Does anyone start the hald or dbus daemons, and if so why? I try to
keep my running daemons to a minimum and since my system runs fine
without these daemons started, I'm curious as to what benefit running
them has.
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Grant wrote:
Does anyone start the hald or dbus daemons, and if so why? I try to
keep my running daemons to a minimum and since my system runs fine
without these daemons started, I'm curious as to what benefit running
them has.
May I kindly remind you that google has a wealth of inform
>
> for some reason I've got a couple of daemons that keep going out to
> lunch on me. Are there any good tools for monitoring daemons and
> possibly restarting them when they go away?
>
Write a small script running out of cron every x minutes
or
inittab (man 5 initta
of binary that doesn't display too
>> > well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
>> > might swallow us. Finally, this fea
d/mystupiddaemon (or
/etc/rc.whatever); shell is Turing-complete, I can write in it
anything I can write in C (or in assembler, or machine code). In that
sense, the init system (which uses shell for launching daemons) can be
used to determine *how* the daemon behaves (because it uses shell for
launchin
Hi,
since dvbcut isn't available in Gentoo and doesn't compile either,
what's the alternative?
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dmsetup.c -o dmsetup.o
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libdevmapper-event.so.1.02 \
-march=native -O2 -pipe -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2
-march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2 -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2
-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--version-script,.export.sym
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possibly restarting them when they go away?
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Hi,
where are we supposed to set the parameters for saslauthd?
I edited /etc/init.d/saslauthd, and that's probably not the right place
to put them?
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lee writes:
> Well, I've made a bug report about this:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202128
They suggested to try with seamonkey 2.35. I tried and found that 2.35
(and 2.38 beta) work fine.
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Hi,
is zfs setting the io scheduler to noop for the disks in the pool?
I'm currently finding that the IO performance is horrible with a pool
made from two mirrored disks ...
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Hi,
I'd like to give Gentoo a try and want to install it in a xen VM. The
server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do
this?
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-march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC
-O2 dmsetup.c -o dmsetup.o
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libdevmapper-event.so.1.02 \
-march=native -O2 -pipe -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2
-march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2 -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2
-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
On 4/5/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone start the hald or dbus daemons, and if so why?
They are used for desktop integration of removable media. So when you
plug in your usb flash drive, you get a nice icon on your desktop. If
you do not care about that, then you do
Hi,
how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng?
The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too
well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them.
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> >
> > I believe it is called "notconfigured" and yes it is zero length.
>
> The file is /etc/vmware/not_configured.
>
> The problem is that /etc/init.d/vmware and /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware
> disagree about whether the daemons are running or not. When you r
Hi!
I've just whupped up an initscript that allows multiple fetchmail
daemons to run at the same time.
Feel free to comment on Bug #380371 [1]
Who knows, maybe you need a similar functionality provided by my initscript :-)
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380371
Rgds,
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aren't
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lternative.
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s emacsclient, sometimes "browse" ...
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On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
for some reason I've got a couple of daemons that keep going out to
lunch on me. Are there any good tools for monitoring daemons and
possibly restarting them when they go away?
Try daemontools. It is usually used with qmail, b
t?
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boot it, or can you?
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program is
| passed the date, the program name ("metalog"), and the new
| logfile name.
`
... "new logfile name" means the name the old file is renamed to?
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ually considers
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links, e.g. the public internet.
> [...]
Great post, thank you!
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-security -Wredundant-decls -Wpointer-arith -march=native -O2
>> -pipe -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2 -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC
>> -O2 dmsetup.c -o dmsetup.o
>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libdevmapper-event.so.1.02 \
>> -march=native -O2 -pipe
is so powerful on unix.
>
> Stop thinking in sshd. I can write the *whole* daemon in shell, not in
> another script file, but inside /etc/init.d/mystupiddaemon (or
> /etc/rc.whatever); shell is Turing-complete, I can write in it
> anything I can write in C (or in assembler, or machine co
The 29/03/12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
> > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> > that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require
> > work files on /var, so
different module for that, or
does it require to use some sort of additional software?
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'll use that for now.
How did you find all these packages? I used 'emerge --search' and it
didn't show many results for pdf.
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g I can write in C (or in assembler, or machine code). In that
> sense, the init system (which uses shell for launching daemons) can be
> used to determine *how* the daemon behaves (because it uses shell for
> launching daemons).
>
> You can't do that with systemd; there is a c
am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd
layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log
daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons?
Anno.
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or bookmark
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key in your phone's browser :)
>>
>> Phone's browser?
>
> If you need the SysRq trick, you probably can't use your computer's browser
> ;) .
Then I won't have a browser I could use.
; Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
> might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
>
>
If you're talking about /var/log/messages, which is:
messages: data
I use cat(1).
40118:0/1.3::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^
>
>
> Is there even a difference between version 2.1 and 2.1.0?
>
>
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>
>
What's the output of 'emerge -auND --tree --unordered-display @world'?
-march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -O2
-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--version-script,.export.sym -L../../libdm
-L../../lib -L../../libdaemon/client -L../../daemons/dmeventd
libdevmapper-event.o -ldevmapper -o libdevmapper-event.so.1.02
rm -f libdevmapper-event.a
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar rs libdevmapper-event.a lib
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:05:30 +0200
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> The 29/03/12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
> > David W Noon wrote:
>
> > > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason
> > > is that many of the
that all
executables and daemons are referencing the current version.
Good point, Eric. Your point being that unless you stop and restart all
running daemons or other executables, you can't be sure that an updated
library is really being used.
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Quoting "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
for some reason I've got a couple of daemons that keep going out to
lunch on me. Are there any good tools for monitoring daemons and
possibly restarting them when they go away?
Monit has got to be the best one I
d use.
>
> Never mind, there's always Post-It notes - they aren't only for passwords.
That isn't better than printing the key bindings ...
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M. The
> server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do
> this?
>
>
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>
>
ers' config?
I suppose I need to omit the 'lxc.network.flags' and to make the
container set up the interface itself. Will the interface be available
in the container when it's not brought up through the containers' config?
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upiddaemon (or
>> /etc/rc.whatever); shell is Turing-complete, I can write in it
>> anything I can write in C (or in assembler, or machine code). In that
>> sense, the init system (which uses shell for launching daemons) can be
>> used to determine *how* the daemon behaves (be
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd
> layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log
> daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons?
Last sysklogd version if from 2001.
And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me.
And on the
On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:51:07 +0200 (CEST), Norman Rieß wrote:
> Thank you... i will do that.
> What does artsd and why is it installed?
It is the KDE sound daemon, esd performs a similar task for GNOME. Sound
daemons are a way for more than one application to be able to use the
sound
ction should
be active 24/7, and I want to know when it's interrupted and
re-established, preferably with good error reporting. It would suffice
when I get an email telling me that the connection is down/up.
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Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection
~/.xinitrc:
[...]
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
[...]
~/.Xmodmap:
[...]
keycode 37 = Control_L No
uite successful.
It has been handling cases like restarting SNMP daemons that segfault,
hadoop instances that loose to contact with the ZooKeeper cluster,
restarting nginx daemons that stop responding to requests by analysing
the last write date in nginx's access logs, the list goes on.
ewer version of dhcpcd first. I
don't want to start installing daemons to try to cover up bugs
in other daemons.
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oblemmatic at
times though. Since you upgraded dbus... did you by chance reload the hal and
dbus daemons? Howabout restarting kde? Upgrades aren't always seamless and
you have to kick the daemons from time to time.
That said, I've dumped hal, dbus and all the related support from KD
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:28, Thomas Kear wrote:
> The real advantage that initng posesses are, unless runit's website
> is simply failing to mention it, auto-restarting of failed daemons,
> virtual dependencies, and clever multi-distro compatible scripts that
> use a prepro
very bad idea to
leave it mounted, and there's probably good reasons not to have it
mounted by default, yet I don't know if anything in the container might
use or need this mount after updating.
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omes with
> Gnome or KDE desktop (too heavy for my old laptop).
Sounds like you might want to look at LTSP?
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;> /etc/rc.whatever); shell is Turing-complete, I can write in it
>> anything I can write in C (or in assembler, or machine code). In that
>> sense, the init system (which uses shell for launching daemons) can be
>> used to determine *how* the daemon behaves (because it uses she
Hi list!
I used to have a working private area network (pan) over bluetooth.
However, since the update to net-wireless/bluez-utils-3.36, it doesn't
work anymore.
I especially want to get rid of the old daemons (USE="-old-daemons")
because, as I understand it, they are deprecated.
for that.
BTW, if this won't be fixed, what are the replacements?
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erra and openshot might have.
Perhaps I could extract dvbcut from a Debian or rpm package?
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y that doesn't display too
>> well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them.
>>
>>
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>&
#x27;rc-update show', i can see the
>'modules' is in 'boot' runlevel. if i load those modules manually,
>they can be loaded normally. what's wrong with autoload?
The runlevels are for system daemons, not kernel modules.
The modules that are autoloaded ca
option on the init script (ie.
/etc/init.d/apache reload), otherwise you generally need to restart them
to apply changes. Some services / daemons will pick up changes on the
fly, but generally they don't in my experience.
Programs which are not services / daemons will pick the changes up
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:23 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anyone start the hald or dbus daemons, and if so why?
>
> They are used for desktop integration of removable media. So when you
> plug in your usb flash drive
when you find out that this doesn't work as the
documentation would have you think it does?
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d there doesn't seem to be any way to read them.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
> > might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
> >
> >
> If you're talking about /var/log/messages,
it exactly in other log
> daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons?
Last sysklogd version if from 2001.
And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me.
And on the other hand, other distributions don't use sysklogd anymore.
Instead they use syslog-ng, for example.
Hello everybody,
I was wondering if the following is possible:
- Add a lot of daemons to a newly created runlevel post-default
- Switch to it after the xdm is started (or after some time)
I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
services are being started (e.g
e to start my search?
>
> HAL and DBUS are wonderful tools with KDE. They tend to be problemmatic at
> times though. Since you upgraded dbus... did you by chance reload the hal
> and dbus daemons? Howabout restarting kde? Upgrades aren't always seamless
> and you have to kick the
I have followed http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml#doc_chap3
till chapter 3. But when I get to code listing 3.3 i.e.:
# /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start
# /etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl start
# /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d start
# /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d-ssl start
the daemons all
sources, though. It
>> requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows
>> how to do that?
>>
>
> No need to extract them, they come with Gentoo unstable
>
> $ eix source-pro
> [I] media-fonts/source-pro
Cool, thank you, I'll try t
s failing or even completely locking the kernel if something's
>> > really messed up.
>>
>> How do you remember these keys?
>
> BUSIER backwards, or bookmark
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key in your phone's browser :)
Phone's bro
as taken over Linux, with a
few exceptions as in distributions like Gentoo. The taking over will
probably continue until you cannot use Linux anymore without using
systemd. If that's not forcing, then what is it?
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... in the worst case: unrecognized...
If you don't have any daemons running that provide network services
(have opened listen ports), you can't get hacked.
Yes and no. If user enabled network interface and has no network
daemons running, kernel still listens to that interface (ARP, i
haven't told us
> why portage wants version 2.1.0, but have you tried remerging mupdf?
Sorry for the late answer --- I must have forgotten that I asked about
this.
I ended up removing mupdf, despite it seemed to be needed by llpp.
However, llpp still works fine.
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in
the repo, there is no directory 'info', and 'git update-server-info'
apparently does nothing, and the repo cannot be pulled.
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information?
iotop might tell you.
Since you don't see anything in lsof, I'd assume that the file (if it's
a file) is opened and closed rather than being kept open. Or could it
be a swap partition which is used?
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e to reboot, which IIRC they can by default with Ctrl+Alt+Del. Such
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re2 -pipe -ggdb
-fPIC -Wall -Wundef -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline
-Wmissing-noreturn -Wformat-security -Wredundant-decls -O2 -Wl,-O1
-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--export-dynamic -L./libdm
-L./lib -L./daemons/d
y USB
> > > devices automatically anymore.
> > > Any suggestions where to start my search?
> >
> > HAL and DBUS are wonderful tools with KDE. They tend to be problemmatic
> > at times though. Since you upgraded dbus... did you by chance reload the
> > hal and dbus
elete
> > after a configure, for some strange reason. It's a blank file, but
> > unfortunately I can't remember the filename anymore. Pbb something
> > with config in its name.
>
> I believe it is called "notconfigured" and yes it is zero length.
The
nally retrieves email and re-injects it as SMTP to your local
> server. Thus forwarding at least doesn't switch protocols.
>
> Finally, postfix / dovecot / et al, make little difference in my
> opinion. I think you could easily substitute different daemons in their
> plac
ng. For
> > my part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on
> > those things that are being seriously suggested.
>
> The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require
> wor
> > > Does anyone start the hald or dbus daemons, and if so why?
> >
> > They are used for desktop integration of removable media. So when you
> > plug in your usb flash drive, you get a nice icon on your desktop. If
> > you do not care about that, then you
rt a USB key into the machine, plug the machine back in, boot
> up from the USB key, and copy over malicious binaries.
It's not logical to provide ppl who want to copy over malicious binaries
with an easy way to reboot the machine in order to do so.
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module did help.
That proves that loading the module when not starting X11 makes the
screen go blank.
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; They are now resolved, but passing virtual interfaces is simpler and more
> reliable.
The only issue I have with passing the port is that the kernel module
must not be loaded from the initrd image. So I don't see how fighting
with the bridges would make things easier.
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any package
> you may have installed, or install thereafter in your system (like
> libreoffice, etc.)
That's what I thought ... I tried 'emerge --sync' or so with the live
system, and it seemed to receive lots of updates.
But why use old software for a recent live DVD?
our default mime handler using xdg-mime.
>>
>> Hm, xdg-mime is not installed; I've never heared of it.
>
> x11-misc/xdg-utils
> Most WM/DE will pull this package.
Apparently fvwm doesn't.
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tly. Remember to shut down your browser, and
> back up the file first.
Thanks, if it all doesn't help, I'll do that.
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ystem. My experience was that the text logfile is
> "turned to binary" on reboot - the binary characters were logged as
> part of the kernel's startup messages. This was repeatable and
> predictable.
Maybe I'll try it tomorrow --- it's on a server at work which I plan to
ed -Wl,--export-dynamic -L./libdm
-L./lib -L./daemons/dmeventd -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
-Wl,--export-dynamic -L../libdm -L../lib -L../daemons/dmeventd
-L../libdm \
-o dmsetup dmsetup.o -ldevmapper -ludev
cc -O2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -ggdb -O2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -ggdb -fPIC -Wall
-Wundef -Wshad
Hi,
You may wish to specify the --user parameter. As this tool is for system
daemons (therefore located in /sbin), it seems obvious it starts daemons
as root by default. I checked on my system and I don't have a setuid bit
on this program, no more it starts any program when my wheel user
exe
and of course, it got lost before I ever came close to needing it.
Paper is just too volatile.
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could use containers in a VM, too, or use
virtualbox along with containers to run the odd VMs that require full
virtualzation.
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abled" means. Feel free
to look into dictionaries and to examine the use of the word "disabled"
in it's language to find out what it means.
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ection I go. Thanks for providing additional information for me to
> ponder before choosing a new router.
Why not use an HP Microserver? The black-box style embedded stuff
doesn't seem to be accessible at all to begin with.
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e and store the params in that mentioned file. This means you
don't have to start some kind of shell or script in order to execute
the daemon.
> The real advantage that initng posesses are, unless runit's website is
> simply failing to mention it, auto-restarting of failed daemons,
h
> Any ideas?
No.But do you also see this without X running, without most daemons running,
in single user mode...?
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> > that many of the d
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