[gentoo-user] Free memory issue

Hi all, I wonder what is going on with my system. I have a 2G of physical RAM but even without any major activity output of free,vmstat and top reports only ~64M free. Would any one know how to find more - ps doesn't show nothing wrong... free -m total used free

[gentoo-user] hal .fdi rules for usb stick

Hi, I'm trying to get my USB stick mounted at some other place than /media/. For the beginning it would be enough to mount it to /media/usbstick. I've created my own fdi rule: #cat /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-usb-mount.fdi type="bool">true

[gentoo-user] change output of passwd

Hi, is there a way how to change output of passwd? From: New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is WAY too short To something like: New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: password must be at least 6 characters long and must contain at least 1 digit, 1 special character Thanks, Raul

[gentoo-user] password rules

Hi all, I would like to set some rules for user passwords like minimum length, password must contain a digit, special character, upper and lower letters, etc. but have not found a way yet how to do it. Do I need some special addon or is this configurable in base system? Thanks, Raul

[gentoo-user] strange net interfaces

Hi all, I've found that when I run ip link show on my box it gives me: 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft