[gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client. Then I've got a laptop (64bit Celeron, single core) on which I play those video

[gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm in the habit of backing up customer data by booting from knoppix, connecting a portable hard-drive and copying with `cp -rvf`. When this has finished I connect the portable hard-drive to my desktop machine, copy the directory of data from it to my homedir, and make a zip

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. ... ... My problem is: Neither of them can handle recording/playing video while

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Stroller wrote: I've done this loads in the past, and never been aware of any file corruption, but I guess I'm just paranoid today. Perhaps I shouldn't use the -v flags during my copy - it's reassuring to see the files being copied, but what if I overlooked a bunch

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1417 (76028-76077)

2008-02-24 Thread mvidela
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Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:29 +, Stroller wrote: On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. ... ... My problem

[gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
Does anyone know why tcp port 9090 is open on my laptop: alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot dbus | default hald | default

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Amar Cosic
I think its torrent port. I use transmission and that port it listens to On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why tcp port 9090 is open on my laptop: alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
I think its torrent port. I use transmission and that port it listens to How did I not realize that. Thank you. - Grant Does anyone know why tcp port 9090 is open on my laptop: alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot |

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. Diff? diff -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Stefan Wilfinger
Hi, It may be useful to execute a 'netstat -nap | grep 9090' to identify the program listening on port 9090. - Stefan Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think its torrent port. I use transmission and that port it listens to How did I not realize that. Thank you. - Grant Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade broke NAT

2008-02-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 22 February 2008 16:22:34 Grant wrote: Too bad that 'oldconfig' isn't always working :-( Is there a better way to update the config for a new kernel? What I do is to run menuconfig against the most recent .config, and search (visually) for items marked [NEW] and read their Help

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client. Then I've got a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 24. Februar 2008 schrieb cabbage: diff can use for binary files ? If you just want to know different or not, sure. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! === On Sunday 24 February 2008, you wrote: === ... On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread cabbage
diff can use for binary files ? On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have

[gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Why switch

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 24 Feb 2008, at 06:06, Stroller wrote: So my question is: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:34 -0800, Grant wrote: I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's

[gentoo-user] Re: md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread »Q«
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. I think you may have gotten better solutions for your situation, but md5deep (in portage) is like md5sum but with directory recursion. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Grant, If you want to do a complete switch then you would change your USB card to index 0 and restart Als which would make the USB card the default since card 0 is always the default for Alsa. On the other hand, if you wanted to just leave the onboard card as default and send audio from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
Grant, If you want to do a complete switch then you would change your USB card to index 0 and restart Als which would make the USB card the default since card 0 is always the default for Alsa. On the other hand, if you wanted to just leave the onboard card as default and send audio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out to be a simple matter of cycling the various modem/router PC s in the right order. Once I got the help desk it took about 2 minutes to get things resolved. It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant, If you want to do a complete switch then you would change your USB card to index 0 and restart Als which would make the USB card the default since card 0 is always the default for Alsa. On the other hand, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Since nobody seems to have an idea, maybe someone can tell me how I allow processes with real-time priority (nice -n -20) to be started by an ordinary user? Of course I'm aware of sudo but I don't want a simple media encoder to have