On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 20:46, James wrote:
> The logdir is filled with empty files that, in the name of the file,
> has the pid of the pam process. However, these files are empty and
> they do not have anything in them.
>
> Thoughts?
Try putting the compile time debugging options on?
Ward
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 17:41, James wrote:
> It seems that the LDAP is failing to work, as well, in CentOS 5 --
> same ldap.conf file that (a) fails in Gentoo, and (b) works in Ubuntu.
>
> What's the best way to star troubleshooting this from a PAM perspective?
>
> I have a debug line set at the b
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 05:44, James wrote:
> Things just got more interesting.
>
> I just copied my /etc/ldap.conf file over from my Gentoo box to an
> Ubuntu box -- it works without a single hitch.
>
> I'm about to rip my hair out here...any ideas on where I can start
> troubleshooting this?
Put
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 16:05, Dan Johansson wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
On my system, this section looks like:
Try adding "" to yours?
Ward
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:40, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> So is there anything better for flash when using firefox to browse the
> web?
You can try gnash.
Ward
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 20:36, Christopher Kurtis Koeber
wrote:
> Ran the command: /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -F /etc/openldap/ -d 65535
>
> See attached as the output was long.
>
> Not sure what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
Are you sure you specified a rootdn and rootpw and that they
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:52, Christopher Kurtis Koeber
wrote:
> However, I STILL can't get the server to start. And now I don't know what
> may be the issue, as slaptest is coming back OK. Any ideas?
Try running slapd -d 65535 and tell us what it says.
Ward
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 21:26, Christopher Kurtis Koeber
wrote:
> XX~ # slaptest
>
> hdb_db_open: warning - no DB_CONFIG file found in directory
> /var/lib/openldap-data: (2).
>
> Expect poor performance for suffix "dc= ,dc=XXX".
>
> hdb_db_open: database "dc= ,dc=
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 19:23, Christopher Kurtis Koeber
wrote:
> OK, I did that, but the output is hard to parse through. Attached is text of
> this command:
>
> /etc/init.d/slapd --debug restart
That puts the debug of the init scripts on, not of openldap. Try:
slapd -d 65535
That should give y
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer wrote:
> I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate
> users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so
> after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On
> attempting to aut
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 17:11, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server
>> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp
>> traffic. T
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl wrote:
> As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however. When
> this is done, backup is tarballed, and tarball is given as like, say,
> 440 permissions, where users are in some useful 'backup' group, then
> while tarball can be read to be
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server
> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp
> traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server
> when it's do
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> It looks interesting, and no program is that good that alternatives
> should never be considered, but I really like the way BaclupPC works.
> Everything is handled by the server, all you need to do on each client is
> copy the backuppc user's
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 22:04, Grant wrote:
> I thought SSDs were projected to
> last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much
> longer than MLC.
It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Disadvantages
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 23:04, Mick wrote:
> What would be the pam-way to only allow remote ssh logins using pubkeys and
> completely forbid ssh paswd? I used to remove allow pam from sshd_config. Is
> there a better pam-centric way of doing the same thing?
Put "PasswordAuthentication" to no in
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50, Stroller wrote:
> I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the switch
> *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the Linux
> server at the other end is recognising the NIC and negotiating as gigabit
> speeds?
If i recall
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 16:39, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote:
>
>> You should take a look at rsnapshot ( http://rsnapshot.org/ ). I use
>> it and it works perfectly. But it's written in perl and not bash, i'm
>>
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:22, Dale wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home
> directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up
> the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo
> uses?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 19:19, Grant wrote:
> BackupPC does look pretty good. Would anyone recommend I *don't* can
> this whole thing and set up BackupPC instead?
I recommend you take a look at rsnapshot instead of pure rsync.
Ward
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 19:10, James wrote:
> VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
> (I keep vesa for a backup)
>
> emerge -C ati-drivers
>
> run 'qlist -I -C x11-drivers/'
>
> and rebuild the list of supporting drivers?
>
>
> ??? that simple or did I miss something?
Yes, change your xorg.conf. Change
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 17:43, wrote:
> By the way: Calling fetchmal -d from ~/.openbox/autostart.sh also does
> not work, but other programs started from there do have no problems.
Try running fetchmail -d -v --logfile ~/fetchmail.log in your
autostart or cron and see if fetchmail gets started
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote:
>
> When using the line:
>
> @ 5 fetchmail -a
>
> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded
> with
>
> fetchmail -a
>
> from the commandline.
>
> May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing
> wrong he
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51, Jorma Airola wrote:
> Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop.
>
> I have used dev-util/lafilefixer few time with "--justfixit" option
> few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrade?
Did you remove the lib "libxcb-xlib.so" or is it still there?
W
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:26, Daniel Troeder wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:03 +0400, Top Point wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Can hal mount .iso 9660 by loop device? I can mount .iso manually but
>> I
>> want to do it automatically by hal.
> Do you want to mount it by "right-clicking" it in a graphical
> en
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 18:40, M Daniel R M<4.maga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before
> with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of
> inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame
> window
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:51, Volker Armin
Hemmann wrote:
> systemrescuecd is even more helpfull
Yes, but a ubuntu (or any distro) on an usb drive is more usefull
IMHO. An usb drive is smaller and less fragile then a cd so it's a
better choice when you are very mobile. It also has the advantage o
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup
>> laptop".
>
> Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around usually
> is enough to fix most kinds of breakages. Also building binary packages is
>
Hi,
Start from yesterday, firefox doesn't work anymore. When started, it
crashes with the message "illegal instruction". I've upgraded to the
lastest version of xulrunner and firefox but that doesn't change
anything. It's an x86-64 system. I've moved my .mozilla directory and
disable all plugins (
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 17:08, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
> Finally it works!
Great :)
> I just had to add my user to the 'video' group.
>
> Shouldn't new user be added to such groups by default?
We're Gentoo, not Ubuntu ;-)
> driconf, always says
>
> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:51, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
>
> So I think that's a permission problem now.
Check /dev/video* en /dev/dri*
Try adding,
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
To your xorg.conf file.
If that doesn't work, take a look into Xorg.0.log.
Ward
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 13:16, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
> Done. After that I did:
>
> emerge -av xf86-video-intel
> killall -1 X
Did you merge mesa again? Did you follow the guide to the letter?
Ward
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:52, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
>
> When it says "to switch set the VIDEO_CARDS", I thought it meant "since
> Gentoo switched all ebuilds to the upstream naming
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel, if you want to switch to the old
> xf86-video-i810, set the VIDEO_CARDS variab
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:50, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
>
> However (but maybe I've understood wrong), it says that I have to define
> that variable only if I want to use the old xf86-video-i810 name. If I don't
> define that, I should use the new name (xf86-video-intel).
> Do I get any improve
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:32, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
> Do you mean into the xorg.conf file (I'm not very expert in configuring
> X...)?
>
> In my previous mail I sent the xorg.conf file. Do I have to change
> something?
Your xorg.conf is fine. Take a look at make.conf. Somewhere you should
2009/6/19 Massimiliano Ziccardi :
> Thank you all. I think I'll wait, however, do you think that that is the
> problem that cause
Did you enable intel in VIDEO_CARDS for mesa?
Ward
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 13:32, Vasya Volkov wrote:
>
> For swithcing back just erase strings that you add to package.mask and
> then reemerge packets. Don't forget that xorg-1.5* and 1.3* are
> different. Read upgrade guide.
Are you sure that's a good idea? He has an GM45 which was only
released l
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 16:08, Massimiliano
Ziccardi wrote:
> Can someone give me some hint about what to do/what to check?
Can you tell use the hardware you are using (lspci) and contents of
your xorg.conf file and Xorg.0.log file.
Regards,
Ward
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:17, Michael P.
Soulier wrote:
> Wow. How'd I get in this state?
Try unmerging app-text/poppler*. It's being replaced by dev-libs/poppler*
Ward
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:19, Stroller wrote:
> What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of instructions"
> with "-march=" and doing so with USEs?
>
> Or doesn't "-march=" support additional "certain sets of instructions". What
> does it do, then?
The difference is that with the
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:13, Stroller wrote:
>
> I'm not absolutely sure that the USE flags enable hand-written assembler
> code, but what I do know is that:
Don't make it more difficult then it is. SSE, etc means the CPU
support a certain set of instructions. When you enable the use flag
for i
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 14:55, Raul Gonzales wrote:
> 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
Write a patch for the program? Make a new translation of the program?
Ward
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 21:57, Wyatt Epp wrote:
> Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to have a
> FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. I honestly don't understand why the user
> should have to be arsed to set those USEs manually if they don't actually
> care about moving b
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 15:56, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> ... or is it for me only?
it's down here too.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 21:25, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual
> keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i
> just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it
> in a xt
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 21:26, thomas blomme wrote:
> Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off?
Not that i know of. But there is a "Quote selected text" feature in labs.
Ward
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:20, Steffen Loos wrote:
> Steffen Loos schrieb:
>> I would assume gnome-terminal is eating your ctrl-a ;-)
>
> you can have a look on your settings with:
> "ssty -a"
>
> if ^A is set up to an action.
Using ^Tt as the default works, so ^Aa is getting eating by somebody
b
Hi,
I've got a problem running screen in a gnome-terminal: all the usual
keystroks (for example: ^a c) don't work. When i press ctrl+a d, i
just get a d on the terminal. Screen works perfectly when i start it
in a xterm.
I haven't got a clue where to search for the problem. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Wa
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 19:09, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this?
try Greasemonkey?
Ward
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:06, Adam Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in
>> 1600x1200. At the
>> > moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X.
>> >
>> > Here's my config; the Modeline is required.
>>
>> Can you show us your
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:35, Adam Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in 1600x1200. At the
> moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X.
>
> Here's my config; the Modeline is required.
Can you show us your complete xorg.conf?
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:50, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the difference between du and df is about 640 - 188 = 452 MB. and "df" is
> showing that my root is full 2.4 times more than "du".
>
> which one is the correct one? I've another server that this difference is
> about 7 GiG and on that
2008/6/21 dhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I looked in /etc/udev/rules.d but I not sure how all that's used. What are
> the rules suppose to be?
Here you can find everything about udev rules:
http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
You should look for a rule that with SYMLINK=/dev/fb or somethi
2008/6/21 dhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed:
> Is a directory
Check your udev rules. I think he tries to make a symlink to /dev/fb
but it's a directory so he can't.
Ward
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2008/6/21 Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yes,i can the icon but i cannot open it,after i click it nothing happen. Is
> it i have to Run "mount" and "dmesg" using terminal? i'm using Gnome desktop
> manager,the id stated is "1000".
So when you click, nothings happens? No error message?
"id" sh
2008/6/21 Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thank you. After i run this script "/etc/init.d/hald start" and with
> "rc-update add hald default" using in root and i connect my external
> harddisk,it detects my external but after i double click to open it,nothing
> happen,i cant open my external dr
2008/6/21 Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Can anyone assists how to enable this services and how to load the kernel
> 2.6 so that i can connect my external harddisk.
I don't understand what you ask? You can start hal with
"/etc/init.d/hald start" and with "rc-update add hald default" you can
2008/6/20 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On my systems I have only seen this *every* time I `sudo` when my clock has
> been broken.
That's because the lecture option has the value of once and when your
time is messed up, it resets.
Try adding:
Defaults !lecture
to your sudoers. No need to emerge
2008/6/20 Paul Melvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 1.get rid of all the text
Add:
Defaults !lecture
to you sudoers file
> 2.change the password line to something, dare I say it, like ubuntu, e.g.
> [sudo] password for paul, I assume paul is just a $USER
Look at the sudoers man page. It's all there.
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