[gentoo-user] netcat - which?

2012-03-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
eix netcat returned net-analyzer/gnu-netcat and net-analyzer/netcat What's the difference? Which one should I emerge? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • LOPSA Member #15248  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?

2012-03-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 06:49:10 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote: > > Paul Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt wrote: > > >> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: > > >>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or > > >>> what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?

2012-03-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt wrote: > >> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: > >>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or > >>> whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:38:08 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > > > Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > > > > The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a > > > DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?

2012-03-06 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt wrote: >> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: >> >>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever >>> its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. >> >> I discovered (the very hard wa

[gentoo-user] Re: GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:48:43 -0600 »Q« wrote: > The stabilization bug[1] for GLSA 201203-12[2] has the fix stabilized > on all arches, and a GLSA request made, on 16 January but the GLSA > wasn't issued until 6 March. I don't know if that's an anomaly or > not. Of the 12 GLSAs issued today, I be

[gentoo-user] Re: GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:06:46 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you run testing, you usually have the fixed version before it gets > into a GLSA. IME, the same is true of running stable. I saw comments somewhere recently about the GLSA-releasing process having a bottleneck somewhere, but there were

[gentoo-user] Re: two NICs -> kernel crash ?

2012-03-06 Thread walt
On 03/06/2012 02:08 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). > > If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up > just fine. > > If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes > up just fine. > > B

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 06 March 2012 19:05:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: > A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time > it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. I didn't realise you'd been in the white heat of software project management :-) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > > The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB > > somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the > > shortkey > > > > gotta check

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt wrote: > On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: > >> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever >> its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. > > I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create t

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Urs Schutz
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:32:35 -0800 Grant wrote: > I've been checking this daily for a while: > > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml > > but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I > know I have installed, my installed version is > unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do

[gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?

2012-03-06 Thread walt
On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: > Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever > its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer devices whenever I update hplip. I kept

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB > somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the > shortkey > > gotta check how it works with gnome3 now. The dev has some work done for an exte

Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-03-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: > > > I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both > > are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt > > container file

Re: [gentoo-user] Solution for Address family not supported by protocol

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, 4k3nd0 <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I just upgrade to the last version of the libvirt on my Gentoo System. > (From 0.9.6 to 0.9.10-r3) But i have a problem with starting my NAT: > > Error starting network 'NAT': Cannot open network interface control > socket: A

[gentoo-user] Solution for Address family not supported by protocol

2012-03-06 Thread 4k3nd0
I just upgrade to the last version of the libvirt on my Gentoo System. (From 0.9.6 to 0.9.10-r3) But i have a problem with starting my NAT: Error starting network 'NAT': Cannot open network interface control socket: Address family not supported by protocol Traceback (most recent call last): F

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 18:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Yes, each customer is a project, then I create the following taskslots > immediately: Planning, Preparation, Deploy, Test, Final. I may add or > delete taskslots as I see fit later on during Planning. > > Then, I just tap on Gleeo's "play" icon wheneve

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.2.x has problems with NetGear WNDA3100 wireless USB dongle

2012-03-06 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
Hi, I have come across a strange problem ... I use a NetGear WNDA3100 USB wireless dongle which is using the kernel module carl9170 as driver. It is working fine for a little while, some minutes, then it stops receiving/transmitting anything at all. If I unplug and insert it again it works fine

[gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best way to approach doing this? I was considering just doing a Gentoo install from scratch b

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Grant
>> I've been checking this daily for a while: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml >> >> but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have >> installed, my installed version is unaffected.  If I emerge world >> daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? > > If you run te

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Grant
>> I've been checking this daily for a while: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml >> >> but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have >> installed, my installed version is unaffected.  If I emerge world >> daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? >> >> - Grant >>

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.03.2012 19:47, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> >> On 6 March 2012, at 17:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: >>> > … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but > i've n

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.03.2012 19:32, schrieb Grant: > I've been checking this daily for a while: > > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml > > but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have > installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world > daily, do I need to che

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:32:35 -0800, Grant wrote: > I've been checking this daily for a while: > > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml > > but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have > installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world > daily, do

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:44:18 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. > > > > Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost > > impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. > > > > I don't thin

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/06/12 13:32, Grant wrote: > I've been checking this daily for a while: > > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml > > but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have > installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world > daily, do I need to check o

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 6 March 2012, at 17:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: >> … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 March 2012, at 17:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: > >>> … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but >>> i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I >>> understand how it is done, using pvmove …

[gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Grant
I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books

2012-03-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > I've ordered Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, from > Glyn Moody, but I just realized it's pretty old, from January 2001, 11 > years ago. > Of course I'll love reading it, but I'd like to complete this "study"

[gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books

2012-03-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I've ordered Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, from Glyn Moody, but I just realized it's pretty old, from January 2001, 11 years ago. Of course I'll love reading it, but I'd like to complete this "study" with the 2000 developments of FOSS. Linux 2.6, HAL life-cycle, GCC evolution, U

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.03.2012 18:25, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: > >>> … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but >>> i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I >>> understand how it is done, using pvmove … >>

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 7, 2012 12:06 AM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > Am 06.03.2012 16:55, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > My workflow happens to be jumping from a station to another, so I try > > not turning on my laptop, reserving its battery for the times when I > > truly need it. That's why I prefer having m

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: > > … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but > > i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I > > understand how it is done, using pvmove … > > Or you could just format and mount the new dri

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.03.2012 17:32, schrieb Stroller: > > On 6 March 2012, at 09:45, Datty wrote: >> … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but >> i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I >> understand how it is done, using pvmove … > > Or you could just f

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 17:32, schrieb Stroller: > > On 6 March 2012, at 09:45, Datty wrote: >> … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but >> i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I >> understand how it is done, using pvmove … > > Or you could just f

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 16:55, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > My workflow happens to be jumping from a station to another, so I try > not turning on my laptop, reserving its battery for the times when I > truly need it. That's why I prefer having my time tracker on my phone, > which stays on 24x7. Makes perfect s

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 March 2012, at 09:45, Datty wrote: > … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've > never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand > how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Str

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 6, 2012 9:46 PM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > Am 06.03.2012 14:30, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > Well, of course sooner or later, you'll have to use a desktop to produce > > a billable report. Gleeo is perfectly able to export to CSV, and you can > > tabulate the data using LibreOffice.

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 14:30, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Well, of course sooner or later, you'll have to use a desktop to produce > a billable report. Gleeo is perfectly able to export to CSV, and you can > tabulate the data using LibreOffice. Sure. What I meant is that it sounds a bit strange to have to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance

2012-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: > I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both > are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt > container file where I need to store the data into. > > This is sort of working, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 06 Mar 2012 13:30:46 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mar 6, 2012 8:24 PM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > Am 06.03.2012 13:58, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way > > > I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... >

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 6, 2012 8:24 PM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > Am 06.03.2012 13:58, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way > > I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... > > I installed it and will have a look, thanks. > > It d

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 13:58, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way > I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... I installed it and will have a look, thanks. It depends on the workflow, I'd want something accessible from the desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 6, 2012 5:57 PM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > > Greetings, > > a somehow offtopic topic ... ;-) > > I assume most of you are sysadmins and IT guys, employed or running > their own company. > > How do you track your work for customers? > > Especially the everyday tasks, which sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: gnome-shell behavior

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.03.2012 11:34, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Found this: > > http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/14061303/Gnome-Shell-creashea-cuando-buscas---Nvidia.html > > and > > echo "" > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel > > helped to fix that issue. solved for a few minutes ... it seems that

[gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greetings, a somehow offtopic topic ... ;-) I assume most of you are sysadmins and IT guys, employed or running their own company. How do you track your work for customers? Especially the everyday tasks, which sometimes are very short and lots of them are done, hopping from one server/customer

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: gnome-shell behavior

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Found this: http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/14061303/Gnome-Shell-creashea-cuando-buscas---Nvidia.html and echo "" > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel helped to fix that issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] rng-tools

2012-03-06 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello Michael, On 03/03/2012 02:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is > '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique > to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date? Yes, version 2-unofficial-mt.14* is a Debian for

[gentoo-user] Re: freerdp-1.0.1 fails to authenticate

2012-03-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 06 Mar 2012 08:17:49 Mick wrote: > I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I've come across a bug. > > I'm trying to connect to a Windows7 OS running in virtualbox with Remote > Assistance enabled and this is what I get: > > xfreerdp -u fred -p - 192.168.2.5:69357 -f > connecting

[gentoo-user] two NICs -> kernel crash ?

2012-03-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up just fine. If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes up just fine. BUT, if it's connect to ethernet, and net.eth0 has been started

[gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Datty
Hi all, I've got an LVM setup at the minute that consists of 3x1TB and 3x1.5TB drives. Its setup with one huge XFS partition with all my data on. I don't have a backup of any kind and I know thats pretty silly but with the cost of replicating the whole lot being what it is and the lack of space in

[gentoo-user] freerdp-1.0.1 fails to authenticate

2012-03-06 Thread Mick
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I've come across a bug. I'm trying to connect to a Windows7 OS running in virtualbox with Remote Assistance enabled and this is what I get: xfreerdp -u fred -p - 192.168.2.5:69357 -f connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 conn