RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-24 Thread Adam Carter
The contents of the connection table is in /proc/net/ip_conntrack Example: tcp 6 65 TIME_WAIT src=192.168.1.4 dst=20.x.y.40 sport=4986 dport=80 src=207.46.109.40 dst=192.168.1.4 sport=80 dport=4986 [ASSURED] mark=0 use=1 So go nuts with grep/awk/sed/sort/uniq etc to find what is consuming a

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log > in there fine. Can I recover the root password? If you could passwords were useless. ;-) But you can boot from a LiveCD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail and Domainkeys

2008-03-24 Thread Jason Carson
I found this ( http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-665798.html ) so I will give that a try. > Greetings, > > Has anyone on the list got qmail to work with domainkeys, if so how? > > Thanks > > Jason > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Chris Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out LVM (Logical Volume Manager) > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml Yes, at least for the storage stuff, LVM2 can do much of this. But my ideas go some steps futher, eg: * mapping blocks instead of la

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If SMART (or something conceptually similar) detects that a drive might > be failing and be beyond the range of the drive's ability to cope, it > could raise an event and move the blocks used to another disk. And it even would get funnier if the driv

[gentoo-user] Qmail and Domainkeys

2008-03-24 Thread Jason Carson
Greetings, Has anyone on the list got qmail to work with domainkeys, if so how? Thanks Jason -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (expat issue or not?)

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Patrick Holthaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What does config.out say about this ? > > There is no config.out in /var/tmp/portage. You can find build.log and > config.log here: yeah, I meant config.log ;-o ... and it clearly tells what's wrong. cairo's obviously built w/ GL, and your GL li

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Grant
> > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in > > there fine. Can I recover the root password? > > On the grub menu, edit the entry of the system you want to boot and on the > kernel line, add "init=/bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Steven Lembark
> It's probably better to use a shell designed for rescue work, > like sash or busybox instead of bash, especially if /usr is on a > separate filesystem. The statically linked bash acutally works rather well for this. The main advantage I've found using it for recovery situations is that I'm use

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-24 Thread Neil Walker
Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: Hi! I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux. I'm planing to buy a core 2 Duo platform with a nvidia 8800 GT, but i am very confused about the motherboa

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-24 Thread Galevsky
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Nicola Degl'Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i > use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux. > > I'm planing to buy a core 2 Duo platform with

[gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard

2008-03-24 Thread Nicola Degl'Innocenti
Hi! I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux. I'm planing to buy a core 2 Duo platform with a nvidia 8800 GT, but i am very confused about the motherboard. The cheapest shop vendor on

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:40:13 -0300, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > On the grub menu, edit the entry of the system you want to boot and on > the kernel line, add "init=/bin/bash" without the quotes. Boot that > modded boot instructions sequence. After kernel loads, you'll have a > bash. Type: "moun

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:39 -0500, Dale wrote: > Grant wrote: > > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in > > there fine. Can I recover the root password? > > > > - Grant > > > > I think you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's acutally a good idea to keep a static bash and just put this into > grub as the 'shell-init' or 'rgh' entry (it's in their example config). That's what I do, at least. ;) I have that boot entry for cases like t

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 March 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > > Just a thought, maybe you know some aspect of disks that I don't > > and can see where this would be useful. From where I sit, I can;t > > see any such use-case. > > > >   > > While I see what Alan is saying, I'm pretty sure LVM does it.  Device > Dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Steven Lembark
> On the grub menu, edit the entry of the system you want to boot and on the > kernel line, add "init=/bin/bash" without the quotes. Boot that modded boot > instructions sequence. After kernel loads, you'll have a bash. Type: "mount > -o rw,remount /" Make sure that your bash is statically linke

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log > in there fine. Can I recover the root password? No, that would require undoing high-quality encryption schemes. Which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in > there fine. Can I recover the root password? On the grub menu, edit the entry of the syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? - Grant I think you can boot into single user mode and reset it. You have to put it on the end o

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Boris Fersing
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in > there fine. Can I recover the root password? > > - Grant Hi, boot with a liveCD, mount

[gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Grant
I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ? My idea goes like this: * one or more devices are assigned to one block device * a bunch of spare

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > Hi I have the following entry in the crontab > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsyn

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. [snip] I'm currently planning to implement an similar approach for Linux (at least virtual block devices). You might want to check out Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance

2008-03-24 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using the iwl4965 driver which is included in the kernel 2.6.25-rc6. Everything works fine (Networkmanager, WPA2, etc.) The only thing I experience is a very bad performance. I cannot get more than around 30 kb/s. Also the responses are rath

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic > defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ? > > My idea goes like this: > * one or more devices are assigned to one block device > * a bunch of spare

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs > (even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could > learn something from there. > > One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. > AFAIK,

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > Hi I have the following entry in the crontab > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh > > > > I want my subject line to be "hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" > > > > is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (expat issue or not?)

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hi! > What does config.out say about this ? There is no config.out in /var/tmp/portage. You can find build.log and config.log here: http://big.homeftp.net/~pholthau/ Tell me if you need other files aswell. Patrick -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:03 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs > (even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could > learn something from there. > > One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstra

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Chris Frederick
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs (even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could learn something from there. One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. AFAIK, Mainframes work on one large virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (expat issue or not?)

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Patrick Holthaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gentooers! > > I don't know if I am facing the expat issue or not. gtk fails with the > following error message: > > > checking Pango flags... > > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include > > -I/usr/include/ca

[gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs (even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could learn something from there. One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. AFAIK, Mainframes work on one large virtual memory (disks for swa

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, from an "typical" SME view (mostly workstation and fileservers) I don't really see an performance difference worth thinking of (as already stated, there're lot's of other bottlenecks, like storage IO). AMD tends to win this battle by price, but Intel tends to be a bit more rubust: I'm

[gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ? My idea goes like this: * one or more devices are assigned to one block device * a bunch of spare blocks are reserved for defect management (so the device

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug in server_test.c

2008-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
Oops. Wrong group... On 2008-03-24, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There appears to be a bug in server_test.c: > > ecos-opt/net/net/common/current/tests/server_test.c -- Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >- is the photorec able to search data in this partition table > >corruption level? > > Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just looks at the > bits on the drive and saves any collection of said bits which match > specification for a jpe

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi I have the following entry in the crontab [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh I want my subject line to be "hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" is there a way to do it Thanks and Regards Kaushal The easiest way is to write a wrapper script; I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try testdisk. It's ncurses-based and easy to use. It saved my sorry arse > twice. ACK. If *just* the partition table is lost, but no damage inside the individual partitions, testdisk can easily reconstruct it but looking for superblocks (even w/ FAT)

[gentoo-user] Bug in server_test.c

2008-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
There appears to be a bug in server_test.c: ecos-opt/net/net/common/current/tests/server_test.c 94 95 #ifdef CYGPKG_LIBC_STDIO 96 sprintf(buf, "Hello %s:%d\n", inet_ntoa(client_addr.sin_addr), ntohs(client_addr.sin_port)); 97 #else 98 str

[gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (expat issue or not?)

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hi Gentooers! I don't know if I am facing the expat issue or not. gtk fails with the following error message: > checking Pango flags... > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include > -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 > -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 24 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Peter Humphrey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008 10:19:25 Collin Starkweather wrote: > > > ... you left a '>' out of your rsync call. It's fixed below. > > > > His version is exactly the sa

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2008 10:19:25 Collin Starkweather wrote: > > > ... you left a '>' out of your rsync call. It's fixed below. > > His version is exactly the same as yours, apart from layout. I suggest > that > the '>' at

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 24 March 2008 10:19:25 Collin Starkweather wrote: > ... you left a '>' out of your rsync call. It's fixed below. His version is exactly the same as yours, apart from layout. I suggest that the '>' at the beginning of a line has confused your mail reader. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > So the Final script looks like Is it the final script :-) ? > #!/bin/bash > #rsync mysql database shell script > #author kaushal > #bash script file name rsync_mysql.sh > #created on 24/03/2008 > > TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S:%N` > > if

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Collin Starkweather
Quoting Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: so according to your suggestion where does this line fits "cat /tmp/file|mailx -s "my subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in my above bash script Dirk gave a lovely one-liner, but my guess is you'll get sick of having to actually check

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Dirk Heinrichs < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh > > > > > > I want my subject line to be "ho

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh > > > > I want my subject line to be "hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" > > > > is there a way to do it > > Do

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh > > I want my subject line to be "hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" > > is there a way to do it Don't rely on cron to send the mail, use mailx inside your script instead. That means, inside t

[gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi I have the following entry in the crontab [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh I want my subject line to be "hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" is there a way to do it Thanks and Regards Kaushal