Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: Settings - Configure K3b - Programs michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen. So one should rather repair growisofs. It is not a big deal. Have a nice day :) Thomas I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS. Whether you prefer REMOTE_DEFAULT or not is up to you. This has nothing to do with the necessity to call eix-remote add after eix-sync: Otherwise your local portage tree will not get pushed to the remote database /var/cache/eix/remote.eix If you do not use REMOTE_DEFAULT, it is only less likely that you will notice this since you will then see the outdated local data only if you use -R ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it (by libburn) and believe to be able to judge its doings in respect to the SCSI standards SPC-3 and MMC-5. With BD it has one bug and two design decisions which i do not agree with. The bug is the one which i strongly believe is reported here. We could know for sure if Alex would try the proposed fix. The two decisions are formatting BD-R to Pseudo Overwrite capability, and not offering writing without Defect Management to formatted BD. Defect Management reduces write speed to at most half nominal media speed. Pseudo Overwrite puts an extra layer of complexity onto BD-R burning. The bug is easily fixed, and the design decisions are features for which the author has made his point in http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/Blu-ray/ I do not agree, but i cannot flatly reject his reasons, either. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it (by libburn) and believe to be able to judge its doings in respect to the SCSI standards SPC-3 and MMC-5. With BD it has one bug and two design decisions which i do not agree with. The bug is the one which i strongly believe is reported here. We could know for sure if Alex would try the proposed fix. The two decisions are formatting BD-R to Pseudo Overwrite capability, and not offering writing without Defect Management to formatted BD. Defect Management reduces write speed to at most half nominal media speed. Pseudo Overwrite puts an extra layer of complexity onto BD-R burning. The bug is easily fixed, and the design decisions are features for which the author has made his point in http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/Blu-ray/ I do not agree, but i cannot flatly reject his reasons, either. Have a nice day :) Thomas I thought it might be worth a mention as a temporary workaround. If the growisofs file is removed, k3b won't find it and can't use it. Of course, it may not work at all then either. I'm not a k3b expert but do use it sometimes. Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays
on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS. Whether you prefer REMOTE_DEFAULT or not is up to you. This has nothing to do with the necessity to call eix-remote add after eix-sync: Otherwise your local portage tree will not get pushed to the remote database /var/cache/eix/remote.eix If you do not use REMOTE_DEFAULT, it is only less likely that you will notice this since you will then see the outdated local data only if you use -R ;) Martin, I appreciate your help, but I am still confused about the whole eix thing. My goal is to be able to query both local and remote data with one command. To this end, what should the simplest configuration settings be, and in relation to those settings, what would the sequence of commands be for updating and then querying?
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for creating the 10G isofs. I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) Settings - Configure K3b - Programs This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen. A few years ago, I have been told by the k3b people that k3b was modified to automatically prefer cdrecord in case it is present. Maybe you should ask the k3b maintainer from Gentoo whether there was a Gentoo specific change... Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. Just a thought. If growisofs is not available and if cdrecord at the same time is available, k3b should (if everything works correctly) select cdrecord. This may be a way to go. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if he can unmerge growisofs? Or at least remove the file. In order to make it use cdrecord for DVD and BD ? (Cough.) growisofs is unsurpassed with DVD. I am a competitor of it It seems that you are not correclty informed. Many people reported problems even with writing DVDs using growisofs that went away after upgrading to cdrtools. Note that I already mentioned that growisofs is a layzy written program that has many places where is returns the unly slightly modified result of a SCSI mode sense operation while running a SCSI mode select operation. As it only slightly modifies the received data instead of constructing SCSI standard compliant data, these mode select operations do not always have the desired effect. This kind of problems is independent from the media type and as a result, growisofs of course also fails with DVDs for some users. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it might be worth a mention as a temporary workaround. If the growisofs file is removed, k3b won't find it and can't use it. Of course, it may not work at all then either. I'm not a k3b expert but do use it sometimes. Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. This and installing a recent version of the cdrtools should help the OP ;-) Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe one of these ideas floating around will help the OP. One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. Well, I am not sure whether you noticed: the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already. I cannot speak for other people, but I did not ruin a single BD using cdrecord. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 08:57:07 Joerg Schilling wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for creating the 10G isofs. I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) Settings - Configure K3b - Programs This just displays what's there. I can't change any of the listed programs from this screen. A few years ago, I have been told by the k3b people that k3b was modified to automatically prefer cdrecord in case it is present. Maybe you should ask the k3b maintainer from Gentoo whether there was a Gentoo specific change... Thanks Jörg, it may well do, but since I do not burn DVDs all that often I can't recall what the log showed last time. I will keep in mind to check next time. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message
On 09/07/2013 18:54, Joseph wrote: How to design a sticky note pop-up when file is present? I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window with a simple message. I think a simple bash script and a cron job would do the trick or is there a better solution? I've tried cron + bash script cron: 32 10 * * * sh /home/joseph/xp_share/wall.sh wall.sh terminal wall file ready When I open terminal and type: terminal new windows pops up But if close all the terminals and run wall.sh script the terminal will not open. I get an error message: (terminal:24945): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: You want inotify for this. You are polling something to discover if it's there, what yu really want to do is let the kernel notify you when the event you are interested in occurs. There are many tools out there that interface with the kernel's inotify system. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Hi, i wrote: One big problem is the substantial price of BD-R experiments. joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: the OP seems to have turned several BD-Rs into coasters already. The OP reports: I compared each and every file on the disk with its original, but yould not find any problem. This matches Andy Polyakov's diagnosis that the media are ok afterwards. The flawless readbility, the timepoint of failure, and the i/o error reported by K3b, alltogether make me believe that it is the 5 year old bug. Of course, everybody has to decide by himself where to invest test media. My proposal is to fix and test growisofs. - (Joerg and i know each other from many encounters in the past. We do not necessarily agree on technical questions. My apologies for getting off the original topic now.) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Many people reported problems even with writing DVDs using growisofs that went away after upgrading to cdrtools. With some fantasy you can see the weirdest things in the mist. (Franquin via Gaston Lagaffe) It is not impossible that a drive refuses on one way of burn preparation while still working with a different one. One might get lucky with the defaults of one burn program and experience failure with those of the other burn program. But normally a drive is on the edge of failure if it behaves that way. The luck may turn quite quickly then. joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Note that I already mentioned that growisofs is a layzy written program I would compare its style rather to BASIC than to assembler. :)) But that does not influence its SCSI standards compliance. joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: has many places where is returns the unly slightly modified result of a SCSI mode sense operation while running a SCSI mode select operation. As it only slightly modifies the received data instead of constructing SCSI standard compliant data, these mode select operations do not always have the desired effect. How else should one learn the current settings in order _not_ to change those which are non-changeable ? In the source files of growisofs i can spot only one occasion of MODE SELECT. This is in transport.hxx where Andy composes a mode page 05 for DVD-R[W]. I read in SPC-3 6.9.3 that the drive shall throw error if one attempts to change a non-changeable value. But not that the drive is allowed to return values which may cause error if sent back to the drive. So if the code of transport.hxx is wrong, then not because it would send back values which it got from the drive, but because it does not inquire by PC=01b whether its self-constructed values are allowed to be changed. (I don't do this either. It is worth consideration, though.) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: This kind of problems is independent from the media type Mode page 05 is only appropriate for CD and DVD-R[W]. (MMC-5 7.5.2, 7.5.3) So this problem is highly dependent on the media type. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: My proposal is to fix and test growisofs. Well, growisofs is unmaintained since 5 years. The question is whether such a change would be suffucuent or whether there are many more problem (see the mode select problem I mentioned). joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: has many places where is returns the unly slightly modified result of a SCSI mode sense operation while running a SCSI mode select operation. As it only slightly modifies the received data instead of constructing SCSI standard compliant data, these mode select operations do not always have the desired effect. How else should one learn the current settings in order _not_ to change those which are non-changeable ? I recommend you to read the SCSI standard and to have a look at what growisofs actually does. I know that the code is hard to read, so it is easy to overlook the problems... Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?
On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked config file, I got this message: # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng checkconfig * Checking your configfile (/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) ... WARNING: Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your configuration; keyword='time_sleep', change='time_sleep() has been deprecated since syslog-ng 3.3' [ ok ] # So I checked the new syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf, but there is nothing about time_sleep() being obsolete or deprecated. Quite on the contrary: it is listed as valid option, and even mentioned in the chapter 17 best practices as a way of handling lots of parallel connections. So how is it then? Is time_sleep() supported and valid, or obsolete/deprecated? I also had some issues when I upgraded to 3.4. Most of the warnings went away when I changed the version string in syslog-ng.conf to @version: 3.4. Just my 2 cents (€) -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** 0x2FB894AD.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:15:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked config file, I got this message: # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng checkconfig * Checking your configfile (/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) ... WARNING: Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your configuration; keyword='time_sleep', change='time_sleep() has been deprecated since syslog-ng 3.3' [ ok ] # So I checked the new syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf, but there is nothing about time_sleep() being obsolete or deprecated. Quite on the contrary: it is listed as valid option, and even mentioned in the chapter 17 best practices as a way of handling lots of parallel connections. So how is it then? Is time_sleep() supported and valid, or obsolete/deprecated? I also had some issues when I upgraded to 3.4. Most of the warnings went away when I changed the version string in syslog-ng.conf to @version: 3.4. Just my 2 cents (€) The new version runs a couple of useful checks on the syntax of the configuration file - who would have thought that I had a duplicate directive in there! O_o -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] strange eix-sync
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: rsync: failed to set permissions on /tmp/.tmpNBwK63.n6Acda: Function not implemented (38) You don't have POSIX ACL )xattr) support on whatever fs you have for /tmp ? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?
On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:30:08 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:15:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked config file, I got this message: # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng checkconfig * Checking your configfile (/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) ... WARNING: Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your configuration; keyword='time_sleep', change='time_sleep() has been deprecated since syslog-ng 3.3' [ ok ] # So I checked the new syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf, but there is nothing about time_sleep() being obsolete or deprecated. Quite on the contrary: it is listed as valid option, and even mentioned in the chapter 17 best practices as a way of handling lots of parallel connections. So how is it then? Is time_sleep() supported and valid, or obsolete/deprecated? I also had some issues when I upgraded to 3.4. Most of the warnings went away when I changed the version string in syslog-ng.conf to @version: 3.4. Just my 2 cents (€) The new version runs a couple of useful checks on the syntax of the configuration file - who would have thought that I had a duplicate directive in there! O_o Hmm ... I just tried 'less /var/log/syslog' and I now get a binary file ... However, most parses it as text. Has something changed in less recently? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:32:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:30:08 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 10 Jul 2013 11:15:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On 09.07.2013 20:00, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, today I updated syslog-ng on my server. When I checked config file, I got this message: # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng checkconfig * Checking your configfile (/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) ... WARNING: Your configuration file uses an obsoleted keyword, please update your configuration; keyword='time_sleep', change='time_sleep() has been deprecated since syslog-ng 3.3' [ ok ] # So I checked the new syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf, but there is nothing about time_sleep() being obsolete or deprecated. Quite on the contrary: it is listed as valid option, and even mentioned in the chapter 17 best practices as a way of handling lots of parallel connections. So how is it then? Is time_sleep() supported and valid, or obsolete/deprecated? I also had some issues when I upgraded to 3.4. Most of the warnings went away when I changed the version string in syslog-ng.conf to @version: 3.4. Just my 2 cents (€) The new version runs a couple of useful checks on the syntax of the configuration file - who would have thought that I had a duplicate directive in there! O_o Hmm ... I just tried 'less /var/log/syslog' and I now get a binary file ... However, most parses it as text. Has something changed in less recently? -- Regards, Mick No, I think it's syslog-ng that puts null bytes in the log at startup. Now I wonder, was it intended to be a feature or what...
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:32:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: The new version runs a couple of useful checks on the syntax of the configuration file - who would have thought that I had a duplicate directive in there! O_o Hmm ... I just tried 'less /var/log/syslog' and I now get a binary file ... However, most parses it as text. Has something changed in less recently? Did you try less /var/log/syslog.log ? -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] strange eix-sync
Douglas J Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com [13-07-10 17:24]: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: rsync: failed to set permissions on /tmp/.tmpNBwK63.n6Acda: Function not implemented (38) You don't have POSIX ACL )xattr) support on whatever fs you have for /tmp ? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3 Hi Douglas, is this a newly added feature, which is needed? Since three days (about) before it works like a charm. Beside updateing my system, I did nothing to change the filesytem (ext4 if I remember correctly) or such ... Any ideas, what triggers this sudden problem? Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller
Am 08.07.2013 23:42, schrieb Alan McKinnon: If it makes you feel better, then by all means go through the motions . For my money, I reckon that's exactly what it is - motions and ritual. I havew any anecdotal evidence to back it up, but it's fairly strong anecdotal evidence: Over the last 5 years, the team I'm in, the teams we work closely with and the Storage guys have commissioned 1000 pieces of hardware and probably more than 4000 drives, the vast majority from Dell. I have no idea what burn-in Dell applies, if any. We've had our fair share of infant mortality failures, prob ably less than 20 in 5 years. And here's the kicker - every single one failed in production. Most of that hardware, and ALL of the SANs, went through heavy pre-deployment testing. Usually, this means cloning the -dev system onto it and running the crap out of it for a decent length of time. Once the techies were happy, install the production version and switch it on. I conclude that the likely reason we only found failure in prod is that only prod gives a decent viable test that approximates real life and dev is always a mere simulation. It's not usage that kills a few drives early, it's the almost random pattern of disk access that you get in real life. That tends to shake out the weak links better than any test. However, this is all anecdotal so use or discard as you see fit :-). I no longer worry about data loss as we have 4 hour warranty turnaround SLAs in place and company policy is to only deploy storage that is guaranteed to survive loss of any one drive in an array. Thanks for that, good point :-) Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller
Am 09.07.2013 00:48, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does it make sense to apply some sort of burn-in-procedure before actually formatting and using the disks? Running badblocks or something? I ask because I wait for that shiny new server and doing so might not hurt before installing gentoo. Or is that too paranoid and a waste of time? Initially I ran the SMART long test and it found no errors. Then I did badblocks read-only scan and it found some bad sectors. After that, SMART tests failed to complete due to failure reading LBA x. I used hdparm to remap those sectors, but didn't feel entirely confident in the disk at that point in time. So I ran the badblocks destructive read-write test and it completed (after a couple days) with zero errors! How can it be? Checking the SMART statistics afterward, I can see now there are dozens of newly reallocated sectors. So that means the drive silently replaced those bad sectors with spares, which is good! That is what it is supposed to do! I don't feel happy about the fact that those bad sectors exist in the first place, but the drive did what it was designed to do when it encountered them. After the r/w badblocks test cycle finished, I ran SMART long-scan again and this time it completed with no errors. So I recommend to do the destructive read-write badblocks test, if you can afford the hours (or days) spent waiting for it to complete. SMART alone did not detect the errors initially, but neither did badblocks actually identify the errors during its write test (because the drive hides it). But the combination of badblocks and the self-repairing code in the drive's firmware accomplished the goal of making my disk free of errors (logically). Notes: WARNING! Be careful to give the correct device name when doing the badblocks write test! There is no confirmation prompt! It immediately starts destroying data at the beginning of the disk. If you have a disk with 4k sector size, be sure to tell badblocks to use a 4096 byte block size. It uses 1k block size by default, which can cause the test to be very slow! In my system badblocks with 1k block size read at 15MB/sec, while 4k block size read at over 160MB/sec! Using 1k block size on a 4k-sector disk also causes all errors to be reported 4 times each. Good luck :) Thanks for your explanations, Paul ... I will see if I have the patience to wait for hours or days :-) Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
If you use a open source system probably you want that the community help you with your security problems and you can help the community with bug finder. Linux is not perfect but it's the best system that the community can write. The community want you. Il giorno 10/lug/2013 06:13, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com ha scritto: Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:41:21PM -0500, Dale wrote OK. I do banking online. I also pay my bills online along with social sites as well. I use Lastpass so that I can have some really REALLY funky passwords. I think I am one of few that has not had his facebook hacked. Anyway, I run Gentoo which is known here. I use Firefox/Seamonkey as my web browser. So next question sort of takes us back to my point with the knucklehead in the store. Am I safer, much safer, using Linux over windoze? That answer would take into account the fact that most virus/nasty code is written for windoze and not Linux but also that Linux is just built with security in mind. I belive that I am much safer with Linux myself. You are safer overall. Just watch out for XSS (cross-site-scripting), java, Flash, and acrobat exploits. That's my thinking but wanted a second opinion. So far, I have never had anything hacked. That includes social sites, banking and other financial stuff, email and other password protected stuff. I keep everything updated and use browsers that are popular and updated frequently. I think Lastpass helps too. I have one good password and it remember the really hard ones. So far, it works well. Thanks for the second opinion. It ended up like I thought. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Put cron mail into local maildir
Hey list I've been reading up on how to receive mails from cron (in my case vixie-cron). I found stuff (including in this list's archives) about setting up sendmail (using m4, bleh) or postfix. ATM I use msmtp in connection with mutt to send mail to external mail providers. I “just” want cron mails delivered into a local maildir/mbox so it appears in mutt. Do I really have to run an SMTP server for that? Or is there some minimal tool that can be run by cron directly and which just puts the mail into the local destination? Cheers. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. “Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.” – Fred Weasley signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message
On 07/10/13 11:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/07/2013 18:54, Joseph wrote: How to design a sticky note pop-up when file is present? I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window with a simple message. I think a simple bash script and a cron job would do the trick or is there a better solution? I've tried cron + bash script cron: 32 10 * * * sh /home/joseph/xp_share/wall.sh wall.sh terminal wall file ready When I open terminal and type: terminal new windows pops up But if close all the terminals and run wall.sh script the terminal will not open. I get an error message: (terminal:24945): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: You want inotify for this. You are polling something to discover if it's there, what yu really want to do is let the kernel notify you when the event you are interested in occurs. There are many tools out there that interface with the kernel's inotify system. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com Thanks Alan, yes I'm looking into it and your are the second person who suggested to me inotify is the tool for the job. I've installed inotify-tools but I think I will need to find more samples to make it to work :-) I just want to monitor one file in a directory. I usually copy the file over the network to another computer (same file name) I'll overwrite the file. Once I copy the file, the system should notify a use that new file exist (a message pop-up). If the use closes the message and will not open the file, after few ours I want to remind the user that the file has not been open yet. Will it be very complicated to write a bash script like this? -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
Davide De Prisco wrote: If you use a open source system probably you want that the community help you with your security problems and you can help the community with bug finder. Linux is not perfect but it's the best system that the community can write. The community want you. I do that already. I generally ask here first but if I find a bug, I report it. Sometimes finding the person to report it to can be interesting but I help where I can. I been using Linux for over a decade now. I'm not much but I do what I can. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message
2013/7/11 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I just want to monitor one file in a directory. I usually copy the file over the network to another computer (same file name) I'll overwrite the file. Once I copy the file, the system should notify a use that new file exist (a message pop-up). If the use closes the message and will not open the file, after few ours I want to remind the user that the file has not been open yet. Will it be very complicated to write a bash script like this? I once wrote a small Python script to help me with automating Git-based deployments, but it's simple enough to be suitable for a variety of use cases: https://github.com/xen0n/touchmon It allows you to specify a hook for each file observed, just make sure the watched file exists before starting the watcher (a known limitation). Inside the hook script (any language is OK) you can pop-up a dialog and store a timestamp somewhere, if the user has the file opened for him/her. Then for the periodic notofication, maybe a cronjob would suffice? Simply check the stored timestamp with the current time. If polling is not what you want, you can extend the inotify part to also monitor events like IN_OPEN or IN_ACCESS and manipulate your timer accordingly. But be aware of false positives like some background daemon accessing the file, as ALL opens and reads are watched. Hope this helps~
Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message
Btw, rather than directly opening a terminal window, you may want to use the notify-send api / command line to do your popup. That way it gets rendered natively by your desktop of choice, and you don't have to fuss about searching which DISPLAY variable X is running on. You can do something like notify-send --app-name=foo --icon=icon-name-in-usr-share-icons-without-the-path-and-extension --urgency=normal|critical --expire-time=milliseconds TITLE LONGTEXT On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: How to design a sticky note pop-up when file is present? I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window with a simple message. I think a simple bash script and a cron job would do the trick or is there a better solution? I've tried cron + bash script cron: 32 10 * * * sh /home/joseph/xp_share/wall.sh wall.sh terminal wall file ready When I open terminal and type: terminal new windows pops up But if close all the terminals and run wall.sh script the terminal will not open. I get an error message: (terminal:24945): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: -- Joseph -- This email is:[ ] actionable [ ] fyi[ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [ ] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate[ ] soon [ ] none
Re: [gentoo-user] Put cron mail into local maildir
I set the mailto variable on /etc/crontab and when something go wrong a mail is sent to my address. Is what you want? Il giorno 11/lug/2013 03:01, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de ha scritto: Hey list I've been reading up on how to receive mails from cron (in my case vixie-cron). I found stuff (including in this list's archives) about setting up sendmail (using m4, bleh) or postfix. ATM I use msmtp in connection with mutt to send mail to external mail providers. I “just” want cron mails delivered into a local maildir/mbox so it appears in mutt. Do I really have to run an SMTP server for that? Or is there some minimal tool that can be run by cron directly and which just puts the mail into the local destination? Cheers. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. “Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.” – Fred Weasley
