archiver you chose will compress the file and add the appropriate
extension all on its own and tar will use that (and the file magic) to
find the appropriate decompresser when you want to extract files later
(you can use `tar tf' to test if you want).
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d any source of these requirements : can anyone help ?
The dependencies on python2.7 are being added by the mozcoreconf
eclasses. The firefox requirement is in eclass/mozcoreconf-v6.eclass,
spidermonkey has essentially the same thing but in -v5.eclass
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d of the (probably) default mtime. Several other
file download programs set the mtime to the last-modified header or
similar, but they tend not to touch the ctime.
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tc/portage/package.mask/package.mask:
> =sys-fs/udev-242
eudev was forgotten in the deps for virtual/libudev-232-r1, there should
be a fixed virtual/libudev-232-r2 in the tree already. Resync and it
should (hopefully) just work™.
[..]
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="NO". I do wish
there were a way to modify require/provides without having to edit the
init scripts themselves.
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Holle,
On 18-01-22 at 12:49, Lucas Ramage wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How does one disable zerconf for dhcpcd or at all in Gentoo for that matter?
Do you mean ipv4ll? Add noipv4ll to /etc/dhcpcd.conf .
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lsa, but I don't know enough about jack to give any useful ideas
here.
> Using for example zynaddsubfx (softsynth) via qjackctrl/jack I can
> play sound.
> Mpv does not show up in qjackctrl
What samplerate does that generate sound at? 48k or 44.1k?
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On 17-12-14 at 00:45, Simon Thelen wrote:
> On 17-12-13 at 15:47, R0b0t1 wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:10 AM, wabe wrote:
> > > p...@xvalheru.org wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Sorry for this offtopic, but is there a UI standalone ap
te it
into ~/.xinitrc if you don't have root.
I have a 05-mouse.conf containing:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Kingsis Peripherals ZOWIE Gaming mouse"
MatchIsPointer "on"
Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
EndSection
You can look for the xorg.conf variable names you need in xorg.conf(5),
or just google it.
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On 17-12-03 at 12:06, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-12-03 18:58, Simon Thelen wrote:
>
> > Palemoon builds fine with gcc 6.4.0 (just not with gcc 7.2.0), if the
> > ebuild you're using requires an older gcc it's either wrong or doing
> > something weird.
on. GL with fixing that.
Palemoon builds fine with gcc 6.4.0 (just not with gcc 7.2.0), if the
ebuild you're using requires an older gcc it's either wrong or doing
something weird.
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ak less things. The
"filecaps" flag is the "equivalent" of the suid bit but for specific
capabilities (so instead of providing ping with suid-root you can give
it CAP_NET_RAW only).
It is almost always better to enable both of these where possible since
it helps decrease the attack surface for the programs in question.
Read capabilities(7) for more information.
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On 17-09-29 at 22:09, Melleus wrote:
> Simon Thelen writes:
> > On 17-09-29 at 12:13, Melleus wrote:
> >> Simon Thelen writes:
> >> > On 17-09-28 at 20:30, Melleus wrote:
> >> > [..]
> >> >> Might I ask another Xmonad question in t
On 17-09-29 at 12:13, Melleus wrote:
> Simon Thelen writes:
> > On 17-09-28 at 20:30, Melleus wrote:
> > [..]
> >> Might I ask another Xmonad question in this thread? I would like to have
> >> the Firefox goes fullscreen on F11, but the stanza:
> &
applications
> (like
> Zathura) can go fullscreen and hide Xmobar even without that stanza. Did
> I misconfigured something?
You probably want fullscreenEventHook from [1] as shown in the Usage.
[1]
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs/XMonad-Hooks-EwmhDesktops.html
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m?
>
> Thank you ahead of time.
>
https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/master/CHANGES.md#014-not-yet-released
Probably the Bug Fix listed under 0.14 (Not Yet Released)
try deleting ~/.xmonad/xmonad.state before starting xmonad
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On 17-09-19 at 14:48, Stroller wrote:
> > On 19 Sep 2017, at 01:30, Simon Thelen wrote:
> >> Is it possible to set this for all users, please, so that this edit
> >> mode is used for root?
> > Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization file
>
t -o vi" doesn't seem
> to work.
Either "set-editing-mode vi" in /etc/inputrc for all readline programs
or in /etc/bash/bashrc (for bash-only)
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snapshotting.
The only other possibility I know of would be creating an lvm partition
for that file and using lvm snapshots.
You should also be able to implement the functionality via fuse on top
of an ext4 base if the other solutions aren't to your taste.
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gle-fu sucks today.
You can look at [1] if you want a really minimal example of a git
permissions management system.
[1]: https://github.com/cbdevnet/fugit
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ably be most interested in the "INTERFACE HANDLERS" section
and potentially the "Advanced Routing" section.
> Motivation: I want to add a route for a point-to-point interface.
You probably only need to list the peer address on a single line and
then that peer should become routable.
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"net.ifnames=0\", create
empty"
elog "file /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link, or symlink it to
/dev/null"
elog "to disable the feature."
Depending on which of those you have installed.
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stem, you put a filesystem on a dmcrypt
device.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/README.md
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On 17-04-10 at 18:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 04/10/2017 03:58 PM, Simon Thelen wrote:
> > Try running `env-update && source /etc/profile'. Your path should be
> > extended by /etc/profile.env which is generated from /etc/env.d/10llvm-9995.
>
> Just logou
the dir to the path with no
> problems, I'm more concerned about why I have add the path - is the
> ebuild screwed up in some way?
>
> What is the portage/ebuild doco like? Is it well documented or are
> there gaping holes that lead to frustration - my level of understanding
> of coding is 25 years of C/C++ coding on CAD systems & engineering
> applications and even though I run a Gentoo box as my default machine,
> I've never had the need to get into bash scripting - but might.
>
> Andrew
>
Try running `env-update && source /etc/profile'. Your path should be
extended by /etc/profile.env which is generated from /etc/env.d/10llvm-9995.
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dia-drivers-378.13 and having no
problems.
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ser@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help securing system / remote unlock
On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 22:16:38 +, Simon Perfer wrote:
> Can't seem to find a tool that will generate an initramfs with support
> for ZFS, LUKS and Dropbear so that I can remotely unlock the system.
>
>
Hi – I've successfully set up whole disk encryption by using LUKS and ZFS on
top of it. I can boot by unlocking the drive via some remote console.
Can't seem to find a tool that will generate an initramfs with support for ZFS,
LUKS and Dropbear so that I can remotely unlock the system.
Ubuntu
to reinstall the package to get the new
initscript. You can rebuild all packages that use /sbin/runscript with:
`emerge --oneshot -av $(grep -l '/sbin/runscript' /etc/init.d/*)'
This was mentioned in a newsitem draft on gentoo-dev, but as far as I
can tell that newsitem was never published.
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] [3] [4]. Though binding an alias to `mpv $(xsel -b)' and
then executing that after copying a url shouldn't be that hard.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-with-mpv
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-video
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-assistant
[4] https://github.com/agiz/youtube-mpv
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the mail server.
IMAP itself does not have a concept of "Trash", the creation of such a
mailbox is the prerogative of the client (unless the server itself feels
that the imap client doesn't know what it's doing and moves deleted
emails into a different mailbox; not that I've ever seen a mail server
do that), therefore changing the locale on the mail server won't help
and it is indeed something on the client that needs to be changed.
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acktracking didn't
help so I'm not sure exactly why it didn't want to update, but
explicitly telling emerge to install it seemed to help for me.
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rk.
The net config on that website should be fine for the host, and then
pass these command options to qemu
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,mac="52:54:00:12:34:56" -netdev
bridge,id=hn0,br=brkvm
You can change the mac address to your liking.
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On 15-12-12 at 05:05, Simon Thelen wrote:
> On 15-12-11 at 20:03, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > Does anybody have an idea how to block facebook?
> The only way to blacklist facebook would be to create a whitelist and
> drop everything not on said whitelist.
Oh, and even
ses they'll use a proxy/vpn. If you use deep packet inspection
they'll use TLS or a VPN or an SSH tunnel.
If you can control the systems so that they don't do any of the above,
it's possible but you've admitted that you can't (unless you can
control all the Virtualbox instances).
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could be a thing. Note how the Manifest for busybox in the gentoo.git
tree doesn't have manifests for any of the ebuilds. [1]
[1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/busybox/Manifest
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to proceed. (Lots of individual perl modules have updates also, which
> may be part of this problem, but I don't know.)
It worked for me after I added --backtrack=30
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issues are for chromium and not
for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know
though.
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use-flags differ from
the "current" use-flags.
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signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
tityfile=/path/to/ssh/key,allow_other,default_permissions,uid=1000,gid=100
0 0
Check the manpages for which of those options you want.
ie, you might want to get rid of allow_other etc.
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man zshcompsys
Look at the path-completion and accept-exact-dirs styles.
You can try setting accep-exact-dirs to true or path-completion to
false.
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Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some
rays and became a tangent ?
How to unsubscribe?
2014.02.18. 17:26 ezt írta ("Tanstaafl" ):
> Hi all,
>
> Ok, before I go and open up a bug requesting this...
>
> I know there have to be a lot of people on this list who can answer this
> question...
>
> Is making the use of systemd or not based on a selected Profile, as
> opp
l trick.
As my systems are all setup the same, I never backup the partition table
and recreate it each time (easy, and I often change the partition layout
anyway).
Simon
ou're curious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FATX
Simon
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Garmin GPS with a 32GB SD card.
> > If I attac
> Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix
> was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and
> such. May be worth thinking about at least.
Video playback and CPU optimisations go hand in hand.
One video I have had for a long time, I could n
on a new 512 (768 total at moment, all data still on 256mb file), then
swapoff the 256 (takes a bit of time for swap data to move over),
delete the 256. Downgrade can be done in the same manner. "swapon
-s" (status) will be a good friend of yours now.
Good luck!
Simon
On Wed, May 2,
The error just means it cannot find any device called /dev/sda4, but can
only find your CD (sr0).
I get this when booting from a usbkey and I need to tell the kernel to wait
5-10 seconds before detecting hdds. I also had this error when I used a
config from my "normal" computers onto an older com
s and gives you
approx time left.
Many recomendations already posted in this emails will be suggested by
powertop.
Simon
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 2, 2012 5:00 PM, "Rob
>
> Then
> copy /usr over:
>mount -o bind / /mnt
>mount -o remount,ro /usr
>cp -a /usr/* /mnt/
> The bind moun t makes the root FS appear in a 2nd place, without /usr
> being populated by the content of your /usr partition.
> Don't forget to remove /usr from /etc/fstab.
>
I
It is my opinion that benchmarks should be done with a real benchmark tool.
Try with bonnie++
This will really show you the strengths and weaknesses of your setup.
Good luck,
Simon
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Donn
igent and is wasting a lot of time, but it eventually
gets it done. Upgrades now take at least 1 hour, but are fully unattended.
Also, I think Wonko's suggestion is pretty good in combination with my
suggestions, I haven't tried but it does seem very attractive.
Simon
I did python-updater as said by the ebuild.
After it I did emerge -a --depclean which removed python 2.6
Boy I was I happy that I have daily backups.
portage did not work anymore.
Changing the active python version before running python-updater gives a lot
more packages. I did portage by hand. Ju
full capacity and with zero
errors.
I don't know if I felt as good as this when I found the "root cause"... I
just know that having "root" again feels great! ;)
Okay... and now let's upgrade the kernel... ;P
Thanks again,
Simon
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:16 P
oment, so once the big emerge is finished, I'll
probably recompile all pkgs that depend on glibc. I believe glibc was
actually updated during my very initial update on monday and I haven't come
to do that... but I guess everything will go smoothly from here.
Thanks again for all your
Ok, was just doing a "fsck.ext3 -c -c -C 1 /dev/xvda" from within a
rescue OS provided by my VPS provider... and it froze at the middle
of it!!!
So I guess Gentoo is not responsible after all... I've opened a
support ticket with them... I'll let you know how it turns out.
ile
config.status: creating lib/autoconf/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autotest/Makefile
//
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Simon wrote:
> Ok, the fsck reported nothing wrong...
> I still got the same bug again... while doing `emerge -e @system`...
nued my emerge (the ctrl-z +
%% worked at this point).
I'll reply here again with the next issue...
Thanks,
Simon
>>> Emerging (35 of 151) sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4
* Package:sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4
*
/e2fsprogs
dev-lang/python sys-apps/portage sys-apps/baselayout sys-fs/udev
sys-apps/busybox
I will redo a simple fsck.ext3 -c -c -f /dev/xvda and see what it says
exactly (if it says anything). And then i will --sync and -e @system
again... I'll reply to the list with my results...
Thanks,
es (revdep-rebuild was freezing, this one froze while
finding dependencies)... if anyone has a guess, I'll try rebuilding
that pkg and the winner gets a genuine 100$ of monopoly money.
Simon
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Simon wrote:
> Hi there,
> something went wrong during a pr
Hi there,
something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild
will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the
hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop
and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with system,
they all fail s
Hi,
Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage:
# emerge portage
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>>> starting parallel fetching pid 6030
>>> Emerging (1 of 2) dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 to /
* Python-2.5.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-
I need libXfont-1.4.0 because xf86-video-intel-2.7.99.902-r1 depends on
xorg-server-1.6.3 which depends on libXfont-1.4.0. But libXfont fails to
emerge. Here is the end of the libXfont build.log:
libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared .libs/dummy.o
-Wl,--whole-archive fontfile/.libs/libf
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:30:02PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:00:35PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote:
> > I posted this on the forums but I want some more information. I have a
> > bit of a dilemma. With these settings,
> >
> > xf86-video-intel: 2.6
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:00:35PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote:
> I posted this on the forums but I want some more information. I have a
> bit of a dilemma. With these settings,
>
> xf86-video-intel: 2.6.3-r1 xorg-server: 1.6.2-r1 and 1.6.3 kernel
> module: i830 kernel: gentoo 2.6.29-r
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:06:35PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote:
> Well I tried the .28 kernel with the package versions you suggested, and
> when the X server starts, it's just a black screen BUT the machine
> doesn't freeze and there is video output, it is just black. These lines
Yes, it's me again. I think upgrading to the newest unstable
vanilla-source (31-rc8) makes it definitely go faster, but Firefox is
still a little laggy. Although Epiphany really isn't, so I think it's
just Firefox's fault. Anyway, my computer actually did freeze once. Just
wanting to provide an upd
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:55:16PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:44:31PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
> > === On Sat, 08/29, Simon Hunt wrote: ===
> > > And you don't get freezes or anything?
> >
> > ===
> >
> &
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:44:31PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
> === On Sat, 08/29, Simon Hunt wrote: ===
> > And you don't get freezes or anything?
>
> ===
>
> No, everything seems to be working fine now.
>
>
> -- Keith Dart
>
Okay, I did everything you s
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:26:46AM +0100, Stroller wrote:
> I believe this is a known issue with Gmail, but my Google-Fu is not
> revealing the work-around.
>
> I believe the fix is something like:
> - the messages appear in sent items, or
> - use the Gmail web interface to create a new folder f
And I just sent the last two messages in the wrong order because I
forgot I still only had a draft of my first message, I never actually
sent it until I realized that.
Well I tried the .28 kernel with the package versions you suggested, and
when the X server starts, it's just a black screen BUT the machine
doesn't freeze and there is video output, it is just black. These lines
seem relevant in the Xorg log:
(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
(II)
Hey, nevermind about my USB wireless-LAN card not working, it just
requires a different firmware for that kernel, I looked it up (although
the problems with it hanging still remain). By the way, I know I should
be replying to the messages I already sent right? But those messages
don't appear in my
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
> Works for me, YMMV.
>
>
> -- Keith Dart
And you don't get freezes or anything?
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:48:59PM -0500, Andr??s Becerra Sandoval wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a 865G too, the only combination that works for me with the
> i915 intel driver is:
>
> kernel: gentoo-sources-2.6.28
> driver: xf86-video-intel: 2.7.1
>
> Anything above that (>=gentoo-sources-2.6.2
I posted this on the forums but I want some more information. I have a
bit of a dilemma. With these settings,
xf86-video-intel: 2.6.3-r1 xorg-server: 1.6.2-r1 and 1.6.3 kernel
module: i830 kernel: gentoo 2.6.29-r5 and 2.6.30-r4
sometimes when stopping or starting X my computer would freeze and th
Well I think I fixed the problem by upgrading the kernel to
vanilla-sources-2.6.31-rc7 and xf86-video-intel-2.8.0 (and recompiling
against the new kernel), and switching to the i915 module in the
kernel. I did this because of the suggestions at
http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver (I already
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked:
> > Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM
> > loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted,
Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM
loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank,
and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the
computer.
The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because
I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen
framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of
it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card.
The Radeon framebuffer "radeonfb" in the kernel doesn't support this car
(say one new write per
sector, on every sector, once per day)... i've quickly calculated the
key will last around 27 years. I'll be glad to buy a petabyte usbkey
for 10$US in 27 years man! lol
Simon
apt it to my scenario, but i think it will
require a lot of design in advance... but i'll check it out... at
worst it will convince me i should program my own, better it will give
me some good ideas or fortify some of my own good ideas and at best it
will be the thing i've been looking for!
Thanks again!
Simon
about 2 months left of free time to
get my professional situation back on track, this 2 months of my
expertise is more than enough to get a good stable beta version of
this project. But i need to get it started, i must be convinced this
is the right choice.
Thanks for reading, hopeful to be reading your answers!
Simon
> I'm running memtest86 on that pc at the moment, i will
Went through 1 pass with zero errors, I'll try some more passes in case later...
> look more into
> the flags (i havent checked in the /etc/portage/packages.use, there
> might be some sse in there too that i missed).
Checked all make.conf
> What did you recompile? There may still be a library using the "sse2" flag.
>
> Have you tried using the "--newuse" or "--reinstall changed-use" emerge flags?
Well, since all my problem were related to the use of ssh, i did a full:
emerge -e openssh
(took a 2 days on that super old pc, while sh
> A quick troubleshooting i've done was to setup apache and simply
> wget a very large file over plain HTTP. Transfer worked, i did it a
> second time and diff'ed the two downloads, they were the same. I then
> did the same test over HTTPS and got an error
> (SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or
Hi there!
I'm getting this issue where even very small transfers through ssh
will cause this error message: Corrupted MAC on input. I've done my
homework and found out this is not necessarily related to the network
hardware as TCP would retransmit such corrupted packets, moreover the
error mess
> Storage space comes pretty cheap these days, so prehaps it's just
> easier to get dirt-cheap 80G harddisk and build (and keep) all the
> packages from sum of the worlds on it in a dedicated chroot or VM?
Well, i'm keeping all packages currently, and diskspace is cheap for
home computers, but not
It could even be possible, if i dont suffer
from disk space constraint, to keep the unionfs and just remount it
correctly for the next emerge, but this could lead to some issues (ie
if i emerge something outside the unionfs at some point, etc...).
What do you think? Should i start working on this? Or is there
anything better out there?
Thanks, Simon
(or on the
client end i think you could set ServerAliveInterval)
Thanks all!
Simon
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5976
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/
> http://www.google.com/search?q=homedir+version+control
Hey thanks Stroller,
I'd be interested in these solutions, but i dont have enough space
to copy everything in double (keep a backup). So what i do, and this
is
d be so nice if unison could 'remember' the changes on my HD
against its local archive... anyway...
Thanks, Simon
> Or you can create raid0 with partitions on both drives (sda1+sdb1)
> and "mirror" it on the second set of partitions on the same drives.
> But then you do not have any protection from total disk failure
> you'd normally expect from raid1. Only some very little protection
> against a sector failur
> If you are using ssh with unison, are you using the "KeepAlive yes"
> option in your ssh configuration? If not, add it, and your connection
> should not close from inactivity. If you are using direct sockets,
> unison will use a keepalive so it can timeout if the communication link
> is broken.
hi there!
I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is
based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of
the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when
sync'ing it will be deleted on B. While rsync would leave th
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Nitin Kanaskar wrote:
> Ok - I am not clear about the terminology -
> packages, versions...
> But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this
> is right. I am a graduate student doing research on
> vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking
> for older
>
> I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other
> files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am
> concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4}
> arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. Ho
> You do NOT need PPP, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (>= 2.6.27 at
> least, not sure of the details). You need at least CONFIG_USB_RNDIS_WLAN as
> m or y. With udev and 'm' things work mostly automatically on the linux
> side. On the phone you enable advanced networking (or else you will s
this regularly.
Wow, thanks for the clear and thorough reply!
I've recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.29.1 (i used to have 2.6.24 with
several external drivers) so i should be fine.
I'll give this a try asap, but since i have a day off tomorrow, i
might do some fiesta tonight, in any case, i should reply soon with
success or failure!
Thanks again! Simon
e kind of
connection normally (is it PPP? or something else?). The cellphone
would also need to be setup to share its data connection to usb (but
this seems quite simple... the linux part is the problem).
Thanks for help and pointers!
Simon
>> Hey guys! i just got my internet connection working through a new
>> cellphone (pda).
>
> I think we'll need to know which operating system(s) the phone runs in
> order to suggest anything.
Makes sense! Sorry that i forgot!
The phone is an HTC TyTN (also known as Hermes100, i think).
It is r
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