Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, udev and Palm Tungsten T5
Hi! Got a Tungsten E. Can't say that getting it run worked like a charm. But now it works fine with Gnome / Evolution. Regards spox Am Donnerstag, den 11.08.2005, 17:56 +0200 schrieb Stefan Onken: Hello, is anyone using a Palm Tungsten T5 under Gentoo and Udev ? I tried google up and down, read tons of docs and howtos, but I can get it to work. Any real life experience would be very helpful. cu stonki -- www.stonki.de www.krename.net www.kbarcode.net www.proftpd.de -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] real-time priority
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Joseph wrote: I'm not sure if that what they mean with real-time priority. Realtime has nothing to do with 'nice'. With 'nice' you set the process' time-slice so that it gets more (or less) processor-time. With realtime (soft or hard realtime - there's a difference) the process is guaranteed to have processor-time within certain time-limits, something which normal schedulers don't do. See 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing'. HTH Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sound not working for user
Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they still do for root. I get /dev/mixer errors for the user. Is there something simple I should check? I do need to make a bunch of world updates. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working for user
Hi, check the permissions of /dev/mixer. Regards Frank On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 01:38 -0700, Grant wrote: Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they still do for root. I get /dev/mixer errors for the user. Is there something simple I should check? I do need to make a bunch of world updates. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working for user
On 01:38 Fri 12 Aug , Grant wrote: Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they still do for root. I get /dev/mixer errors for the user. Is there something simple I should check? I do need to make a bunch of world updates. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Did you give a look at the approppiate gentoo-guide (probably http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml , go to Audio Group)? cheers -- [sinatura] A ouvir (mpd): Asian Dub Foundation - Power to the Small Massive GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 - http://tinyurl.com/79lrs [\sinatura] pgpNPy2DY102B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] where is changlog for Gentoo 2005.1
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:41 +0600, askar k wrote: Hello! I can't find changelog for Gentoo 2005.1 on its site. Thanks, askar There isn't one, AFAIK. Not much has changed to the profile, anyway. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue
Arek Murzyn wrote: YoYo siska wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote: - Original Message - From: Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200 Arek Murzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done something recently on my gentoo and I don't remember what but till that moment I cannot run Eterm or xterm when logged as user. When logged as root everything is working. This issue is known on the web but solutions does not satisfy me Eterm. There are messages: Can't open pseudo-tty --No such file or directory Unable to run sub-command Then Eterm window raises and there is only Hit any key to exit I checked: - /dev/pty is compiled in kernel - /dev/pty directory exists and all files within - symbolic links in /dev exists too - changed rights to all these files to rwxrwxrwx - nothing helped 2.6.12r6, 2005.0 What can I do more? Changin debugging level in Eterm gives nothing. Did you use Unix98 PTY or Legacy (BSD) Pty? Also, are you using udev? And you have Virtual terminal? fwiw - I haven't seen it here with Unix98 ptys, udev, and 2.6.12-r4. I use udev and Legacy(BSD) with 2.6.12-r6. How to check if I use virtual terminal? How to switch to Unix98 - I can't find this option in menuconfig. Very strange is that root can open eterm without problems, any user (even with additional group 'root') can't. I see some messages in logs about pam authentication. Could it be related to that? Thanks, Arek I had such a problem after an upgrade of udev. I didn't run etc-update and with the old config udev just made the ptys with wrong permissions after etc-update and a reboot with the new udev config all was well again... Thanks, could you send me your config file when ude is working? Br, Arek It worked (there has not been done etc-update after udev upgrade). Arek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola
-Original Message- From: Bob Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2005 03:52 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:19:43 +0200 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you feel if a company bought lots of too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around wherever you went (in these public places, which would certainly include shops but not the bathroom...)? Without you being conscious of it? Very useful to follow someone around to get their (window)shopping habits, and almost certainly completely illegal. How are these different (apart from legality)? Um...you may not know this, but Holly is in the UK. London in particular has cameras all over the place. From what I've heard, it's not possible to walk in public there without being recorded. In public, there is already a trail of her activities. Bob Just FYI: There's also cameras installed in the toilets of many establishments. A friend of a friend got arrested for snorting class A substances in the lav. The funny thing is that he was a copper and he had confiscated the said substance a few minutes earlier . . . :D Quoting from WSJ.com: In all, there are at least 500,000 cameras in the city, and one study showed that in a single day a person could expect to be filmed 300 times. Now if you add the times you've been to the toilet you see that Holly is quite accurate in saying that you can only be alone in your thoughts - Big Brother is watching . . . -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions
Fernando Meira wrote: Hi Francesco, thanks for your reply. You gave me a new idea. I can't create 2 partition as you proposed, but only one. This because I already have 3 primary and 1 extended. Yes.. big mess.. have to fix it later... So, what I will do is this: - leave around 32M in the beginning of the disk for a future /boot when I can alter the partitions table freely. - create hda1, starting after 32M until the end of spare disk. sound good, 50 Mb instead of 32? 18 Mb are not so much nowadays. This also don't change the partition scheme of your HD probably making win more happy. - move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, cp -a or rsync would get better results? cp -a work for me (TM) , rsync make not much sense when the destination is empty. Question: I had a bootable flag on my windoze partition before (hda1), though /boot was in hda4. Now should I move it to where /boot will stay, right? keep the bootable flag *only* on the win partition, it's the only one that need it. Thanks, Fernando. On 8/11/05, *Bastian Balthazar Bux* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, this is how my disk is divided: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 11275102414067 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda21276420823559322+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda342094271 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda442724864 4763272+ 83 Linux /dev/hda51276420823559291b W95 FAT32 Now I want to clean hda1 (which has windows) and mount there /usr and point $PORTAGE_TMPDIR there (because my gentoo system, in hda4, run out of space). Once I'm doing this, I could split that partition into smaller ones (e.g. to create /boot), but hda1 needs to be Extended. So, 1. Can /boot be inside an Extended partition? Would probably be place in hda6... Don't know 2. In case of not changing my boot config (my doing Q1), will I need to re-install my bootloader in MBR anew? Or on other words, will MBR be erased when cleaning hda1? MBR is not erased, but it need to know where /boot is, whit grub you need to repeat the grub root (hd0,x) setup (hd0) quit phase. Having different partitions for an home system (with the exception of /boot in hda1 ) has always revealed useless for me. Also allocating 100 Mb for hda1/boot your first partition is much bigger than the actual /dev/hda4 . What about to move your entire system in that place ? When finished this leave to you the entire space hda4 space and the choice of what to with that. The easyer way I know to to this is 1) have handy a bootable livecd/resque disk. 2) substituite hda1 with - hda1 = /boot = 50-100 Mb - hda2 = / = all the rest 3) mkfs.[your preferred] /dev/hda1 4) mkfs.[your preferred] /dev/hda2 5) Stop all services you can 6) mkdir /mnt/TheFuture /mnt/ThePast 7) mount -obind / /mnt/ThePast 8) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/TheFuture 9) mkdir /mnt/TheFuture/boot 10) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/TheFuture/boot 11) cp -a /mnt/ThePast/* /mnt/TheFuture/ 12) check with ls -al /mnt/ThePast/ if there are hidden file to copy 13) change /mnt/TheFuture/etc/fstab /boot/grub/grub.conf 14) rerun your bootloader install phase (if grub see before) reboot Try to boot each of your S.O. Warning the previous mentioned hda1 may be called hdaX from the partitioner, check it. Hint, groub admit editing of the boot parameters pressing e key, may be handy if there are any mistake in grub.conf Question extra :) : what tends to be bigger /etc or /usr ? check it yourself #du -sh /etc /usr usr is the bigger partition in the system usually Thanks, Fernando HIH, Francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my monitor. [S. Lucas Bergman (on his website)]. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] visualizar particion windows
hola soy nuevo en gentoo y me gustaria se me pudierais decir algun modo de ver la particion de windows atravez de gentoo como otras muchas distribucones -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem
On 12 August 2005 02:40, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 20:40 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Case 5: I log into B and sftp into A. It sits there for about 10 seconds before presenting me with a password prompt. After, I get transfer rates close to case 2 and case 3, just the other way round. The issues with the slow logon is most likely due to some DNS lookups or something. I've had this before, (can't remember what happened but managed to fix it). I believe your SSH sessions will also be hung for 10 secs? Yup, the delay occurs with both ssh and sftp. Has nothing to do with DNS. It also occurs when using IP addresses. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem
On 12 August 2005 04:13, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed some light on this. Any hint what to investigate would be highly appreciated. Really. This has troubled me for the last three days and I would go as far as ship you a Windhoek Lager. ;-) The long timeout before password is probably DNS not working the port properly. Just a guess. Nope. Same behaviour when using IP addresses. Have you tried - scp, in both directions? Yes, did it now. Surprisingly it transfers data at 2xB/s both ways. Quite different from sftp. And which nfs? V3, V4? I suggest V4, if not. V3 is what nfsstat says. Hmm. I've enabled both, V3 and V4, server- and client-side. How do I force it to use V4? Have you run top and netstat -rn on both boxes to see what they think the routing is? Routes are alright. Both boxes have a route to the class C network (192.168.254.0/24) they are using. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade
Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound not working for user
Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they still do for root. I get /dev/mixer errors for the user. Is there something simple I should check? I do need to make a bunch of world updates. Hi, make sure that the user is in the audio group. Regards, Andreas I did this: gpasswd -a username audio from the Gentoo ALSA guide but I get the same results. I see /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp errors. What should their permissions be? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] visualizar particion windows
On 12:38 Fri 12 Aug , CRASH-BURN wrote: hola soy nuevo en gentoo y me gustaria se me pudierais decir algun modo de ver la particion de windows atravez de gentoo como otras muchas distribucones -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Deberías postear esto en la lista en español, o bien hacerlo en inglés. Además no se entiende muy bien la pregunta, elabórala un poco más. A qué te refieres con ver la partición de windows a través de gentoo como con otras muchas distribuciones? Qué escritorio pretendes utilizar para eso? salud translation (~): hi, i'm a gentoo newbie and i would like to know any way to see window's partitions as i saw it when using any other distributions. I told him to post it at spanish mailing list, or translating it into english... Also i asked him to elaborate a little more the question, because i think it's not much understandable. cheers -- [sinatura] A ouvir (mpd): Mísia - Minha Alma De Amor Sedenta, Sequiosa GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 - http://tinyurl.com/79lrs [\sinatura] pgphNxgTdwenM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade
Grant wrote: Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? - Grant Don't know, if you can't use your licence with 5.0 mask it doing the following: echo =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5 /etc/portage/package.mask -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem with video parameters on Grub
Hi all, I'm trying to install Gentoo 2005.1, using the genkernel script, on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI|Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x graphics card. My kernel is kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 When I reboot, Grub kicks in and I can select my Linux Gentoo operating system no problem. It then gives me a working console, allows me to login run commands, but the screen itself has gone haywire: about 1 out of every 5 characters is garbled and flickering, and the same screen appears about 4 times on my monitor (with four little penguins, two cut in half). This is with the grub.conf settings below: * default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r11 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 * I've tried changing the video parameters to: video=vesafb:mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap and even nothing at all for video In each of these four cases, the result is even worse: a screen with thick flickering lines slowly climbing up from the bottom towards the top of the monitor. Thanks in advance for any help! Assaf Urieli -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 12 August 2005 04:13, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed some light on this. Any hint what to investigate would be highly appreciated. Really. This has troubled me for the last three days and I would go as far as ship you a Windhoek Lager. ;-) It would probably cost 10 times the price of the lager for shipping. Maybe you should make it a case? I heard that Namibia Breweries is due to stop making Heineken and it's going to SAB? :-) The long timeout before password is probably DNS not working the port properly. Just a guess. Nope. Same behaviour when using IP addresses. Have you tried - scp, in both directions? Yes, did it now. Surprisingly it transfers data at 2xB/s both ways. Quite different from sftp. And which nfs? V3, V4? I suggest V4, if not. V3 is what nfsstat says. Hmm. I've enabled both, V3 and V4, server- and client-side. How do I force it to use V4? Have you run top and netstat -rn on both boxes to see what they think the routing is? Routes are alright. Both boxes have a route to the class C network (192.168.254.0/24) they are using. Uwe Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] visualizar particion windows
To see/access a windows partition, you should mount it. you can do something like this (assuming your windoz fs is ntfs): $ mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /mnt/windows where hdaX is the windoz partition. Don't forget to make /mnt/windows beforehand ($ mkdir /mnt/windows) Check man mount in any case. (will you need translation?) Cheers, FernandoOn 8/12/05, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12:38 Fri 12 Aug , CRASH-BURN wrote: hola soy nuevo en gentoo y me gustaria se me pudierais decir algun modo de ver la particion de windows atravez de gentoo como otras muchas distribucones -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listDeberías postear esto en la lista en español, o bien hacerlo en inglés.Además no se entiende muy bien la pregunta, elabórala un poco más. A qué te refieres con ver la partición de windows a través de gentoo como con otrasmuchas distribuciones? Qué escritorio pretendes utilizar para eso?saludtranslation (~): hi, i'm a gentoo newbie and i would like to know any way to see window's partitions as i saw it when using any other distributions.I told him to post it at spanish mailing list, or translating it intoenglish... Also i asked him to elaborate a little more the question, because i think it's not much understandable.cheers--[sinatura]A ouvir (mpd): Mísia - Minha Alma De Amor Sedenta, Sequiosa GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 - http://tinyurl.com/79lrs [\sinatura]
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:04:06 -0700, Grant wrote: Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? No, unless you are entitled to a free 4.x to 5.x upgrade, VMWare sometimes do this when you buy the old version just before the new one is released. If not, you'll need to add app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.0 to /etc/portage/package.mask to stop portage trying to upgrade. 5.0 is rather nice, and the upgrade fee from 4.5 is not that great. -- Neil Bothwick A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance from Mom. pgpnFUY4XqACj.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] pppd Disconnection Logs - What do you make of them?
What do you guys make of these disconnection messages if anything? Especially the first one. I am still getting constantly disconnected so trying to work out what the problem is. [quote]Aug 10 09:51:28 [pppd] No response to 3 echo-requests Aug 10 09:51:28 [pppd] Serial link appears to be disconnected. Aug 10 09:51:28 [pppd] Connect time 64.7 minutes. Aug 10 09:51:28 [pppd] Sent 145107 bytes, received 205696 bytes. Aug 10 09:51:34 [pppd] Connection terminated. Aug 10 09:51:34 [pppd] Modem hangup Aug 10 09:51:39 [pppd] Exit. Aug 10 09:51:39 [pppoe] read (asyncReadFromPPP): Session 5: Input/output error Aug 10 09:51:39 [pppoe] Sent PADT Aug 10 09:51:39 [adsl-connect] ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. Aug 10 09:51:44 [pppd] pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0 Aug 10 09:51:44 [pppd] Using interface ppp0 Aug 10 09:51:44 [pppd] Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/0 Aug 10 09:52:00 [pppoe] PPP session is 8 Aug 10 09:52:00 [pppd] PAP authentication succeeded Aug 10 09:52:00 [pppd] local IP address 196.2.116.199 Aug 10 09:52:00 [pppd] remote IP address 196.30.31.100 Aug 10 09:52:00 [pppd] primary DNS address 196.30.31.193 Aug 10 09:52:00 [pppd] secondary DNS address 196.46.70.1 Aug 10 09:52:34 [dnsmasq] reading /etc/resolv.conf Aug 10 09:52:34 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.46.70.1#53 Aug 10 09:52:34 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.30.31.193#53 ... Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] Connect time 72.4 minutes. Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] Sent 472686 bytes, received 1185704 bytes. Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] PAP authentication succeeded Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] local IP address 196.2.114.236 Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] remote IP address 196.30.31.100 Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] primary DNS address 196.30.31.193 Aug 10 11:04:22 [pppd] secondary DNS address 196.46.70.1 Aug 10 11:04:36 [dnsmasq] reading /etc/resolv.conf Aug 10 11:04:36 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.46.70.1#53 Aug 10 11:04:36 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.30.31.193#53 Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] Connect time 4.7 minutes. Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] Sent 224343 bytes, received 450240 bytes. Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] PAP authentication succeeded Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] local IP address 196.2.115.25 Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] remote IP address 196.30.31.100 Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] primary DNS address 196.30.31.193 Aug 10 11:09:04 [pppd] secondary DNS address 196.46.70.1 Aug 10 11:09:43 [dnsmasq] reading /etc/resolv.conf Aug 10 11:09:43 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.46.70.1#53 Aug 10 11:09:43 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.30.31.193#53 Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] Connect time 0.9 minutes. Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] Sent 59797 bytes, received 22516 bytes. Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] PAP authentication succeeded Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] local IP address 196.2.103.239 Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] remote IP address 196.30.31.100 Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] primary DNS address 196.30.31.193 Aug 10 11:09:57 [pppd] secondary DNS address 196.46.70.1 Aug 10 11:10:14 [dnsmasq] reading /etc/resolv.conf Aug 10 11:10:14 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.46.70.1#53 Aug 10 11:10:14 [dnsmasq] using nameserver 196.30.31.193#53 [/quote] -- When you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic Voices... that's nothing - when you play it forward it installs Windows -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions
Fernando Meira wrote: - move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, cp -a or rsync would get better results? Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks: less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five times faster with tar than with cp -a. In a single line: cd /sourcedir; tar -cf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade
Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? No, unless you are entitled to a free 4.x to 5.x upgrade, VMWare sometimes do this when you buy the old version just before the new one is released. If not, you'll need to add app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.0 to /etc/portage/package.mask to stop portage trying to upgrade. 5.0 is rather nice, and the upgrade fee from 4.5 is not that great. Ok, masked. Thanks. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound not working for user
Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they still do for root. I get /dev/mixer errors for the user. Is there something simple I should check? I do need to make a bunch of world updates. Hi, make sure that the user is in the audio group. Regards, Andreas Actually it looks like rebooting after adding the user to the audio group has fixed this. Does that make sense? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: - move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, cp -a or rsync would get better results? Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks: less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage was five times faster with tar than with cp -a. In a single line: cd /sourcedir; tar -cf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -) cd /sourcedir; tar -cpf - . | (cd /destdir tar -xpvf -) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[completely OT]Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem
On 12 August 2005 12:23, Mark Humphrey wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On 12 August 2005 04:13, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed some light on this. Any hint what to investigate would be highly appreciated. Really. This has troubled me for the last three days and I would go as far as ship you a Windhoek Lager. ;-) It would probably cost 10 times the price of the lager for shipping. Maybe you should make it a case? I heard that Namibia Breweries is due to stop making Heineken and it's going to SAB? :-) Sure shipping would cost more than the lager. But what the heck! No way Namibia Breweries is going to SAB SAB might be the second largest brewery in the world but they still make junk beer. Even Pilsner Urquell has become less good since SAB bought them. As for Heineken, I don't know whether they are going to stop making it, and I don't care. It isn't really good beer. BTW, there is a funny little story about it. When Namibia Breweries started to make Heineken, it turned out better than the original. So the good boys from Heineken got their collective butts over to Namibia to study the brewing process here. Afterwards, they changed their brewing back home according to what they learnt here. :-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash details
On 8/12/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I cannot seem to find detailed document/manual on using bash robustly in a programming environment. Let me be the first of many to point you to the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gaim 1.5.0: Can't Connect to Yahoo
Anybody else seeing this problem? Success? --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash details
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:25:40 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I cannot seem to find detailed document/manual on using bash robustly | in a programming environment. Maybe I need to purchase a good book? Mostly you need to familiarise yourself with 'man bash'. There's the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, but it's neither advanced nor particularly good. The devmanual [1] has a fair bit of related information, but it mostly focuses upon the ebuild environment. [1]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpe7l5xjF2hM.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: bash details
Frank Schafer frank.schafer at t-systems.cz writes: Gooogle Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Well this is an excellent resource, BUT it seems devoid of any examples where a custom device driver, say for the serial port on a linux system, inserted as a module or is part of the kernel, and the associate software that allows users to access some of the hardware(features) and not other hardware/firmware/kernel features(code), unless they are root, or have a special (encrypted)key or another form of chicanery (biometric generated key). Still a nice resource. Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:17:40 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Big Brother may be watching you, but you watch Big Brother-- that show with the incredibly ironic name-- don't you? No way! So who are 'you' (generic) to talk about 'privacy'? Much less as a inalienable right, when it's clear that this right can be happily bought and sold? The contestants are not really selling their privacy, just performing for pay. but even if they were, it is theirs' to give or sell, not ours to take. I thought that the whole point of an inalienable right was that it could not be bought or sold (or given or taken, for that matter). I was thinking about the distinction you made, and wondering if it meant that I could legally sell my (supposed) inalienable right to freedom/liberty on eBay (i.e., can I sell myself into slavery-- not indentured servitude, but actual slavery, which would be the only condition in which I had sold my inalienable right, rather than just my labor for a specified amount of time). If I did, would the buyer be performing an illegal act by buying my right to liberty? The contract itself is, by your reasoning, perfectly legal, but it is illegal to hold slaves, because it compromises my inalieanble right to liberty... which I have sold, which (according to you) I may do. But of course, I do not have the right to sell my liberty at all in·al·ien·a·ble Audio pronunciation of inalienable P Pronunciation Key (n-ly-n-bl, -l--) adj. That cannot be transferred to another or others: inalienable rights. because inalienable rights may not be transferred to others, by any means, willing or unwilling. So any such contract is invalid. I really question the distinction that Big Brother contestants are performing for pay, rather than selling their right to privacy. At what point is the distinction made that they're 'performing', rather than just 'living' under specified conditions? Because they're on TV? But that's a circular argument-- they sold their right to privacy (which they presumably may not sell, if such a right is inalienable) to be on TV, but because they're on TV, their right to privacy no longer applies, because any appearance on TV is classified as a 'performance', even if that performance appears indistinguishable from 'real life'. Witness the many live surgery shows now appearing. That actually *is* real life... isn't it? But the patient has consented to overlook (for pay, or other compensation) their (inalienable?) right to privacy when their body is being sliced open (or is the interior of your body not private?) in order that it be televised. In any case, it looks to be a damn slippery slope to be starting down, if one really is concerned about what 'others' may observe about one and what others may not observe. Is the right to privacy actually inalienable? If so, is all of it inalienable, or just some of it? How much? If not, and we have no inalienable right to privacy in any degree, then all we're talking about is a (relatively) minor agreement between humans in order to maintain society (as opposed to a meta-agreement like the inalienable rights to life, liberty, etc), and those are always going to be something where some of us don't agree with the compromise ultimately reached. But this is back to where I started... the ultimate meaning of the right to privacy and the extent and nature of such a right, is a far more important question than whether Mozilla is accepting dirty money from Google, who (possibly) violates said right...because it's impossible to judge whether someone is violating a right that is indistinct in extent and ambiguous in meaning. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with 2005.1
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, James wrote: I was looking around for new features and enhancements between installing via 2005.0 and 2005.1 and found nothing of detail. Any detailed information on 2005.1 or the new features of installing with 2005.1, in a review or other document would be appreciated. From another thread today: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2005.1/ChangeLog -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: bash details
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:01:09 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Frank Schafer frank.schafer at t-systems.cz writes: | | Gooogle Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide | www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ | | Well this is an excellent resource, BUT it seems | devoid of any examples where a custom device driver, | say for the serial port on a linux system, | inserted as a module or is part of the kernel, | and the associate software that allows users | to access some of the hardware(features) and not | other hardware/firmware/kernel features(code), unless | they are root, or have a special (encrypted)key | or another form of chicanery (biometric generated | key). Yup. It also lacks an example showing how you can make a mysql-driven ecommerce website which sells books to preschool children who have credit cards. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpG0rtqU9CEj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with vpopmail and courier.imap
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jan Meier wrote: vpopmail and courier-imap is running on my server and it mostly works great, but sometimes the user login fails. The log file has the following output: Aug 11 20:33:35 nerdig authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away But, mysqld is running the whole time, and I set in my.cnf: set-variable = max_connections=1000 set-variable = max_user_connections=100 Maybe increase the connections? Or maybe dont use authdaemond. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with video parameters on Grub
Martins Steinbergs schreef: i'm using with ATI 9600 kernel line - video=radeonfb:mtrr:ywrap vga=7 splash=verbose You can't have both the video= line and the vga= line (they replace each other). I take it you're using splashutils to generate the splash and console background? If so, then the vga= command is redundant (splashutils uses video= and not vga=), and also, your video line may be incomplete (there is no resolution listed). Further, the splash line appears to be incomplete as well. For reference, here is the line that I use with an ATI 9800SE: kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5 video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,pmipal,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 I have noticed no irregularities with my console. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be changed to drwx-- and owner changed to root automatically. 2. i try to use a mount option users, $ mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/win -o rw,users no luck somehow as well. 3. i would not use sudo to do this, i believe there is a way to solve the problem. and not sure sudo will work. any ideas about this? thanks a lot in advance best regards daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Questions about setting up reliable firewall
I have been trying to find a way to set up a simple firewall which I can trust is doing what I need it to do. I am connecting via a diaulup with my local phone company which dynamically assigns me an ip address. I want to be able to use the web and send and receive email via my pop and smtp server, also from my phone company, but of course would like to protect myself from outside attacks. I also have a second machine connected via ethernet which allows me to operate out of two rooms, but I don't have anything I can use to set up a dedicated firewall box, which seems to be what so many howtos assume. Can anyone make a suggest a guide or howto on firewalls which I can use? I have never been able to figure out iptables in such a way that I am confident that I am doing anything other than making things worse, or just end up unable to connect to anything. Or perhaps there is a simple tool which will do these things? I tried firestarter but it never seemed to work quite right. I could get it to allow me out once, but then when I would dial up later I couldn't reach the network. Or the ssh connection would be down. Or something similar. This was disappointing as it really did seem the simplest to use of those I investigated. I hope someone can make a suggestion to an iptable newbie about where to go now. Many thanks for any help, Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be changed to drwx-- and owner changed to root automatically. 2. i try to use a mount option users, $ mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/win -o rw,users no luck somehow as well. 3. i would not use sudo to do this, i believe there is a way to solve the problem. and not sure sudo will work. any ideas about this? thanks a lot in advance Which filesystem are you talking about? If you mean NTFS (or maybe others too), you'll have to add a umask to the mount-options. best regards daniel greetings -- Stefan Kögl | Tel.: +43 664 44 24 894 Apetlonerstraße 11 | Mail: Stefan Kögl [EMAIL PROTECTED] A-7132 Frauenkirchen | ICQ: 115578877 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad not work under X
My synaptics touchpad works well under console. But when I under X, it is not working at all. The touchpad is connected with /dev/input/event1. I confirm this using 'cat /dev/input/event1' in console. /var/log/Xorg.0.log contains these lines: (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Keyboard0 (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device USBMouse (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Trackpoint (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Touchpad (type: MOUSE) Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) Touchpad touchpad found (II) Trackpoint: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (II) USBMouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list! SynapticsCtrl called. SynapticsCtrl called. SetClientVersion: 0 9 SetKbdSettings - type: -1 rate: 30 delay: 500 snumlk: 0 The following is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceTouchpad CorePointer InputDeviceTrackpoint CorePointer InputDeviceUSBMouse CorePointer #InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard Option BlankTime 5 # Blank the screen Option StandbyTime 10 # Turn off screen Option SuspendTime 20 Option OffTime 30 EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/lib/modules FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load glx Load extmod Load xtrap Load record Load dbe Load dri Load freetype Load type1 Load synaptics EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Touchpad Driver synaptics Option SendCoreEvents Option Device /dev/input/event1 # eventX number may vary depending # on the laptop model. Option Protocol event # Next line required only if you want to disable the mousepad while # typing: Option SHMConfig on # The rest of options are NOT required, just a default similar to the # Windows drivers with non of the extra features. Option LeftEdge 1900 Option RightEdge 5400 Option TopEdge 1400 Option BottomEdge 4500 Option FingerLow 25 Option FingerHigh 30 Option MaxTapTime 180 Option MaxTapMove 220 Option MaxDoubleTapTime 180 Option ClickTime 100 Option FastTaps 0 Option EmulateMidButtonTime 75 Option VertScrollDelta 0 Option HorizScrollDelta 0 Option MinSpeed 0.06 Option MaxSpeed 0.18 Option AccelFactor 0.001 Option EdgeMotionMinZ 30 Option EdgeMotionMaxZ 160 Option EdgeMotionMinSpeed 1 Option EdgeMotionMaxSpeed 400 Option EdgeMotionUseAlways 0 Option UpDownScrolling 1 Option TouchpadOff 1 Option GuestMouseOff 0 Option LockedDrags 0 Option RTCornerButton 2 Option RBCornerbutton 3 Option LTCornerButton 0 Option LBCornerButton 0 Option TapButton1 1 Option TapButton2 2 Option TapButton3 3 Option CircularScrolling 1 Option CircScrollDelta 0.195 Option CircScrollTrigger 0 Option CircularPad 0 Option PalmDetect 1 Option PalmMinWidth 10 Option PalmMinZ 200 Option CoastingSpeed 0 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Trackpoint Driver mouse Option SendCoreEvents # needed for multiple devices Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mouse1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier USBMouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEvents # needed for multiple devices Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mouse2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 # for scroll wheel EndSection #Section InputDevice #Identifier Mouse0 #Driver mouse #Option Protocol auto #Option Device /dev/input/mice #Option Buttons 7 #Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 #Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 #EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model Option DPMS true EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f:
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla Google behind the scenes payola
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:16:21 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The contestants are not really selling their privacy, just performing for pay. but even if they were, it is theirs' to give or sell, not ours to take. I thought that the whole point of an inalienable right was that it could not be bought or sold (or given or taken, for that matter). I was thinking about the distinction you made, and wondering if it meant that I could legally sell my (supposed) inalienable right to freedom/liberty on eBay (i.e., can I sell myself into slavery-- not indentured servitude, but actual slavery, That's not a valid comparison, because the idi^H^H^Hcontestants on BB are only selling their privacy for a limited time, not for good. Most of them probably find their lives become private again far sooner than they had wished, the talentless, publicity-seeking wannabes. Besides that, if freedom is an inalienable right, does that not include the freedom to sell that freedom? Not that we really have any truly inalienable rights. -- Neil Bothwick I'd give real money if he'd shut up! pgpCQVZYLYqSx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with 2005.1
If you are a current Gentoo user you really need not re-install. Just do an `emerge -Davu world` and keep up to date. The releases are mainly for installation images and stages and not applicable to current Gentoo users. -MikeOn 8/12/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, James wrote: I was looking around for new features and enhancements between installing via 2005.0 and 2005.1 and found nothing of detail. Any detailed information on 2005.1 or the new features of installing with 2005.1, in a review or other document would be appreciated.From another thread today: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2005.1/ChangeLoggentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationIn a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
[gentoo-user] how to copy a file's content to clipboard?
Do you know how to copy the content of a file to the X clipboard using command? Every time now I need to paste a file into my email, I have to cat it in a terminal and use mouse to select the text. Is there a more convenient way? -- Qiangning Hong I'm usually annoyed by IDEs because, for instance, they don't use VIM as an editor. Since I'm hooked to that, all IDEs I've used so far have failed to impress me. -- Sybren Stuvel @ c.l.python Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesamp;id=67907amp;t=1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, udev and Palm Tungsten T5
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 08:35 schrieb Heinz Sporn: Hi! Got a Tungsten E. Can't say that getting it run worked like a charm. But now it works fine with Gnome / Evolution. are you using udev ? If so please email me your rules.d/*.conf.. It still not working :( very frustrating... -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation www.krename.net: Der Batch Renamer für KDE www.kbarcode.net: Die Barcode Solution für KDE -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, udev and Palm Tungsten T5
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 04:58 schrieb Nick Rout:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
]...]
1. unlike many usb devices plugging a palm device in is
insufficient to get the kernel and udev and hotlpug to do
anything. you need to push the hotsync button.
2. you then get two devices (well on the treo anyway) - something
like ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 - only one of them is any good, the odd
one. They may not be in the top level of /dev, but in some
subdirectory. find and the kernel logs are your friends.
well, I am using:
BUS=usb, SYSFS{serial}=504E35424D42583456354E35,
KERNEL=ttyUSB[1357], SYMLINK=pilot
some seconds after I am connecting the Palm (without pressing any
hotsync button !!! ) I am getting:
p7010 ~ # ls -als /dev/tts/USB*
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 188, 0 Aug 12 20:01 /dev/tts/USB0
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 188, 1 Aug 12 20:01 /dev/tts/USB1
p7010 ~ # ls -als /dev/pilot
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 12 20:01 /dev/pilot - tts/USB1
but even now a test with the palm program stops here:
p7010 ~ # pilot-xfer --port /dev/pilot -L
Listening to port: /dev/pilot
Please press the HotSync button now...
the moment I am pressing the hotsync button, the device (/dev/pilot)
is disappearing for a second and will be created insteadly again:
resulting: Error read system info on /dev/pilot
kpilot is not able to connect at all :(
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[gentoo-user] Re: Sound not working for user
After you add them to the audio group you have to login / logout. Permissions should be rw for the audio group `find /dev -group audio -perm 660` should give you a good list of things that users in the audio group have access to -- 8^) Laterz- ~Alvin http://CoolAJ86.Havenite.net --- Dad: There's good-looking, there's excellent looking, and then there's me. begin:vcard fn:Alvin A ONeal Jr n:ONeal;Alvin adr;dom:;;34 Fletcher Lane;Shelburne;VT;05482 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:1.802.877.2938 tel;home:1.802.985.5277 tel;cell:1.802.578.0599 note;quoted-printable:DoB: 19860616=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://coolaj86.havenite.net version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:07:32 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: If not (like FAT) you need something like mount -o uid=youruser,gid=users,umask=0777 Don't you mean umask=0? umask inverts the bits, so 777 gives - to all files. -- Neil Bothwick How do Do not walk on the grass signs get there? pgp74MNXAhaFA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to copy a file's content to clipboard?
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:53:19 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: Do you know how to copy the content of a file to the X clipboard using command? Every time now I need to paste a file into my email, I have to cat it in a terminal and use mouse to select the text. Is there a more convenient way? Use xclip, it does just what you want, and the reverse. It's in portage. -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? pgpxkdijWBa6i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound not working for user
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:43:16AM -0700, Grant wrote Actually it looks like rebooting after adding the user to the audio group has fixed this. Does that make sense? It's actually PAM that's screwing things up. There are two long-term solutions... 1) remove PAM altogether, which I eventually did, and am very happy with. Note, you have to be careful. 2) comment out all the entries in the specific PAM config file that sets permissions for devices. My main machine totally died on me last night, so I have to check the Gentoo archive on the web. I think the file you want to modify is /etc/security/console.perms by commenting out the line... console 0660 sound 0660 root.audio Thanks to other problems, I eventually commented out the entire file. A few more problems, and I dumped PAM entirely. IMHO, PAM belongs in the optional hardened security configs, along with NSA Selinux, etc. If you're an ISP offering shell access to several thousand customers, PAM makes sense. However, it is *NOT* necessary for the average desktop, and only gets in the way. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:07:32 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: If not (like FAT) you need something like mount -o uid=youruser,gid=users,umask=0777 Don't you mean umask=0? umask inverts the bits, so 777 gives - to all files. I'm currently in the middle of an 'argument' with someone else about this, so explain, please. If umask masks bits off of the 'default' permissions, then what is the point of umask=000? It seems that it would leave the permissions as the default, which appear to be 755 (is there a creation mask of 022 somewhere in the 'default' settings? I can't find it, if so), unless you've explicitly set them to soemthing else. The other person says that umask=000 removes all restrictions and gives all permissions to everybody, but I just don't understand how this could be, unless the specific file/mount point was already set that way (no file creation mask, so the files are 'created' with the default 777/666, or inherited the permission structure of the parent). In any case, I use(d) umask=017 (full permissions for owner, rw for group, and nothing for anyone else)-- but I had first set the permissions for the mount point to 750 and mounted vfat partitions using uid and gid, so that I would be the owner with the full permissions. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:45:44 +0200 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If umask masks bits off of the 'default' permissions, then what is the | point of umask=000? It seems that it would leave the permissions as | the default, which appear to be 755 (is there a creation mask of 022 | somewhere in the 'default' settings? I can't find it, if so), unless | you've explicitly set them to soemthing else. umask 'masks' the bits. So umask=000 means use whatever the application uses when creating things without knocking off any bits. Most system calls that create files or directories also take a parameter for mode, which is where the 755 comes from. For example, for mkdir(2): int mkdir(const char *pathname, mode_t mode); (...) The parameter mode specifies the permissions to use. It is modified by the process's umask in the usual way: the permissions of the created directory are (mode ~umask 0777). Other mode bits of the created directory depend on the operating system. For Linux, see below. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpqCG9yrUKiV.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] kde-svn problems
After running emerge -depclean -p I am trying to remove some old kde-svn builds I was playing around with some time back as I think that might be what is giving me KDE problems. I get this error. How do I get rid of that stuff? chiefnb ~ # emerge -C kspy-7 kde-base/kspy selected: 7 protected: none omitted: 3.4.1 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 Unmerging kde-base/kspy-7... No package files given... Grabbing a set. QA Notice: ECLASS 'qt3' inherited illegally in kde-base/kspy-7 QA Notice: ECLASS 'versionator' inherited illegally in kde-base/kspy-7 !!! error: qtver-from-kdever called with invalid parameter: 7, please report bug !!! FAILED prerm: 1 chiefnb ~ # Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: bash details
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 15:01 +, James wrote: Frank Schafer frank.schafer at t-systems.cz writes: Gooogle Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Well this is an excellent resource, BUT it seems devoid of any examples where a custom device driver, say for the serial port on a linux system, inserted as a module or is part of the kernel, and the associate software that allows users to access some of the hardware(features) and not other hardware/firmware/kernel features(code), unless they are root, or have a special (encrypted)key or another form of chicanery (biometric generated key). and what has the above possibly got to do with bash? Still a nice resource. Thanks, James -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space
Y'know, what city is this machine in? One of us might be nearby and willing to talk the data center folks through the issue. *shrug* Just an idea. Such a nice proposition. Thanks a lot. The machine is somewhere in texas... I don't know where exactly. Anyway, the housing company is offering KVM and remote console access to the box, so I won't need anyone to go ring at the housing company to check on a server rented by some remote swiss guy. But thanks anyway :-) How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. If it's not broken, don't fix it. But it is broken... It sure sounds broken to me. Have you looked at your log files for hardware errors? Maybe you've lost a superblock due to a hard disk error? I couldn't see any hardware errors in the logs and had to wait until now to e2fsck the partition, but everything went fine, only: 18 times Inode 4145432, i_blocks is 16, should be 8. Fixy? yes and Free blocks count wrong for group #438 (19246, counted=13222). Fixy? yes Free blocks count wrong (10346330, counted=10295276). Fixy? yes Nothing I should worry to much about... or should I? And thanks to every other people helping me on this matter. --mat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Synaptics touchpad not work under X
Qiangning Hong wrote: My synaptics touchpad works well under console. But when I under X, it is not working at all. The touchpad is connected with /dev/input/event1. I confirm this using 'cat /dev/input/event1' in console. #Section InputDevice #Identifier Mouse0 #Driver mouse #Option Protocol auto #Option Device /dev/input/mice #Option Buttons 7 #Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 #Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 #EndSection Have you tried this input device ^^, or is this the default xorg.conf? I have a synaptics touchpad + a USB mouse and they both work with this config: Section InputDevice # Touchpad + USB mouse Identifier Mouse_Touch Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZaxisMapping 4 5 EndSection InputDevice -- MVH / Regards: Espen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about setting up reliable firewall
* Alexander Rink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have a look at firehol (firehol.sourceforge.net). I suppose that this is exactly what u r looking for. You can write config files in an easy and understandable language, firehol will translate them into iptables commands. You can find predefined scripts for different environments after emerging firehol in /etc/firehol/examples For a single dialup computer the settings are as simple as: interface any world client all accept Which means that the computer is completely hidden and offers no services. Adding a ssh Server just adds the following line server ssh You can find a nice and detailled example at firehols hompage. Quite awesome. I used the tutorial on their webpage and it seemed to work just as I wanted. I tried several online port scans, i.e. Sygate, Shields Up, etc., and they all returned all ports as stealthed. And yet my internet connection, masquerading, and ssh connections are all up and running just as I need. Many thanks for the help. Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] live CD (gentoo or otherwise) with lm-sensors?
Does anyone happen to know if any live CDs (or DVDs) come with the i2c modules and lm-sensors built (particularly the i2c-viapro module)? I just built a system using a Via EPIA-CL6000E motherboard, and would like to monitor its temperatures while stress testing it. I actually installed OpenBSD on it, which does not have support for this motherboard's temperature sensor, and I can't get cpuburn to run on it. So I figured I might as well use one of the Linux live CDs... I just can't seem to find any info on exactly what software is contained on various live CDs. Thank you! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] live CD (gentoo or otherwise) with lm-sensors?
Try this- they say it has gkrellm and lmsensors. It's a custom live cd made by a Yoper developer. Towards the middle of this page - a post by arkaine23. http://www.yoper.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t6266.html Here's a download link- not sure if it still works. This looks so good, I might download and try it myself. http://overclockix.octeams.com/ Robert Crawford On Friday 12 August 2005 11:19 pm, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone happen to know if any live CDs (or DVDs) come with the i2c modules and lm-sensors built (particularly the i2c-viapro module)? I just built a system using a Via EPIA-CL6000E motherboard, and would like to monitor its temperatures while stress testing it. I actually installed OpenBSD on it, which does not have support for this motherboard's temperature sensor, and I can't get cpuburn to run on it. So I figured I might as well use one of the Linux live CDs... I just can't seem to find any info on exactly what software is contained on various live CDs. Thank you! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared
Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject line of this message. The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never heard of two of them... Anyone else know about LZMA or 7ZA? The two mentioned compression tools work pretty much like gzip. You tar up your files, pipe to the compression filter and then on to the target file. Below is a small example of what I've been seeing here at the shack. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12359680 Aug 12 23:57 backup.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3536665 Aug 13 00:01 backup.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4438465 Aug 13 00:08 backup.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4747637 Aug 13 00:03 backup.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2731412 Aug 13 00:10 backup.tar.lzma -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5125474 Aug 13 00:16 backup.tar.lzop What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered laptop. I've not bothered with timing the processes as the better compression rates are at the cost of speed and memory usage. Not good for while you wait processing, but just plain perfect for backups and what-have-you on servers... One side note, 7za does not record user/group info... It's a shame too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux backup scenarios. This lzma creature is simply awesome. You can find it at: http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA Cheers all -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 12:28am up 26 days, 27 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject line of this message. The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never heard of two of them... Anyone else know about LZMA or 7ZA? The two mentioned compression tools work pretty much like gzip. You tar up your files, pipe to the compression filter and then on to the target file. Below is a small example of what I've been seeing here at the shack. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12359680 Aug 12 23:57 backup.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3536665 Aug 13 00:01 backup.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4438465 Aug 13 00:08 backup.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4747637 Aug 13 00:03 backup.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2731412 Aug 13 00:10 backup.tar.lzma -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5125474 Aug 13 00:16 backup.tar.lzop What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered laptop. I've not bothered with timing the processes as the better compression rates are at the cost of speed and memory usage. Not good for while you wait processing, but just plain perfect for backups and what-have-you on servers... One side note, 7za does not record user/group info... Are you saying it removes user/group info from the tar file? It's a shame too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux backup scenarios. This lzma creature is simply awesome. You can find it at: http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA Cheers all -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 12:28am up 26 days, 27 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue errr *grumble* yes but in this part of the world we actually get the september issue in september, not the start of august! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to incorporate foreign tarball into world
I hate when this happens. I know that I read somewhere in the docs that you can take a tarball of an app that doesn't have a Gentoo ebuild and incorporate it into your world file, so that it knows at least that the app is installed, and how to remove it. But I can't seem to find that reference now. Am I mis-remembering, or does it really exist? The particular item I'm interested in is a perl module called exiftool ( http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ). Since libtiff doesn't read exif data from TIFFs, Gimp (which uses libtiff) can't access or save the exif data to any JPEG versions of the same file. exiftool can read and write a whole bunch of metadata. My use right now is copying exif data from TIFFs to their JPEG descendants. One thing I noticed is that when you uncompress the tarball, the commandline utility can be run without installing if you cd to to the directory containing it. To get it to run from anywhere, you need to perl Makefile.PL make make test make install with the last step requiring root access. I assume this copies libs to some place on the libpath? Would it be possible to just uncompress it to a regular user's directory, and append the path to LIBPATH, or whatever? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
