[gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client. Then I've got a laptop (64bit Celeron, single core) on which I play those video fi

[gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm in the habit of backing up customer data by booting from knoppix, connecting a portable hard-drive and copying with `cp -rvf`. When this has finished I connect the portable hard-drive to my desktop machine, copy the directory of data from it to my homedir, and make a zip fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: ... I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. ... ... My problem is: Neither of them can handle recording/playing video while t

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Stroller wrote: > I've done this loads in the past, and never been aware of any file > corruption, but I guess I'm just paranoid today. Perhaps I shouldn't > use the -v flags during my copy - it's reassuring to see the files > being copied, but what if I overlooked a bu

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1417 (76028-76077)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:29 +, Stroller wrote: > On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:01, Florian Philipp wrote: > > ... > > I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon > > 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using > > mencoder > > and at-daemon. ... > > > >

[gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
Does anyone know why tcp port 9090 is open on my laptop: alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot dbus | default hald | default

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Amar Cosic
I think its torrent port. I use transmission and that port it listens to On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why tcp port 9090 is open on my laptop: > > alsasound | default >bootmisc | boot > checkfs | boot >

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
> I think its torrent port. I use transmission and that port it listens to How did I not realize that. Thank you. - Grant > > Does anyone know why tcp port 9090 is open on my laptop: > > > > alsasound | default > >bootmisc | boot > > checkfs | boot > > ch

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: > Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be > sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become > damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for > directories. Diff? diff -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is port 9090 open?

2008-02-24 Thread Stefan Wilfinger
Hi, It may be useful to execute a 'netstat -nap | grep 9090' to identify the program listening on port 9090. - Stefan Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think its torrent port. I use transmission and that port it listens to How did I not realize that. Thank you. - Grant > Does any

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade broke NAT

2008-02-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 22 February 2008 16:22:34 Grant wrote: > > Too bad that 'oldconfig' isn't always working :-( > > Is there a better way to update the config for a new kernel? What I do is to run menuconfig against the most recent .config, and search (visually) for items marked [NEW] and read their Hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server > (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder > using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run > a dnet-client. > > Then I've got a l

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 24. Februar 2008 schrieb cabbage: > diff can use for binary files ? If you just want to know "different or not", sure. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! === On Sunday 24 February 2008, you wrote: === ... > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: > > > Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to > > > be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have > > > become damaged during transfer? I

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread cabbage
diff can use for binary files ? On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: > > > Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be > > sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them ha

[gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? > > - Grant > -- > gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
> > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is > > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is > > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? > > > > - Grant > > -- > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 24 Feb 2008, at 06:06, Stroller wrote: So my question is: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. I use rsy

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:34 -0800, Grant wrote: > > > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is > > > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is > > > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? > > > > > > - Grant > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
> > > > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is > > > > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is > > > > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? > > > > > > > > - Grant > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@list

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server > > (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder > > using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle

[gentoo-user] Re: md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread »Q«
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. I think you may have gotten better solutions for your situation, but md5deep (in portage) is like md5sum but with directory recursion. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Grant, If you want to do a complete switch then you would change your USB card to index 0 and restart Als which would make the USB card the default since card 0 is always the default for Alsa. On the other hand, if you wanted to just leave the onboard card as default and send audio from a specif

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Grant
> Grant, >If you want to do a complete switch then you would change your USB > card to index 0 and restart Als which would make the USB card the > default since card 0 is always the default for Alsa. On the other > hand, if you wanted to just leave the onboard card as default and send > aud

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Interrogate network for devices

2008-02-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It turned out to be a simple matter of cycling the various > > > modem/router PC s in the right order. Once I got the help desk it > > > took about 2 minutes to get things resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grant, > >If you want to do a complete switch then you would change your USB > > card to index 0 and restart Als which would make the USB card the > > default since card 0 is always the default for Alsa. On the other >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

2008-02-24 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. > Is > > > > > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? > Is > > > > > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Since nobody seems to have an idea, maybe someone can tell me how I > allow processes with real-time priority (nice -n -20) to be started > by an ordinary user? Of course I'm aware of sudo but I don't want a > simple media encoder to have super-