Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]
On Monday 21 December 2009 05:52:55 Dale wrote:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
either size or age?
I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
rotate on more than one condition.
I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
than 12 rotations for whatever reason.
/var/log/debug.log {
create 0600 reader wheel
weekly || size=7000k
rotate 12
postrotate
/etc/init.d/rsyslog reload /dev/null 21 || true
endscript
}
Is clearly NOT the right way to go.
Any know how to do it?
man logrotate has a few examples that may help. Here is one.
/var/log/httpd/access.log /var/log/httpd/error.log {
rotate 5
mail w...@my.org
size 100k
sharedscripts
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
endscript
}
I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.
That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to 100k.
The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size, or every
week, whichever comes first.
Logrotate does not support that feature.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge- how to find out
Hi, I'd like to change the ebuild for media-gfx/keyjnote to that of the successor http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately, I cannot find out the SRC_URI for the ebuild (to be created in my overlay tree). Does anybody know to find out how to do this. (I have seen that SRC_URI is quite different for different projects hosted by Sourceforge.) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
[gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails
'Sup Gentoo? I'm working on a daily cron job to email me daily. It happens to be details of new shows available for download on the BBC's iPlayer website. OMG! get_iplayer rocks! If I have the following in my crontab: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z Daily Summary 21 | grep -v ^Added Then the email's subject is ugly. A bit of Googling [1] shows me that: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z Daily Summary 21 | grep -v ^Added | mailx -s iPlayer Daily Summary stroller which gives a neater subject line. However the from: address is strol...@host.long.domain, which I feel is a little untidy. It's probably OCD of me to care, but I would prefer the mails to appear in my mail client as from iPlayer. Can anyone suggest a better solution than writing a wrapper script as described at: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org/msg223401.html please? This is a great answer, but it means I have extra wrapper scripts cluttering up my system, and since I will probably want multiple summaries (say weekly reports of drama and comedy categories, delivered on different days) it would mean I need either multiple wrapper scripts, or a single much more complicated one. I am probably making my life complicated just for the pernicketyness of it, but any suggestions gratefully received. Stroller. [1] http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1261393668323+28353475threadId=886847
Re: [gentoo-user] SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge- how to find out
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz works for me: amit0 # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz --2009-12-21 14:07:18-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz [following] --2009-12-21 14:07:19-- http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/impressive/Impressive/0.10.2/Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz Resolving garr.dl.sourceforge.net... 193.206.140.34 Connecting to garr.dl.sourceforge.net|193.206.140.34|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 137193 (134K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz' 100%[=] 137,193 258K/s in 0.5s 2009-12-21 14:07:20 (258 KB/s) - `Impressive-0.10.2.tar.gz' saved [137193/137193] Though I've no experience with writing any official portage ebuild that d/l from sourceforge. Amit Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to change the ebuild for media-gfx/keyjnote to that of the successor http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately, I cannot find out the SRC_URI for the ebuild (to be created in my overlay tree). Does anybody know to find out how to do this. (I have seen that SRC_URI is quite different for different projects hosted by Sourceforge.) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Re: SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge- how to find out
On 12/21/2009 01:08 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to change the ebuild for media-gfx/keyjnote
to that of the successor
http://impressive.sourceforge.net/
Unfortunately, I cannot find out the SRC_URI for the ebuild (to be
created in my overlay tree).
Does anybody know to find out how to do this.
(I have seen that SRC_URI is quite different for different
projects hosted by Sourceforge.)
If you change the name of the ebuild to reflect the new name of the
project, it will change automatically. If you want to keep the ebuild
name, you need to use:
mirror://sourceforge/impressive/Impressive-${PV}.tar.gz
This however will still keep the version number of the ebuild.
The general form of sourceforge SRC_URIs is:
mirror://sourceforge/projectname/filename
Since projectname is usually the same as the ebuild name, you use ${PN}.
[gentoo-user] Re: [lame logrotate Q]
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue. That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to 100k. The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size, or every week, whichever comes first. Logrotate does not support that feature. Thanks Alan... saved me dicking around with it endlessly.
[gentoo-user] Re: Changing subject and from lines of cron emails
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: However the from: address is strol...@host.long.domain, which I feel is a little untidy. Hopefully you use sendmail as mta. If so either, Masquerading or generics table can rewrite in or out going mail far as from field. I'm familiar only with sendmail and masquerading. Sendmail can be made to masquerade as a certain doemain fairly painlessly... If interersted I can provide details.
[gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)
Hi list,
I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
emerge -DuN world
Calculating dependencies... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99.
(dependency required by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 [installed])
(dependency required by world [argument])
And eix tells me:
eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
[D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
[m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
[m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
[m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
Installed versions: 71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
and:
eix x11-base/xorg-server
[I] x11-base/xorg-server
Available versions: 1.5.3-r6 1.6.3.901-r2 1.6.5-r1 ~1.7.3
~1.7.3.901 ~1.7.3.901-r1 {3dfx debug dmx hal input_devices_acecad
input_devices_aiptek input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics
input_devices_evdev input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen
input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_mutouch input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics
input_devices_tslib input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse
input_devices_void input_devices_wacom ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl
tslib video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ast video_cards_chips
video_cards_cirrus video_cards_dummy video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_geode video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740
video_cards_impact video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga
video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon
video_cards_radeonhd video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3
video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion
video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_sunbw2
video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6
video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx
video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng
video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_via video_cards_virtualbox
video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo video_cards_xgi xorg}
Installed versions: 1.6.5-r1(09:35:40 12.12.2009)(hal nptl sdl
xorg -debug -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -tslib)
Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: X.Org X servers
As descriped by the user guid I'm not doing wrong:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
In /etc/portage/package.mask i added:
...
=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.28
=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-87.00
...
In /etc/portage/package.keywords I added:
...
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86
...
So for me it looks like the xorg server which is required by my
nvidia-card (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11) isn't longer in the
portage-tree...
Don't know what to do now - do I need to buy a newer graphiccard? :O ;)
Hopefully not...
cheers Chris
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
Is there a quick way to install a bootloader manually, so I can see if that works? I tried to adapt this but couldn't come up with a procedure I though would be correct: Don't know about the distro you were trying to install, but when I need a bootable USB disk with utils, I usually go with System Rescue CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick Great success! Thank you for that link. Here's what I needed to do: 'cfdisk /dev/sdb' and select type LBA FAT32 'mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n DSLinux /dev/sdb1' 'dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb' 'sync' Maybe that dd would have been sufficient, I'm not sure. I was using ext3 before. New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Ronan Mainbourg ronan.mainbo...@gmail.com wrote: Download work great when I type directly: puf http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' Any help please ? Like I said for me it fails when run as root. What happens if you run it as root/sudo?
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:01:38AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of supporting a wider array of hardware. Cheers, W -- The problem is that the LHC has caused the production of strange moron particles, which seem to bump into normal people and turn them into more strange morons. The collective outgassing of stupidity causes a supernova brain implosion. ~David Gerard (12369) /. cid:25200015 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1109 days, 17:17
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:01:38AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of supporting a wider array of hardware. Cheers, W I'm not sure if he is wanting to just use this to wipe the drive and then be done with it or what but couldn't he just put the Gentoo CD image on the stick and boot that up? Would that work? It has the dd command I think and would most likely recognize his hardware as well. Just thinking. I been into a lot lately and only vaguely recall the purpose of this. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. DSLinux couldn't find my HD because it needs the sata boot parameter explicitly passed. However, after doing that it crashes while loading the sata module. This is discussed online with no solution presented. If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of supporting a wider array of hardware. The problem with those two is I need something that can install to the HD after wiping it. I also need something that can install on a 512MB USB key since my 8GB key does not seem to be bootable. DSLinux was a flop as described above, so I'm downloading Puppy Linux now. It's about 100MB, and it has the Puppy Universal Installer which should install to my HD. Hopefully it fares better with my SATA hardware than DSLinux did. Also, in case it helps anyone in the future, unetbootin has a very annoying habit of failing to download the selected ISO, returning no error, and in fact reporting installation success. The symptom of this is a boot menu with only Default available, which goes nowhere. The solution is to download the ISO manually and point unetbootin to it. I'll report back with Puppy Linux results. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of supporting a wider array of hardware. Cheers, W I'm not sure if he is wanting to just use this to wipe the drive and then be done with it or what but couldn't he just put the Gentoo CD image on the stick and boot that up? Would that work? It has the dd command I think and would most likely recognize his hardware as well. The problem with that is there doesn't seem to be a Gentoo ISO which will fit on a 512MB USB key. I tried to make it work once and failed. The other thing is going through the entire Gentoo installation just to sell the laptop. I'm not sure if the graphical installer is working these days. - Grant
[gentoo-user] compiz and intel driver
Hi all. I'm reading http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Compiz-Fusion and I'd like to configure an intel graph card and I use xfce. it says: Intel GMA Intel GMA PC owners should start compiz with some more parameters (INTEL_BATCH LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT --indirect-rendering) set before starting compiz: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp But where do I have to set those params? is /home/username/.start-compiz the right place? something like: #!/bin/bash export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 export INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --sm-disable ccp emerald --replace TIA, Arnau
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)
On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Christian Könitzer wrote: Hi list, I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this: emerge -DuN world Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99. (dependency required by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 [installed]) Hm. I used that driver until very recently, when my brother-in-law upgraded his video card and gave the old one for free. His timing is not usually that good. :o) You can still use the nv driver, if that's adequate for your needs. If the nv driver isn't good enough, then I'd say it's time upgrade your video card after all these years. I never really noticed any difference between the nvidia and nv drivers when I still used the old TNT card.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)
On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
Hi list,
I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
emerge -DuN world
Calculating dependencies... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99.
(dependency required by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 [installed])
(dependency required by world [argument])
And eix tells me:
eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
[D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
[m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
[m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
[m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
Installed versions: 71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in
profiles/package.mask:
# Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
# with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
# available versions in the tree
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0
You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay
somewhere, or search the gentoo attic
You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I
can never remember...
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:42:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to 100k. The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size, or every week, whichever comes first. Logrotate does not support that feature. What happens if you set up two separate rules, one to rotate at 100K and one at 7 days? -- Neil Bothwick Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:31:31 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. DS = Damn Small, not Dual Screen. I don't know if anyone has installed Gentoo on the DS you were thinking of ;-) -- Neil Bothwick He who laughs last thinks slowest! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
Hi list,
I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
emerge -DuN world
Calculating dependencies... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99.
(dependency required by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 [installed])
(dependency required by world [argument])
And eix tells me:
eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
[D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
[m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
[m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
[m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
Installed versions: 71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
Homepage:http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in
profiles/package.mask:
# Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
# with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
# available versions in the tree
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0
You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay
somewhere, or search the gentoo attic
You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I
can never remember...
Is this it?
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/
Dale
:-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Changing subject and from lines of cron emails
On 12/21/2009 03:35 AM, Stroller wrote: OMG! get_iplayer rocks! Very cool, thanks. I can't answer your question, but I'm listening to A Celtic Heartbeat from Radio Wales just 15 minutes after I saw this, so thanks for the tip and happy holidays :o)
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
Grant wrote: New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of supporting a wider array of hardware. Cheers, W I'm not sure if he is wanting to just use this to wipe the drive and then be done with it or what but couldn't he just put the Gentoo CD image on the stick and boot that up? Would that work? It has the dd command I think and would most likely recognize his hardware as well. The problem with that is there doesn't seem to be a Gentoo ISO which will fit on a 512MB USB key. I tried to make it work once and failed. The other thing is going through the entire Gentoo installation just to sell the laptop. I'm not sure if the graphical installer is working these days. - Grant Oh, I was thinking about the 8Gb or whatever size it was. Isn't there a old CD that didn't have a full blown setup that was sort of small? I found this: ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/releases/x86/2008.0/installcd It's a small one but a bit outdated. Of course, you don't want to install from that I guess so it may not help any. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails
On Monday 21 December 2009, Stroller wrote: A bit of Googling [1] shows me that: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z Daily Summary 21 | grep -v ^Added | mailx -s iPlayer Daily Summary stroller which gives a neater subject line. However the from: address is strol...@host.long.domain, which I feel is a little untidy. It's probably OCD of me to care, but I would prefer the mails to appear in my mail client as from iPlayer. Some (don't know about gentoo's) versions of the mail command have a -r switch that lets you specify the from address. In any case, if, instead of mail/mailx, you use a sendmail-compatible agent like ssmtp, there you'll definitely have a -r option.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. I'll try another distro on the USB stick. DSLinux couldn't find my HD because it needs the sata boot parameter explicitly passed. However, after doing that it crashes while loading the sata module. This is discussed online with no solution presented. If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable hardware. Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of supporting a wider array of hardware. The problem with those two is I need something that can install to the HD after wiping it. I also need something that can install on a 512MB USB key since my 8GB key does not seem to be bootable. DSLinux was a flop as described above, so I'm downloading Puppy Linux now. It's about 100MB, and it has the Puppy Universal Installer which should install to my HD. Hopefully it fares better with my SATA hardware than DSLinux did. Also, in case it helps anyone in the future, unetbootin has a very annoying habit of failing to download the selected ISO, returning no error, and in fact reporting installation success. The symptom of this is a boot menu with only Default available, which goes nowhere. The solution is to download the ISO manually and point unetbootin to it. I'll report back with Puppy Linux results. Puppy Linux has wiped the HD and installed to /dev/sda3, but I can't get it to install GRUB to /dev/sda1. I get: I couldn't mount '/dev/sda1' read-write! Working on it - Grant
[gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.
Hi folks, Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too. The guide I found is here: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ I'm going to try to do this myself but as most of you know, it takes me a bit to grasp things. I may be back for advice on this as well. Who knows, maybe one day I can be a dev. LOL Well, most likely not really but anyway. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.
I probably didn't get the point, but what about a simple tar? #! /bin/bash tar -cjvpf /tmp/home.tbz /home mv /tmp/home.tbz /some/where/else unless you're thinking on incremental back up, and more sophisticated things. Francisco On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too. The guide I found is here: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ I'm going to try to do this myself but as most of you know, it takes me a bit to grasp things. I may be back for advice on this as well. Who knows, maybe one day I can be a dev. LOL Well, most likely not really but anyway. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Re: [gentoo-user] off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)
At Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:04:12 -0800 John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the physical buttons. For example moving the wheel to the left reports button press 13 button press 6 button release 6 button release 13 Similar results for the many other buttons on the beast. Is this what the device actually does or does it signify a faulty X setup on my part? I have the evdev driver in my kernel. I use xorg.conf and have Section InputDevice Identifier Logitech MX1000 Driver evdev Option Device /dev/input/event2 EndSection gottl...@allan /dev/input/by-id $ ls -l /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-event-mouse lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 15 11:20 /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-event-mouse - ../event2 As I recall, the fix for this problem is a sys-adm/lomoco. Logitech mice actually produce those double events... lomoco allows you tell the mouse to stop. I've got a udev rule for it, I think lomoco put it there, but I've had logitech MX mice for years and lomoco is a fork of a fork and may no longer contain the udev script. You also might look into imwheel from the Mandrake distrabution as it contains patches to deal with more than 10 buttons. Magnificent!! I did really think the mouse could be sending button events for two different logical buttons when only one physical button was pushed. That got me looking at xorg.conf to see where I screwed up. But, as you said, the MX mice do send events for two buttons. As you also said lomoco fixes it. sudo lomoco --nosms is now in my startup script. Thank you very much ! allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.
Francisco Ares wrote: I probably didn't get the point, but what about a simple tar? #! /bin/bash tar -cjvpf /tmp/home.tbz /home mv /tmp/home.tbz /some/where/else unless you're thinking on incremental back up, and more sophisticated things. Francisco Well, I want to start off making a small script. Maybe get a little more complicated later on. I do want to do incremental backups, at least at first. I may later on use tar and something to keep say two copies and then delete the older ones. Just trying to get my feet wet here. Trying to be simple at first and go from there. If I try to cram to much in my head at one time, I get brain lock. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Francisco Ares wrote: I probably didn't get the point, but what about a simple tar? #! /bin/bash tar -cjvpf /tmp/home.tbz /home mv /tmp/home.tbz /some/where/else unless you're thinking on incremental back up, and more sophisticated things. Francisco Well, I want to start off making a small script. Maybe get a little more complicated later on. I do want to do incremental backups, at least at first. I may later on use tar and something to keep say two copies and then delete the older ones. Just trying to get my feet wet here. Trying to be simple at first and go from there. If I try to cram to much in my head at one time, I get brain lock. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) Well, there are a couple of tools to make your script quite simple: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/unison.htm http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7712 http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16061.html http://webtools.live2support.com/linux/rsync.php http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/sync-a-usb-flash-drive-with-hd-folders-possible-522875/ http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/storage/8200-back-up-like-an-expert-with-rsync http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/09/how-to-synchronize-directories-with-rsync/ Hope this helps Francisco -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.
Dale wrote: Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home directory. I use a simple rsync cron job to backup entire servers every hour. Does the job for me. ;) Be lucky, Neil http://www.the-workathome.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget
i always run in root when doing emerge. every thing is ok. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Ronan Mainbourg ronan.mainbo...@gmail.com wrote: Download work great when I type directly: puf http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' Any help please ? Like I said for me it fails when run as root. What happens if you run it as root/sudo? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 04:59:02 Grant wrote: I'll report back with Puppy Linux results. Puppy Linux has wiped the HD and installed to /dev/sda3, but I can't get it to install GRUB to /dev/sda1. I get: I couldn't mount '/dev/sda1' read-write! Working on it You cannot install grub to /dev/sda1 and expect it to work - that is a partition, not a device. Grub goes into the MBR of the device, and the various stage 1.5 and stage 2 support files are put into /boot/grub/. The install app can find those dirs just fine as it is a Linux app running on a full mounted Linux system. But, it has no clue which MBR you want to be used: grub-install /dev/sda If you need grub installed on some other device (not the current machine's own boot drive), then mount that drive's /boot somewhere and do something like this grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/device -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
