Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 07/08/10 15:13, Remy Blank wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-11 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 07/09/10 20:37, James wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer oversi.com> writes: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit /sbin/ifconfig -a ??? if not, look at the ipro

[gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/17/10 09:42, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Well, I'm less inclined to think now that X is responsible for the high CPU load. I wasn't too knowledgeable about the relationships between X and its clients when I made my initial assumption. It was more like "I startx + I move mou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
reedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port' (string) input.xkb.options = 'grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll' (string) info.category = 'input' (string) Perhaps HAL is responsible for generating the log messages? Amit On 05/17/10 09:42, Amit Dor-Shif

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)

2010-05-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
# print modification TSs, to verify log refers to said conf file # stat -c %y /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log 2010-05-16 11:01:33.231512534 +0300 2010-05-16 12:23:02.502995953 +0300 On 05/16/10 22:15, walt wrote: On 05/16/2010 01:12 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Explicitly setting

Re: [gentoo-user] X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6) (was: xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline)

2010-05-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/14/10 00:47, walt wrote: On 05/13/2010 03:22 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fin

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-13 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On 05/13/10 00:54, walt wrote: On 05/12/2010 05:25 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the numpad. 2. Seems like the "down"

[gentoo-user] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline

2010-05-12 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi all. After updating world, xorg-1.5.3-r6 to 1.7.6 among others, I'm now faced with a/m issue. 1. left ctrl key works fine, so does the down arrow key on the numpad. 2. Seems like the "down" key generates a double sequence: both the "down" event and a newline. This doesn't happen in termin

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-24 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Jarry wrote: On 21. 4. 2010 9:43, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Jarry wrote: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes How can I control that res

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?

2010-04-21 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Jarry wrote: Hi, I have set-up serial console on my server in /etc/inittab: s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100 It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up I get this message: INIT: ID "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Of course, I can see this only o

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions for my first ebuild

2010-04-18 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Walter Dnes wrote: I intend to get the Silicon Dust HDHomerun dual tuner box. It has a linux library and CLI plus a separate gtk+ GUI. The linux source comes with a makefile that puts stuff in /usr/local. But I want at least a "wrapper" ebuild so that Portage knows about the files, and can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-10 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
permission issue? any EACCES in strace output? Amit Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam writes: $cat /tmp/testfile cat: nonexistantfile: No such file or directory Thanks... Are you running cvs as root, or user, or ...? I was running cvs as user, and now trying your test

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
(i.e., yr script works-as-expected w/o the xterm wrap) then maybe it'll be worthwhile looking into the X resources yr xterm is reading. HTH Amit Mick wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 07:40:04 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.g

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? I'm thinking that gpg fails, so oocalc never launches (because you conditioned its execution with '&&', and the script continues to shred the file. My amd64 succeeds executing this (s/gpg/echo-to-tmpfile/). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-03-03 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Anyone? Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: 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.e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-02-28 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
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 /usr/portage/local/layman/nx/net-mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-02-28 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
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 u

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server? [SOLVED]

2010-02-28 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
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-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-27 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Xavier Parizet wrote: On 02/25/2010 02:56 PM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? Well i'm using NFS for a while now, and i just checked: nothing like this is running on my nfs server. Do you have a "special" reason for

[gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

2010-02-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
e.g. 'lockd'? If so, which ebuild installs it? 10x, Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] customized init script

2010-02-23 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I have a customized script. hosta# /etc/init.d/scriptrunner start * Starting ScriptRunner ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/local/scriptrunner/bin/startup.sh: Exec format error (Exec format error)[ ok ] host

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-27 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
kashani wrote: On 1/24/2010 1:38 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. Any input welc

Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-26 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The p

Re: [gentoo-user] SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge"- how to find out

2009-12-21 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz works for me: amit0 # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz --2009-12-21 14:07:18-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
my 2-cents: Might want to check filesystem integrity too (e.g: fsck, xfs_check). Amit Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 November 2009 22:53:52 Harry Putnam wrote: I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while. I haven't noticed a time pattern ye

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 14:33:29 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: amit0 ~ # fgrep make-symlinks /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log /var/log/emerge.log;echo $? 1 [snip] Do you perhaps have a minimal elog config? I get that message every time here amit0

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
PN}] >>> Messages generated by process 17234 on 2009-09-02 17:36:00 IDT for package media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4: FWIW, exing the excess exe-s from /bin/ helped relieve my pains. Amit Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 11:35:53 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. I've ju

[gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. I've just stumbled on an abnormality for which I've yet no explanation. Posting for possible general interest. Yesterday ebuild unpack started to emit errors: find: unrecognized: -mindepth BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-09-02 17:33:46 IDT) multi-call binary Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION] Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

2009-11-20 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
upt a script while it's running with 'I', and with SIGINT, I can. Amit Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longe

[gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

2009-11-19 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi all. When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit with the interrupt. I'm wondering where is this behavior being set, and whether I can enabl

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

2009-11-09 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:10:52 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Not sure this is related with the OP's problem, I have noticed that on my > > system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a > > command, e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I > > cannot scr

[gentoo-user] Re: mounting /var prior to invocation of /sbin/rc [CANCELLED]

2009-11-04 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
I take it back. those files were leftover on the root partition. Amit Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. I've a setup where /var resides on a separate partition than root. After boot, I see that /var is created on root and some files are written to it. E.G, the following folders are created:

[gentoo-user] mounting /var prior to invocation of /sbin/rc

2009-11-04 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. I've a setup where /var resides on a separate partition than root. After boot, I see that /var is created on root and some files are written to it. E.G, the following folders are created: /var/lib/init.d/snapshot /var/lib/init.d/options /var/lib/init.d/daemons /var/lib/init.d/started /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
I think that if default/linux/amd64/10.0 is a valid profile, it's reasonable to expect that the relevant news item be listed on eselect. Amit Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:53:33 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: amit0 ~ # eselect profile show Current make.profile symlink: default/

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Thanks econti (& arttu). My point was that I don't have the relevant news listed, rather than the actual solution to the issue. Amit econti wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer ha scritto: With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world These ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
[-] qt3support (x11-libs/qt-sql): Enable the Qt3Support libraries for Qt4 Amit Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 October 2009 11:43:59 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-25 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
With regards to this: I believe I'm in the same situation: amit0 ~ # emerge -auvt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph,

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:16 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Is there an alternative mechanism to modifying a package-owned file? It's in a CONFIG_PROTECTed directory (/etc) so it won't be overwritten by a package update. It's safe to modify it.

[gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion

2009-09-15 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. Would appreciate someone's view on the following: I want to configure SVN access via apache. This requires some modifications to /etc/apache2/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.conf (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/svn-book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.2) Since the file is owned by dev-util/subversion,