RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid > module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers. The installation process builds and installs kernel modules under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/... So under r5 it can find the modules,

RE: [gentoo-user] What's with the runlevels?

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Anyways, the question is, how do I make xdm start in runlevel 5 and not > in runlevel 3? I can't even init 3 to exit the X server. I did Your /etc/inittab file probably has runlevels 3 & 5 mapped to default. Create a new directory in /etc/runlevels named console. Do the rc-update to install con

RE: [gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I just can't get my head around why you would want or need to do a total > > rebuild. > I myself can't imagine _wanting_ to do a rebuild, but needing to, yes. > Flood, tornado, theft, etc . > > Users have work to do. Let's see, what's my SAMBA configuration? And > those SQL databases l

[gentoo-user] OT: Capturing caller id data...

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got caller id on my home phone line. Is there a way to throw a modem on my gentoo box in order to capture and log the caller id data? I don't want to set up a pbx or answering machine or anything like that, I just want to capture the incoming caller id info. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

RE: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? > Boot from live cd, mount and execute ch

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Sending local mail to my server box

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> The computer I use mainly is called baby.espersunited.com My server box > is called bullet.espersunited.com. I don't have any kind of local DNS > for my network, just /etc/host files (each computer has a copy of the > same file) I want baby's local mail to be sent to bullet so that I can > ret

RE: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I love the good old vi Now referred to as 'vim'. Change your script to emerge vim and everything will be back on track. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
> emerge -pv vim > > It seems to respond to vi at the command line. I had the same question > a couple of days ago... It only seems the same. There was a vi package (don't remember the origins of it), but it was only a basic vi implementation. Vim is Vi-iMproved and includes all the nice featur

RE: [gentoo-user] tweaking USE settings

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Did I miss something? Nope, you hit the nail on the head. > How do I check (command syntax) that the profile is actually updated ? ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. > How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still > have 2004.x in the path names instead

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> # iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j DROP > # iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT > # iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT I'm still working through my iptables for my home router, but I think you need to

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> You seem to have missed out this one > > # iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT He didn't miss it, it's not part of the page. And it shouldn't be needed as the rules that he's defined does not inspect state at all; they simply accept packets (regardless of state) wh

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
The iptable rules from the howto seem to assume that the default policy is set up to the following: INPUT - DROP FORWARD - DROP OUTPUT - ACCEPT Seeing as I hate assuming what is actually going on, I would add the following lines to the top of the iptables script: iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables

RE: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> i would like to know if sshd is really secure as long as nobody who > shouldn't has the correct username and password. It is as secure as long as a) your passwords cannot be cracked and b) you run the lastest version of sshd. That given, there's haxor scripts out there that attempt to hit sshd

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
> In the howto http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml, in > the setting of kernel some option marked as 's' and 'x'. I could > choose only '*' instead. Is this OK? My kernel is 2.6.11. The '*' options are required for basic netfilter support. The iptable scripts you're using don't use

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > FORWARD doesn't see those as destinated to 192.168.0.0/16, i guess. I'd > > rather use "state" module and write them as follows: > > > > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ > > -j ACCEPT > > > > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > DROP all -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/16 > DROP all -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/16 > DROP all -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/16 > DROP all -- anywhere

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks > for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this > with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to > have it as part of emerge. This is not windows where every application includ

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the > > > http proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package > > > files so I only have to perform the download from the net once to > > > keep the entire internal network up to date. > > > > Does this handle pkg

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Since I have multiple gentoo systems, I use http-replicator as the http > > proxy for portage; all of the systems hit the proxy for package files so > I > > only have to perform the download from the net once to keep the entire > > internal network up to date. > > Does this handle pkg X being

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # eix http-replicator > > Found 0 matches > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # eix -S replicator > > Found 0 matches > > bummer... Yeah, it's not in portage but it is mentioned in the wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:34:15AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > > > target prot opt source destination > > > DROP all -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/16 > > > DROP all -- anywher

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > After that, try connectin to the internet with the Windows box again. > I did all things you wrote. But still fails to connect the internet > from Windows box > > > After it failed, either > > # dmesg > > or > > # tail -n 60 /var/log/kernel/current > > And show us the output. > #tail -n 6

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge ideas

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> How do other admins manage 10+ gentoo systems? syncing each > one daily is not a very good idea and waste lots of bandwidth. Sure it's a great idea as long as you set it up correctly... Internally I have one gentoo system acting as the rsync host for the intranet gentoo boxen. It 'emerge --syn

RE: [gentoo-user] viewing the errors at boot

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> How does one view everything that happened at boot ? dmesg for kernel log messages, or your system log for messages generated during /etc/init.d script processing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Well there's the indication of your problem. Apparently your system > thinks > > that the packets coming in from eth0 need to go to ppp0 rather than > eth1. > > Sounds like your routing tables are kinda hosed up. > eth0 is lan card for LAN, eth1 is for modem. > > > > > What's the output of "r

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On 4/26/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well there's the indication of your problem. Apparently your system > > > thinks > > > > that the packets coming in from eth0 need to go to ppp0 rather than > > > eth1. > H

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router [SOLVED]

2005-04-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On 4/26/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/26/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well there's the indication of your problem. Apparently your > system > > > > thinks > > > > > that the pa

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge ideas

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Thanks Dave (and others) > For the responses and Ideas No problem, that's what we're here for. > If I run into trouble, I'll post a new thread... Or contact me directly as I'm using this setup already. I don't think you'll run into issues, though, because the two links are really descrip

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm planning on using LVM2. I'll be installing most of KDE 3.4. No > Gnome. I'll have a webserver and a mailserver running, but I've already > accounted the space required for them (as of right now) as 1GB in /var, > which of course will need to be expanded in future... to how much, I > don't kno

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Also, I don't think I'll be installing any binary packages. So, how much > do I give for /opt? Or rather, how much space would Java take up? I've got blackdown, sun jdk, a few other apps installed in /opt. I originally set my partition to 4g, but currently only use 495mb. So you should be fine

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I use LVM, adding a second disk was easy - just grew the volume and > relevant partitions, expanded the reiserfs file systems and my problem > with lack of space was gone. Highly reccomended for future proofing on > any system - even single disk systems. I also find multiple partitions > very w

RE: [gentoo-user] Finally! But a few issues...

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Nebinger
> >>~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. > > > >That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them > >in /etc/init.d/local.start. > > True, but the specific command he wants to run is "setterm". Does that > would correctly from local.start? It

RE: [gentoo-user] i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc broken

2005-04-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I found another two packages with this problem : > Have you tried "fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5"? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL and glibc

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have recently built a new Gentoo 2005.0 box with a stage3 tarball. I > set the NPTL flag (among others) and rebuilt the entire system. It does > not appear that NPTL is sticking and I am not at all sure why; instead > it has pulled in the linuxthreads package. Can anybody help out here? You

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL and glibc

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> You can also set the "nptlonly" flag for glibc, which will avoid using > linuxthreads at all (forces everything to use nptl). If you look at the OP's message, it appeared that he did have the nptlonly flag set... There is the message about glibc/gcc masking off some use flags for stability purp

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL or not on AMD 1800+ desktop

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What do you think. Will I get better performance if I turn on NPTL on a > AMD 1800+ Athlon XP 512MB RAM. I use this machine for desktop purposes. > KDE, XMMS, Firefox, Tvtime, Kdevelop, Wesnoth, K3B, some audio- video > recording and so on. NPTL performs better than the legacy linuxthreads, so y

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL or not on AMD 1800+ desktop

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have one more question. What is the "end-user" difference between NPTL > and NPTL-only. I know, that later won't compile linuxthreads, but what > does it mean? Does all in-portage applications support NPTL, or some > apps will fail to compile, or will be slower cause of the miss of > linuxthrea

RE: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I know people say it, but why? It's an extreme waste and provides no value. We're here to post questions and responses, not to create pretty pictures with colored fonts, etc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
Calvin, say hello to my kill file. Kill file, say hello to Calvin. > On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not the sender's for now? > > Why not the recipient's for now? One could almost argue free speech > for expressing one's self in HTML, but I won't go there. > > If t

RE: [gentoo-user] postfix & logging

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I´ve installed a fresh Gentoo Server and installed Postfix and > syslog-ng on it. > Now I´m missing the fluffy /var/log/mail logfile ... ;-( > > Any clues - where to tweak this? You can grab the relevant bits from my syslog-ng.conf file below... Dave server syslog-ng # cat syslog-ng.conf opt

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bind # named -c named.conf -g > May 04 10:56:09.385 starting BIND 9.2.2-P1 -c named.conf -g > May 04 10:56:09.385 using 2 CPUs > May 04 10:56:09.387 loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' > May 04 10:56:09.388 listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 > May 04 10:5

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> -rw--- 1 named named 77 May 4 10:00 /etc/bind/rndc.key This matches mine except the group is root rather than named, so the permission denied message from the log is perplexing. > drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 48 May 4 10:00 /var/run/named This matches mine exactly, so again the permission

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Claudinei Matos wrote: > > I just put my dns to work hear at my network, so now I'm wanting to > > put it to my webserver with a real domain name. > > At my office machine I have bind-9.2.5 that is working very fine, but > > at the webserver I have bind-9.2.2-r3. My problem now is that bind at >

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I tried to start named with the rc script but there was an error in > the load and now I can't reload/stop/start it with the rc file, always > when I try I get just an error "!!" from the rc script... You need to do '/etc/init.d/named zap' to clean up from a previous failure. -- gentoo-user@g

RE: [gentoo-user] bind 9.2.2-r3, refuse to work, may I emerge sync just bind?

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> zap, zap, zap... why "/etc/init.d/named" doesn't tell me about that > option? just because I didn't, ehhehe. The scripts typically document only those options which the scripts support (i.e. start and stop). /sbin/runscript has many other options, zap being one of those useful ones that aren't

RE: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have experienced the exact same situations as you have described. > But, for some very odd reason, I have not seen an error while mounting > a cdrom ever since I changed my fstab line from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. > > I am clueless as to why this is the case... heck. Would depend upon what /de

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: /usr/include/linux

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Does anybody know what package these headers come in? I'm having a > problem emerging gnome-base. It errors out on these include files? > Linux-headers. Was installed when you did the initial gentoo install. You're probably having an issue with 2.4 headers vs 2.6 headers. -- gentoo-user@

RE: [gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
> If the mailers follow the proper multipart protocols and also make it > easy to hide quoted emails, move to see the original ones, etc (to add > incentives to use the protocol), then support for it can grow until > everyone will have updated just over time. once you know someone's > reader has su

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting CD-Rom device

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
> but most of my cd's that I have burned or normal audio-cd's, I am not able > to mount. Not as user and not as root. Ah, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you can mount audio cd's... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting CD-Rom device [solved]

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I would like to ask you how can I point my cdplayer to my cdrom-device? You should ensure that you've got the little connector cable between the cdrom and the sound card. Personally my sound card doesn't have the capability to receive input from the cdrom drive, so I'm forced to use xmms with t

RE: [gentoo-user] "pushd" and "popd" are usable on all gentoo platforms ?

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
> the subject say it all ;-) this two command are always existent ? They're part of bash, so yes they should always be available. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Users with access to shell!

2005-05-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I'd like to allow every user to access ONLY its home directory, I mean > > he only can work in his directory... > > Well, this can be done, but in a pretty complex way. Allowing users to > see other files isn't that harmful, provided permissions on critical > files are correctly set. Hmm, I s

RE: [gentoo-user] Style Compile Error

2005-05-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> This thread seems to pertain to emerge compilations rathre than manual > ones. > Next time, please also point to the step as opposed to only the thread. Well, since offering some assistance seems to trigger a rude response from you, perhaps next time we'll let you do your own research rather tha

RE: [gentoo-user] DVD burning with nfs+

2005-05-16 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Using K3b I can burn it as .img or iso9660, cdrecord-ProDVD now > complains the 'key' has expired and all Mr Schilling's readme pages are > now password/username locked, so I don't know if that has any magic in > it. > All (legal and decent) ideas considered. I use the following script via a

RE: [gentoo-user] Shell Script runs fine directly, fails in crontab

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sometimes there are environmental differences that are not immediately obvious between executing a command at the shell vs. within a cron task. A great hint I saw was to use the 'sys-process/at' package's command to schedule the script to run some time in the future. Then go to the /var/spool/at

RE: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav You cannot mount audio cd's under normal circumstances (there are some exceptions to this general rule, but you normally have to install stuff in order to get that functionality). In the case where you mentioned that you could mount an audio cd, I would

RE: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - what wants to install it?

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Trying to remove any MTAs from my system... Normal unix OS's require an MTA to be defined. Portage has virtual mta placeholders that define the MTA that is installed on the system (i.e. I'm using postfix). If you don't have an MTA installed (which you don't), portage knows that the MTA is mis

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> There were some changes to the tool chain which means that distcc wont > work across different x86 archs (e.g., athlon and pentium) and the devs > wont change it (marked as WONT FIX on the bug). Hmm, I haven't heard anything about this and have been using distcc on an x86 & athlon network. Eac

RE: [gentoo-user] distcc configuration

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
> read the bug :) - the bug numbers in the email, or search the forums > like I did. What a pain. I'm sure the change was meant to solve another problem, but it's unfortunate that it broke distcc in the process. > Are you sure its building? distcc connects to the machine in question, > but doe

[gentoo-user] OT: Stopping postfix error emails...

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Nebinger
Sorry for the OT question, but here goes... I've set up the reject_unauth_destination in the smtpd_recipient_restrictions in postfix.conf because I was getting hammered with incoming mail to invalid users. I figured that by rejecting these messages the spammers on the other end might take the add

RE: [gentoo-user] can't ping myself when iptables running

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I found out that when I run iptables rule below: [snip] > ip address of the nic connected to the modem is not pinged. > But I don't set any restriction for icmp??? Depends upon what your default policy is defined as. If the default policy is DENY then you must specifically include an ACCEPT ru

RE: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem). > I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this several times > before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" and XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf . I'm out of > ideas, bu

[gentoo-user] OT: Mailing list reply to addresses and reporting?

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'm running postfix on my local box and recently got pflogsumm running to generate daily postfix reports. It's working really well and I'm getting daily reports on the status of my postfix email system. The only downside is that of the mangled reply to addresses used by the gentoo mailing list.

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
I updated world yesterday which gave me a new com_err release. Saw the notice about running revdep-rebuild fly by when I did it but ignored it because I've never really needed to do this before. Soon thereafter I could not ssh to the box because of the missing libcom_err.so.3 file and realized th

[gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...

2005-06-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
I installed kudzu-knoppix some time back (I can't remember why). With the issues yesterday re: revdep-rebuild, r-r wanted to update kudzu-knoppix. Well, kudzu-knoppix failed to build because of issues with the linux headers. Rather than trying to resolve the problem and since I really didn't need

RE: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...

2005-06-30 Thread Dave Nebinger
> -Original Message- > From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:49 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove > the package... > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005,

RE: [gentoo-user] Can not reach log in screen in X

2005-07-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
Check the output from dmesg; from what I remember failures with the nvidia module will get logged here. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] IPtables statefull connection capable

2005-07-05 Thread Dave Nebinger
> If I'm correct then iptables is statefull connection capable, this means I > should not use rules like: > If state of connection is ESTABLISHED ... > If state of connection is RELATED ... Stateful connection means that you can have a simple rule up front to allow for established and related conn

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
On a run of revdep-rebuild I get the following output: butthead ~ # revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

RE: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use "emerge > > --emptytree --deep --newuse world", and portage won't complain that > > packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly > > in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage > > itself. >

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Try to adjust those variables: > > > > HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history > > HISTFILESIZE=500 > > HISTSIZE=500 > > I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they > were written into my home dir .bash_history, along > with the exit command to get back to user-space. So I > ran

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > Then set the same environment variables in your > > current shell and they > > should stick. > > Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of > ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o So if you do "ls -l .bash*" in your home directory, what's the output? -- gentoo-user@

[gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
I did a sync last night and gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 wants to be emerged. Got the kernel ok, but it needs genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2. I've searched a number of the mirrors and so far haven't found it. Anyone out there know where I can find it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Thanks! Worked like a charm! The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released before the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... Wouldn't the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild? > Daniel Drake is responsible for the genpatches: > http:

RE: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Dave Nebinger wrote: > > The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released > before > > the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... > Wouldn't > > the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild? > > I alway

RE: [gentoo-user] GENTOO_MIRRORS

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Noodling around I found a gentoo server at: > http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ > > I'm not sure if I can use this in my make.conf file? If it's complete you should be able to use it. If it's not a publicized mirror then there could be many reasons why. For example, they might not s

RE: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> A number of times > that I've looked at change logs it turns out that 3 or 4 of these > changes are to fix things on other architecture while for me they are > just compile jobs. Maybe I'm too cynical or maybe it's from experience but in either case I can tell you as a developer the change log o

RE: [gentoo-user] rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I did not see what determines what (during a 24 hour > period) controls the time the internal rsync mirror > goes out to update the files? Obviously I only > want the rsync internal server to update once a day. Following that document means that you are exporting the /usr/portage directory on t

RE: [gentoo-user] Sound priority @ boot

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> "I notice that on my laptop, my KDE startup sound is quite garbled. > (Only when starting up). Im guessing that this is due to heavy resource > use. I was wondering though, how I could go about giving Arts or whatever > it is, a higher priority at boot so it doesn't sound so bad." I would guess

RE: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been working > on: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html > > Comments, etc are welcome. While the document is a good and short intro to MySQL, I still have to ask "why?" Aren't there enough similar good short introducti

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey, all. Suffered power outtage yesterday. Not much of a big deal as > the > > ups brought the system down on battery... > > > > That's the good news. The bad news is that, upon system boot, my dhcp- > based > > eth0 interface no

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK on the local rsync server I added this to automate the daily > task of rsync(ing) > # Rsync entries > # > 30 1 * * * root emerge sync Unless you want to receive the daily email full of all kinds of funky characters, I'd redirect the output from emerge to a file. On my boxen I call 'dailysyn

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > and last run this daily on the server to keep it current? > > emerge -uDva world && repcacheman I forgot to mention that if your primary system is using the http replicator then it shouldn't be necessary to run repcacheman after each emerge. Repcacheman will a) ensure that packages retrieved v

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Don't know if the problem you're having is related > to the one I had with 3rd party usb adsl modem init script > but try to add related modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Nope. I consider the networking support critical enough to warrant being compiled into the kernel rather than lo

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCD with rdiff-backup?

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I am using rdiff-backup for my full system backups. Of course, it would > be annoying if I had to use it to do a full restore. I would need a > LiveCD with rdiff-backup on it. > > I am assuming the gentoo install cd's dont have this. I have looked at > knoppix, it is not on those. Any ideas? Su

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> OK but can't I do that with a simple mode to the /etc/crontab ?: > 30 1 * * * root emerge sync 2>&1 > ? Yes, but I do a little more in my script and want the pieces to be synchronized. As you saw in the script not only do I emerge sync but I also update the eix and esearch databases (both are

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I guess I have to run emerge sync and emerge -uD world on each client > still, > but they use the http replicator instead of gentoo servers for both > updating the portage/rsync files and downloading the distfiles (via the > http > replicator)? In the case of distfiles and sync's, you're sti

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > I've been considering adding an "emerge --fetchonly" line to the script > but > > don't yet have the warm and fuzzies about the http-replicator script. > > Yes, well I'm going to go slowly with this > until I have the warm feeling and some > happy experience over time. > I'd be interested in k

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What's the dhcp server? A router or a computer? I had the same > problem, my router refused to give me the dhcp response upon reboot, > rebooting the router itself solved the problem, its like the router > refuses to give dhcp right after the lease of the client. > > Maybe check the configuratio

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Thanks for the scripts and help! That's what we're here for ;-) > When I roll out a new TCP/IP based data-logger > (hopefully this fall) it'll take sensor inputs and control a few outputs. > No humans will use the devices for anything other than interfacing > sensors and collecting data. As wi

RE: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Excrement out of luck, but use the standard slang curse word instead of excrement. ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Methinks your indescretions and prejudices against micros, is insensitive > to the future, sensate possibilitys of micros and the things they inhabit. > micros are entering the human body at an alarming rate. Don't you thing > we need mechanisms to keep their interal code robust and current? > Na

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. > How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful > at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other > sytems? /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp contains the timestamp for

RE: [gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
My immediate guess would be a routing issue. What's the routing definition for when eth1 is up vs down? Issue the 'route' command as root and send us the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
/sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
> > What about routing? As root run: > > $ route > # route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 > eth1 > loopback* 255.0.0.0 U

RE: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
Missed the original post but it sounds similar to what I had run into awhile back. Sorry I don't remember what I did exactly but the problem was basically with the fonts, not OO in particular. Now I don't remember exactly but re-emerging the font packages (freetype specifically and possibly fontc

RE: [gentoo-user] Installation

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I have yet to figure out what the 'topmost build error' is. The > Gentoo website doesn't offer much in the way of error messages. > If someone could post some links/sources for beginners to read, > I would be appreciative. In your output you'll generally see errors generated by gcc or ld, somet

RE: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
> #man -k mkdir | sort a | uniq > > mkdir(1) - make directories > mkdir(2) - create a directory > mkdirhier(1x) - makes a directory hierarchy Sure, this kind of thing will work, but there's still a fundamental question at work here... Why does makew

RE: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Nebinger
My problem with my netgear dsl modem/router is how difficult it is to script against... Even doing simple things like trying to wget the status page in order to determine what my external ip address is a pain in the ass. And you really can't script changes to the thing in any way that I could fig

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