I am in the process of building a five zone firewall. Currently I am working on the WAN side of things. I have an Actiontec DSL modem with an ethernet and usb port on it. Qwest is my provider and they prefer that PPPoA be used to connect to the net. PPPoE works but tends to lose connection. I would ...

There are a few things in this guide that I would like to point out, some things I don't agree with, and a couple of things that make huge security holes.

Thanks for your posting. This is going to help out quite a bit in my initial install. Knowing the info that you've posted in advance is going ...

Well I need to upgrade this system anyways.. lesson learned.

Dohp... assuming that the only thing you did was "dep -d" ...

Just because your system is missing a few packages doesn't mean that you can't recover from this.. never fear.. Linux is very tuff. 8)

You can rip its guts out and put ...

A shorter sed version: #!/bin/sed -f
s/#.*//
/^\s*$/d or sed -e 's/#.*//;/^\s*$/d' "$@"

I've recently started learning/studying SED and GREP thanks to this thread. I'm unsure if this is correct or not but doesn't the following basically accomplish stripping out "commented lines" as well as "blank ...

Sweet.

Thanks kashani.

For the "supervise-scripts" pkg to work correctly. Do I need to add svscanboot to "inittab" or "rc-update add svscan default" ?

[edit] Nevemind. Its "inittab".

Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply kashani.

I'm going to start over again. I didn't know if I should run:

ebuild /var/db/pkg/net-mail/qmail-1.03-r13/qmail-1.03-r13.ebuild config

.... because I'm not running a public MX server. This is on a home lan. Hoping to have fetchmail pass mail to qmail. And qmail ...

Greetings,

I'm following the "Life with qmail" doc and I notice that they have in "/etc/group":


qmail:*:2107:
nofiles:*:2108:

I show:
nofiles:x:200:
qmail:x:201:


For users in "/etc/passwd" (LWQ) shows:

alias:*:7790:2108::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
qmaild:*:7791:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true ...

Sweet..

I've found two very usefull resources in conjunction to reading Life with qmail that are very benifical in MY research.

This guide 1) Here , and 2) Here

Or 1) http://www.skunkworx.org/guides/QmailOnGentoo.txt and, 2) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-to-mutt.xml

The very nice thing ...

I'm thinking of doing the same thing. I was going to use Exim but I figured as long as I'm at it I might as well learn what I can with Qmail. I have pretty much the same setup. Good luck.

I will follow this thread.

Thanks a-ton adaptr. You know exactly what I'm trying to do.

adaptr wrote:

Here's how I'd do it:

- mail is pulled from your various POP accounts by fetchmail - it supports an unlimited number of accounts, users, etc.
- fetchmail pushes this locally to the MTA, so it seems as if it has just ...

Greetings.

I see that Xenzeo has solved his problem an couldn't resist to add to this thread.
I'm looking for some general guidance "not hand holding" for a particular home network set-up that I hope to achieve.

What I would like to achieve is setting up an internal MTA/POP3 (Virus Scanning and ...

Ahhhhh.
Last but not least, "ncurses" as I stated originally.

Remerged "ncurses" agian and that fixed it.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the help ctford0.

I tried your suggestion and this is what I got:

toast@fusion1 toast $ qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.1/bin/konsole
kde-base/kdebase *
kde-base/kdepim *


I remerged "kdebase" and "kdepim".

I'm still getting the same results.


toast@fusion1 toast $ nano -w pydu.py
Error ...

Hello,

I just recently did an "emerge sync" and "emerge -uD world".
I'm running KDE version 3.2.0 and KONSOLE version 1.3

Now when I try and use "nano" to edit files I get this error. Searching on the forums hasn't helped.

Example:

toast@fusion1 toast $ nano -w newfile.txt
Error opening ...

dr_strange wrote:Thanks, I'll check it out.

I look forward to your post and the response that you receive.

Do you have an IM client like Ymessenger?

Hey dr_strange,

I joined up to this list today and you have some real pro's that help moderate in a very kind fasion might I add.. I was very impressed with the responses.

Your way beyond where I'm at but I do know that you will get some topnotch help in a very kind and timely manner. Not that we ...

"#!/usr/bin/env python" works only if python is in your path. Otherwise you would use "#!/usr/bin/python" or whatever, but then you have to know the path to the Python interpreter. The env program can usually be assumed to be in /usr/bin, but it is by no means certain.

If you are doing a bigger ...

same problem with r7 as well.

solution is to use ymessenger. :)


I don't understand why if the Linux community takes the time to build the ymessenger client that it doesn't focus on making this client DA-Yahoo bombshell seeing that everything else consistently breaks after some time. Gaim yahoo ...

I upgraded linux-headers to 2.4.21 and then gcc to 3.3.2 and then recompiled glibc. After that I recompiled gaim so I was not sure if that is what broke it. When I try to logon to Yahoo it says >>
unable to read.

is that what anyone else is seeing?

have not tried kopete... just emerged ...

this is getting old. right now, i'm fine with 0.75-r8 and yahoo. but just waiting for it to stop working based on the last 2 posts...

Thats good to here that yours is still working. Usually its a mystery to me why it all the sudden just stops working especially when inbetween the time that its ...

I've gotten sick of wasting my time trying to figure out why gaim and yahoo don't work. Its as if there's some type of game afoot. Gaim gets fixed and then something happens and it doesn't work again mysteriously. This is how its been for the last yr. almost for me.

I was running net-im/gaim-0.75 ...

Be sure to download Dive into Python from http://diveintopython.org - it is very good IMHO.

Sweet. Thanks for the Link and the Code. :D

"dr_strange", How long did it take you to code this? Are you using other examples and just doing a trial and error type approach? I look at some of the Python ...

These are what I typically use on a continual basis after performing an "emerge sync"

Just "man emerge" Good info here.

root@fusion1 / # emerge -uDvp world
the v option actually shows you the use flags each package uses and doesn't use. The p option is self explanitory.
Then:
root@fusion1 ...

Look at your error output. This looks like a classic corrupt file your getting.

"emerge sync" and try using a different mirror next time you emerge this pkg. I don't think your the only one that has had this problem recently.

DO not remove your previous python pkg.. and look through the "Portage ...

Not to sure if this is going to help or not?

Are you upgrading? [edit] yes your are[/edit]

If not then make sure that you have "ssl" in your USE settings in "/etc/make.conf"
Thats if you've ever modified or Uncommented your "USE" variable in "/etc/make.conf"

If this is still Commented then I ...