Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/02/2015 22:49, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it seems to be running every day, why? Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab.

[gentoo-user] USB port stop working

2015-02-06 Thread Joseph
I have a 2m extension cable connected to my USB3 on the back of the box and use only the cable end to plug/unplug my usb stick to it. This morning when I plugged my USB stick to the cable end the light just flicked on the USB stick and went off. The USB stick did not mount. I flipped the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Radeon video cards in the same box.

2015-02-06 Thread Scott Ellis
I was never able to get the ATI supplied drivers (fglrx) to work with any other Xorg server drivers. My specific use case was to have X displaying on 8x R9-290X cards and an AST2400 at the same time. Regardless of what I did, the ATI driver would segfault on startup if the AST module was

Re: [gentoo-user] kde , subversion and portable media

2015-02-06 Thread Dale
Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, I use subversion for project files, KDE for desktop, KSVN as subversion interface. When updating work copies in a removable drive, the process kded4 prevents the media removal. Is there anything I could do, besides manually killing the process? Thanks,

[gentoo-user] kde , subversion and portable media

2015-02-06 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, I use subversion for project files, KDE for desktop, KSVN as subversion interface. When updating work copies in a removable drive, the process kded4 prevents the media removal. Is there anything I could do, besides manually killing the process? Thanks, Francisco

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello again, Rich (and everybody else who answered me). On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 08:36:27AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: So, what was it that chewed up my RAID configuration so badly that /dev/md6 got renamed to /dev/md127? Can

[gentoo-user] dependancy xorg-server

2015-02-06 Thread Joseph
I'm getting an error: (x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.2-r1:0/1.15.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) (x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0:0/1.15.0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.15.0=

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Computer does not boot

2015-02-06 Thread Joseph
On 01/31/15 21:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:53:41 -0700, Joseph wrote: I bootstrap from Gentoo CD and run grub-install in change-root. It fixed the problem, but it make me wonder why grub flipped on me. I run upgrade on three other boxes and everything went smooth. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:42:45 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: #!/bin/bash xdate=`date +d` if [ 10#${xdate} -le 7 ]; then do_whatever fi Note a booby trap here. `date +d` returns a 2-digit number, padded with a leading zero if necessary. Use date +%e, which uses a space instead of a zero

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/02/2015 22:49, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it seems to be running every

Re: [gentoo-user] dependancy xorg-server

2015-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/02/2015 23:52, Joseph wrote: I'm getting an error: (x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.2-r1:0/1.15.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) (x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0:0/1.15.0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Computer does not boot

2015-02-06 Thread Joseph
On 01/31/15 21:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:53:41 -0700, Joseph wrote: I bootstrap from Gentoo CD and run grub-install in change-root. It fixed the problem, but it make me wonder why grub flipped on me. I run upgrade on three other boxes and everything went smooth. When I

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] dependancy xorg-server

2015-02-06 Thread Joseph
On 02/07/15 07:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/02/2015 23:52, Joseph wrote: I'm getting an error: (x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.2-r1:0/1.15.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)

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

2015-02-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 February 2015 08:20:30 CET, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Hartmut Figge: Poison BL.: Port 995 there indicates SSL POP mail. Thanks. That has to be fetchmail. Verified by stopping it. The solution may be interesting to others. After unsuccessfully playing with the options of

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

2015-02-06 Thread wabenbau
Am Freitag, 06.02.2015 um 14:53 schrieb Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de: J. Roeleveld: On 6 February 2015 08:20:30 CET, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: fetchmail[2695]: reading message h.fi...@gmx.de@pop.gmx.net:1 of 1 (10652260 octets) (log message incomplete) fetchmail[2695]: SMTP

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-06 Thread Jörg Schaible
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 05.02.2015 17:59, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 04/02/15 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 05.02.2015 17:59, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 04/02/15 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work wonders.

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

2015-02-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
J. Roeleveld: On 6 February 2015 08:20:30 CET, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: fetchmail[2695]: reading message h.fi...@gmx.de@pop.gmx.net:1 of 1 (10652260 octets) (log message incomplete) fetchmail[2695]: SMTP error: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit That caused fetchmail

[gentoo-user] Re: Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-02-04, waben...@gmail.com waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, 04.02.2015 um 15:33 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: From my own experience I can only suggest terminus-font; you might find an acceptable compromise there as its heights range from 12 to 32 pixels, so I

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

2015-02-06 Thread Thanasis
On 02/06/2015 07:08 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: In /etc/postfix/main.cf set message_size_limit = 1 for a 100MB limit or whatever you wan't. message_size_limit = 0 (for unlimited)

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:19:13PM -0700, Joseph wrote I have a cron tab entry: 8 12 1-7 * 1 rsync ... I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it seems to be running every day, why? Here's a possible workaround; have the script run every Monday, but also have