Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything > inside the zero. Is this the right one? https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack

[gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow /usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs / initrd. (I'll reply in another email with details to avoid polluting this thread.) I think that a variati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/5/19 8:45 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: Even bigger hack. I wouldn't be me if I didn't lob these two words out there: mount namespaces /me will see himself out now. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Mick
On Monday, 5 August 2019 02:36:31 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > > I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow > > /usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs / > > initrd. (I'll r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
of several > packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during > boot. > > And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... > > I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's > still a war against the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/09/2014 18:20, James wrote: > dir for experimentation, quick install etc etc. Others on this > group can advise you on this path to peack, jouy and harmony, > as you watch Gentoo converge on the things most important to you. > If I can hack ebuilds, *ANYONE* can hack ebuilds. J

Re: [gentoo-user] individual LDFLAGS per package.

2005-12-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
h crashes with them. It is wine. It recognizes word combreloc in > that flag as a filename and crashes with no such file error. > > So my question is how to change LDFLAGS to empty for that one package? > > Greets > Pawel > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything > > inside the zero. > > Is this the right one? > > https://github.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Dale, On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 23:08:12 -0600, you wrote: > ... >   Still, they are closed source.  If > their code was open source then it could be that the hack would not have > happened since someone would have spotted the hole the hackers use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Pandu Poluan
r to be mounted during >> boot. >> >> And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... >> >> I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's >> still a war against the RH braindeadness... > > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses > with --package-names because of the lack of support for the > =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still > supports..

Re: [gentoo-user] individual LDFLAGS per package.

2005-12-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
empty for that one package? > > > > Greets > > Pawel > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > Hi, > Yes you can, but it's something like a hack presently. > A year or more ago on this (IIRC) ML there was a thread called "

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:43:04 Dale wrote: > I have had mine showing it needed to recompile gcc for a very long time > now.  There is also a bug for it too.  It has been there for a really > long time.  There are hacks to work around the bug but some don't like > the hack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eapi 6 ?

2014-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
ded after calling >> epatch_user. > > OK, so I'll (hopefully) finsish one of my ugly hack ebuilds (tonight), I have a sneaky suspicion that the phrase "James' ugly hack ebuilds" contains at least one factual contradiction :-) > make it work with these suggenst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Dale
essed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's still a war against the RH braindeadness... I'm sorry to tell you this, but (as admirable as it could be), the mdev hack to use it instead of udev is not a "victory". We are not at war, in the first place; and in the seco

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Dale
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Dale, > > On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 23:08:12 -0600, you wrote: > >> ... >>   Still, they are closed source.  If >> their code was open source then it could be that the hack would not have >> happened

[gentoo-user] Re: manually executing an ebuild file (emerge fails)

2007-10-17 Thread Thufir
.d/mondo results in a segmentation fault :-( In the mondo forum (see link) there is a small hack that can be used as workaround, but i think mondo should be blocked, for kernel 2.6 because the hack is not really good (only one sensors is supported, for which you need to know the ID).

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-02 Thread James
is a valid idea for Linux? valid has no value here. Meino is trying to get his embedded (hack job) to shutdown. He first needs to get this accomplished before finding/developing a robust solution for his unique embedded needs. This is how most embedded workflows propagte, often with a singular dev. Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
>>> packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during >>> boot. >>> >>> And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... >>> >>> I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but >

Re: [gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
the --existing flag to update all files in your bind mounted directories, and run it as a post-emerge script. It's a horrible hack, I like it! -- Neil Bothwick C Error #011: First C Program, huh? pgpeh_Lp_t0fz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-18 Thread james
So, After contacting several US carriers, the cover story is you can get a cell phone, root it with linux, and it 'should work'. Supposedly, you are encourage, but they will not offer any help. So rather than spending months, I'd like to 'cheat' and find a gentoo hac

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything

Re: [gentoo-user] why does Udisks require Lvm2 ?

2019-06-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
eed device mapper have to > drag LVM along, or apply (what I call) a device-mapper-only /hack/. > > I feel like device-mapper should be its own package that other things > depend on; LVM, RAID (mdadm, et al.), multi-path, LUKS (cryptsetup). Yes, and that would fit the Unix tradition o

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Dale
around the bug but some don't like >> the hack and neither did I. I just omit gcc and do whatever else it says. >> >> It's not a perfect tool but it works, mostly anyway. ;-) >> > > It's not a hack. But anyway.. Do you actually need gcj? Otherwise jus

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:57:53 Paul Varner wrote: > > But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses > > with --package-names because of the lack of support for the > > =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still > > su

[gentoo-user] Re: openjdk-6-jdk

2014-08-25 Thread James
va implementations in the tree would provide jdk6 for your ebuild. I installed icedtea-bin for now. >From the ebuild (which is a hack) I have : DEPEND="net-misc/curl dev-libs/cyrus-sasl python? ( dev-lang/python dev-python/boto ) java? ( virtual/jdk )" It seems

[gentoo-user] severe tearing and system lockup

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I've had this problem with various nvidia-drivers and never been able to track it down. AFAIR it only happens during certain (one?) xscreensaver hack. One of the 3d ones, but not necessarily one named GL* When the hack starts, I see multiple tears every 1-2cm (10-15 in all), eac

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 February 2007 17:33 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack > attacks and dealing with them > > By far the most comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-06 Thread Tanstaafl
ou *really* imagine I'd post what I did without searching first? Well, since the first hack/hit works fine, yeah, that's what I thought... As to your last - yes, I'm on Windows (as I stated before) - but nothing says this hack only works on Windows... You do realize that you cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
be incorporated in the RGB package. well, I don't know if the symlink is the real answer, or just a hack. But _something_ should be incorporated _somewhere_ :) :( Too bad, but this doesn't work for me. On a different system with the same errors, I incorporated your hack, but I st

Re: [gentoo-user] why does Udisks require Lvm2 ?

2019-06-24 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/24/19 2:40 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Yes, I've done the same on two boxes that have no need of lvm. It does seem wasteful though. Probably. I dislike the fact that other things that need device mapper have to drag LVM along, or apply (what I call) a device-mapper-only /hack/. I

[gentoo-user] mesos updated ebuild advice?

2020-01-13 Thread james
imple-straight-forward. Cookbooks to mimic? https://mesos.apache.org/ My existing ebuilds are 62 lines or less but are EAPI-5. Lots of details have changed https://archive.apache.org/dist/mesos/1.9.0/ Once I hack an ebuild for mesos, if anyone is interested, I'd put it up somewhere for comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-10 Thread Yohan Pereira
00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox > >> > >> Only one Firefox process exists. (I can't seem to prevent the grep > >> command from listing itself). > > Try this hack :) > > > > $ ps -ef | grep [u]rxvt > > yohan 3559 1 0 11:50 ?

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother MFC 7320

2012-10-03 Thread James
best bet to figure out how to install the brother printer under linux. For example, are you going to hack /etc/ (printcap) directly or use an software package such as CUPS and hack the brother support into CUPS? . > I use the handbook for usb and usb printer. I just found this. http:/

[gentoo-user] Re: Overlay for wickr

2015-03-16 Thread James
ans and coders working on that: image restoration alogs I have found a few open source "self destructing" projects, here's one you can read about [1]. For sure it is time for Gentooers to find something and at least hack an embuild/overlay for it for use to experiment around with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-10 Thread Dale
er been proven >> backdoors in made in usa hardware but plenty in chinese made hardware >> such as the recent motherboard hack chip scandal. > So that proves that US manufacturers are better at hiding their back > doors? > > Or is it a numbers game, there are a hell of a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Mitch D.
un 5, 2023 at 1:37 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > &

[gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) && Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread James
Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. Seriously, I'm looking for any information/brave hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo Just for kicks: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ylxq12m04vbwag0a/ James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Grant Taylor
thing. But the sym-link from /bin -> /usr/bin would avoid the additional mount. Admittedly, you might need one additional (bind) mount somewhere to be able to access the underlay while /usr is mounted. Unless ... Even bigger hack. What if the underlay (/ (root)) file system had the f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
"X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text", so the first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an "edit", "copy", or "paste" on all flavors

[gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu, except for listing each of my machines in my LAN in the accepted_hosts.conf file. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Change keyserver used by portage?

2018-07-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
[193.164.133.100] 443 > (https) open > zimmermann.mayfirst.org <http://zimmermann.mayfirst.org> [216.66.15.2] > 443 (https) open > I tried the host hack - still fails though a different message.  I suspect the keyservers are not the problem because: "gpg --homedir /var/li

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch restriction bypass

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/30/12 14:44, Michael Mol wrote: > > Does the ebuild for portage support user-supplied patches? > It doesn't look like it, but you can always hack it with, post_src_unpack() { cd "${S}" epatch_user } in your ~/.bashrc.

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-17 Thread Ryan Tandy
Alan wrote: I don't have an ipod so I have no experience, but there is a 3rd party firmware hack that replaces the ipod firmware and supports flac/ogg/etc and adds nifty things. http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net :D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: portage directory ownerships?

2015-09-16 Thread james
ons for for it? On an SSD for speed ? tmpdir? I'm curious, so tell me more. 1. So 'the tree' (/usr/portage/) is portage:portage OK. 2. and /etc/portages is root:root except for distfiles (root:portage) OK. 3. and /var/lib/layman and subdirs are root:root ??? Note, these are th

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge human readable format.

2007-04-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can (I hope) change the command > to sync portage, so you can add some flags. No, you cannot; at least not through some configuration. You can of course "hack" /usr/bin/emerge. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium and dbus...

2023-04-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-04-28, Alan Grimes wrote: > A decenently good OS would provide an IPC mechanism and little else. =| > So basically this is just a hack-layer to get around the inherent fact > that linux is garbage. Then one might wonder why you don't stop using it. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Network Topology Diagrams

2011-08-10 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > lanmap2's github -- what it seems the only source for > the source of it -- points to a 404 Error page. > Is there any other, valid link to it? https://github.com/frac/lanmap2 https://github.com/frac/lanmap2/archives/master Let me know if you hack

AW: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Noack, Sebastian
> > `emerge --nodeps` let you install packages without its dependencies, > > would require me to handle dependencies manually. very bad hack. I would also prefer to make an overlay from the ebuild and implement a workaround, but you asked for a way without manipulating the p

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure

2008-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
lt * (which is being set in the profile UNLESS you unset them) or alsa * based applications * are going to *misbehave* ! Note that after running into some "helpful defaults" a few years ago (*hack* *kaff* IPV6 *hack* *kaff*) I ended up inserting "-*" at the beginning of

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-23 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 February 2007 07:17 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack > attacks and dealing with them > > > The problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage directory ownerships?

2015-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
hip not be portage.portage > and what would the typical permissions be? Here, all of /etc/portage is root:root The tree and all overlays are portage:portage You can make a local overlay owned by user you want, stuff you hack away at yourself should probably be james:james or james:users T

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Martin Vaeth
ly writing a grub.cfg or for letting it produce automatically by the scripts: In the former case you have all the flexibility of legacy a grub (and much more) while in the latter case you probably have to hack around with the generating scripts - probably it is simpler to hack scripts for your partic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:28:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! No, no - those who can't teach teach teachers. Or so my father used to say, from what he said had been bitter experience. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-23 Thread Jakob
Whenever I see someone trying the break in in the logsentry reports, I add their IP to the deny_hosts.conf file and restart ipkungfu so that the changes will take effect. maybe you want to have a look at sshdfilter http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/ jakob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted fonts

2023-10-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:35:18 BST Michael wrote: > Noto and Hack media-fonts are listed as reverse dependencies for kde-plasma/ > plasma-integration. With no USE flag to exclude them being available at > present, the package.provided solution can be used. Reverse? Plasma-in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Billy Holmes
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > hm, you want to tell me, that it is as easy to get into the computer room, > hack a line and listen, than to hold an atenna in the right direction? it only takes *one* compromised router/machine to ruin your day. Trust in nothing. Encrypt everything. --

[gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Hartman
Does anyone here use HPLIP and happen to have the file hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run that they can send to me or upload somewhere? openprinting.org is down because of the LF hack and it could be more weeks before it's back up. There are apparently no mirrors of this file... I can't install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't move Chromium windows between screens

2010-12-17 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 17.12.2010 15:16, schrieb Pau Peris: No one knows what could be? Maybe you should ask on a kde4, xorg or chromium specific mailinglist or forum. A window without titlebar in the way as chromium uses it is a nasty hack and absolutly not supported from Xorg. Problems of any type have to be

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

2017-12-02 Thread Adam Carter
> How can I check, whether a binary is "PIE"-conform ("pie-conform" is > a freaky funny language hack :) ;) ) ? > emerge hardening-check # hardening-check /usr/bin/cpuid2cpuflags /usr/bin/cpuid2cpuflags: Position Independent Executable: yes Stack protected: yes

[gentoo-user] Re: eix per dir

2014-03-20 Thread »Q«
oftware > synthesizer. > > > Suggestions and ideas, that already exist, are welcome; > or do I need to hack something (ugly)? eix -c [category]/

[gentoo-user] Re (DONE): kde4 upgrading

2009-10-29 Thread James
at my decision, as they belong to others. Some of the machines I do not physically get for 6 months at a time. Sure, I could hack something together, but, imho it would make much more sense for a common method, as I'm certain I not the only one with this issue. I install Gentoo on systems f

Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Steve
e 5pm - and the second of these was app-antivirus/clamav-0.95.2 - I think I simply chose to use the new configurations after issuing a dispatch-config... I didn't do anything 'adventurous'. Perhaps this might be something to do with a long-forgotten hack for clamassassin to work w

[gentoo-user] Re: Software for LCD Data Center

2011-08-21 Thread James
f hackers are working on a solution to use those ethernet ports on the newer Telly. I have an ethernet port on my newest 55" telly, but my experience is it takes tons of time in the early days of such, before a viable (compatible) hack exist to use the resource (in this case an ethernet on

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: multiple versions of same package

2005-04-20 Thread ma53
local). > > > Yup. glib's internal SLOT-like logic means that two 2.x versions will > conflict, as its includes and libraries take the name glib-2.0. > > Installing to /foo with portage is in theory possible, but tricky: > assuming the package uses autotools a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openjdk-6-jdk

2014-08-26 Thread Jc García
as they should(but that's not realistic), any of the >> java implementations in the tree would provide jdk6 for your ebuild. > > I installed icedtea-bin for now. > > From the ebuild (which is a hack) I have : > > DEPEND="net-misc/curl > dev-libs/cyrus

[gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread James
k install etc etc. Others on this group can advise you on this path to peack, jouy and harmony, as you watch Gentoo converge on the things most important to you. If I can hack ebuilds, *ANYONE* can hack ebuilds. Just ask my following of fans on this list! (ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ha!). Gentoo herds a

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Miernik
Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the > clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse > button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a > hack in itself. N

Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)

2007-11-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any idea how to actually do that, since the bug prevents me from > upgrading? Is there some temp hack I can edit or patch to get around > the problem for now? The bug itself isn't described very clearly, not > the

[gentoo-user] [maybe ot]Accelerometer hacks for Lenovo and -possibly- Macbook laptops

2008-07-31 Thread b.n.
Sorry if spamming, but this is too juicy not to share. I've just read on OSNews: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knockage.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07l-knockage&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsitelnxw07 It is a little hack to use the inbuilt accelerometer of Lenovo (and pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-28 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Frank Schafer wrote: > There is no official hack to get the password out of the machine. It is > nowhere stored in uncrypted form and the crypting algorithm itself is > not reversable. Yes, u are right, but encrypted passwords are stored in /etc/shadow, and therefore u can try to dec

Re: [gentoo-user] man mouse problems

2005-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Willie Wong wrote: r/man/ -name mouse.* /usr/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz /usr/man/man4/mouse.4.gz gnu man will allow you to give a full path :) yes, that's a hack, but the "man # $page" uses the # as the directory. so if mouse.4x.gz was in /usr/man/man4x/mouse.4x.gz, then man 4x mo

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Noack, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > `emerge --nodeps` let you install packages without its dependencies, would require me to handle dependencies manually. very bad hack. I'll better fix it. cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

2010-08-15 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: [snip] > > Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series > to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. > And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ > You gotta love it~ >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra

2008-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:08:23 + (UTC), James wrote: > Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized > methodology to 'clean' the world file, Hack out anything you think is unnecessary Run emerge --depclean -p Add anything you need with emerge -n

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-11 Thread Simon
Ok thanks, I'll hack my way through! Florian Philipp wrote: Simon schrieb: Storing data on a dvd is always quite useful and dvds cost much less than usb keys or other... I've been thinking about one thing. Is there any such thing as an incremental filesystem for write-once-read-

[gentoo-user] Re: flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-05 Thread James
-r Now I know you're just another crusty old hack, probably with a similar (deeper?) bag of tricks... PS, I go both_ways (software and hardware) ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync: what was done ?

2006-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
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[gentoo-user] Listing portage categories?

2006-05-13 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Is there a way of getting a list of Portage categories? I know that I can `ls -s /usr/portage', but that seems like such a hack. Is there some way of getting that information with a Portage tool? --- Vladimir P.S. I haven't found a way to list categories with emerge, equery, esea

Re: [gentoo-user] Which update broke VMWare?

2017-05-24 Thread Adam Carter
> VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS.but that seems counter intuitive so would be worth > checking. > > > Oh - libz hack no longer required as its been fixed in overlay https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616958

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

2009-09-20 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: > > When using the line: > >    @ 5 fetchmail -a > > nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded > with > >    fetchmail -a > > from the commandline. > > May be I am a little overhacked today

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > What portage version are using? > > My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 on x86. There's been a hack in portage all the way through 2.0.51 and I'm pr

[gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-16 Thread Grant
should be easy to hack. Should I do that via an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge human readable format.

2007-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Alexander Skwar, > > You can (I hope) change the command > > to sync portage, so you can add some flags. > > No, you cannot; at least not through some configuration. You can > of course "hack" /usr/bin/emerge. Yes you can, by setting PORTAGE_RSYNC_EX

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:14:31 +0200, pk wrote: > But this is quite pointless (my whining) > since, as someone else mentioned, "code talks...". Perhaps some day I > can find the time to hack my own solution (which of course will be > perfection ;-) ). I wait with bated bre

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-16 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: Does anyone here use HPLIP and happen to have the file hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run that they can send to me or upload somewhere? openprinting.org is down because of the LF hack and it could be more weeks before it's back up. There are apparently no mirrors of this file... I

[gentoo-user] Is there a program to log the memory consumption of just one selected process...

2007-01-22 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I want to trace the memory consumption of one selected process (threads and maybe child processes included). In WindowsNT and higher the Performance Monitor can do that. Is there a linux tool out there which can perform that feat, or do I have to hack a script which periodically looks into

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing portage categories?

2006-05-14 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 14 May 2006 02:43, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Is there a way of getting a list of Portage categories? I know that I > can `ls -s /usr/portage', but that seems like such a hack. Is there some > way of getting that information with a Portage tool? With a portage tool? Don

[gentoo-user] [OT] What was it....?

2018-05-21 Thread tuxic
Hi, h I know there was a tool/trick/hack to accomplish the following: One could do "X" (this is for what I am asking for and cannot remember its name...) -- I think it was a wrapper script or so -- to call another console application like picocom to act as it would be readl

[gentoo-user] palemoon and pdfs

2020-03-03 Thread james
popping up another app so I can read the pdf, which are common, from whatever source? ANY hack would be OK All comments and guidance is warmly received. James

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running gentoo on AppleTV 1st gen?

2016-03-31 Thread James
across these busybox archives and thought you might peruse the links for info. 'Buildroot: latest "target/device/Atmel" tree' https://git.busybox.net/ Also, follow those folks by name when googling as new projects often have old, familiar hack(ers) underneath. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?

2009-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
;t do > anything 'adventurous'. > > Perhaps this might be something to do with a long-forgotten hack for > clamassassin to work with clamd that might have been overwritten... > (changing CLAMSCAN=/usr/bin/clamscan to CLAMSCAN=/usr/bin/clamdscan in > /usr/bin/clamassassi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them

2007-02-22 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports > about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my > firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu, > except

[gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-17 Thread meino . cramer
tGui could not be found. QtGui is here /usr/include/qt4/Qt/QtGui which is a file which includes all relevant header file in one go. So I tried to set QTDIR to /usr/include/qt4 but this produces the same problem. I decided to hack the relevant file of hydorgen and hardcoded the path to QtGui dir

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal web server

2012-05-05 Thread James
I use a laptop, as often the sites do not have any remote access or it is blocked. I grab a config and then figure out a fix, only to return later, sometimes with drop in replacement hardware. Too often, I'm content to just hack at the old existing (shit) hardware. Industrial folks are

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Dale
; waltdnes 28836 28825 0 19:39 pts/30 00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox >>>> >>>> Only one Firefox process exists. (I can't seem to prevent the grep >>>> command from listing itself). >>> Try this hack :) >>> >>> $ ps -ef |

Re: [gentoo-user] converting openrc's dmesg to systemd service file

2014-04-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
. If you want systemd to be more (or less) verbose, then you can > pass it different arguments in the kernel command line; see [2]. > >> Is there a good online pointer about building service files? > > The guide in [3] is a start; but I don't think it will help you, sin

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Feb 2010, at 17:51, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... There was that apocryphal tale of the origianl Unix hacker who hardwired a backdoor login into the system, and hacked cc to _keep_ inserting the backdoor each time the system was built, and to keep this hack in cc each time cc was

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