[gentoo-user] Keeping files synced

2005-04-17 Thread Tom Moyer
I routinely switch between two different systems, and was wondering if there was an easy way to keep my files synced between the two systems. I'm wondering if there is an application I can use or anything like that? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge without deleting?

2005-04-18 Thread Tom Wesley
The easiest way is to use quickpkg to create a binary, unmerge the app and then reemerge it with the -k switch to use the created binary package. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module "processor.o"

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Martin
nels. > > Any suggestions? Well, you should be safe to change it to another setting that doesn't cause the problem. Intel SpeedStep, A.K.A Frequency Scaling should work regardless -- presuming you have that driver (it's under Power Management -> CPU Frequency Scaling IIRC).

[gentoo-user] Bootmisc woes

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Simonite
differ" and "failed to calculate module dependencies, run /etc/init.d/depscan.sh". Depscan seems completely happy, but the errors remain. How can I regenerate bootmisc? I tried re-emerging baselayout but it made no changes. Any advice very much welcome. Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Martin
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:34:43PM +0300, Panos Laganakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > i was looking for a command that can inform me of my current console > resolution. Try 'resize' with no arguments. Hope that helps, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptographic file system

2005-05-02 Thread Tom Wesley
Is it mandatory to make > a script to go into init.d? I am so used to BSD where you just add a > simple script to rc.local or /usr/local/etc/rc.d or whatever. > > Thanks! > > Rob. /etc/conf.d/local.start is probably what you're looking for. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypt/decrypt a file(s)

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Martin
he > > folder ? > > emerge gnupg > RTFM gnupg > prepare scripts for tasks u like > bind scripts to mouse/keyboard events in gnome You may also want to try seahorse. It does this thing with a nautilus plugin, I think. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD6

Re: [gentoo-user] test

2005-05-06 Thread Tom Wesley
versity, > Hangzhou, China > I got it. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpeOLWCqKZ42.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to use kde3.3 and 3.4 side by side?

2005-05-07 Thread Tom Wesley
e by side. It does have window transarancy support, although how well this works will be down to you graphics card, which drivers you are using and how lucky you are. It will require xorg-x11-6.8.0 or higher. I have been using xorg-x11-6.8.2 using the binary nvidia drivers for many weeks and

[gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box

2005-07-28 Thread Tom Eastman
easily read on a TV screen. So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure there is potential for it to be so much more! Inspire me! ;-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim

2005-08-01 Thread Tom Wesley
unts. I used to have many different MSN accounts when I used Gaim. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0N4wNUgNzk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim

2005-08-01 Thread Tom Wesley
names > without invoking multiple instances of gaim? > > Justin > Middle click the login button to sign on all your accounts at once. I don't know how that works if you don't have passwords though. -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0m1HzphZB9.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Prevent modules from loading

2005-08-03 Thread Tom Stoddard
How do I prevent modules from loading at boot time? I have a case where multiple modules (8139cp and 8139too) load for my network adapter. I would like to prevent 8139too from loading without going to the extreme of deleting it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Tom Naujokas
determine what works best for you. Tom Naujokas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
le as a loopback filesystem and get the files off of it, but since I dd'ed the *entire* disk I have all the extra crud as well like boot sectors and partition tables and such. How can I take this image of ('hda') and mount the filesystem ('hda1') that's inside it? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Tom Eastman wrote: > I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem > to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the > archives). > In case it does not, try this. Since the real partitions usually start &g

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev read,write problem

2005-08-28 Thread Tom Eastman
after updating udev (I think) and failing to update all the files using etc-update. after replacing all the old files with the new ones, the problem fixed itself. Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-17 Thread Tom Martin
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:19:55AM -0300, Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure I can set it by hand for one emerge, but I'd like to set > EXTRA_ECONF to "--enable-clipboard" forever. You could try using /etc/portage/bashrc, see portage(5). Use at your own

[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-25 Thread Tom Eastman
ike ssmtp, but with a queue. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
n't looked into learning how to set up SMTP authentication. Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug my laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Eastman
uses* 'sendmail' to deliver. So I don't think it can replace it. Or are you speaking of a different program? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
rt Win4Lin "out of the box" as Netraverse claims? And what do I need to do in order to recomp the kernel with WTS support?   Thanks in advance for your feedback! Have a wonderful day!   ~ Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:> Hi all,>> I've got an MDK 9 ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
apply it again.   This is what the problem is. Suggestions? John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: um, then the patch didn't apply. On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Smith
to take advantage of some of the gentoo-specific kernel enhancements and patches.   Oh well, vanilla's working and that's what's important.   Thanks for your help, John.John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote:> Hm... I guess all I

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
  The general consensus that I'm finding (from googling) is that it's some sort of keyboard mapping issue, but I've been unable to find a solution to the problem.   Thanks in advance for any help.   ~ Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
X server configuration and won't start.   Any thoughts?Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:31, Tom Smith wrote:> Earlier this year, I worked with Netraverse on trying to solve> this issue... I was able to get a Mandrake 9 server working>

[gentoo-user] LiveCD customizations

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
nters to docs describing how to do what I'm looking to?   Thanks in advance for the help.   ~ Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a "win4lin-sources" kernel? I was unable to one anywhere. Maybe I would have better luck with that.Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu December 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Smith
Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is what makes Gentoo what it is.   If you like, you can add an emerge option tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Smith
.)   Another option for the original poster is ccache. The initial install will still take some time but recompiles are said to proceed much faster.   ~ TomGerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote:> Gentoo is a source-based distribution. T

[gentoo-user] BIND DNS?

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Smith
too have a BIND package and, if so, what's it name?Thanks in advance.~ Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] BIND DNS?

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Smith
Hm... Odd. I was searching the Portage database via gentoo.org and didn't see it. Your emerge string did the trick, though.I must of just had a brain fart or something. Thanks for your help. (Same for the other two responders.)Billy Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom Smith wrote:&g

[gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Tom Eastman
eas about good ways of 'refreshing' my gentoo system? All suggestions appreciated :-) Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Tom Eastman
Also on the subject of cleaning things out and keeping things somewhat up-to-date... what do you suppose would be a good way of seeing how old some packages are on your system? It would be cool if you could list every package based on when it was installed... so the stuff that is *reall* old can b

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-17 Thread Tom Eastman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What you've described and what others have posted sounds more > compiicated and time consuming than doing what you CAN'T be bothered > with. Also allows the opportunity to redo any partitioning scheme > and swap setup that may have aged or not fill the bill any more. *

[gentoo-user] Mixing amd64 and x86 libraries

2005-12-18 Thread Tom Carroll
hanks ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/domainname not resolving correctly?

2005-12-20 Thread Tom Smith
e to do to replace "(none)" with the domainname configured in /etc/conf.d/domainname? (I need to keep this in a standard format as I've got several servers I manage that reside in different domains; hence, I can't just type in the domainname to resolve this problem.) Thanks

[gentoo-user] Best way to install RPMs on Gentoo

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
"rpm". The main thing I'm looking to do is maintain full compatibility with Gentoo, rather than having init scripts put rc.x directories and such. Thanks in advance for your help. ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 libutil.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 Thanks in advance for your help. ~ Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
e: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:47:53 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: I'm getting a failed dependencies error indicating that there are a number of failed deps. I think I know what some of them are but have no idea which Gentoo packages the others can be installed from. Here's the err

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
What types of issues are you or other people having with it? Peter wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:39:29 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: VMware isn't an option. I'll be using Win4Lin Pro as a Windows Terminal Server. I got a two month eval license from them as we will be upgrading from

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Dale wrote: I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so maybe I am missing something. Why not do a emerge win4lin and be done with it? Why does it have to be a rpm install when it is in portage? Like I said, maybe I'm missing something here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p win4lin These ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Tom Smith
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:16:52 +, Peter Ruskin wrote: Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm hell here! What you need is "rpm -ivh --nodeps Win4Lin..." Before you do that, check through the list of dependencies that rpm showed and make sure they are all ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Tom Smith
Peter wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:37:33 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Actually, Pro IS the server product... What makes them different is the license code. They haven't officially released the "Terminal Server" product yet in that they're not officially advertising it. W

[gentoo-user] Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-24 Thread Tom Smith
Peter wrote: Actually, I thought the version of Win4Lin in Portage was the Pro product (bad assumption on my part) as the package description doesn't indicate whether it's Pro or Home. This is unclear. The 5.1.1 in portage I _think_ is the PRE 9X win4lin versions. I don't think those pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?

2006-04-29 Thread Tom Wesley
caused it? > There is no native shockwave player for Linux. It's possible that cxoffice has installed something that makes the Yahoo! homepage think that shockwave is available and therefore use it. Put about:plugins in the address bar and see what you have laying around. -- Tom Wesl

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

2017-10-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/13/2017 11:05 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> Have you tried to boot the systems with the "disable_ipv6=1" kernel >> parameter? > > I just tried this, and it doesn't seem to help. > > # cat /proc/cmdline > disable_ipv6=1 root=/dev/m

Re: [gentoo-user] LXD

2017-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:28 AM, john wrote: > > I have set up some containers with LXD which have been running fine up > to about a week ago. > > cgmanager no longer works as it crashes out and when I connect to > containers:- > > systemctl > Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppImage? What's that?

2017-11-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, wrote: > > I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which > has the extension "*.AppImage". > > What is that? > > Is it possible to "unpack" that into something more common? > How to handle that? Does it use this spec? https://appimage.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppImage? What's that?

2017-11-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:11 AM, wrote: > On 11/05 06:29, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, wrote: >>> >>> I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which >>> has the extension "*.AppImage". >>> >>> What is t

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

2017-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I was genuinely annoyed with grub2 due to its update and massive config > files, so I never upgraded to it. I usually had multiple kernel versions and > grub2 helpfully labeled them all "Linux" so I couldn't tell them apart. > > I figured out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 09:02:24PM +, Wols Lists wrote >> On 10/12/17 10:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> >>> I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal >>> process of choice and selection that other successful packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 18:56:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> This may come as a surprise to some, but some things you hear on >> t'internet are not true... >> >> For example, the http server is there to allow access to logs from >> anot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > "journalctl" is just the same as "less /var/log/messages" so here's > not much to learn unless you want to use the search features. Reading > the log from a remote machine is easy, using either SSH or HTTP, > whichever you prefer. My one co

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote: > > I've got a fresh Gentoo installation that does not boot. I just end up in > the Grub2 shell. > > However when there if I do 'set root=(md/0)' and 'configfile /grub/grub.cfg' > I do get to the Grub2 menu where Gentoo boots just fine. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root

2018-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. > > I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and > login as root. > > I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up > /etc/sshd_config whil

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote: >>> >>> I've got a fresh Gentoo installation that does not boot. I just end up in >>> the Grub2 shell. >>> >>> However when there if I do 'set root=(md/0)' and 'configfile /grub/grub.cfg' >>> I do get to the Grub2 menu where Gentoo boots just

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Magnus Johansson wrote: > 2018-02-07 18:50 GMT+01:00 Steven Lembark : >> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 22:00:39 +0100 >> Magnus Johansson wrote: >> >> From my grub.cfg: >> >> insmod gzio >> insmod part_msdos >> insmod diskfilter >> insmod mdraid1x >> ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-13 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote: >> [ I assume that "46488b259685a3b9c52b7449d592dc80" is the UUID that's >> displayed as "UUID" or "Array UUID" when you use "mdadm -D ..." or >> "mdadm -E ..." respectively ] > > Almost, mdadm says 46488b25:9685a3b9:c52b7449:d592dc80 OK;

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-13 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:21 PM, wrote: > > you need to include the punctuation, specifically the ":"s, which > usually are a "-", mac addresses use the ":" but unless the syntax has > changed/broadened you have to have the "-" for seperating the fields > in a uuid. The punctuation is part of t

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-14 Thread Tom H
Wonderful off-list message... -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:40 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem To: Tom H Please FUCK OFF. if you must make noise, please do it off list. Please also learn what a moderator is, and the fact

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2: hidden menu unless shift pressed?

2018-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to configure grub 2.02 so that no menu is > displayed and it will boot immediately to the default unless shift is > held down during boot -- in which case it displays the menu and waits > indefinitely for a choi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2: hidden menu unless shift pressed?

2018-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > It's been a while since I've done this, but I thought the hotkey was ESC > not shift? > > All I had to do was use: > > GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=5 > > Grub will wait for the escape key to be pressed for 5 seconds, if no > keypress,

Re: [gentoo-user] [SUSPECTED SPAM] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

2018-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Is there something besides iptables? It seems to be like > systemd/perl/python, continuously expanding its scope. And no, I'm not > looking for an "easy-peasy front-end gui" that'll probably pull in 90% > of QT as dependancies. I fondly remem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

2018-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:22 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > > Is there a windows style application layer firewall? I get that it doesn't > stop truly malicious programs but I am simply wanting to stop random > programs doing connections without my consent which due to the lennart > potterings's of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

2018-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-02-28, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > >> Is there a windows style application layer firewall? > > Can you describe what that means? (For the benefit of those of us that > aren't familiar with Windows.) I don't use Windows but on macOS it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

2018-03-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 12:58:44PM -0500, Tom H wrote >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> Is there something besides iptables? It seems to be like >>> systemd/perl/python, cont

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

2018-03-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:40:37PM -0700, Grant Taylor wrote >> On 02/28/2018 02:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> Is there something besides iptables? >> >> nftables > > Assuming I just want filtering, could I emerge nftables and unmerge > ipta

Re: [gentoo-user] Ubuntu with Gentoo somehow...

2018-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:47 AM, wrote: > is there a way to download the archive (or how is it called in the > world of Ubuntu ?) of a program, from which I only know the apt-get > and apt-install commands? A "deb" file, which you can expand with "ar" (no need to install "dpkg"). > And how ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Ubuntu with Gentoo somehow...

2018-03-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:36 AM, wrote: > On 03/25 10:02, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:47 AM, wrote: >> >> >>> is there a way to download the archive (or how is it called in the >>> world of Ubuntu ?) of a program, from which I only know t

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

2018-03-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote: > > just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory Isn't "/run/initctl" a Debianism?!

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

2018-03-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote: >> >> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... >> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory > > See bug 651990. https://bugs.gentoo.org/651990 > > Either upgrade to sysvi

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scrip prompt after bootstrap

2018-04-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:54 PM, wrote: > On 03/30/2018 11:10 AM, Bas Zoutendijk wrote: >> On Fri 30 Mar 2018 at 10:33:45 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> >>> I'm using a scrip to log-in/boot strap the system over NFS >>> >>> - >>> #!/bin/sh >>> >>> HOST=${0##*/} >>> HOST=${HOST#*-} >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So, again, I went off half-cocked (sorry about the noise). The problem is that > the NFS mount in the chroot picks different ports each time, so the client's > firewall drops all NFS packets. > > Now I just have to find out why that happen

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? You have to use NIS, NIS+Kerberos, or LDAP+Kerberos. I've never tried it but "/etc/idmapd.conf" has a "[Static]" section in which you can set up a

Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

2018-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:39 PM gevisz wrote: > 2018-07-03 16:22 GMT+03:00 Mart Raudsepp : >> If you use su, you should be using "su -" (or "su -l" or "su --login"), >> not "su". > > I have used only "su" for already 3 years, since switched to Gentoo > from Ubuntu and never had any problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

2018-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:43 PM gevisz wrote: > > but it "shot" only after sourcing /etc/profile. Which is what "su -l" does.

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot filesystem, SSDs, TRIM

2018-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:20 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Adam Carter wrote: >> >> For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki >> still does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on >> a system whose other filesystems are

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot filesystem, SSDs, TRIM

2018-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:54 PM Dale wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong here, it used to be that grub, the original > version not the current bloated one, had to have ext2. The upstream version. Various distributions added ext4 support to grub1 (circa 2009, IIRC). None of the patches were upstrea

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:57 AM, lee wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>> I can't even read them on a working system. >> >> If that's true (which I highly doubt, more probably you don't know how to >> read them), then it's a bug and should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

2015-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:13 PM, walt wrote: > On 05/22/2015 06:32 AM, Mick wrote: >> >> Did you also enable CONFIG_MEMCG & MEMCG_KMEM in your kernel? > > When I use the search function in "make menuconfig" I don't see any mention > of MEMCG, so I suspect that particular config item must be enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

2015-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:19 PM, walt wrote: > On 05/22/2015 02:38 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:13 PM, walt wrote: >>> On 05/22/2015 06:32 AM, Mick wrote: >>>> >>>> Did you also enable CONFIG_MEMCG & MEMCG_KMEM in your kernel? &

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for googled the previous one to vmlinu-chrome users

2015-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 22 May 2015 23:13:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 22 May 2015 17:04:49 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>> I also save the config with the same version part as the kernel, that >>> way I know which config goes with which kernel. Everyone has their

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for googled the previous one to vmlinu-chrome users

2015-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:29:40 +0100, Mick wrote: >>> >>> make install does it exactly the way you are doing it, but faster and >>> less prone to error. >> >> Hmm ... I may have used it the wrong way quite a few years ago, but it >> would only

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:27:14 PM Michel Catudal wrote: >> >> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition >> and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the MBR which is >> unacceptab

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal >>> >>> I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a >>> partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insist

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: >>> >>> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition >>> and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:50 PM, wrote: > > The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like > Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control of > the PC. Who those morons think they are to tell me what I should use to boot > Operating systems on my c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > You do need a manager like efibootmgr unless you have a really good "bios" > menu > where you can manage your entries. Only removable media is autodetected on all > EFI boxes I've seen. I use GRUB2 because my efi firmware (like most)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:19:29 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >>> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a >>> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: > > The language toward us is not much nicer. There is some arrogance from the > other side of the issue. > We've been fighting this for years. It is a lie to say that it cannot > install on a partition. What makes it not install is the instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: > Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : >> >> Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like >> FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on >> whatever the fuck they want. The pr

Re: [gentoo-user] workstation iptables

2015-10-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:14 PM, James wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > # A basic stateful firewall for a workstation or laptop that isn't running any > # network services like a web server, SMTP server, ftp server, etc. > > if [ "$1" = "start" ] > then > echo "Starting firewall..." > iptab

Re: [gentoo-user] Bind stole my /

2015-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Jarry wrote: >> On 08-Nov-15 17:58, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jarry wrote: I noted one strange thing today: It seems one of my servers lost "/"! vs5-dns ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] Bind stole my /

2015-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 10-Nov-15 14:22, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> Can you try replacing /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts to >>> see if it makes any difference? T

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

2015-11-26 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, wrote: > > I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in > a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. > The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable > for me, but I did want to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Adam Carter wrote: >> >> There are several problems with your idea. First, the configured >> >> namservers in resolv.conf are caching servers, not authoritative >> servers. You never configure an auth server to act as a cache. Yes, it >> can be done. No, it's an aw

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> >> Solution: obey best practice. Never run auth and cache on the same >> address. On the same machine is fine, they are different daemons. > > Which one listens on port 53? # ss -nt

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