Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
Hi Lord, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:25:32, you wrote: (it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh - Beh. A faster solution with similar security to either one would be a tar -cf/dev/null / If you're concerned mainly about FS errors, accidental deletes and such, I'd also suggest a second harddrive. It's relatively cheap, very fast, random-access and pretty secure. If on top of that you want protection against things like overvoltage, lightning etc. that might fry your whole system, you need some removable media like MO or tape. I used a DAT streamer for quite a while. DAT doesn't have the best tapes either, they wear out pretty quickly, but both tapes and drives are cheap nowadays and more than adequate for your amount of data. MO has a good reputation too but I don't have any experience with it. It seems a bit out of fashion today so you may be able to get a good deal on a drive. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpahrZSreHbK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success
Hi Richard, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:22:37, you wrote: I think it is important to note that these names were not invented by the Gentoo devs working the ebuildsthey are straight from the x.org project's distribution [1]. Ah, OK, thanks for clarifying that! After reading their glossary I still don't really understand their nomenclature, but if that's how they want the packages to be named it's certainly a good idea to adhere to that scheme. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgproO6im3ewy.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success
I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual great Gentoo HOWTOs helped me a lot (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and apart from a few moanings due to packages missing in package.keywords, things went fine. But then the keyboard and mouse drivers were missing. esearch told me: * x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse Latest version available: 1.0.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 214 kB Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org driver for mouse input devices License: X11 * x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard Latest version available: 1.0.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 191 kB Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org driver for keyboard input devices License: X11 Installing them fixed almost all remaining problems. But the package name puzzles me. Are these originally XF86 modules that x.org just decided to be compatible with, or is the name a copy-n paste error? Should I file a Bugzilla report? The remaining problems concern DRM which isn't really essential (I get a libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)) and some fonts that don't seem to be included any more and that I guess I just have to reinstall. So far the modularized X looks promising, I'll do a revdep-rebuild and some more testing tonight. Does anybody have an idea about the DRM issue? regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgptj8AqmcGvK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success
Hi Andrew, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 16:27:41, you wrote: try adding 'Section DRI mode 0660 Group video endsection' to your xorg.conf Oh, that rings a bell, I think I did that to another config a long time ago...thanks, I'll try tomorrow @work! and no those are not the orginal packages, Xorg decided to move to a more flexable develepment model(imho) that splits alot of the parts up, if you look the driver for the i915 card will be x11-drivers/XF86-video-i810, it was done this way so things could be updated faster. instead of 6 months for a new driver it might be a week Yup, I figured that was the motivation---but X.org and XFree86 are still different projects with different code and all, so I was surprised that the name starts in xf86- and the description says X.org... Wouldn't xf86-something indicate a part of the XFree86 project? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp4UQZO1BsHp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] The Grand Remerge
Hi Rumen, on Saturday, 2006-01-07 at 06:31:56, you wrote: Have you changed any USE-flags in /etc/make.conf? Add the 'v' option to see USE-flags too. Sometimes this could happen with slotted packages when there's an upgrade for some minor slot-number version (requires =...), but only for package or two. Hm, none that I knew of; my last change to make.conf is from last year. Anyway, the problem seems to have gone away after about two remerges for each package... regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpJdwVOfM3SA.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] The Grand Remerge
It started on Wednesday: after syncing, I had about 150 ebuilds marked as remerge. I thought, WTH, let portage have its way and remerge everything while I sleep. So I did---and today it's the same! 151 ebuilds and all of them for remerging the same version. Here's some of them: [ebuild R ] x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.10.0 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-wavelan-0.4.1-r1 [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gtkam-0.1.12-r1 [ebuild R ] app-emulation/wine-20050725-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-xmms-controller-1.4.3-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-panelmenu-0.3.1 [ebuild R ] app-text/gpdf-2.10.0-r2 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-datetime-0.3.1-r1 [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.3 [nomerge ] net-analyzer/nessus-2.2.6 [nomerge ] net-analyzer/nessus-plugins-2.2.6 [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.2.6 [ebuild R ] media-gfx/eog-2.10.2 [ebuild R ] app-arch/file-roller-2.10.4 [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.2.2 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-windowlist-0.1.0-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-taskbar-0.2.2-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-battery-0.2.0-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-netload-0.3.2 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-showdesktop-0.4.0-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-minicmd-0.3.0-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-0.3.6 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-notes-0.10.0-r1 [ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-artwork-0.0.4-r1 [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 That's my private laptop doing these funny things. The one desktop and eone server I run with Gentoo at work don't do anything like this. My date is set correctly and it doesn't look like I had anything in /usr/portage with wrong dates either, that's the only reason I could think of so far. -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpDnLQtEclg4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] The Grand Remerge
Hi Tom, on Saturday, 2006-01-07 at 01:07:18, you wrote: Could you please paste the command line you used to generate this list? emerge -DNuta world right after emerge --sync regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpASdTo50eiF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Accurate way of Detecting # of times a file is opened
Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-03 at 15:37:55, you wrote: I have a few files which I would like to share to some housemates, but I don't want these files to be opened by everyone at the same time. (limit stress on my PC etc) So, what I would like to do is some sort of library checkout mechanism. I'm hoping to be able to write a script that will check how many instances of the file is already in use. Depends on what protocol you want these files shared over. I don't think there's any way short of hacking the source to implement this with NFS of Samba. If you use HTTP, it should be fairly easy to write a little CGI script that keeps a counter of downloaders for each file in some kind of lock-file. However, I doubt you need this anyway. Due to the way Linux's buffer cache works it's actually likely to cause less stress on your HD when everybody is reading the same file than when the same number of readers each read a different file. Of course it may make sense to limit the total number of readers with something like Samba's max connections. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpGsoeu8l7VK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.
Hi Anthony, on Wednesday, 2005-12-28 at 10:38:12, you wrote: 1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others (eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for different purposes and people already have these addresses. As Alexander has pointed out, fetchmail is fine for that. That is, it has a bad reputation with respect to code quality but I haven't checked as it hasn't ever given me any trouble. Maybe there are alternatives, but loads of people use it. [...] 3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the other machines. Yup, an IMAP server seems to be the tool of choice here. At work I use dovecot which works well together with postfix. It's a bit of work to set up but it has sufficient documentation for that. I don't know of anything easier, in fact I haven't tried much else except for some Cyrus thing that came wit SuSE and that I didn't like. 4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin. No idea really...I'd suggest to just install it and have a look into the README(s). Many people use it with all kinds of MTAs---I haven't. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpOQYWoXfJQn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix
Hi David, on Thursday, 2005-12-29 at 13:53:17, you wrote: $(ls *.jpg) ick! (incidentally, http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html#ls) Well, it's bad in two ways, and even the example on the above webpage is wrong. For one thing, ls is useless here. For another, it will break on spaces in filenames, unlike shell globbing: | $ touch foo bar.jpg | $ for f in *.jpg; do echo $f; done | foo bar.jpg | $ for f in `ls *.jpg`; do echo $f; done | foo | bar.jpg | $ for f in `ls *.jpg`; do echo $f; done | foo | bar.jpg The bottommost try shows that the comment newbies will often forget the quotes, too is wrong -- it won't work either way. If you have to use a program that outputs a filename per line like ls, use a read loop: | $ ls *.jpg | while read f; do echo $f; done | foo bar.jpg The quotes are useless for echo here, but for other commands you'll usually need them to keep the command form taking filenames with sapaces as separate arguments. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpEVNO5w45yp.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?
After finishing my latest sync, portage moaned about problems with my world file. emaint found out it was due to some package updates that deleted the versions I have installed and left only unstable ones. In particular, it was dev-tex/latex-beamer and its dependencies, pgf and xcolor. Nice to see somebody has gotten around to updating the ebuilds, but if there's a stable version, wouldn't it make sense to leave at least one around so people can decide if they want to use the unstable? net-im/skype has the same problem. It's asking for a new dbus which I'll just try out---hope it doesn't break too many things. I suppose they don't offer the old version for download any more and the new one doesn't work with the stable dbus? regards and a belated Merry $APPROPRIATE_HOLIDAY to all! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpu0nQoovLR7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Incorrect information from /proc/cpuinfo
Hi Devon, on Monday, 2005-12-19 at 23:13:52, you wrote: I'm going to reboot again and experiment a bit to see if I can nail down what triggers the abberation. Just an idea, haven't followed the thread: could it have to do with the new timer frequency setting under Processor Type and Features? regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpUGLlcgehTh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question
Hi Mark, on Tuesday, 2005-12-20 at 07:40:42, you wrote: [thin client] I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's running Gnome how do I ensure that everything is saved on the main machine and not the thin client. I fear that this whole path, while certainly possible, might cause me too much work. Please remember this is a 75 year old lady who has never used Linux. ;-) I got a Linux box for my mum as well after her Mac died, so I know it's near impossible to teach some people about folder structures :) Hoewever, on a thin client that wouldn't be a problem as the only thing the client does is to provide a view to the host. All application would be running on your machine so they wouldn't even know their display is being routed to somewhere else where another file system may be present. I haven't done it except with a dedicated X-Terminal but it should be the same procedure for Gentoo as for any other Linux. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpWEXccS44B2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good very small http server?
Hi michael, on Sunday, 2005-12-11 at 23:44:22, you wrote: Any suggestions welcome. If you want to tell me why you like it or don't like it even better. www-servers/fnord is probably the smallest that doesn't do ugly things like tux's processing HTTP at kernel level. I haven't used it but from the included benchmarks (and looking at the code...) it seems damn fast. There's not ebuild for the latest version but that should be easy to fix. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpPZkbKBBLH8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player
Hi Hemmann,,
on Wednesday, 2005-11-16 at 16:14:18, you wrote:
but xine does it right without the need of editing the conf, so in my humble
opinion, xine is better - I am lazy ;)
Depends on your keyboard. On a US keyboard, {}/[] are just fine, of
course on a German one it will be as unintuitive as the otherwise very
practical '?'/'/' default for searching in programs like vi, more/less
or mutt.
regards
Matthias
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[gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14
I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions? regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpiIpEgut578.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.
Hi Anthony, on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote: The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the installation. My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a complete installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect to take a number of weeks to set up before it will have the necessary software installed to replace Suse). I'm just in the process of doing the same thing. As quite a few thing will usually need tweaking when configfiles move and things don't quite work the way you're used to, I set up a separate machine to install the whole thing. Configured the kernel for the server hardware already, installed all I need, and currently it's being tested. When it's done, I'll copy the whole HD over, change a few /etc entries and do stuff like activating the DHCP server that I can't do on the test machine yet, and it should be up and running. If you can afford to set another machine aside for a while, that will probably minimize your downtime. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E1F 1081 A466 2946 B98A B9E2 099F 3B91 pgpvwj42f4WEP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?
Hi Daniel, on Monday, 2005-10-24 at 11:33:47, you wrote: Take a look at this... PDF is the proprietary modification of ps, added some tags and some compression (that can easily be repeated with lots of advantages in any compressor). And, well, read for yourself. This is obviously a few years old; the guy still has a point about ergonomics but I don't have any problems with PDF files on Linux today. The huge advantage PDF has over PS that it's searchable and accomodates bitmap graphics with decent compression. Put a 300dpi A5-size JPEG into a TeX document and run it through pdfTeX---and then convert it to PS... For something that prints nicely and is still accessible, there is just no usable alternative. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E1F 1081 A466 2946 B98A B9E2 099F 3B91 pgpEAykeEsSA8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
Hi maxim, on Wednesday, 2005-10-19 at 09:44:58, you wrote: it started a little flakey but soon progressed to all out dandruff! Lowlevelling seems the way to go indeed, if there's anything that can be done. Just back up the drive with dd if=/dev/hdX conv=noerror bs=4096 | gzip /some/where/bak.gz lowlevel format it, and dump the whole image back. I guess that's the best cance you have to save as much as possible, from what you said it should be pretty much verything, mabe except for the MBR and some Windoze stuff. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E1F 1081 A466 2946 B98A B9E2 099F 3B91 pgpE2M8w5ugQy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
Hi Dave, on Thursday, 2005-10-13 at 13:50:53, you wrote: The root partition is your key to accessing your box. You basically want to have only static files on the root partition, not files that are in a general state of flux. ACK. This will also keep fragmentation down and thus performance up. For Gentoo, it may be a good idea to put portage stuff on a separate partition because it uses tens of thousands of small files that provoke fragmentation. On my laptop I have one partition with two directories usr-portage and var-cache-edb that are symlinked to the respective places in the root FS. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E1F 1081 A466 2946 B98A B9E2 099F 3B91 pgpHjkoP7Ngaz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP authentification and management
Uh...why was the management in the subject line? Because I forgot yet another question: What dou you guys use for LDAP data management? I've tried quite a few tools now. app-admin/diradm seems the only usable one so far. net-nds/directoryadministrator segfaults on startup; net-nds/gq works until you actually create a connection to the server, then segfaults; net-nds/luma hangs while receiving data. net-nds/led I haven't tried yet... TIA! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpMcNHI2am9q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing a bunch of images files, 2 images per page
Hi romildo, on Thursday, 2005-09-15 at 09:47:53, you wrote: I have a bunch of ppm image files that I want to print, putting 2 images per page. How can I do that, please? If you know LaTeX, you could try writing a shellscript that prints a LaTeX document that includes two images per page, run this through TeX and print the resulting postscript. Or there might be something in the netpbm package...untested: ( for f in $*; do anytopnm $f; done ) | pnmtops -setpage=a4 | \ psnup -n 2 | lp HTH Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgp9BeRjZNyMJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing a bunch of images files, 2 images per page
Hi gentoo-user, on Friday, 2005-09-16 at 02:54:33, you wrote: Or there might be something in the netpbm package... Uh...silly me! I overlooked the part where you said they're PPM already. So just skip the anytopnm :) cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpWjWhw1hIKs.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] LDAP authentification and management
I'm still trying to set up OpenLDAP here. For some reason, SASL doesn't
work, but from the error message I guess it has to do with a missing
entry in the LDAP database itself:
Sep 14 15:42:34 clue slapd[24202]: slapd starting
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue slapd[13526]: conn=0 fd=13 ACCEPT from
IP=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:49623 (IP=0.0.0.0:636)
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue slapd[4930]: conn=0 op=0 SRCH base= scope=0 deref=0
filter=(objectClass=*)
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue slapd[4930]: conn=0 op=0 SRCH attr=supportedSASLMechanisms
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue slapd[4930]: conn=0 op=0 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0
nentries=1 text=
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue ldapadd: GSSAPI Error: Miscellaneous failure (No
credentials cache found)
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue slapd[13526]: conn=0 fd=13 closed
I *can* use ldapi{search,add} with the -x parameter though, so I suppose
if I add sasl off to /etc/ldap.conf (which I did for now), I should be
fine as I'll be using SSL with mutual authentication anyway.
Migrating the old server's data seems to have worked after I found that
you cannot just copy another machine's passwd file and migrate that
as the migrationtools will get the password hash from getpwuid(3) which
will fail if the account isn't on your machine. Maybe this should be
added to the guide -- a careful look would have told me, as there is no
mention of the shadow file, but who looks carefully when following a
guide? :)
So, pam_ldap and nss_ldap are in place and PAM seems to be OK. I still
cannot log in due to some nsswitch problem apparently:
[snipped a lot of output---I guess slapd -s0 will shut that up once it
works?]
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue slapd[15571]: conn=3 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0
nentries=1 text=
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue slapd[26321]: conn=3 fd=15 closed
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[5422]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for msbethke
from :::131.188.185.45 port 51711 ssh2
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue slapd[26321]: conn=2 fd=13 closed
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd(pam_unix)[8048]: session opened for user msbethke by
(uid=0)
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't
contact LDAP server
Sep 14 16:58:34 clue sshd[8048]: fatal: PAM: pam_open_session(): Cannot
make/remove an entry for the specified session
Hm. Shouldn't nss_ldap use the URI specified in /etc/ldap.conf to talk
to the server? I'm at a loss here.
Oh, and BTW: is there a way to allow high-ASCII characters in LDIF
files? We happen to have a few users with umlauts in their names and
not being able to retain them would be even more backwards than NIS...
regards
Matthias
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[gentoo-user] Eclipse vs. Unifont
Does anyone have an idea what the Eclipse ebuild doesn't like about Unifont? huxley ~ # emerge -DNupt dev-util/eclipse-sdk These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-fonts/unifont (is blocking dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.0.1-r2) [ebuild N] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.0.1-r2 The RDEPEND line in the ebuild is not commented, and at work I installed Eclipse on the server and it runs just fine on my Gentoo box that's virtually identical (including unifont) to this laptop's setup... regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpb8CdLXudvM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question
Hi waltdnes, on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote: Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money on a UPS. Not if all you want is to give your home system 5 minutes to shut down in a power failure, or to handle the occasional 30-second outage, of which my area seems to have more than its fair share. Oh yes, it depends very much on the grid in your area. I lived in the Philippines for a while where brownouts are a very common thing---usually, you get a UPS free there when you buy a computer. It's really no fun without one, and for what they have to do the cheap lil things work very well. Their lead accus don't usually last more than a year, but then you just get a new one for $5 or so and you're set for another year. In Germany OTOH, hardly anybody has one, and people still get uptimes of over a year. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpFKpH2HolBJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] groff vs. Japanese
I think there's a bug in one of the updates these days: if you have Japanese activated in /etc/make.conf:LINGUAS, emerge wants to install a new set of Japanese man pages, which however is blocked by groff-1.19. It's not a big problem here as I just wanted CJK support for this machine at a linguistics department, but just to let you know... groff-1.19 is in stable, so something that doesn't work with it shouldn't go into stable, should it? app-i18n/man-pages-ja requires 1.18. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpn6HHFnMi4l.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?
Hi Matt, on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 17:28:21, you wrote: Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation on what people like/disklike in a window manager. It's been XFCE here for a while. When I ran NetBSD years ago, nothing but fvwm would run at decent speed (not that there had been much choice), so I used this for a while. Then it was Linux/KDE for a while on a 486, which was quite a pain. When I discovered Gnome, I liked the clean look of GTK and its speed. Version 2 annoyed me because everything got fatter and had less features than the 1.x version, but I stuck with it out of inertia, it was well configured and all... XFCE is for me what Gnome used to be: slim and fast, a clean look and just as many knobs to tweak as I need but no more. Now, WMII looks interesting as well. Unlikely I'm going to switch but I'll have a look at it. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpyzBiZ8XJCN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?
Hi Matt,
on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 14:54:46, you wrote:
I'm not trying to do anything complicated like protect a LAN or include
a DMZ or run an ftp server or anything like that. I'm just looking for
a quick and easy way to add another layer of protection to my desktop by
closing all unused ports.
Well, if they are unused, they are closed, no need to worry about them.
The only thing you'd need some packet filter (a firewall is something
different, although the term sounds so good that the marketroids have
established it even for simpler things than iptables) for is if you want
*restrictions* on some ports, like to open your web server to the LAN
but not the internet.
On Windows, the situation is a little different as you don't have a lot
of control about what program opens what ports if you don't know your
system inside-out. And many programs love to connect to their masters
and tell them all kinds of stuff about your system, so you'd usually
want to block these on an application level.
If you just want something that pops up once in a while and gives scary
messages, there's the ususal Perl one-liner :)
perl -e 'use Tk;while(1){sleep(rand(290)+10);new
MainWindow(title,Boo!)-Button(-text,HackAttack!!!one!\n\nBlock)-pack;MainLoop}'
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Hi Nick, on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 20:30:14, you wrote: arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's cache period. What's more, ARP resolves IP addresses to MAC addresses and the IP address is what the OP wanted to find out in the first place. I'd try in this order: 1. Broadcast ping 2. for n in `seq 1 254`; do ping /dev/null -c1 -W1 192.168.0.$n; \ [ $? == 0 ] echo $n is up; done 3. nmap cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpbm2KbnPfNZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
Hi Michael, on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 16:51:54, you wrote: Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: [gibberish] That's because fdisk tries to interpret the data it finds as a partition table, but actually there is none. Floppies aren't supposed to be partitioned, although for the sake of doing it you could under Linux. Just use mtools as the others have suggested, or simply mkfs.msdos /dev/fdX. Regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpz4JRHMKbid.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirroring
Hi Jonathan, on Thursday, 2005-08-18 at 16:42:56, you wrote: I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main machine and then let the others sync off it. That's what I was thinking...OK, I'll just try it that way. Thanx! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpGXD4UOXZkA.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] rsync mirroring
I just set up a local rsync mirror using app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror. Now I'm just wondering if it's necessary to do it like suggested and put a separate portage tree under /opt? I mean, apart from syncing to the official Gentoo mirrors it's read-only anyway, so pointing my rsync daemon to /usr/portage should be fine, shouldn't it? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpD7LriGrY2Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Embedded Gentoo problems
To reactivate this old 486 laptop that's been sitting in my basement, I
set out to install it with a tiny Gentoo system and use it as a DSL
router. The HD is 1.3 GB, so a full glibc-based system wouldn't be much
of a problem, but I wanted to experiment with embedded stuff anyway,
so...
Well, I've never sone a Stage1 install. Upon my first try with Gentoo I
ran into some problem and thought WTH, I'll just go with Stage3. But
now, following the HOWTO at http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html, I
have to do it.
All is fine up to the bootstrapping. I have a P4 Gentoo machine, trying
to compile for i486. My short make.conf:
CFLAGS=-Os -march=i486 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CHOST=i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
FEATURES=-sandbox buildpkg
UCLIBC_CPU=486
USE=bitmap-fonts minimal truetype-fonts
Trying to boostrap gcc fails with a segfault:
gengtype-yacc.c: In function `yydestruct':
gengtype-yacc.c:725: warning: traditional C rejects ISO C style function
definitions
stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc/bin/ -DEFAULT_PIE_SSP
-DEFAULT_RELRO -DEFAULT_BIND_NOW -DUSE_UCLIBC -march=i486 -pipe -O2 -DIN_GCC
-W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -o
gengtype \ gengtype.o gengtype-lex.o gengtype-yacc.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a
/usr/i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: warning: creating a DT_TEXTREL in object.
./gengtype
make[2]: *** [s-gtype] Segmentation fault
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
I found that if I hack the Makefile to link all of those helper programs
in gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build/gcc statically, they won't segfault
and even produce something that will compile. But then I get another
segfault when the resulting xgcc binary is run for the first time, so
there is probably a systematic problem.
Any ideas on what might be going wrong would be highly appreciated.
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recovering vim/mutt email I was writing
Hi Grant, on Friday, 2005-06-17 at 09:07:48, you wrote: I was writing an email using vim in mutt and I accidentally hit ctrl+alt+backspace which exited X. Is there any way to recover that email? Vim saves backups in *.sw?-files. Mutt's tempfiles are named /tmp/mutt-$HOSTNAME..., with ... being some numbers. So you should be able to recover the mail by looking for /tmp/mutt-*.sw? and then starting vim with the *original* filename (i.e. w/o the .sw?-Suffix). Then it will tell you it found a backup and ask if you want to recover. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpxU3uV8xj3O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?
Hi Neil, on Monday, 2005-06-06 at 09:08:53, you wrote: Have you looked at buildpkg Matthias? I've used it before on similar machines. Seems to work ok. Granted, you can't just `emerge -upD world` on the copies, but you may get away with minimal effort. You can if you use a shared PKGDIR and add -k to the emerge options. No, I hadn't lookt at this yet, but it seems easy enough, thanks! So it seems I could have one master where I change the configuration and build binary packages along the way, and all the other machines would just run emerge -uDk in a cron job...sounds easy enough. Then I could also get /usr/portage over NFS and wouldn't even have to emerge --sync on the workstations any more, right? Hm...the only remaining problem I can think of right now (I'm sure others will pop up once I try it ;)) is configfile management. A nightly removal of all the ._cfg* files plus some scheme to keep the configs in sync with an SVN server should do it. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpus7uRkh8YA.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?
There's some SuSE-based workstations around me here I have to take care of. I guess they won't have to bear SuSE for much longer though. The alternatives I can imagine now are Debian and Gentoo. Personally I'd prefer Gentoo, but I don't feel like reinventing the weel by writing my own deployment scripts. There are not many different hardware setups, so I could do an initial install by installing one machine of each and then cloning its HD---the main problem is getting updates done without having to waste megawatthours on unneccessary compilation. I've seen people mentioning such setups here, so I guess somebody has developed the stuff I'd need already? I'd be thankful for any hint or pointer... cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgp8uZcXGJbJj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?
Hi Antonino,
on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 20:55:43, you wrote:
So you're actually trying to reuse even the compilation work performed on
the 'first' (let's call it 'master') machine and avoid compiling on all
the others when you do an emerge --update world for instance?
That was my idea, or rather that's how I understood someone whose name I
forgot seems to have done it. Makes sense IMHO.
If there were such a script that could copy the binaries and the new
files to all the other machines I would probably not trust it! :)
Why? The total size of the shell/Python/whatever-scripts a simple
emerge foo triggers is probably over a meg, and it usually runs just
fine. Thinking about it, some simple parsing of emerge's output should
do something useful already:
emerge $package |
sed -n '/^ Merging $package/,/^ \* / {s/^[^ ] //; p}' |
while read f; do scp $f $somewhere ; done
I wouldn't mind adding another 500 bytes of Perl there :)
I'd try to automate as much as possible the update process, possibly
by keeping sincronized the configuration files of all the machines (but
this is to be done on a per-file basis!!) and/or triggering an emerge foo
on the other machines as soon as you do an emerge foo on the master.
I must admit that I see this process difficult to understand and to
debug in case of errors or misbehaviours
Yup. It's unlikely something should fail as long as all machines keep an
identical configuration, but glitches can still happen. So I'd have to
look through all the compilation logs...hm :-S We'll see.
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] fallback dns servers
Hi A., on Thursday, 2005-05-19 at 13:59:38, you wrote: I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want something really automatic, [...] iface_eth0=dhcp ifconfig_eth0=( dhcp 194.199.136.151 ) [...] # esearch quickswitch Yeah, I guess he knew that ;-) I'm just wondering: where can I find info like the above? Reading the init scripts it's fairly obvious but also fairly tedious if I have to do this for every release. I'm quite sure it's not in any of the online manuals nor in the conf.d inline documentation...any Changelogs or something? -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpDWPXBqUBvS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box
Hi Gabriel, on Saturday, 2005-05-14 at 23:07:25, you wrote: I'm assuming you are using 255.255.255.0 as your subnet mask. If this is the case, I don't know how to make it work -- but it's unnecessarily difficult. Try to set up this: (INTERNET) | [ ?.?.?.? ] [ DSL MODEM ] [192.168.1.254] | [192.168.1.96 ] [LOCAL SERVER ] [192.168.2.1 ] | [192.168.2.97 ] [ HOME BOX ] Right, tat would make more sense. However, with a PPPoE link it's not even necessary to use two NICs, For quite a while I had my system set up with one central SOHO switch feeding my server, my laptop, my wife's computer and the DSL modem. The other NIC in the server was exclusively for WLAN. Due to the PPPoE you have a virtual P2P link between the server and the modem that cannot interfere with the rest of your network. A packet from the net that is meant for, say, my laptop goes into the modem, out to the switch, from there, still PPPoE encapsulated, into the server (via eth0) which strips it of the PPPoE headers and passes it to pppd. Then it will appear on the virtual ppp0 interface, get routed as a regular ethernet packet back to eth0, out to the switch and to the laptop. On a 100Mbps ethernet the internet traffic going twice over the same cable isn't even noticeable. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgp3gIiDpJet6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem w/o network
Hi Neil, on Thursday, 2005-05-12 at 22:18:23, you wrote: I'm running ~amd64 and ~ppc. I don't know if it's in the older baselayout, but there are a lot of differences between testing and stable baselayouts. My RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING had been set to no already, and I don't have support for the other values yes. Gonna try the baselayout ~x86 now...so before, this was really impossible unless you edited your initscripts? thanx! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpVSpy8qg3fc.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Postfix problem w/o network
I have a feeling I'm missing something very obvious here, but I'm still at a loss: I have my laptop's ethernet set to use DHCP. Obviously, on the road this will fail. But then the net service that postfix (and a bunch of other stuff like sshd) depends on is not there. Of course I could edit the init.d file, but there must be a cleaner solution, right? After all, everybody on dialup-only systems has to have this problem. I also haven't figured out *how* the net dependency is provided. The postfix iniscript explicitely contains provide mta, but very few scripts use this provide keyword, especially not net.* On my previous SuSE system, if I went someplace networked with the machine running already, I used to say ifup-dhcp eth0, and I could mail and ssh into the laptop without any further ado. I suppose I could do the same with Gentoo's runlevels which I haven't explored yet, but it still doesn't solve the problem that I can't have postfix running and queueing messages I send while offline so they can be delivered once I plug in somewhere. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpThQMOdUqup.pgp Description: PGP signature
