[gentoo-user] Ximian-Connector Version for Evol-2.2.1.1
GUys/Gals, Is there a version of ximian-connector that works with Evo-2.2.1.1?? The latest version in portage right now is 2.0.2-r1 and it seems like it's not compatible with evo-2.2.1.1 in which the EXchange protocol is not recognised. I've tried recompiling it but always end up with "Development Libraries not found" ANyone else has this issue? It would be great to be able to solve this as I really would like to have my Address Book back. (above anything else) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:44:47 up 1:22, 9 users, load average: 1.99, 1.02, 1.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ximian-Connector Version for Evol-2.2.1.1[SOLVED]
Search BUgzilla On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:48 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > GUys/Gals, > > Is there a version of ximian-connector that works with Evo-2.2.1.1?? > The latest version in portage right now is 2.0.2-r1 and it seems like > it's not compatible with evo-2.2.1.1 in which the EXchange protocol is > not recognised. > > I've tried recompiling it but always end up with "Development Libraries > not found" > > ANyone else has this issue? > > It would be great to be able to solve this as I really would like to > have my Address Book back. (above anything else) > > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 10:44:47 up 1:22, 9 users, load average: 1.99, 1.02, 1.00 > > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:25:54 up 5:03, 11 users, load average: 3.88, 2.66, 2.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare with artsdsp or esddsp?
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 00:22 -0600, Ryan wrote: > I am trying to get sound in VMWare but it will not recognize that > /dev/dsp is available through artsd or esd. It keeps saying /dev/dsp > does not exists, but of coarse it does since both esd and artsd both use > it and they are both working. Does VMWare not allow you to use a > wrapper anymore? I use to use the old 4.0 version with artsdsp and > esddsp just fine, but this new 5.0 crap just wont listen to what I have > to say about what is and is not there. Maybe I need to replace /dev/dsp > with something else? Does anyone else have the same problem? Yeah.. I would have to say Me To. Unfortunately I don't know how else to solve it. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:48:03 up 7:25, 11 users, load average: 2.99, 3.11, 2.87 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Laptop w/ ATI Radeon 9000 & TVout
Hi, Does anyone know if the gatos project/ati proprietry drivers will get my laptop's TVout to work? Has anyone ever tried it out? This is a Dell D600 Laptop FYI, would really like to have TV out on the laptop. Watching DVD on my 1400x1050 is nice but it's only a 14" screen. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:33:09 up 13:19, 6 users, load average: 1.15, 0.58, 0.48 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 00:25 -0700, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Colin: > > Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on > > the LiveCD? Also, how do you make the output of ls colored? > > > > -- > > Colin > > You're looking for bootsplash. Check this out: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-49036-highlight-bootsplash+grubsplash.html Nope.. Gentoo by default uses gensplash instead of bootsplash. Look up "spock" the gentoo developer. or do an esearch for splashutils for the URL. > > Also, as mentioned: > $ echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" > ~/.bashrc > > -d -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:06:29 up 3:41, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.15, 0.27 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 00:15 +0300, Matan Peled wrote: > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > I was wondering if there is a way to unmask all packages of gnome > > 2.10.X or higher without doing it package by package ? > > > > Does someone knows ? > > > > Thanks, Allan > > > > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_to_GNOME_2.10 > Look specifically for the "Easy way ;)". There's a post here for a code for easy unmasking.. search for it. It's a perl script. Alternatively I can post it to you > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:04:29 up 3:10, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 1.06, 1.03 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 18:49 +, Ian K wrote: > Hi there, > I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, > a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty > with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?). > When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into > the laptop, and do a dmesg, the following is appended: I've seen quite a few of Nobody cared messages. Please search acpi-mailing list > > cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean > cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean > cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean > cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean > cs: pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power. > irq 9: nobody cared! > [] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0xa0 > [] handle_IRQ_event+0x30/0x70 > [] note_interrupt+0x70/0xb0 > [] __do_IRQ+0x127/0x130 > [] do_IRQ+0x52/0x80 > = > [] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 > [] do_exit+0xcb/0x380 > [] __do_softirq+0x46/0xd0 > [] do_softirq+0x69/0x70 > = > [] irq_exit+0x3b/0x40 > [] do_IRQ+0x59/0x80 > [] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 > [] acpi_processor_idle+0x126/0x262 > [] cpu_idle+0x5f/0x70 > [] start_kernel+0x158/0x180 > [] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1e0 > handlers: > [] (acpi_irq+0x0/0x16) > [] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0x40) > [] (snd_intel8x0_interrupt+0x0/0x220) > Disabling IRQ #9 > > So thats the output. What does it mean? Am I on the right track? > If so, does anyone know if his wireless card works under Linux? > Its a D-Link Airplus DWL-650+ > > Thanks! -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:31:09 up 5:36, 6 users, load average: 0.16, 0.78, 0.95 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 10:54 +0300, Matan Peled wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > There's a post here for a code for easy unmasking.. > > > > search for it. It's a perl script. Alternatively I can post it to you > > Perl script ... ? Why would you need a perl script ... ? The perl script unmasks the packages recursively and it's quite nifty. It works for others and not only Gnome-2.10. > > Theres a oneliner in that page I sent him to.. > > This oneliner, to be exact: > > sed -n '/Gnome-2.10 mask/,/End of gnome-2.10 mask/p' > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask >> /etc/portage/package.unmask > BTW, Gnome-2.10 isn't masked anymore. It's accept keywords ~x86 now. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:23:56 up 9:29, 7 users, load average: 1.16, 0.77, 0.81 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:48 +, Ian K wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 18:49 +, Ian K wrote: > > > > > >>Hi there, > >>I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, > >>a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty > >>with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?). > >>When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into > >>the laptop, and do a dmesg, the following is appended: > >> > >> > > > >I've seen quite a few of Nobody cared messages. Please search > >acpi-mailing list > > > Can you please tell me where to go to get this mailing list's archives? > What does this error mean anyway? > Ian Try googling for acpi mailing list. I'm not sure where is the link since I don't have access to I-net at work -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:35:35 up 17:59, 5 users, load average: 0.55, 0.53, 0.41 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:43 -0700, Pingveno wrote: > I'm trying to get software suspend to work on my computer. While > configuring my kernel, I added in support for software suspend aka > hibernate. Alas, I have no idea what command to run to suspend the computer. > > gentoo-wiki.com has an article on software suspend 2, which is > apparently a more advanced version than what is in the regular sources. > I started to follow the directions, but I noticed that there is an > ebuild required, suspend2-sources, that is either a patch utility or a > completely new set of kernel sources. Currently, I don't really care all > that much about extra features from a new version of software suspend; I > just want to get it to work. A full set of kernel sources would be > rather undesirable, so I'd rather not going down that road. What would > be the best plan of action? Check out the 1st edition of the MyOSS Magazine available at http://mag.my-opensource.org which carries a detailed howto on getting started with software suspend2 and what's more, it's Gentoo Oriented so you'll feel right at home. Edition 2 is coming out on June 1 and among the articles featured is "Open Source Power Management" > > -Pingveno > > -- > Linux User #340304 > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:00:31 up 1 day, 20:24, 5 users, load average: 0.59, 0.36, 0.22 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerging "extra" python
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:07 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Jason Stubbs schreef: > > On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:28 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> > >>>Now of course I know that Portage depends on Python, and I certainly > >>>don't want to mess up Portage, so how do I get rid of this version of > >>>Python (or how do I recover if there's no way to get rid of it without > >>>breaking anything)? > Yes, and I'll be taking that, too. So I should quickpkg 2.3? and > Portage? Fair enough. Just for your info, I went down this path like 2 weeks ago when I wanted something new (i can remember what was it but I reckon it was either gdekslets or some other app) and I just unmasked 2.4 and 2.3 stayed back. Of course I was surprised to still see 2.3 there so I promptly unmerge it. Did I see issues? You Bet! Epylog didn't work and so didn't gdekslets. The solution was to re-emerge both of these (revdep-rebuild didn't help at all) and then everything works. That's my experience. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:04:47 up 1 day, 20:28, 5 users, load average: 0.27, 0.27, 0.20 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 20:14 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:51:21 -0700 > Pingveno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just remerged hibernate-script and ran it (after saving everything :P > > ). The one problem: I have to shut down X11 because the nvidia driver > > has to be unloaded before hibernation is started. This is, of course, > > with software suspend (vs. software suspend 2). Does SS2 contain a > > workaround that would be worth the upgrade? > > Did you try to enable just switching to console before hibernating? > There's a configuration entry in hibernate.conf (at the bottom). > You may have some issues with this. I'm not sure. Go to the suspend2 website and check it out a bit on nvidia. I'm sure someone has gotten it worked out. > I found all suspend implementations being very similar (with the > exception of ACPI standby, which works only in "light" mode - S3 - for > me). So I'd guess it won't work much better with SS2. on The contrary. It's much faster (very Much faster! ~30 secs for writing up to 1.5GB of RAM to disk) Also it's much more stable compared to normal suspend. PS: Check out the mag. > > HWH -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:58:27 up 9:43, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.30, 0.70 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend + Nvidia
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 17:58 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 20:14 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:51:21 -0700 > > Pingveno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check the attached email out. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:01:06 up 9:46, 4 users, load average: 0.40, 0.31, 0.63 --- Begin Message --- On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0500, Pat Double wrote: > > Does the appearance of the nvdia module as unsuspendable in > > blacklisted-modules mean that I am stuffed as far as suspending is > > concerned? Is there any way around this, or do I just give up now? > > [...] > You may need to comment out the blacklisted-module entry for > nvidia for the script to continue suspending. Or just comment out the "UnloadBlacklistedModules yes" line in hibernate.conf. The blacklist is used as a blanket catch-all list - if there's anecdotal evidence that it causes suspending or resuming to fail, it joins the list until proven innocent. That way people that want it to "just work" can get a useful error rather than an ambiguous hang :) That said, some of the modules there, (such as nVidia) have potential workarounds - http://wiki.suspend2.net/DistroAndHardwareSetup/Nvidia is a good starting point. Though I haven't heard of anybody that has it working with 2.6.11 yet. The free driver I believe works fine though, but the tradeoff is 3D acceleration. Bernard. -- Bernard Blackham ___ Suspend2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.suspend2.net/mailman/listinfo/suspend2-users --- End Message ---
Re: [gentoo-user] Squid using 100% CPU
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 15:00 +0200, vg`Braindead_One wrote: > A few days ago i noticed that one of the squid processes is using all > available CPU. Killing it manually solves the problem until the next > reboot, but this is of course not the most elegant solution ;) > I already tried recreating the config from scratch (using > squid.conf.default), re-emerging, emerging the ~x86-version, recreating > the cache-directory and different kernel-versions, but no change. > I am currently using > [ebuild R ] net-proxy/squid-2.5.10_rc3 -customlog -debug +ldap > -logrotate +pam -sasl (-selinux) +snmp +ssl (-uclibc) -underscores > -zero-penalty-hit > > I dont know what to check now, i think i tried everything :/ > Has anyone else encountered this or knows how to fix it? Stab in the dark, Is it using all available memory? About about File-Descriptors? Did the logs mention anything? > Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 16:59:21 up 2 days, 8:44, 8 users, load average: 1.36, > 2.00, 1.65 > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] determining who is using a device
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 11:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've got this problem in a mytht log file when we try to watch TV: > > error reading from: /dev/v4l/video0 > read: Device or resource busy > >Is lsof the correct way to determine what or who is keeping this > device busy? I get this result: What about using fuser? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:01:13 up 2 days, 8:46, 8 users, load average: 1.38, 1.75, 1.59 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:01 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I want to know what, if any, information about the package's build > environment is stored in the package binary and what, if any, of the > information is used by portage/emerge to decide when to use a binary > package. > > I've got a suspision that emerge/portage just matches based on package > name/version, this makes binary packaging much less useful, IMHO. Based on my experience, the use flag for binaries does not propagate. Hence, if you use a pre-built binary and you don't like the USE flag, used, it's not gonna be helpful to you. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packages propagate into /var/db as well. (IF they do, I think they might not reflect the actual USE flags used to built the binary. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:02:29 up 2 days, 8:47, 8 users, load average: 1.68, 1.84, 1.63 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 20:03 -0500, Travis Osterman wrote: > I've spent the weekend attempting to mold an old p3 400mHz machine > into a firewall/router so I can replace my current linksys box. > Basically, I read the howtos at netfilter.org and the > gentoo-home-router-howto and put together the following script for > loading my rules. Frankly, I've stopped trying to grok iptables but rather I use a frontend like shorewall. It's much simpler than doing it all by yourself. Perhaps you can take a look , perhaps you will like it? > This meets the functionality I need at this point in the project (ssh > access from inside and outside, port forwarding, and masquerading), > but I'm not well versed on security concerns so I'm hoping a few > experienced users could point out redundancies and potential security > issues. > > Thanks in advance for taking the time to help. > > #!/bin/bash > IPT=/sbin/iptables > WAN_IFACE=eth0 > LAN_IFACE=eth1 > LAN_ADDY=192.168.0.0/24 > > # flush and reset rules > $IPT -F > $IPT -t nat -F > $IPT -t mangle -F > $IPT -X > $IPT -t nat -X > $IPT -t mangle -X > $IPT -P INPUT ACCEPT > $IPT -P FORWARD ACCEPT > $IPT -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > $IPT -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT > $IPT -t nat -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT > $IPT -t nat -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > $IPT -t mangle -P PREROUTING ACCEPT > $IPT -t mangle -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > > # begin rules > $IPT -I INPUT 1 -i $LAN_IFACE -j ACCEPT > $IPT -I INPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT > $IPT -A INPUT -p UDP --dport bootps -i ! $LAN_IFACE -j REJECT > $IPT -A INPUT -p UDP --dport domain -i ! $LAN_IFACE -j REJECT > $IPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -i ! $WAN_IFACE -j ACCEPT > $IPT -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > $IPT -A INPUT --protocol tcp --dport 22 -i $WAN_IFACE -j ACCEPT > $IPT -P INPUT DROP > $IPT -A INPUT -i ! $LAN_IFACE -j DROP > > $IPT -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -i $WAN_IFACE --dport 80 \ >-j DNAT --to 192.168.0.20 > $IPT -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -i $WAN_IFACE --dport 1022 \ >-j DNAT --to 192.168.0.20:22 > > $IPT -I FORWARD -i $LAN_IFACE -d $LAN_ADDY -j DROP > $IPT -A FORWARD -i $LAN_IFACE -s $LAN_ADDY -j ACCEPT > $IPT -A FORWARD -i $WAN_IFACE -d $LAN_ADDY -j ACCEPT > $IPT -P FORWARD DROP > > $IPT -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $WAN_IFACE -j MASQUERADE > > for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do > echo 1 > $f > done > /etc/init.d/iptables save > > -- Travis Osterman > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:18:11 up 2 days, 9:03, 8 users, load average: 0.95, 0.78, 1.10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After switching to udev partitions no longer mount automatically
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/29/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 May 2005 14:02:03 -0700 > > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > >Does udev somehow not support mounting by label? > > > > > > > It's needs the device - /dev/hdxx defined somewhere. Normally this is > > defined > > in /etc/fstab. I'd guess that somewhere along the way, the labels were > > defined > > in a devfs conf file on the system, thus it appeared devfs was > > auto-magically working > > with labels. You could probably define labels for udev if you really > > wanted to. > > > > Partition labels are placed on partitions when you make the file system: > > mke2fs -j -L TVstorage /dev/sdb2 > > (Assumes a file system that supports labels.) > > Then you can read the label using > > e2label /dev/sdb2 > > When booting if the fstab file has > > LABEL=TVstorage /TVdata > > then it mounts the first partition it finds with the lable TVstorage > at the mount point /TVdata > > > > > Just add the partitions to /etc/fstab - > > > > /dev/sda3 / (and the rest of the line) > > /dev/sda8 /home/herb (and the rest of the line) > > /dev/sda6 /usr/portage (and the rest of the line) > > /dev/sdb2 /TVstorage (and the rest of the line) > > > > Bob > > This is, unfortunately, a very bad idea for removable media. What was > sdb2 today will become sdc2 tomorrow and the suggestion you make will > not work. Actually, isn't it a simple thing such that one can write udev rules such that that disk will always be referred as TVstorage no matter if it's sda/sdb/sdc/etc?? It can use for example, the DISK's or partitions ID/Number etc. Also, if you're on Gnome and you not heard of Project Utopia/Gentopia, perhaps it's time for you to visit it and read about it. Ps : Is /dev/sdb2 a removable disk? if so, perhaps gnome-volume-manager can help (along with gamin/inotify/hal/dbus) > > I'm having a fun time with this machine since I switched to udev. > Twice today the partitions did not mount using the LABEL method but 3 > times they did. I guess it works, but not always... > > Thanks for writing back. > > Cheers, > Mark > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:23:48 up 2 days, 9:08, 8 users, load average: 0.66, 0.60, 0.90 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XvMC
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 12:08 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > I can't tell if my machine is using nVidia's XvMC or some generic > version. How can I figure this out? If not mistaken you can check the output of xorg log in /var/log -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:23:50 up 13:25, 8 users, load average: 0.80, 0.57, 0.31 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] After switching to udev partitions no longer mount automatically
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 09:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > This is, unfortunately, a very bad idea for removable media. What was > > > sdb2 today will become sdc2 tomorrow and the suggestion you make will > > > not work. > > > > > > Actually, isn't it a simple thing such that one can write udev rules > > such that that disk will always be referred as TVstorage no matter if > > it's sda/sdb/sdc/etc?? It can use for example, the DISK's or partitions > > ID/Number etc. > > Well, simple for you maybe. Not so simple for me. ;-) Well. It's simple to talk right :-) (which is what I'm doing) > > > > Ps : Is /dev/sdb2 a removable disk? if so, perhaps gnome-volume-manager > > can help (along with gamin/inotify/hal/dbus) > > Yes, sdb is an external 1394 hard drive. Practically it's not going to > be removed since it's being used for MythTV data storage. However when > I add another 1394 drive it may be recognized as sdb or sdc so > mounting my device name (/dev/sdX#) doesn't work. I also have to deal > with the case where maybe the drive gets turned off and then power > applied after the machine is up and booted. I guess here would be where writing udev rules would be good. Perhaps you can also try reading DSD's udev rules writing guide? (I didn't have a use for it (yet) so I'm only going the simple path) :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:26:42 up 13:28, 8 users, load average: 0.28, 0.45, 0.30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packages > > propagate into /var/db as well. (IF they do, I think they might not > > reflect the actual USE flags used to built the binary. > > This probably accounts for revdep-rebuild never getting it quite right > for binary packages like openoffice-bin and always wanting to > re-emerge it again? > So.. I'm not the only one who gets that. (and I always thought it was some gremlins) Perhaps one can ask chinstrap.alternating.net since they do host binary packages -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:31:16 up 13:33, 8 users, load average: 0.30, 0.32, 0.27 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:34 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think > > those binary packages > > > propagate into /var/db as well. (IF they do, I > > think they might not > > > reflect the actual USE flags used to built the > > binary. > > > > When a binary tbz2 package is built, the /var/db data > for that package (USE flags, etc..) is appended onto > the end of the tbz2 file. Portage and quickpkg use > the tools xpak and tbz2tool to handle this. When a > binary package is installed the data goes back into > the /var/db database. I'm sorry but I looked inside the content of a tbz2 file and didn't find that it has any references to the /var/db directory. And what does tbz2tool and xpak do? There's not much of a Man page for them. equery belongs `which xpak` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/xpak in *... ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 (/usr/bin/xpak -> ../lib/portage/bin/xpak -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:35:37 up 13:37, 9 users, load average: 0.57, 0.39, 0.30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:17 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > --- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sorry but I looked inside the content of a tbz2 > > file and didn't find > > that it has any references to the /var/db directory. > > > > The data not inside the tar archive. It's appended > onto the end of the tbz2 file. You know it's there > because if you unzip the tbz2 file then bunzip2 says > "trailing garbage after EOF ignored". In This case, how would one determine what IUSE values were used for the package said package then? How can one use to view this data? tbz2tool --help tbz2tool join DATAFILE DBFILE OUTFILE (datafile + dbfile -> outfile) tbz2tool split INFILE DATAFILE DBFILE (infile -> datafile + dbfile) > > > And what does tbz2tool and xpak do? There's not much > > of a Man page for > > them. > > > > They take care of what's needed to handle the appended > data. They're not documented because normally they're > only used internally by portage. I see. In such case, when we emerge -kv package will it list the IUSE flag which the package was compiled with? Do you know off-hand w/o needing to compile it on one machine (with different use flags) and then use the package on another machine (which has a different USE flag) just to see the difference? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:00:20 up 16:02, 8 users, load average: 1.31, 1.65, 1.28 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 23:06 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Frankly, I've stopped trying to grok iptables but rather I use a > > frontend like shorewall. It's much simpler than doing it all by > > yourself. > > I prefer just plain iptables myself ;-) One man's meat is another's poison. That's the beauty of Open Source. You're free to decide. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:03:43 up 16:05, 8 users, load average: 1.23, 1.45, 1.27 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 23:57 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> --- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > In This case, how would one determine what IUSE
> > values were used for the
> > package said package then? How can one use to view
> > this data?
> >
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys
> if len(sys.argv)!=2:
> print "usage: %s " % sys.argv[0]
> sys.exit(1)
> sys.path = ["/usr/lib/portage/pym"]+sys.path
> import xpak
> mytbz2=xpak.tbz2(sys.argv[1])
> myuse=mytbz2.getfile("IUSE")
> print myuse
Cool
$./g-binary-use.py
usage: ./g-binary-use.py
$g-binary-use.py /usr/portage/packages/All/liferea-0.9.1.tbz2
mozilla gtkhtml debug debug
$ emerge -kvp liferea
[binary R ] net-news/liferea-0.9.1 -debug +gtkhtml -mozilla
$ cat /var/db/pkg/net-news/liferea-0.9.1/IUSE
mozilla gtkhtml debug debug
True it does have the USE Flags, but looks to me like it doesn't
actually signify if it's in Use or Not in Use. Meaning, the "+" or "-"
doesn't propagate?
> > Do you know off-hand w/o needing to compile it on
> > one machine (with
> > different use flags) and then use the package on
> > another machine (which
> > has a different USE flag) just to see the
> > difference?
> >
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. You ant to
> know if the USE flags are different depending on which
> machine the package is compiled on? Can you use the
> above a variation of the above python script?
No..No.. you've already answer the question as above. Only now, can you
answer the 2nd question I have regarding the "+" or "-" and whether the
USE flag is in USE?
> Zac
>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 00:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys
> if len(sys.argv)!=2:
> print "usage: %s " % sys.argv[0]
> sys.exit(1)
> sys.path = ["/usr/lib/portage/pym"]+sys.path
> import xpak
> mytbz2=xpak.tbz2(sys.argv[1])
> myuse=mytbz2.getelements("USE")
> myiuse=mytbz2.getelements("IUSE")
> for use in myiuse:
> operator="-"
> if use in myuse:
> operator="+"
> print operator + use + " "
Cool. This works as expected. But a few more questions and this is more
towards how portage handles the Padded data in the tbz2.
Looking that the variables of IUSE and USE via
print myuse
and
print myiuse
I get :
['x86', 'X', 'aac', 'aalib', 'acl', 'acpi', 'aim', 'alsa', 'apache2',
'avi', 'bash-completion', 'berkdb', 'bitmap-fonts', 'bonobo', 'bzlib',
SNIP ..
'kernel_linux', 'elibc_glibc']
['mozilla', 'gtkhtml', 'debug', 'debug']
So if I understand it correctly, what is being done is XPAK will take
the USE flags from the system which compiled the binary and then sort of
make a comparison with the USE flags for that particular package and
work from there? Am I right?
Doing a
$strings /usr/portage/packages/All/liferea-0.9.1.tbz2
gets me
[snip]
...
XPAKPACK <--- This marks the start of the XPAK padding
ASFLAGS
CATEGORY
CBUILD
CDEPEND
CFLAGS
CHOST
CTARGET
CXXFLAGS
DEPEND
EXTRA_ECONF
EXTRA_EINSTALL
EXTRA_EMAKE
FEATURES
INHERITED
IUSE
LDFLAGS
LIBCFLAGS
LIBCXXFLAGS
LICENSE
PDEPEND
PKGUSE
PROVIDE
RDEPEND
RESTRICT
SLOT
environment.bz2
liferea-0.9.1.ebuild
net-news
-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -falign-functions=64
-mmmx -msse -msse2
i686-pc-linux-gnu
-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -falign-functions=64
-mmmx -msse -msse2
>=x11-libs/gtk+-2
>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.5.10
mozilla? ( www-client/mozilla
gtkhtml? ( =gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2* )
!mozilla? ( =gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2* )
>=gnome-base/gconf-2
dev-util/pkgconfig >=sys-apps/sed-4
autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms
strict
libtool gnome.org debug fdo-mime gnome2 libtool gnome.org debug fdo-mime
gnome2 libtool gnome.org debug fdo-mi
me gnome2 libtool gnome.org debug fdo-mime gnome2
mozilla gtkhtml debug debug < Package USE Flags
[SNIP]
x86 X aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb
SNIP .
kernel_linux elibc_glibc
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Re: [gentoo-user] basic network
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 09:57 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? > That's what I did, was it an overkill? Well. a DHCP server would most likely be needed if you plan on automatically giving out IP addreses. But for a network of 2 pcs, it might be overkill but heck, it doesn't really matter. Makes things simpler esp when a laptop is concerned. > Red wrote: > > > > > > luis jure wrote: > > > >>>hello list, i'm trying to setup my very first "network" at home. > >>> > >>>i have my desktop (gentoo linux) and a recently purchased laptop (still > >>>with > >>>windows XP) both connected to a switch. > >>> > >>>the switch is also connected to an adsl cable modem to the internet. > >>> > >>>both computers connect to the internet using pppoe (the isp masks up to 2 > >>>ip > >>>addresses). > >>> > >>>so far so good, but i also want to transfer files from one computer to > >>>another. which is the most convenient (meaning fastest and without > >>>additional hardware) way to do that? and how can i [learn to] configure > >>>both > >>>systems accordingly? > >>> > >>>best, > >>> > >>>lj > >>> > > > > i think you should make an alias of your network interface for your > > internal communication and bind samba, nfs or what you plan to use to > > that interface. > > > > look in the /etc/conf.d/net.example for how to make the alias if you > > don't know how. > > > > how to bind your samba, nfs ... to a interface is in the manuals or > > howto's of the programm you want to use! > > > > greetz > > red -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:43:02 up 18:44, 10 users, load average: 0.67, 0.88, 0.86 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 02:33 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > --- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So if I understand it correctly, what is being done > > is XPAK will take > > the USE flags from the system which compiled the > > binary and then sort of > > make a comparison with the USE flags for that > > particular package and > > work from there? Am I right? > > > > Yes, you have access to all the old /var/db data. The > filelist() method lists all the files that are > accessible via getfile() or getelements() methods. > > The USE flags are a collection of boolean variables. > A particular flag is enabled when it exists in both > IUSE and USE. Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include that in Edition 3 (July) of the MyOSS Magazine (http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and Tricks. (crediting you of course) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:51:42 up 19:53, 8 users, load average: 1.93, 1.02, 0.92 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 03:04 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > --- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include > > that in Edition 3 > > (July) of the MyOSS Magazine > > (http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and > > Tricks. (crediting you of course) > > > > Oh it's really nothing. Glad I could help. ;-) You're just being modest. If you've got any more gems.. do pass them along so I can include them in. (and educate people as well!) Thanks > > Zac > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:55:36 up 20:57, 8 users, load average: 2.13, 1.21, 0.91 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 Available Now
Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 (Oh My Gosh! It's Edition 2) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Open Source Power Management Power management is sort of like the holy grail when it comes to laptops and one main reason why power management in *NIX needs work is due to the large variety of laptops in the market. Each with their own unique implementation of ACPI and etc. As such, ACPI will be different in different laptops and that's where the headache begins. Well, ever wanted things to "Just Work" when it comes to power management under *NIX? Well, look no more because we show you the steps needed to get power management to "Just Work". Open Source PBX/PABX If you didn't already know about the newest kid on the block, Asterisk, I suggest you take time out to read about this wonderful new software based PBX/PABX which rivals even the best of hardware PBX/PABX out there in the market. With loads of features to match, and a very affordable price to match. What more do you want? (More? Well, request it and your wish may come true!) Daemon's Advocate We take you through a tour of FreeBSD and provide you with the facts why you should consider FreeBSD as a FOSS(Free and Open Source Software) development platform. Virtualisation There are 4 main technologies when it comes to virtualisation in the Open Source World, and we will bring you up to speed with these four technologies and what they can do for you. Tip of The Month Our resident tipster brings to your even more tips to make your life easier. Book Review : Free as in Freedom Richard Stallman's new book detailing his crusade for Free Software. And More!! * Developing OpenOffice.org * Libexpect * Server Debugging * RX Packets http://mag.my-opensource.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=54 Sincerely MyOSS Magazine Team -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache + Mod_BW experiences vs QoS
Hi, I'm wondering the effectiveness of using mod_bw or mod_bwshare (which is masked in portage) versus a solution that uses QoS for Upstream bandwidth throttling/management. The fact is that I'm trying to figure out which is the best method in a virtual server environment which is hosting a couple of independent web-sites. Does anyone have any experience to share. My previous tests using QoS may not be wholly applicable for virtual servers since I control it using Port ports instead of virtual sites. Anyone? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:27:40 up 1 day, 7:59, 7 users, load average: 0.95, 0.72, 0.41 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 Available Now
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:27 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > http://mag.my-opensource.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=54 > > Mambo heh? > > One of the defauly templates too. Yep. It's Plain and simple. We focus more on the magazine rather than the site itself. Though plans for revamping it are in the works -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:09:11 up 1 day, 19:38, 5 users, load average: 0.47, 0.36, 0.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] photo management
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:29 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:58:48 -0400 > Simon Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bob: does that works with gnome? If it doesn't... what about the Gnome > > desktop enviroment users? > > > > I don't have a full gnome nor kde install. I just use what I need from gnome > and kde. I've not > had problems with any on the sub-sets I use. what about f-spot? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:35:25 up 2 days, 1:04, 5 users, load average: 1.78, 1.13, 0.90 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Scaning of outgoing email
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:12 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2005 2:08 pm, Patrick wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have setup a home mail server according to a how-to on the forum, now > >> i > >> would like to expand this setup with the scanning of outgoing emails and > >> a > >> footer after the scanning. > >> > >> Until now i didn't find a how-to for this, can anyone put me in the > >> wright > >> direction? > > > > Scanning for what? What program do you want to use to scan? > Scanning of virusses, with clamav what email server? If sendmail try clamav-milter or you can search sendmail's site for all sort of milters to integrate into it -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:36:00 up 2 days, 1:05, 5 users, load average: 1.49, 1.12, 0.91 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mac-like automounting?
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 05:54 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > > P.S please CC me, i am having trouble with the list > > Hi Ognjen, > > I hear that ivman works well for this: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman > > There is another similar packages called > gnome-volume-manager: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217412 Yap.. I'm running on gnome-2.10 and running gnome-volume-manager and dbus and hal as well as gamin and it all works. No need to fuss around with/etc/fstab anymore. Gamin is the new famd for gnome and it's better too, uses the new /dev/inotify backend instead. This is part of Project Utopia or Project Gentopia which is being tracked by Cardoe. There's a svn repo. Google for Porject Gentopia. You'll sure to find it. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:17:54 up 2 days, 1:47, 5 users, load average: 1.72, 1.41, 0.97 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Scaning of outgoing email
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:46 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > >> > Scanning for what? What program do you want to use to scan? > >> Scanning of virusses, with clamav > > > > what email server? > Oeps, iI forgot to mention that, its postfix. If that is the case, I think you can use amavis or amavis-new to integrate into it. Should be simpler than clamav but don't take my word for it. I've not done it personally but I will one of these days. (Even got myself the postfix book from O'Reilly) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:58:47 up 2 days, 2:27, 5 users, load average: 0.95, 0.75, 0.94 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:14 +1000, Ric de France wrote: > Mats, > > On 6/7/05, Mats Lidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. The clock applet: The panel encountered a problem while loading > > "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". > > Details: Failed to resolve, or extend > > '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_8/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false > > This looks very similar to a problem I've seen before when I was > upgrading Gnome while using Gnome... To state the obvious, I waited > for the upgrade to complete, and then logged out of Gnome and logged > back in... That seem to have fixed it. > > Have you restarted Gnome since the upgrade? I had that. Are you sure some isn't still masked. The application menu changed to a package on itself. gnome-base/gnome-menus ~x86 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:21:57 up 2 days, 18:51, 6 users, load average: 0.86, 0.70, 0.54 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] photo management
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > --- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So access to a camera via USB Mass Storage is > > preferred over gphoto2? > > > > - Grant > > > > Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass > Storage. If USB Mass Storage is supported then use > that instead. > > modprobe usb-storage > dmesg | grep sd > mount -t vfat /dev/sd? /mnt/camera Or try Project Gentopia and make it automatic -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:24:01 up 2 days, 18:53, 7 users, load average: 1.02, 0.76, 0.57 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 23:11 -0400, Phill MV wrote: > I have just emerged gnome-menus and the did login dance. > > No dice - still an absent applications menu. > So.. there's no menu at all? There's supposed to be "app", "places" and "Desktop" maybe gconf is still running? what about restarting X or dropping to VT1 and killing all gnome/user processes? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:31:55 up 2 days, 20:01, 7 users, load average: 0.61, 0.69, 0.55 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BootSplash
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 15:06 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Allan > > Lots of good material at > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314633.html > > and > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash > (I followed this some time ago to get bootsplash working successfully) Is Bootsplash = fbsplash. ?? I do know that the gentoo version is called gensplash. > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:36:04 up 2 days, 20:05, 7 users, load average: 0.95, 0.68, 0.57 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 07:48 +0200, Mats Lidell wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > So.. there's no menu at all? > > > > There's supposed to be "app", "places" and "Desktop" > > In the gnome main menu the "Applications" is only an empty submenu. YOu don't see places and desktop? This 2 has to be there if it's gnome-2.10 unless of course you chose to use the compact menu. Meaning only showing the "foot" -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:15:06 up 2 days, 22:44, 6 users, load average: 0.63, 0.38, 0.29 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] photo management
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:42 -0700, Grant wrote: > > Or try Project Gentopia and make it automatic > > I checked it out here: > > https://dev.cardoe.com/gentopia/ > > but I can't quite figure out what it's all about. Project Gentopia is gentoo's version of project utopia which is aimed to take the kludge and making hardware "just work" If you really want to know, you can search for robert Love's presentation files hosted on his ximian webpage. (whereever that may be. I can forward a copy to you off-line if needed) Plug camera in? Icon pops up in Desktop. Bought a new HD? plug it in and it works. No fudging with /etc/fstab. Need to have automatic power management? Gnome-power-manager will handle it automatically. stuffs like that works automagically. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:16:06 up 2 days, 22:45, 6 users, load average: 0.33, 0.34, 0.28 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:12 +0200, Mats Lidell wrote: > I wrote: > > I have rebooted since the emerge so there must be something else. > - > # emerge -up gnome-common > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-common-2.8.0 [2.4.0] > - Funny. I have 2.4.0 for gnome-common. > So from my limited understanding of emerge I guess I have some work > getting the portage tree in sync. (Maybe it is time for an "emerge > --update --deep --newuse world" !? I don't think a newuse is needed. What about gconf? is it 2.10? Anyway.. Here's the my list of ~x86 keywords gnome-base/gnome ~x86 gnome-extra/gnome-games ~x86 app-text/gpdf ~x86 gnome-base/control-center ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-menus ~x86 x11-libs/libxklavier ~x86 gnome-extra/zenity ~x86 x11-themes/gtk-engines ~x86 app-editors/gedit ~x86 x11-libs/gtksourceview ~x86 gnome-base/libgnomecanvas ~x86 www-client/epiphany ~x86 x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-desktop ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-vfs ~x86 gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner ~x86 mail-client/evolution ~x86 gnome-extra/evolution-data-server ~x86 gnome-extra/libgtkhtml ~x86 gnome-extra/gal ~x86 gnome-extra/gnome-utils ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-panel ~x86 gnome-base/libglade ~x86 dev-libs/atk ~x86 x11-libs/libwnck ~x86 app-arch/file-roller ~x86 gnome-base/nautilus ~x86 gnome-base/eel ~x86 gnome-extra/gconf-editor ~x86 gnome-base/gconf ~x86 gnome-extra/evolution-webcal ~x86 x11-terms/gnome-terminal ~x86 net-misc/vino ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-applets ~x86 app-admin/system-tools-backends ~x86 gnome-base/libgnomeprintui ~x86 gnome-base/libgnomeprint ~x86 x11-themes/gnome-themes ~x86 gnome-base/libgnome ~x86 gnome-extra/gcalctool ~x86 gnome-base/libgnomeui ~x86 x11-libs/vte ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-keyring ~x86 media-sound/sound-juicer ~x86 gnome-extra/gnome-media ~x86 app-admin/gnome-system-tools ~x86 gnome-extra/bug-buddy ~x86 app-text/gnome-doc-utils ~x86 gnome-base/gnome-session ~x86 x11-wm/metacity ~x86 gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor ~x86 net-analyzer/gnome-netstatus ~x86 gnome-base/librsvg ~x86 x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds ~x86 media-video/totem ~x86 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:35:23 up 2 days, 23:04, 6 users, load average: 0.59, 0.51, 0.44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:00 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: > the only remaining problem I > can think of right now (I'm sure others will pop up once I try it ;)) is > configfile management. A nightly removal of all the ._cfg* files plus > some scheme to keep the configs in sync with an SVN server should do it. Yep. That is most certainly a problem. Unless of course you're so sure and you can remove CONFIG_PROTECT and then get use buildpkg's to package in the created tbz2 with the new updated configs. (yeah, you can't use --buildpkg to do it since it will be with the original un-changed config files) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:05:22 up 2 days, 23:34, 5 users, load average: 1.29, 0.96, 0.77 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:47 +0530, Aniruddha Shankar wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Yep. That is most certainly a problem. Unless of course you're so sure > > and you can remove CONFIG_PROTECT and then get use buildpkg's to package > > in the created tbz2 with the new updated configs. (yeah, you can't use > > --buildpkg to do it since it will be with the original un-changed config > > files) > > If you quickpkg a package, IIRC it packages the *modified* etc files > into the tarball. Yep..Yep.. .I meant quickpkg and not buildpkg. Sorry for the typo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BootSplash
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:41 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:36:59 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Is Bootsplash = fbsplash. ?? > > No. fbsplash is for later kernels. Bootsplash stopped working at about > 2.6.7. See http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/ Well as i see it, bootsplash was cause it needed to be patched at every instance. > > I do know that the gentoo version is called gensplash. > > Gensplash is the collection of fbsplash, splashutils and other utilities. yep. I know that.. I'm using Gensplash right now. (just had to make sure) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:53:54 up 3 days, 23 min, 5 users, load average: 2.08, 1.51, 1.38 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Port 512/Comsat and Sendmail or Fetchmail hangs
I'm not sure if this has been happening all the while because I just noticed it this morning as I was popping my emails (via fetchmail). The process would hang at at the input of each mail for a short (but very noticable) period while it tries to connect to port 512/comsat. /etc/services states that this port is for new-mail notification (biff). I don't have biff enabled and thus I wonder what/why is it that it's trying to contact it. I'm not even sure if it's a fetchmail issue or it's a sendmail issue. Does anyone know? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:21:19 up 3 days, 19:50, 7 users, load average: 0.17, 0.45, 0.73 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] photo management
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:45 -0700, Grant wrote: > > I don't think so, Gentoo (at least as far as I know) is minimalist and > > provides you with choices. Making it all "automagic" seems cool to the > > average user that don't have time, patience or will to know what's > > happening in the system, but making it default would take the freedom > > of people that want to dive deep into the config files and dev files > > to get the most of the hardware and take control of the system. Of > > course its a good idea for people to "taste" Linux and maybe make them > > curious about knowing more of the system to take advantage of all the > > hardware upgrades. > > > > I think that stuff that does "magic tricks" in the computer software > > world gets bigger, buggy, unstable and slower as time passes and more > > tricks are added, and then you think of... Micro$oft and Ruindow$. I > > sincerely hope it never happens to any Lin distro. > > -- > > Daniel da Veiga > > But don't you think the computer systems of the future would surely > implement something like Gentopia? Things can always be done > manually, but automatic seems like a step forward. On the other hand, > I do agree with the things you're saying. This is why I asked the > question. I'm not sure about this. > To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently based on inotify. gnome-volume-manager for example works with gamin + udev + hal + dbus to make all the necessary messages to make things smooth much like a Mac right now. I don't think gentopia will be default for gentoo, but I do think it will be for Gnome. To me, gentoo isn't really for the masses, for those we have Ubuntu/Knoppix/Fedora. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:45:30 up 1:58, 5 users, load average: 0.66, 0.44, 0.43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Port 512/Comsat and Sendmail or Fetchmail hangs
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:12 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > The process would hang at at the input of each mail for a short (but > > very noticable) period while it tries to connect to port > > 512/comsat. /etc/services states that this port is for new-mail > > notification (biff). > > > > I don't have biff enabled and thus I wonder what/why is it that it's > > trying to contact it. I'm not even sure if it's a fetchmail issue or > > it's a sendmail issue. > The first link might (just maybe) have some useful info: > http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=fetchmail+port+512+comsat&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 I would try googling but since I don't have I-Net access at work.. it's kinda hard. But thanks. I'll take a look at it when I'm home. If anyone knows it off-hand right now, please do tell. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:26:17 up 1:38, 4 users, load average: 1.04, 0.78, 0.44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:25 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 6/8/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > linuxcompatible.org has a hardware compatiblility > > database. AFAIK most work but some don't. If your > > local store doesn't know maybe they will let you test > > with a livecd before you buy. > > > > Zac > ... > > fantastic advice with regards to the live cd, and thank you for the link! Just wanted to say this.. El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 3com. One Dlink I got was absolutely horrible. It will hang after a while and then everything will stop. Once changed the card, it's OK. I think this was a realtek chipset which caused the issue. But in general, my experience is, if it's not for too much heavy duty work, el-cheapo will be good enough. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:44:11 up 5:56, 6 users, load average: 1.16, 1.13, 0.85 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] photo management
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:02 -0700, Grant wrote: > > To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the > > project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). > > > > for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently > > based on inotify. > > > > gnome-volume-manager for example works with gamin + udev + hal + dbus to > > make all the necessary messages to make things smooth much like a Mac > > right now. > > > > I don't think gentopia will be default for gentoo, but I do think it > > will be for Gnome. > > > > To me, gentoo isn't really for the masses, for those we have > > Ubuntu/Knoppix/Fedora. > > But don't you think all computer systems are moving toward that type > of functionality, although some more quickly and more directly than > others? > Well I think your and my answer has already answered that. I stated that gnome will have it. You stated that all comp sys are moving towards that. What more can I say? Don't use Gnome? Don't use computers? but the thing is, with Gentoo, we can still choose. right? (please.. someone re-assure me!!) > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:25:05 up 10:37, 8 users, load average: 0.84, 1.33, 1.24 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. > > As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was > watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. you can choose to use debug more in laptop mode. #echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump and by the way, it should be which process used the HD isn't it? [This is what happens when ppl top post and I don't read the bottom post to reply 1st. So.. I answered the question again. Oh well.. since it's already written] > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 > This is just a detection mech. Even though it says it will disable it, I don't think it's really doing that. Because there's no cron-job to check the remaining level etc. > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem that maybe laptop mode is > not totally operational since I would never be on battery? I'm trying > changing this to '1' and seeing what happens. > > cheers, > Mark > > On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV > > > frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for > > > default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems > > > that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find > > > what's causing that and at least make it more infrequent? I see > > > nothing in /var/log/messages nor anything in dmesg. Is there somewhere > > > else I should look? > > > > Laptop mode prevents the drive spinning up when a process writes to the > > disk. However, in its default configuration, it is configured to flush > > the cached writes after a maximum of 600 seconds (MAX_AGE). On my > > laptop, this means that the drive does spin up about every 10 minues. > > > > Your could try enabling "block dumping" in the kernel: > > > > echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > > > After that, the kernel will dump every block read and write to the > > kernel log. This might allow you to identify which file is accessed and > > which process causes the access. > > > > Note that you better switch off any logger before doing that (or at > > least log through the network), otherwise you'll see all the writes from > > the logger itself... -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:25:30 up 10:38, 8 users, load average: 1.35, 1.40, 1.26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:31 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 > > > > > > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem that maybe laptop mode is > > not totally operational since I would never be on battery? I'm trying > > changing this to '1' and seeing what happens. > > You can check if laptop_mode is enabled with: > > cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > > My desktop says 0 (disabled), and my laptop says 2 (enabled, but no idea > why it's not 1). > > Moreover, if your filesystem is ext3, a "mount" shows the following: > > /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr,commit=600) > > where the important part is the option "commit=600", the value being > your MAX_AGE parameter. If laptop_mode is disabled, the parameter is > either absent or "commit=0". If you really want to learn more about power management in Linux, I suggest you google for laptop_mode or you can read the article in the spanking new MyOSS Magazine at http://mag.my-opensource.org which lists all the links in one place for your perusal. otherwise.. try cat /usr/share/doc/laptop[tab]/laptop-mode.gz -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 00:02:49 up 12:15, 9 users, load average: 0.60, 0.54, 0.53 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one:
> > >
> > >
> > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery?
> > > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.)
> > > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0
> > >
> > >
> > > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem that maybe laptop mode is
> > > not totally operational since I would never be on battery? I'm trying
> > > changing this to '1' and seeing what happens.
> >
> > You can check if laptop_mode is enabled with:
> >
> > cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
> >
> > My desktop says 0 (disabled), and my laptop says 2 (enabled, but no idea
> > why it's not 1).
>
> Mine says '2' also:
>
> myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
> 2
> myth11 root #
Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now)
on Battery it changes to 2
/usr/sbin/laptop_mode
case "$KLEVEL" in
"2.4")
echo 1> /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
echo "30 500 0 0 $AGE $AGE 60 20 0" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
;;
"2.6")
echo "$LM_SECONDS_BEFORE_SYNC" > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
where LM_Seconds is 2
> /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=600)
> So this should be spinning the drive up every 10 minutes? I don't
> think that's happening but I'll watch it carefully for another 30
> minutes.
The 10 minutes is a guide only. It just tries to collect all the writes
and make it write only once.
Try this script if you want to find out what's happening or how long is
the spinup/down.
$ cat HDtest.sh
#!/bin/sh
c0=0
c1=0
n=0
f0=standby
d0=`date +%s`
while true
do
f1=`hdparm -C /dev/hda | grep 'drive state' | awk '{print $4}'`
if test $f0 != $f1
then
d1=`date +%s`
c=`expr $d1 - $d0`
if test $f0 = standby
then
c0=`expr $c0 + $c`
else
c1=`expr $c1 + $c`
n=`expr $n + 1`
fi
echo "[`date +%X`] $c seconds in $f0 mode. ($c0 s standby/$c1 s
active/$n spinups)"
f0=$f1
d0=$d1
fi
sleep 1
done
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:27 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast > > throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25 > > 3com. > > Speaking from the server side of the fence, we swear by Intel eepro cards. Yep.. Generally, it's "You Get What You Paid For" -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:03:07 up 2 days, 2:15, 5 users, load average: 0.92, 1.00, 0.83 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone using Scribus Here?
Just wondering if anyone uses it. I would like to know if it's frequently crashes with Signal 11 for you too. As well as, if you use scribus, how do you use it such that you can share with a team of 'users' worldwide. I was thinking of putting it into subversion, but turns out the diff between revisions is _too_ much text! Anyone? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:14:40 up 2 days, 3:43, 7 users, load average: 1.03, 0.82, 0.77 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problems - Linux & OSX
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:04 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > Mac OSX is the server - 192.168.1.20; Linux the client - 192.168.1.4. > > When I "mount -o vers=2 192.168.1.20:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien" I get > > the dreaded "mount: 192.168.1.20:/Volumes/Alien failed, reason given by > > server: Permission denied". I'm trying to discover which side the > > problem's on. Any of the following stuff not kosher? > > > > I have no experience with OSX but with Linux the nfs server will normally > syslog (/var/log/messages) the reason that permission was denied. There have > got to be some logs somewhere on that OSX server. are all mounts exported already. ( did you define new mounts but didn't export it. - Me Guilty of this couple of times) eg: export -rv -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:09:03 up 2 days, 5:37, 7 users, load average: 1.53, 1.01, 0.71 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
losetup Encryption not working - Was [Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick]
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:42 -0700, Kiawud wrote: > Excerpt for file based crypto: > > 7. Using a file instead of a partition > > You can then create the encrypted file system within this file, > similar to the way it is done above: > > losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /mystuff.aes I'm having some problem. This doesn't work for some reason. sudo losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /tmp/crypto Password: ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument I've typed in up to 25 char for the password cat /proc/crypto name : md5 module : kernel type : digest blocksize: 64 digestsize : 16 name : serpent module : serpent type : cipher blocksize: 16 min keysize : 0 max keysize : 32 name : tnepres module : serpent type : cipher blocksize: 16 min keysize : 0 max keysize : 32 name : aes module : aes_i586 type : cipher blocksize: 16 min keysize : 16 max keysize : 32 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:11:34 up 1 day, 14:24, 7 users, load average: 3.24, 3.68, 3.66 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[Solved] Re: losetup Encryption not working - Was [Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick]
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:13 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:42 -0700, Kiawud wrote: > > Excerpt for file based crypto: > > > > 7. Using a file instead of a partition > > > > You can then create the encrypted file system within this file, > > similar to the way it is done above: > > > > losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /mystuff.aes > > I'm having some problem. This doesn't work for some reason. > > sudo losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /tmp/crypto > Password: > ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument > > I've typed in up to 25 char for the password > Finally found out I didn't modprobe cryptloop Works Now. Now, can anyone tell me if this will slow down disk access and by how much? (I'm doing it on a file so, I can't do a hdparm on the file.. or can I?) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:09:17 up 1 day, 15:22, 5 users, load average: 0.96, 1.52, 1.76 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are these modules loading?
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 14:25 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > I have ieee1394 stuff compiled in the kernel as modules: > > > > [Sun Jun 12] edj:~$ grep 1394 /usr/src/linux/.config > > # IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support > > CONFIG_IEEE1394=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m > > CONFIG_IEEE1394_CMP=m > > > > At boot, pcilynx, raw1394, ohci1394 & ieee1394 are all loaded. So are > > i2c_algo_bit & i2c_core, both used by pcilynx. None of the above is > > in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Where are they being loaded from? > > Thanks. > > > > Probably /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent Do you use coldplug?? I found it was due to that.. So in the end, I just blacklist it. > Zac -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:03:59 up 1 day, 17:16, 4 users, load average: 0.96, 0.63, 0.69 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > The first time I want to mount a loopback device (like an iso) after a > reboot I need to modprobe loop - it works consistently after that. > > I am sure that I never used to have to do that modprobe, the module was > loaded either on boot or automagically when needed. I am unsure when it > changed, but pretty sure it was at a kernel change. > > > present kernel is 2.6.11-gentoo-r2 Same here.. 2.6.11 Not sure why though. (though it's compiled as a module but it's always been that way) > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:05:06 up 1 day, 17:17, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.54, 0.65 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:00 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > >CONFIG_KMOD=y > > > > > > grep -i config_kmod /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_KMOD=y > Yep, you need that, and also an appropriate alias entry in > /etc/modules.d/*. Something like 'alias block-major-7 loop' should do > it. Also the loop devices /dev/loop[0-9], /dev/loop/0 need to exist > permanently. One reason may be cause I'm on a fully udev system now. > -Richard > > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:08:44 up 1 day, 19:21, 5 users, load average: 1.01, 0.55, 0.47 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache Logs & HostnameLookup Off
I've set hostnamelookup off in the apache config but for some reason, it's still resolving the hostnames. How/why is this? Does anyone know? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:55:39 up 1 day, 21:08, 7 users, load average: 0.27, 0.47, 0.52 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [NEWBIE ALERT] VMware 5.0 and a kernel upgrade
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:29 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > The only such kernel module I have is the VMware 5.0 module. The vm- > config.pl script compiles the kernel module, IIRC. This seems to > indicate that I only need to re-configure VMware. A complete re-emerge > should not be needed. > > Am I correct here? Correct -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:06:53 up 2 days, 3:19, 4 users, load average: 1.05, 1.32, 1.19 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:10 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >One reason may be cause I'm on a fully udev system now. > > > > > > > > That doesn't matter, if you have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes in > /etc/conf.d/rc. What this does is cause the system to archive all of > the device nodes that exist in /dev on shutdown, and restore those on > startup. So, if you have that, you just need to: grep -i device_tarball /etc/conf.d/rc RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" > # cd /dev > # /sbin/MAKEDEV loop ls -l /dev/ | grep loop brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 0 Jun 16 11:39 loop0 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 1 Jun 16 11:39 loop1 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 2 Jun 16 11:39 loop2 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 3 Jun 16 11:39 loop3 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 4 Jun 16 11:39 loop4 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 5 Jun 16 11:39 loop5 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop6 brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 7 Jun 16 11:39 loop7 sudo mount -o loop /mnt/hdc2/ISOs/Gentoo-install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso /mnt/cdrom/ ls -l | grep loop drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Jun 16 11:39 loop lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop0 -> loop/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop1 -> loop/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop2 -> loop/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop3 -> loop/3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop4 -> loop/4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop5 -> loop/5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop6 -> loop/6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop7 -> loop/7 /var/log/messages : loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Seems it will load the loop device automatically Only thing now is to see if reboot makes it stay. (I think it didn't retain because at one point I made RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:38:33 up 57 min, 5 users, load average: 0.37, 0.43, 0.70 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > >I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for > > > drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working > > > drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and > > > swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use in > > > another Pundit-R. > > > > > > 1) Can dd be used to copy partitions? (It seems so - just checking) > > > > > > 2) If yes above, then do I need to make identical sized partitions on > > > the target drive before copying, or does dd create the partition? (I > > > hope it doesn't actually) > > > > > > > > > > The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the > > associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. > > > > Zac > > OK, cool. Thanks. I've wanted a reason to learn a bit about rsync anyway. Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's much faster that way. (tar uses block-by-block copy and rsync should be using char-by-char?) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:10:26 up 2:29, 5 users, load average: 1.23, 1.21, 0.74 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Logs & HostnameLookup Off
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 01:13 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > I've set hostnamelookup off in the apache config but for some reason, > > it's still resolving the hostnames. > > > > How/why is this? Does anyone know? > > Did you restart Apache after making the change Yep. Funny thing is it's only not working on another system. My Laptop works fine. So, is there anything else besides this directive?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:27:14 up 2:46, 5 users, load average: 1.11, 1.20, 1.01 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:21 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >>On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> > >>>>Hi, > >>>> I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for > >>>>drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working > >>>>drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and > >>>>swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use in > >>>>another Pundit-R. > >>>> > >>>>1) Can dd be used to copy partitions? (It seems so - just checking) > >>>> > >>>>2) If yes above, then do I need to make identical sized partitions on > >>>>the target drive before copying, or does dd create the partition? (I > >>>>hope it doesn't actually) > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>>The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the > >>>associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. > >>> > >>>Zac > >> > >>OK, cool. Thanks. I've wanted a reason to learn a bit about rsync anyway. > > > > > > Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's > > much faster that way. > > > > (tar uses block-by-block copy and rsync should be using char-by-char?) > > > > > > Tar to copy files? I'm sorry, you lost me there :-). Normally when I want to populate a new dir structure (which is empty to begin with) I do instead of issuing the command cp -a /some/area/mp3 /other/area/mp3-store use tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - ) tar lcf - /path/to/file | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - ) tar -czf - /directory/to/copy | ssh systemB tar -xzvf - -C /tmp > A possible "block by block" way that I know of would be to use dd and > ext2resize. > Zac -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:32:18 up 2:51, 5 users, load average: 1.41, 1.15, 1.01 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size
> I've found that squashfs is an iteresting option for doing backups/cloning > because the compressed filesystem can also be reused to make a livecd or > livedvd. For normal cloning, I mount the squashfs and use rsync to copy the > files into a fresh ext3 partition. This is interesting.. How is it done? Can you elaborate more?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:26:07 up 5:45, 4 users, load average: 0.63, 0.66, 0.67 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:07:35 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the > > associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. > > I'd go with rsync too. It may well be slower than tar, but it can be > interrupted and resumed. As mentioned, go with tar if the destination tree is empty. If you have to abort midway, there's still an option to run rsync on it. So you still do save some time. But note that rsync _may_ take up more CPU resource than tar. > You should also note that dd is by far the slowest way of doing this, > partimage is a much better tool for cloning partitions. But one thing about partimage, I tried it once and going from a 10GB partition in partimage to 20GB partition in the new drive, the new drive only still saw itself as 10GB. I had to use partimage to resize and extend it to make it recognise itself as 20GB again. I don't know what happened and it was a long time ago. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:26:39 up 5:45, 4 users, load average: 1.55, 0.89, 0.74 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll wheel doesn't scroll
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 04:17 -0400, Colin wrote:
> Sorry for all the messages all at once. I've noticed recently that my
> mouse's scroll wheel isn't working. How do I turn on the wheel in X
> (since I'm guessing it's off)?
grep -i "4 5" /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is the Gaim window dockable?
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 03:38 -0400, Colin wrote: > There was an option to make the window dockable in the Windows port. I > really miss that feature, since windows would (or they were supposed to, > most did) maximize around the window, so that the Buddy List was > effectively a panel docked on the side of the screen. > > Can the Buddy List be docked under GNOME? I'm using Gaim 1.3.0. yep.. ->pref->plugins->sys tray icon -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:30:16 up 5:49, 4 users, load average: 1.35, 0.99, 0.80 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Bob Sanders wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:11:33 +0800 > > Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Actually I would use fdisk/mke2fs and tar rather than rsync since it's > >>much faster that way. > >> > > > > > > > > I'd suggest another option - use xfs and xfsdump and xfsrestore. > > At the bottom of the xfsdump man page there are examples of > > ways to dump out the file system. > > > > The way I moved my /home from a small disk to a larger one was - > > > > fdisk/cfdisk the new drive > > mkfs.xfs /dev/sda (it was attached via a USB to ide adapter) > > mkdir /d2 > > mount /dev/sda1 /d2 > > xfsdump - /home | xfsrestore - /d2/ > > > > There is a similar dump/restore for the ext2 filesystem - app-arch/dump. Ah.. So it's filesystem specific. But new thing learned today. > > This method looks interesting. I found a quote from Linux Torvalds saying > dump can misbehave if there are dirty buffers. Has anyone experienced that? > > http://www.geoffholden.com/content/presentations/Backups/ > > How about benchmarks? Has anyone seen benchmarks of dump vs. partimage vs. > tar vs. rsync vs. cp? That would be interesting. I guess our best bet is the OP since he/she has that empty hard drive to populate. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:18:31 up 23:37, 7 users, load average: 1.26, 2.04, 2.07 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB but something less than 100MB would be good. How does one do that? This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything is up. Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the dependencies etc? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:09:38 up 1 day, 28 min, 5 users, load average: 0.74, 0.57, 0.81 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:24 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > > but something less than 100MB would be good. > > > > How does one do that? > > > > This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything > > is up. > > > > Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. > > > > Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with > > busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the > > dependencies etc? > > > > Have you seen this howto? > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo > > It recommends for you to chroot into a stage3 and then use the ROOT > evironment variable to make portage install into an empty filesystem. Well, it I haven't I most certainly will this weekend then. Thanks. Anyone Else has experience with using GNAP? Gentoo Network Appliance > Zac -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:53:40 up 1 day, 1:13, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 0.93, 0.88 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >>>I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > >>>but something less than 100MB would be good. > >>> > >>>How does one do that? > >>> > >>>This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything > >>>is up. > >>> > >>>Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. > >>> > >>>Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with > >>>busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the > >>>dependencies etc? > >>> > >> > >>Have you seen this howto? > >> > >>http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo > >> > >>It recommends for you to chroot into a stage3 and then use the ROOT > >>evironment variable to make portage install into an empty filesystem. > > > > > > Well, it I haven't I most certainly will this weekend then. > > Thanks. > > > > Anyone Else has experience with using GNAP? Gentoo Network Appliance > > > > Also, did you know about the gentoo-embedded mailing list? > > http://marc.10east.com/?l=gentoo-embedded&r=1&w=2 Again.. something I didn't know.. Thanks. I do know about the gentoo-embedded irc channel but no one ever talks in there and there's no activity whatsover there at all. :-) Thanks again. > > Zac -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:34:35 up 1 day, 2:53, 5 users, load average: 2.34, 0.98, 0.72 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 17:34 +1000, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > > > >>Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>>I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > >>>>>but something less than 100MB would be good. > >>>>> > >>>>>How does one do that? > >>>>> > >>>>>This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything > >>>>>is up. > >>>>> > >>>>>Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. > >>>>> > >>>>>Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with > >>>>>busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the > >>>>>dependencies etc? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>Have you seen this howto? > >>>> > >>>>http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo > >>>> > >>>>It recommends for you to chroot into a stage3 and then use the ROOT > >>>>evironment variable to make portage install into an empty filesystem. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Well, it I haven't I most certainly will this weekend then. > >>>Thanks. > >>> > >>>Anyone Else has experience with using GNAP? Gentoo Network Appliance > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Also, did you know about the gentoo-embedded mailing list? > >> > >>http://marc.10east.com/?l=gentoo-embedded&r=1&w=2 > >> > >> > > > >Again.. something I didn't know.. Thanks. I do know about the > >gentoo-embedded irc channel but no one ever talks in there and there's > >no activity whatsover there at all. > > > >:-) > > > >Thanks again. > > > > > >>Zac > >> > >> > Are you aiming for a general purpose system or an 'appliance'? I don't > have any experience with embedded stuff but if you want it as a desktop > machine there are a few things you could do. I want it as an appliance. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:06:50 up 1 day, 5:26, 5 users, load average: 0.54, 0.36, 0.32 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:18 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > hi, > > im wondering how to avoid packages from upgrade or downgrade, at last found > that ati-drivers-8.14.13 compile with kernel vanilla 2.6.11.11 and it would > be good that this pair stays as is while --update world. $cat /etc/portage/package.mask >net-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 These masks anything > (higher) than those packages listed. * net-proxy/squid [ Masked ] Latest version available: 2.5.10 Latest version installed: 2.5.7-r2 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:42:01 up 1 day, 6:01, 5 users, load average: 0.79, 0.39, 0.31 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:33 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > > > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >>>> I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > >>>> but something less than 100MB would be good. > >>>> > >>>> How does one do that? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> Have you seen this howto? > >>> > >>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo > >>> > http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo running. right now, the space stands at total size = 53.6MB ext3 journal = 33MB kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) kernel-modules=9.5MB BTW, I've subscribed to the embedded mailing list too Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:22:10 up 1 day, 24 min, 4 users, load average: 1.10, 0.84, 0.80 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 09:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/19/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > Thanks for all the help guys.. I've managed to get a minimal gentoo > > > running. > > > > > > right now, the space stands at > > > > > > total size = 53.6MB > > > ext3 journal = 33MB > > > kernel = 2.1MB (compiled with uclibc) > > > kernel-modules=9.5MB > > > > Could you describe how you did it? > > (Oops.. the kernel and modules are NOT compiled with uclibc and not as stated previously.) Well, I just followed the instructions on bulah.com though there were some obstacles which I'm still trying to get right. (for one, modules doesn't load, dropbear doesn't start, no network etc.. in short, it's still in-progress :0 > I'd be interested also. Hey, you could even make an iso image > available and we could try it out ourselves. du -chs /mnt/data/devel/MINIME/ 23M total 7.6M MINIME-gentoo.tar.bz2 If anyone really wants to play with it. I can send you the tar.bz2 file. but it currently does nothing other than boots and drops you into a prompt. (i do have the whole devel fs at ~44MB, this is the one which u can use to "emerge" stuffs.) It does Absolutely NOTHING right now. I'm still working on it. :-) Let me know.. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:10:44 up 1 day, 12:13, 7 users, load average: 1.62, 1.39, 1.41 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev permissions
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 18:09 -0500, Qv6 wrote: > > Hello: > > Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the > entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default > or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev" > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 usb > > Is this the reason why I cannot play dvd movies? Are you in the cdrom group. (I'm assuming you can't get access to the cdrom?) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:00:18 up 1 day, 16:02, 7 users, load average: 1.15, 0.83, 0.48 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/pts -> how is it mounted
Hi All, I noticed that when I type mount, it will list devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) as mounted, but in /etc/fstab, I don't have any specific lines which calls for that to be mounted. Where is it mounted? or where is the call for it to be mounted? I'm trying to determine why I can't get dropbear to give me a tty in my minimal Gentoo setup. (see another thread of mine) I'm sure I've compiled in unitpty into the kernel. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:24:19 up 2 days, 15:26, 6 users, load average: 0.34, 0.35, 0.24 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/pts -> how is it mounted
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:42 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2005 07:26 schrieb ext Ow Mun Heng: > > > I noticed that when I type mount, it will list > > > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) > > > > as mounted, but in /etc/fstab, I don't have any specific lines which > > calls for that to be mounted. > > > In /sbin/rc, but only if your kernel has devpts filesystem support. Thanks.. I just looked into my minimal gentoo FS, no /sbin/rc hmm... Will try to mount it and see if it works. Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:59:53 up 2 days, 16:02, 6 users, load average: 0.68, 0.53, 0.38 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 12:27 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi David, > > * David Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Saturday, June 25, 2005, 1:26:27 AM: > > > I use a shell script that connects to my machines via ssh and > > performs commands to: > [...] > > I made it so that there is a config file that describes the backup > > as: host, db (yes/no), dir list. The machines are firewalled and the > > ssh is only allowed when signed by my trusted CA (me as well) so I > > feel pretty secure about it. Rsync allows me to throttle the > > connection to so I don't chew all my bandwidth on the backups. Let > > me know if you want a copy and I'll pull all my specifc stuffs out > > and post a copy. Cheers. > > /djb > > I would be very interested in this. from Man Rsync --bwlimit=KBPS This option allows you to specify a maximum transfer rate in kilobytes per second. This option is most effective when using rsync with large files (several megabytes and up). Due to the nature of rsync transfers, blocks of data are sent, then if rsync determines the transfer was too fast, it will wait before sending the next data block. The result is an average transfer rate equalling the specified limit. A value of zero specifies no limit. > > > Timo > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:35:05 up 3:29, 6 users, load average: 0.48, 0.52, 0.47 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:40 -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > On 6/27/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > IMO, Nick wasn't talking to you, Hareesh. > > I thought he was! Follow the thread and you'll understand where it went wrong. Unfortunately Nick decided to top post and thus you have a harder time determining it :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:27:22 up 5:14, 4 users, load average: 1.72, 1.66, 1.51 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:39 +, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > First of all, thanks for all who replied. > > It is the end of semester here, and I didn't have time (until now) to > read all the posts. > > I have to admit, I made a newbie mistake when posting this message. I > forgot to mention that I have Apache with SSL running. Thus, what I > decided to do, was to create tar.bz2 files of backups, link them to an > Apache directory, and download them from the machine that would > receive the backup files. I feel this way I have to install no new > software, gets the job done and let Apache take care of security. > > I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. I still think you should take a look at rsync. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:08:17 up 22:55, 6 users, load average: 2.40, 2.27, 2.25 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, June 29, 2005 5:08 am, Ow Mun Heng said: > > >> I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) > > > > Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. > > > > I still think you should take a look at rsync. > > rdiff-backup uses librsync, so it only transfers the minimum necessary. I do agree that rdiff-backup would be easier on the disk space. But my current practice is to sync all the changes into a tree that rotates every 7 days. (using the day before as a seed) This way, if bad things happen, I don't have to do the find full backup and apply the incrementals. > Unlike rsync, it allows you to easily roll back to an older version of > file. Very useful when you realise you have screwed your configs just > after a backup run. BTW, librsync = rsync protocol/algo? Same thing? Please explain the roll back. it should be the same as with rsync No? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:41:20 up 1 day, 3:28, 4 users, load average: 1.10, 1.18, 0.92 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
D600 Was [Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Latitude D610]
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 02:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > I have Gentoo 2004.3 running on a D600, with ipw2200 maturing over > the past year and several packages becoming available in the portage > tree (broadcom's bcm5700 for one), it has only gotten easier. > Do you have TVout working on yours? And does ATI binary drivers work? I can't get it to work on mine. I keep getting the NO Screen Found issue. If yes, can I get a copy of your xorg.conf settings off-list? Thanks. ps : I only wanted to try ati binary drivers cos I found out they can use tv-out which I really want. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:44:22 up 1 day, 3:31, 4 users, load average: 0.49, 0.84, 0.83 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:43:44 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Unlike rsync, it allows you to easily roll back to an older version of > > > file. Very useful when you realise you have screwed your configs just > > > after a backup run. > > > > BTW, librsync = rsync protocol/algo? Same thing? > > > > Please explain the roll back. it should be the same as with rsync No? > > No. rdiff-backup keeps a a backup plus diffs. You can roll back as > far as you want just by specifying the age. > > rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 1D12h /backup/path/to/file > > will restore file to the version you used 36 hours ago. Wow.. That does seem interesting. (I presume this is if you do a backup every 12 hours?) When Does it do a Full backup? > Check out the rdiff-backup web site, it gives several examples of how it > can be used - http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Yep.. Thanks.. Will do once I get some I-net access. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:44:48 up 1 day, 4:31, 4 users, load average: 1.54, 1.27, 0.98 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
I've got a question on Myth. I want to try running mythtv but the catch is, I don't want the backend and the usage of MySQL and stuffs like that. I don't have a PVR card (yet) but I still would like to use mythtv as a frontend to play my DVD and AVIs etc. I've emerged myth-0.18 with the "frontendonly" flag but upon running the mythfrontend command, I keep getting presented with the setup screen to for setting up the connection to mysql. (which I presume is the backend) Can it be done? I would assume yes but the question is "HOw?" I've also tried to put in the database, but based on the ebuild, using the frontendonly flag does not package the database files into the Gentoo tbz. help please. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:22:30 up 6 days, 2:09, 6 users, load average: 2.30, 1.24, 1.11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!
Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Securing your Network Connection using OpenSSL OpenSSL is a very important protocol in this day and age. The profilteration of the internet has made this protocol of utmost importance to secure financial and other transactions. We'll walk you through setting up your own Certificate of Authority and implementing your own secure connection using OpenSSL. FreeBSD Jails We talked about virtualisation in Edition 2, in Edition 3, we will guide you to setting up your own virtual server using FreeBSD Jails. Have fun in your very own Jail, wreck it as much as you want. LPI - Linux Professional Institute Empowering the users via certification. Tip of The Month Our resident tipster brings to your even more tips to make your life easier. This month's tips include a topic specifically targetted at Gentoo users. And More!! * ACE Framework * Libraries in Linux/Unix * RX Packets http://mag.my-opensource.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=55 Sincerely MyOSS Magazine Team -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 Available Now!
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:54 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition > > 3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven > > project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as > > spam). > > I have nothing against this, it sounds like some people put a lot of > work into it. However I do find it borders spam. Frankly, I am on this > list for directly gentoo related topics. No offense. This edition _does_ have gentoo related items in it. Take a look. On the other hand, what we're basically doing is just for the community. It's called paying back to the community what OpenSource/Free Software has provided to us users. (that means you too!) What we're doing here is just the basic sharing of knowledge. I'm not gonna argue with you on this. All I'm saying is, give knowledge a chance. You may already be in the know, but there may be others who will appreciate the news. I apologise again for disruption your day and thanks for your comments. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:10:09 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.33, 0.59 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Well, I want to use it as a set top box. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:10:49 up 13:58, 4 users, load average: 3.24, 2.99, 2.65 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:39 -0400, Colin wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > >>>Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. > >>> > >>> > >>Well, I want to use it as a set top box. > > I'm only guessing but I think it probably won't work without the > >MySQL server as it's so tied into that even for TV schedules and such > >and that's all done through the database. well, if that's the case, then there must be something wrong with the ebuild (or does it presume that the user has a backend somewhere and thus does not need the databases in mysql on the front-end machine) > I'm not familiar with MythTV, but is it possible to put the server and > frontend on the same machine? That sounds like it will work, at least > in theory. Yeah.. It works. I've tried it last night by populating the mysql database. It works. But for some reason, mythvideo does not recognise my video files. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:59:21 up 14:47, 4 users, load average: 0.87, 1.19, 1.17 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:52 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > Yes. I run that. May I know if mythvideo is able to recognise and play your video files? For mine, it doesn't recognise it. I have to use the "list" view and then specifically play it. Y? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:02:09 up 14:50, 4 users, load average: 2.27, 1.69, 1.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 23:11 -0400, Colin wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >On 7/4/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I'm not familiar with MythTV, but is it possible to put the server and > >>frontend on the same machine? That sounds like it will work, at least > >>in theory. > >> > >Yes, that works but he said specifically he didn't want to do that and > >we're saying that he probably has to. And I did. :-) BTW, what's ppl here using for a frontend as a Media Player Box for a Home Ent. PC? I played with Freevo and quite OK with it, but myth has lots more features built in. :-) (which is why I'm looking at it) > > > Sorry, I haven't been following this discussion. > > In that case, I'd like my $0.02 back. Back into the college fund it > goes... :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:26:28 up 15:14, 5 users, load average: 1.26, 1.13, 1.10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 20:20 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with MythTV, but is it possible to put the server and > > > frontend on the same machine? That sounds like it will work, at least > > > in theory. > > > > Yeah.. It works. I've tried it last night by populating the mysql > > database. It works. But for some reason, mythvideo does not recognise my > > video files. > > > This I don't know about. I've never used mythvideo. I don't even know > what it does. sorry. In any case.. Thanks to all. I think I'll go buy the myth-tv list now :0 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:35:12 up 15:23, 5 users, load average: 0.43, 0.75, 0.92 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 20:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And I did. :-) > > > > BTW, what's ppl here using for a frontend as a Media Player Box for a > > Home Ent. PC? > > > > I played with Freevo and quite OK with it, but myth has lots more > > features built in. :-) (which is why I'm looking at it) > > Obviously MythTV for me. We run it in two houses, have three tuners > and 3 dedicated frontend only machine. All PCs can run it also. Well, I'm evaluating it because I also want to be able to record in the future. But in the meantime, I prefer to be able to also view normal DVD/AVI/RMVB etc files. BTW, talking about tuner cards, am I mistaken to think that 3 tuners = 3 connections and 3 diff channels at the same time? I take it this is free-to-air TV instead of Pay-TV eg: Dish/Cable etc? (which would otherwise restrict the viewer to 1 channel per instance. unless they get more set-top boxes?) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:54:40 up 15:42, 5 users, load average: 1.78, 1.27, 1.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 ignoring -D ? (userdir, php4)
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:58 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Not sure whether this is an apache2 or php problem or both: > > so this all says it _should_ be working. I've checked permissions and > ownership on ~/public_html and on my php scripts, the only thing I can > think of now is the -D options in /etc/conf.d/apache2 seem to be > ignored. What about specific instructions to permit access to those directories? I had that biting me once. ?/ -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:33:54 up 20:21, 5 users, load average: 1.63, 1.41, 1.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:10 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:08 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > > > Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes - > > > it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but > > > apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be > > > able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE > > > flag does (I think - I've never read the ebuild) is to not build the > > > actual backend code. It still requires MySQL be installed because it > > > assumes you will talk to a MySQL based backend. > > > > > > > That wasn't his question. We wants to play video, but not record > > video. He wants to run the frontend with no backend anywhere. > > in point of fact there must be a mysql server to connect to somewhere on > the network. mysql stores the frontend settings. AFAIK you do not > actually need the backend running, but you do need the mysql server > running. > Yep.. got mysql running and mythtv comes up. > Now back to the point, did the OP set the directory where his video > files reside in the mythtv setup? Yeah.. I set it up but unfortunately the browser doesn't recognise any of the files. I'm not sure why. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
