Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-27 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 28.12.2012 01:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I *liked* the "old way" ... is there any explanation why removing this improves things? How is it supposed to work now? That's the sane question to ask, unfortunately you won't get a real answer from the GNOME developers themselves. They are

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-27 Thread Keith Dart
Re 50DCE1AD.9060400@xunil.at50DCE1AD.9060400@xunil.atCADPrc829HM4216VAaPb3HSq4mcUT52JDpzfxAEpuT6W4ZFe_Ng@mail.gmail.com50dcc1bb.4080...@xunil.at, Randolph Maaßen said: > Maybe interesting to read: > http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/ > I think we had this befor

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:49:01PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote > >> Do you have the fstab line: >> "none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0" > > I had an ancient version, which I've been copying to new installs for > years. It was... > shm /de

Re: [gentoo-user] php CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs NOW()

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/28/2012 01:44 AM, Joseph wrote: > I'm not a PHP programmer but I'll try to explain my problem. > I've create table in my php database: > > DROP TABLE IF EXISTS visual_verify_code; > CREATE TABLE visual_verify_code ( >oscsid varchar(32) NOT NULL, >code varchar(6) NOT NULL, >dt TIM

[gentoo-user] php CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs NOW()

2012-12-27 Thread Joseph
I'm not a PHP programmer but I'll try to explain my problem. I've create table in my php database: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS visual_verify_code; CREATE TABLE visual_verify_code ( oscsid varchar(32) NOT NULL, code varchar(6) NOT NULL, dt TIMESTAMP(12) NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW(), PRIMARY KEY (oscsid

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
I'm sure I made more than one typo, but the ALLOWED_ICMP below definitely needs a dollar sign. > > for ok_icmp in ALLOWED_ICMP; do > iptables -A ICMP_IN -p icmp --icmp-type "${ok_icmp}" -j ACCEPT > done >

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

2012-12-27 Thread William Kenworthy
On 28/12/12 11:25, Walter Dnes wrote: > chmod 755 /dev/shm/hello > /dev/shm/hello as a user (not root) wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ vi /dev/shm/hello wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ chmod 755 /dev/shm/hello wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ /dev/shm/hello Hello World wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mai

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/27/2012 10:59 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Here's my revised "Paranoia Plus" ruleset. Any comments? Because I'm > behind a NAT-ing ADSL router/modem, many of my rules rarely see hits. > However, I do have a backup dialup connection in case of problems, so > most of my rules don't specify t

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > or the fact that some udev programs tend to > be located

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:34:00PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > > Looking at the package list: > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gnome-base/gconf?arches=fbsd > > gnome-base/gconf is not mark stable or testing at all, there is a blank space. > gconf-2.32.4 was already installed on my system, emerge i

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 06:50:07PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote > Once you've upgraded, you should be able to add all of your old --state > rules normally, albeit with a warning. The new iptables will translate > them to conntrack rules, and you can `/etc/init.d/iptables save` the result. > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

2012-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:49:01PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote > Do you have the fstab line: > "none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0" I had an ancient version, which I've been copying to new installs for years. It was... shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I changed over to your lin

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Yeah, bugs happen. Like I said, wait a day and try again.

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Joseph
On 12/27/12 18:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Joseph wrote: trying to emerge: gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 and I'm getting a strange error: -- Joseph Saw the same thing here this morning, and have seen it a couple of times in the past. My strategy is to sync tomorrow a

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Joseph
On 12/27/12 18:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Joseph wrote: trying to emerge: gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 and I'm getting a strange error: -- Joseph Saw the same thing here this morning, and have seen it a couple of times in the past. My strategy is to sync tomorrow a

Re: [gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Joseph wrote: > trying to emerge: gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 > and I'm getting a strange error: > > -- > Joseph > Saw the same thing here this morning, and have seen it a couple of times in the past. My strategy is to sync tomorrow and try again or mask the package i

[gentoo-user] gconf - failed: not writable

2012-12-27 Thread Joseph
trying to emerge: gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 and I'm getting a strange error: Failed to emerge gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4, Log file: '/var/log/portage/gnome-base:gconf-2.32.4:20121228-021346.log' Jobs: 2 of 23 complete, 1 failedLoad avg: 1.05, 0.61, 0.41 * Package:gnome-base/gc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:06:27AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012, 07:45:24 schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > On Dec 26, 2012 1:05 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > > Even Linus piped up at one point, sharply reminding > > Greg KH that even though udev was at one ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012, 07:45:24 schrieb Pandu Poluan: > On Dec 26, 2012 1:05 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > Even Linus piped up at one point, sharply reminding > Greg KH that even though udev was at one time Greg's 'baby', at this point > udev serves only the wants of the few. link

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2012-12-27 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
On 12/27/2012 05:16 PM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 22 Dec 2012 01:29:57 Kevin Brandstatter wrote: >> So e17 just came out and ive been using for a bit. The only problem >> ive had with it is that i cant check the option to lock the screen on >> suspend. I don't think this is a problem on some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-27 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2012/12/28 Stefan G. Weichinger > Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > > > No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with > > the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, > > but now it's gone. I don't know if anyone is working on bring i

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with > the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, > but now it's gone. I don't know if anyone is working on bring it > back. I *liked* the "old way" ... is t

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/27/2012 06:11 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:28:15AM +, Graham Murray wrote > >> The problem is not really the OP's fault. The problem is that if you >> have tables with the form "-m state --state XXX" at the point you >> upgrade, iptables-save (quite possibly called

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:14:11 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Are there any other cases, apart from emotional attachment based on > > inertia, where a separate / and /usr are desirable? As I see it, > > there is only the system, and it is an atomic unit. > > You should really read the thread befo

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > greets ... > > today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds > coming up on my ~amd64 box ... > > I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it > runs OK. > > There are changes and new fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> * Finally, and what I think is the most fundamental difference between >> systemd and almost any other init system: The service unit files in >> systemd are *declarative*; you tell the daemon *what* to do, not *how* >> to do it. If the ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> At this point I don't know that 1) the image is actually in the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM, pk wrote: > On 2012-12-27 02:14, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> I really think that's the crux of the matter Pandou: udev/systemd >> serves to the wants of the many. The eudev fork serves to the wants of > > systemd+udev serves the "large mass" (users of mainly F

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 lock screen

2012-12-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 Dec 2012 01:29:57 Kevin Brandstatter wrote: > So e17 just came out and ive been using for a bit. The only problem > ive had with it is that i cant check the option to lock the screen on > suspend. I don't think this is a problem on some of the other > distributions so thought it coul

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:28:15AM +, Graham Murray wrote > The problem is not really the OP's fault. The problem is that if you > have tables with the form "-m state --state XXX" at the point you > upgrade, iptables-save (quite possibly called automatically by > /etc/init.d/iptables stop) wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:56:52 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > In case you haven't noticed, since Windows 7 (or Vista, forget which) > Microsoft has even went the distance of splitting between C: > (analogous to /usr) and 'System Partition' (analogous to /). The boot > process is actually handled by th

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:57:09 +0100 Michael Hampicke wrote: > Migrating my NAS to ZFS is something that has been floating around my > head for a longer time. But I am not really sure if I want to switch > from gentoo to FreeBSD on my NAS. zfsonlinux is there, but it's first > release was early 201

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Michael Mol wrote: or the fact that some udev programs tend to be located in /usr, >>> >>> >>> That's either a bug with those programs, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > >>> 1) initramfs. It's not that hard >>> 2) early mount script. It's not that hard. >>> 3) modify your udev ebuild to install to /. It's not that hard. >> >> If you'd read the thread (and/or related ones), you'd know he t

[gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
greets ... today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds coming up on my ~amd64 box ... I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it runs OK. There are changes and new features and I am still exploring stuff. The general question: is it a bug or a

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> or the fact that some udev programs tend to >>> be located in /usr, >> >> >> That's either a bug with those programs, or a need for architectural >> improvements within udev. Both p

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> or the fact that some udev programs tend to >> be located in /usr, > > > That's either a bug with those programs, or a need for architectural > improvements within udev. Both plausible answers. > The most obvious architectural improvement bei

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: >> On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +02

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: > > On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > > >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> > On Sun,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:43:12 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > and a device node in /dev - like /dev/sda2. And how do you get that one > without udev? CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y Of course, that only helps if /usr is on a plain old disk block device. -- Neil Bothwick No, you *can't* call 999 now.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

2012-12-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Matthias Hanft wrote: > Joseph wrote: >> >> Yes, you are correct. Rebuilding openvpn worked; thank you. > > As far as I have seen, you can set USE="iproute2" for OpenVPN which > seems to use iproute2 instead of net-tools - should avoid your problem, > too. If iprout2 is relocated, it will fail f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: > On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 > >> > > >> > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:03:25 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: > Then I suppose you can surely explain in a nutshell why can't init > scripts simply do that? because some people decided, that fsck or that dynamic /dev/ populator depends on stuff in /usr? which is the reason for this thread? How

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/27/12 12:52, Matthias Hanft wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> My first -m state rule is, >>iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m state \ >> --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > That was mine, too (you can omit -p in this case, can't you?). Yeah, it just makes the indentation line u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> 1) initramfs. It's not that hard >> 2) early mount script. It's not that hard. >> 3) modify your udev ebuild to install to /. It's not that hard. > > > If you'd read the thread (and/or related ones), you'd know he tried to go > the initrd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Dale wrote: > > So I guess Linus is confused to? > > In your head, and only in your head, you're agreeing with Linus. Linus > was talking about a different bug entirely from the one you're talking > about

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Kevin Chadwick > wrote: > > > > Again you don't break the spec unless you have to and you don't change > > the spec unless it is an improvement or you have no choice. Non of > > which is the case. Just l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Dale wrote: > So I guess Linus is confused to? In your head, and only in your head, you're agreeing with Linus. Linus was talking about a different bug entirely from the one you're talking about. The bug you're talking about: you go on and on about people saying

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Again you don't break the spec unless you have to and you don't change > the spec unless it is an improvement or you have no choice. Non of > which is the case. Just like you do not mould a mail RFC to a > widely used technically inferior

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Dale
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > I think your reaction proves my point about angry mobs torching his > home without understanding what's being proposed. Your fine reading > comprehension once again failed to catch the notion that in my > analogy, all he invented was a mechanism that makes sure it was a k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

2012-12-27 Thread Matthias Hanft
Joseph wrote: Yes, you are correct. Rebuilding openvpn worked; thank you. As far as I have seen, you can set USE="iproute2" for OpenVPN which seems to use iproute2 instead of net-tools - should avoid your problem, too. -Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Matthias Hanft
Michael Orlitzky wrote: My first -m state rule is, iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m state \ --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT That was mine, too (you can omit -p in this case, can't you?). And if what you say is true, I'd be in deep shit if it reset to, iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dale wrote: > Feel free to set me straight tho. As long as you don't tell me my > system is broken

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> At this point I don't know that 1) the image is actually in the >>> kernel, or 2) that my "init thingy" ;-) image would work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

2012-12-27 Thread Joseph
On 12/27/12 16:00, Jörg Schaible wrote: Joseph wrote: I'm having problem starting openvpn after recent upgrade. When I try to start it I get a normal respond: openvpn.client_clinic_atom start * Starting openvpn.client_clinic_atom ...[ ok ] * WARNING: openvpn.client_clinic_

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/27/12 06:28, Graham Murray wrote: > Michael Orlitzky writes: > >> The 'conntrack' module is supposed to be a superset of 'state', so most >> things should be compatible. You really have two warnings there; the >> first is for the state -> conntrack switch, and the second is because >> you'r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> * Finally, and what I think is the most fundamental difference between > systemd and almost any other init system: The service unit files in > systemd are *declarative*; you tell the daemon *what* to do, not *how* > to do it. If the service files are shell scripts (like in > OpenRC/SysV), everyth

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Again you don't break the spec unless you have to and you don't change the spec unless it is an improvement or you have no choice. Non of which is the case. Just like you do not mould a mail RFC to a widely used technically inferior hotmail implementation. > He's like DJB on crack. Except DJB ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Dale wrote: > > I think your analogy actually proves my point. Instead of just getting > in the car and turning the key, they want to reinvent the engine and how > it works. It doesn't matter that it is and has been working for decades, > > Thanks for proving my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Dale
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Dale wrote: >> Mark David Dumlao wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dale wrote: Feel free to set me straight tho. As long as you don't tell me my system is broken and has not been able to boot for the last 9 years >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- SOLVED

2012-12-27 Thread Todd Goodman
* fe...@crowfix.com [121227 10:08]: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:41:54PM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > > I configured a minimal kernel to test it sooner, and it booted to a > > prompt. Now I am compiling with my normal config, including encfs and > > a lot of other gorp, and will try it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread pk
On 2012-12-27 02:14, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > I really think that's the crux of the matter Pandou: udev/systemd > serves to the wants of the many. The eudev fork serves to the wants of systemd+udev serves the "large mass" (users of mainly Fedora and other distros using systemd) that doesn't c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- SOLVED

2012-12-27 Thread felix
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:41:54PM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > I configured a minimal kernel to test it sooner, and it booted to a > prompt. Now I am compiling with my normal config, including encfs and > a lot of other gorp, and will try it in the morning. My bloated fully-larded normal

[gentoo-user] Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

2012-12-27 Thread Jörg Schaible
Joseph wrote: > I'm having problem starting openvpn after recent upgrade. > > When I try to start it I get a normal respond: > > openvpn.client_clinic_atom start > * Starting openvpn.client_clinic_atom ...[ ok ] > * WARNING: openvpn.client_clinic_atom has started, but is inac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM, wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 08:53:14PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Possibly related? >> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881 > > Indeed :-) The patch author directed me there, I've applied the 51881 > patch to the 3.7.1 sources, and it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 27.12.2012 01:18, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:41:01 -0800 > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, >>Merry Christmas to all. >> >>Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to >> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files >> are

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-27 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Orlitzky writes: > The 'conntrack' module is supposed to be a superset of 'state', so most > things should be compatible. You really have two warnings there; the > first is for the state -> conntrack switch, and the second is because > you're missing the --state flag in your rules. > > In

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.12.2012 01:18, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I am *very* impressed with ZFS for this. Yes, I know, it's not really > there on Linux - I use it on FreeBSD (FreeNAS). > > It has everything I've wanted in a filesystem for a long time, and all > the crap I've stuffed into my head over many years rel