Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-05 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:55:15 -0300 "Fernando Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/5/07, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Alfredo, I´ve in my home PC automount for pendrive with XFCE and I > > didn´t use ivman. > > Tonight, when I go home, I´ll post another message expl

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at > shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/rc under RC_SWAP_ERASE. As far as I understand, this is far from secure. You want at least some degree of security, you need cryp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-10-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Nick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote: > >> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita: >> >> >>> Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the >>> US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike th

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-05 Thread Fernando Antunes
On 10/5/07, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alfredo, I´ve in my home PC automount for pendrive with XFCE and I didn´t > use ivman. > Tonight, when I go home, I´ll post another message explaining how I did > that, > including the complete emerge sequence e use flags. Hi Alfredo, t

Re: [gentoo-user] How does module-rebuild know what's installed?

2007-10-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Eh.. `module-rebuild del x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers` ? But to answer > the question in the subject field packages that inherit linux-mod get added > to the moduledb (which happens to reside in /var/lib/module-rebuild/moduledb) > by that eclass. Thank you sir!

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:23:38 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setting up NAT works using a sysctl (or the procfs). Restricting the > > NAT works using iptables. > > I don't think that's quite right. Correct me if i'm wrong (please) but > this should read, > > "Setting

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:00:56 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Setting up NAT works using a sysctl (or the procfs). Restricting the > NAT works using iptables. I don't think that's quite right. Correct me if i'm wrong (please) but this should read, "Setting up forward

Re: [gentoo-user] How does module-rebuild know what's installed?

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Randy Barlow schrieb: > Howdy, every time I try to run module-rebuild on one of my systems it > tries to emerge nvidia-legacy-drivers, which is no longer in portage. > It's no big deal because I can obviously emerge the packages that need > to be rebuilt manually, but I wanted to try and remove wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:33:02 +0200 Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have here a gentoo diskless system which boots over pxeboot and > mount everything over NFS from my big Gentoo server. > > But at shutdown I get the error message: > Failed to simply unmount filesystems >

Re: [gentoo-user] How does module-rebuild know what's installed?

2007-10-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 06 October 2007 00:13:20 Randy Barlow wrote: > Howdy, every time I try to run module-rebuild on one of my systems it > tries to emerge nvidia-legacy-drivers, which is no longer in portage. > It's no big deal because I can obviously emerge the packages that need > to be rebuilt manually,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > In practice, after power is cut, everything in ram is lost. > > But not the stuff in swap I don't know if this was mentioned already but it is probably useful. There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mplayer question

2007-10-05 Thread Nick
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote: > Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita: > >> Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the >> US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in >> the states. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/5/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the "lost" RAM data to be > > recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still > > physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology > > and know-how recover i

[gentoo-user] Perl module problem

2007-10-05 Thread Naga Toro
Hi, I have two machines that uses x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-8.3. One is ~amd64 and one is ~x86, both have the same version of perl and perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils. One can use the perl extensions (~amd64 one) and one gives this error on startup: urxvt: perl hook 0 evaluation error: Undefined

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > The thing is: You never can guarantee security, that's absolutely > impossible (well, of course you can, but you would automatically be > wrong). Well, you can put your machine in a closet and never turn it on, ever :) Then physical theft is the only possibility, but wh

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-05 Thread Fernando Antunes
Alfredo, I´ve in my home PC automount for pendrive with XFCE and I didn´t use ivman. Tonight, when I go home, I´ll post another message explaining how I did that, including the complete emerge sequence e use flags. On 10/4/07, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:30:3

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:42:42 -0500 "Walter Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have modem asdl zyxel 660 and activate loopback with command: "ip nat > loopback on" Where do you enter that and why? What is the thing _you_ call a loopback? On what device or machine does it exist? You don't s

[gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables

2007-10-05 Thread Walter Willis
I have modem asdl zyxel 660 and activate loopback with command: "ip nat loopback on" the ask is: it is into gentoo linux with iptables ? the compiler module especial for function? Thanks !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-10-05 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:45:41 Grant wrote: > > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? > > > > > > - Grant > > > > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. > > What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? > > - Gr

[gentoo-user] Bug in /etc/init.d/netmount?

2007-10-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here a gentoo diskless system which boots over pxeboot and mount everything over NFS from my big Gentoo server. But at shutdown I get the error message: Failed to simply unmount filesystems Unmounting network filesystems (retry #1) ... INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel A

Re: [gentoo-user] Standby

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:26:28 +0100 Paul Gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now when I press > the soft power button the system suspends ( all processes appear to > stop and the screen goes blank but for a flashing cursor in the top > left of the 2 screens of my dual headed system) but after

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:33:40 +0200 "Liviu Andronic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > However, it makes sense to clean up memory after having > > > critical data in it -- e.g. a rebo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: OSS replacement for Adobe Bridge

2007-10-05 Thread Jonas Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Barlow skrev: > Does anybody know of a good open source replacement (preferably in > Portage) for Adobe Bridge? I particularly would like something that > supports camera RAW files and has the rating functionality. Suggestions? > I do not kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with segfaulting python

2007-10-05 Thread Dale
mathieu wrote: > Hello Neil, > >Thank you very much. > > I used CFLAGS found on internet when i installed this box (8 > months ago). This surelly explain time to time strange beaviour. > >I'd like to rebuild world but emerge is broken, do you think using > a stage3 before rebuilding is

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with segfaulting python

2007-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:48:31 +0300, Tapio Raevaara wrote: > Isn't Nehemiah actually a C3-2? AFAIK, C3 has 3dNow! support, while > C3-2 has SSE support instead. I believe -march=c3-2 would be a better > choice. My Nehemiah board is sat in a drawer right now, so I can't check, but cat /proc/cpuinfo

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with segfaulting python

2007-10-05 Thread Tapio Raevaara
On Friday 05 October 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello mathieu, > > > I'm using /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/2007.0/x86 on a VIA > > Nehemiah box. > > > > Make.conf : > > > > CFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -pipe -mmmx -msse" > > The Nehemiah is not a 686, although it is more than a 586. Call

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with segfaulting python

2007-10-05 Thread mathieu
Hello Neil, Thank you very much. I used CFLAGS found on internet when i installed this box (8 months ago). This surelly explain time to time strange beaviour. I'd like to rebuild world but emerge is broken, do you think using a stage3 before rebuilding is a good idea ? Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with segfaulting python

2007-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello mathieu, > I'm using /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/2007.0/x86 on a VIA > Nehemiah box. > > Make.conf : > > CFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -pipe -mmmx -msse" The Nehemiah is not a 686, although it is more than a 586. Calling certain i686 functions cayuses crashes. Use -march-c3.

[gentoo-user] Please help with segfaulting python

2007-10-05 Thread mathieu
Hi, I'm using /usr/portage/profiles/selinux/2007.0/x86 on a VIA Nehemiah box. Make.conf : CFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -pipe -mmmx -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" After an emerge --deep --update --ask --ve