On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old
behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox
should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the
sys-apps/man-pages package,
Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for
Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For
example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these
years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device
Another way to do (I do it actually)
Is to get a drive with ext3 partition for example
Create a directory for your backup
and use Rsync to copy any file with differential feature.
First time could take a long time, next time are very fast.
To backup everythink on the system, I run the single
Alan McKinnon wrote:
to build other distros. It is not suitable for newbies (disregard the
occasional newbie that does get it right, that's a minority and very
atypical), and one really does have to have moved beyond the Oh, look!
Shiny installer! mentality to appreciate it. When you get to
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Eric Martin wrote:
Anybody that feels they *need* or *must have* an official Gentoo
installer is probably the wrong target market and should be
referred to other distros that will suit their needs better. This
is not a troll or an elitist statement, it's just
On Jan 15, 2008 12:48 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Eric Martin wrote:
Anybody that feels they *need* or *must have* an official Gentoo
installer is probably the wrong target market and should be
referred to other distros that will suit their
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:27:30 +0100, b.n. wrote:
If I can give you an advice: don't create a new livecd from scratch.
Take an Ubuntu, Knoppix or similar live cd, just add these three files
in a /gentoo directory, and re-release it xerox, with just the three
files added and a Gentoo logo
On Jan 14, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:27:30 +0100, b.n. wrote:
If I can give you an advice: don't create a new livecd from
scratch.
Take an Ubuntu, Knoppix or similar live cd, just add these three
files
in a /gentoo directory, and re-release it xerox,
On Jan 14, 2008 1:19 AM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let me explain. You began complaining because the Gentoo live cd
*exists*, but it is out of date and didn't support your hardware. It's a
reasonable complain in the assumption you need the Gentoo cd (and you
can't do with anything else):
On Jan 14, 2008 10:17 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:27:30 +0100, b.n. wrote:
If I can give you an advice: don't create a new livecd from scratch.
Take an Ubuntu, Knoppix or similar live cd, just add these three files
in a /gentoo directory, and
On Jan 14, 2008 10:39 AM, Cocoy Dayao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah. i agree.
In fact, imho the most perfect gentoo installer is the mini live cd!
what more can anybody need?
would it take much effort to maintain/refresh a mini live cd installer?
Couldn't that be refreshed every couple of
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:24:52 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
Because a first-time installer benefits from the confidence given by
using an official install disc.
I don't understand that. What confidence? To install Gentoo,
you need a way to
Galevsky ha scritto:
The reason other distro have complex live cds for installing is that
they *need that*. Gentoo does not need this additional complexity.
Nevertheless a live cd there was, but as you experienced, it's more the
trouble it causes than that it solves.
I disagree. Gentoo
On Jan 14, 2008 5:54 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're excited by different things :)
No doubt :)
Gal'
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
install CD - a CD, which is outdated.
...
hardware where to install it? No. So why do not having an official
livecd makes it incomplete?
Think it the other way. Gentoo is, among other things, a way to install
Linux from any decent Linux live cd. From this point of view, the fact
that
Michael Schmarck schrieb:
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Michael Schmarck schrieb:
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Right, basicly telling people You have to depend on / use other distros
to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide
this
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:06:39 +0100, b.n. wrote:
Because you don't have to add *anything* to such cd.
-What do you need to install Gentoo? A working Linux live cd with a
terminal and chroot.
-Are a terminal and chroot available on 99.9% of Linux live cds
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Still no complaints about your opinion from my side ;-).
*G*
In short. An outdated InstallCD is bad and no InstallCD at all is bad, too.
I agree that an outdated Install CD is bad. But I disagree,
that no Install CD at all is bad. I think it's not bad.
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:35:55 +0100, b.n. wrote:
But i still think a Gentoo-Install-CD/DVD is a good thing.
Any practical reason for that?
It is a lot more comfortable for the first-time installer.
Why's that?
One of the
problems with mixing
Michael Schmarck wrote:
SNIP
How do you get that stuff (the Install CD)? By downloading? Why
can't you download the handbook, snapshot and stage tar ball as
well at that time? And what tools are you talking about? fdisk?
chroot?
SNIP
Michael Schmarck
Actually, I order mine off
Michael Schmarck schrieb:
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Still no complaints about your opinion from my side ;-).
*G*
In short. An outdated InstallCD is bad and no InstallCD at all is bad, too.
I agree that an outdated Install CD is bad. But I disagree,
that no
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:53:48 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
You also need the handbook, a portage snapshot and a stage tarball.
How many live CDs provide these?
None. But the portage snapshot is best fetched from the web
anyway, as far as I'm concerned. Same with the handbook, as
it
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:00:20 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
It is a lot more comfortable for the first-time installer.
Why's that?
Because a first-time installer benefits from the confidence given by
using an official install disc.
It also allows you to install without a network
On 2008-01-13 16:29:15 (+), Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:53:48 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
You also need the handbook, a portage snapshot and a stage tarball.
How many live CDs provide these?
None. But the portage snapshot is best fetched
2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt írta:
I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the
minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement.
...
Regards,
Ken
After reading lot of posts regarding install cd, I decided, I
On Jan 13, 2008 7:03 PM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt írta:
I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the
minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement.
...
Regards,
2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 19.22-kor Galevsky ezt írta:
I can't help you immediately, but be sure I am going to help you if
you'll still need it in a few months. For me, the key is to keep the
handbook up-to-date. IMHO, it is a must. Having a 2. Choosing the
Right Installation Medium
On Jan 13, 2008 10:03 AM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt írta:
I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the
minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement.
...
Regards,
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:53:48 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
You also need the handbook, a portage snapshot and a stage tarball.
How many live CDs provide these?
None. But the portage snapshot is best fetched from the web
anyway, as far as I'm
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:20:04 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
This cannot be done, as the install CD has to be fetched over
network anyway. At that time, the portage snapshot and handbook
can be downloaded as well.
I've already covered that in a previous reply to you.
--
Neil Bothwick
Is it
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
1) Boots new hardware well enough to do the install. The current
LiveCD doesn't boot a P5E motherboard so I couldn't do the install on
that machine using it.
It booted on mine, I installed from a 2007.0 install disc.
2) Has networking
On Jan 13, 2008 8:03 PM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will prepare a project page on my website and I try to create the
first release in some weeks. Probably less, than one, depends on my free
time.
I will send a mail to this list to inform you about the progress :)
Sounds good
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:00:20 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
It is a lot more comfortable for the first-time installer.
Why's that?
Because a first-time installer benefits from the confidence given by
using an official install disc.
I don't
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:24:52 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
Because a first-time installer benefits from the confidence given by
using an official install disc.
I don't understand that. What confidence? To install Gentoo,
you need a way to partition your storage, create filesystems
and
On Jan 13, 2008 11:26 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
1) Boots new hardware well enough to do the install. The current
LiveCD doesn't boot a P5E motherboard so I couldn't do the install on
that machine using it.
It booted
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
Assuming you know what you are doing. If you've ever tried to help a
number of less confident users through it, you'd know what I mean.
While I don't disagree that a Gentoo live CD is absolutely necessary, you
seem to be
On Jan 13, 2008 8:24 PM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'd rather say, that it would be better, if there were no install
CD at all.
But it can be done.
It's not worth the effort, though, as far as I'm concerned.
Since your are not concerned about releasing them, you
Galevsky ha scritto:
On Jan 13, 2008 8:24 PM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'd rather say, that it would be better, if there were no install
CD at all.
But it can be done.
It's not worth the effort, though, as far as I'm concerned.
Since your are not concerned about
Pongracz Istvan ha scritto:
2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt írta:
I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the
minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement.
...
Regards,
Ken
After reading lot of posts
2008. 01. 14, hétfő keltezéssel 01.27-kor b.n. ezt írta:
If I can give you an advice: don't create a new livecd from scratch.
Take an Ubuntu, Knoppix or similar live cd, just add these three files
in a /gentoo directory, and re-release it xerox, with just the three
files added and a Gentoo
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:29:34 +0100, b.n. wrote:
Moreover, I'd go on to say that the fact Gentoo is installable from
almost every reasonable Linux-based live cd is a defining Gentoo
feature.
It doesn't even need a live CD. I installed Ubuntu when I first got this
laptop, because I needed a
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Michael Schmarck schrieb:
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Right, basicly telling people You have to depend on / use other distros
to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide
this sounds a little fishy. It makes Gentoo look
Michael Schmarck ha scritto:
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Depends. You're saying, that Gentoo might look to be incomplete, if
it were to rely on other distributions (Live CDs). I'm saying, that
it currently already looks to be incomplete, despite there being a
install CD - a CD, which is
Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tel me how to install Gentoo in that case.
Boot from any Live CD (like GRML) and do the installation from there,
in a chroot.
Michael
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
On Jan 11, 2008 12:53 PM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tel me how to install Gentoo in that case.
Boot from any Live CD (like GRML) and do the installation from there,
in a chroot.
And you can use any storage media to hold the important
· Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
As far as I'm concerned, the Gentoo install CD could easily be dropped
without a loss.
Michael
I'll try to make you understand it.
After reading your reply, I've got to say that
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Galevsky wrote:
Yes it is. Portage is not included
Huh? If are talking about installation, then whether the LiveCD carries
portage or not is irrelavent, portage is in the stage tarball you fetch
over the internet.
you depend on other systems that
On Jan 11, 2008 8:08 PM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ?
Oh, quite easy - to install Gentoo. That way, the knowledge of experts
in creating live CDs is leveraged. NIH is not a good point of view, if
you ask me.
Using extra rescue
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Qian Qiao wrote:
I mean dealing with Gentoo components versions sounds sensible
watching GRML/Knoppix/whatever website for a Gentoo
install...surely less.
As I said in the thread earlier, do not bind your mind to the idea
that you need gentoo to install
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
Gentoo is NOT plug in and go, it is a complex scheme that allows you
to build other distros.
Exactly.
Moreover, I'd go on to say that the fact Gentoo is installable from
almost every reasonable Linux-based live cd is a defining Gentoo
feature. The real Gentoo
On Jan 11, 2008 11:29 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
Gentoo is NOT plug in and go, it is a complex scheme that allows you
to build other distros.
Exactly.
Moreover, I'd go on to say that the fact Gentoo is installable from
almost every reasonable Linux-based
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:01:55 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using
rpm2targz
And why should that make any difference? I mean, after all,
I am able to extract the package. It's just, that
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:37:47 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
I'm not saying that the extraction method is important, but that
someone has got it to run and detailed the steps in the bug report.
Well, let's not fight, but his steps are at least as detailed
as what I've written here :)
Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the
default choice.
How does it do that?
It's done by using the RDEPEND
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:15:59PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I would say you don't. Just emerge the package you want (as you already
mentioned).
Okay. And why am I able to preselect the mta the way I
demonstrated?
Because virtual/mta is
Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
pvcreate /dev/hda vgcreate data /dev/hda lvcreate -L42g data mkfs
/dev/data/lvol0
What's so hard about that? Does that fit on a postcard?
it needs a
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Pretty short, if you ask me ;)
What?
Pardon?
Exactly.
That's too basic. People asking that kind of question shouldn't be
administering a system.
See howto.
They don't belong together. See the howto.
What?
It isn't. As
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Pretty short, if you ask me ;)
What?
Pardon?
Exactly.
That's too basic. People asking that kind of question shouldn't be
administering a system.
See howto.
They don't belong together. See the
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb Thufir:
Read my first response again: In fstab you specify who can _mount_ a
volume. In the _mounted_ volumes filesystem, you specify access rights
using chmod, chgrp, chown or, if using ACLs, setfacl.
And if you
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous
options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a
(badly written) script relies on the presence of -j, this script
Hello Alexander Skwar,
Yes, it's very bad that Gentoo scripts don't limit themselves to
POSIX. Another windmill to fight against.
Artificially limiting yourself to the lowest common denominator when
better options are available is bad, and discourages evolution. POSIX
specifies the minimum
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:58 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Back to tar: Why use tar -j in scripts, when bzip2 | tar
does the same thing? I very much disagree that tar -j is
the better option here;
Either way requires that you first determine the
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression
used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all.
Whereas something like tar xf somefile avoids the need to do file
somefile and parse the output
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:59:00 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Pardon? tar xf somefile doesn't do any compression at all.
I don't get what you mean.
No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. Of course, you do
have to specify a compression method when creating a compressed
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression
used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all.
Whereas something like tar xf somefile avoids the need
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:08:11 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
No, but it does do whatever decompression is required.
Hey, that's a nice feature. I didn't know about that.
Be careful, it is not part of the POSIX standard and may cause premature
hair loss ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Klingons do
On Mittwoch, 26. September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous
options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a
(badly
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote:
...
and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar.
Just pipe
from/to it.
It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according
to its manpage.
GNU tar features the -j,
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander Skwar schrieb:
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more
flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip.
Uhm, what's bad about
tar cf - | p7zip
It's a bit cumbersome
Alexander Skwar ha scritto:
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote:
...
and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar.
Just pipe
from/to it.
It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according
to its manpage.
Alexander Skwar schrieb:
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander Skwar schrieb:
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more
flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip.
Uhm, what's bad about
tar cf - | p7zip
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but
these most often were due to some configuration changes.
And exactly for this is why test-restart was proposed by me.
And exactly in these cases, a
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
And exactly in these cases, a test-restart won't work, as you'd
need to shutdown the primary sshd first.
sshd -t doesn't need to have sshd stopped beforehand. And, to make it more
clear, the checkconfig()
patch proposed by
On Sunday 16 September 2007 18:01:48 Alexander Skwar wrote:
Key words in some circumstances.
Like?
Actually, I never found this to be true.
Never? Good for you.
Grant, the original poster would disagree (who got himself locked out due to
the inability to restart sshd BTW), and so would I
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but
these most often were due to some configuration changes.
And exactly for this is why test-restart was proposed by me.
- --
Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 16 September 2007 18:01:48 Alexander Skwar wrote:
Key words in some circumstances.
Like?
Actually, I never found this to be true.
Never? Good for you.
Yep.
Grant, the original poster would disagree (who got himself locked out due
to
Hi,
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:25:07 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A /etc/init.d/sshd stop won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll
simply the sshd master process. Because of that, additional
logins won't be possible.
An /etc/init.d/sshd stop/restart can very well fail. Depending on
Hi,
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:15:24 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but
these most often were due to some configuration changes.
And exactly for this is why test-restart was proposed by me.
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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
Hi!
So I would definately prefer to always have a guaranteed working sshd
running (I find OpenVPN/telnet a bit strange and an unnecessary
potential security hole).
If running permanently, then I agree, but I do
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:15 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but
these most often were due to some configuration changes.
And exactly for this is why
Hi,
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:56:16 -0300 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I would definately prefer to always have a guaranteed working
sshd running (I find OpenVPN/telnet a bit strange and an unnecessary
potential security hole).
If running permanently, then I agree,
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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
I just prefer manual opening of access means above manual securing
them. It's just about what happens if you fail -- when the task was
securing, you might have a security leak, but if it was openiung
access, it is still
· Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
· Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
This is to know how to block certain websites as I intend to set
up a browsing centre based on Gentoo OS
Forget about it. There are far
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
One important thing to note, though. It's important to remember
that the proxy operator could easily sniff all the traffic that's
going through the proxy. The proxy needs to be able to read the
traffic.
Thanks :-)
I don't need to use your
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
I don't need to use your proxy though but it is nice to have an one
available in meetings with some half-wit admins who insist they can
block anything/anytime/anywhere. When that happens I can never
remember/find one fast
· Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:40:45 Alexander Skwar wrote:
openssh, in some circumstances (I believe to be openssl changing ABI),
will not restart as you found. It will only not restart when it's being
actively used, so you can't do so will logged in.
Hi,
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:19:06 -0300
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The other day something quite funny happened to me. I was with my Laptop
trying to find an open AP.
I found one, but couldn't browser the internet nor get my OpenVPN (against a
USA-based server) up
· Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Graham Murray wrote:
What circumstances? I too have performed updates on several remote
systems via SSH and run /etc/init.d/sshd restart and never had any
problems.
Something like /etc/init.d/sshd test-restart would be nice.
For what?
It'd
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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
I just use ssh for this. Using the -D flag gives a SOCKS5 proxy,
listening locally, making/accepting connections on the ssh remote end.
You can use it directly in Firefox, no need for full-fledged VPN.
(and for that,
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
A /etc/init.d/sshd stop won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll
simply the sshd master process. Because of that, additional
logins won't be possible.
You seem to believe that most people makes no mistakes. I wouldn't need
· Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
A /etc/init.d/sshd stop won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll
simply the sshd master process. Because of that, additional
logins won't be possible.
You seem to believe
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
For what? What should it safeguard against? You can't just start
a 2nd instance of sshd while the 1st is still running, as they
(usually) should then bind to the same port. That won't work, obviously.
Ok, ok, you win.
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· Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the habit
of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on
· Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Friday 10 August 2007 18:01:09 Dan Cowsill wrote:
Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week
and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with
issues like this when they arise. So please have patience
The point is if you want
immediate and professional reactions everytime something happens you should
be paying someone to monitor things..
I'm sorry, it just seems a tad ignorant to assume that the reason the
problem with the server was not addressed is because no one was being
paid to
Thufir wrote:
Gimp seems to be primary tool for this, though
Well, not necessarily. Any graphics program that can load pdf would work for
what you want to do. Gimp is one of them, but Krita can import pdf, too.
Also, if you have the poppler and netpbm packages installed, you can use
pdftoppm
On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:28, Anno v. Heimburg wrote:
I remember a rather old (mid-90s) study done by WD which concluded that
a start-up poses wear on the HD equivalent to 30h of idling. I can't
find it any more, and it's been ten years, so things might be different
these days, but the
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:23, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Patrick Holthaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you install knode?
*LOL*
Yeah, first try to catch the low hanging fruits, right? :)
Yes, I DO have Knode installed *g*
Next low hanging fruit:
Yep,
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