Re: [gentoo-user] Setting size of /dev/shm or cleaning up ancient /etc/fstab

2013-05-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/05/2013 07:55, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running mdev, so that may be related. Here's my story... a script I run to automatically process digital photos started blowing up on me. After much bashing of head against brick wall, I determined that /dev/shm now has an absolute max size of 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cups - print job owner

2013-05-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/05/2013 03:48, walt wrote: On 05/07/2013 01:46 PM, Mick wrote: $ cat /etc/group | grep lp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat In code, yes. Whilst debugging on the command line, no. That's just nitpicking. I call this the Useless use of calling people on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron job email time off by one hour

2013-05-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/05/2013 18:47, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-05-07 11:43 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I've googled and can't figure this out... /etc/timezone is set to the correct timezone (EST5EDT) Date command says the server time is correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cups - print job owner

2013-05-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 08/05/2013 03:48, walt wrote: On 05/07/2013 01:46 PM, Mick wrote: $ cat /etc/group | grep lp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat In code, yes. Whilst debugging on the command line, no. That's just nitpicking. I call this the Useless use of

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-08 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Mon, 06 May 2013 15:28:29 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: There's been a libicu update. Run revdep-rebuild, and then try updating calibre again. I let run revdep-rebuild -p and i become the follow message gentoo-mobile siefke # revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cups - print job owner

2013-05-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 08 May 2013 08:47:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: $ cat /etc/group | grep lp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat In code, yes. Whilst debugging on the command line, no. That's just nitpicking. I call this the Useless use of calling people on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 May 2013 09:38:10 Silvio Siefke wrote: Can it be that the Portage System is broken? Because i become one time a msg that the world file is corrupt or so in art. I make what stand there, but since then nothing really want install. PHP is ever by the Update, calibre want not

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron job email time off by one hour

2013-05-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-07 6:08 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 08/05/13 00:47, Tanstaafl wrote: Also, I have rkhunter running on the same machine (job is in /etc/cron.daily, instead of the root crontab), which generates its own emails, and those have the correct time on them (header time

[gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.05.2013 13:05, schrieb Thomas Mueller: Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-08 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/5/8 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 08.05.2013 13:05, schrieb Thomas Mueller: Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 May 2013 04:05:38 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a different structure nkwon as pkgng. Is there any way to configure so as to avoid this annoyance in Gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting size of /dev/shm or cleaning up ancient /etc/fstab

2013-05-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm running mdev, so that may be related. Here's my story... a script I run to automatically process digital photos started blowing up on me. After much bashing of head against brick wall, I determined that /dev/shm

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/08/2013 04:38 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, On Mon, 06 May 2013 15:28:29 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: There's been a libicu update. Run revdep-rebuild, and then try updating calibre again. I let run revdep-rebuild -p and i become the follow message

[gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-08 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, A while back I was inquiring about the best way to have computers on the network synched. Long story short, we opted to go with an NTP server installed on one machine, and synching the rest of the machines against it. However, I am not sure if the NTP server is properly synched

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-08 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, The official explanation of the output of ntpq -p is here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/decode.html#peer although http://tech.kulish.com/2007/10/30/ntp-ntpq-output-explained/ is probably a bit more understandable if you're not familiar with ntpd. remote refid