Yahya Mohammad wrote:
# losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/diskimage
# fdisk -l /dev/loop0
(example)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Steve wrote:
I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and
passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this
service by configuration; strong passwords; no root login remotely etc.
I would still prefer to block sites using obvious dictionary
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212484
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Grant wrote:
postup() {
if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then
IIRC, the equality operator is ==, not =.
HTH.
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm now testing app-backup/boxbackup,
which seems good so far.
Please report your findings on the list! I'm not all too happy about my
current solution (rdiff-backup locally to a filesystem over dmcrypt,
loopback-mounted from a file, followed by an rsync over ssh to a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the
backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the
local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the
backup locally and only use the much slower option of restoring
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
That's why I use rdiff-backup.
Yes, me too, but *inside* the encrypted container.
- If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me last
Neil Bothwick wrote:
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The
truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two
It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my
home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer.
I think you're looking for hplip:
# emerge -s hplip
Searching...
[ Results for search key : hplip ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-print/hplip
Latest version available: 2.7.10
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b.n. wrote:
icephere ha scritto:
When I remove fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by
emerge anymore... weird
Probably the proprietary fglrx module is still not GCC-4 compatible.
- From the ati-drivers ebuild, you can see that
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1,
but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep
update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause
broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things
right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think?
The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In
your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you
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Gary Artim wrote:
emerge has been reporting +1 more
._cfg then I find when I run find.
This has just started happening.
I noticed the same thing, emerge reports one more file to be updated
than etc-update finds. It's an off-by-one bug in the
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything
you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs). From what I remember, this has always
required
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Gentoo it's easy to get away with not using an initramfs. Everything
is built from source and you roll your own kernel so we don't need to
jump through the boot time hoops that a binary distro must to be able
to support everything and boot.
You will always have a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs).
Sshh! Don't tell the systems I've been running on LVM for years that they
need an initrd or they'll all want one
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Do you even need one?
Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a
laptop) also be encrypted.
Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs
for LVM and the need to have it for an encrypted root.
OTOH, if you put
Alan McKinnon wrote:
You have software compiled in the kernel, not as a module the, right?
Correct.
A reduce might be a different case altogether. BUT, it's not an
especially different operation to a defrag on Windows, and I have yet
to see a Windows admin debate whether he should defrag
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
Could you give me a pointer?
Can't remember when e2fstools were dropped from Gentoo, but resize2fs is
part of e2fsprogs.
I actually meant e2fsprogs. Bad manual copy/paste operation.
But I was just looking
Daevid Vincent wrote:
Thank God I have daily backups of all my /etc dir.
Put it under Subversion and you'll be even better off.
Someone in that link above offered a solution:
# for i in $(qdepends -CNQ www-servers/apache); do emerge $i; done
However, I don't have this qdepends thing, so
Richard Marzan wrote:
I get this error when mounting an nfs share:
mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking
Either use -o nolocks to keep locks local, or start statd.
Anyone know what the problem might be? I followed the gentoo-wiki nfs
guide @
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Mick wrote:
I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a
public key in their ~/.ssh can login.
This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real
problem is that your logs fill with failed log
Neil Bothwick wrote:
It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks
complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so much
earlier.
[1] Screen falls into this category too.
I can confirm about screen, I use it everywhere now. But I've yet to try
LVM (I
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:55 -0700, Grant wrote:
Can anyone recommend a photo album package either in Portage or an
overlay? jalbum looks good but it doesn't seem to be in either:
http://jalbum.net
even though it's not in portage, I'd highly recommend you try it - I
Danis Petkakis wrote:
hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
saving scheme as far as hard disks are
concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not
being accessed after a defined
period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that
Danis Petkakis wrote:
ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as
if the disk is in sleep
mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up
again...
That's why I mentioned laptop-mode-tools. If configured properly, it
ensures that the drive
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION
/usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0
.5.ebuild
DESCRIPTION=Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg
Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so
I looked in the emerge
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
by the way, if i'm booting w/o the initrd, i get a kernel panic because
he is not able to mount/find the raid system -- something with
superblock not found.
I assume you have set the partition type of your RAID components to fd
(RAID autodetect)?
-- Remy
Holly Bostick wrote:
2. emerge gtk-engines-qt, which will allow you to tell GTK apps-- via
the KDE control center-- to use a KDE theme and font.
That was a really cool tip. Thanks Holly!
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The
big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running
in the guest OS.
Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe
even a step-by-step guide :) ?
For me, it has always been as easy as
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On 1/11/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, it has always been as easy as adding -user-net (or since 0.8,
-net user) to the qemu command line, and enabling dhcp in the client OS.
I wonder why I don't even need that, I just enable dhcp at the VM and
it gets
Daevid Vincent wrote:
vmware ~ # revdep-rebuild --help
Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS]
(snip)
I've tried it this way:
revdep-rebuild -Xav
revdep-rebuild -av --package-names
revdep-rebuild -av -X --package-names
I'm not quite sure, but you
Has anybody had any luck with x11-drivers/ati-drivers and the latest
stable kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1?
I have been using the latest stable ati-drivers (8.14.13-r3) with
gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 for a few months and it has been absolutely
stable. Now a hal update seems to need at least
I had the display corruption on logout also (happened when I try to
switch to a console or restart xdm too). After going back and forward
through many version of ati-drivers, it mysteriously disappeared! I
have been playing around with a lot of kernels and ati-driver versions
to try and get
Stuart Howard wrote:
OK well I give up
I did, too...
Transfer 39Mb file from
gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb
directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted]
I have a similar situation here, but with an additional interesting
observation. If I copy
Marco Calviani wrote:
i would like dhcpcd to leave logs in /var/log/dhcpcd.log
How is it possible to implement this, noting that i'm using syslog-ng?
You could try the following in my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
(assuming your log source is called src):
destination dhcpd {
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
[ebuild N] app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8 -X -cjk +cups
-emacs +gtk 2 kB
That's the reason.
PS my USE flags are:
USE=logrotate -X -gnome -motif -kde -qt -png
Add -gtk to your USE flags.
HTH.
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Chris Bare wrote:
I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try:
/etc/init.d/named start
it says:
* WARNING: named has already been started.
Kill all named processes:
killall named
Tell the init script that you have done so:
/etc/init.d/named zap
Start named:
Bo Andresen wrote:
My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines
the escape sequences. Guessing by testing with xterm isn't really a optimal
way to find out...
man console_codes
HTH.
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Paul Stear wrote:
I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs
I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks.
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Dan Johansson wrote:
The above worked like a charm on my desktop but on my notebook it fails to
autoaticly bring up the usb0 interface. If I do '/etc/init.d/net.usb0 start'
on the notebook everything works as expected (this I don't have to do on the
desktop). Any suggestions where to look?
I don't think it was ever discussed as anything but an option, but I
could be even more confused than you...
Looks like the disease is spreading, now your signature script is even
more confused than you ;-)
Good database, though!
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Grant Edwards wrote:
On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info utility,
which doesn't seem to know anything about kqemu. What info
program is the Wiki talking about, and where does one get it?
A shot in the dark: qemu has a console that can be reached with
Ctrl+Alt+2. I would assume
Robert G. Hays wrote:
(Shall I tell you just _how_ many of your sig/tags I have captured?
Keep 'em coming! :D ) (I'm sharing them with others (with attribution),
and they are geting quite a kick out of them!)
I agree. I can't help noticing Neil's sigs are much funnier than any
other I have
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
since I know you really want to be helpful, I'm trying to figure out how
to hide CGI programs from the URL. I.e. instead of
http://www.demo.org/mumble.cgi, I want http://www.demo.org/ to execute
the same CGI program. I'm currently using the error handler to catch
Greg Donald wrote:
All of my subversion repositories are broken for the second time in
less than a month. I haven't even used them in about a week or more.
The machine hasn't crashed, nothing I can think of that would cause a
problem has occured.
(snip)
I already tried rebuilding apr,
Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
Should i leave the SCSI disk out of raid/lvm, and install the system on
it, with the user data going to the RAID on top of the 2 IDE disks? (i
quite inclined to do this). Or, would it be OK to stick all of the 3
disks into a RAID5?, (but i dont' really feel comfortable
Jules Colding wrote:
USE=-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples
tetex
Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The output is
below. The error went away when ncurses was emerged manually.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67524
Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV
frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for
default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems
that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find
what's
Mark Knecht wrote:
One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one:
SNIP
Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery?
# (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.)
LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0
SNIP
Since it's a desktop machine it would seem
Mark Knecht wrote:
I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of this:
pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3
syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3
syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3
kjournald(869): WRITE block
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
2
Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now)
on Battery it changes to 2
What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5.
It seems to be the value
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5.
It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/
laptop_mode.conf:
I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default.
Which package
Mark Knecht wrote:
On 6/9/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternatively, you could setup syslog-ng to send the logs to another
machine.
I don't know about this. I seem to have gone backwards:
1) If I turn off syslog-ng then it seems that the drive never spinds
up, so I guess
Holly Bostick wrote:
But this whole episode has at least gotten me to finally upload my own
key, so I've (hopefully) signed this message.
Can you all get the key (since I know the list doesn't have it, it's a
good test as to whether I've done it right)?
Yep, works here.
-- Remy
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Mark Knecht wrote:
Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had
financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive
before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written
new partitions on which are different sizes and different file
systems.
I thought I knew how configuration files in /etc were updated by portage
until I updated alsa-utils this evening on two computers. Both had 1.0.8
installed, and I updated both to 1.0.9a with:
emerge -uDpv alsa-utils
On the first one, both /etc/init.d/alsasound and /etc/conf.d/alsasound
were
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:43:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
On the first one, both /etc/init.d/alsasound and /etc/conf.d/alsasound
were updated, so I was asked to run etc-update, I accepted the update,
and that was it.
On the second computer, no update to these files
Andreas Karlsson wrote:
I am getting quite frustrated over such a simple thing. Now, I have three USB
storage devices: a USB flash disk, a mobile phone and a camera. I want those
to automount with my users permissions. They now mounts under /media/usbdisk
with root permissions. Where on
I have been struggling for a few months with hard lock-ups when using
laptop-mode. Every 3-4 days, my laptop would freeze during the night,
with no message in the syslog, and for no apparent reason. The hard disk
activity light would always be on in the morning, which somehow made me
thing that it
Kevin Philp wrote:
/etc/init.d/mysql start - says mysql has already started but it hasn't
(ps aux | grep -i my* shows nothing)
If you are sure mysql isn't started, try:
/etc/init.d/mysql zap
Then start it again:
/etc/init.d/mysql start
BTW, this is not mysql-specific. If a service crashes
Holly Bostick wrote:
And the drivers build and install fine... then this:
| Safely unmerging already-installed instance...
snip
==--- cfgpro obj /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/fglrx.ko
==--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video
==--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4
Miguel wrote:
Hi, im tunnig a postgresql server and i want to know what is the default
value for
kernel's PAGE_SIZE
Is this a gentoo especific value or aplies to linux kernels in general,
i mean, any distribution?
This is a processor-specific value, and on x86 it's 4096 bytes. It's
(Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent the message three hours ago and
it hasn't appeared on the list yet)
marco restelli wrote:
Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
I have been using ndiswrapper.
I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
module by
marco restelli wrote:
Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
I have been using ndiswrapper.
I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
module by udev as follows:
Find out the module alias used by udev:
cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
/me is looking for a new favorite file system.
troll
ZFS?
/troll
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
troll
ZFS?
/troll
You say troll, I say possibility; I'll certainly consider it.
Actually, I would be very interested in using ZFS for my data.
The troll was more about the fact that the ZFS license was explicitly
designed to be GPL-2 incompatible, hence
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
RAID-3?/5/6 can self-repair like this, but the checksumming is done at the
stripe, rather than inode level.
AFAIK, RAID-5 doesn't self-heal except for the specific case where a bad
block is detected by the hardware, so the RAID driver knows which drive
has the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
serving a given IP.
dig -x 123.45.67.89
HTH.
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Daniel Iliev wrote:
So, emerge -pv gentoo-sources wants to install the new kernel source,
while emerge -DuN world doesn't. How come?
Is gentoo-sources in your world file?
$ grep gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world
If not, the behavior you see is normal. Just add
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources to
Thanks for the feedback.
Grant Edwards wrote:
I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to
2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't build with that kernel version so I
tried the testing version of ati-drivers.
Yes, b.g.o has quite a few bugs open for ati-drivers related to 2.6.20,
that's one
James wrote:
blocks B x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0)
That's because none of the current ati-drivers work with xorg-server-1.3.
One thing that I as never really comfortable with is this make.conf
entry that I ended up using shich I gleaned from
Francisco Rivas wrote:
2.- Remy have you some problem with your configuration or it's only to know?
My original question was meant to get feedback *before* doing the
update. I updated yesterday, and everything works well. So there's no
question anymore.
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Just for posterity: I have updated to xorg-7.2 and everything works
perfectly well.
Ok, maybe I was a bit too quick on that one. I had to reboot today, and
suddenly DRI stopped working. I had to unmask and emerge
ati-drivers-8.35.5 to get it back.
Pretty minimal maintenance
Hi people,
I sure didn't expect a simple thank you to people spending lots of their
time ensuring that I can save mine, degenerate into a flamewar.
Now, we all know about this, don't we?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
For those who don't, I'll summarize here:
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Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
Is it safe to move my linux system by using:
#cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part
and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ?
I have used rsync -avH in the past (-H preserves hardlinks), and with
more
Florian Philipp wrote:
Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host?
My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline
adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has
got an option for using lzo but I would like to
JimD wrote:
Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/?
My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little
compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed.
sync2cd
Doesn't do compression, but stores your files as-is, spanning multiple
DVDs.
apix kernel wrote:
how does it knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE
part just before the end of line.
There are two ways I know of:
- If you use bash (I don't know about other shells), look at the
COLUMNS environment variable:
echo $COLUMNS
- Use the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl on
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:32:45 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one
partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs as plain as
possible -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can
mount
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:31:52 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
sync2cd
It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH.
And it does store the permission and ownership information along with
the files.
That's because it stores files in an archive,
Nope ;-)
It stores
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2006 08:47:00 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
You must be root to mount
If you specify both the device and the mount point, mount will use those
instead of fstab, so you need to be route. if you only specify one (...)
Richard Fish wrote:
I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my
favorite DE. My configuration is pretty minimalistic, no tab or menu
bars.
Same here. I use no special terminal features at all, except the
scrollback, which is pretty standard everywhere.
I sometimes use
Alexander Skwar wrote:
My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW,
the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped,
that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the
background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white on
Richard Fish wrote:
But the CPU is mostly native. (...)
This is what makes VMWare so much faster
than something that actually does emulate a processor like qemu.
Just a quick note: using kqemu-1.3-pre5, qemu also executes both user
and kernel code natively, and should therefore achieve about
Richard Fish wrote:
But yes, I run 1920x1200 on my laptop, and VMWare is easily capable of
that resolution. It also runs quite fast at least for 2d operations.
VMWare installs a custom, accelerated graphics driver for windows
guests, and I am estimating it makes the graphics run at maybe 50%
Richard Fish wrote:
Just two more tipsfor 1920x1200 resolution, you will need to add:
svga.maxWidth = 1920
to the .vmx file for your virtual machine. Otherwise it maxes out at
1600x1200.
Also I recommend using the Gentoo ebuild, rather than downloading
directly from vmware. It
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm missing libdb so Apache won't run.
emerge sys-libs/db
failed due to missing the java compiler, javac.
Add the following line to /etc/portage/package.use
sys-libs/db -java
This will disable the java USE flag for sys-libs/db, and will avoid
requiring java.
Martin Larsson wrote:
But attempting to run it as myself, I get:
(vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module
file
'/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is:
# ls -la
sdoma wrote:
emerge -u says, that pam-login is blocked (blocked by shadow)...
I ``emerge -C shadow'' .. and emerge tells me, that pam-login is
blocked by shadow.
I unmerge pam-login, and emerge tells me, that openal is blocked by
amother package ... ``emerge --pretend openal'' doesn't
Jorge Almeida wrote:
Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
some forms I might want to keep.
You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing Shfit-Delete.
Not user-friendly, but still quite useful.
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Noack, Sebastian wrote:
The workaround is to hack /etc/init.d/checkroot to call `dmesg -n 1` on
startup, even though in /etc/conf.d/rc is a variable RC_DMESG_LOGLEVEL
which is set to 1 by default, but it doesn't affect anything.
There is a typo in /etc/conf.d/rc, the variable should be called
Neil Bothwick wrote:
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Bother, said Pooh, as he connected at 300 bps.
I'm not a native English speaker, and I wonder about these Pooh jokes
(which seem to be especially frequent in your taglines, Neil). Would
anyone care to explain to me where the joke is? I'm sure it's funny
darren kirby wrote:
In any event, he would often say 'bother', as others might say 'rats'
or 'darn' ie: when something trying happens. I think the sig is just a play
on this coupled with Pooh trying to connect with a slow modem connection..
Aahh, now I see. Thanks for the explanation.
(\me
b.n. wrote:
I am looking for the python bindings to FUSE, since I want to write a
little thing taking advantage of it.
Unfortunately in the portage tree I can only find bindings for ruby and
perl, but not for python. It could be the moment to learn ruby or perl,
but it would be another
Mick wrote:
I have looked around and have found confusing info regarding which is a
better
key cipher to use for ssh authentication. Some say that RSA is widely
considered more secure than DSA. Some say that it doesn't really matter, as
long as you use a large enough bits setting in
pk wrote:
Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed
previously and I am quite skeptical about netkit-rsh since it installs
rexec, rlogin and rsh.
Me too, since it installs them setuid root.
-- Remy
Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely
maxim wexler wrote:
What does the group think?
I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc
in a Subversion working copy. This allows quickly seeing any changes
made on updates and emerges, reverting changes if anything breaks, and
keeping track of the reasons for
James wrote:
/usr/share/X11/xkb shows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root12 Sep 4 03:24 compiled - /var/lib/xkb
/var/lib/xkb does not exist.
You could try to re-create the directory with the info below, or maybe
re-emerge x11-misc/xkeyboard-config.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll -d /var/lib/xkb
Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
I know that I can execute a umask every
time the users log in to insure that all new created files will have
the correct premissions, but is this really the correct what to
handle this problem?
That's one way of doing it, which I have seen used on RedHat
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