcher wrote: I use my laptop for school and work. Unfortunately, after coming home last night and falling asleep doing my homework, the laptop battery ran out. I would definately never use anything except a journalling file system. Currently using reiser. I wouldn't use reiser, because of the lack of repairfs-tools. Another environment to check out might be xfce4, it looks rather impressive. Got an url for that? screenshots? 3) APM or ACPI ? I have tried both and can't make a choice, does anyone have any experience to share ? My Notebook is to old for ACPI *g*. If you have a choice, great. I didn't. 5) Framebuffer or not ? Is framebuffer power consuming ? I would choose framebuffer over X anytime, because its a lot less CPU/Memory consuming. I was told that Links and Mplayer run in FB without problems. I use X mainly, but I still have the framebuffer enabled. I'm having some nasty issues switching back and forth between console an X that I havent looked into solving. It depends on your use. Do you merely open alot of xterms and do your work in there? Wasn't that the reason for wm's being developed? *g* You might be better off with framebuffer with 12 (instead of 6) consoles, or use screen. Thats not a question of FB, but of your inittab. I currently have 8 consoles. Good luck. -Chris I Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [LONG] New dependancies?
Hi Dmitry,
Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003, 17:03:51:
Hello, list!
I haven't synced for about a month, and now that's what emerge gives
me: (Sorry for long list, but I need to leave it untouched so you
can see all packages)
[...]
[ebuildU ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r7 [1.60-r6]
[...]
[ebuild N ] net-misc/iputils-020927
[...]
I'm an x86 guy :).
The question is: What are those new ('N') packages? Why might I need
iputils for example?
ping, for example has been moved from net-tools to iputils.
I don't use them at all.
I can't see how you can have a Gentoo-Machine (thus having Internet)
and live without ping.
And I'd be very grateful if some one could point out what packages
depend on that 'N's?
use qpgk -q packagename to find out which packages need a given
package. qpgk is in the package gentoolkit, btw.
May be its because some new USE-flags in make.globals?
[...]
Thanks in advance,
np
Dmitry.
Timo
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Re: [gentoo-user] convert unix time stamp to human readable
Hi Ernie, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2003, 15:36:40: http://www.4cm.com/tools/unix_to_time.php I just thought I'd post the above link. I was trying to decipher the time stamp on my /var/log/emerge.log to try to figure out why something broke when I came accross this. I had this perl-script to make squid-logs readable == Begin paste unix-to-human-time.pl == #! /usr/bin/perl -p s/^\d+\.\d+/localtime $/e; == End paste unix-to-human-time.pl Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] What do you like best on Gentoo?
Hi, I was asked to show Gentoo in my local LUG, to make a Demo-Installation or something like this. As the place where we meet has no Internet to speak of (64kbit single ISDN) and the meetings are pretty short (3hours), it would be hard to show a full gentoo Installation. So, what should I show them? The minimal solution for me would be to take a Laptop with Gentoo Installed, merge/unmerge some packages, fine. But IMO the most distinguishing part of Gentoo is its install. Lacking real compiling power (best we got is a dual P3-933), we could just precompile some things and build binary packages. What do you like best on Gentoo? What would you tell/show them? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What do you like best on Gentoo?
Hi Alan, Nachricht vom Dienstag, 24. Juni 2003, 16:44:47: I was asked to show Gentoo in my local LUG, to make a Demo-Installation or something like this. As the place where we meet has no Internet to speak of (64kbit single ISDN) and the meetings are pretty short (3hours), it would be hard to show a full gentoo Installation. Show upgrading a simple, small paket instead. Also show them how you can install any version (well, any version in portage) of that package, and upgrade and downgrade at will. One of my big beefs with debian is you can only really install the latest version of the software, and you can't downgrade without having the older deb packages there already. Gentoo you just emerge the version you want. A *very* powerful (and overlooked) feature I think. The problem is, that many packages are IMO thrown out of portage much to early... Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I get a floppy bootdisk/image?
Hi, Nachricht vom Samstag, 21. Juni 2003, 20:52:36: I have a scsi cdrom drive that won't boot bootable cdroms and I'd like to try Gentoo so is there a floppy (1.44Mb) bootdisk image somewhere that I can get started? http://www.toms.net/rb/ Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -Tt says: Hmm.. suspicious results
Hi Joe, Nachricht vom Samstag, 7. Juni 2003, 08:55:08: [...] hdparm says: [...] emerge bonnie++ That does a benchmark that shows the effect of your filesystem, and free-space-fragmentation, too, so you get the numbers that any application you are running gets. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo
Hi Johnny, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003, 17:02:23: I'm getting a laptop soon. Not the latest model, but reasonably useable (aiming for somewhere around 800 MHz, 256 meg). I have been running Gentoo on a Pentium-75 with 14MB Ram for more than half a year now, and I am impressed. I have not been able to Gentoo anything running on it due to low memory except Gentoo and LFS. First install was with the hdd in a desktop (using an adaptor), but all updates were on the ldaptop. I'm using Gentoo on my desktop machine and I like it. I wonder if any of you have opinions on Gentoo on a laptop. As Gentoo is more customizable than other distros, you'll heave probably more luck to get the thing running than with other distros... I realize that the usual set-aside-a-day-to-compile-kde rules apply, but other than that, is Gentoo a wise choise for laptops? Why not? My theory is that as Gentoo is very customizable, and as you _have_ to compile your own kernel, the odds that you're gonna get your hardware working is good. That are my experiences. Any comments? Or does anyone have good experiences with other distros on laptops? No remarkable good experiences with other distros, but not so many bad as that would count. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync
Hi Thomas, Nachricht vom Samstag, 31. Mai 2003, 16:47:55: On Saturday 31 May 2003 15:28, dima wrote: $emerge rsync I get a different error message: That is NOT an error. (dimas message seems to be one) Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2003 (Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' ...@ ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time. It has been discussed here and in the Forums more than once. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=335652#335652 for details. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate
Hi Jani-Matti, Nachricht vom Samstag, 5. April 2003, 14:14:46: Timo Boettcher wrote: So ntpdate will cease to exist? Any hint on why? ntpd -q does the exact same thing as ntpdate did (fix the time once, and then quit), so ntpdate has become pretty useless. THX Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Running a dyndns server
Hi, I am looking for some tool to let me run my own Dyndns server.Has anyone made experiences with that? I do NOT want to run a server with a dynamic IP and get a stable hostname. I have a server with a static IP and want athome.myserver.com. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Automated chrooting of daemons by portage
Hi, Is it possible to automate the chrooting of daemons like apache, bind, ...? I know that postfix has this capability by its own source (just set some flags in the config-file), and reading forum/bugs I get the feeling that there is some way to automate chrooting of bind, too... Is it/should it be possible to set a variable/parameter on where to chroot a daemon and let portage do the rest? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] ttt = tele traffic tapper
Hi, anybody ever heard of/used ttt? http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html#ttt seems to be something like mrtg, giving you traffic by host/port in a graphical analysis. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] ttt = tele traffic tapper
Hi Alexander, Nachricht vom Freitag, 4. April 2003, 14:58:40: AF On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:25:36 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: anybody ever heard of/used ttt? http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html#ttt seems to be something like mrtg, giving you traffic by host/port in a graphical analysis. AF You don't happen to coincidently read the german c't magazine? ;) yes, I did. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Running a dyndns server
Hi, OK, so there are http://www.dhis.org/dhis/ http://www.ddts.org/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/ned/?topic_id=150%2C149 http://www.htoc.com/mhdns/ http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/ The first two are certified dead or very near so... The next two are the ones I don't know, gnudip is one if have stumbled upon before. Is anyone of you using any of this? Are these things secure? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate
Hi! In the last GWN http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml#doc_chap8 there was something on how to sync the local clock using rdate. Whats the difference to using ntpdate? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] rdate vs. ntpdate
Hi Carlos, Nachricht vom Freitag, 4. April 2003, 00:50:08: Hi Timo, On April 3, 2003 10:09 am, Timo Boettcher wrote: Hi! In the last GWN http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml#doc_chap8 there was something on how to sync the local clock using rdate. Whats the difference to using ntpdate? In my understanding ntpdate is now deprecated in favor of being rolled into ntpd itself. So it should really not be used anymore. So ntpdate will cease to exist? Any hint on why? Also, in my understanding, rdate is a one time thing when you execute it. As is ntpdate... And must be put into a cron job to constantly keep your clock accurate. Whereas ntpd is a daemon that can be started and kept running. Doing the work of keeping your clock accurate automatically as it interogates time servers for you. But rdate/ntpdate do this, too or is there a difference between them? ntpd can make the clock go faster/slower for continuosly going right. Or did I get this wrong? Also I heard once that use of all r* programs should be carefully considered because of security reasons... does rdate count to this group? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Serial ATA
Hi Adam, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 2. April 2003, 08:31:37: | I was just wondering about the state of support for Serial ATA in Linux | at the moment. I'm looking at a board with a Serial ATA controller on, | will be be supported? You can be 100% sure, that it will be supported, Serial ATA is the next generation IDE standard, which will take over the current IDE standard fairly quick, imo. The 2.5.xx kernel series has already some (maybe experimental) support for it, AFAIK. Correct me, if I was wrong, please :) So its not supported at the moment in the 2.4.x series? Can anyone confirm this? AFAIK there is no difference in protocol between serial and parallel ata, its just a matter of cable format (there are adaptors). The only problem is support for chipsets that support serial ata, but thats the same problem as with parallel ata and ata-raid. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
Hi Toby, Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 3. April 2003, 00:59:13: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not do nightly upgrades into 2003-spring, I keep that frozen (and merge in security fixes by adding those ebuilds, digest files, and meta-data caches by hand). That sounds a bit like that gentoo-stable-project... testing things, the choosing by hand what to do. Isn't it possible to do that in larger scale? I read more than once in this threat that people are building their own production-sets of ebuilds. Isn't that a bit against the philosophy of gentoo? I don't want to start a (flame-)war over this, but you should get where I am going... Just a starting point for discussion I am doing the same thing for our gentoo servers, with one variation. I try to keep the stapshot completely clean, and add updates using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. So far this has been very stable for us, and I am very pleased with the arrangement. I am about to migrate our last few redhat servers over the next few weeks. So far there has only been one problem The ebuild for a recent openssl update needed a more recent portage than we had been using, the updated portage needed a newer bash, and the updated bash ebuild also needed a newer portage. deadlock! Can't portage resolve such deadlocks? IMHO it should do... update portage to something older, then update bash, portage, openssl... We have now adopted a policy of updating portage every 8 weeks, even on the stable servers, even when we dont think we need an update. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
