On the support home page is a list of most recent forum posts. I like to keep track of what is going on at Linode.com so I visit this page regularly to check out new forum postings.

There have been several instances lately of postings listed on this page which, when I attempt to go to them, result in the message "The topic or post you requested does not exist." The most recent one is today, titled "Fix portage~ directory in Gentoo ...". Recently I also saw a couple titled something like "disk usage graphs" and "ip usage graphs" or something similar, which I was very curious about, but clicking on the link in question led to the "The topic or post you requested does not exist" page.

Any ideas what is going on here? Is it my browser (Mozilla on Linux)?

Thanks!

The "topics anywhere" mod wasn't filtering on forum permissions, which it should, since it can read the persistant forum cookie...

At any rate, those messages you saw, but couldnt access, were from my to-do list (which isn't made public for various reasons).

So, it is now fixed. I've selected specific forums rather than "All". I also increased the hiehgt to the last 25 messages.

Thanks!
-Chris

Hey, Chris, regarding "Fix portage~ directory in gentoo" ... Does this mean I can delete that sucker?

I've become a happy Gentoo user by removing stuff I don't need from your standard build and carefully emerging other stuff. Although I'll probably do a complete re-emerge soon since I allowed Gentoo to overwrite my CFLAGS at one point (it's a LEARNING experience).

Yes, the portage~ directory under /usr/portage can safely be removed. Your actual portage tree is one directory up at /usr/portage.