[gentoo-user] per-user subversion repository

2005-04-06 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to let normal users to svnadmin create their own repsoities in their home dir and can access the repositories via apache using http://myhost/~username/svn/repos1, etc... And also, the user can assign username/password pairs for accessing his reposities. --- Anyone has tried this? Most

[gentoo-user] Add files to Live-CD

2005-03-04 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to add some my personal files to gentoo live-cd to carry on with. I downloaded install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso as a base. I tried the following but failed: # mount -o loop install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso /mnt/loop # cp myfiles.tar.gz /mnt/loop cp: cannot create regular file

[gentoo-user] Restart X while emerging in xterm?

2005-02-19 Thread Qiangning Hong
I have started a long-time emerging in an xterm. For some reason i want to restart X, but I don't want to intercept the emerging process. Is it possible that I suspend it and restart X and resume it in another xterm? -- Excellent FOSS (Free/Open Source Software): Get Firefox!

[gentoo-user] Monitor stability of HDD which has no SMART support

2005-02-17 Thread Qiangning Hong
I have a SAMBA server running. The hard disk is a ATA-1 flash drive which does not support S.M.A.R.T. However, I still want to know it's stablity status. Actually, according to the customer requirement, it should generate an alarm message everytime a non-correctable error has occurred. The data

[gentoo-user] samba/reiserfs io error log

2005-02-17 Thread Qiangning Hong
Will reiserfs write a log entry when file IO failed because of failure of hard disk (for example, bad block)? If not, will samba have such a log file? -- Excellent FOSS (Free/Open Source Software): Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesamp;id=67907amp;t=1 Reclaim Your Inbox!

[gentoo-user] OT: encrypt with smime.p7s

2005-02-01 Thread Qiangning Hong
I received an email from one of my work partners with a attachment named smime.p7s. He want me to reply an encrypted letter using this public key. I have no certificates currently and thunderbird disallow me to use the Security/Encrypt This Message option of the compose window. Do I really

[gentoo-user] how to let one user can change another's passwd?

2005-01-31 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want user1 can change the password of user2, but can not change user3's. How? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] make a server on a resource-limited machine

2005-01-31 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to make a i486 machine to run SAMBA server, with the following requirements: - The whole system should run under 32MB memory. - The boot partition is less than 5MB, the system partition is less than 32MB, and the rest of hard disk for shared data. (Actually the hard disk is an

[gentoo-user] How to get bit errors infomation from hard disk?

2005-01-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to write a script to get infomation about the stability of my IDE hard disk. I want to know how many bit errors have occured and corrected. I think it maybe can be retrieved from S.M.A.R.T so I emerge'd ide-smart, but the output of ide-smart looks like a mess for me. How can I tell