Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-23 Thread BRM
For some reason, the script is not getting called when I press the button. That is not to say that the system doesn't recognize it - if I set KDE to put the system in stand-by when the lid is closed, it very well will. But as I said earlier, that's not what I want - I just want to turn on/off th

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with rtl8187

2009-01-23 Thread Crob
Dominic Kexel : > Hi there! > > Yesterday I updated my kernel to 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 and wanted to give the > rtl8187-module a try. I am using an Alpha-Network WLAN-USB-Adapter with > the Realtek 8187-chipset. > > The problem is following: > After loading the module and configuring the interface, eve

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to >>> port 22 and got the expected bombardme

Re: [gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Saphirus Sage
Wojtek Dalętka wrote: > Saphirus Sage wrote: > >> Have you emerged emul-linux-x86-baselibs or other precompiled 32-bit >> libraries? >> >> >> > > YES: > * app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs > Latest version available: 20080316 > Latest version installed: 20080316 > > > app-

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to >> port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. >> However, it doesn't seem to ever s

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote: >> ... >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 >> >> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at >> shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I >> don't know. > > F

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> ... >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 >> >> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at >> shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 January 2009 22:54:24 Paul Hartman wrote: > > A friend once mentioned on a forum that he'd managed to set up static > > libwrap rules in hosts.allow|deny for addresses that don't change and > > additionally port-knocking for himself to open up port 22 for a few > > minutes. I don't rec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 22:22:17 Paul Hartman wrote: >> I essentially want it to work the other way around. Deny access by >> default unless there is an allow rule. I don't think I can do that, >> though. If I put ALL: ALL or sshd: ALL in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote: ... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I don't know. From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 January 2009 22:22:17 Paul Hartman wrote: > I essentially want it to work the other way around. Deny access by > default unless there is an allow rule. I don't think I can do that, > though. If I put ALL: ALL or sshd: ALL in the hosts.deny file, it will > deny ME access to my own machi

Re: [gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Wojtek Dalętka
Saphirus Sage wrote: > Have you emerged emul-linux-x86-baselibs or other precompiled 32-bit > libraries? > > YES: * app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs Latest version available: 20080316 Latest version installed: 20080316 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat Latest version

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to > port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. > However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this > setting: > > MaxAuthTries

Re: [gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Saphirus Sage
Wojtek Dalętka wrote: > Arttu V. wrote: > >> On 1/23/09, Xav' wrote: >> >>> This is a joke, isn't it ??? the error message coming from rc script is a >>> bit clear IMHO... >>> >> Well, the error message is clear and that listing from someone's home >> directory has me really puzzled

Re: [gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Wojtek Dalętka
Arttu V. wrote: > On 1/23/09, Xav' wrote: >> This is a joke, isn't it ??? the error message coming from rc script is a >> bit clear IMHO... > > Well, the error message is clear and that listing from someone's home > directory has me really puzzled -- what's the connection, why present > it? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 January 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > I don't use PAM in sshd so I don't think that's my problem, but the > whole regexp thing is a possiblity in general as someone else > suggested. I will check into it tonight after work. Have you thought of using iptables to match the rate of new

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Man Shankar
On 09:54 Fri 23 Jan , Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 02:45 -0600 schrieb ext Dale: > > > But if a kernel gets corrupted or accidentally deleted > > mount -oremount,ro /boot solves that problem for me. It's the last > command in the update script I mentioned before. And th

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-23 Thread Man Shankar
On 09:51 Fri 23 Jan , Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:47:00PM -0800, Penguin Lover Dake Wang squawked: > > It seems to be appeared on 2.6.28 kernel. But not 2.6.26 kernel. > > I got both as on my box as the gspca driver for my web camera seems only > > worked on the 2.6.26 kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-23 Thread Christer Ekholm
"James Homuth" writes: > Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? I have used Gentoo at home for many years now. And I have never used pam. I even have # Don't want these, ever >sys-libs/pam-0 In /etc/portage/package.mask so that I detect if anything wants to pull in pam. A few times s

Re: [gentoo-user] "Error: circular dependencies"

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:59:41 -0800 Grant wrote: > This ebuild is from the java-overlay. Is it just a bad ebuild or can > I fix this? I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same > result. > 57 DEPEND="${RDEPEND} 58 || ( >=virtual/gnu-classpath-jdk-1.5 59

[gentoo-user] "Error: circular dependencies"

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
This ebuild is from the java-overlay. Is it just a bad ebuild or can I fix this? I tried disabling the nsplugin USE flag with the same result. # emerge icedtea6 Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2 USE="nsplugin -cacao -debug -doc -examples -javascript -p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
>> >> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge >> >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: >> > >> > How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) >> >> I just mean 2.6.25-r13 is the latest amd64 version so it should be install

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:14:13AM -0800, Grant wrote: > >> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge > >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: > > > > How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) > > I just mean 2.6.25-r13 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:02:11AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi all, > >>From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > >> thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > >> in

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, KH wrote: > > I never tried to build my own live cd but maybe the following links > might help. > > kh > > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_with_Catalyst > > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_with_Catalyst_for_newbies Good info. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/23 Mark Knecht > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi all, > >>From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > >> thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > >> initially to be based on Gentoo. Are th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
>> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: > > How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) I just mean 2.6.25-r13 is the latest amd64 version so it should be installed. > Are you ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use a Linux swap partition for swap

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: > On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: >>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it:

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi all, >>From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're >> thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least >> initially to be based on Gentoo. Are there any good, up-to-date >> instruct

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:02:27AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge > hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) Are you running ~ or sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, >From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > initially to be based on Gentoo. Are there any good, up-to-date > instructions around about how to do this? > >In Google Books I

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: > Hi all, >From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > initially to be based on Gentoo. Are there any good, up-to-date > instructions around about how to do this? > >In Google Books I

[gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least initially to be based on Gentoo. Are there any good, up-to-date instructions around about how to do this? In Google Books I found something called "Linux Liv

Re: [gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Arttu V.
On 1/23/09, Xav' wrote: > This is a joke, isn't it ??? the error message coming from rc script is a > bit clear IMHO... Well, the error message is clear and that listing from someone's home directory has me really puzzled -- what's the connection, why present it? But maybe he has an /opt he has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it: http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/ That

[gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/hardened-sources selected: 2.6.25-r13 protected: none omitted: 2.6.27-r3 If I do that, emerge worl

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Alejandro wrote: > > >> make oldconfig only can give you problems i don,t see any benefict.. just my >> person experience... >> > > I have never seen any problem with make oldconfig, YMMV, but stating > it _will_ give you problems i

Re: [gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Xav'
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:22:59 +0100, Wojtek Dalętka wrote: > Hi, > I've just installed 64bit gentoo on one of these machines: > http://www.ovh.pl/produkty/eg_best_of.xml > > Everything seens to be fine. I use hardened profile but I've got problem > with ...running a shoutcast server. > I didn't fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: >> ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use >> a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it: >> >> http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/ > > That looks a really cool & useful idea.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-23 Thread Gregory SACRE
This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: -- SCRIPT START -- # default display on current host export XAUTHORITY="/home//.Xauthority" DISPLAY=:0.0 # find out if monitor is on STATUS=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:47:00PM -0800, Penguin Lover Dake Wang squawked: > It seems to be appeared on 2.6.28 kernel. But not 2.6.26 kernel. > I got both as on my box as the gspca driver for my web camera seems only > worked on the 2.6.26 kernel. > The error I run into is mostly only cosmetic.

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >>> If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but >> >>> it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. >> > >> > I have a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
>> This was a hardened issue. I just needed to issue 'paxctl -m >> /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox'. Thanks again. > > And you didn't deem it necessary to actually mention in your post that > you're on hardened? Mistakenly The error I was getting didn't sound like hardened to me. I'll b

[gentoo-user] vsftpd and clamav

2009-01-23 Thread admin
Hi! I have vsftpd server on my gentoo. Is it posible to check incoming files with clamav? thanks, Klemen

[gentoo-user] Re: cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: This was a hardened issue. I just needed to issue 'paxctl -m /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox'. Thanks again. And you didn't deem it necessary to actually mention in your post that you're on hardened?

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? - Grant >>> yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the >>> kernel. that's in the 'General setup'. >>> if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

2009-01-23 Thread Grant
> Use icedtea from the java-overlay. Works beautifully for me on ff3 > > Pariksheet I'd like to give that a try but I get: # emerge icedtea6 Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2 USE="nsplugin -cacao -debug -doc -examples -javascript -pulseaudio -shark -zer

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Justin wrote: > But nevertheless you need to do a make odlconfig to > adopt your .config to the new config options. Nope. That's not true. The diference between "oldconfig" and just "make" is that oldconfig will present a prompt when a new option was added. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Alejandro
2009/1/23 Norberto Bensa > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Alejandro > wrote: > > > make oldconfig only can give you problems i don,t see any benefict.. just > my > > person experience... > > I have never seen any problem with make oldconfig, YMMV, but stating > it _will_ give you problems is

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 14:24 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > But nevertheless you need to do a make odlconfig to > adopt your .config to the new config options. Errh, no. I've built nearly every kernel version since a couple of years and never did "make oldconfig". If it's a minor revision, conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:03:52 +0100 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> so, could you please answer mine now: >> why should pam be used in the first place on a usual server/desktop which has >> restricted access anyway? > > I find it useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Alejandro wrote: > make oldconfig only can give you problems i don,t see any benefict.. just my > person experience... I have never seen any problem with make oldconfig, YMMV, but stating it _will_ give you problems is simply not true.

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

2009-01-23 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Use icedtea from the java-overlay. Works beautifully for me on ff3 Pariksheet On 1/22/09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: >> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit >> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:03:52 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > so, could you please answer mine now: > why should pam be used in the first place on a usual server/desktop which has > restricted access anyway? I find it useful to control user-based access to different services in one place, di

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Justin
Alejandro schrieb: > > > > Why make oldconfig? To get all new options in your .config. > Is not better just do make and make && modules_install? It is the normal way to do a make && make modules_install afterwards. > make oldconfig only can give you problems NEVER just always hit enter if you w

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Justin wrote: > do one of those two things and it should work: > > zcat /proc/config.gz >/usr/src/linux/.config > > or > > /usr/src/linux/scripts/extract-ikconfig /boot/YOURKERNEL > > /usr/src/linux/.config. > > Than run make oldconfig. Oops, my bad. It had already been answered! :-) -- Rica

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Grant wrote: > I do have /proc/config.gz, but when I move it to > /usr/src/2.6.25-hardened-r13 and run 'make oldconfig' it comes up with > many differences. I'm booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r11 and there > shouldn't be any config differences between that and r13. Does anyone > know what's going on

[gentoo-user] shoutcast problem 64bit gentoo

2009-01-23 Thread Wojtek Dalętka
Hi, I've just installed 64bit gentoo on one of these machines: http://www.ovh.pl/produkty/eg_best_of.xml Everything seens to be fine. I use hardened profile but I've got problem with ...running a shoutcast server. I didn't find answer on winamp.com forum and google. It's exactly the same problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Alejandro
2009/1/23 Norberto Bensa > Quoting Justin : > > Than he has a non solvable problem recovering his config. But, who will >> remove this option? >> > > Not remove, but someone (me for example) could make it =m ;-) > > In that case you just do: > > modprobe configs > gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > /us

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Justin : Than he has a non solvable problem recovering his config. But, who will remove this option? Not remove, but someone (me for example) could make it =m ;-) In that case you just do: modprobe configs gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config make oldconfig -

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it: http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/ That looks a really cool & useful idea. However, I have a reservation. Since you NEED

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-23 Thread Matt Causey
> When I asked about content filtering a couple of months ago, everyone said > Squid was rubbish. > Squid is a solid product. But it has the same benefit as most other OSS products - flexibility. Flexibility means we can build a really nifty self-healing scalable solutions - or we can make decisi

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 January 2009 12:06:43 Damian wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to > >> mask the package? > >> > >> The problem I

[gentoo-user] problems with rtl8187

2009-01-23 Thread Dominic Kexel
Hi there! Yesterday I updated my kernel to 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 and wanted to give the rtl8187-module a try. I am using an Alpha-Network WLAN-USB-Adapter with the Realtek 8187-chipset. The problem is following: After loading the module and configuring the interface, everything works fine for about 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-23 Thread Damian
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to >> mask the package? >> >> The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I >> cannot unm

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 23 January 2009 11:11:18 Damian wrote: > Hello, > > What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to > mask the package? > > The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I > cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using > ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Justin
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 09:45 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > >> But, who will remove this option? >> > > This is how it looks like in a freshly unpacked kernel tree (or after > make mrproper): > > < > Kernel .config support > > So I guess kernel devs did it for hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 02:45 -0600 schrieb ext Dale: > > >> But if a kernel gets corrupted or accidentally deleted >> > > mount -oremount,ro /boot solves that problem for me. It's the last > command in the update script I mentioned before. And there's always > G

[gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

2009-01-23 Thread Damian
Hello, What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to mask the package? The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using ~x86 even though my system is amd64? Thanks in advance. Best, Dami

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 09:45 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > But, who will remove this option? This is how it looks like in a freshly unpacked kernel tree (or after make mrproper): < > Kernel .config support So I guess kernel devs did it for him. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 02:45 -0600 schrieb ext Dale: > But if a kernel gets corrupted or accidentally deleted mount -oremount,ro /boot solves that problem for me. It's the last command in the update script I mentioned before. And there's always GRML, just in case :-) Bye... Dirk --

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 01:53 -0600 schrieb ext Dale: > > >> I'll show this just in case it will give someone ides. >> > > Here's another approach: > > % ll /boot > insgesamt 9644 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 17. Jan 2006 boot -> ./ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Justin
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 09:28 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > > >> do one of those two things and it should work: >> >> zcat /proc/config.gz >/usr/src/linux/.config >> >> or >> >> /usr/src/linux/scripts/extract-ikconfig /boot/YOURKERNEL > >> /usr/src/linux/.config. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 09:28 +0100 schrieb ext Justin: > do one of those two things and it should work: > > zcat /proc/config.gz >/usr/src/linux/.config > > or > > /usr/src/linux/scripts/extract-ikconfig /boot/YOURKERNEL > > /usr/src/linux/.config. What if he doesn't have CONFIG_IKCONFIG_

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Justin
Grant schrieb: >>> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically >>> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way? >>> >>> - Grant >>> >>> >>> >>> >> yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the >> kernel. that's in the 'General setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

2009-01-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 01:53 -0600 schrieb ext Dale: > I'll show this just in case it will give someone ides. Here's another approach: % ll /boot insgesamt 9644 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 17. Jan 2006 boot -> ./ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 21. Mai 2008 grub/ drwx-- 2 root root