On Sunday 28 February 2010 04.57:36 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
pages, they are covered in ESC. This does not occur when using normal
user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going
on. Thanks.
And I
Neil Walker wrote:
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
e.g. 'lockd'?
If so, which ebuild installs it?
I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
internally by the kernel.
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.neiljw.com
rpc.lockd was removed starting of nfs-utils-1.1.0
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
pages, they are covered in ESC. This does not occur when using normal
user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going
on. Thanks.
Q: Have you tried ... su - (the dash is
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
Some ENV variables are unset by sudo.
You can alter that behaviour in /etc/sudoers. I have
Defaults:%wheel !env_reset
and don't see this.
But anyway, sudo su makes zero sense :P
sudo su makes sense if you want to use the root
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
Some ENV variables are unset by sudo.
You can alter that behaviour in /etc/sudoers. I have
Defaults:%wheel !env_reset
and don't see this.
But anyway, sudo su makes zero sense :P
On Saturday 27 February 2010 18:20:24 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote:
Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2,
and has historically been limited to a total size[1] to 512 bytes,
It's actually less than that, because the first 64 bytes of sector 0
contain
pk wrote:
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
pages, they are covered in ESC. This does not occur when using normal
user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going
on. Thanks.
Q: Have you tried ...
On Saturday 27 February 2010 21:45:13 Arttu V. wrote:
On 2/27/10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 19:04:09 walt wrote:
On 02/27/2010 10:04 AM, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to install Gentoo on a i7 x86_64 arch machine and libgamin
fails when I
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html
With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout. I have
learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is
bad practice and that the correct command is $ sudo su -
No need to
pk wrote:
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html
With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout. I have
learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is
bad practice and that the correct command
pk wrote:
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html
With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout. I have
learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is
bad practice and that the correct command
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen:
hi,
my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after
some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can
use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but
when i tried to change the lcd
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:56 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su
(or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this
situation.
localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd -l root
Password changed.
localhost ubiquitous1980
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:11:31 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
The same annoying thing.
What is doing `kdebugdialog`?
you can turn messages on and off. Turn all of them off (there is a
switch for that) you are are spared all the crap.
Maybe some of the crap, you still get QT messages.
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen:
hi,
my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after
some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can
use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but
when
On Saturday 27 February 2010 21:45:13 Arttu V. wrote:
On 2/27/10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 19:04:09 walt wrote:
On 02/27/2010 10:04 AM, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to install Gentoo on a i7 x86_64 arch machine and libgamin
fails when I
u can use nxclient w/VNC protocol. The server shall then invoke a local
vnc server, log into it with a local nx client, and let you log into the
local client. That way you get nx's performance over a VNC connection
(sort-of).
Amit
I'm just wandering if it is possible to connect to existing
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:56 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su
(or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this
situation.
localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd -l root
Password
Is there a way to get KMS to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 so that I
have more real estate on my external monitor. At present, the external
monitor is not getting full use with parts of it blacked out to make the
resolution of the laptop's screen.
Thanks,
Damien
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:10:02 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Re: Who believes in cylinders?:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 18:20:24 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote:
Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2,
and has historically been limited to a total
BTW, am I the only-one who can't get x2go to build?
amit0 ~ # emerge -av x2goserver
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies / * Please fix your package
(net-misc/x2gosessionadministration-2.0.1.10) to not use kde.eclass
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:03:36 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
That you stated that the root account was hardly locked if I can sudo su
into it. If you take me as truthful, then you can see that I have done
exactly that: locked the account and sudo su'ed into it. I think you
already knew that
On 02/27/2010 08:32 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote:
If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
pages, they are covered in ESC. This does not occur when using normal
user accounts or the root
I am booting into a new system and this is what I'm getting: :-(
=
* Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [OK]
/sbin/rc: line 385: 1515 Segmentation fault ( local retval=; local
myservice=${service}; profiling name
Am 28.02.2010 15:05, schrieb ubiquitous1980:
Is there a way to get KMS to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 so that I
have more real estate on my external monitor. At present, the external
monitor is not getting full use with parts of it blacked out to make the
resolution of the laptop's
Many years ago I wrote an OS/2 program to handle all of this. Perhaps I
should blow the dust off it, convert it to use POSIX functions and
publish it as FOSS.
Why reinvent the wheel? Just use 'sfdisk -d'.
andrea
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, Mick wrote:
As I am working my way through this new box I am not sure if cpufrequtils
is necessary for the kernel to manage the CPU. Is this still necessary,
no. I have never needed it.
or is the kernel itself clever enough to manage the hardware directly
these
Hi there,
If I want to automagically replace text in a file, I can use `sed`. I don't
believe that `sed` can be invoked in such a way to change the file in place,
therefore two commands are necessary:
$ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/' foo bar
$ mv bar foo
$
Using
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Stroller wrote:
If I want to automagically replace text in a file, I can use `sed`. I don't
believe that `sed` can be invoked in such a way to change the file in
place, therefore two commands are necessary:
$ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/'
On Sunday 28 February 2010 18:52:02 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, Mick wrote:
As I am working my way through this new box I am not sure if cpufrequtils
is necessary for the kernel to manage the CPU. Is this still necessary,
no. I have never needed it.
or is
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:10:02 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?:
Many years ago I wrote an OS/2 program to handle all of this.
Perhaps I should blow the dust off it, convert it to use POSIX
functions and publish it as FOSS.
Why reinvent the wheel?
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:05 AM, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to get KMS to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 so that I
have more real estate on my external monitor. At present, the external
monitor is not getting full use with parts of it blacked out to make the
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html
With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout. I have
learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is
bad
On 28 Feb 2010, at 19:06, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Stroller wrote:
...
$ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/' foo bar
$ mv bar foo
$
Have a look at sed's -i option.
Using `grep` I can search *recursively* through directories to find
the
text I'm
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:56:13PM -0500, stosss wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html
With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout. ?I have
learned sudo su
On Sunday 28 February 2010 07:06:43 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
pages, they are covered in ESC. This does not occur when using normal
user accounts or
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Stroller wrote:
A starting point could be (after you make a backup of the whole tree)
find /basedir -type f -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} +
Many thanks - that looks great!
My only concern is that it is unreliable enough that you state the
need to backup
On Saturday 27 February 2010 20:40:17 Harry Putnam wrote:
In the back of my mind there was a reason on opensolaris, that the
script would fail if the fifo was empty... Then once data comes the
script isn't listening. Or syslog won't write or something similar.
I also have an opensolaris box
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 28 Feb 2010, at 19:06, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Stroller wrote:
...
$ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/' foo bar
$ mv bar foo
$
Have a look at sed's -i option.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:16:14AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
sudo su and su have a fundamental difference, vital in corporate networks:
The former uses the user's password for authentication and sudoers for
authorization. The latter uses knowledge of the root password for
authorization
On Sunday 28 February 2010 23:27:57 William Hubbs wrote:
7 years ago a veteran Linux user taught me to always use su - for the
very reason you stated.
Actually, you are safe with either su - (without sudo) or sudo -i.
sudo su - is chaining su - on top of sudo, and is redundant because
On Monday 01 March 2010 00:57:17 William Hubbs wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:16:14AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
sudo su and su have a fundamental difference, vital in corporate
networks:
The former uses the user's password for authentication and sudoers for
authorization. The
On 02/28/2010 07:56 AM, Mick wrote:
I am booting into a new system and this is what I'm getting: :-(
* Failed to start /etc/init.d/checkroot
This is on a multi-reiser4 partition installation. What has gone wrong with
it?
Just a guess, but have you installed sys-fs/reiser4progs or
On 17 February 2010 10:31, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:58:16AM +, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:51:21PM +, Mick wrote:
Please do write a page on the Wiki (or at least a summary of what you
did to this mailing list). This will be some handy information to
have.
I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the Windows 7
boot manager
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:07:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Don't read my post as literally meaning they must type the 7 characters
sudo su. Read it more as use any feature of sudo you feel like to
get a root shell, but you must use sudo. As opposed to using su alone.
The problem with this in
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards
compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that comprises
Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work.
A little turn towards OT:
so what are
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