Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update
On Friday 20 March 2009 03:52:10 Jorge Morais wrote: This was a doubt of mine. One of the reasons I prefer to use a stable kernel is that I don't know if, when using a newer (and ~x86) kernel, I should also use the corresponding linux-headers version. So you say I can be 99.999% sure that, should I update my kernel (say, to 2.6.28) and meet problems, those will be intrinsic to this kernel version (and possibly to incompatibilities with things like out-of-tree kernel modules), but never because the kernel headers are outdated? Yes IOW, the only real problem of using outdated kernel headers is not fully taking advantage of new features? Yes -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: glibc update
Alan McKinnon wrote: IOW, the only real problem of using outdated kernel headers is not fully taking advantage of new features? Yes I did encounter strange bugs (programs not starting) until I updated the kernel headers, so instead of yes I'd say no.
[gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site
Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the table of contents.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site
On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the table of contents. Confirmed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] udev rule question and SonyEricsson K810
Hi,
I do have a SonyEricsson K810. Connecting the phone by USB to my Gentoo
PC I am able to mount the internal phone-disk as well as the m2 Memory Sick.
# mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/floppy/
# mount /dev/sdg1 /mnt/usb/
df -h
/dev/sdf1 68M 7,7M 60M 12% /mnt/floppy
/dev/sdg1 950M 512K 950M 1% /mnt/usb
This is dmesg:
usb 1-3.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-3.3: configuration #3 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-3.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=d0a1
usb 1-3.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-3.3: Product: Sony Ericsson K810
usb 1-3.3: Manufacturer: Sony Ericsson
usb 1-3.3: SerialNumber: 3531530220722190
usb 1-3.3: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-3.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-3.3: configuration #2 chosen from 1 choice
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 1-3.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=e0a1
usb 1-3.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-3.3: Product: Memory Stick
usb 1-3.3: Manufacturer: Sony Ericsson
usb 1-3.3: SerialNumber: 3531530220722190
scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Sony Eri Memory Stick PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] 168000 512-byte hardware sectors (86 MB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Sony Eri Memory Stick PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] 168000 512-byte hardware sectors (86 MB)
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdf: sdf1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
Now I want to have a udev rule. Those are the udev rules already
existing in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules:
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?1, ATTRS{serial}==5B760D88CCFF,
ATTRS{idProduct}==1d00, NAME=lanze
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?1, ATTRS{serial}==3547160198371480,
ATTRS{idProduct}==e039, NAME=sek800i
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?, ATTRS{serial}==000A2700111242C0,
ATTRS{idProduct}==1301, NAME=ipod
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?, ATTRS{serial}==070B00011452C90,
ATTRS{idProduct}==b113, NAME=stachel
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?1, ATTRS{serial}==B40DB05H,
ATTRS{idProduct}==7100, NAME=silber
sek800i is my old mobile which is still be used, but without memory stick.
This is the new udev rule:
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?1, ATTRS{serial}==3531530220722190,
ATTRS{idProduct}==d0a1, NAME=sek810
BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?1, ATTRS{serial}==3531530220722190,
ATTRS{idProduct}==e0a1, NAME=sek810m2
This is fstab:
/dev/sek810 /mnt/k810 auto
noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sek810m2/mnt/m2sek810 autonoauto,user 0 0
Connecting the phone to my box using the udev rules the memory stick
wont work:
# mount /mnt/k810/
mount: Gerätedatei /dev/sek810 existiert nicht (does not exist)
# mount /mnt/m2sek810/ df -h
/dev/sek810m2 68M 7,7M 60M 12% /mnt/m2sek810
The internal disk is working but dmesg goes wild and I get a lot of the
following:
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdg: rw=0, want=1945599, limit=1945231
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdg: rw=0, want=1945600, limit=1945231
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdg: rw=0, want=1945594, limit=1945231
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdg: rw=0, want=1945595, limit=1945231
attempt to access beyond end of device
Where is my udev rule wrong?
Thanks for help.
kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck johan.bluecr...@gmail.com wrote: I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in auth.log, like the following: time hostname sshd[5926]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for username from ip-adress Well, I don't use PAM, just key-based authentication only, so I always see only the IP getting rejected since it doesn't even give them a place to try a user/password :) It's just weird that it is refusing a connection from u...@domain rather than simply the IP. I guess they could be trying to ssh u...@myhost.net or something. The one with [U2FsdGVkX19g32YZVKMsQkl+mouWITILOicY4Iq9OQo=] as the username is interesting. I wonder what that's all about. I too use only PubKey but they need to send a username so ssh knows where to look for the public key. Your two options boil down to 1) install fail2ban (I installed it on all of my external ssh boxes and I love it) 2) change the ssh port to something other than 22 (Security by Obscurity but it frees up your logs so you can see real problems). The two may me mutually exclusive as I'm not sure if you can tweak fail2ban's ssh rules to monitor another port. I just chock it up as log spam unless I see definite bad patterns. But again, with public key access only and banning root from logging in via ssh I don't think anybody is getting far unless there is a flaw in ssh. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - user nx not allowed because account is locked
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/19/09 17:48, Paul Hartman wrote: Here is my understanding of how the NX bits all fit together: Think of it as a 2-step connection. The first step is connecting from the remote nxclient to the nxserver. For this step, it uses the SSH key that you can put into nxclient. That only authenticates you as being able to connect to the NX server, it doesn't get you into any user files or desktops. By keeping the default NX key, anyone with NX client can connect to your box and get to this point. I think my ssh-keys might not be correct between the nxclient. I've installed on one Linux box: net-misc/nxclient and the server is running: nxserver-freeedition maybe the key from nxclient: /usr/NX/share/keys/server.id_dsa.key is not the correct one, this key is a private key. and to my understanding in order to log-in into the server I need to copy nxclinet's public key to the serer; but I can not fine one. Hi, You need to copy the server's default key to the client. Copy /usr/NX/share/keys/default.id_dsa.key (NOT server.id_dsa.key) from the server into the nxclient (Configure - Keys - Import or paste it in).
Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck johan.bluecr...@gmail.com wrote: I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in auth.log, like the following: time hostname sshd[5926]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for username from ip-adress Well, I don't use PAM, just key-based authentication only, so I always see only the IP getting rejected since it doesn't even give them a place to try a user/password :) It's just weird that it is refusing a connection from u...@domain rather than simply the IP. I guess they could be trying to ssh u...@myhost.net or something. The one with [U2FsdGVkX19g32YZVKMsQkl+mouWITILOicY4Iq9OQo=] as the username is interesting. I wonder what that's all about. I too use only PubKey but they need to send a username so ssh knows where to look for the public key. Your two options boil down to 1) install fail2ban (I installed it on all of my external ssh boxes and I love it) 2) change the ssh port to something other than 22 (Security by Obscurity but it frees up your logs so you can see real problems). The two may me mutually exclusive as I'm not sure if you can tweak fail2ban's ssh rules to monitor another port. I just chock it up as log spam unless I see definite bad patterns. But again, with public key access only and banning root from logging in via ssh I don't think anybody is getting far unless there is a flaw in ssh. Oh, I am not concerned about the attacks. I just thought it was weird that I saw u...@domain when I normally see only IP or only domain. They are already refused connection as the log shows :) Thanks, Paul
[gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. here is my solution: I use runlevel 3 as default, and add a line of code in /etc/conf.d/local.start: su - myname -c startx this works just fine except my scim panel would not shown as before, but if I login in normally with my user name, and type startx manually, everything works perfect. I'm wondering what is the difference with those two steps that cause the problem, ps shows the scim processes are just running normally, for reference, I pasted my xinitrc here: export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM' export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim scim -d xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources urxvtd -q -f -o conky -q exec awesome any ideas? thanks fei
Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck johan.bluecr...@gmail.com wrote: I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in auth.log, like the following: time hostname sshd[5926]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for username from ip-adress Well, I don't use PAM, just key-based authentication only, so I always see only the IP getting rejected since it doesn't even give them a place to try a user/password :) It's just weird that it is refusing a connection from u...@domain rather than simply the IP. I guess they could be trying to ssh u...@myhost.net or something. The one with [U2FsdGVkX19g32YZVKMsQkl+mouWITILOicY4Iq9OQo=] as the username is interesting. I wonder what that's all about. I too use only PubKey but they need to send a username so ssh knows where to look for the public key. Your two options boil down to 1) install fail2ban (I installed it on all of my external ssh boxes and I love it) 2) change the ssh port to something other than 22 (Security by Obscurity but it frees up your logs so you can see real problems). The two may me mutually exclusive as I'm not sure if you can tweak fail2ban's ssh rules to monitor another port. I just chock it up as log spam unless I see definite bad patterns. But again, with public key access only and banning root from logging in via ssh I don't think anybody is getting far unless there is a flaw in ssh. Oh, I am not concerned about the attacks. I just thought it was weird that I saw u...@domain when I normally see only IP or only domain. They are already refused connection as the log shows :) Thanks, Paul yeah, after I read your message I realized that I didn't quite answer your question. Somebody mentioned they probably configured the dns PTR record incorrectly which is my guess. -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice resumes twice ... SOLVED
Florian Philipp schrieb: Could be acpid or something in your desktop environment (Gnome, Kde, ...) picking up the power button event. Check your logs and /etc/acpid for suspicious entries and your settings. Hm, solved it, had hibernate-ram in my default.sh ... this lead to the system doing exactly this after resuming (detecting the button event). Don't know why it did work before, though. Anyway, happy for now ;) Thanks, Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the table of contents. Confirmed. Did NOT crash for me on ~x86. Installed versions: 4.2.1-r1(4.2)!t(05:43:21 AM 03/17/2009)(auth bookmarks kdeprefix -debug -thumbnail)
[gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager
fei huang wrote: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. Install it anyway and use the autologin feature. I know that KDM supports it, and probably GDM too.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site
Roy Wright wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the table of contents. Confirmed. Did NOT crash for me on ~x86. Installed versions: 4.2.1-r1(4.2)!t(05:43:21 AM 03/17/2009)(auth bookmarks kdeprefix -debug -thumbnail) Argh! Spoke too soon. Konqueror proceed to crash when I closed it immediately after viewing the page... HTH
Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - user nx not allowed because account is locked
On 03/20/09 10:07, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, You need to copy the server's default key to the client. Copy /usr/NX/share/keys/default.id_dsa.key (NOT server.id_dsa.key) from the server into the nxclient (Configure - Keys - Import or paste it in). Thank you. Yes, I had that part correct. The problem in my case is the nx user password needs to be set to unlock the account. Now, I'm fighting to connect to Windows XP :-/ running in VirtualBox -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the table of contents. The MS Windows version of Konqueror 4.2.1 also crashed for me on that page. So I would say it's a KDE bug and not a Gentoo problem.
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access to your computer can simply press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and enter the console session you used to start x-server. Locking your X-session won't help against that. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
Florian Philipp wrote: fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access to your computer can simply press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and enter the console session you used to start x-server. Locking your X-session won't help against that. You can disable vt switching with: Option DontVTSwitch boolean in the server section of the xorg.conf --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access to your computer can simply press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and enter the console session you used to start x-server. Locking your X-session won't help against that. I don't think so - with the local.start method that he's talking about, the Virtual Console isn't logged in - X is started in the initscripts, not from a logged in console... Fei - try checking the value of the HOME and other environment variable with the local.start method - I think that, since the initscripts are not running in an interactive login prompt, some necessary env vars are not being populated correctly. Maybe if you changed your su command to su myuser -c source /etc/profile startx ? HTH- -James
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site
090320 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the table of contents. I did that with Konqueror 3.5.10 it's ok, so it's a KDE 4 bug. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Turn off Evolution auto-expunge
For the past few days Evolution has been auto-expunging my deleted emails. How do I make it stop? I don't close Evolution or anything; it's while I'm still reading my email. camille ~ # emerge -pv evolution These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.24.5 USE=crypt dbus debug hal ldap nntp ssl -kerberos -krb4 -mono -networkmanager -pda -profile 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
* Florian Philipp (li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net) [20.03.09 19:09]: fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access to your computer can simply press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and enter the console session you used to start x-server. Locking your X-session won't help against that. You did read, that he wants to start it via the local service, and from the commandline? Propably not, since then your advice is pointless. -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de pgprHiZIEt9He.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [20.03.09 17:18]: fei huang wrote: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. Install it anyway and use the autologin feature. I know that KDM supports it, and probably GDM too. Well in that case, slim should be the better choice: no dependencies on one of the two a little bloated DEs, and also has the autologin feature. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de pgpMRiLQDTOsj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
* fei huang (daniel.huang...@gmail.com) [20.03.09 16:12]: su - myname -c startx any ideas? RTFM: -, -l, --login Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly. ! When - is used, it must be specified as the last su option. The other forms (-l and --login) do not have this restriction. thanks fei HTH Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de pgp96oxnjcG16.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, fei huang daniel.huang...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. I agree with Sebastian, you should try slim http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM
[gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures
I have another dead power supply and/or another dead motherboard in my Gentoo router. I've tried to make that system as silent as possible and I wonder if I'm paying the price. How do you guys monitor system temperatures? Is lm_sensors the way to go? How do you keep an eye on the temperatures of multiple local and remote systems? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I have another dead power supply and/or another dead motherboard in my Gentoo router. I've tried to make that system as silent as possible and I wonder if I'm paying the price. How do you guys monitor system temperatures? Is lm_sensors the way to go? How do you keep an eye on the temperatures of multiple local and remote systems? As long as lm_sensors supports your sensor chipset you should have plenty of options. Check the list of applications on http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/UsefulLinks I don't do any remote monitoring but I suppose you could use also use lm_sensors + grep to do your own alert script. The basic 'sensors' output on my machine looks like this: abituguru3-isa-00e0 Adapter: ISA adapter CPU Core: +1.44 V (min +0.00 V, max +1.65 V) DDR2: +2.10 V (min +1.70 V, max +2.50 V) DDR2 VTT: +1.05 V (min +0.85 V, max +1.25 V) CPU VTT:+2.42 V (min +1.90 V, max +2.90 V) NB 1.2V:+1.47 V (min +1.15 V, max +1.75 V) SB 1.5V:+1.59 V (min +1.25 V, max +1.85 V) HyperTransport: +1.27 V (min +1.00 V, max +1.50 V) ATX +12V (24-Pin): +12.42 V (min +9.60 V, max +14.40 V) ATX +12V (4-pin): +12.54 V (min +9.60 V, max +14.40 V) ATX +5V:+5.04 V (min +3.99 V, max +6.00 V) ATX +3.3V: +3.38 V (min +2.64 V, max +3.94 V) ATX 5VSB: +5.22 V (min +3.99 V, max +6.00 V) CPU: +25°C (high = +75°C, crit = +85°C) System: +35°C (high = +55°C, crit = +65°C) PWM Phase1: +56°C (high = +125°C, crit = +135°C) PWM Phase2: +56°C (high = +125°C, crit = +135°C) PWM Phase3: +56°C (high = +125°C, crit = +135°C) PWM Phase4: +54°C (high = +125°C, crit = +135°C) PWM Phase5: +52°C (high = +125°C, crit = +135°C) CPU FAN: 2760 RPM (min 300 RPM) SYS FAN: 1500 RPM (min 300 RPM) AUX1 FAN: 1380 RPM (min 300 RPM) AUX2 FAN: 0 RPM (min 300 RPM) AUX3 FAN: 0 RPM (min 300 RPM)
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures
On Friday 20 March 2009 21:14:26 Grant wrote: I have another dead power supply and/or another dead motherboard in my Gentoo router. I've tried to make that system as silent as possible and I wonder if I'm paying the price. How do you guys monitor system temperatures? Is lm_sensors the way to go? How do you keep an eye on the temperatures of multiple local and remote systems? I use gkrellm. Very nice. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 21:14:26 Grant wrote: I have another dead power supply and/or another dead motherboard in my Gentoo router. I've tried to make that system as silent as possible and I wonder if I'm paying the price. How do you guys monitor system temperatures? Is lm_sensors the way to go? How do you keep an eye on the temperatures of multiple local and remote systems? I use gkrellm. Very nice. Doesn't gkrellm do remote monitoring too? If so, it has a alert feature or used to anyway. You could use that if it still exists to alert you to high temps. My personal favorite tho, smart fans. My CPU has a sensor under it and varies the CPU fan with temp. I have done the same with my case fans and it works pretty well. One spinning at a good rate is best tho just to keep air flow at all times. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager
Or use qingy :) It uses directfb, but its very lean, and you can set it to autologin I think...which would probably not even use dircetfb, as qingy also has a 'text-fallback-mode'. Try it, you'll like it ;-) Tom
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager
thank you all for the help! the problem is finally solved. thanks James! I realized that the bash is not a login shell when invoked that way, and my locale variable in .bash_profile did not take effect. the command line now becomes: *su -l myname -c '-l' 'startx' * and worked! thanks Sebastian Günther, this is really a important comment in the man page that I missed totally, I changed to -l instead to avoid the trick and many nice login manager recommended here, I'll try them out later, compiling QT or GNOME components is a heavy work for my poor celeron processor. thanks again.. fei
