Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

2012-11-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-11-07 01:48, schrieb Michael Orlitzky:

> I tried too. It doesn't work. I guess this is our best hope?
> 
>   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546932

oh my ;)

Is it not working at all or is only the import problematic?
In my tests with much less data I had the impression that it works as
soon as the bulk of adresses is in there.




[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-06 Thread walt

On 11/06/2012 04:18 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

Hello

For everything there is a first time.  So after years of coping by myself,
this is the first time I need an advice on a shared libary that can't be
found.  My problem:

$ ams
ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

I ran revdep-rebuild -pvi twice, the result was that only ams needs to be
rebuilt.  So I did it.  But because it didn't solve the problem, I ran revdep
again with the same outcome,


My theory is that ams is linked to some library that is still linked to the
missing one, i.e. ams has an indirect dependency through an old library that
needs to be rebuilt --but-- for some reason revdep is not finding it. (Don't
ask me why ;)

I highly recommend the lddtree utility for tracking down indirect dependency
like that.  It is part of app-misc/pax-utils, which includes other interesting
utilities that I don't yet know how to use.

Even if it doesn't find your problem it's still worth every penny you pay
for it :)



Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

2012-11-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/06/2012 05:10 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> Does anyone of you use davical with thunderbird?
> 
> Especially the carddav part with those sogo-connector/integrator addons?
> 
> I try to move around 600 adresses in there and it always somehow stalls
> or shows incorrect numbers.
> 
> I read the wikipage at
> 
> http://wiki.davical.org/w/CardDAV/Clients
> 
> and also tried that mentioned setting ... no success.
> 
> Maybe some other gentoo user here already found the issue.
> 

I tried too. It doesn't work. I guess this is our best hope?

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546932




[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello

For everything there is a first time.  So after years of coping by myself,
this is the first time I need an advice on a shared libary that can't be
found.  My problem:

$ ams
ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

I ran revdep-rebuild -pvi twice, the result was that only ams needs to be
rebuilt.  So I did it.  But because it didn't solve the problem, I ran revdep
again with the same outcome, so I built ams again.  Next I did
$ qdepends libclalsadrv
The only returned packages was alsa-lib, so I did
$ emerge alsa-lib ams

Next I looked at the binary, and indeed it contains the string 
libclalsadrv.so.1.
But right before that, it mentions jack, so I also rebuilt jack (hope dies
last).  But neither helped.

So, please help me remove the tomatoes from my eyes---what am I missing here?


Some background info:
$ eix -e -c ams -o libclalsadrv -o alsa-lib | sed 's_:.*__g'
[I] media-libs/alsa-lib (1.0.25-r1@07.11.2012)
[I] media-libs/libclalsadrv (1.2.2@07.11.2012)
[I] media-sound/ams (2.0.1@07.11.2012)

$ qlist libclalsadrv
/usr/share/doc/libclalsadrv-1.2.2/AUTHORS.bz2
/usr/include/clalsadrv.h
/usr/lib64/libclalsadrv.so
/usr/lib64/libclalsadrv.so.1.2.2

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel configuration management

2012-11-06 Thread covici
Matthias-Christian Ott  wrote:

> I'm planning to migrate several computers to Gentoo. At the moment I'm
> running two machines with ad-hoc kernel configurations based on the
> kernel configuration from the installation CD (which was created for
> 2.6.26). In order to keep the maintenance effort for the new machines
> low, I would like to have a unified/baseline kernel configuration with
> minor adjustments for some machines.
> 
> I have been thinking about this for several weeks now and came to the
> conclusion, that there are two sub-problems: Creating a universal kernel
> configuration and merging and maintaining specific configurations with
> the baseline configuration.
> 
> The second problem can be solved by simple concatenation and/or
> defconfigman, kccmp and make silentoldconfig. OpenWRT does this pretty
> much the same way.
> 
> Creating the baseline configuration is much harder. So far I tried make
> defconfig, the installation CD configuration and kernel-seeds.org. None
> really satisfied my requirements and often resulted in ad-hoc changes
> when I simply went through a compile and reboot cycle until everything
> worked. I had a look at policies of other GNU/Linux distributions [1,2]
> and found that I need to develop or adopt a policy for my systems (the
> Ubuntu "modular where possible" policy seems reasonable to me and
> probably makes the curent ad-hoc configuration unnecessary). I also
> thought about reusing kernel configurations from other distributions,
> but have some doubts about kernel version mismatches (i.e. the kernel
> versions of Gentoo and the other distribution differ) and about
> unintended implications of kernel options that I don't fully understand.
> 
> The mailing list archives show that this topic has been partly discussed
> before (especially whether Gentoo should have a default kernel
> configuration like other distributions), so I don't want to start a
> lengthy discussion about this here. I'm more interested in what other
> people do for larger deployments/installations on heterogeneous hardware.

Well, I have most things in modules and a lot of them, I don't have the
hardware for, but it was very handy when I was able to take my configs
over to a vm from regular hardware and it booted up right away.  I am
also using an initrd.

HOpe that helps.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] Measuring USB "packet loss"

2012-11-06 Thread James Cloos
> "CS" == Chris Stankevitz  writes:

CS> c) Can you recommend somewhere for me to ask this question where it
CS> can be answered?

I'd try one of:

linux-...@vger.kernel.org
libusb-de...@lists.sourceforge.net
libusbx-de...@lists.sourceforge.net

They are on gmane.org as:

gmane.linux.usb.general
gmane.comp.lib.libusb.devel.general
gmane.comp.lib.libusbx.devel

-JimC
-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel configuration management

2012-11-06 Thread fpemud
On 11/07/2012 05:27 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> I'm planning to migrate several computers to Gentoo. At the moment I'm
> running two machines with ad-hoc kernel configurations based on the
> kernel configuration from the installation CD (which was created for
> 2.6.26). In order to keep the maintenance effort for the new machines
> low, I would like to have a unified/baseline kernel configuration with
> minor adjustments for some machines.
>
> I have been thinking about this for several weeks now and came to the
> conclusion, that there are two sub-problems: Creating a universal kernel
> configuration and merging and maintaining specific configurations with
> the baseline configuration.
>
> The second problem can be solved by simple concatenation and/or
> defconfigman, kccmp and make silentoldconfig. OpenWRT does this pretty
> much the same way.
>
> Creating the baseline configuration is much harder. So far I tried make
> defconfig, the installation CD configuration and kernel-seeds.org. None
> really satisfied my requirements and often resulted in ad-hoc changes
> when I simply went through a compile and reboot cycle until everything
> worked. I had a look at policies of other GNU/Linux distributions [1,2]
> and found that I need to develop or adopt a policy for my systems (the
> Ubuntu "modular where possible" policy seems reasonable to me and
> probably makes the curent ad-hoc configuration unnecessary). I also
> thought about reusing kernel configurations from other distributions,
> but have some doubts about kernel version mismatches (i.e. the kernel
> versions of Gentoo and the other distribution differ) and about
> unintended implications of kernel options that I don't fully understand.
>
> The mailing list archives show that this topic has been partly discussed
> before (especially whether Gentoo should have a default kernel
> configuration like other distributions), so I don't want to start a
> lengthy discussion about this here. I'm more interested in what other
> people do for larger deployments/installations on heterogeneous hardware.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias-Christian
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/KernelConfig
> [2] https://wiki.linaro.org/KernelConfigPolicyDraft
>
>

I'm not an enterprise user, I use gentoo at home.
I have 4 computers to maintain, 2 workstations, 1 notebook, 1 htpc

I'm encountering the same problem.
all the machine have similar but different config (including the kernel
config).
remember and sync them costs me some time.
there's some tool to COPY config between machines, but none can deal
with SIMILARITY smoothly.

for the kernel config, I'm starting to write a
policy-based-dot-config-auto-generating tool.
the policy is like:
10-no-debug: Select "n" for any debug item, but with some exceptions
10-no-deprecate: Select n for any deprecated item, with exceptions
10-no-experimental: Select n for any experimental item, with exceptions
40-no-drv-rare: Select n for some rare driver i will never use
40-no-drv-with-deep-selects: select n for some driver that has too deep
selets
50-all-net: select all the item in "Network support"
60-mod-all-drv: select m for all the drivers, like ubuntu
70-yes-key-items: select y for some key items

every policy comprises code(python?) and data.
I think every user has to write his own policy, which means writing some
script, more work than writing config file, really.

For me, I will make all my machines share the same policy code, but have
different policy data.
Sync only the policy data is easier and clearer.

For you, I think the policy structure could be "policy code" + "global
policy data" + "adjustment policy data".
And another pro is you don't need to inspect the "unified/baseline
kernel configuration" between kernel version updates.

I'm starting to write a tool syncing other cfg between my machines
either, it's another topic.

relative links (this project really just starts):
https://github.com/fpemud/fpemud-buildkernel
https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-933726-highlight-fpemud.html


[gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

2012-11-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger

Does anyone of you use davical with thunderbird?

Especially the carddav part with those sogo-connector/integrator addons?

I try to move around 600 adresses in there and it always somehow stalls
or shows incorrect numbers.

I read the wikipage at

http://wiki.davical.org/w/CardDAV/Clients

and also tried that mentioned setting ... no success.

Maybe some other gentoo user here already found the issue.

Thanks, Stefan



[gentoo-user] Kernel configuration management

2012-11-06 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
I'm planning to migrate several computers to Gentoo. At the moment I'm
running two machines with ad-hoc kernel configurations based on the
kernel configuration from the installation CD (which was created for
2.6.26). In order to keep the maintenance effort for the new machines
low, I would like to have a unified/baseline kernel configuration with
minor adjustments for some machines.

I have been thinking about this for several weeks now and came to the
conclusion, that there are two sub-problems: Creating a universal kernel
configuration and merging and maintaining specific configurations with
the baseline configuration.

The second problem can be solved by simple concatenation and/or
defconfigman, kccmp and make silentoldconfig. OpenWRT does this pretty
much the same way.

Creating the baseline configuration is much harder. So far I tried make
defconfig, the installation CD configuration and kernel-seeds.org. None
really satisfied my requirements and often resulted in ad-hoc changes
when I simply went through a compile and reboot cycle until everything
worked. I had a look at policies of other GNU/Linux distributions [1,2]
and found that I need to develop or adopt a policy for my systems (the
Ubuntu "modular where possible" policy seems reasonable to me and
probably makes the curent ad-hoc configuration unnecessary). I also
thought about reusing kernel configurations from other distributions,
but have some doubts about kernel version mismatches (i.e. the kernel
versions of Gentoo and the other distribution differ) and about
unintended implications of kernel options that I don't fully understand.

The mailing list archives show that this topic has been partly discussed
before (especially whether Gentoo should have a default kernel
configuration like other distributions), so I don't want to start a
lengthy discussion about this here. I'm more interested in what other
people do for larger deployments/installations on heterogeneous hardware.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/KernelConfig
[2] https://wiki.linaro.org/KernelConfigPolicyDraft



[gentoo-user] Measuring USB "packet loss"

2012-11-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello,

Some background: I'm running an experiment that is sensitive to USB
latency of a few milliseconds.  During a typical overnight run I
encounter a handful such "latency events" and I am trying to
understand why they happen.  If you can recommend kernel
settings/hacks that will decrease USB latency, please share!

===

Q: How can I retrieve a count of USB transmissions that failed or were
retransmitted? (analogous to ifconfig on ethernet)

Regarding this question:

a) Can you answer it?

b) Can you recommend something I can read that will answer it?

c) Can you recommend somewhere for me to ask this question where it
can be answered?

===

Thank you!

Chris



[gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-06, cov...@ccs.covici.com  wrote:

>> Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that
>> made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they
>> had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control
>> key).  I think got bought by Northgate, and then went out of business
>> back when all the other smaller clone manufactures...
>
> Take a look at a company called Ergonomic Resources -- sorry I no longer
> have the URL, but they make a similar keyboard which has actual
> switches! etc.  I  do have the name -- Avant keyboard.

AFAICT, the company that used to make the "Avant" Omnikey clones was
Creative Vision Technologies, and they seem to have gone out of around
2009.  There are reviews of the Avant keyboards from a few years ago
(that mention the FCC ID of the keyboards contains the string
'omnikey'). But, nobody sells the avant keyboards, and CVT seems to be
gone.

-- 
Grant Edwards   grant.b.edwardsYow! Am I SHOPLIFTING?
  at   
  gmail.com




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread covici
Grant Edwards  wrote:

> On 2012-11-06, Alan McKinnon  wrote:
> 
> >> The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets
> >> used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it. 
> >> It's an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing.
> >
> > That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO
> >
> > You know you can still buy those?
> 
> Yea, Unicomp bought the rights and sells them for $80:
> 
>http://www.pckeyboard.com/
> 
> I was thrilled when I saw they offered a "spacesaver M" model.  I
> thought it was going to be a clone of the IBM 84-key model M "space
> saver" that IBM sold back in 87-89.
> 
> Nope.  It's the same desk-hogging size as a regular M -- not really
> sure where the "space saving" comes from.
> 
> So now I'm really torn between the key-action of the M and the smaller
> size and built-in pointer of the IBM spacesaver II.
> 
> Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that
> made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they
> had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control
> key).  I think got bought by Northgate, and then went out of business
> back when all the other smaller clone manufactures...

Take a look at a company called Ergonomic Resources -- sorry I no longer
have the URL, but they make a similar keyboard which has actual
switches! etc.  I  do have the name -- Avant keyboard.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



[gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-06, Alan McKinnon  wrote:

>> The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets
>> used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it. 
>> It's an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing.
>
> That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO
>
> You know you can still buy those?

Yea, Unicomp bought the rights and sells them for $80:

   http://www.pckeyboard.com/

I was thrilled when I saw they offered a "spacesaver M" model.  I
thought it was going to be a clone of the IBM 84-key model M "space
saver" that IBM sold back in 87-89.

Nope.  It's the same desk-hogging size as a regular M -- not really
sure where the "space saving" comes from.

So now I'm really torn between the key-action of the M and the smaller
size and built-in pointer of the IBM spacesaver II.

Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that
made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they
had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control
key).  I think got bought by Northgate, and then went out of business
back when all the other smaller clone manufactures...

-- 
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  at   CASH FLOW?
  gmail.com




Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice

2012-11-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/06/2012 09:29 AM, Dale wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm medicated so pardon me if I get silly.  What is the BEST cron
> to use?  I'm using vixie-cron since that is what was in the handbook
> during my install.  Let's not get into how long ago that was.  lol  So,
> what cron has . . . well. . . the least issues and is more developed? 
> 
> Oh, would I need to reemerge anything to get the stuff updated?  Things
> like logrotate and such?  I also couldn't find any USE flags for it
> either.  I know these use cron:
> 

I use vixie-cron, its most important feature being that it scans
/etc/crontab automatically so I don't have to remember to run `crontab
/etc/crontab` every time I make a change to it.

Fcron was aimed at being a vixie-cron replacement, but it doesn't
automatically scan /etc/crontab. It does allow you to run missed jobs,
though. Personally, if I want my cron jobs to run, I don't turn the
machine off.

Dcron is also probably also pretty good, since it was written by Matt
Dillon (of Dragonfly BSD fame).

If you switch away from vixie-cron, you might need to run `crontab
/etc/crontab` once unless the ebuild does it for you. Otherwise, all the
cron daemon does is invoke the run-crons script which does the real work.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:06:37 + (UTC)
Grant Edwards  wrote:

> On 2012-11-05, Alan McKinnon  wrote:
> 
> > and my prized possession: a Dell-branded Model-M craftily lifted
> > out of the corner where it was hiding and no-one knew what it even
> > was :-)
> 
> Microsoft can't touch IBM when it comes to quality keyboards.
> 
> The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets
> used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it.  It's
> an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing.

That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO

You know you can still buy those?
Some crowd bought the entire manufacturing rights to the Model M and
set up shop making them for sale. Same keyboard, some models have
electronic updates (like USB), same brilliant key action, same ability
to be used as a lethal weapon (club) or as a cricket bat ;-)

Cost is around $100 each last time I looked.





> 
> I'm also very fond the IBM "space saver" keyaboard with the built in
> "eraser nub" mouse keys and _without_ the waste-of-space numeric
> keypad.  I'm an engineer, not a checkout clerk at a grocery store...
> 
> I _really_ wanted to like my happy hacker keyboard, but the key action
> was just too stiff and vague.
> 



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com




Re: [gentoo-user] flaggie

2012-11-06 Thread Dale
Silvio Siefke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:50:05 -0600
> Dale  wrote:
>
>> Short for "hope that helps". 
>>
>> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Internet_slang#H
>
> I am a long time on the Internet, but the slang I missed.
> Today is the day not so boring.
>
>
> :)
> Greetings 
> Silvio
>
>


Sometimes I have to go check that page too.  I have it bookmarked. 
There are some weird ones that just don't make sense until I look them
up.  lol 

GTH.  Glad to help.  ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how 
you interpreted my words!




Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice

2012-11-06 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 06:24 AM, Michael George wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote:
   Local  time changes of less than three hours, such as those
caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled
specially.  This only applies to jobs that run at a  specific
time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one
hour.  Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally.

 ...

 So it seems that DST changes are accommodated.  Is there some
 side-effect of the cron. method of scheduling tasks that I'm
 overlooking?

>>> The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the
>>> special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever:
>>>
>>>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777
>> I'm surprised that hasn't been fixed by now.  Looking at the cron guide
>> (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777), is bcron subject to the
>> same problem because the run-crons script is in cronbase and not part of
>> the cron daemon?
>>
> I think all of them are, out-of-the-box. I just commented on the bug. I
> think the sensible thing to do is delete the time-management code in the
> run-crons script. It's only there as a half-assed attempt to run your
> missed jobs after a reboot, which fcron (and maybe others) does properly.
>
> If you don't want to mess with run-crons, you could just replace the
> stuff in /etc/crontab. All you really need is one command per line that
> does (untested),
>
>   find "/etc/cron.${PERIOD}" -type f -executable -exec bash '{}' \;
>
>

Well, I'm medicated so pardon me if I get silly.  What is the BEST cron
to use?  I'm using vixie-cron since that is what was in the handbook
during my install.  Let's not get into how long ago that was.  lol  So,
what cron has . . . well. . . the least issues and is more developed? 

Oh, would I need to reemerge anything to get the stuff updated?  Things
like logrotate and such?  I also couldn't find any USE flags for it
either.  I know these use cron:

root@fireball / # ls -R /etc/cron*
/etc/cron.deny  /etc/crontab

/etc/cron.d:

/etc/cron.daily:
hplip_cron  logrotate.cron  makewhatis  mlocate

/etc/cron.hourly:

/etc/cron.monthly:

/etc/cron.weekly:
pfl
root@fireball / #

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how 
you interpreted my words!




[gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-05, Alan McKinnon  wrote:

> and my prized possession: a Dell-branded Model-M craftily lifted out of
> the corner where it was hiding and no-one knew what it even was :-)

Microsoft can't touch IBM when it comes to quality keyboards.

The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets
used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it.  It's
an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing.

I'm also very fond the IBM "space saver" keyaboard with the built in
"eraser nub" mouse keys and _without_ the waste-of-space numeric
keypad.  I'm an engineer, not a checkout clerk at a grocery store...

I _really_ wanted to like my happy hacker keyboard, but the key action
was just too stiff and vague.

-- 
Grant Edwards   grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm DESPONDENT ... I
  at   hope there's something
  gmail.comDEEP-FRIED under this
   miniature DOMED STADIUM ...




Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice

2012-11-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/06/2012 06:24 AM, Michael George wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote:
>>>   Local  time changes of less than three hours, such as those
>>> caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled
>>> specially.  This only applies to jobs that run at a  specific
>>> time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one
>>> hour.  Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> So it seems that DST changes are accommodated.  Is there some
>>> side-effect of the cron. method of scheduling tasks that I'm
>>> overlooking?
>>>
>>
>> The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the
>> special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever:
>>
>>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777
> 
> I'm surprised that hasn't been fixed by now.  Looking at the cron guide
> (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777), is bcron subject to the
> same problem because the run-crons script is in cronbase and not part of
> the cron daemon?
> 

I think all of them are, out-of-the-box. I just commented on the bug. I
think the sensible thing to do is delete the time-management code in the
run-crons script. It's only there as a half-assed attempt to run your
missed jobs after a reboot, which fcron (and maybe others) does properly.

If you don't want to mess with run-crons, you could just replace the
stuff in /etc/crontab. All you really need is one command per line that
does (untested),

  find "/etc/cron.${PERIOD}" -type f -executable -exec bash '{}' \;



Re: [gentoo-user] flaggie

2012-11-06 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello,

On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:50:05 -0600
Dale  wrote:

> Short for "hope that helps". 
> 
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Internet_slang#H


I am a long time on the Internet, but the slang I missed.
Today is the day not so boring.


:)
Greetings 
Silvio



Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice

2012-11-06 Thread Michael George
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote:
> >   Local  time changes of less than three hours, such as those
> > caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled
> > specially.  This only applies to jobs that run at a  specific
> > time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one
> > hour.  Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > So it seems that DST changes are accommodated.  Is there some
> > side-effect of the cron. method of scheduling tasks that I'm
> > overlooking?
> > 
> 
> The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the
> special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever:
> 
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777

I'm surprised that hasn't been fixed by now.  Looking at the cron guide
(https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777), is bcron subject to the
same problem because the run-crons script is in cronbase and not part of
the cron daemon?

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-M

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-Ovid