On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
Reemerge all xf86* packages
Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server
version, driver version mismatch)
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I looked right at it and missed the obvious! Thanks for the clue-by-four.
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GWW
Hello!
Today I tried to install LibreOffice-3.5. and it seems to compile
fine, but fails to install.
Here is one of the error messages:
/var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.5./work/libreoffice-core-3.5./bin/distro-install-file-lists
Error: Failed to
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:43 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm
seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them.
When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling
or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint
G.Wolfe Woodbury writes:
On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
Reemerge all xf86* packages
Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server
version, driver version mismatch)
I looked right at it and missed the obvious! Thanks for the
clue-by-four.
BTW, emerge -a
Hi, Yohan.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:38:08PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote:
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 17:48:00 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Evening, all.
The messages which stream by during an emerge, in particular the
warnings etc. which are repeated at the end of a single emerge
operation.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to add another terminal to my machine (there is no need for a
separate full blown work station).
I see two possibilities:
- add another graphics card and attach a second screen, keyboard
On 2011-12-20 11:00 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
You should probably also restrict which files can be edited (not
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or /etc/sudoers, for sure!). You can do this
with globs. For example:
%sudoroot sudoedit/var/www/*
Ok, just found out that
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving
him root access.
Well, yeah, but only on those defined files...
I'm not worried about them messing up stuff in /var/www/*, but I am
worried about them
On 22 December 2011 15:41, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2011-12-20 11:00 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
You should probably also restrict which files can be edited (not
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or /etc/sudoers, for sure!). You can do this
with globs. For
On 12/21/11 15:11, Tanstaafl wrote:
Hi all,
Ok, this has been on my ToDo list for a while, and I'm thinking of
tacking this over the holidays, since the office will be much slower
than usual.
The only databases I have in use are for my mail server, which means
postfix, courier-imap (soon
Hi,
I installed gentoo on a new vps, and updated it to latest stuff. Funny
thing is, irrespective of the number of times I run python-updater, the
same packages are added at every run. Earlier the installation had
python 2.6. Updated to 2.7 and --depclean'd 2.6. Now it has 2.6 3.2
with 3.2 as
On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving
him root access.
Well, yeah, but only on those defined files...
root access is global. You can't limit it.
Hi,
after updating my system I tried emerge --depclean as
recommended by portage, and I received this warning:
--
Calculating dependencies... done!
Calculating removal order...
!!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) is part of your system profile.
!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is
a part of system?
Jarry
I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to
/var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one machine
or another for 6
On 2011-12-22 1:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving
him root access.
Well, yeah, but only on those
On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is
a part of system?
I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to
/var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one machine
or another for 6 months to a year I think.
Some time ago
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is
a part of system?
I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to
/var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:53:43 -0500
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2011-12-22 1:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
If you allow someone to edit root owned
Thanks for the explanation Alan... have to do some reading/studying on this.
Any good pointers for best practices for this kind of thing?
Thanks again...
On 2011-12-22 2:21 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:53:43 -0500
Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org
On 12/22/2011 08:53 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-12-22 1:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically
giving
him root
On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 19:07:02 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is
a part of system?
I didn't like it either so I've been adding
If you need to allow just one single user to access just one single
directory, you are better off with using Posix ACLS (NOT regular
owner, group and perms - that almost never works out right for www data)
Depends. On a multi-user server I maintain, where every user has a
~/public_html/
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:33:47 -0500
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
Thanks for the explanation Alan... have to do some reading/studying
on this.
Any good pointers for best practices for this kind of thing?
Best practice - the two most useless words in all of IT.
By definition
[ I'm not sure what is the subject of the thread anymore.]
As a small issue about the source of the name Gentoo, even though the
Gentoo Penguin was named as *Pygoscelis papua* by Forster, that does not
really help us to know where the English Common name came from. Forster
apparently
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:21:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
I installed gentoo on a new vps, and updated it to latest stuff. Funny
thing is, irrespective of the number of times I run python-updater, the
same packages are added at every run.
Check b.g.o. there is a bug filed on this.
--
On Dec 23, 2011 2:42 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 19:07:02 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
G.Wolfe Woodbury writes:
On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
Reemerge all xf86* packages
Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server
version, driver version mismatch)
I looked right at
Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org wrote:
G.Wolfe Woodbury writes:
On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
Reemerge all xf86* packages
Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server
version, driver version mismatch)
I
On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what
alternatives are available (with a write-in candidate support).
# eselect pager show
PAGER variable in profile:
/usr/bin/less
# more /etc/env.d/99pager
# Configuration file for eselect
#
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:43:33 +0100
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what
alternatives are available (with a write-in candidate support).
# eselect pager show
PAGER variable in profile:
Because eselect's setting of pager does not correlate with emerge's
world file. You should add less to the world file e.g. by running
emerge --noreplace less.
2011/12/23 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com:
On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show
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