[gentoo-user] Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Tanstaafl. As soon as I get my set of anti-malware rescue disks set up (Kaspersky, Trend Micro, AVG, and Bitdefender), for right now on four separate USB flash drives (thereby wasting most of the space on the flash drives!), I'm going to start experimenting with the multiboot USB creator

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiboot Live USB creatores - Was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Sondow
Hi, Robert. I checked out the Multisystem website, from the French folks. But I didn't like their attitude: a sales pitch. I didn't realize you could download the iso from Sourceforge. I'm not sure how to use it, though. Isn't it for creating a multiboot USB stick from Linux? I'll need a

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Paul Klos
Op donderdag 14 februari 2013 04:56:53 schreef Stroller: On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote: ... I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat reinstall. Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but does

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/02/2013 18:51, Paul Klos wrote: Op donderdag 14 februari 2013 04:56:53 schreef Stroller: On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote: ... I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat reinstall. Excuse me if

[gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread James
Hello, Context: Stable Systems with a few newer packages (unmasked) in portage. Some of the recent discussion threads bounce around the issue of solutions being completed a few days after new packages are release. Hey, it's Gentoo, we're all keenly aware of this. No problem. But, from time to

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/02/2013 21:26, James wrote: Hello, Context: Stable Systems with a few newer packages (unmasked) in portage. Some of the recent discussion threads bounce around the issue of solutions being completed a few days after new packages are release. Hey, it's Gentoo, we're all keenly aware

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/13/2013 08:56 PM, Stroller wrote: On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote: ... I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat reinstall. Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but does this machine have

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/14/2013 11:26 AM, James wrote: Hello, Context: Stable Systems with a few newer packages (unmasked) in portage. --snip-- So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this

[gentoo-user] Re: Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-14, James wrote: So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur first; then I can complete the

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Adam Carter
This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from outside the local LAN. Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to be sure.

[gentoo-user] unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph
Is it safe to unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9 it is blocking udev-197 -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9

2013-02-14 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Is it safe to unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9 it is blocking udev-197 As long as you don't stop udev, nor try to reboot before merging the new version, yes. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la

Re: [gentoo-user] pam_get_uid: no such user

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/14/2013 04:15 PM, Adam Carter wrote: This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from outside the local LAN. Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to be sure. I just installed tcpdump and checked. During the burst of 5

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9

2013-02-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.02.2013 03:38, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Is it safe to unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9 it is blocking udev-197 As long as you don't stop udev, nor try to reboot before merging the new version, yes. Regards. The more

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 15.02.2013 00:58, Daniel Frey wrote: On 02/14/2013 11:26 AM, James wrote: Hello, Context: Stable Systems with a few newer packages (unmasked) in portage. --snip-- So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the