Re: [gentoo-user] security: unwanted daemons

2003-11-22 Thread Luke Scharf
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 01:01, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Just because they are in /etc/init.d does not mean that they are running. They are only running if *you* did 'rc-update add service default'. You can double check this by running 'rc-status'. If they are not in the list, then they don't

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird crashes. // eBay link.

2003-11-22 Thread Luke Scharf
/home when I rebuild my machine.) -Luke On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:50, Redeeman wrote: try do a ps aux and see if some MozillaFirebird stuff are there On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:38, Luke Scharf wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 07:53, John wrote: I am using 0.7...the link loads for me (I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-21 Thread Luke Scharf
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:21, Martin Horak wrote: Even better is IMHO courier. It's based on qmail's idea, but is a little bit normalized. I've used Courier in the past, and it rocks! But I thought it was better suited for large installations... It's been a long time since I set it up, though,

Re: [gentoo-user] mount /var/tmp/portage over nfs

2003-11-21 Thread Luke Scharf
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:24, Zhang, Peng wrote: I don't have enough space to emerge openoffice, so I did the following: mount -t nfs ip:/folder /var/tmp/portage [snip] Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 to / !!! File system problem. (ReadOnly?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Luke Scharf
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 18:18, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:58:45 +0100 Sergey V. Spiridonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A lot of users tend to ignore GNU philosophy and interpret _free_ | software as in free beer, not as in freedom. If

Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird crashes. // eBay link.

2003-11-20 Thread Luke Scharf
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 07:53, John wrote: I am using 0.7...the link loads for me (I have cookies disabled, btw). I emerged MozillaFirebird, but it wouldn't start. When I try to run it at the command line, I just get another prompt -- no error messages or other output. Even if regular Mozilla

[gentoo-user] cardmgr PCMCIA 802.11b card

2003-11-20 Thread Luke Scharf
Is there any way to control which network device that cardmgr will activate when you insert a PCMCIA wireless ethernet card? I've already added the following to /etc/modules.d/aliases and run update_modules: # Network alias eth0 eepro100 alias wlan0 orinoco The card

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-20 Thread Luke Scharf
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:31, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: Luke Scharf wrote: Currently I look for the alternative for the Debian. I have to admit, it is very difficult task :( In my experience, Debian is a very unique project. I've never seen anything quite like it -- in the Open Source

Re: [gentoo-user] Keep gpilotd running on XFCE

2003-11-20 Thread Luke Scharf
it if something goes wrong. # # AUTHOR: Luke Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED], July 2003 # use strict; use warnings; # Run gpilotd over and over again... while (1) { # Kill gpilotd system(killall gpilotd); sleep(1); # Spawn our gpilotd daemon my $command = gpilotd; for(my $i = 0; $i le $#ARGV; $i

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-19 Thread Luke Scharf
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 03:23 PM 11/18/2003, you wrote: When using gs-sources, is there any way to get genkernel to automagically copy the bzImage to /boot and run make modules_install like it does with the other kernels? You know, I've been using this for

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo internal structure

2003-11-19 Thread Luke Scharf
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:50, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: This is a political question. We know how gentoo runs, most, if not all, can care less how developers argue about getting something in some contract as long as gentoo runs and ebuilds come out when they should. This is how I feel as well. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 20:51, Luke Scharf wrote: 3. How does the hotplugger know to start /etc/init.d/net.eth1 when I insert my PCMCIA wireless card? I didn't set up any sort of relation between eth1 and the orinoco module, nor do I know where

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 18:06, Luke Scharf wrote: Thanks - I'll give that a try, since the stock kernel seems to like to suck up a lot of CPU cycles at odd times. It's probably related to the ACPI hack that I used... I really like this system, though -- all of the advantages of Debian, except

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
like gentoo-test-sources to be approved for the stable system? Thanks, -Luke On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 18:06, Luke Scharf wrote: Thanks - I'll give that a try, since the stock kernel seems to like to suck up a lot of CPU cycles at odd times. It's probably related to the ACPI hack that I

[gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
I'm running ssmtp (the default sendmail program, I think) on Gentoo. It works great for sending messages (like this one), but it doesn't seem to do too well for local mail delivery. The only things that I use local mail delivery for are reading the results of cronjobs and for things like

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:52, Andrew Gaffney wrote: ssmtp does not work this way. It is pretty much a mail gateway. I don't know if it can be done the way you propose without a full mail server. The only way I know to get local mail delivery is with a full mail server such as sendmail or

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-17 Thread Luke Scharf
Thanks - I'll give that a try, since the stock kernel seems to like to suck up a lot of CPU cycles at odd times. It's probably related to the ACPI hack that I used... I really like this system, though -- all of the advantages of Debian, except that I get access to free-as-in-beer software and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making room for Gentoo

2003-11-17 Thread Luke Scharf
I've had good experiences with Partition Magic. It costs money, but it is very good. Always make backups before you do this sort of thing, though. -Luke On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day list, I'm thinking this question's probably come up here before, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh oh...AltCtrlBackspace not locked outwith xscreensaver..

2003-11-16 Thread Luke Scharf
You can disable CTRL+ALT+BS by adding setting the DontZap option in their XF86Config file. See man XF86Config for the exact syntax. I would find it quite annoying to have my workstation set up that way -- but it could be an excellent tweak for the hotel lobby bookkeeper's machine. -Luke On

[gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-16 Thread Luke Scharf
I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. I'm a Unix system administrator by trade and I like to tinker with this stuff in my spare time. I installed Gentoo in VMWare ans was impressed by the virtual machine appearing to be more responsive than the host machine. :-) So, now, I've replaced RedHat

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-16 Thread Luke Scharf
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 10:21, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I've been very happy with the documentation I've read so far on http://www.gentoo.org. However, I haven't successfully found answers to the following questions: 1. Gentoo does not use Sys V init... It looks like it uses some

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo user -- Questions

2003-11-16 Thread Luke Scharf
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:31, Stroller wrote: On Nov 16, 2003, at 8:03 pm, Luke Scharf wrote: ... So, now, I've replaced RedHat with Gentoo on my main personal machine... Well done, congrats welcome. So far, it's a really good -- especially for something that appears at first glance