On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:31:21 +, Graham Murray wrote:
> That is as long as the hardware has graphical capabilities. A text
> (curses) based installer would also allow installation on systems with
> serial consoles (like traditional *nix system). A well designed curses
> application is just as e
Hi folks, here comes an interesting little problem.
I have two boxes, A and B, both running gentoo. Box B has got a full portage
tree, box A has none but nfs mounts it from B. This has worked for me for
several years.
Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything else)
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:06:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything
> else) from B. NFS mount is broken. I know that emerging nfs-utils will
> cure the problem. On the other hand, I can not emerge nfs-utils on A
> without nfs working. Hic r
On 09 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:06:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything
> > else) from B. NFS mount is broken. I know that emerging nfs-utils will
> > cure the problem. On the other hand, I can not e
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:27:54 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Alternative, and less kludgy, solution. Tar up /usr/portage on B,
> > unpack it on A.
>
> Too big a thing for A. There is a reason why it doesn't have its own
> portage tree. ;-)
You could get away with copying only the directories you ne
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:30:24 -0600
»Q« wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote:
> >
> > > We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek
> > > first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem.
> >
> > Why not?
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:21:36 -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Some efforts were also made with the command line installer. My
> problem there was typing and overlooking details. If I mistyped
> something (or forgot to enter needed info) and went on to the next
> screen, there was no way to go back an
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:21:36 -0500, David Relson wrote:
>
>
>> Some efforts were also made with the command line installer. My
>> problem there was typing and overlooking details. If I mistyped
>> something (or forgot to enter needed info) and went on to the next
>> scree
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»Q« wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote:
>>
>>> We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek
>>> first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem.
>> Why not? Ge
Hi All,
now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11
console which can display images intermingled in the normal
text flow.
The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png
.
That is, I'm looking for a terminal emulator
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:45 +0100, Matthias Kramm wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11
> console which can display images intermingled in the normal
> text flow.
>
> The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
> http://www.quiss.
> > > > > I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of
> > > > > transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage,
> > > > > memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic,
> > > > > etc. My external monitoring service has an API I can hook into
> >
Hi,
I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
On machine A I have in ssh_config:
ForwardX11 yes
I can ssh from A to B without problems but when I try to start a
simple application:
B ~ $ x
"2007-11-09 - Hard Drive Failure
I would like to appologize about the recent down time over the last 2
days, the hard drive on the primary wiki server died. The hard drive
has been restored and everything is back to normal. Later today or
tomorrow, we will be getting a new hard drive to replace th
071109 Matthias Kramm wrote:
> I'm looking for an X11 console which can display images
> intermingled in the normal text flow.
> The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
> http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png
Not what you asked for, but 'feh' (Portage) is an excel
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:52 -0330, Roger Mason wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
> running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config:
>
> X11Forwarding yes
>
> On machine A I have in ssh_config:
>
> ForwardX11 yes
>
> I can ssh from
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:08:05AM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> Ok so a long time ago there were these things called (text) terminals
> that were inherently text-based. Then along came these whiz-bang
> things called X terminals which were like the other terminals but could
> display graphics.
Looked over the directory structure in the tftp directory compared to
what was setup in the ltsp directory.
Found some differences.
Copied over a directory called 2.6.17.80ltsp-1 which contained all the
needed files in proper placement to tftp under the same original name.
Adjusted some conf fi
>> Why not? Gentoo is aimed at more experienced users, Linux novices are
>> already amply catered for by other distros. I would never recommend
>> Gentoo to a new Linux user, in the same way that I wouldn't recommend
>> a Ferrari to a learner driver.
I don't necessarily agree. I've recommended
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:23:51 +0200
> "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, James wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm writing a piece of code that requires I gather the following
> > > statistics every second:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:06 +
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Decided to order a diskless workstation from
> http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of
> the ltsp project.
why would you do that? Coudn't you build an excellent diskless host
for less than they cos
one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode:
/usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d
then in another terminal
ssh -p 23 $host
once you quit that session, your sshd process will terminate
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Hi James,
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I I re-emerge 'timezone-data' and just wait until spring to see if there
> is a problem?
Here is the procedure I used last spring (you'll need to set the
TIMEZONE according to your location:
(1) Sync. (perhaps not required if portage is fairly up t
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:06 +
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Decided to order a diskless workstation from
http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of
the ltsp project.
why would you do that? Coudn't you build an excellent diskless host
for l
Most of you can stop reading right now ;-)
I can see that people seem to like Gentoo for different reasons. Here's
what attracted me go Gentoo:
I'm not a Windows convert. I started using Linux before Windows really
made its mark. I remember when most people ran 1 or 2 Windows apps and
everythi
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:52:14 -0330
Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
> running an X server.
> ...
did you ...
- restart the ssh server?
- try the -Y option to ssh?
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On 11/7/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thoughts?
I'm no expert in the field, but since dmstat was mentioned, this might
be useful:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Detecting_your_Hardware#dstat_.2F_vmstat_.2F_free
Regards,
Liviu
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It's a bit off-topic, however I have no other place to ask this question:
Which online forum systems offer bi-directional gateway with email system.
Examples:
* user posts on forum - email is being sent to subscribers (that one almost
any forum out there has out-of-the-box)
* user replies to
On Friday 09 November 2007, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:21:36 -0500, David Relson wrote:
> >> Some efforts were also made with the command line installer. My
> >> problem there was typing and overlooking details. If I mistyped
> >> something (or forgot to enter ne
Hi list,
The situation:
I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of
string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was
not, but the change
"Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now
forces string matching, as with the oth
On 9 Nov 2007, at 15:22, Roger Mason wrote:
...
I wish to forward X from machine B to machine A via ssh. Machine A is
running an X server. On machine B I have in sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
On machine A I have in ssh_config:
ForwardX11 yes
I can ssh from A to B without problems but when
An esync and emerge resulted in 62 out of 113 packages failing emerge
with errors about no write access to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. This
is a dual opteron system, ~amd64, with both kernels 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
and 2.6.23-gentoo-r1. This particular esync began fine, 113 packages
to build. The last
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> An esync and emerge resulted in 62 out of 113 packages failing emerge
> with errors about no write access to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. This
> is a dual opteron system, ~amd64, with both kernels 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
> and 2.6.23-gentoo-r1
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:08:53PM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
> > ...
> > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
> > --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> > ---
> > LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-dev-libs_-_g
Billy Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> one thing I have done in the past is turn up ssh in debug mode:
>
> /usr/sbin/sshd -p 23 -d
>
> then in another terminal
>
> ssh -p 23 $host
Your suggestion gave me the idea to run sshd with strace, the output
of which lead me here:
http://www.mail-arch
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> or some other access error. But I don't
> have anything else to go on.
>
> As for portage,
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > emerge --info
> > Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1,
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:51:55PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > or some other access error. ?But I don't
> > have anything else to go on.
> >
> > As for portage,
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 09 November 2007 21:55:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [ ok ] ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
> ...
> ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
> --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> --- LOG FILE =
> "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-dev-lib
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you mean what emerge --info reports, that too was in my original
> email:
oops...
here is a bug that sounds exactly like your problem :
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509
you can add yourself to it or post a me too ;)
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On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
> >
> > Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
>
> Any idea how to actually do that, since the bug prevents me from
> upgrading?
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 09 November 2007 21:55:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [ ok ] ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
> > ...
> > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
> > --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> > --
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Any idea how to actually do that, since the bug prevents me from
> upgrading? Is there some temp hack I can edit or patch to get around
> the problem for now? The bug itself isn't described very clearly, not
> the comments with it.
F
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:09 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
[...]
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
> >
> > Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
>
> -r2 is bugged too:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509
BTW I was not able to reproduce #19850 on ~x86.
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Hi,
I observe that syslog-ng is flooded by BANDWIDTH_[IN,OUT] log messages. I've
shorewall installed and I did not specified there to log any bandwidth log
messages. Can somebody point me to the right place where I can turn off this
log messages?
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my public
On Saturday 10 November 2007, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote:
> Hi,
> I observe that syslog-ng is flooded by BANDWIDTH_[IN,OUT] log messages.
> I've shorewall installed and I did not specified there to log any bandwidth
> log messages. Can somebody point me to the right place where I can turn off
> thi
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
> > >
> > > Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
> >
On Freitag, 9. November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 23:09 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196720 ?
> > >
> > > Upgrade sandbox to -r2 ?
> >
> > -r2 is bugged too:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198509
>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> > > > https://bugs.ge
On Samstag, 10. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> > > On Friday 09 November 2007 23:11:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:11:23AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Samstag, 10. November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:50:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> > > > On Friday 09 Nove
Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium
Dual E2160
Currently I use
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
as I moved the system over from a Pentium 4 (which just crashed).
Things work fine so far, I checked google and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/S
On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:13:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just tried and got this:
>
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
> compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.
>
> and the log file says
>
> gcc-config error: i68
On Nov 10, 2007 12:19 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium
> Dual E2160
>
> Currently I use
>
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
>
> as I moved the system over from a Pentium 4 (whic
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:28:36AM +0100, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:13:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I just tried and got this:
> >
> > ? ? checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
> > compiler cannot create executables See `config.
On Saturday 10 Nov 2007 00:30 in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
of linux.gentoo.user, Stefan G. Weichinger([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greets, I recently bought a new CPU for my mythtv-box, it's a Pentium
> Dual E2160
>
> Currently I use
>
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-point
Willie Wong writes:
> The situation:
> I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of
> string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was
> not, but the change
>
> "Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now
> forces string ma
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote:
> If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins
> had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very
> issue. An awesome collection of techies does not gravitate users
> to join the ranks of distro users. A (easy) graphical
It has been a long since my last update to the system, found lots of weird
problem today,
1. the worst among those was that I could not emerge anything now, the
build.log for portage as an example:
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking portage-2.1.3.16.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage
Am Samstag, 10. November 2007 schrieb fei huang:
> It has been a long since my last update to the system, found lots of weird
> problem today,
>
> 1. the worst among those was that I could not emerge anything now, the
>
> build.log for portage as an example:
> >>> Unpacking source...
> >>> Unpackin
hey all,
Recently, I set up a local news server and want to fetch news by using
vixie cron. For security, I want to drop root to news ( only news and
root can run fetchnews). So I add one line in crontab by using
"crontab -e":
*/5 * * * * news fetchnews
Actually, I just follow the examples fro
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