On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Richard Marzan wrote:
Is there a tool or a way of keeping track of which commands user's are
executing on a system? I understand that history files can be wiped out
and they don't really contain the time at which a command and it's
arguments were run so I refrain from relyin
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while
but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple
machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace
operation or so it seems .. but not always.
What
glas-check shows that PHP on one of my servers is vulnerable but in
examining the GLSA and comparing my version against it I see I am running
a version that is unaffected by this GLSA - so do I need to tell GLSA to
ignore that package or is there something else Ive missed?
root# glsa-check -
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Strong Cypher wrote:
> I'm looking for a language really great for ajax web developping
>
> I really want a list of advantage a disadvantage, like
>
> Developper available who know well the language
> Ajax integration
> Framework object oriented ...
>
> Easy plugins install ..
Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console?
Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though,
if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that
would be great ;-)
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote:
> I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys
> to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to
> turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between
> hotkeys and Fx keys.
Basi
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jakob wrote:
> > Its funny till yesterday I didnt even know It supports 64bit ;-)
Any Pentium D (or higher) CPU supports 64bit.
> for now I will stick with 32bit, I think I will Install 64bit to
> another partition in some weeks
The other option is to have a pure 64bit syst
Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux?
Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some
keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with
X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I
think I can't even switch consoles
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Grant wrote:
> Ok, knowing that others like it I'm more comfortable trying to get
> used to it. It's all the IfDefine stuff I don't like.
Actually that makes it super flexible.
> What would you do if you needed a certain block for one
> domain but not for another, and you n
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote:
> > > emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my
> > > server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade?
> >
> > More impor
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Grant wrote:
> emerge world wants to update mysql from 4.1.21 to 5.0.26-r1 on my
> server this morning. Has anyone made a similar upgrade?
More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update to MySQL 5?
Im running 4.1 quite happily and have mysql-5 masked out in
/etc/po
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible
> with Exchange calendar events. I've never tried it, though.
>
> 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar'
Maybe you can persuade them to use this drop-in replacement for Exchange:
http://ww
Im using a USB Mac keyboard on a regular (Intel) PC.
Works fine apart from the lack of a working ALT key (so I can't switch to
another virtual console).
I tried playing loading different keymaps using loadkeys but have not
found a working setup. Anyone got this working? Or can point me to some
do
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Philip Webb wrote:
> Even if you're not normally a Vim user, this shows the diffs very clearly
> & allows you to copy your personal changes from old to new versions.
Vim is great for looking at diffs and copying between config files.
Anyone hacked dispath-conf to use cvs/svn
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote:
> >
> > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
>
> It works great, But the interface sucks.
What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping
statement.
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
>
> > For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
> > than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
> > but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
&g
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> I also seem to recall that dispatch-conf didn't keep back-ups on mine.
> I had the directory but it was always empty even after a lot of
> updates. You know of any reason for that?
Is use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispath-conf.conf ?
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 16:29, A. Khattri wrote:
> > For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
> > than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
> > but it uses the (ar
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
> dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
Actually all the update tools have pros and cons.
For example, lo
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> The question is: which forum app to use??
I dont think this is in Portage:
http://getvanilla.com/
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Richard Fish wrote:
> Guys, I think most of this advice is going to be wasted on Windows
> users. Outlook makes it damn near impossible to properly quote and
> trim a message when replying. Be thankful if you never have to use
> that piece of .
Yeah, but we're not going
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Glenn Enright wrote:
> Does anyone know which package supplies this function.
Its builtin to tcsh.
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote:
> Brett,
>
> > Will the hotplug package work on these drives?
>
> Hmm. (checks) Well, it appears to be installed.
>
> # equery list hotplug
> [ Searching for package 'hotplug' in all categories among: ]
> * installed packages
> [I--] [ ] sys-apps
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> the basic question is: Where should I start ?
>
> The problem: I updated several programs via emerge after they where
> flagged by the emerge -up world command.
Probably emerge -uDp would be better...
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote:
> I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port
> 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :)
I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop portscans but it will stop
brute force attacks directly on port 22.
I
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote:
> I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to
> /usr/local/mailman.
>
> IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing
> software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to
> place it to /opt o
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote:
>
> > >
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
> >
>
>
> And what if you dont want to upgrade?!
Never mind, I figured it out.
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Roy Wright wrote:
> >
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
>
And what if you dont want to upgrade?!
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote:
> But a sysadmin of 20 yrs will not have too much trouble getting lined
> out again.
Must be one of thise old school Slowaris or HP-SUX admins...
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
> When I try to visit with
> $ mysql -u root -p
> password. ***
>
> I get
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2)
>
> Evidently my configuration is wrong
>
> Has anyone a tip or two ?
Mayb
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, kashani wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
> > GeoTrust claim to have their root cert in 99% of the browsers out there...
>
> Claims and actually works are two different things.
>
> For the record IE 5 on the Mac is your big problem child.
IE 5 on Mac
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> I have a server out on the net, and it's been up for a week or two.
> I've been on and off it all week long, but as of last night, DNS
> didn't seem to work for it. Network connectivity worked, because not
> only could I ssh *in*, but I could also co
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Machines 3-5 are heavy hitters for graphics work and are heavily
> loaded with such things as Photoshop, vegas, canopus Edius, Adobe
> Illustrator and the like.
>
> I don't want to have to worry about spyware,adware,virus prevention
> firewall stuff compe
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Brian Parish wrote:
> I have now implemented a smooth work-around by:
>
> 1. Setting the RAID in fstab to noauto and no checking
> 2. Creating a script in /etc/init.d which assembles and mounts the RAID set
> 3. Adding this script to the default group using rc-update
Yes, thi
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, kashani wrote:
> We've got a number of customers that use Geotrust which is
> significantly cheaper than Verisign/Thwate. Someone also uses Starfield
> which is dirt cheap.
>
> There is a technical issue when using certs no one has ever heard of
> before. Many time
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I will admit that I have a big concern about an upcoming MySQL update
> that is probably going to break my whole TV network here. Due to my
> fear I haven't upgraded MySQL and will likely come back ranting myself
> sometime in December when I'm probably fo
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Antoine wrote:
> We are going to set up ssl on a webserver at work and I guess that means
> we need a certificate... does anyone have any useful alternatives to
> Verisign? Are they really worth the name?
> We are not going to be doing any monetary transactions but our clients
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:
> It definitely is not an issue with swapping to disk. For some reason X is
> causing a high CPU load and it acts like its only using one processor. If I
> switch back to the open source driver the load seems to be balanced across
> all "4" processors. To make
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> "syntax on" within vim or in your .vimrc
That would be ":syntax on" (note leading colon) from inside vim.
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I fixed it, had to go ~x86
>
> Seems like gentoo is getting more debianish as time goes on -
> package.keywords is getting quite ridiculous in order to have a usable
> system.
I have useable machines without having and package.keywords file...
>
>
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael Shaw wrote:
> What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for
> something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit.
Not true - maybe your terminal doesn't do color or you have it switched
off?
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:
> Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon
> 2GB RAM
> 128MB GeForce 6600GT
> Audigy 2 soundcard
>
> free -t -o -m output:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -t -o -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2009 1505 503 0 440 584
> Swap: 1953 2 1950
> Total: 3962 1508 2454
Accordi
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, James Colby wrote:
> I recently upgraded my apache2 to use the new layout. I was wondering about
> which configuration files that I now have to concern myself with. If I
> understand correctly the only configuration file is now
> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, is this correct? Would
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Qian Qiao wrote:
> 3. Schedule maintenance slots.
That's the best way to manage updates.
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Bob Sanders wrote:
> Why not 4P with dual cores? While they work, the need is i/o and memory
> bandwidth.
> 4 sockets does that while 2 sockets and 2 dual-cores cores is only half the
> bandwidth.
Its very expensive, but you can now go up to 16 Opeteron cores in a single
m
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Grant wrote:
> The shopping cart software does only look at the URL, but I have it
> determining what to display partially based on the domain in that URL.
> apache2 doesn't do anything based on the domain.
If you are using name virtual-hosting, Apache can serve
different sit
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> At the risk of of adding to the flames here, perhaps an example is in
> order I once worked as a sysadmin for a guy who firmly believed in
> security. To prevent any security holes from lingering, he did an apt-get
> update out of cron every friday nigh
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:
> My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins
> with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a
> program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a window causes
> this to happen and the load o
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Grant wrote:
> Yeah, I wasn't very clear about that. The problem is I can't use
> VirtualHost definitions because I don't think apache knows which
> domain is actually being served. I don't use any apache virtual host
> stuff. Domain identification is handled by my shopping
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, michael higgins wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I've tried to install Template Toolkit, Apache2::Template under Apache2,
> mod_perl2 and am having, no suprise, issues. Though this may be possible, I'm
> not up to it.
>
> So, rather than try to make this work, I just want to unmerge
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
> I am looking to find a tool that will allow me to monitor which
> applications or services are utilising my network and hence bandwidth.
> Now I have found loads of useful tools that can offer me representations
> of the interface but little that breaks i
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Grant wrote:
> Is there any way to get apache2 to include a full path in its
> access_log? That would be something like this:
>
> domain.com/page.html
>
> instead of this:
>
> /page.html
>
> If I can get a full path in the log, I can have webalizer report on
> traffic per doma
es works when things go wrong...
>
> http://www.shorewall.net
>
> thanks,
> joshua
>
>
> On 10/28/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > A. Khattri bway.net <http://bway.net>> writes:
> >
> >
> > > > /etc/init.d/fire
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, David Gama Rodríguez wrote:
> I need to update Apache 1.3.33 to Apache 1.3.34 but I cant find an
> ebuild for that version,
>
> Why 1.3.34 ebuild is not in portage? Is unstable??
Have you checked in bugs.gentoo.org - maybe someone submitted an ebuild?
> Is there a way to in
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> As grub cannot be setup on RAID0 (neither RAID 1+0 nor RAID 0+1), I have
> to create a four-partion RAID1 with /dev/sd[abcd]1 and mount it as /boot.
>
> Then I want both my / and /var are RAID10. I use the following schema:
>
> /dev/sda3/dev/sdb3
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of
> hard disks?
Maybe you can check with smartmontools...
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote:
> Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD
> drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go
> OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error "The Root Block
> Device is unspecified or not d
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jarry wrote:
> So, with your help I finally checked all software installed on my
> gentoo-server (thanks to everyone, who replied). There were a few
> gentoo-sources (I think 5 or 6 different versions), so I used
> "emerge --prune gentoo-sources" to leave only the last one.
>
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote:
> If you must have a biometric scanner for security, there are much
> cheaper ways to do it. I just found a 512MB Sandisk Cruzer Profile for
> $55. It is a thumbdrive and a fingerprint scanner combined. Add a
> Knoppix CD and you have the same functionalit
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Matt Randolph wrote:
> My gosh! They've invented the world's most expensive Knoppix CD.
I forgot, the Knoppix CD is writable and comes with a fingerprint
reader...
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when
> CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse
> point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it
> via ssh. I had to hard reset the m
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote:
> You want to be a gargoyle (
> http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2003/09/23/gargoyle-and-self-gargoyle/
> )?
>
> Heh. I'd start with a mac mini.
Or get Gentoo running on this:
http://www.projectblackdog.com/
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses from
> the command line rsync --rsh="ssh -l username" server::module/files
> successfully. However, changing the SYNC line in make.conf to
> rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] give me a conne
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, James wrote:
> Question 1:
> I'm planning on using nmap and nessus to test from the outside(internet)
> inward). On the inside I plan on using snort, an monitoring the various
> log files. Any further suggestions on testing?
Plain ole telnet works for testing protocols too ;
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Francesco R. wrote:
> For a security hardened database you should drop the test database and
> all users with "%" access. Also you can play with "bind-address" and
> "skip-networking" in the my.cnf
I think bind-address is 127.0.0.1 by default anyway.
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to
> do well with Linux.
>
> Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this?
Yes, Thinkpads run well with Linux (there is a web site and mailing list
dedicated to Linux on TP)
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James wrote:
> Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic
> tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD.
I was suprised to find lspci on the latest LiveCDs so I guess this is
improving all the time.
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Works for me, but you'll need a USB wireless adaptor, there are no
> drivers for the built in wireless.
Im guessing this is with Airport Extreme rather than plain ole Airport?
(I have a friend running Debian on his iBook quitw happily).
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be
> putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small 'n'
> light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on (with sound
> and wireless, etc)?
>
>
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't
> mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm
> constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old versions lying around
> in /boot just in case.
Id make /boot 50Mb.
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Catalin Trifu wrote:
> I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got a
> little bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.
> I've googled and found awstats and analog.
> If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grate
Subject says it all - anyone succeeded in installing Gentoo on a Cobalt
RAQ4 (x86) system? Is netbooting the only way to go or did you manage to
hook up a CDROM and boot a LiveCD?
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> Well, you could try this:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
>
> Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects.
I noticed this broke after the recent Python upgrade - I had to remove the
module to run eme
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
>Was I mistaken in thinking that a true SMP system and also a hyper
> threading system would show two processors in top? I am trying out a
> new HT kernel built this morning. I've enabled both SMP support and
> hyper threading support but top shows only
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Chris Boot wrote:
> Yes. You may need to press '1' once you have started top to show each
> processor individually. See the top manpage to see how you can set this
> as the default.
You can also press ? in top (like in many command-line apps) to show a
quick help page. There
Which combination of Tomcat and JVM gives the best performance?
(or is this question not relevant?)
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I also recall reading about non-official ebuilds available at somewhere
> like bugs.gentoo.org.
Is there something preventing you from doing a search in Bugzilla?
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, libertine wrote:
> can you give me the mirrorsit where to download the latest glibc and
xcompmgr
You could try using mirrorselect to find your nearest mirrors.
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> That min-install I was talking about failed due to
> lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G
> drive. Partitions are :
> / of 1.47G ext2
> /home 1.1G ext2
> 500M swap
> 100M /boot reiserfs
>
> I was going to use this disk
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> My ISP's news server (news.cableone.net) does not allow posting. I
> wanted to set up my own news server so that I could both get nntp/news
> data and post to newsgroups. I found a howto at www.tldp.org and have
> been following it. The howto said
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, jangar wrote:
> hi, i have problem with Gentoo Linux 2005.1 AMD64 installation.
> CPU: Athlon 64 2800+
> HD SATA Maxtor 80GB
> Ati Radeon 9200
> etc...
>
> after make partition, LVM2 and compiling kernel and config grub my kernel
> give me follow message:
> VFS Cannot Open roo
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as
> opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing
> archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree
> format)...
If there was something that sc
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem
> to google for it.
>
> I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds
> for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow
> the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo
> way?
The "Gento
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> I think I want a "document management solution" - though I'm not sure
> that everyone understands the same idea by the term.
This might be overkill:
http://www.alfresco.org/
Or maybe something like ScrollKeeper would suffice?
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mark wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
> services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
> Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in
> a DMZ to protect the internal network.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Note: my portage directory is in /var not /usr
Why?
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, kashani wrote:
> Can you guess which webmail package I've been attempting to subjugate
> for the past couple of hours?
Ive seen a lot of admins struggle with Horde - and then move on to
SquirrelMail ;-)
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom
> BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not
> detected.
>
> Does 2005.1 detect this chipset, or do any liveCD's work with it?
What does "lspci" say?
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> My system is AMD64, Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (from gentoo-sources),
> iptables 1.3.2 and generally up-to-date. I can't seem to get iptables
> to work. Netfilter support is compiled into the kernel (compiling it
> as a module and loading that gave the s
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> Googling around once you set your eyes on a particular USB modem usually
> provides some useful clues.
Also reading /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/acm.txt might be useful.
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sascha Lucas wrote:
> I realy know what will run on such a system. Think of a router, or a
> datacollector.
You might want to look at GNAP from the Embedded Gentoo project - it
sounds close to the minimal setup you are looking for.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
> How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid
> array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire
> array, not an individual "disk".
You have hardware RAID right? I think 3Ware is one of the RAID controllers
that
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I am in need of a gmail account,
> anyone have one to give?
I can send you invite if you'd like?
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:55:06 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote:
>
> > Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be
> > nice if there were preunmerge and postunmerge functions - then it would
> > be easy to re-
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> I think you are correct, if I could ever remember to do it, or if it
> would annoy me enough to warrant writing a script for it. :-)
Since ebuilds have preinstall and postinstall functions, it would be nice
if there were preunmerge and postunmerge functi
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> The only "problem" with this is that when you unmerge old kernel
> sources, emerge will refuse to remove any patched, backup, or object
> files, so you have to go delete the remaining files manually. But I
> think you end up having to do that in any case
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Jolet wrote:
> you'd have to define "just plain raid". There is a performance
> penalty for software raid over hardware raid, but I've not been able
> to see any performance penalty for lvm over plain filesystem. Note
> that my testing has been on light-to-moderately lo
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:25:14 -0700, Carl Flippin wrote:
>
> > The trick to getting it all to work together is doing the raid setup
> > first and then using the /dev/md* devices for the LVM2 setup.
>
> I did something similar here. By creating the RAID fi
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but
> it's in-efficient.
>
> The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went
> to get the "Last Price" now, I would like to add the "Day Range"
>
> last_price()
> {
>
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote:
> One thing to note for anyone that might have the same question/problem
> in the future:
>
> The "--tree" option appears to only show the closest dependency.
> Which means that if there are several packages (as in my case) that
> depend on the one you don't wan
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