Serial ATA, a new standard for periferals.
http://www.serialata.org/
Biker
Mike Diehl
Just a shot in the dark...
Did you by any chance run the 'localepurge' program?
If so, could it be that it wasn't correctly configured?
(I'm not sure if localepurge would remove any keyboard layout files. I
_did_ say it was a shot in the dark. ;-)
Biker
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Gus
Jason Flatt
The command you're looking for is 'at'.
It requires the 'at' server to be installed and running.
You may need to emerge it.
Biker
There's nothing wrong with 'crontab', but it behaves differently from 'at'.
When 'at' runs the command once (at a given moment in time), crontab will
run the command repeatedly (at given intervals).
Gus
Not me.
Biker
snip
What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and
seemed to detect my hardware just fine...
Sean
I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same
time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on
I've found the Slackware path being a 'very simple' way of getting Gentoo
installed on some of my more hardware-challenged computers. Initially I
resisted, thinking that Gentoo should be able to do this on it's own, and
that I don't want to learn yet another distro, but finally I gave in. ;-)
snip
The only such projects I know of in Portage are
Zetagrid, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED], all in the app-sci tree.
Distributed.net (read: prize money) obviously runs on Linux as well, and
I wonder if many Gentoo users even bother dealing with it since it's not
included as a
Please use my personal email address if you wish.
Please don't. On a mailing list, there is always a percentage of lurkers
like myself hanging around, taking advantage of other peoples problems with
solutions.
Biker
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Because I'm *considering* to try out Prozilla. As such, I'm interested in
other peoples experiences. Positive as well as negative.
So far, I haven't had anything reasonably useful to add to the discussion
and I didn't want to send a Me too msg.
Biker, still lurking. ;-)
However you do it, you will want to have an air-flow that goes _through_
your box, traditionally _from_ the front side _to_ the back side.
Do _not_ take in air at the same side as you blow out warm air since that
will increase the risk of bringing in already heated air, whereas you want
to
My post was meant to be generic. I don't know the details of his box,
neither do I know yours.
Many PC cabinets have room for at least one supplemental fan, sometimes
more. Not all do, though. Most versions on mini-, mid- or full-size towers
do, whereas some desktop size cabinets may lack
I would also carefully read
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html
It seems that the sensor readings may need to be tweaked quite a lot.
Biker
i mean var, whats that stand for?
Variable data files
usr is logical i suppose, its nonsystem but installed by user?
No. /usr should _not_ be pronounced as user, since it stands for UNIX
System Resources (USR).
Biker
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Well, before I go out buying a new set of hardware, I need to verify one
thing.
Question: Can the V2.4.20 series gentoo-sources kernel use SATA without
special patching or should I wait for the 2.6 kernels to become mainstream
before I go SATA?
Note 1. Currently, I really don't have the
I suggest you make a lot of use of quickpkg once that is done.
Unless your a *real* masochist that is! ;-)
Jason
But I am. ;-)
BTW, I made sure to put this baby on a UPS before starting.
Just in case.
(Does that make me a coward? :-)
Biker
how's it going with your
Would this be an option for you?
Don't want to. I'm too stubborn for that. ;-)
Or are you compiling on the 486 just
for the sheer unadultarated hell of it :-)
You bet.
Biker
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Gentoo...the distro for masochists!
The bootstrap.sh is now passing 80 hours. And compiling...
Biker
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I suggest you make a lot of use of quickpkg once that is done.
Unless your a *real* masochist that is! ;-)
Jason
But I am. ;-)
BTW, I made sure to put this baby on a UPS before starting. Just in case.
(Does that make me a coward? :-)
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On the other hand, disk drives are large. I have 80GB - most of it
unpartitioned at this time. I'll add more space later if I need it I
suppose.
- Mark
So, you've got too much harddisk space, do you?
Kindly, send your excess harddisk space to me by e-mail, preferrably
gzipped. :-)
But if I intend to keep a local Gentoo mirror in my little network? (I *do*
have a PC with a large harddisk. Well, even two, actually. ;-)
Then I may need to keep the distfiles on my Gentoo Gateway server, but I
could use and throw away the distfiles on my 'Client' PCs. (*If* the client
PCs
Not convinced.
Either I have to have a per client ../distfiles directory on the nfs
server wich creates an enormous redundancy on that large harddisk. (Keeping
13 ../distfiles directories. 12 clients and the local one for the nfs
server.)
Or, I share the single ../distfiles directory
Could you explain what concurrency issues you anticipate, please..?
Simply that two (or more) clients would try to download and _store_ the
same file at the same time, a distfile that did not exist on the local
server, but the clients happen to request at more or less the same time,
Does anyone know where I can find an (in)formal description of the
components returned by 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' ?
Just need a pointer to the FM ;-)
Biker
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No worries. I didn't have time to go reading that source file yet. (Though
someone else may have. ;-) Thanks anyway for your good intention.
I've been googling this quite a lot but not found the information I looked
for. It's kind'a strange, because someone must have this info somewhere.
Dane,
If you read the man page for hdparm, you may find an option about how to
make the parameters 'stick' to the disk in question. (I'm not in front of
any Linux or UNIX system right now, so cannot give you the details.)
Once you feel comfortable that your system is absolutely stable with
Maybe that's due to my non-recent hardware: PIII 733, 256MB ram,
VIA M/B chipsets.
Are you serious?
I'm currently doing a stage1 installation on a 486 with 20MB of RAM. And
I'm happy for those last 4MB of RAM, bringing it up from standard 16MB to
20MB. :-)
That's what I call non-recent
A friend(?) of mine is threatening me to hand over an old 386...
Biker
Ross
I know.
And.. Thank you. ;-)
Biker
Dane Elwell
I believe:
- When you boot up, hdparm is run with your parameters from the
/etc/init.d/hdparm script.
- Then you make your manual changes, including the 'kepsettings' flag.
- Then you do a shutdown
- At shutdown, the hdparm 'service' is run with the 'stop' parameter.
- The hdparm stop will
* Stopping hdparm... [
ok ]
* Starting hdparm...
Did you notice that 'restart' makes a stop and a start?
Then you settings are there again. Fine.
When you do a 'stop', your settings will most likely be gone. Try to do a
stop, not a
Worked like a charm. ;-)
Biker
Ciaran McCreesh
I have successfully setup autofs to automatically mount some nfs drives
when accessed.
But, there seems to be a default timeout of 60 seconds, and after this
timeout the mount is umounted. For my usage of autofs it would make sense
to change this timeout to somewhere around 300 seconds.
I
Sorry to answer my own question, but I just found the answer here:
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-5.html#ss5.3
Sorry for the noise. ;-)
Biker
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Biker
Angel Gabriel
I'm forced to use Lotus Notes during working hours.
I consider it being my punishment for all the mean things I've said and
done troughout life...
Biker
So I thought I should try out distcc on three hardware-challenged and
absolutely identical computers.
emerge -p distcc
shows a requirement of xfree (???)
I have -X in my USE flag.
Now, I have tried to understand more or less what distcc is, and I believe
it is what I think it is; a
Dirk,
Your theory sounds reasonable.
I'll try to add -gtk+ to my USE tonight.
TIA
Biker
Dirk Heinrichs
The question is:
How many people will ignore your instructions and send their answers to
this list? ;-)
Biker
Fred
This morning I run 'emerge system' and had no problems with this.
But, somewhere in the middle of this I noticed a message that I for
different reasons failed to capture. The message said something like:
With the installaiton of this new version of coreutils [was that it?] you
can delete the
Thanks, Jason. :-)
/ME goes looking for the 'emerge unmerge' keys on the keyboard...
Jason Stubbs
Not sure if Gmane may be what you're looking for.
Anyway, check out:
http://gmane.org/
And especially:
http://gmane.org/dist.php
for a free download.
Biker
So, today I was given a potential opening in installing a first Gentoo
loaded computer at work. (A dream come true. :-)
The only technical problem, as it stands right now, is that I will need
seamless read and write access to the HD on an existing Novell server.
- Can this be accomplished?
Thanks Nathan, for your tip.
This seems to be the way to go.
Gus
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I'm very happy to use screen.
emerge -s screen
An added feature is that I can be on a physical terminal, load a job in
screen, detach from the screen and then later on login through ssh and
re-connect to the same screen.
Biker
BHHACTRL (Banging Head Hard Against Concrete To Reduce Laughing)
I believe it's good to look at our own qualities, and to question what we
do, how we do it plus why we do it. I do so myself and I hope that many
(most? [all?]) people do so. It's very constructive to verify ones owns
Try booting with the 'nousb' option. (Unless you need USB support during
the installation.)
Gus
Nick Van Vlaenderen
Hi,
You're most likely looking for http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ but
unfortunately I don't think there's an ebuild for it yet.
Try: emerge -s misterhouse
(I'm in front of M$ Windows while typing this.)
If you're seriously interested, and if you believe that Mister-House is
what
BEGIN{unshift(@INC,'./some/local/directory/');}
TMTOWTDI
Gus
Sami Näätänen
if I press the power off button on my computer it shut
down?
Well, in most cases, if you press the power off button, the power goes
off...
Without power, most computers will have a hard time to do a clean shutdown.
Or, does your computer provide a delay when you push the power off
button?
Interesting. I'm learning new stuff here. (I *really* should build myself a
new computer soon. My newest box is about 4 years old. ;-)
Does this mean that the OS can intercept you pushing the power off button
and do something?
- Like booting to another OS on the same computer?
- Like doing a
First, trust me. I'm really seriously interested in understanding the
potential of this.
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Usually the button is configurable in BIOS so that it either powers off
straight away or powers off after the button is held for 4 seconds
- Does this mean that the
Now a small light starts to go up for me too. ;-)
So the idea would be to capture that the user does a short push of the
power button (shorter than what it takes to force the BIOS to just brutally
turn it off) and when this short signal generates an event to the OS, do a
graceful shutdown.
Your
'/usr/bin/crontab' should be owned by 'root:cron' with permissions
'-rwxr-x---'
Any unpriviledged user that shall use 'crontab' must belong to the 'cron'
group.
Login as an unpriviledged user and type 'crontab -l' to list your current
entries. If that tells you your crontab is empty,
I had a look at this yesterday evening. I will double check tonight.
(Unfortunately, I find myself in front of M$ products all day long.)
Gus
Sounds too small for Gentoo. I have successfully installed Gentoo on a 1.2
GB HD, but 80MB...
What do you intend to do with the system? Run a gateway, a router, a
firewall? There are special distros for these kind of installations.
I'm currently setting up a bering installation on a
I'm a 'stage 1 guy'. I didn't participate in the poll. Vacation. :-)
My guess is that many (most) people turning to Gentoo does it with the very
idea that it's great to be able to 'do it yourself' from scratch.
I wrench a lot with my cars, my motorcycles and my house. I build my
computers (very
How reliable *is* the usage of distcc?
I keep reading comments saying that not all packages can be compiled with
discc and such.
Gus
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When a normal user quits /bin/mail, the mail application fails to remove
the mail lock file with the error message:
# mail: Cannot remove lockfile /var/mail/gus.lock: No child processes
The same user can (and must) then manually remove the lockfile from
/var/mail/gus.lock
This doesn't happen
Essein, thanks for answering.
I have tried to set my single (first) non-root user part of *all* groups,
but it didn't help. I guess it's probably not a question of the users
group. (I've since reset this user to the mail group.)
Do you have /bin/mail installed yourself? (From the mailx package)
The ssh client has a -v (verbose) option. Does putty have anything similar?
If so, did you try running your putty client in verbose mode?
The idea would be to detect if you get in contact with sshd, or if
firewalls are stopping you to contact your home server.
Gus
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