> I just got vonage (Voip), and I'm reasonable happy. However, the voice
> mail messages are in .wav format. I can play cd's on the gentoo system,
> so I know audio works. What applications are good for playing wav files,
> particularly with vonage?
sox, maybe?
It installs a 'play' command, and I
> He said that once you
> copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you
> can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the
> FairPlay DRM. My other iBook, iTunes and iPod-owning friend said he was
> right.
Bollocks. I actually own an iPod (40GB, 4th
> Is it possible to securely access the nfs sharea, and smb shares on the bsd
> machine, or the other linux desktops like I am on teh LAN. Both ends use
> dynamic IP's, so it also has to be compatible with dyndns or something like
> that to find them.
Maybe setup a VPN using OpenVPN? Not sure how
> I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means
> I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up
> something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever)
> and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated?
There's a
> After recent update of the system my GRUB became partially broken.
> Namely: "default saved"/"savedefault" statements stopped working. Is
> it me or it's a common problem and how do I fix it. I attach my
> grub.conf for those who might be interested...
Once you've managed to boot your system, ru
> I've got all access but i can't change anything, the both servers are
> 'snap aplience' it has a Linux version 2.4 on it, you administrate it by a
> webinterface, its got ssh, but no scp even no cron.
> Its 'forbidden' to install anything on it.
> You don't even get a root password even if you by
> Is there any way to *not* receive mail from specific cron jobs, while
> leaving the rest of the mails intact? I looked at man cron and man
> crontab, but they seemed to indicate that it's kind of an all-or-nothing
> deal.
It's not an all-or-nothing deal, depending on how you create the cron
job:
> PartitionMagic is the best for this, but at $70 it is a bit pricey.
> There may be free programs to do this, but I have no experience with them.
QTparted: open-source alternative to PQMagic, _and_ it's significantly
faster (e.g. resizing a 40GB NTFS partition to 10GB with PQMagic took
me an hour
> But it only happens when I run php as a user, not when I run as root.
> My emerge world is up to date, should a normal user need to write there or
> what other thing do I switch to turn this
> off.
I personally just got rid of the snmp flag for the php ebuild. PHP
(the command-line version) t
On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs:
tune2fs -C ^has_journal
2) Resize using parted
3) Add the journal back using tune2fs:
tune2fs -j
See 'man tune2fs'
> It stills in trouble (with -C it does not work, so i tryied man tune2fs
> and i found out that it should be -O)... any idea ?
My guess? I wrote down the wrong option. Wouldn't really
surprise me - I tend to reply to these things first thing in the
morning, and I'm rarely entirely awake. ;)
> n
> i think the line
> Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode filetype needs_recovery
> can help me, but i dont know how... any idea about wich feature i can
> desable ?
I think you're right, but as I said, I'm kinda out of my depth, now.
...but, you may want to pay attention to that "n
> Hi James
Just for clarification, I'm not the one trying to resize an ext3
partition: Bruno is...
> You can make your ext3 an ext2 partition by
> removing the "has_journal" feature (tune2fs -O ^has_journal
> /dev/partition).
...and your advice was similar to the advice I gave him (but you
ac
> Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> Device type: Removable CD-ROM
> Version: 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities :
> Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA '
> Identifikation : 'DVD-ROM SD-R2412'
> Revision : '1015'
> Devi
> >My question to anyone who can advise is this:
> >do I just unplug the CRT & plug in the LCD ? will it work so simply ?
In most cases, yes, but you'll need to restart X if you do the swap
while it's running.
> The horysontal sync and vertival refresh rates aren't likely
> to be the same, so yo
> You might also say equivalent or counterpart ...
...hmmm... Dictionary.com says something else entirely:
pen·dant1 also pen·dent( P ) Pronunciation Key (pndnt)
n.
1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or
piece of jewelry attached to a necklace or bracelet.
2
> 'Scuse me, this must be the English class -- I thought I was in the
> Computer Science / Political Science Building... Sorry.
>
> Enough already please, everybody?
...sorry... showing my BA here... I get a little picky about silly
things like that... ;)
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> What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a
> POTS line?
You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an
alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially
completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to
tweak stuff to
> Is there a way to throw a modem on my gentoo box in order to capture and log
> the caller id data? I don't want to set up a pbx or answering machine or
> anything like that, I just want to capture the incoming caller id info.
I suspect you could do that by just setting up vgetty, but never
lett
> This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, doesn't work with m|vgetty.
...yeah... [vm]getty has no support for Class 1 fax, but it's
(theoretically) still ok for voice...
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> That's for each login. If you want programs executed at startup, put them
> in /etc/init.d/local.start.
...actually, you'll probably want to put them in /etc/conf.d/local.start...
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> This is not a major problem (I have LVM2 partitions, but EVMS compiled
> fine, so I can manage them), but I don't like it, as it seems weird for
> the main tool for the fs not to compile. Nothing related seems to be on
> B.G.O (which is also weird), so I'm wondering if anyone might know what
> I
> > Sounds like a forgotten "make mrproper" or "make
> > clean" before a full
> > build?
>
> Aren't they for 2.4.x kernels? I'm using a 2.6.11.
You need to rebuild the kernel proper - it's responsible for loading
and unloading modules. Rebuilding just the modules won't help you.
And no, those ma
> I want to find a packet filter like iptables for use on windows. That
> is, a text based/editable driven packet filter with most or all the
> capabilities of iptables.
There's something similar in XP to iptables, but it's not really the
same -- take a look at the IPSec Policy (Start -> Control
> Could anyone tell me how I go about setting the default MTU of my
> pppoe connection. I am using rp-pppoe to bring it up. It currently
> sets it to 1432 and I need it to be 1352.
It's buried in the rp-pppoe config file (can't remember what the name
of the option is, but if you look for 1432, tha
> James I grep'd all the files in /etc/ppp/ for 1432 with out any success.
Sorry -- it's been a long time since I've fiddled with rp-pppoe. The
setting's actually buried and hard-coded in /usr/sbin/adsl-connect...
around line 223 (PPP_STD_OPTIONS)...
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> Is there an apache module for apcupsd or is it installed during emerge> apcupsd?
Add the "cgi" USE flag, and re-emerge. It'll get installed automagically.
> The system rescue disk has nfstools in it and a nice gui interface
> called qtparted I think. That is how I did the repartition on my laptop.
QTParted is also included in Knoppix, and I've successfully used it to
resize 2000/XP NTFS partitions.
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On 9/27/05, glumtail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This happens offen in my system.
>
> My root filesystem is reiserfs and /home is ext3, when i extract tar
> packages it says it is a readonly filesystem.
Fix your /etc/fstab - it thinks your root partition is xfs, when it
isn't. You either: a) didn
On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380
> mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface.
I'd suggest trying moto4lin -- it's pretty slick. Not too sure about
the error messages you're getting, thou
> Anyone know if the missing file is supposed to exist, or is this a
> relic from an earlier instance of the USB driver software?
It's actually one of the USB modules in the kernel that produces it...
Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Modem (CDC ACM) Support
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> Do you have it working?
Yes.
> And if so, which kernel are you using?
gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand)
> Is it a Kernel V2.6 thing, or is there some configuration that I need
> to do?
As I said in my reply to your other post, make sure you have USB Mo
> That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working
> with?
Razr V3 - it's a pretty sweet phone. ;)
> You were right - my initail problem was having omitted the cdc_acm
> driver from my kernel config.
Excellent. I like it when I'm right - it happens so infrequently... :)
> cdc_acm
> Looks like the main clues are the error messages produced when I plug in:
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and a
> I gather one cannot just copy the .config file for this much of a jump,
> so I guess the best thing to do is a simultaneous 'make menuconfig' in both
> old and new kernel using two different windows so that I can be sure
> to copy each of the current settings across.
Easier solution: copy the .c
> As I am going from 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 to 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, which is more
> than just a revision change, it would seen that 'make oldconfig' is not
> recomended.
Recommendations are just that: recommendations. You can take them or
leave them. :)
And I have to agree with Holly on this one: it's a
> ...I keep thinking that I've forgotten about something that I did in
> moto4lin to get it to work, but I can't for the life of me remember
> what that was... maybe I'll try installing it on my laptop, and see if
> I can reproduce what I did on my desktop once I get home from work
> this evening..
> I've just tried to use moto4lin with a Motorola Razr. It starts as with
> yours, but when I click "Switch to P2K", /dev/ttyACM0 disappears! nothing
> works after that until I disconnect and reconnect the phone, at which
> point I am back in AT mode and it all starts again.
That's what was happen
> Thanks for going to all the trouble of testing out the phone
> operation on your SuSE machine. I havn't had any breakthrough
> yet, but your help has given me the confidence to persevere..
No problem -- I'm a software tester in Real Life (tm), so stuff like
this bugs the crap out of me. I have a
> ive been trying to setup a mail server following the how-to at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Hosting_Server#Virtual_Mail_Hosting
> and everything seems to have been setup correctly, but i keep getting these
> errors and cant login
I know I had to reduce the set of authentication m
> warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found
> Authentication failed: cannot SASL authenticate to server
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.229.41]: no mechanism available
This seems to imply that the problem's with SASL, and not postfix.
> I've edited main.cf and added the follow
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