Re: [gentoo-user] usb external drive

2007-07-06 Thread Josh Helmer
On Thursday 05 July 2007 5:27:19 James wrote: What I'm looking for is a simple procedure I can use to set up all my gentoo systems so I can easily move this drive from machine to machine and have access to the files under gentoo and windoz (2k,xp,vista). When I did this I just used ext3 and

[gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-16 Thread Josh Helmer
Hey gang... I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some security issues. I was just curious which IMAP server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dovecot... is the bugzilla material?

2006-06-27 Thread Josh Helmer
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 18:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you emerge dovecot with the pop3d USE flag? Nope and Jean has explained a bit about that... sorry for the line noise Looks to be not the end of the troubles with

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Josh Helmer
On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, so that I can have a update of the whole smash in my laptop once a day, rather than waiting for a slow

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-25 Thread Josh Helmer
On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:58, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:22, Lord Sauron wrote: Found xinit!  However... it's very...  confusing. What you want is a file called .xsession in your home directory. Mine just contains: #!/bin/sh `which startkde` Why not just:

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Josh Helmer
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount. Josh --

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Helmer
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 19:55, c.s.prakash wrote: when i mount the nfs through the system call mount(192.168.0.51:/root, /mnt/9, nfs, 0, rw, async); it shows an invalid argument. but when i do this thru mount command it mounts without any problem It's been about 4 years since I last had

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Helmer
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:07, Petr Uzel wrote: IMHO it's easier to look at 'man 2 mount' : ... Values for the filesystemtype argument supported by the kernel are listed in /proc/filesystems (like minix, ext2, msdos, proc, nfs, iso9660 etc.). man 2 mount is not going to help. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] mount nfs thru mount system call

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Helmer
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22:04, Darryl Wagoner wrote: On 3/8/06, Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man 2 mount is not going to help. If you had looked closer you would realize that the data argument is the last argument not the filesystem type. The man page only says

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Josh Helmer
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 08:17 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Yeah. Each one has an entry that says 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and then it has an entry consisting of 192.168.1.? name.espersunited.com name Looks correct to me. Someone may have already suggested

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist

2005-09-17 Thread Josh Helmer
Yes, I see that on all our servers. Not much more than an annoyance unless you have stupidly obvious passwords, but annoying for sure. On customer servers that don't require access from the everywhere and anywhere I just configure hosts.allow and hosts.deny to drop traffic from all but known