Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? hmm, that may be. I prefer not to bother wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics?

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Blinka
vascript.switchImage(2)"), and see the image fail to load. I'm one of the people who reported "success". I followed your instructions above, and the image loads just fine. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs to find out how must

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see it. I've opened up port 53 on my router so that extra-network hosts could use it, but they still can't. I'm not run

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Blinka
int/ From edit->preferences->Web Features, I have "Enable Javascript" checked and under the Advanced option, I have "Disable or replace conte..." and "Change Images" checked. I'm running mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:23 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
Sure, it's somebody's fault! We can start with blaming the Microsoft's Jscript development team, and follow up with the ECMA standards body for trying to compromise between the two existing versions of J[ava] script. After that, we should go after Netscape and IE both for creating two differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-21 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 21, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: A mixed system is not stable. I doubt many people run all stable save for one package, not that there's anything wrong with that. But when you have a lot of packages in package.keywords, you're best of switching to a full testing system,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

2005-12-21 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe... the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe). Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot runlevel it switches to runlevel 5 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that "rpm -ivh Win4Lin..." generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: office (2 floors) Can you drill through walls? yes! Are they all in the same room? no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors Why are you networking them? sharing Internet + other normal data sharing stuff What sort of traffic do you expect bet

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware tests

2005-12-23 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 23, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 12/23/05, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, not the gentoo question however i have box that is failing to work, constant reboots so there isn't way to install any OS. I was runing memtest86 from Knoppix without errors,

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

2005-12-24 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 24, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Peter wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:35:37 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: snip... With respect, "officially" Pro and Server are separate products--that is, Pro will run Win2k and WinXP while the current Server product (WTS 3.0) will only run Win9x. I thought you mea

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-25 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/ files from one box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar" or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-24 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system Gabriel Dain or get another virtual terminal (with x running, it's shift-alt f2, or shift-control f2, i forget which). that will give

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-24 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight int

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread John Jolet
Thanks :) "Warning: Do not "just" change the values of these two monitor related variables without consulting the technical specifications of your monitor. Setting incorrect values lead to out-of-sync errors at best and smoked up screens at worst."

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, kashani wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: Wow, you got some wacky ass answers on this. First off telneting to the port should work as long as you're on the same box since it's supposed to be running

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:53 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:41 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife's home desktop is a De

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: Hi list! I'm having a bit of a problem with LVM2 on Gentoo. See, I have a computer with a couple of hard drives in an LVM, and when it boots, I can see it loading the driver modules for the controller cards properly (I've added them to /etc/mo

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: sounds like you're using device mapper as a module...compile it into the kernel. module loading happens too late Thanks for your reply, but I seriously doubt that to be the problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Mick wrote: On 06/04/06, evader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, netstat -rn Your default gateway is likely to be the proxy. Sorry guys, I should have explained better: These WinXP desktops have been locked down beyond belief! Most commands have been removed fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Mick wrote: On 06/04/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: they locked the desktops down, but still let you boot from a cd? how moronic. He, he, they didn't lock the BIOS. ;-) you're probably dealing with a transparent proxy. the defaul

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs troubles

2006-04-14 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 14, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 14 April 2006 03:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: If you have smart enabled (and you should have) and smartmontools installed (you should have done that too), smart can tell you, if it is a hardware problem (which is pretty probably

[gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread John Jolet
Trying to set up a new server using evms, but the howto on the gentoo site seems very old and incomplete. is there a better/more complete one? basically, i've got 3 hot-swappable scsi drives, but no raid controller.. I want to end up with lvm logical volumes on top of a software raid-5.

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 09:14, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] evms': Trying to set up a new server using evms, but the howto on the gentoo site seems very old and incomplete. basically

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-17 Thread John Jolet
On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:22 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used the info on the EVMS site and there is a wiki entry which helped quite a bit. I'm not at home so I don't have the wiki entry but I found it via a search on evms + Gentoo. I like EVMS as it makes managing the disks much easier

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread John Jolet
> I've never needed any of the few additional features EVMS provides. (The > only one that comes to mind right now is BBR, which modern HDs already > do.) It /can/ make things a /little/ easier, since it allows you to resize > a block device and the filesystem (or whatever) on top of it with a sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 2:25 PM, "Bob Bao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo > website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the > installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread John Jolet
>> echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> next time you execute 'startx', kde will startup. >> >> for GNOME, execute this command first >> >> echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> then startx will bring gnome up. > > I think the more "offical" way is to uncomment the following lines >

Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

2006-04-21 Thread John Jolet
On 4/20/06 11:41 PM, "Martins Steinbergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / >> >> When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get >> a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 1:41 PM, "Erik Zeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote: >>> You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files >>> could accidentally get owned to another users or have its perm

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 6:22 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a postfix mailserver setup on my system that uses pam for > authentication. I can recieve email just fine, but whenever I try to > send mail, my logs say that the connection to the server timed out on > port 25. Does a

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 6:40 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #netstat -an|grep 25 > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 109125 > > > On 4/25/06, Jo

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
ed out (port 25) > Apr 25 19:15:52 casusbelli postfix/smtp[23908]: 9CA9636623: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=30, status=deferred > (connect to smtp.freeshell.org[192.94.73.18]: Connection timed out) > > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 7:48 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not at all. I wanted to actually get the server up before I got that set up. > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/25/06 7:16 PM, &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
65, and the > windows computer on the netwok is 192.168.1.64, so in main.cf, > mynetworks is set to 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.0/8, is this correct? > > On 4/25/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so you are attempting to send the email from a windows box, through the ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 8:47 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, I have a gentoo box and a windows box behind a router, and I don't > want anything to do with my ISP's mail. I just mentioned the router > and windows box and all that good stuff to see if 192.168.1.0/24 was > right, becau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes On 4/25/06 9:11 PM, "Maurice E Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, Here's how this works. Many (nearly all)  primary SMTP servers on the Internet will not forward your email. The reason for this is because your ip belongs to an ISP (this means y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix Woes

2006-04-25 Thread John Jolet
On 4/25/06 9:14 PM, "Erik Westenbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NO!!! I HAVE SBC!!! AND IT HANGS! I guess I will just have to gateway > through my isp. Thanks for the help. > > Well, my co-worker called them and they unblocked it for him. You could try that. Gating through your isp isn

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread John Jolet
On 4/26/06 1:55 PM, "Teresa and Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harald Arnesen wrote: > >> "Michael Crute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >>> I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel >>> 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the

[gentoo-user] openvpn multiple tunnels

2006-04-27 Thread John Jolet
ed on my system and i can't find any reference to the format/options. can someone point me to a readme or howto on how to start a particular tunnel? thanks. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn multiple tunnels

2006-04-27 Thread John Jolet
> What you need to do is create a .conf file for your second > tunnel, and then link /etc/init.d/openvpn to /etc/init.d/. > Then you can start the second tunnel with either "/etc/init.d/ > start", or by using rc-update to add to the runlevel of your > choice. For example: > > cp /etc/openvpn/open

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

2006-04-29 Thread John Jolet
d /mnt/gentoo > tar -zxvpf tmp/dev.tar.gz > cd / > umount /mnt/gentoo > reboot > > Jim that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll encounter other problems down the road is udev enabled in the kernel? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 51

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
get to the grub command line and do "find /boot/grub/grub.conf"? what drives/partitions does it show that being on? if you set this up right, it should find it on both. also, remember in fdisk to set the /dev/sda9 partion's boot flag. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:30, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. > In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel > receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool > if you graduate from the simple command line.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
ition where it finds the file.. It should be > > something like (ab0,x).. Then as usual enter the grub commands.. > > > > root (ab0,x) > > setup (ab0) > > quit > > > > Hope this helps, > > Farhan Ahmed > > Hi Farhan and John, &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
ires a storage system that can take > 2gb files of those, the systemimager is the only one you can really do a pxeboot and install from. but as I said, it requires some work and an infrastructure (including an image server and dhchp server you control) -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Depar

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage > > system that can take > 2gb files > > I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, > can

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:58, Delca wrote: > i mispelled my problem, sorry :P > > i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for > example [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i think the formail is a good option, but i don't know how to tell >

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread John Jolet
gt; as usual. > > What happened to sshd??? > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD is UseDNS set to yes? maybe that value changed, or for whatever reason your looksup are no longer working. sounds like a dns timeout. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 5/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. > > > It u

[gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-05 Thread John Blinka
g this are welcome! Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-05 Thread John Blinka
rver was working and the time it stopped working, I have probably upgraded some portion of the ltsp package. I'm wondering whether I inadvertently clobbered part of the working configuration when I did so. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-06 Thread John Blinka
is running, listening on eth0 and talking to ltsp terminals. But, judging from the ltsp-terminal error messages I posted originally, the terminals don't seem to think that they've made a satisfactory contact with dhcpd on the server. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-08 Thread John Blinka
Uwe Thiem wrote: Try to correct the broadcast above. Maybe that will solve the problem already, although it's hard to understand how you fat clients can work with it. I corrected the broadcast address, but it didn't help. If the broadcast doesn't solve it, please post your /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.c

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread John Blinka
The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: next-server ip-address-of-server; with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread John Jolet
On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths o

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: dear list friends, i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb ram, p3 450mhz 1 processor. pl guide me to configure the raid from gentoo. note: i trid to configure it using de server guide but it faild saying 'need minimu

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure raid

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 7:15 AM, El Nino wrote: pls see my below answers... On 5/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 10, 2006, at 12:44 AM, El Nino wrote: > dear list friends, > > i'm new to raid. i have a netfinity5000 server with 5 scsi+raid, 256mb

Re: [gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?

2006-05-10 Thread John Jolet
On May 10, 2006, at 4:48 PM, ted leslie wrote: Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look. I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. a bit of trouble. I assume things are alot more refined now. I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up rsh and rlogin

2006-05-11 Thread John Jolet
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello list, I am setting up rsh and rlogin services between machines x1 and x2. Following info on the web I go it working from x1 to x2. However when going from x2 to x1 I get: x2$ rsh x1 uptime poll: protocol failure in circuit setup x2$ rlogin x1 rcmd: x1: Conne

Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-12 Thread John Jolet
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if D

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- Sorry to be a pest on this, but I was unable to verify this

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-18 Thread John Jolet
Jerry wrote: I am setting up gentoo on another computer and cannot get shorewall to start properly. I had used another version of shorewall previously but cannot get 3.0.4 to work. I have read and tried to follow the instruction in /usr/share/doc/shorewall-3.0.4/Samples/one-interface but no

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-25 Thread John Green
-- > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > --Mike Hi, Try this. $ echo '1/5' | bc 0 $ echo '1/5' | bc -l .2000 I don't think bc has changed in a long time. Maybe you forgot the -l

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread John Jolet
On May 25, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken. I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even remember how I set them up. They Just Ran (TM). For a short while, ssh connection

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
Password: debug1: packet_send2: adding 32 (len 25 padlen 7 extra_pad 64) debug2: input_userauth_info_req debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 0 debug1: packet_send2: adding 48 (len 10 padlen 6 extra_pad 64) debug1: ssh-userauth2 successful: method keyboard-interactive debug3: clear hostkey

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
Okay, I set LogLevel=DEBUG3 and reloaded sshd, but I got no more output than usual: May 27 09:14:55 treat sshd[11739]: Received SIGHUP; restarting. May 27 09:14:55 treat sshd[2352]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. May 27 09:15:31 treat sshd[2356]: Connection from 64.166.164.53 port 32776 Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
That was the hint I needed. It's /bin/bash, which reminded me I just changed something in .bashrc which outputs a message and does some other stuff which must be confusing scp. In fact, I just confirmed that by commenting it out. Now scp works too. So: PROBLEM SOLVED. Now I just have t

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread John Jolet
That does not work for ssh/scp sessions. I usually test $PS1 to tell if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an scp session, although .bashrc gets called. can you give us an example of what your .bashrc looks like? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-28 Thread John Jolet
On May 28, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 5/27/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That does not work for ssh/scp sessions. I usually test $PS1 to tell > if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an > scp session, > although .ba

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems

2006-05-28 Thread John Laremore
quit fucking email bombing me you ass holes. From:  Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To:  gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgTo:  gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject:  Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 ProblemsDate:  Mon, 29 May 2006 00:10:25 +0200MIME-Version:  1.0Received:  from robin.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHD running under Linux, SSH running under Windoz

2006-05-29 Thread John Jolet
On May 29, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, Sorry you all because of the Windoze usage. I have a SSHD server running in my computer at home, and it does work really well (as the apache server that I have too). I've configured SSHD server to forward X11, so when I do co

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry!

2006-05-29 Thread John Laremore
You people need to remove me from you mailing lists all together. Iam so pissed off with getting 80 email of a bunch of other peoples bullshit, that iam ready to start getting nasty. fucking remove me from your emailing list. From:  Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To:  gentoo-user@lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry!

2006-05-29 Thread John Laremore
and you just sent me 6-8 more emails. From: "John Laremore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry! Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 22:00:20 + MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [67.168.96.72] X-O

Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-05-31 Thread John Jolet
On May 31, 2006, at 2:57 AM, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in order to run backups to the server from my other machines. I have a very simple rsyncd.conf file, (see below), and from what I can tell, I should be able to rsync some

Re: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem... - Email found in subject

2006-05-31 Thread John Jolet
On May 31, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi John, unless you say otherwise, rsync uses ssh. unless you set it up to use key authentication, ssh will require a password. Ah. Makes sense. How do I tell it *not* to use ssh? As I said, I don't need it to be secure, just simple

[gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

2006-06-13 Thread John Blinka
e. I would like accelerated 2-d X11 performance for tux-racer, and don't mind using proprietary drivers such as nvidia's to get it. I'd appreciate any recommendations on mobo/processor/graphics card for this application. Thanks! John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

2006-06-13 Thread John Blinka
Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Blinka wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new >> gentoo box. > > Do you have a "bigger" machine around on the same LAN, on which > you could do the building of package

[gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread John Blinka
v.o is unresolved! Symbol fbCloseScreen from module /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved X works fine, although slowly, with the "nv" driver. Any thoughts on what's going on? John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-10 Thread John Blinka
> "x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers" (I have a very old Geforce 256) > and decided to give it a try. > Now my X is up again:) Maybe you should try it too. > I tried both the legacy drivers and the non-legacy drivers. Same messages about unresolved symbols. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[solved?] Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-11 Thread John Blinka
It appears that the nvidia driver wants something that isn't available when the "minimal" use flag is present during the xorg-server compile. Eliminating this use flag got rid of the unresolved symbols. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch?

2006-07-11 Thread Jim John
Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild it? Thanks. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yaho

[gentoo-user] how to get ssh host based authentication working?

2006-07-29 Thread John Blinka
ideas about what might be going wrong. John Blinka debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 5 debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 5 debug1: Host 'tobey

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get ssh host based authentication working? [solved]

2006-07-30 Thread John Blinka
vici/openssh/ described exactly what I wanted to do and following it solved the problem. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread John Blinka
ting manager disabled. (xftaskbar4:7378): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: tray icon has requested a size of (1 x 1), resizing to (24 x 24) john -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm wierdness

2006-08-25 Thread John Blinka
Richard Fish wrote: > > So maybe we can just double check a couple of basics: > > Do you have x11-apps/xauth merged? Yes. > What are the permissions on ~user/.Xauthority -rw--- 1 john users 605 Aug 25 22:48 .Xauthority > > Other than that, I know exactly nothing about

[gentoo-user] hello

2006-09-07 Thread John Newman
;t have to go through the hassle described above of editing the ebuild, regenerating the digest and then installing the package? thank you so much -- John Newman Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail confused by network change

2017-09-20 Thread John Covici
ks everywhere, why not get a domain name from ddns or somewhere and use a full fqdn all the time -- you can put your home machine on another host in that domain and you will be good to go. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage

2017-09-20 Thread John Campbell
On 09/19/2017 10:55 PM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I > missed the Gentoo > news bit if there was one. > > For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are there > any desktop > alternatives in Portage for

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-24 Thread John Blinka
> > > Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does seem dirty. Glad you asked the question. Would love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it happens quite oft

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure (solved)

2017-09-26 Thread John Blinka
he solution was simple: eliminate the 0027 umask for root, and chmod o+rx /lib/modules/X.Y.Z-gentoo. Thanks for all the suggestions. They all helped. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

2017-10-11 Thread John Covici
done the update till I can figure out what is happening here -- particularly if I need a rescue cd which is using zfs 0.7.1. Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

2017-10-11 Thread John Covici
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:50:20 -0400, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:54:05 AM CEST John Covici wrote: > > Hi. In my latest world update, I have sys-fs/zfs and friends at > > 0.7.1 and they all want to update to . Does anyone know why this > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

2017-10-11 Thread John Covici
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:26:20 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:34:48AM -0400, John Covici wrote > > > Yep, I think you are correct, I had the in package.keywords and > > I think this is what made portage do that. When I commented them out, &

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