Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve as well in most ways? Okay, selfplugging a bit here, but thats ok, I've got a permit. Or wait, no I don't, so it seems that this is still unofficial and unsupported by others than me and then only at best effort: http://chinstrap.alternating.net/ -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:21 +0100, Jesús García Crespo wrote: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc must belong to it! Wouldn't be interesting to implement this into Gentoo gcc ebuild as an USE? Exactly what risk is there from an end-user running a compiler? A compiler doesn't access any kind of restricted environment, doesn't auytomatically create binaries with other rights than its own and is about as safe a product as there can be. And if you think that users running their own programs is a risk, simply mount /home as noexec, ( make sure to impose the same limitations on /tmp and /var/tmp as well, since users have write-access there) And.. really. python, perl, awk, bash ... All of those are fully capable of creating and running programs. And no, I do not think you can limit the use thereof from user accounts.: ) If you're really paranoid about execution and so on, start reading the SELinux FAQ and create a ruleset.. The default one is probably more lenient than you want it ;) //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg yes fdisk no - new HDD
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:34 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm installing a new HDD on an older (in P4 terms) P4 2.0 GB. On bootup I see it noticed in dmesg or but doesn't get an IRQ. (See snippet from dmesg) And once booted up, fdisk doesn't know about it. I pulled out the ribbon to two cd drives and connected This new drive by itself as master with no slave. (Just to start tinkering). Anyone that can spot something or has a nifty idea or question please respond. DMESG: This is one of the fun ones. try cfdisk and partedit, I think cfdisk will be more verbose and might tell you it is refused to seek() the drive... if thats the case, its probably the controller (or driver) being odd on you. Had this recently when a 250Gb disk was recognized as 655535Mb . Which is wrong ;) However, I got around it by formatting it in another machine, the drive works perfectly, (it seems, guess I'll know more later;) Though there may be some obscure config option in the IDE/ATA part of the kernel config to avoid this kind of situation. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 04:42 -0600, Dale wrote: LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. swifty / # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / udev12738880127308 1% /dev /dev/hda148312 37412 10900 78% /boot none127388 0127388 0% /dev/shm swifty / # Any more ideas? I would hate to have to remove KDE from that thing. Little known things that may help: app-admin/localepurge Handy tool. Wipes locales that you don't use. ( 262 Mb here ) make sure you strip binaries, build them with -O2 or -Os instead of -O3. (debug info alone on my system is 490 Mb) Wipe old kernels. make clean in the one kernel dir you have left. /lib/modules : clean out things you don't have left. cd /usr ; du -ab |sort -n Look at the results, then use equery ( or qfile, qpkg, epm or any other tool) to look them up. emerge --prune ( handle with care... .) Remove tetex if you have it installed. ( Also make sure you set USE=-doc unless you really want API documentations ) Logs? Logrotate + compression. KDE: perhaps using split builds and only installing the pieces you need/want? //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:50 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. I sync against the Netherlands rsync pool, SYNC=rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I suppose what you say is possible, but does not seem to be the case. I figured you sync'd daily Holly; I wouldn't have expected any less. ;-) The question is, however, if you and I both sync daily and, although file times suggest they have been updated, but the file contents are different, where would the problem lie? The only guess I could come up with is the upstream mirror. I sync against http://gentoo.osuosl.org/, and you're syncing against the netherlands pool. Either one themselves could be sync'd against another mirror which is sync'd against another mirror... Somewhere along the line I'm guessing that perhaps this particular file is not fetched/updated for some reason which would leave one of us with an outdated copy. I know mine comes out of CVS with the header $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 00:03:00 vapier Exp $, so I'm guessing that I have the later file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvs up use.local.desc ; grep vim-with-x use.local.desc app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED] head -n 4 use.local.desc |tail -n 2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1505 2005/10/18 20:18:45 agriffis Exp $ //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:25 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Oh, and another thought. The find command can do this for you as
well, IIRC.
find . -type f -iname '*.wav' -exec command {} {}.foo \;
is the syntax, IIRC. Note the \ that exists to escape the
semicolon, therefore telling find to end processing.
find . -type f -iname '*.wav' |while read LIST; do command ${LIST}
${LIST/old/new} ; done
is another possibility.Adding limiters to find can prevent it from
recursing too deeply.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone
recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good
web site on this topic?
For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a
directory which will create a new file, so I need to do
commandfile1.wavfile1-convert.wav
I need to take each name, create a new name to build the actual
command that gets run and then do that for every file in the
directory, or even in a hierarchy of directories.
Thanks,
Mark
For bash / zsh and other advanced(?-) shells:
for f in *.wav; do command $f ${f/.wav/-convert.wav};done
The are there to prevent files with spaces in them (evil!) from
becoming too annoying and appearing as multiple commandline arguments.
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Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 21:08 -0400, bruce harding wrote: I've got 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX 3200 DDR Registered ECC. Is it possible that this if I ran memtest86+ for 2 days straight and found no error that the memory could still be defective? I ask because I can't get a complete compile of glibc. I have to restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. Let me know what you think. Well, here's a good list to go through.: http://people.redhat.com/davej/hardware-problems.txt //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
