[gentoo-user] syslog-ng changed format of config-file
Today after running an update world (which included syslog-ng-3.2 - syslog-ng-3.4), I restarted syslog-ng and got the following two messages: WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in compatibility mode Please update it to use the syslog-ng 3.4 format at your time of convinience, compatibility mode can operate less efficiently in some cases. To upgrade the configuration, please review the warnings about incompatible changes printed by syslog-ng, and once completed change the @version header at the top of the configuration file.; WARNING: global: the default value of log_fifo_size() has changed to 1 in syslog-ng 3.3 to reflect log_iw_size() changes for tcp()/udp() window size changes; I do have some customizations in my syslog-ng.conf so I have not yet installed the quite minimalistic new syslog-ng.conf (._cfg_syslog-ng.conf). Does anyone have a link to some good documentation on how to upgrade a 3.2 configuration to 3.4? Regards, -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** 0x2FB894AD.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng changed format of config-file
On 07/07/2013 10:16, Dan Johansson wrote: Today after running an update world (which included syslog-ng-3.2 - syslog-ng-3.4), I restarted syslog-ng and got the following two messages: WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in compatibility mode Please update it to use the syslog-ng 3.4 format at your time of convinience, compatibility mode can operate less efficiently in some cases. To upgrade the configuration, please review the warnings about incompatible changes printed by syslog-ng, and once completed change the @version header at the top of the configuration file.; WARNING: global: the default value of log_fifo_size() has changed to 1 in syslog-ng 3.3 to reflect log_iw_size() changes for tcp()/udp() window size changes; I do have some customizations in my syslog-ng.conf so I have not yet installed the quite minimalistic new syslog-ng.conf (._cfg_syslog-ng.conf). Does anyone have a link to some good documentation on how to upgrade a 3.2 configuration to 3.4? I haven't found a upgrade guide but the admins guide is very complete: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-ose-3.4-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin/pdf/syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf You could start by looking up your custom settings in the guide tosee if you brought any incompatibilities into play -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had windoze installed on them at all. BTW, I have been known to open those attachments before. I usually open them with kwrite or something and try to see what is human readable in there. Most is machine language but there is usually a small portion that is human readable. They sent it and I'm nosy that way. lol The bad guys go after the low hanging fruit, i.e. the easiest targets. Years ago, it was Internet Explorer. This also included Outlook and Outlook Express, which were glorified IE frontends. There were many drive-by-downloads, thanks to Active-X (aka Active-Hacks). MS has gotten its act together on IE, so the bad guys are now going after other stuff. The other stuff is cross-platform stuff like Java and Javascript and Adobe Acrobat and Flash (known affectionately as Schlockwave Trash). So yes... it can happen here. I've been Java-free for years. I use Noscript and Flashblock on Firefox. I keep Opera around for those sites that don't work on Firefox. I also use mupdf instead of the bloated Acrobat Reader monstrosity. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] Any ideas what could have gone wrong? It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from your attachment. k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is installed. Is cdrecord missing or why did k3b use growisofs? Did you explicitely try cdrecord? Hi, cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for creating the 10G isofs. I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) Alex
Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:55:36 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/05/13 23:36, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600 Joseph wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied /usr/games/bin/scavenger -rwxr-x--- 1 root games 70496 Jul 5 18:39 /usr/games/bin/scavenger -- Joseph User root has permissions rwx. Group games has permissions r-x. Everyone else has no access (permission ---). You're getting Permission denied because you're not running as root and you're not a member of group games. Regards, David Thanks David for pointing it. Your are correct. What was confusing to me is the fact that I logged into the system via ssh to my account and su to use who was in group games but for some reason or another the games would not execute. When I ssh directly to the user account, it worked :-/ Not sure if this was your problem, but since you said you were in the games group to start with... Note that after adding your user to any group, you need to log out and back in for that change to take affect. Existing sessions don't detect it. If you don't want to re-log in, you can sg games to open a new shell in the games group, or probably su -l to yourself as suggested. Cheers, Bryan
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is?
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On 07/07/13 20:07, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? I'm curious why would anybody need one? -- Stop talking and start compiling. Linux user #557897
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: k3b should usew cdrecord instead of growisofs in case that cdrecord is installed. Is cdrecord missing or why did k3b use growisofs? Did you explicitely try cdrecord? cdrecord is installed, I have no idea why k3b chose to use growisofs for creating the 10G isofs. I did not try cdrecord (How can I change which programs k3b uses?) I don't use k3b, so I don't know. My information is from users of cdrtols and from discussions I had with the k3b people. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
[gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays
I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use?
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On 2013-07-07 12:19 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: On 07/07/13 20:07, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? I'm curious why would anybody need one? Obviously you aren't responsible for managing lots of Windows Workstations operated by average Windows users.
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Sunday 07 Jul 2013 17:19:13 the wrote: On 07/07/13 20:07, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? I'm curious why would anybody need one? Because one may need to: 1. Scan MSWindows drives and infected machines. 2. Avoid forwarding viruses and malware in general, to MSWindows users. 3. Check MSWindows executables. 4. Other uses that MSWindows devs/users may know of. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? http://www.eset.com/us/home/whyeset/compare/ -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 01:15:35PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-07 12:19 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: On 07/07/13 20:07, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? I'm curious why would anybody need one? Obviously you aren't responsible for managing lots of Windows Workstations operated by average Windows users. ack -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Jul 8, 2013 1:05 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? http://www.eset.com/us/home/whyeset/compare/ Oh. My. Goodness! ESET! I *love* that piece of gold :-) In fact, I'm still having the glow from the satisfaction of successfully convincing the management to replace the previous p.o.s. that goes by the name of SEP, with this wonderful antivirus. The first week, ESET unearthed more than 1'000 threats (throughout the company) that SEP had turned a blind eye to. It's really a mystery how SEP ever got crowned with any Good attributes. Granted, the Business version has much more options than one can shake a stick at, but for control-happy BOFHs, ESET is a godsend, a breath of fresh air compared to the CPU-guzzling ineffective p.o.s. called SEP. (sorry for the tangential offtopicness, I'm just so very glad to see a fellow ESET-believer ;-) ). Rgds, --
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jul 8, 2013 1:05 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? http://www.eset.com/us/home/whyeset/compare/ Oh. My. Goodness! ESET! I *love* that piece of gold :-) In fact, I'm still having the glow from the satisfaction of successfully convincing the management to replace the previous p.o.s. that goes by the name of SEP, with this wonderful antivirus. The first week, ESET unearthed more than 1'000 threats (throughout the company) that SEP had turned a blind eye to. It's really a mystery how SEP ever got crowned with any Good attributes. Granted, the Business version has much more options than one can shake a stick at, but for control-happy BOFHs, ESET is a godsend, a breath of fresh air compared to the CPU-guzzling ineffective p.o.s. called SEP. (sorry for the tangential offtopicness, I'm just so very glad to see a fellow ESET-believer ;-) ). Rgds, -- I love it as well, I even used their Linux-gateway scanner to scan network traffic. I know there are other free ways to do that, but ESET had impressed me enough by then. -- Alecks Gates
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:36:38AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Oh. My. Goodness! ESET! I *love* that piece of gold :-) In fact, I'm still having the glow from the satisfaction of successfully convincing the management to replace the previous p.o.s. that goes by the name of SEP, with this wonderful antivirus. The first week, ESET unearthed more than 1'000 threats (throughout the company) that SEP had turned a blind eye to. It's really a mystery how SEP ever got crowned with any Good attributes. Granted, the Business version has much more options than one can shake a stick at, but for control-happy BOFHs, ESET is a godsend, a breath of fresh air compared to the CPU-guzzling ineffective p.o.s. called SEP. (sorry for the tangential offtopicness, I'm just so very glad to see a fellow ESET-believer ;-) ). A good Linux friend who works with IBM Netherlands as a Linux/FOSS expert told me of ESET in 2003. He was my Slackware mentor (my distro before Gentoo). He implemented ESET on the Windows clients of one of his accounts, Green Peace. I have only had one customer since 2003 get infected using ESET, and that was because he turned it off. It has such a small footprint, and does a great job. It's got a lot of other nice tools in the Smart Security suite, such as the ability to track your stolen laptop if you set it up. But enough on this Gentoo list... -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses
On 2013-07-07 2:04 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-06 8:12 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: NB: I only sell the best A/V software on the market, which hasn't missed a virus in the wild since it's inception. Not to start a flamewar on which is the best AV, but I'm curious which one this is? http://www.eset.com/us/home/whyeset/compare/ Thought so... Been using the Enterprise version since about 2002 (NOD32 version 2) and couldn't be happier.
Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use? LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman/storage eix-remote -q update -- Neil Bothwick The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a hint. I compared each and every file on the disk with its original, but yould not find any problem. Maybe it is same as described in this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255483 I don't use k3b but I know when I burn a 25GB disc image using growisofs, I have to disable the spare sectors otherwise it won't fit on the disc, and it burns all the way until the end where it fails, rather than knowing ahead of time that it won't fit.
[gentoo-user] Mouse/pointing stick/trackpoint calibration?
Hi, I have a keyboard with built-in pointing stick (like IBM trackpoint). It shows up like a standard USB mouse. Problem is: it moves to the right at a rate about 6x faster than it moves to the left... For example I can move the mouse cursor from left to right in 1 second, but from right to left it takes 6 seconds to cross the screen. Is there a way to calibrate the mouse in Xorg so that the directions will move at the same rate? Perhaps it's a physical defect and I need to take apart the keyboard, but if I can compensate somehow that would be great. I looked in the Xorg mouse settings, but the only sensitivity options seem to be global and not directional. Thanks, Paul
