Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Be careful not to use forks but only official code. All known forks are full of bugs. In special: they come with extremely buggy mkisofs variants and they all have incomplete and broken DVD support (because the working original DVD support

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Joerg Schilling: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Be careful not to use forks but only official code. All known forks are full of bugs. In special: they come with extremely buggy mkisofs

[gentoo-user] webalizer forks

2011-10-21 Thread Grant
I noticed there is an alternative version of webalizer in Portage called webalizer-xtended and also webalizer-stonesteps in the wagnerflo overlay. Has anyone tried either of these? http://www.patrickfrei.ch/webalizer/index.html http://www.stonesteps.ca/projects/webalizer/ - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
1998 (10 years ago) cdrecod addded Blu Ray support in summer 2007. I know that cdrecord is on portage, but I don't know where. Be careful not to use forks but only official code. All known forks are full of bugs. In special: they come with extremely buggy mkisofs variants and they all have

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Be careful not to use forks but only official code. All known forks are full of bugs. In special: they come with extremely buggy mkisofs variants and they all have incomplete and broken DVD support

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update

2009-08-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 08/12, Neil Bothwick wrote: === start() { su - user -c /path/to/program/binary } === That works as long as the binary forks and runs as a daemon. If not, you will probably have to use the start-stop-daemon helper program. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart

[gentoo-user] mplayer id3v2

2011-05-13 Thread Andrey Moshbear
Is there a patch for mplayer (1.0-rc4) that adds id3v2 support? Googling the mailinglist archives, it was said that the previous implementation had vulns and was hence scrapped, but it sucks not having it. There are unofficial forks of mplayer which have id3v2, but there's no ebuild, in layman

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove default 'gentoo' repo in repos.conf

2014-04-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
' entry from /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf. Is there any way I can indicate in /etc/portage/repos.conf to remove the 'gentoo' repository? Thanks. For a temporary solution, make /usr/portage as empty as possible; for a more permanent solution, I'd suggest to look at how Gentoo forks do

[gentoo-user] Re: How to do port-based routing?

2008-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
rtfm'ing, smoothwall is the way to go. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I once decorated my at apartment entirely in ten visi.comfoot salad forks!! -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why still postgres 8.2?

2009-05-19 Thread Aaron Clark
considering all of the existing flavors/forks of MySQL that have existed since Sun bought MySQL. IIRC, Monty has already started a new consortium for maintaining compatibility between all of these flavors. Aaron

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
My guess would be adds the ability to grab packages at the same time you're compiling; so, grab packages needed to emerge one ebuild, then while that one is compiling grab the next sources in the background. That is also my understanding: after the first download, the process forks: 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Stroller
large community-lead free software projects like Linux, KDE, and GNOME rarely have forks aside from a few corporate-sponsored forks to fill a niche (e.g. Android). For the examples of projects-without-forks that you mention, we can find a bunch of other examples that *do* have forks. mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread Joseph
at ... desolation ... plastic gmail.comforks ... It is working know. It was my error :-/ I had it selected host pipe and it should be host device' One of those days :-) -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] threads use flag for apache and php

2012-12-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
, it forks itself - as opposed to MPM_WORKER which is based on threads. So if you set threads, apache is compiled with MPM_WORKER, if not, MPM_PREFORK is used. If you are running a threaded apache, and you are choosing to use php as apache module (apache2 use flag) then php with threads is required.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
claimed to colleagues that there is no such thing as a running Gentoo. There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are all forks of Gentoo, but nobody actually ever runs Gentoo :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Joerg Schilling: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Be careful not to use forks but only official code. All known forks are full of bugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Savchenko
. But the init script should have told me that. Or even better, the init script should have done its job and terminted the processes. See, pid files are just a proxy, they don't work for all services and all setups. Maybe a process crashes before it kills its forks. Maybe the server has a restart feature

[gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

2008-05-09 Thread Grant Edwards
Edwards grante Yow! ... bleakness... at desolation... plastic visi.comforks... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Reliability of smart values (was: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures)

2006-05-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
-- [Peter's new car has a directional device that gives different variations of Fork in the road] Yakov Smirnoff Voice: In Soviet Russia, road forks you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for IMAP-IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
... plastic gmail.comforks ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
it mean to run a modified version of Gentoo? Don't we all? ;) I've always claimed to colleagues that there is no such thing as a running Gentoo. There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are all forks of Gentoo, but nobody actually ever runs Gentoo :-) LOL... that's why I got

[gentoo-user] emul-linux-x86-xlibs blocks updates

2014-12-12 Thread Grant Edwards
in ten gmail.comfoot salad forks!!

Re: [gentoo-user] apache upgrade to -r31

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
and for the first person to jump just in case! BillK There is documentation on the MPMs in the upgrading guide [1]. In summary though, you will probably prefork or worker. prefork is the same style that apache-1.3 uses, which forks a new process for each child (children can handle a certain number

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove default 'gentoo' repo in repos.conf

2014-04-09 Thread Alex Crawford
as possible; for a more permanent solution, I'd suggest to look at how Gentoo forks do this. Though I think that most of the forks still use the Portage tree; so, it might be hard to find what you are looking for. You can also put /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf in CONFIG_PROTECT and adjust

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-21 Thread Rich Freeman
istros a lot of differences of opinion result in forks. Gentoo is really the only significant source-based distro out there, and we're basically minimally viable as it is, so there isn't much room for forking. As a result we're just forced to work these sorts of issues out and come up wit

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
people attacking you, Debian maintainers who suck and buggy forks is not helping your cause any. Stroller wants to hear *your* point of view. As a token of respect for all the users of your software (the original, not the fork) who are here and reading this, could you please just describe your

[gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-29 Thread »Q«
. Informing by saying things like all known forks are full of bugs doesn't help, as it's indistinguishable from FUD. In fact, the more you say it, the more it looks like FUD. If you like to live with the big number of bugs in the fork, go ahead, but you only harm yourself. I've just read your

[gentoo-user] Re: dvd playing problems

2010-05-11 Thread Grant Edwards
gmail.comfoot salad forks!!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache

2011-06-18 Thread Florian Philipp
permissive Apache license could prove detrimental because it doesn't mandate publishing your proprietary changes (Libre- and OOo are under LGPL). OOo could end up being the lowest common denominator between a range of commercial forks (IBM Lotus Symphony, Oracle Open Office, etc.) and LibreOffice. [1] http

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

2011-07-03 Thread Florian Philipp
performance should I switch Konqueror's engine to WebKit? What rendering engine do you run in Konqueror? The situation with Webkit and KHTML is ... difficult. The type of Webkit engine you use in Chrome is different from what you use in Safari and so on. Everyone forks it, adapts it into his eco-system

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-14 Thread Florian Philipp
mappings are preserved across forks and changes in them can be shared since kernel 2.4. [1] Yes, I know that malloc uses mmap but its mappings are MAP_PRIVATE. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread Mark David Dumlao
know of? What exactly does it mean to run a "modified version of Gentoo"? Don't we all? ;) I've always claimed to colleagues that there is no such thing as "a running Gentoo". There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
exactly does it mean to run a modified version of Gentoo? Don't we all? ;) I've always claimed to colleagues that there is no such thing as a running Gentoo. There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are all forks of Gentoo, but nobody actually ever runs Gentoo :-) Smart call

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
over wholeheartedly. I'm not really sure what this has to do with Gentoo though. Many distros are forking or contemplating forks: https://devuan.org/ So your all or nothing scenario is a bit more complex; and many users will migrate to other distros, with systemd or not being one of the key

[gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-19 Thread James
with Gentoo though. Many distros are forking or contemplating forks: https://devuan.org/ So your all or nothing scenario is a bit more complex; and many users will migrate to other distros, with systemd or not being one of the key elements in their decision, imho. I do agree that it would be nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Major site redesign, SEO, and 301 redirects

2015-10-01 Thread Walter Dnes
ot today with pinch+zoom and smartphones/tablets with higher pixel counts than many notebooks. And with the idiots at Mozilla going off the deep end, there are multiple forks of Firefox out there (Seamonkey, Palemoon, etc), by people who are disgusted with Firefox's insanity. A company that kicks

[gentoo-user] The final of free software

2017-01-08 Thread Dominus Mundi
controled forks. We held a comite at my time and concluded that it wus not posible to unscrew this mess without also hurting the porn industrie whish is unaceptable so we voted on just giving gentooers a heads up. We also considered killing Donald Trump before he passes the one kernel law

Re: [gentoo-user] Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

2017-05-22 Thread Kent Fredric
do about it? Its not like we have sufficient staff to maintain a "Firefox but with GTK2" fork, heck, we can't even keep alsa support. I've gone to using other older firefox forks (palemoon) instead simply because this march of progress doesn't seem to be delivering on that "progress&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.

2017-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
s migration to get away from it. Same for Icinga, Shinken, Sensu and all the other many nagios forks out there. Also Zabbix. My current monitoring is snmp-based, and all I need monit for is as a very narrowly-defined single-purpose watchdog. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
one, no go. IIRC, I had the best luck with jmtpfs, but there are varous forks of it... > Then I discovered SSHelper, an SSH server for Android. Now I can > mount my phone's storage with sshfs using a command like > > sshfs -p 192.168.1.144:/storage/emulated/0 /mnt/phone

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-25 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
they want Unity with improved accessibility. This is why large community-lead free software projects like Linux, KDE, and GNOME rarely have forks aside from a few corporate-sponsored forks to fill a niche (e.g. Android). One could argue that Unity *is* a corporate-sponsored fork (of GNOME) to fill

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-30 Thread Dale
s be easy to undo when a replacement comes along?  Delete a directory or something and it's gone??  Can I leave the current version installed since I can't upgrade and the current working one may no longer be available to re-emerge?  I'd assume I'd need to include the path to it as well to make

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-28 Thread b.n.
that you prefer to see bad forks of your software pop out instead of having a compromise about licenses and let your software live happily? What do you call a modified CDDL license and why do you believe there is a modified CDDL license? Answering the question with question? (obviously I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-17 Thread Mark David Dumlao
forks. Maybe the server has a restart feature that fails to write the pid file because the init script created it as root but the daemon relinquished privileges. Maybe there's a bug somewhere. Maybe the pid file gets overwritten accidentally. Maybe the pid file is stale because of a power failure

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios - check_nrpe missing

2012-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
and put them there yourself. There are so many things Nagios could do much better than it does, but the maintainer is highly resistant to adding any features that he doesn't use himself. So there are many forks around, why don't you try one of those? Some of them are rather well coded. There's many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Heiko Nock
the alleged superiority of your own project. Thankfully, the GPL allows forks to eventually get rid of project leaders like you. -- P.S. der neue Automat da oben ist echt ein Scherzkeks. Will Noten annehmen hat aber keinen Schlitz dafür. probier doch mal, was zu singen, vielleicht hat er ja ein Mikrofon

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
forks and do not need to give back anything. It even gets worse with the Linux kernel, where those trolls are allowed to publish propriatary driver crap (yes, 99% of the proprietary kernel drivers I had to cope with, like nv stuff *are* really crap which tends to lock up the whole machine). At least

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Josh Cepek
in, so it's good to do what you need to quickly if you do need to kill (or if it's really stuck, kill -9) the process. When I had this problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be *sure* that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time. Alex Schuster wrote: If you think the upgrade is necessary and don't want to wait until you or s.o. else has physical access in case sshd doesn't come up again, you could try to restart sshd manually by issuing a kill -SIGHUP

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Grant
good to do what you need to quickly if you do need to kill (or if it's really stuck, kill -9) the process. When I had this problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be sure that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Wittig
this problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be sure that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time. OK, I've got to be really careful here. I see the following processes in 'ps -ef': root 2988 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: the situation will resolve that same way these things have always been resolved, by one of these or a combination: a. a strong leader emerges with a vision and takes over b. a strong leader emerges with a vision and forks c. common

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
* answer what happens when you run out of ram... or ram+swap, actually, if you have swap. It can either kill processes of its own accord or simply deny new processes and forks of old processes. The article below has a much better explanation... http://lwn.net/Articles/104179/ -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
and there is about 250GB of data to transfer. The CD spins periodically, the hard disk activity light stays lit, and I can hear the old drive working periodically, but I'm thinking this is too long. The fastest and most correct way to copy directory trees is to use star because star forks

Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.

2005-09-25 Thread Glenn Enright
:). As stated previously on this list, USE flags are described in the portage tree in /$PORTAGEDIR/profiles/use.desc Most of this info is from 'man emerge' BTW. -- Now I'm being INVOLUNTARILY shuffled closer to the CLAM DIP with the BROKEN PLASTIC FORKS in it!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm setup questions

2010-07-01 Thread walt
the gentoo make.conf variables.) qemu-kvm does not come packaged with a cute and user-friendly gui for all the confusing micro-configuration details like network bridging, and on and on, ad nearly infinitum. Both qemu-kvm and virtualbox are forks of the original qemu project, and AFAICT they've stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
with you. In 90% of all cases, simple and clean code is preferable. And if I really card about performance, I'd use C or Perl. However, there are still such rare cases where everything works fine and you see no reason to code it all again but those three forks in the innermost loop just kill your

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

2011-07-03 Thread Mick
in Safari and so on. Everyone forks it, adapts it into his eco-system and adds features. Some are later merged by other, others not. I guess we will not see a merge of kthmlpart with kwebkitpart in the near future but a common influx from both sides: kwebkitpart will get better integration

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
not figure it out why virtualbox is complaining. What happens when you do cat /dev/ttyS0? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ... bleakness at ... desolation ... plastic gmail.comforks ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-14 Thread Michael Mol
'shared memory' as in malloc'ed [1] or stack memory. Anonymous mmap'ed memory mappings are preserved across forks and changes in them can be shared since kernel 2.4. Absolutely. [1] Yes, I know that malloc uses mmap but its mappings are MAP_PRIVATE. For the GNU libc, yeah. I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-14 Thread Florian Philipp
really want to be nit-picking, we have to assume 'shared memory' as in malloc'ed [1] or stack memory. Anonymous mmap'ed memory mappings are preserved across forks and changes in them can be shared since kernel 2.4. Absolutely. [1] Yes, I know that malloc uses mmap but its mappings

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-14 Thread Michael Mol
' in the 'many threads to an address space', not the /dev/shm sense. If we really want to be nit-picking, we have to assume 'shared memory' as in malloc'ed [1] or stack memory. Anonymous mmap'ed memory mappings are preserved across forks and changes in them can be shared since kernel 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread Bruce Hill
that there is no such thing as a running Gentoo. There's an AlanOS, and a DaleOS and a MarkOS and they are all forks of Gentoo, but nobody actually ever runs Gentoo :-) /pre /blockquote Smart call that you called it a running Gentoo rather than an installed one, because my followup

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
-level software changes that affect much more than just their own little universe, and will do it ON ALL LINUX MACHINES NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. Well, this will be the case if nobody forks these projects, or writes competing projects. As Dale has pointed out, there already is eudev. For systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
] WantedBy=multi-user.target If the binary rc.news forks itself (and there is no option to force it to run in the foreground), use Type=forking. The former is preferred over the latter. Also, to guarantee that the directory /var/run/news

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-17 Thread Grant
. It really really sucks at this and is coded from an extremely narrow point of view. Which explains the numerous forks around (they all implement vital real world features that Ethan refuses to commit). jffnms is something I don't use myself, but it looks like the same class of app as Nagios

Re: [gentoo-user] sysV/openrc init script vs. systemd .service file

2014-08-11 Thread Rich Freeman
directory, not /tmp PrivateTmp=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Most daemons will be fairly similar to this, though a daemon which forks will be slightly different (type=forking, and will have a PIDfile setting). This one is a bit fancy in that it has a post-exec script/program

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd always shows "crashed" even though it's running

2015-09-03 Thread Rich Freeman
-maybe-not situations. It is a bit like having strong types and stricter build-time error checking. It makes it a little harder to be lazier but saves you as the user from the lazy developer. As far as openrc goes, I suspect it is a pid file issue of some kind. If a process goes and

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-31 Thread James
ich are more focused on the needs of a sub-group. As systemd and cluster codes both progress at a rapid pace, there are tons of conflicts related to performance enhancements and lowest level allocation/control of resources that is creating a need for linux kernel forks. Some folks in the Hi Performance

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-17 Thread taii...@gmx.com
of the "user respecting" forks nor mozilla have any serious efforts to thwart browser fingerprinting, private browsing session is simply a misnomer without it.

Re: [gentoo-user] The final of free software

2017-01-08 Thread taii...@gmx.com
sofware projects replaced by government controled forks. We held a comite at my time and concluded that it wus not posible to unscrew this mess without also hurting the porn industrie whish is unaceptable so we voted on just giving gentooers a heads up. We also considered killing Donald Trump

Re: [gentoo-user] The final of free software

2017-01-08 Thread Dominus Mundi
to the >> free software wars. Upon returning to my time I fund that free software was >> dead. Popular free sofware projects replaced by government controled forks. >> We held a comite at my time and concluded that it wus not posible to unscrew >> this mess withou

Re: [gentoo-user] The final of free software

2017-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
d to the free software wars. Upon returning to my time I > >> fund that free software was dead. Popular free sofware projects > >> replaced by government controled forks. We held a comite at my time > >> and concluded that it wus not posible to unscrew this mess with

Re: [gentoo-user] The final of free software

2017-01-08 Thread Daniel Campbell
Upon returning to my time I fund that >> free software was dead. Popular free sofware projects replaced by >> government controled forks. We held a comite at my time and concluded >> that it wus not posible to unscrew this mess without also hurting the >> porn industrie wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world?

2017-08-12 Thread Rich Freeman
n inittab and init will start it, and restart it if it dies. There is just no control over things like dependencies and sequencing, and you have to watch out because if you have init run some bash script, which launches a process that forks, and your script terminates, then init will re-launch it possibly

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-01 Thread Martin Vaeth
with enough resources to maintain full browsers, and any forks of their browsers which diverge more than a patchset of essentially fixed size are doomed to fail for this very reason.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-02 Thread tuxic
On 04/02 08:23, Martin Vaeth wrote: > tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > On 04/02 05:41, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> It seems currently that mozilla, google, and apple are the only > >> oranganizations with enough resources to maintain full browsers, >

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-02 Thread Martin Vaeth
tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 04/02 05:41, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> It seems currently that mozilla, google, and apple are the only >> oranganizations with enough resources to maintain full browsers, >> and any forks of their browsers which d

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-03-31 Thread Martin Vaeth
b functionality which goes beyond that. Essentially, there is no other choice than to live with it: Stable firefox-52 and maybe some firefox forks (palemoon, waterfox, tox-browser) support legacy extensions for a while. However, if they support them for a longer period and do not have similar reso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: line wrap over in xterm/konsole

2019-06-22 Thread Mick
different shell from Bash? (.bashrc is inherently > Bash.) > > Or are you using Bash as your interactive shell and using a different > shell for sub-commands / forks / etc.? I am using bash. In a previous message Jorge suggested I add: shopt -s checkwinsize in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-06 Thread Rich Freeman
don't leave anything behind. Typically an initramfs will unlink everything inside, kill any stray processes (if it even forks anything in the first place), and then will exec the new init from the previous init. That starts up init as PID 1 with nothing else running, and no trace of the initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Freeman
e. Services are generally in separate cgroups while make would all be in another, so if it looked at total use of the cgroup and not the individual process then it would weigh something that forks heavily a lot higher. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging dev-php/xdebug

2023-08-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
ee and not masked. And, the PHP project is empty: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PHP I'm still working on dev-lang/php (so it's not abandoned), but we just don't have the kind of resources required to keep what are essentially forks of old PHP versions alive. Barring a miracle, they'll b

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
a program using KDE or GNOME, your shell or desktops forks a new process for it. Up until very recently most programs used threads to do several things at once; some years ago apache started to do a hybrid approach, where it forks or launches threads dependign on the load of the system, other server

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-21 Thread Dale
se two are related. > With more mainstream binary distros a lot of differences of opinion > result in forks. Gentoo is really the only significant source-based > distro out there, and we're basically minimally viable as it is, so > there isn't much room for forking. As a result we're just forced t

[gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-12 Thread James
pages swapped out 4307893 interrupts 6269353 CPU context switches 1202832933 boot time 7300 forks Also look into a hardware difference between this machine and the others, and differences in the kernel config and loaded modules. Nothing here, all is similar to other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Harrison
, considering the alleged superiority of your own project. Thankfully, the GPL allows forks to eventually get rid of project leaders like you. I think it would be in everyone's best interests if we let this thread die now, I've been reading this thread for the past 2 or 3 days and frankly, it doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Harrison
is very telling, considering the alleged superiority of your own project. Thankfully, the GPL allows forks to eventually get rid of project leaders like you. I think it would be in everyone's best interests if we let this thread die now, I've been reading this thread for the past 2 or 3 days

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-08 Thread Dan Farrell
/etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be *sure* that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time. Alex Schuster wrote: If you think the upgrade is necessary and don't want to wait until you or s.o. else has physical access in case sshd

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Grant
to quickly if you do need to kill (or if it's really stuck, kill -9) the process. When I had this problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be sure that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Wittig
to kill (or if it's really stuck, kill -9) the process. When I had this problem I issued a `kill -9 PID_NUMBER /etc/init.d/sshd start` - just be sure that you're killing the /usr/sbin/sshd process and not one of your sshd login forks at the same time. OK, I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-10 Thread Grant
login forks at the same time. OK, I've got to be really careful here. I see the following processes in 'ps -ef': root 2988 1 0 Sep04 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 7573 2988 0 07:28 ?00:00:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 Should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Knecht
it suspicious, for a distro not to have it's own install. Other forks of Gentoo have their install methods. SNIP So yes, drop the (graphical) liveCD 0ption and create installation method(s) that begin simple (therefore easy to maintain and update) and ... I haven't followed this whole thread

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
not to have it's own install. Why's that? The documentation should just point to some other install CDs, if you'd like to call GRML that. Other forks of Gentoo have their install methods. Nice for them. For those new to gentoo, it's like getting married without a honeymoon IMHO. I

[gentoo-user] How much patching is good for an distro ? (WAS: Ubuntu isn't the devil)

2007-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
is normally provided by an single patch against the upstream release. * Fixes here are done generic, not distro specific. * The forks are maintained in an separate project, independent from distros, but working close to them. * This project also works close to the upstream and also tries

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread covici
/bin/rc.news ExecStop=/usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news stop User=news Group=news [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target If the binary rc.news forks itself (and there is no option to force it to run in the foreground), use Type

[gentoo-user] Re: sysV/openrc init script vs. systemd .service file

2014-08-11 Thread Grant Edwards
are still using.] [...] Most daemons will be fairly similar to this, though a daemon which forks will be slightly different (type=forking, and will have a PIDfile setting). The daemon is currently of the traditional forking variety with a PID file, so it should lend itself to Type=forking PIDFile

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Savchenko
, that I can overlook all disadvantages of chromium: this feature is security. Unlike other browsers (I don't consider chrome or chromium forks here as a separate browsers) chromium is secure by design: it isolates tabs and plugins, supports various namespaces, seccomp sandboxing, yama framefork. Other

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
at apartment entirely in ten gmail.comfoot salad forks!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-02 Thread tuxic
> > I also do not know much about waterfox, but if one goal ist > to keep legacy extensions, I am afraid it will go the palemoon > way, too: > It seems currently that mozilla, google, and apple are the only > oranganizations with enough resources to maintain ful

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