Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that did not work, the same error > ocurs. This may not be applicable, but I run rdiff-backup from cron on many machine with no problems at all. It uses librsync, so may be of interest to you. http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ If you ignore the 'rdiff-backup-data' folder it creates then it's more or less identical to using rsync alone. HTH, Steve. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Roger Mason wrote: > Did you have to do anything special to make it work from cron? No, but then the crontab entry is simply: > 47 4 * * * /root/backup.sh The backup.sh is essentially: rdiff-backup \ --print-statistics \ --exclude /mnt \ --exclude /dev \ --exclude /proc \ --exclude /tmp \ --exclude /var/tmp \ --exclude /var/cache/squid/ \ --exclude /var/lib/mysql/ \ --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/data/base/ \ --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/data/global/ \ --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_clog/ \ --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_subtrans/ \ --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_tblspc/ \ --exclude /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_xlog/ \ --exclude /sys \ --exclude /usr/portage \ --exclude /usr/portage/distfiles \ --exclude /var/run \ / [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/home/backups/hostname/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Shawn Haggett wrote: > Roger Mason wrote: > How have you setup the passwordless ssh? If your using keys with the ssh > keyagent, then when the command is run in cron it wouldn't know where to > find your ssh-agent... > > Shawn I use a use a key with no password without ssh-agent. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: > I haven't done much digging yet, but thought a quick show of hands > here might save some time. It looks like the SCSI hot-swap / RAID > controller uses an AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver which is (?) part of the > main kernel - anyone know if that does status updates (dead-hard > drives &c) to the syslog? Does it depend on any userland utilities > that are only available as RPM or whatever? I maintain a few Poweredges, I think mostly 2950. Just yesterday we swapped a drive on the Fusion MPT SAS controller. We were prompted to take the drive out of service by an email from 'smartd'. I couldn't find any evidence of bad sectors or I/O timeouts in /var/log/messages, so this must be the SMART prefailure it purported to be in the email. In /etc/smartd.conf I use: DEVICESCAN -H -l error -l selftest -t -I 194 -W 5,45,48 -R 5 -R 194 -R 231 -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] After failing and removing the drive from the array using 'mdadm', we tried hotswapping the drive, and whilst nothing untoward happened when we pulled the drive there were no kernel messages either. I was expecting something similar to when I've hotplugged SATA drives on my desktop machine. We had to reboot the server to get it to see the replacement drive. Perhaps there's some /proc/ or /sys/ setting to trigger a rescan of the SCSI bus, but I couldn't find it. Other than those oddities the drive swap went well. Cheers, Steve. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?
On Friday 17 October 2008 06:09:20 am Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Friday October 17 2008 07:56:10 Dale wrote: > > Not sure what the problem is tho. > > They're compiling 2.6.27-gentoo with -j11 on the same box that runs wiki; > which, btw, is a 386sx with 4MB of RAM. Please be patient, it will take a > few weeks. Is this computer (term used lightly), in the USA ? Steve --
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. That's fine if you have 8GB of RAM... Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64
kashani wrote: James wrote: Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64? My understanding is that win32codec is generally not 64bit safe, but they'd be fine on amd64 if you're running your OS as 32bit. Close. You can't use win32codecs on amd64 at all, unless you are using a 32 bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit binary and put it in the tree. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64
Daniel Iliev wrote: Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use win32codecs And if anyone wants to help me version bump the thing, e-mail me *off* list, plz Thanks Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...
I'm getting these three emails every day from ruledujour... I'm using the latest stable ebuild of each i.e.: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8 mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour-20051123 Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? -- Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu: Matt Kettler's AntiDrug RuleSet has been updated Matt Kettler's AntiDrug has changed on gifu. Version line: # rev 0.65 10/01/2006 - updated URL, etc -- Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu: Catch German language spam. Maintained by Michael Monnerie RuleSet has been updated Catch German language spam. Maintained by Michael Monnerie has changed on gifu. Version line: # Version: 01.21.08 # Anti Raucher Gesetze SPA -- -- -- Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu: lint failed. Updates rolled back. ***WARNING***: spamassassin --lint failed. Rolling configuration files back, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /etc/spamassassin/antidrug.cf /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/antidrug.cf.2; mv -f /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/antidrug.cf.20070221-0313 /etc/spamassassin/antidrug.cf; mv -f /etc/spamassassin/70_zmi_german.cf /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/70_zmi_german.cf.2; mv -f /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/70_zmi_german.cf.20070221-0313 /etc/spamassassin/70_zmi_german.cf; Lint output: [22610] warn: config: unparseable chars in 'if you are running SA 3.0.0 or higher, you already have antidrug and this file': '3.0.0' [22610] warn: lint: 1 issues detected, please rerun with debug enabled for more information -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...
Norberto Bensa wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? Nope. But I've disabled AntiDrug in /etc/rulesdujour/config because for a few days, I was getting a warning about antidrug's maintainer losing it's domain/host/isp or something like that. And BTW: I've followed your lead... much more pleasant. :-) Lint output: [22610] warn: config: unparseable chars in 'if you are running SA 3.0.0 or higher, you already have antidrug and this file': '3.0.0' ^ ;-) Yes... but... I'd have hoped that the default configuration would not generate errors like this. If the error is caused by my specific configuration... then I'd understand that it is all my fault... (as they say) - but it seems a bad idea to have a broken rule-set included in the defaults... (which, to me, it appears to be.) Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...
I'm frustrated... I want to use screen, but my emacs-afflicted fingers automatically type "control-a" to go to the beginning of the line in my shell - which is somewhat unfortunate for screen. I assume from the manual that I can re-bind keys to avoid this problem... my first guess was to bung "bind '^a'" into my .screenrc - but that doesn't do the trick. Does anyone here have the correct incantation? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AFS...
When following: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml I get as far as # fs setacl -dir /vicepa -acl rl fs:'/vicepa': Function not implemented Why is that? I've googled and can find someone who says that the instructions did not work for him - for the same reason - but there is no hint as to how to resolve the issue. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] UK: iplayer petition
Hi, One for uk users or people you know in the UK, a petition to stop the BBC only supporting windows in its new iplayer: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Regards, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing "eth0" with "wlan0"
On 3/7/07, Abraham Gyorgy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello again :) I've switched my networking from wired "eth0" to "wlan0". I'm using ndiswrapper with Win32 driver and an USB WiFi adapter. Everything is fine, but... When I set up my Gentoo installation, I've added net.eth0 to default runlevel (it provices the networking in the init system). My ethernet driver (forcedeth nvidia nforce2 chip) is compiled in, using DHCP. All I had to do is to add net.eth0. Now when my system boots it is waiting 1-2 mins for DHCP, then goes forward, but (in the init system) there is no networking, so Samba and other stuff doesnt work. I want to replace this thing, 1) ndiswrapper module should go to /etc/modules.autoload folder 2) then wlan0 device appears, I want to do "iwlist wlan0 scan", then DHCP for wlan0 3) all this stuff should go nice to init system, eth0 should be removed, so wlan0 should provide the init system with "net". Now I wait for eth0 dhcp'ing, then modprobe, iwlist, and dhcpcd by hand, but it is time consuming and not so nice. What to do exactly guys? Thanks a lot! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list You could tie the net dependent services to the net.lo line, and afterwords bring up either net.eth0 or net.wlan0 manually (Remove them from the rc default). It's not pretty but it could work. The other consideration is to build your profile primairily for which net connection you intend to use the most (Wired/Wireless)
[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update
I've used portage to upgrade from Spamassassin 3.1.4 to 3.1.8, and I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. # whoami root # sa-update Can't locate object method "finish" via package "Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/PluginHandler.pm line 187. # equery list spamassassin [ Searching for package 'spamassassin' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8 (0) [I--] [ ~] mail-filter/spamassassin-fuzzyocr-2.3b (0) [I--] [ ] mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour-20051123 (0) $ Is there some "obvious" bit of configuration I'm overlooking? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage date
On 3/9/07, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I don't sync my portage everyday, I do it when I need a special (last) version of package or when I'm preparing a big update... But sometimes I look for the date when I did my last sync, cause maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't know how to find it... is there any way? TIA -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Wiggum: Dispara a las ruedas Lou. Lou: eee, es un tanque jefe. Wiggum: Me tienes hartito con todas tus excusas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list As Long as you sync your portage up every week or so you shouldn't have a problem. Syncing every day puts additional strain on the rsync machines that they don't need to have.
[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: > On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in >> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the >> Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a >> way that I can use them, and even so Portage recognizes them. > > You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per > Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with > autotoolized software is like this: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > make > make install > > I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software > installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or > upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do > that. You have to manage the software outside of Portage yourself. > That's exactly right, which is why it goes into /usr/local. You can however notify portage that you have a certain package on your system with /etc/portage/package.provided - I used this for that kde-env script that was moved last year, as certain pkgs in the tree still depended on its ebuild, but it had been moved to kde-libs (which it blocked.) I unmerged it to get kde-libs, and put an entry in package.provided for pkgs which still had a dependency on it. Once the tree had all been updated I deleted the entry. package.provided A list of packages (one per line) that portage should assume have been provided. Useful for porting to non-Linux systems. Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what has been listed. So in that sense portage will recognise the software for dependency calculation. You should be aware of that last bit; I recommend reading man portage for more explanation. (Oh and man -k is useful if you've not heard of it.) HTH, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update
Thomas Rösner wrote: Dan Farrell schrieb: I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. [snip] Is there some "obvious" bit of configuration I'm overlooking? perl-cleaner? I'd not thought of that but... "perl-cleaner all" has not made any difference... I still get: -- Can't locate object method "finish" via package "Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/PluginHandler.pm line 187. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Any Flash editor with gui?
Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> A lot of Linux users don't like Flash because it is not a standard. >> When Adobe makes the player source available, I bet we will see Flash >> compilers for other platforms. :-) >> > Yeah, but I think in the long run, 'not liking flash' is a 'bad thing'. > There's a lot of good blood in the flash community that is both willing > and able to spontaneously develop 2 things Linux users want: games and > User Interfaces. > > No I'm not saying do flash. I'm saying there's a substantial community > base that's alienated by Linux users, and they have a lot to bring to the > table if only there were 'liberated'. Agreed. It's not going to happen until the standard is liberated tho, like ECMA JavaScript or .NET (which I believe is why mono is acceptable to gnu.org.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?
Xavier Parizet wrote: > I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as > vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific > hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current > kernel config to see if it match their dependencies or requirements. > This is true. I have personally found however that the USE flag symlink is annoying, since I rarely upgrade the kernel when the sources become available. Anything that needs to know where the currently running sources are gets tripped over if an update has changed the symlink before I've bothered to compile the new kernel. The real problem comes when you change the flag, and then emerge -uDN world tries to rebuild the sources pkg with the new use flag. This was the motivation for the no-rebuild array (nr) in this script: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-546828.html Sorry didn't mean to get a plug in ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] RE: layman overlays
John covici wrote: > checking which gecko to use... firefox > checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes > checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no > checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This > program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Seems to be saying ff wasn't built with gtk2 use flag (which i thought was set by default.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Clamassassin - does anyone know what is wrong?
#emerge clamassassin Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3 to / * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3/work/clamassassin-1.2.3 ... ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-subject-rewrite --disable-clamdscan --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for rm... /bin/rm checking for cat... /bin/cat checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for echo... /bin/echo checking for formail... /usr/bin/formail checking for mktemp... /bin/mktemp checking for sigtool... /usr/bin/sigtool checking for clamscan... /usr/bin/clamscan checking for clamdscan... /usr/bin/clamdscan checking for /tmp/clamd... no configure: ClamAV version 0.90 detected. configure: Using scanner /usr/bin/clamscan configure: Using scanner options --no-summary --stdout --mbox configure: Using virus signature file dir /var/lib/clamav configure: Signature version reporting is off. configure: Scanner name adding is on. configure: Using temporary directory /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3/temp configure: Subject header rewriting is off. configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating clamassassin config.status: creating Makefile >>> Source compiled. --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-mail-filter_-_clamassassin-1.2.3-11762.log" open_wr: /var/lib/clamav/.dbLock open_wr: /var/lib/clamav/.dbLock -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Weird high-level question about an ad-hoc wiki-like database
I am looking for a client-server package (preferably with the server on gentoo from portage) which provides something which is vaguely like CRM... but in reverse - and for personal as opposed to corporate use. One requirement is for it to act as an address book that will allow me to associate: Contact name, phone number, mobile number, email address etc. Company name, location, notes Communication time-stamp; notes; associated documents. I'd like to be able to search all that for keywords... and to be able to find out at a glance from, say, a phone number when I was last contacted and what happened. I'd also like to be able to tell quickly if I've talked to other contacts at the same company - and, if so, how recently - and about what. Of primary importance is the idea that I want to be able to resolve these kinds of things as quickly as possible (so it looks as if I'm not yet senile because I don't remember who someone is.) It would be great if it would integrate with my postfix email server and tag incoming mails if they are referenced by my inverse CRM system. :-) I think it would be invaluable when getting quotes for things, for example, when you ask a dozen companies - forget who is who... but then get quotes by phone... and you wish you knew what they had promised on the previous call. Does anyone use anything that might fit the bill? Any other suggestions? Does anyone use a good address book (preferably one which integrates with Thunderbird via LDAP)? I hope this isn't too off-topic. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?
Also having said developers take their point of view (properly referenced and footnoted of course) to their blogs to vent about it and then being syndicated in the "Planet Gentoo" feed is probably not a good solution either. It leaked out of various clandestine lists and some published lists to the user base at large, which gives the impression that if this is what we can see as users how much of the iceberg is still remaining below the surface of the water. It's a two way street. We (the users) have to be understanding that for 90% of the developers Gentoo is a volunteer project that they (the developers) take on and conversely that they (the developers) need to understand that we (the users) choose to use Gentoo for the feature set that is provided with the distribution. On 4/3/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Markus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 03/04/07 13:15: >> Recently there has been a lot of unpleasant noise about conflicts and >> disagreements among the Gentoo developers. I hope that they will resolve >> their (mainly political) problems soon. The stories have not been good >> for the image of Gentoo, either as an organisation or as a distribution. > Yep, I was a bit shocked when I read the news about the Code of Conduct on the > Gentoo homepage. My first thought was: if a community considers it necessary > to decide upon a document that is stating the obvious by essentially > saying "be respectful to others instead of treating them like shit" then > there must have been something going badly wrong beforehand. I too was somewhat taken aback when I read the Code of Conduct. However, when I read some of the exchanges between the developers, I understand why a Code of Conduct was imposed. Some of the 'conversations' were unbelievably hostile, rude, insulting and outrageously over-heated. I fully understand that developers are rightly proud of their efforts, and may be sometimes a little over-sensitive to criticism. However, the tone of some of those emails was disrespectful, negative, rude, to the point of being childishly vicious. I'm hardly surprised that Gentoo has recently lost some very talented developers. Before any developer roasts me, I am criticising only the savage tone of those emails, not the people involved in these exchanges. Believe me, as a mere end-user I am more than grateful for the time and effort that the developers have invested in the Gentoo project. > This impression of mine may be wrong since I'm not informed about the > internals of the Gentoo dev community, but I would bet I'm not the only one > who had this - or a similar - impression. Unfortunately, news of developer conflicts has leaked into the public domain. This has encouraged some of the gentlemen of the press to spread rumours that Gentoo is dying. Quite a change from when Gentoo was the darling of the press, just a year or so ago. Let's hope that the developer issues are solved before the rumours about the impending death of Gentoo become reality. Losing Gentoo would be an enormous loss to the Open Source community. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Emacs in a terminal and "intellisense"-like functionality.
I've a few vaguely related questions. I'm an Emacs user from a decade ago - and have recently returned to using it... I'm trying to set it up as a useful modern development environment. I'd have chosen Eclipse, or something like that, if it wasn't for a constraint that I need it to work remotely (in a terminal) without resorting to X; VNC etc. There are two things I'd like to do, but on which I'm not getting very far very fast... I'd be interested to know if other Gentoo users have any hints or tips. I'd really like to have "Intellisense"-like behaviour - i.e. I've entered an object name when editing C++ - and I want to see a list of methods/attributes for that object... then, having chosen one, I want to see the arguments and types it requires. I'm aware of [CE]tags - though understand this facility to be somewhat more basic. I've read a little about Semantic, and I've installed app-emacs/semantic from portage... but can't see how to encourage it to do what I want. Any hints? The other thing I'd like to do is allow cursor positioning by clicking with a mouse. I realise that this isn't traditionally considered possible... but I'd like a facility in my terminal window a bit like gpm on the linux console. Is this viable today? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5
Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: The only problem is that this disk is only 1.4 GB and I want to merge more miniDVD in a single DVD video without making divx or similar. I want to obtain a single DVD (3 miniDVD on a 1 DVD) with chapter, title and so on using the minor loss of data, but I don't know how to do it. Try qdvdauthor. It will allow you to master a DVD with 3 titles from your VOB files (and also add chapters to each of those titles if you desire). It also has a graphical editor to create animated DVD menus. You'll likely need to unmask an unstable build of qdvdauthor and also videotrans: echo "=media-video/qdvdauthor-1.0.0_rc1" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo "=media-video/videotrans-1.5.2" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Hope that helps. Good luck! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.
I have some (say 100) discrete data sequences sampling a single analogue system with time-stamp data. I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I could show a strong correlation in the signals between two times, but none at other times, I might be able to conclude that there was communication of some description, but only for a fixed duration. At the moment I'm open minded about what kind of software I'd want to employ - and also about what I'd like to prove. Essentially, I'd like to analyse the data for features - then ask if they correspond with system events I'm already broadly aware about (rather than vice-versa.) Can anyone point me in the right direction, please? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +, James wrote: > Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of > phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective. I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention Octave... > > I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are > > any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I > > could show a strong correlation in the signals between two times, but > > none at other times, I might be able to conclude that there was > > communication of some description, but only for a fixed duration. > > Very unclear what you are saying. Are these signals related to events in > your network? More information will help. I agree - Not only was my post unclear, but I'm unclear about what I want too. :-) My data, in reality, consists national statistics - and my self-appointed challenge is to establish if, subject to appropriate analysis, they will expose undocumented trends or other anomalies. I don't know what trends or anomalies I want to find until I discover them... but I suspect that, once found, they'd be interesting. :-) > 'exi octave' reveals: Octave is a good suggestion - but probably not what I need. I've been pointed at "R" ( http://www.r-project.org/ ) which looks more hopeful, though I can't find it in portage. If there were an interactive GUI to apply standard statistical analyses to data as a front-end to R, then that would likely be just what I want. Failing that - just finding R in portage would be a step forwards. I'd be very interested to know if R has competition... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface
James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple gui interface, that can be extended. I do not really Any ideas of something I can use as a starting point? Perhaps Komport will be a nice starting point: http://komport.sourceforge.net/ or maybe Cutecom: http://cutecom.sourceforge.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?
The journal is generally located on the partition in question. If the partition is encrypted the journal should also be encrypted. You can use `tune2fs -l` to list the contents of the partition's superblock which will have details on the partition such as journal location, etc... On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:20 PM, "Roland Häder" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently testing dm-crypt to encrypt my whole hard drive. So far I > followed this [1] guide and have to wait for the randomization part of the > hard drive. > > In the wiki, ext4 is being used. Since ext3 a journal has been added. From > my times with loop-aes I know that I have to store the journal through an > encrypted loop device else it might be written on the hard drive. > > As of I'm new to dm-crypt and Gentoo, where will that journal now go? > > Any help is welcomed. :) > > Regards, > Roland > > -- Sincerely, Steve Buzonas Jr.
[gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...
I've three independent hosts - imaginatively called A, B and C. Firewall rules dictate that A can be directly accessed from B, but not from C... A and B run the openssh sshd, and C is a terminal with a working X-Windows display. C has a ssh session opened with B which tunnels port 22 on C to 22 on A. Thereafter, it is possible to ssh to localhost on C and get a ssh connection to A, which in turn I successfully use to tunnel IMAP, SMTP, Squid - etc. I'd have expected to be able to tunnel X11 over this link from C to A - but it fails... I'm unclear if the reason for the failure is the additional tunnelling... Is this technique incompatible with X11 tunnelling? Is there a way to make it work with a reverse-tunnel or something like that? Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely? -- HostC# echo $DISPLAY :0.0 HostC# cat .ssh/config ForwardX11 yes HostC# ssh localhost -X HostA# echo $DISPLAY HostA# exit HostC# ssh localhost -Y HostA# echo $DISPLAY HostA# exit HostC# -- If I use -v -v I get this output... Curiously I have /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth on HostC, but xauth in in /usr/bin on host A. -- HostC# ssh localhost -Y OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/user/.ssh/config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-BEGIN' debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-END' debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa type 2 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3 debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3 debug2: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,[EMAIL PROTECTED],zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,[EMAIL PROTECTED],zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,[EMAIL PROTECTED] debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,[EMAIL PROTECTED] debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 debug2: mac_init: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug2: mac_init: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug2: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 121/256 debug2: bits set: 483/1024 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host 'localhost' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts:4 debug2: bits set: 540/1024 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug2: kex_derive_keys debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1 debug1: SSH2_M
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:41 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > I'm trying to get my Sansa e260 to work under Gentoo. > > I can mount the flash via /dev/sda1, but I can't find the microSD card > under linux. > I expected it would show up as /dev/sdb or something like that, but no > dice. I think this might be the same problem I had with my USB 5-in-1 cardreader. It would only recognize one of the slots until I recompiled the kernel kernel with "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device." It's under Device Drivers->SCSI device support. HTH, -Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me where I've loused-up this apache config?
This time a bamboozling Apache/vhost/https problem. I have a working vhost configuration for several domains in apache2 (latest stable from portage - 2.0.58) and I want to support not only http services, but, for one domain name at least, I want to support an https service. The working configuration for http has a 00_default_vhost.conf file:- -- NameVirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot /var/www/vlan.mydomain.net ServerName vlan.mydomain.net ServerName temporary.mydomain.net DocumentRoot /var/www/temporary.mydomain.net -- I updated this (following a how-to as closely as I could...) to this: -- NameVirtualHost *:80 NameVirtualHost *:443 DocumentRoot /var/www/vlan.mydomain.net ServerName vlan.mydomain.net ServerName temporary.mydomain.net DocumentRoot /var/www/temporary.mydomain.net DocumentRoot /var/www/ssl.mydomain.net ServerName ssl.mydomain.net SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ssl.mydomain.net.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ssl.mydomain.key SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/mydomain.crt SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/mydomain.crt -- I believe that I've put valid crt and key files in /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ - and I'd have expected an error message at least if this is, in fact, the fault. When I parse this configuration with apache2 and the flags from /etc/conf.d/apache2 (i.e. SSL ) this is how it goes : -- # apache2 -D SSL --lint # apache2 -D SSL -S VirtualHost configuration: wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: *:443 is a NameVirtualHost default server ssl.mydomain.net (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:12) port 443 namevhost ssl.mydomain.net (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:12) *:80 is a NameVirtualHost default server vlan.mydomain.net (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:24) port 80 namevhost vlan.mydomain.net (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:24) port 80 namevhost temporary.mydomain.net (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:37) Syntax OK -- Unfortunately, when I attempt to connect to the SSL service on http://ssl.mydomain.net/ using Firefox I get an immediate error : "The connection was interrupted The connection to ssl.shic.dynalias.net was interrupted while the page was loading." Links (the text browser) gives the somewhat less helpful error message : "Error loading https://ssl.mydomain.net/: SSL error" Nothing seems to be written to /var/log/apache2/error_log or access_log. I've read reports that I must be explicit about which IP address I want to vhost on - which is undesirable as I want to serve both over Ethernet and Wireless (i.e. I have two network adaptors) - but seems to make no difference if I experimentally substitute my ethernet IP address for * in the vhost configuration. What's wrong? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio
On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:10, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I'm struggling with getting my soundcard setup > from lspci > 00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH 7 Family) High > Definition Audio Contoller (rev 03) > > chip=Generic 14f1 ID 5047 > > I've compiled alsa support into the kernel: > Device Drivers ---> > Sound ---> > <*> Sound card support > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> > <*>alsa > <*>sequencer support > <*>oss mixer api > PCI devices ---> > <*> Intel HD Audio > > I've followed the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide and the HARDWARE Intel 945G on > gentoo wiki. I've also checked the gentoo-forums and googled about > When I boot the kernel I get no error messages > > cat /proc/asound/cards > cat /proc/asound/version > cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat > all give the expected responses > > dmesg doesn't report any problems > > when I run alsa mixer I get on bar only - master > that's it KDE says it can't detect the sound card > Sofar I havn't installed any other software that uses sound, but I intend > to install amarok, kmplayer, realplayer etc > > any help would be appreciated > Matt I also have this soundcard. What kernel version are you using? I found that with 2.6.16 I only had one bar in alsamixer, just like you. However with 2.6.17 I got two bars and the sound worked, but quietly. Some googling told me that the volume was fixed in alsa version 1.0.13, which is newer than the version in the kernel. So I removed alsa from the kernel and emerged the unstable version of alsa-driver, which is version 1.0.13. The sound is now louder, but still not as much as I would like. I get the impression that the driver for this card is a work in progress, so hopefully it will get better. Also this version of alsa identifies the chip in the card as being a Conexant, rather than just ID 5047, which has to be a sign of progress :-) See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml for information on installing alsa using alsa-driver rather than the kernel. Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux 19:00:59 up 2 days, 58 min, 2 users, load average: 0.86, 0.77, 0.94 pgpkPjMBqsrwD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio
On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:53, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 15:44, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Did as you suggested and removed alsa from the kernel and compiled > > alsa-driver but It didn't work. The only thing that changed was the name > > of the chip it detected, same as yours. I still only have Master with > > alsamixer and no sound not even quitely I'm using kernel 2.6.17-r8 and > > the 1.0.13 versions of alsa > > > > Matt > > This might be part of the problem: > When I try to play an mp3 with madplay I get the following error > audio: /dev/dsp: no such file or directory > Am I missing something from the kernel? > > Matt > I'm not sure what would cause that, udev should be creating the device. On my system /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp. Does that exist? I assume that your user is in group audio, so that you have access rights to /dev/dsp? Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux 21:29:22 up 2 days, 3:26, 1 user, load average: 0.71, 0.77, 0.71 If you know all of your ancestors, you were a personal witness to the events which created the myths and religions of our past. Recognizing this, you must think of me as a myth-maker. -- The Stolen Journals pgpGa1KnOPqAq.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...
I'm familiar with this procmail recipe: -- :0 * ^List-Id:.* | formail +1 -ds >> gentoo_user -- However... I need to use maildir is there a straightforward way to deliver directly to maildir folders with formail from procmail? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...
Kevin Fullerton wrote: > Here's the procmail recipe I use with maildir folders and the Gentoo lists - > I think as long as procmail is setup with maildir support you just need to > set your MAILDIR var and use a trailing slash and it knows it'd delivering to > a MailDir. > A, I guess I hadn't been as clear as I could have been. I have an almost identical setup to yours right now and that allows me to use procmail to deliver to maildir... The problem I have is that I want to use formail to split my digests into individual messages (because large digests play havoc with IMAP, and to make replies easier) - but I can only find documentation showing how to use formail to split digests into mbox format. Unsurprisingly the silly attempt below doesn't work (as "| formail..." is interpreted by /bin/sh.) : -- :0 * ^List-Id:.* | formail +1 -ds >> gentoo_user/ -- Is formail the right tool for me to use here? Is there a tool to deliver an mbox of messages to a maildir that I can use in place of '>> gentoo_user/' above? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...
Rasmus: I've had a look at mb2md, and this seems close to what I'd need - though I'm dubious about two aspects: 1.It doesn't seem to have a filter mode (i.e. It always takes file as input as opposed to stdin, which would allow it to slot more neatly into a procmail based solution. 2.The documentation suggests that it is intended to transform whole mbox files into maildir directories - whereas I'd need it to take an mbox file and append it to a maildir directory which would likely already contain messages from the previous digest. Am I missing something obvious (to someone else)? Reader at Newsguy: While I don't really understand why your suggestion should work...I tried it anyway. It didn't work... and delivered the digest to my inbox and to my gentoo folder, but didn't in split the digest. -- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 11 14:40:21 2006 Subject: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 950 (52678-52727) Folder: .Mailing.Gentoo.ThisMonth/new/1160574057.17594_0.server 161160 procmail: Extraneous filter-flag ignored procmail: Skipped "* ^List-Id:.*" procmail: Skipped "| formail +1 -ds " -- It seems strange that this should be tricky to set-up - procmail obviously intends to address digest splitting and to support both mbox and maildir delivery... Surely there's a simple solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...
Moshe Kamensky wrote: > The -s option of formail allows you to specify an argument, which is a > program name. This program will be run for each message, with the > message on the stdin. So if you have such a program that delivers to a > maildir, you can use it. procmail itself is one such program, so you > should be able to do something like > > | formail +1 -ds procmail .procmailrc.gentoo > > and then have .procmailrc.gentoo say something like > > :0 > gentoo-user/ > That works perfectly... Thanks! I'd overlooked that -s had an optional argument with formail - and while I'd realised I probably wanted procmail to deliver messages, I hadn't realised that I could have separate configurations as easily as that. I'm surprised this example is neither one of the convenient examples in the man procmailex man page... nor widely cited in the online howtos I've seen. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf
On Saturday 14 October 2006 06:21, Trenton Adams wrote: > I use dispatch-conf all the time. I too have never looked back. > > I use diff="vimdiff -R %s %s" in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf > > NOT SURE WHAT '-R' IS now though. Perhaps it should not be there. > -R tells vim to be read only, so you cannot edit the files. It is probably a sensible option in this case. > Then I add the following line to my .vimrc, which allows me to press > F2 to exit the vimdiff windows in one shot. > map :q:q > A more general version would be: map :qa as :qa quits all buffers, so it could be used to exit from vim with any number of open buffers. Steve -- 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz GNU/Linux 12:32:08 up 22 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.08 It'll be a nice world if they ever get it finished. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode
Hi Qiangning You can specify a "fallback" setting in net.ethX where if DHCP fails it will take another setting. The bhandbook at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2 explains how. I'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but there's a good chance it might. Steve Qiangning Hong wrote: On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot. However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either net.lan or net.wlan, will fail. This will take fbsplash into verbose mode when the service fails. It is a bit annoying. Is there any advice to keep the silent mode on and still can auto detect the network access? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] IMAP servers
This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen folders containing several gigabytes of mail using Thunderbird as a mail client. This "works" - but I am surprised by the number of imap processes that the mail server is running to support a single Thunderbird client... it appears that there is one connection per folder and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be overkill. I'm aware that there are lots of IMAP clients I might have chosen - Courier; UWImap, Cyrus and dovecot... but I'm finding it difficult to establish details which would help me choose the most appropriate server for my purposes. In order of importance, I'm interested in: 1. Stability and reliability. 2. Scalability to handle a very large number of 'folders' for a relatively small number of end-users. 3. Performance (primarily with respect to 'new mail' notifications, but also, to a lesser extent, with searching archived messages. I'd be interested to hear any anecdotes from Gentooists who have addressed a similar question recently... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers
Roman Zilka wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > >>> it appears that there is one connection per folder >>> and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be >>> overkill. >>> >> Having never used dovecot, I can't comment on this. But maybe this can be >> changed in a configuration file somewhere? >> > Confirm. There are a few settings regarding exactly this > issue. Check out all the "login_process*" and "login_max*" options at least. > This sounded very promising... and I've now spent some time tweaking those parameters (I'm not sure why I'd previously overlooked them.) The parameter login_processes_count seems to control the number of /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login processes that are run (when idle) awaiting connections. The parameter login_max_processes_count appears to relate to the same imap_login process. It was not the imap_login processes which concern me from a scalability perspective - but rather the imap (/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap) processes. I'm no longer so sure about when imap processes are spawned or terminated - but there seem to be a non-deterministic "lots" of them for each Thunderbird session. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers
Régis Décamps wrote: > On 10/17/06, Steve [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm no longer so sure about when imap processes are spawned or >> terminated - but there seem to >> be a non-deterministic "lots" of them for each Thunderbird session. > There is one process create each time Thunderbird opens a new > connection, up to a limit which should be configured in your imap > server (MAXPERIP for courier-imap) I couldn't find a setting for this in dovecot... > Thunderbird opens a connection each time a new folder is accessed, and > closes them when it has reach a limit which is configured in "Account > Setting", , "Server settings", "Advanced", "maximum unmber of > connections to cache" ...but, given that gem, it doesn't matter to me any longer. I've reduced the setting in Thunderbird to something sensibly small and things are running far more smoothly now. Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup
Dan Johansson wrote: > cross-site-remote-backups Erm, "Me too..." My first attempt centred on Duplicity - which, on the surface, seemed to be exactly what I wanted... but, unfortunately, it is unusably buggy... and is no longer in avtive development. My second (in-progress) attempt is with BoxBackup - which seems far more robust... and promises the benefits of a 'continuous' backup - which I now consider significant. The BoxBackup distribution instills a greater sense of confidence - but documentation remains thin... and I'm wrestling with configuring the backup daemon on a remote server (for which I do not have root access...) I'd be interested to hear other annecdotes about BoxBackup - is anyone here using it and happy with their setup? Is there a good HowTo anywhere? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8
Does anyone else have problems like this? > # emerge -uDNav world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 [1.12-r7] USE="nls" 0 kB > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes > > >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 to / > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz MD5 ;-) > ...[ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz size ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz MD5 ;-) > ...[ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz size ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking ebuild checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking auxfile checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking miscfile checksums ;-) > ...[ ok ] > * checking kbd-1.12.tar.gz ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking svorakln.tar.gz ;-) > ... [ ok ] > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking kbd-1.12.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work > >>> Unpacking svorakln.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work > * Applying kbd-1.08-terminal.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-configure-LANG.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-find-map-fix.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-kbd_repeat-v2.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-debian.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-unimap.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-cz-qwerty-map.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-jp-escape.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-Meta_utf8.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-alias.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-setfont-man.patch > ...[ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-xcompile.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-kbio.patch > ... [ ok ] > >>> Source unpacked. > >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work/kbd-1.12 ... > Configuring for PREFIX=/usr > Configuring for DATADIR=/usr/share > Configuring for MANDIR=/usr/share/man > checking for gcc > ./configure: 151: Syntax error: Bad substitution > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile > ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile > kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild, line 93: Called die > > !!! (no error message) > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call > stack if relevant. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> # cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8/work
> # sed -i -e '141 aset -x\n' -e '152 aset +x\n' kbd-1.12/configure
> # ebuild `portageq portdir`/sys-apps/kbd/kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild compile
>
I've followed your suggestion - I was surprised to see sparc64 mentioned
- my gentoo box really is an aged PII (Celeron).
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work/kbd-1.12 ...
Configuring for PREFIX=/usr
Configuring for DATADIR=/usr/share
Configuring for MANDIR=/usr/share/man
checking for gcc
+ uname -m
+ HOST_ARCH=i686
+ gcc -O -dumpmachine
+ awk -F- {print $1}
+ TARGET_ARCH=i686
+ test i686 = sparc64
./configure: 153: Syntax error: Bad substitution
!!! ERROR: sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile
kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild, line 93: Called die
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
> Also might be a good idea to post the output of:
>
> # emerge --info
>
# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686)
=
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:30:01 +
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/";
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local'
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri
elibc_glibc fortran gdbm gpm iconv input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux
libg++ ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline
reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati
video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy
video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740
video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic
video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3
video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion
video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga
video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa
video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo
xorg zlib"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> If you look at the configure script you will see that it's is testing if you
> are on a sparc64. The test shows you aren't which appears to be unrelated to
> your problem. Line 153 which appears to be failing is this:
>
> echo "ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH/i?86/i386}" >> make_include
>
> which is supposed to substitute i686 with i386 in your case and store it in
> make_include as "ARCH=i386". I have no clue why that would fail. The only
> thing that I can think of is to remerge your shell (probably
> app-shells/bash). If noone else has a clue and that doesn't help I guess your
> best option is to file a bug with the info you've posted now...
Thanks for your help, and while it might not have been obvious to you
(or anyone else reading along)... everything that was confusing before
is clear now... to me at least. While I can see what is wrong, it isn't
100% clear if it constitutes a bug or not.
The problem is that the configure script starts '#!/bin/sh' - but goes
on to depend upon Bash specific features... specifically substitution.
I expect this would not be a problem for most users where /bin/sh is a
sym-link to /bin/bash but, for me, /bin/sh was a sym-link to
/bin/ash... and, for that shell, line 151 is invalid. What is less
clear is whether or not, in a Gentoo context, it is 'correct' to have
/bin/sh being Borne-like but not Bash-like. By preference I'd prefer
/bin/sh to be the minimal shell that will execute Borne-shell scripts...
but I recognise the Linux-world normality of /bin/sh actually being bash.
As at-least a temporary fix I replaced my /bin/sh->/bin/ash with a
/bin/sh->/bin/bash... and everything now emerges smoothly... From a
prissy perspective I'd have hoped that the configure script would
specify that it needed bash functionality by demanding evaluation by
bash instead of whatever /bin/sh happens to be...
Thanks again,
Steve
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?
Daevid Vincent wrote: Have you tried VMWare? The workstation version has a free 30 day trial (just emerge it). Then you can make a VM for OS/2 however you like it, and use the FREE VMWare Player to continue indefinitely. I suspect VMWare will work flawlessly for you -- it's pretty much the single best piece of software ever written. There is also VMWare server, which is also free, and allows you to create new VMs. It also allows you to script things, and remotely control things (like starting/stopping/suspending VMs). http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] "User services" best practice?
While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily run a daemon process or kill one, this doesn't persist across a reboot. I've tried using fcron to schedule user processes to re-start after a re-boot... but this feels like a hack. Is there a standard Gentoo way to solve this (I presume common) task? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Spamassassin / fcron / RulesDuJour
Last night my default gentoo RulesDuJour for Spamassassin acquired new Adult and General rule-sets from SARE. Thereafter spamd refused all connections and subsequently received mail was not spam filtered. Issuing '/etc/init.d/spamd restart' as root resolved the situation... but I don't want to have to do this every time a rule-set is automatically updated overnight. This is a (sanitised) extract from /var/log/messages : -- Nov 15 03:20:00 svr fcron[5328]: process already running: root's /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons Nov 15 03:20:14 svr postfix/pickup[11065]: ...: uid=0 from= Nov 15 03:20:14 svr postfix/cleanup[11232]: ...: message-id=... Nov 15 03:20:15 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 1125 Nov 15 03:20:15 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: setuid to foouser succeeded Nov 15 03:20:15 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: processing message .. for foouser:1000 Nov 15 03:20:18 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: clean message (-2.9/5.0) for foouser:1000 in 3.1 seconds, 647 bytes. Nov 15 03:20:18 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: result: . -2 - AWL,BAYES_00 scantime=3.1,size=647,user=foouser,... Nov 15 03:20:18 svr postfix/local[11237]: ... Nov 15 03:20:18 svr postfix/qmgr[5607]: ...: removed Nov 15 03:20:19 svr spamd[5462]: prefork: child states: II Nov 15 03:20:26 svr postfix/pickup[11065]: ...: uid=0 from= Nov 15 03:20:26 svr postfix/cleanup[11232]: ... Nov 15 03:20:27 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: setuid to foouser succeeded Nov 15 03:20:27 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: processing message ... for foouser:1000 Nov 15 03:20:29 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: clean message (-2.2/5.0) for foouser:1000 in 2.7 seconds, 612 bytes. Nov 15 03:20:29 svr spamd[7808]: spamd: result: . -2 - AWL,BAYES_05 scantime=2.7,size=612,user=foouser,uid=1000,... Nov 15 03:20:29 svr postfix/local[11237]: EEA5F3B945: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=3, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/proc Nov 15 03:20:29 svr postfix/qmgr[5607]: EEA5F3B945: removed Nov 15 03:20:30 svr spamd[5462]: prefork: child states: II Nov 15 03:21:05 svr spamd[5462]: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting down Nov 15 03:21:11 svr rc-scripts: Failed to stop spamd Nov 15 03:30:00 svr fcron[5328]: process already running: root's /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons Nov 15 03:40:00 svr fcron[11746]: Job /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons started for user root (pid 11747) Nov 15 03:50:00 svr fcron[11759]: Job /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons started for user root (pid 11760) Nov 15 03:50:24 svr postfix/smtpd[11772]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 15 03:50:24 svr postfix/smtpd[11772]: ...: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 15 03:50:24 svr postfix/cleanup[11775]: ...: message-id=... Nov 15 03:50:24 svr postfix/qmgr[5607]: 73FAA3B4FB: from=... Nov 15 03:50:24 svr postfix/smtpd[11772]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 15 03:50:24 svr spamc[11779]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused Nov 15 03:50:25 svr spamc[11779]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused -- Does anyone else have this problem? Can it be attributed to Fcron or RulesDuJour or something peculiar to my setup? I don't understand the "process already running" messages from fcron - my cron jobs all seem to be executed normally. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers
Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I have a desktop and a laptop with nVidia cards. The desktop is an AMD-64 machine, but Gentoo is built on it using the athlon-xp architecture. The laptop is a Pentium 4. On the AMD system, I had to select the xorg-x11 opengl libraries to get kdesktop and kdeartwork-kscreensaver to build. Actually, at first, I just set the use flags on kscreensaver and kdeartwork-kscreensaver to -opengl, but then Control Center crashes every time I try to configure the screensaver. There is no openGL use flag for kdesktop, so I had to use the xorg-x11 (mesa, I assume) openGL libraries just to get it to build. The error was unresolved symbols with names like "_nv001215[something]" At the moment, I am unable to use the nVidia openGL drivers that come with the nvidia-drivers package on the desktop. On the laptop, after solving the problems with trying to build kde-3.5.5 with gcc-4.1 (emerge -ae world), kdesktop crashes when KDE is started from kdm. However, if I shut down xdm and run startx from the command line, KDE starts up and I get a desktop, but a number of KDE applications crash when I try to run them (KCrash can't seem to find kdeinit). Once again, kscreensaver crashes unless I set the openGL libraries to xorg-x11. The only thing I have found by searching the web and the Gentoo forums about this was the suggestion to use the mesa openGL libraries to build kscreensaver. That reference suggested changing back to the nVidia libraries after building, but I can't get kscreensaver to stay alive if I do that. I would expect that to be the case anyway. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine, without any crashing etc, on both my laptop and desktop. You might have to switch to xorg-x11 when building some things (although most of that should happen automatically now), but you should definitely be able to switch back to nvidia after the build completes. Can you tell us more about your systems? emerge --info would be a good start, but also what version of nvidia-drivers and xorg-x11 are you using? Does revdep-rebuild -p report anything needing to be rebuilt? -Richard revdep-rebuild on both systems shows no broken binaries. I have done another emerge -e world and nothing has changed. Here is the emerge --info for the laptop: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686) = System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Last Sync: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:50:02 + app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo"; LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://dmzhost/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl symlink tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Everything seems to build and link fine on the laptop and I can use the nVidia openGL drivers on it. The only thing I can't do is start KDE from KDM. I think that probably has nothing to do with openGL any more. I re-emerged kdesktop with debug, but I don't know where to look for the debug output. Here is the emerge --info for the desktop: Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686) = System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:50:02 + app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with MythTV and LiveTV
Michael Sullivan wrote: What can I do to fix this? On site I looked at said that this was fixed in mythtv-0.20, but I don't want to upgrade until it's marked stable, if I can help it... Just backup your mythconverg database (mysqldump mythconverg -u mythtv -pmythtv > mysql-0.19.sql), and try upgrading. If you don't like it, you can always restore your database and go back to the older versions. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans de Hartog wrote: Just to stay close to what you're used to: how about good old mozilla? That's something that isn't clear to me: Is Mozilla still actively maintained? If so, what's the rationale for Firefox? I changed to Firefox because I assumed Mozilla was going to disappear... And why all the fuss about Firefox? From what I understand, development of the Mozilla suite has stopped. Seamonkey is the old Mozilla-style suite of packages, but the backend is the newer Firefox / Thunderbird code. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?
Hans de Hartog wrote: Hi, I'm currently evaluating some exotic packages in the portage tree and found out that they're almost 2 years old, don't compile or crash immediately. When I go to their home page or forums, I see that lots of new versions have been released. What to do about this? I'm not going back to the early 90's to play around with tarballs, ./configure, make && make install and after a few months end up in the hell of shared library dependencies and systems being polluted beyond repair. After all, that's why I've choosen Gentoo in the first place. Should I - kindly ask somebody to do something about it? - try to make an ebuild from a tarball? - something else? Check bugzilla to see if there are version bumps + ebuild bugs in there already. Most of the time, maintainers leave, and the herds are left to take care of them. If no one in the herd is interested in the package, then things can stagnate. If there isn't a bug, feel free to file one. If you have some ebuild skillz and want to help maintain the ebuild, then let some developers know that you'd be willing to take care of the package. Or, look at project Sunrise as well. There's a lot of things that can be done, and I've just barely glossed over the basics. Most of the time it comes down to a per-package basis, and usually the case is that there's just no one interested in maintaining it. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?
Hans de Hartog wrote: Philip Webb wrote: It would help if you listed the packages in question. Also thanks to Ryan and Steve to illustrate the situation in the "not_so_common_packages" scene. (BTW, how do I check for an "overlay somewhere"?) - freewheeling (dies in glibc with double free or corruption) In the tree is only 0.5_pre4 (masked ~x86). There's bug 149784 asking for a version bump to 0.5.2a and the newest version from the freewheeling people is 0.5.3 - sooperlooper (won't build at all) In the tree is only 1.0.3 (masked ~x86). No bugs reported. Latest version is 1.0.8c (and even 1.0.8u for the Mac). I guess I've to file a bug asking for a version bump? If you're going to file a stabilization bug, then make sure you do this: First, make sure the ebuild works and the program compiles cleanly without any problems. Make sure that all possible deps are stable for it (if they aren't file stable request bugs for those first). You can check the stable status by going to http://packages.gentoo.org/ and searching for the package in question. Then, when you file the bug, make sure you add the arches to the CC list so they get a copy. Oh yes, and don't file any stable request bugs unless the ebuild has been released for at least 30 days, and there are no bugs in bugzilla. That's a pretty hacked summary, again, but there ya go. :) Pretty much just make sure everything is "good to go" before filing a stable request. Doing the legwork really doesn't take much time, and it makes things much simpler for arch testers and developers. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has recent news including the one from the subject of this e-mail. Its date is Oct 24, 2006 and has only a picture which represents a sailor waving for good-bye to someone or something (my first assoc. is sinking ship). So whats going on? [1] http://www.xmms.org/ XMMS was dropped since it had many bugs, dead upstream, and no maintainer. Essentially it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let it go. The whole shebang is covered in quite a bit in the forums. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Install/config support for audio on my T40
Greg Morin wrote: I've been working w/Gentoo now for a little. Networking, Gnome, OpenOffice, VMWare are working - my essentials are there... I'd like to get sound working, but not sure where to start - pointers? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo
Helmut Jarausch wrote: So, the question: Is there a general source of information about warnings, actions to be taking, etc to be followed when upgrading certains critical packages. Generically, no. But User Relations has noted a need, and we are going to start working on something that addresses that exact issue soon. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Learning how to write a simple ebuild?
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: I've looked at the docs. I've posted on bugzilla a request for an ebuild. I don't anticipate to become a developer, but would like to gain insight into the process and the layout. The documentation at the following site should help you out: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ If you're still lost, pop in on irc.freenode.net and join #gentoo-dev-help Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge
Daniel Iliev wrote: Then "emerge --sync && emerge -Neav world" that is overkill, no need to re-emerge the entire tree. "emerge -uD world" will suffice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compile error for Mythtv 0.19_p10505.
Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install the latest version of MythTv and I'm running into a compile problem. this is what I'm trying to compile: emerge -av mythtv [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.19_p10505 USE="alsa dvb dvd ieee1394 lirc mmx opengl vorbis xvmc (-altivec) -backendonly -dbox2 -debug -frontendonly -jack -joystick -lcd" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 via -nvidia" 0 kB this is the error message that I get: g++ -o mythtv main.o-L/usr/qt/3/lib -L../../libs/libmyth -L../../libs/libmythtv -L../../libs/libavutil -L../../libs/libavcodec -L../../libs/libavformat -lmythtv-0.19 -lmythavformat-0.19 -lmythavutil-0.19 -lmythavcodec-0.19 -lmyth-0.19 -lfreetype -lmp3lame -lasound -ldvdnav -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXinerama -lXv -lXxf86vm -lXrandr -lGL -lGLU -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm -lpthread ../../libs/libmythtv/libmythtv-0.19.so: undefined reference to `glXGetVideoSyncSGI' ../../libs/libmythtv/libmythtv-0.19.so: undefined reference to `glXWaitVideoSyncSGI' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [mythtv] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mythtv-0.19_p10505/work/mythtv-0.19/programs/mythtv' make[1]: *** [sub-mythtv] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mythtv-0.19_p10505/work/mythtv-0.19/programs' make: *** [sub-programs] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-tv/mythtv-0.19_p10505 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile mythtv-0.19_p10505.ebuild, line 213: Called die !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. This system is a fresh install, so I'm at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. Mike. First of all, fix your VIDEO_CARDS settings (why do you have two?). Then, try with -opengl and -xvmc. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea where to look for debugging information. I can start KDE from a regular terminal session using startx. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
James wrote: Steve Brenneis surry.net> writes: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea where to look for debugging information. I can start KDE from a regular terminal session using startx. /etc/rc.conf may or maynot be used to start X/kdm at boot time. /etc/init.d/xdm script to see what's going on. look at your config file /etc/conf.d/xdm to see what you have set. You might also need to run 'revdep-rebuild -p' to clean rebuild some files. hth, James Thanks, All the configuration seems to be set up correctly. I have done several revdep-rebuilds as well as a couple of emerge -e world. Here are the relevant configuration files, though: gamer ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console. # If you set to yes, please make sure to set a UNICODE aware CONSOLEFONT and # KEYMAP in the /etc/conf.d/consolefont and /etc/conf.d/keymaps config files. UNICODE="yes" # Set EDITOR to your preferred editor. # You may use something other than what is listed here. #EDITOR="/bin/nano" EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" #EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs" # XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start # default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit. The default behavior # is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the # value that XSESSION is set to. The support scripts are smart enough to # look in all bin directories if it cant find a match in /etc/X11/Sessions/, # so setting it to "enlightenment" can also work. This is basically used # as a way for the system admin to configure a default system wide WM, # allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his .bash_profile, etc. # # NOTE: 1) this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc exists, and startx # is called. #2) even if ~/.xsession exists, if XSESSION can be resolved, it will # be executed rather than ~/.xsession, else KDM breaks ... # # Defaults depending on what you install currently include: # # Gnome - will start gnome-session # kde- - will start startkde (look in /etc/X11/Sessions/) # Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps #XSESSION="Gnome" gamer ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/xdm # Tell X to always start on VT7. Otherwise it autodetects the first available # VT, which means it has to wait until all gettys are started so it doesn't suck # up a VT that should have had a login prompt (very slow). # If XSTATICVT is on, the login manager will start as soon as possible during # the boot process. If you want X to dynamically start on the first unoccupied # VT after all gettys have started and you are using xdm, also remove the "vt7" # from /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. XSTATICVT="yes" # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ] # NOTE: If this is set in /etc/rc.conf, that setting will override this one. DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea where to look for debugging information. I can start KDE from a regular terminal session using startx. Any ideas? There are two possible locations to look at for error messages. Errors before the session starts should show up in /var/log/kdm.log. Errors from the session itself should be in ~/.xsession-errors. -Richard Thanks, I get this in .xsession-errors when I try to start from KDM: xset: bad font path element (#281), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#281), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#281), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib I have re-emerged kwin and kdm. This error does not occur if I startx from a terminal session, and if I unset $DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm and set XSESSION="kde-3.5" in /etc/rc.conf, KDE starts fine with no errors. I'm stuck. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib Try "revdep-rebuild -p" and see if that outputs anything needing to be rebuilt. -Richard I've done that several times. It shows nothing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 08 December 2006 15:36, Steve Brenneis wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib The strange thing here is that there is no such thing as kwin.la. I have re-emerged kwin and kdm. This error does not occur if I startx from a terminal session, and if I unset $DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm and set XSESSION="kde-3.5" in /etc/rc.conf, KDE starts fine with no errors. I would re-emerge the whole kdebase. Uwe I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. Seems it's already reported. Add your info here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155377 -Richard Thanks again. Looks like they haven't touched it since it was reported in November. I guess I'll just sit back and wait. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations
Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I have a stable (+unstable gtk) i86/xorg soundless installation with a bare bones xfce4 desktop. My only problem is that, after one two weeks, the xfce-panel disappears and newly started apps are missing the window decorations. They keep missing, even if I restart the panel manually. So I have to restart X which is a PITA. Have you seen this? Do you have a recommendation? Upgrading GTK and or its libs sometimes introduce small quirks into XFCE, I've noticed. Generally, I just re-emerge all the XFCE packages and I'm good to go. Something like this should work: # emerge gentoolkit # equery l > /tmp/equery # for x in `grep xfce /tmp/equery`; do emerge =$x; done; Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Media container formats (was Re: [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip)
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 08:29, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Media container formats (was Re: [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip)': On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:57, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: A quick comparison can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats . I believe Matroska should be used whenever possible, but I don't know any any standalone players that support it right now. There's a matroska USE flag, but as you say, I don't think any (stable) packages use it yet. No, I meant stand-alone as in a device that only plays disks. A DVD player or DVD/Blu-Ray player or DVD/HD-DVD player or similar "consumer electronics" device. Both kmplayer (mplayer/xine) and kaffeine (xine/gstreamer/mplayer) play .mkv files fine on my system. In fact, MPlayer is gaining excellent support for Matroska as well. It already includes stuff like chapter support. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?
Travis Osterman wrote: I needed to unmask ivtv by placing it in my /etc/portage/package.keywords as "media-tv/ivtv". Now I'd like to have my system not ask me to ever upgrade it again until the newer version is required as a dependency of some other program. I thought that putting "=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" (where 0.9.0 is my current version) in /etc/portage/package.mask would be the solution, but when I "emerge ivtv -pv" it wants to upgrade to "0.9.1". I commented out the line in package.keywords thinking maybe if it was already installed and masked that portage would ignore it. The result of this was portage wanted to downgrade to the more 'stable' 0.8.x - which is also not the desired result. Well, ivtv is a little strange in the sense that each branch is specific for a kernel branch. Technically, you're going to be best off running the latest ivtv branch (irregardless of whether its marked stable). So, if you are running the 0.9 branch of ivtv, I'd recommend keeping up to date with the bugfixes and upgrading to 0.9.1. If you wanted to do something like that, and make all 0.9.x versions "stable" in package.keywords, then you would add this: =media-tv/ivtv-0.9* But if you just want to stick with 0.9.0, then what you had before is correct. =media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0 Just make sure there aren't any other entries for ivtv in there. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT "DirectPush" email and Windows Mobile 5...
I apologise in advance for this question being tenuously related to Gentoo... My justification is only that I really like my Gentoo-based Postfix /dovecot mail-server... but I also want to push emails to a connected Windows Mobile 5 PDA/phone. Historically mobile devices have polled for email - which kind-of worked... but was far from ideal as it introduced unnecessary delays if the poll-interval was too long - and killed battery life if the poll interval is too short (as well as running up bandwidth bills). Windows Mobile 5 touts a new "Direct Push" technology - which, as far as I can tell, is an Internet-based protocol which alerts the mobile device to establish a tcp connection and then listen on it waiting for a new message. I understand that push-email in the past was synchronised using SMS messages to force a poll - but that (expensive) option is now considered deprecated. The problem I have with "Direct Push" is that documentation is extremely scarce; frequently contradictory - and, it seems, always Microsoft centric and assuming closed-shop IT. The sales pitch from phone/network providers seems usually to be "We envision all of our potential customers already have Microsoft Exchange, and can apply the 'Direct Push' option pack." - which is bizarre and infuriating... Is there a way to do "Direct Push" with Gentoo? While I'm aware of the standard techniques to interact from traditional email client hosts, email access from PDAs introduces the additional complexity of managing battery life on the mobile device. I'd like to use the supplied Windows Mobile 5 software on the mobile device is there an open source alternative to avoid me having to switch to Exchange for my mailserver? Do other Gentooists use push-email to a mobile device? Is the best option to plumb for more proprietary client-side software such as "ChatterMail" [ http://www.chatteremail.com/ ] ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:18:41 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I can't think of any method to get real numbers. Add sys-apps/gentoo-phonehome to all system profiles :) There's actually a gentoo-stats project in the works, for those that would like to (voluntarily) let us know what systems Gentoo is being used on. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection
Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a project. I also hope to be able to export that info somehow. This attempted project will only be fully useful if I can get the database in some form into my Palm after it is created. Any such packages in portage that anyone can recommend for such a project? Any tips from anyone who has attempted such a project? Also, I am running Gentoo amd64, so the app(s) will need to run on that platform. Thanks in advance Sean I would recommend / try tellico. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:30, Steve Dibb wrote: > Sean wrote: > > I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. > > It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application > > that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could > > alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of > > a project. > > > > I also hope to be able to export that info somehow. This attempted > > project will only be fully useful if I can get the database in some > > form into my Palm after it is created. > > > > Any such packages in portage that anyone can recommend for such a > > project? > > Any tips from anyone who has attempted such a project? > > > > Also, I am running Gentoo amd64, so the app(s) will need to run on > > that platform. > > > > Thanks in advance > > Sean > > I would recommend / try tellico. > I also would recommend tellico. It should suit your needs as it can export the data to pilot-DB which is an open source database for Palms. See http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/ Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux 23:41:42 up 4 days, 12:13, 1 user, load average: 0.51, 0.51, 0.37 Stewie Griffin: [thinks] How wonderful it will be to have mother back! Brian Griffin: [thinks] I heard that. Stewie Griffin: [thinks] Damn! pgpP1TEbBJhxY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable
Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree for at least 30 days, no bugs, and if someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, and then a dev will keyword it stable. Most stuff doesnt get marked stable mostly because there aren't any stable requests. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable
Steve Dibb wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree for at least 30 days, no bugs, and if someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, and then a dev will keyword it stable. Oh, and I forgot all the dependencies should be marked stable as well. I would actually encourage users to find and file stable request ebuild bugs. Just make sure you post emerge --info along there in the bug. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable
Robert Cernansky wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree for at least 30 days, no bugs, and if someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, and then a dev will keyword it stable. Most stuff doesnt get marked stable mostly because there aren't any stable requests. Stabilisation bug it not a requirement. Package should go to stable after 30 days + no bugs even without stabilization bug. No, it's not a requirement. It's a notice telling the developers that hey, someone wants it marked stable. Plus, if a user / arch tester does the legwork already of checking to make sure the dependencies are good to go, then we appreciate the work and it creates less of a load for us. I have an impresion that developers are _waiting_ for stabilization bugs which is wrong. That's not true. But there's certainly enough work to go around that they can get neglected. I've raised a similar question few months ago. It's pretty long discussion on -user and -dev: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/166565/ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/40719/ Good discussions, and my opinion is still the same -- that most packages are assigned to herds, or unassigned to nobody, are minor things, and nobody is directly looking after them. As a result they just plain get ignored. In summary, no a stable bug is not needed, but if its a small less popular package, it probably won't hit on anyones radar any other way. Plus, I'm working on integrating some similar checks found in http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable/ into the GPNL website ( http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/ ), so that we can again easily see how long packges have been neglected. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is interesting stuff that I didn't know. So if I've been using KDevelop 3.3.2 forever because 3.3.3, 3.3.4, and 3.3.5 are all ~x86, it's not necessarily because 3.3.5 is broken, just that nobody's certified it? How does this happen? KDevelop is a pretty big beast, and I'm only going to use the C/C++ part of it. I'd be hesitant to proclaim such a thing ready for prime time based on my usage. Well if it's been working for you, just file a stable request bug, post your emerge --info and the arch testers and teams will look at it. :) Thats pretty much how it works. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable - suggestion for improvement
Daevid Vincent wrote: But as I read this thread, it seems that in effect, I won't really be getting a more stable system, I'll just be getting an older, out of date one, as nobody is actively monitoring packages and then flagging them as stable. :( The problem, like many other things, comes down simply to manpower. I should stress, again, that popular, common applications and utilities are going to get marked stable on a regular basis. For the most part, its only the small, fringe programs that get lost in the cracks. And getting some tools in place to display how long packages have been unstable is in the works. Still though, there is just so much work to be done in the first place, not many developers go looking for things to mark stable. It makes things a lot simpler if that offload is placed on the users instead, because that way 1) we don't focus manpower on stabilizing everything just because its been 30 days and 2) we stabilize stuff that people are using anyway, and want to get marked stable. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver
On Friday 05 January 2007 16:44, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > In the case of some drivers (such as intel hd audio) I have found the > > userspace drivers to be far superior to the kernel modules which gave > > poor sound quality, incredibly low volume even when turned fully up, > > and frequent distortion. > > using the alsa-driver package makes sense to get more recent drivers > (that's why it exists). But the mentioned snd_intel8x0 in the kernel > should work very well. > I think the poster is talking about snd_hda_intel, not snd_intel8x0, which is a different module. The version of snd_hda_intel in kernel doesn't work well, but fortunately it is being actively worked on by one of the alsa devs, so that version 1.0.14_rc1 of the alsa-driver package is much better than the kernel version. Steve -- ____ Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux 17:38:48 up 8 days, 6:10, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.57, 0.54 Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 pgpRTyHukNVrD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches
Michael Sullivan wrote: I like the newer kernels because ivtv drivers that work with them are in portage, and I'm not sure drivers that work with 2.6.11 are still in portage. They are still in there, and I doubt we'll be removing them anytime soon. ivtv v0.4.5 through 0.4.9 will work with kernels <=2.6.15. http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Fwd: RulesDuJour/gifu: 404 errors]
Does anyone else have this problem with RulesDuJour? -- To: root Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu: 404 errors Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:32:40 + (GMT) From: root (root) The following rules had errors: TripWire had an unknown error: --15:18:15-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Resolving www.rulesemporium.com... 209.177.149.122 Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:21:28-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 2) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:24:39-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 3) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:27:51-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 4) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:31:04-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 5) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:34:18-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 6) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:37:33-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 7) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:40:49-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 8) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:44:06-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try: 9) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:47:24-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:10) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:50:43-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:11) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:54:02-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:12) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --15:57:21-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:13) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:00:40-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:14) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:03:59-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:15) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:07:18-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:16) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:10:37-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:17) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:13:56-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:18) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:17:15-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:19) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:20:34-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf (try:20) => `99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Giving up. EvilNumber had an unknown error: --16:23:44-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_evilnum0.cf => `70_sare_evilnum0.cf' Resolving www.rulesemporium.com... 209.177.149.122 Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:26:56-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_evilnum0.cf (try: 2) => `70_sare_evilnum0.cf' Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com|209.177.149.122|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:30:08-- http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_evilnum0.cf (try: 3) => `70_sare_evilnum0.c
Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses
kashani wrote: In any case both recent versions of ffmpeg and mplayer in portage, 20061016 or better, have the newer ffmpeg real decoder. However I'm not sure it supports everything in real10 or whatever they're calling the Helix format. You can also skip installing win32/real codecs and download the codecs directly from mplayer in their essential codecs pack, but you might need to massage them into place on Gentoo. I'm not sure why the Gentoo ebuild requires the realplayer package to get the real codecs. There's no need to install the codecs manually, I've already setup all the ebuilds to pull everything in you need on amd64 and x86. Just run ~arch on all four (mplayer, realplayer, win32codecs, amd64codecs), and you'll be gtg. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?
On Saturday 31 December 2005 14:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:58:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > tar outputs to stdout by default, > > > > Not always. > > From man tar > > -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F > use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout) > > So "-f -" is unnecessary, but harmless. That is true for GNU tar, but not for other versions, so specifying "-f -" is the safest solution. For example the man page tar on Solaris 2.8 says: f File. Use the tarfile argument as the name of the tarfile. If f is specified, /etc/default/tar is not searched. If f is omitted, tar will use the device indicated by the TAPE environment variable, if set; otherwise, it will use the default values defined in /etc/default/tar. If the name of the tarfile is '-', tar writes to the standard output or reads from the standard input, whichever is appropriate. tar can be used as the head or tail of a pipeline. tar can also be used to move hierarchies with the command: example% cd fromdir; tar cf - .| (cd todir; tar xfBp -) The file /etc/default/tar contains a list of tape devices. So on Solaris 2.8 if -f is not specified and $TAPE is not set, which it isn't by default, then tar will use a tape device *not* stdin/stdout Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html Now playing: Nina Simone - It might as well be spring 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux 14:50:29 up 2 days, 21:41, 6 users, load average: 0.21, 0.14, 0.14 I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. pgpWwhGXl15ba.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo
box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop w/60 Gig, 7200 rpm hard drive, 1 Gig Ram Current configuration: XP factory installed on 30gig partition Suse v9.0 installed on 20gig partition ext2, 1 Gig SWAP Goal: 1. Remove Suse. 2. Format 20 gig with Reisersf Leave Grub Install Gentoo Install VMware. Question: Can I install Gentoo over Suse or should I start over on a clean hard drive. Option I am considering: Start with a new hard drive, install Gentoo, VMware and then run XP as a virtual machine. Please advise. Background: I have installed Gentoo from Stage1 on a P3 600 Compaq Deskpro EN and Kubuntu on another Compaq Deskpro EN. But consider myself a Gentoo novice. This is my first email to the list. Thanks in advance for any help, --- Steve Wilson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:04, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 11 January 2006 12:42 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo > > > > > > box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop w/60 Gig, 7200 rpm hard > > drive, 1 Gig Ram > > Current configuration: > > XP factory installed on 30gig partition > > Suse v9.0 installed on 20gig partition ext2, 1 Gig SWAP > > > > Goal: > > 1. Remove Suse. > > 2. Format 20 gig with Reisersf > > Leave Grub > > Install Gentoo > > Install VMware. > > > > Question: > > Can I install Gentoo over Suse or should I start over on a > > clean hard drive. > > > > Option I am considering: > > Start with a new hard drive, install Gentoo, VMware and then > > run XP as a > > virtual machine. > > Please advise. > > > > Background: > > I have installed Gentoo from Stage1 on a P3 600 Compaq Deskpro EN and > > Kubuntu on another Compaq Deskpro EN. > > But consider myself a Gentoo novice. > > > > This is my first email to the list. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Welcome to the list Steve! :-) > > As you probably know there's more than one ways to skin a cat, so I only > express my preferences here; yours could be entirely different. I > would leave the factory installed WinXP alone. Back up and thereafter > remove all personal files and data from My Documents/Music/etc. Use > Qtparted or Partition Magic, or whatever to shrink it down to 10-12G. > Make sure that you defrag it a few times (before each successive > shrinking). > > Then install Gentoo in the remaining space - preferably in primary > partitions (it may give you an infinitesimally small increase in drive > access/read/write speed). Assuming you are using the default three > partition installation, then have swap first, root second, then an > extended partition and in logical partition(s) you can fit home if you > want it separately and boot last. Bringing Grub up could take an extra > second but running the rest of the system should benefit > proportionately. > > You can also create a vfat partition (personally I would put it on the > second drive) and map all applications in WinXP to use that to save My > Docs/Music/etc.- This would be your shared partitions to be able to > access files from all OS'. > > With 1G RAM I would not have a swap partition any larger than 120M. As > a matter of fact even that could be an overkill, but you never know. A > single swap partition would do nicely for both Linuxes (change your > /fstab accordingly). Size: a lot depends on what you use your system > for, how often you reboot/flush your swap, logs and how many buggy > applications you're running. Just as an indication on a 256M RAM box I > am using a 145M swap partition which I have never seen filling up more > than 75M. Even that only happened when Opera was caching all sort of > chinese type fonts like mad and OOo was compiling at the same time. > Otherwise even large compiles (KDE monolithic) struggle to use more than > 65M. For reasons mentioned above your mileage may vary. > > Of course if you want to go multi-partition insane you could do what > I've done and install Gentoo spread across multiple partitions on two > drives/separate controllers to allow parallel access/processing by the > CPU. A pain to back up but entertaining all the same if you like that > sort of thing! 8-D > > Good luck, > -- > Regards, > Mick Thanks for the help. The route I took was; 1. purchased another hd of same mfg/mdl 2. install gentoo (stage1 install). 3. install vmware 5.5 4. install win2k as a virtual machine. Had some wonderful help from someone in our Chicago office that guided me along via ssh and later vnd. Things are working fine EXCEPT FOR: 1. Printing: from Linux (win2k is ok) 2. Mounting USB drive and flash card reader. Will post to list as a separate questions if I do not figure it out. -- Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004
Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004
Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004
On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: > Steve B. wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > > > This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this > > one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom > > (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to > > umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has > > success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data > > from CD1 six times. > > > > This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on > > linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Unfortunately, the ebuild for ut2004 is very brain dead about that. > Curiously, it USED to do exactly what you said: let you swap CD's. > > The only way I figured out how to accomplish the install from CD's was > to copy every single CD to the hard disk, which obviously takes up a lot > of space and time. > > Like so: > > rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 1 > rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 2 > > And so on through 6. 6 is the disk labeled install disk, I think. Then > set CD_ROOT_1=/full/path/to/1 CD_ROOT_2=/full/path/to/2 CD_ROOT_ > emerge ut2004 > > Feel free to use cp, i prefer to use rsync. > > The next problem you will run into (or it might come before you even get > to the CD's, i forget) is that portage will try to download various > large files from 3dgamers mirrors. Almost all of which time out or are > unreachable, or uselessly slow. I've found that I have to go to google > and look for the filename, find it somewhere else, save it to > /usr/portage/distfiles and home the md5sums match. Make sure the > filename is as portage expects it too, including case. > > There are bugs open about all of these issues, but they just haven't > been solved yet. > > ut2004 is one of the most irritating peices of software to install on > gentoo, especially from CD's, thanks to all of this. Thanks! I got everything working now. But that was a pain in the rear. Somebody should really update the ebuild in portage. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?
On Monday 13 February 2006 16:39, 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? > I use abcde: http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/ which is available in gentoo. I am sure that there are many others though! Steve -- ____ Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html "Every time I think I know where it's at, they move it." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] qmail troubles
I'm trying to setup a qmail sever via the documention found at gentoo.org. I have used these instructions before and all went ok, however now I'm having problems. Everything is starting fine, but when a user tries to auth I get their clients are telling them the server quit and the following is being logged in /var/log/messages Code: Mar 3 22:24:35 zues pop3d-ssl: LOGIN FAILED, user=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Mar 3 22:24:35 zues pop3d-ssl: authentication error: No such file or directory for the life of me I can't figure out where the problem is. courier-imap is being built with vchkpw the authdaemonrc config file is setup correctly (at least according to the documentation).. what else could be the problem?
[gentoo-user] qmail troubles
I'm trying to setup a qmail sever via the documention found at gentoo.org. I have used these instructions before and all went ok, however now I'm having problems. Everything is starting fine, but when a user tries to auth I get their clients are telling them the server quit and the following is being logged in /var/log/messages Code: Mar 3 22:24:35 zues pop3d-ssl: LOGIN FAILED, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Mar 3 22:24:35 zues pop3d-ssl: authentication error: No such file or directory for the life of me I can't figure out where the problem is. courier-imap is being built with vchkpw the authdaemonrc config file is setup correctly (at least according to the documentation).. what else could be the problem? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] qmail
I've been trying to follow several of the Qmail guides on the forums, wiki, and official documentation. I can't get any of them to work. In the past I have followed the official documenation qmail guide and everything has worked fine.. however for some reason it's simply not working anymore. I posted a message earlier with my error messages but nobody responded.. so my next question is does anybody have an update to date guide on installing Qmail with SSL/TLS only. My next solution is to use the Life with Qmail guide and go outside of portage... I would really like to avoid this solution. Thanks. V/R Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qmail
On 3/5/06, Janosch Fock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're not on an amd64, try qmailrocks.org. Worked very well for me many > times on several x86s. > > Regards > I have used the qmailrocks.org guide several times before on other distro's and it has always worked out very well. However I was trying to keep everything within portage for easy maintance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SELinux
Hey everybody, Quick question. How can I disable SELinux without modifing (recompiling) the kernel? The reason I ask is because my kernel was compiled with SELinux support, however its not "active". Apparent vpopmail has issues with SELinux and I believe that I am having problems because of this. I don't have the luxury of recompiling the kernel because this is a virutal server running under Xen 2.0. Thanks! V/R Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Spamassassin
I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to re-direct email to it from my systemwide procmail setup (using the recommended | /usr/bin/spamc -f approach with a size limiter to avoid over-burdening spamassassin with any massive emails.) Everything seems to work well for a fair while, then the spamd process gets "wedged" - and in spite of there being a near-0 load, and dozens and dozens of messages reported by mailq, none of my mail gets processed in a hurry - and after a long while (maybe every half-an-hour, say) an email is delivered from the head of my mail queue - which has not passed through spamd (according to the headers) - and has no spam-score attached. I read some suggestions a long while ago which said that "--round-robin" as an option was a work-around for a bug with the same consequences. My /etc/conf.d/spamd currently has the options: SPAMD_OPTS="-m 5 -c -H -l --round-robin" However, I still get this problem. I thought that it was related to the length of time the spamd process had been running - so I set a cron job to re-start the server at an unusual time early every morning... but this hasn't been an successful work around either. It now seems that to be triggered by an increased system load - today I ran # emerge apache squirrelmail then left... when I returned the emerge had long-since completed by my spamd remained "stuck." Is this a problem everyone is having? I had no problem like this with the elder (3.0.4) version of spamassassin I had installed previously on the same hardware. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New E-mail
All, Well the time has come to change my e-mail. I just can't see paying for 250MB of storage when I have all this free space at gmail. I should have a new gpg keys soon. rshadow [ at ] linuxquestions.net will still work for the rest of the year and messages will be forwarded to my new account. However I am not going to renew my subscription. -- Steve "RShadow" B -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...
I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen to be. I've heard of Bayonne (but can't find that in portage); understand that [vm]gety is a very low-level approach (which sounds a fair bit of work) and of Asterisk (which sounds as if it supports lots of functionality I don't need - as well as not explicitly stating that it can use my existing (voice/fax/modem hardware). My ideal solution would get a basic answer-phone service up and running pretty quickly - but let me tweak it as I find time over the medium term. What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a POTS line? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
