Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?
On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:58 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not. there is scp (part of openssh) and also sshfs which allows you to mount an sftp connection as a local directory. If you don't want to mess with ssh (why? it is really easy stuff) read this http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html With this ftps I am not sure if just logins are encrypted or if data tranfers are encrypted as well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?
On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:31 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:58 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Sorry, I should have mentioned that I know about that as well. Most other users are Windows users and they then to just like to click a link eg: ftp://1.2.3.4 and it'll open up in explorer. (users, they don't care, as long as it works) # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not. And I sincerely doubt windows explorer can do it. (Which is the problem) Assuming you mean Microsoft Internet Explorer, you should check into a microsoft windows mailing list if this has nothing to Gentoo or even Linux at all. There are nice sftp/scp apps for windows - winscp works great. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 01:33 am, Goran Maksimović wrote: Read it! But with that you didn't still answer my question :). Bye Goran -Original Message- From: Justin Krejci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:51 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:02 pm, Goran Maksimovi? wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Bye Goran Try reading this page, it is quite nice. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE -- You could probably not use any USE flags and just install applications to do the things you need, mysql, apache, kde, kmplayer, etc. If you think you need some extra functionality from a specific program, you then should add it. No one but you will know what you need to add. You can also change your USE flags around later and re-install something if you need to. I would do something like this to see what you think you might need emerge -vp kde kmplayer xmms apache mysql k3b (etc etc) This will give you all of the USE flags available for each program and which are included by default with the package. Then set them accordingly and rerun the emerge without the p option. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:08 am, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. I will try to run down the tools that you mentioned and see if any of them provide a solution -- thank you TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed Hi, On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source / freeware is very very preferable. Not sure about distinctly (that will certainly depend on the switch's electronic and programmatic design), but - tada - you can usually cause the traffic light on the switch to blink with network traffic ;-) So broadcasting some UDP packages out into the wild should be sufficient. Use e.g. netcat. OTOH, you might want to play with ethtool and switch connection rates for short intervals. Usually switches have a light indicator for the speed, too, so that should be easier to distinct on a busy switch. Toggle this in a shell loop with a few sleeps inserted... -hwh -- Netwox (+ optionally netwag) has some neat tools. One that I have found handy is the audible ping. Whenever it receives a successful ping response it beeps your pc speaker. It may or may not have any benefit for you in this secenario but it can be useful at times when you are muddling around and can't see your screen, you can just listen for the beep, beep, beep then disconnect the proper cable and it goes silent. Or in the reverse, plug in the right cable and you start to hear the beep, beep, beep. Netwox has a ton of other neat tools, servers and clients. If your switches are manageable you can probably look up your switches cam table (MAC address to eth port mapping) then look at your clients ARP cache after pinging your broadcast address on each network. Good luck on your network mapping. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:02 pm, Goran Maksimovi? wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Bye Goran Try reading this page, it is quite nice. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Could try norman AV. www.norman.com On Monday 06 March 2006 12:26 pm, Jarry wrote: i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite excellent. Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them, paid for updates, and despite of that I got viruses many times. Even clamav is better! They (avg/avast) offer virtually no protection against unknown viruses. No wonder, if you look at their scores on virusbtn.com :-( Wanna really good antivir-soft? Try nod32! Unfortunatelly, it is not free, and even trial-version is only for win-world. But it is worth of every penny. Frequent updates (can be also 2-3 times per day), perfect heuristic analysis, low cpu/mem load... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?
On Monday 13 February 2006 10:39 am, Jeff wrote: Hey all. Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox, so something that works in console would even be great! What's your fave? cdmp3 http://www.roland-riegel.de/cdmp3/index_en.html This little command line program is really awesome and works great. I have ripped about 150 of my CDs using it with no problems. It supports mp3 and ogg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Question
You can also add t to your emerge command options which will indent dependencies. emerge -vDuta world is how I usually update world. On Saturday 17 December 2005 01:07 pm, Jeff Grossman wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/17/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ran emerge -uaD today, I got the following output: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.16 [2.15] [ebuild U ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1 [7.15.0] [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5 [ebuild N] x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3 [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-2.2.1 [ebuild N] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 [ebuild N] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 [ebuild N] virtual/x11-6.8 [ebuild N] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3 [ebuild N] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.6 [ebuild N] x11-terms/xterm-204 [ebuild N] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 [ebuild N] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r3 [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4 [1.1.23-r1] How do I find out why the x-11 programs are trying to be installed? I am running just a server, so I have no X or X-11 or any gui type programs installed. And, I don't want any gui type programs installed. Thanks, Jeff Try the tree option (-t) and see if it shows you what's calling it. I tried that, and was not able to figure out how to read it. After reading the forums, I found out it was CUPS that added xpdf to the deps, which xpdf requires x11. I added -motif to my use flags, and now it does not require x11 anymore. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools
On Thursday 15 December 2005 10:08 pm, Grant wrote: How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. The network is just run from a router. No server on which I can run that stuff. Is there anything I can use from my workstation which is connected to the network? You can run it on your workstation as well and you will see broadcast traffic and traffic going to your computer. If you are on a hub, you should see all traffic connected to the hub. How can I keep my own http traffic private? Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the server, unless there's some hub between you can them. You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've never used it. You can only use https on servers that support it. The question is too vague to answer without specifying from who do you want to keep the data private? Just people on your local network? Your ISP? Your boss? The http servers? I'm only trying to keep the data private from the other people on the local network. Who administrates your router and/or network? What kind of router is it? Are you using a swtich? Assuming you have a basic network setup using a simple switch and a simple router you would generally be private for outgoing http traffic unless there is someone sophisticated enough to be running something like ettercap to confuse the switch. If you have no idea and if you have a remote computer you can connect to for browsing (maybe something at your home or elsewhere) you can remote control into it (using ssh tunnels for encryption) and then browse privately from that machine. Are you expecting the other hosts on your network to be monitoring your http traffic? If there is some suspected method of them monitoring you it may require a specific technique to avoid their monitoring. In any case, where does gentoo fall into this whole deal? This is a gentoo list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thursday 15 December 2005 03:49 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. Is that just the first time you run a portage command? I see the same on my AMD64, it can take up to 30 seconds to run emerge --info, but only around a second to run it again. It's clearly something to do with loading the various Python libraries, classes or modules, but I haven't been able to pin down why it takes so long. Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:45 am, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/14/05, Justin Krejci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. What I mean by that is for example You can try something like: strace -tt -f -o /tmp/strace.out emerge -s tcpdump Then look at /tmp/strace.out and see what kind of system call is being made that is taking so long to complete. -Richard Well I ran it once then ran it again to a different output file and the two files are the same length and doing a cursory glance thru the files they both seem fairly similar. When I have some time, ill check the files more closesly in particular the timestamps. Thanks for the idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to specify a port to vncviewer (i used vncviewer under windows) and want to connect to my pc at home but not on port 5900. vncviewer will automatically add 5900 to your port number, for example (replace myserver.com with your server address) $ vncviewer myserver.com:0 will connect on port 5900 $ vncviewer myserver.com:1 will connect on port 5901 if you want to explicitly specify the port number try this $ vncviewer myserver.com::5900 notice there are two colon characters :: in this example -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:17 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. How can I keep my own http traffic private? Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, traffic is normally only passed along the links between you and the server, unless there's some hub between you can them. You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've never used it. You can only use https on servers that support it. The question is too vague to answer without specifying from who do you want to keep the data private? Just people on your local network? Your ISP? Your boss? The http servers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
I have a system with a 1.33Ghz Athlon-XP with a decently fast IDE hard drive I have a system with a 1.80Ghz AMD64 with a decently fast IDE hard drive When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. What I mean by that is for example 1. # emerge -s tcpdump (press enter) 2. Searching... spinner 3. output of search the time it takes to get to #2 is 1 or less seconds on the AMD64 and 10-30 seconds on the Athlon-XP. As I said, this seems to be the case for any emerge command on the Athlon-XP system. I seem to recall it not being so slow in the past. Both are on 2.6 kernels and both have pleanty of RAM. Gentoo was was installed on the Athlon-XP about 2 or 3 years ago but it is up to date. Anyone have any ideas? Athlon-XP emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) = System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ftracer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env\ /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config\ /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ftracer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/; MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 3dnow X X509 acl adns alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cddb cdr chroot crypt cups curl dedicated directfb divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif gimp glut gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hpn idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc mssql mysql nas ncurses network nls nowin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openntpd openssh oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real samba scanner sdl sftplogging slang snmp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb videos vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] irc / irc-services software issue
On Friday 02 December 2005 10:02 am, Paweł Madej wrote: hello, I want to run irc server with services but i cant find any tutorial how to do it. More complicated for me is what software to choose because some services dont work with all ircd's and on other hand there is no package like in debian for ex. dancer-ircd / dancer-services. I ask for some recomendations what software you are using and why? Greets Pawel I use ngircd (its in portage) because it is easy to setup (not a giant asshat of a config file) and works just fine. http://ngircd.barton.de/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
