Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Red jack and white jack on a pair of headphones

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:35 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've recently found a pair of headphones with a microphone. I've no idea > where it came from, but I'd like to try it out. I've got no manual for > it. I'm not even sure it's functional. > > It has a red (stereo)

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:51 AM Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > hi. context: > > 1. tinfoil hat is on. > 2. i feel disrespected when someone does things to >my stuff without getting my approval. > 3. vps admin is not trusty and their sys admin may >read my emails, and laugh at me! > 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:37 PM Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that > know the name of the process that is trying to access > it, and based on its name, it links it to a file? Yes, and that's used pretty extensively in busybox. Symlinks

Re: [gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 6:45 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > At a customer we still have to keep up an ancient Suse 6.x VM, it has a > legacy and proprietary software in it which has to be kept alive. > > No way to move that sw to another OS, don't ask ... > Any chance to just attach to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet-over-USB confusion

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:47 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > short question: > > I want to access my Raspberry Pi Zero W via Ethernet-over-USB > via ssh. > On the Raspberry I have to include a module called g_ether. > After rebooting I can see a new interface whith an IP assigned > via ifconfig. > On my PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Hardened vs Kali Linux

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Hubert Hauser wrote: > Hello! > > I want to learn from scratch securing Linux and ethical hacking. Should I > do as the most people so install Kali Linux on virtual machine or install > Gentoo Hardened with Pentoo overlay on my PC? I heard a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Poison BL. <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption >> of rendering a PDF document. I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption > of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the > renderer once. The catch with that goal is that a) rendering a PDF is likely as much

Re: [gentoo-user] Somehow offtopic: KRITA documentation 'mobile version'

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:50 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for being offtopic somehow... > > > > If it's in portage (and in most cases even if it isn't) I don't > suppose it's really offtopic. > > > I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-02 09:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> miles per hour, internet almost always won lately. :-) > > > But tapes also hold a lot more than they did in 1981 > > And so do trucks :-( > > -- > Please *no* private Cc:

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 9:11 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > "Poison BL." <poiso...@gmail.com> writes: > > Half petabyte datasets aren't really something I'd personally *ever* trust > > ftp with in the first place. > > Why not? (12GB are

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote: > Mick writes: > > > On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement >

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:29 AM, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement > which is at least as good as FTP? > > I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and > missing features. > > > -- > "Didn't work" is

Re: [gentoo-user] broadwell for kaby lake?

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have a new computer, assembled piece by piece, and the cpu is > supposed to be an intel i5-7600 LGA1151. The original box says "7th > generation". > > However: > > $ gcc -### -E - -march=native 2>&1 | sed -r

Re: [gentoo-user] switching adapter - power supply

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:36 PM, wrote: > Or take one of the old PS from an old case and solder the tip to 12V > line is better solution? > One point that should be noted on this idea... as long as it cooperates, it should last pretty much forever, but your draw at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:14:23 -0500 > schrieb "Poison BL." <poiso...@gmail.com>: > > I actually see both sides of it... as nice as it is to have a chance > > to recover the

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > All this raises an interesting question: How much effort is it > reasonable to expect a user to undertake just to use one of these > drives? I mean it's going to be very tough to argue that it should > require more than

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/13/2017 10:17 AM, Poison BL. wrote: > > > > I've had more than one spinning rust drive fail hard over the years as > > well, though yes, you do usually have some chance of recove

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 13 Feb 2017 13:17:14 Poison BL. wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 02/12/2017 02:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 02/12/2017 02:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > > So does anyone have any evidence of a current generation SSD lasting > > more than 20 days? > > > > I have tried various SSDs (multiple brands and generations) over the > last

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Dear god, I think I have come in contact with one of the suckiest things > in the universe! > > I mean first there are supermassive black holes... OK... Then there's > Crucial MX300 SSDs, and in a distant third there's

Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've > > learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them > > occasionally (when I have some spare

Re: [gentoo-user] The Tao of Portage ... again

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, wrote: > Corbin Bird [16-12-31 16:52]: > > > > On 12/31/2016 09:23 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > and the novice asked: > > > "Is there the Tao in rpm?" > > > The master replied: "...ues, there

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can QEMU emulate cpu instructions the host cpu doesn't have?

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz" on a physical host > machine. I'd like to emulate a cpu with the "movbe" instruction set. > Doing some testing, I tried, as root stuff like... > > qemu-system-x86_64

Re: [gentoo-user] [O/T] netstat security puzzle

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Mick wrote: > I am looking at a Mint 18 installation and noticed when running netstat > that > all tcp connections are showing not the PC name, but "Knoppix":. > > What might be the cause of this? The installation was performed using a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get nginx serving pages?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Several years ago I set up an apache2 web server to host a development site, > and I had quite a struggle to get it all set up. Now I want to do it again, > but I decided to try nginx instead. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > >> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran. >> >> The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use >> sys-boot/gummiboot. >> Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM, <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > Poison BL. <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote : > >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> >> wrote: >> > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: >> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an >> initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can >> investigate? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm in a Linux container

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:38 AM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when updating a guest in an LXC, emerging python pointed out a problem >> with a broken /dev/shm. So I found out how to mount /dev/shm in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 08 Aug 2015 18:02:00 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:00:29 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Yep, I find it infuriating that by default all distros seem to go to great effort to hide as much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com wrote: So it was prompted by a perceived security issue, but I would happily sit down with any of the DPOs involved in that to hear just how that little bandaid fixes any of the real security issues involved ;) -- Joshua M

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual OS clock issues

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Thursday, June 04, 2015 12:06:51 PM Derek Ellison wrote: I have two HDD in a UEFI system. Windows 8 on one and Gentoo on the other. Currently I have to update the clock everytime I boot to the

Re: [gentoo-user] low risk network bridge

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: My task is to enable a (remote) server to run VMs via qemu/KVM. The server is configured to set up its eth0 via openrc but this isn't enough to run the VMs network. I tried macvtap but something didn't work, either

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic network connection between eth and wifi

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that on the newer distribution (binary, xubuntu fedora) the network connection is automatic whenever someone connects the cable or if cable is disconnected it switches to wife. Is it the function of the new systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Greetings, after noticing huge downloads circa ever 2 minutes naturally I wanted to stop that. :) After a reboot followed by startx which opened icewm I issued the command sudo ngrep -t -d net0 | tee system-ngrep_log.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] Rkhunter now showing Warnings for two files: /bin/egrep fgrep

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hello all, Been on rkhunter 1.4.2 for a while, no changes made to its config file, been running nightly for years without these warnings... I recently did some Gentoo updates after almost 2 months of no updates

Re: [gentoo-user] Is lshw reporting correctly?

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I see when I plugged in two memory modules: === *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 2f slot: System board or

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE setting sound input from USB, playback from motherboard chip.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, alsamixer -c0 But I want 0 to be default. When I type alsamixer it should automatically pop us as default. Which file do I modify? -- Joseph I believe that's a side effect of alsa-lib being set to something other than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Setup: very new install of gentoo I want to install emacs-w3m without most of the dependencies: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.17 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying a file by a block number...how?

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:24 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, with sysctl vm.block_dump=1 one can enable the logging of IO to the harddisk/flashmem/... into dmesg. The logs report the block number of the file in question... but not the filename itsself. Is there any other way as

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi [14-12-17 15:00]: On Dec 17, 2014, at 14:13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:44 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? There are advantages to both, really, since firefox-bin uses a pre-built executable (with a pre-defined set of compile-time options), while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: another headless device-question: In search of the LAN

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-09-30 14:24]: Meino, Make sure your system time (hwclock) is properly set upon bootup. Since you are running on an embedded hardware board, I'd look at those docs and find a forum as to the

Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 29/09/2014 16:10, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are unaccountably large. You

Re: [gentoo-user] clone XP-Virtual to a file

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: How to close virtualbox machine (windows xp) to a file? I need to transfer it to another box. I made some notes but they are old so I'm not sure if they are applicable or there is an easier way. === 1) Shut down

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and it is very great. I really love it, but I was considering to install a

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:27:09 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:13:28 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: Use 'Reply-To-List' function (or equivalent - or worst case, delete my direct email

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from disk-snapshots. No info if it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying Suspend Script?

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lee ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I always need to reconnect my laptop pcmcia wireless card to my WAP when awaking from suspend. It would be nice if I could add two commands, ifconfig and dhpcd, to the script which controls awaking from suspend. Anyone know which

Re: [gentoo-user] Peeve - finding kernel config options

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson d...@dmj.nu wrote: On 26.02.2014 22:24, Poison BL. wrote: When I search FHANDLE in menuconfig I get: │ Symbol: FHANDLE [=y] │ Type : boolean │ Prompt: open

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:55 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: The 21/02/14, hasufell wrote: So you are saying compiling a minimal kernel to minimize exposure to subsystem bugs is only obscurity? (I really wonder what Greg would say to this) Developers made the kernel to rely

Re: [gentoo-user] Peeve - finding kernel config options

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hello all, This is for those of use who to choose to roll our kernels by hand... So, am I missing something? Given the most recent gentoo news item: # eselect news read 10 2014-02-25-udev-upgrade Title

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:07:09AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote We don't do error handling. We don't even try and deal with it at the point

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers (?)

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 20 Feb 2014 01:22:24 eroen wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:39:51 -0800, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter:

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of systems (laptops) in an

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

An alternative to booting to external media, etc, would be a bind mount of / and /usr on separate temporary mount points, then dumping the data between them, leaving the existing system chugging along. A re-mount of the current /usr in -o ro mode might not be a terrible idea in that case. I had a