On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:24, Nick Rout wrote:
> Chris and I will both have up to date portage trees and a lot of the
> stuff in distfiles (ie the sometimes large source files)
>
> Chris is your box set up so another box can rsync to it?
Not at the moment, but I intend to have that set up before the meeting.
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:21:10 +1200
>
> Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > >On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:40, Nick Rout wrote:
> > >>>>I can bring "Beast" if you want. What would you like it for?
> > >>>
> > >>>A distcc demo. We have 2 half built Gentoo boxes to finish off and I
> > >>> just thought that folks might find that the concept interesting.
> > >>
> > >>which boxes are still half finished? are these left over from robert's
> > >>garage?
> > >
> > >Yes, Rik and Leo.
> > >"half built" should be interpreted as meaning "still have more work to
> > > do",
> > >
> > >Rik: Please could you confirm that you are still interested in running
> > > Gentoo.
> >
> > Yes, very much so.
> >
> > I got as far as "#emerge sync" (1.5 hrs on dialup) but didn't go on to
> > emerge portage at the time. So both these tasks would be better (re)done
> > on a faster network link. Then I'd be tackling why X only runs as root -
X always runs as root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep X
root 5682 3.7 3.8 50248 14868 ? S 13:33 0:45 /etc/X11/X
-nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-bo6EWW vt7
It drops root privs as soon as it has got access to the hardware.
Do you mean that you can only use it if logged in as 'root'?
> how are you starting X - using the xdm service I hope.
>
> > insecure & unacceptable at the point at which I stopped using Gentoo.
If they are not there atm. add these lines to the end of the XF86Config file:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
> this sounds like fun, nothing better than screw^h^h^h^h^h fixing someone
> elses laptop :)
>
> > Thanks for asking - v.keen
> >
> > Rik
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
