[gentoo-user] rm: missing operand in emailed result of cron job that uses rm to remove aged files

2014-01-20 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I've got a cron job that runs a mysqldump script, and the last part of that script removes the oldest of the files in the backup_dir. The pertinent part of the script is: # delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies rm $(ls -1t

Re: [gentoo-user] rm: missing operand in emailed result of cron job that uses rm to remove aged files

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:38:40 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: The pertinent part of the script is: # delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_nightly/* | tail -n +61) rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_hourly/* | tail -n +46) It

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting different MAILFROM for different cron jobs

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:25:16 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: cron mails are sent from the user running the cron job, but some programs have an option to set the address for any mails they send (not their stdout that goes through cron). rkhunter is one of these. Yes, and I have set it, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] rm: missing operand in emailed result of cron job that uses rm to remove aged files

2014-01-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-20 6:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:38:40 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: The pertinent part of the script is: # delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_nightly/* | tail -n +61) rm $(ls

[gentoo-user] cannot boot using systemd and initrd

2014-01-20 Thread covici
Hi. I am having a problem booting using systemd and an initrd generated by genkernel. I get the message that says (may be slight paraphrase) that /dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root does not appear to be a valid /, try again. Now in the gentoo guide to systemd, I did what I think it wanted me to

Re: [gentoo-user] rm: missing operand in emailed result of cron job that uses rm to remove aged files

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 14:37, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-20 6:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:38:40 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: The pertinent part of the script is: # delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies rm $(ls -1t

Re: [gentoo-user] rm: missing operand in emailed result of cron job that uses rm to remove aged files

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 14:37, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-20 6:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:38:40 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: The pertinent part of the script is: # delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies rm $(ls -1t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: That's how it is supposed to work. nfs is a Unix filesystem, it obeys Unix user and permissions (unlike say VFAT or smbfs where it has to fudge these things). NFS will mount the filesystem using whatever is set on

[gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Joseph
After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 after restart it goes back to previous setting: root:dialout 600 How to change it? My VituralBox complain and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-20 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 19/01/14 23:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:45:00 +, Mick wrote: This thread confused me. I have this in my system and I have not changed the permissions from when it was installed: ls -la /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 322984

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 after restart it goes back to previous setting: root:dialout 600 How to

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 20/01/14 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 after restart it goes back to

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Joseph
On 01/20/14 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 after restart it goes back to previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 18:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: That's how it is supposed to work. nfs is a Unix filesystem, it obeys Unix user and permissions (unlike say VFAT or smbfs where it has to fudge these things). NFS will

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Joseph
On 01/20/14 10:02, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 after

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/20/2014 06:02:33 PM, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 18:30, Joseph wrote: After upgrade to systemd my /dev/ttyS0 shows up as: root:dialout ownership and permission 600 When I change as root manually to: chown uucp:dialout /dev/ttyS0 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Joseph
On 01/20/14 18:20, Helmut Jarausch wrote: [snip] Hi, I have the same permissions and VirtualBox (4.3.6) runs just fine. VirtualBox is picky about the permission of the hard-disk image (VDI file) There it likes group vboxusers and group r/w permissions. Helmut Maybe I should recomplile

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 19:41, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:20, Helmut Jarausch wrote: [snip] Hi, I have the same permissions and VirtualBox (4.3.6) runs just fine. VirtualBox is picky about the permission of the hard-disk image (VDI file) There it likes group vboxusers and group r/w permissions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Most NFS servers in the real world are thus file shares and permit read-only access to all users. Alan, Thank you for explaining this in english for me. I am a bit blown away that it is taking me so long to figure

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 19:55, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Most NFS servers in the real world are thus file shares and permit read-only access to all users. Alan, Thank you for explaining this in english for me. I am a bit

[gentoo-user] Re: webcam software

2014-01-20 Thread eroen
On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:02:15 -0500 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized that it has a build in webcam. What software do you recommend and what should I start reading

[gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! I finally managed to update my @system profile completly. Now I want to update world, and I see that certain packages require python_single_target_python2_7 or python_single_target_python3_2 I don't know how to change my make.conf that everything fits, that I can update my entire

Re: [gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi people! I finally managed to update my @system profile completly. Now I want to update world, and I see that certain packages require python_single_target_python2_7 or python_single_target_python3_2 I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread Tamer Higazi
You were RIGHT! I had to comment out at make.conf 2 lines (last line wasn't enough): PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET as well. Thank you David! Tamer On 01/20/14 21:45, David Abbott wrote: Try commenting them out. [snip] Regards, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. The original use-case for NFS is no longer relevant whereas the design for smb *is* what suits most folk. Alan, What can I say. Thank you for your explanation. You wrote exactly the words I needed to hear.

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Joseph
On 01/20/14 19:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 19:41, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:20, Helmut Jarausch wrote: [snip] Hi, I have the same permissions and VirtualBox (4.3.6) runs just fine. VirtualBox is picky about the permission of the hard-disk image (VDI file) There it likes group

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-20 Thread Johann Schmitz (ercpe)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, we are planning to upgrade our virtualization infrastructure in the near future. We are currently looking at 2 Dell PowerEdge R720 or R715. The hardware (more or less): - - Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 - - 24+ GB RAM - - H710/H710P RAID controller -

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 - ownership as root:dialout

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/21/14 04:31, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 19:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/20/14 19:41, Joseph wrote: On 01/20/14 18:20, Helmut Jarausch wrote: [snip] Hi, I have the same permissions and VirtualBox (4.3.6) runs just fine. VirtualBox is picky about the permission of the hard-disk

Re: [gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 23:23, Tamer Higazi wrote: You were RIGHT! I had to comment out at make.conf 2 lines (last line wasn't enough): PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET as well. Thank you David! The reason this works is that the PYTHON_TARGETS are maintained in the portage profile. You will

Re: [gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/20/14 23:23, Tamer Higazi wrote: You were RIGHT! I had to comment out at make.conf 2 lines (last line wasn't enough): PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET as well. Thank you David! The reason this works is that the PYTHON_TARGETS are maintained in the portage profile. You will

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/21/14 08:11, Johann Schmitz (ercpe) wrote: Hi all, we are planning to upgrade our virtualization infrastructure in the near future. We are currently looking at 2 Dell PowerEdge R720 or R715. The hardware (more or less): - Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 - 24+ GB RAM - H710/H710P RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-20 Thread Johann Schmitz
We use Dell servers exclusively and have for 15 years. I think we're up to 400+ physical boxes now and the number of Linux-compatibility issues in all that time is exactly zero :-) That's good to hear. If Dell sold server-class hardware that wasn't 100% supported in Linux, their sales would