Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-09 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 06:16:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 01:38:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > > question... is "rdate" a drop-in substitute for "openrdate"? > > Answering my own question... big fat NO. > > [i660][root][~] openrdate -s -n ca.pool.ntp.org (works

[gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 01:38:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > question... is "rdate" a drop-in substitute for "openrdate"? Answering my own question... big fat NO. [i660][root][~] openrdate -s -n ca.pool.ntp.org (works fine) [i660][root][~] openrdate -s ca.pool.ntp.org (hangs and sits there)

[gentoo-user] Installed over and over again: Imagemagick

2019-12-09 Thread tuxic
Hi, it seems, there is an installation loop for Installing (2 of 2) media-gfx/imagemagick-6.9.10.77::gentoo . Nearly every morning since some days I see this. What may cause the problem? (It installas just fine.) Cheers! mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] XDM Start Faster

2019-12-09 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
below is not exactly answering ur question, but i am sharing it in case it helps. here is how i chose to live in order to minimize suffering, and i did not change this setup for several years: 0. i login in text (no gui login). i think xdm is fundamentally a redundant concept that should

[gentoo-user] XDM Start Faster

2019-12-09 Thread jdm
Hi, Over the last couple of weeks my wifi connection net.wlp5s0 doesn't see to want to connect at boot up (It used to be very fast but now taking 1min +). Therefore XDM (login screen slim) takes a long time to start up. And LXD daemon doesn't start at all. I have my rc.conf set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and CPU core usage

2019-12-09 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 9 December 2019 06:31:08 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As some may recall, I upgraded my rig to a 8 core CPU, expanded memory, >> added a hard drive etc etc a while back. All of which made things a bit >> faster. Each core isn't that much faster but the extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and CPU core usage

2019-12-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 9 December 2019 06:31:08 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some may recall, I upgraded my rig to a 8 core CPU, expanded memory, > added a hard drive etc etc a while back. All of which made things a bit > faster. Each core isn't that much faster but the extra cores certainly > help in