[gentoo-user] Cryptic error from some cron job

2013-11-25 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have rebuilt a PC which has started sending me this error whenever it runs logrotate: Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated error: stat of /var/log/cups/access_log failed: No such file or directory error: stat

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:14:33 +0100 Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: When working under X11 in a terminal and I type exit in the shell, the terminal does not close itself anymore. Hi Marc, Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} video monitoring

2013-11-25 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: I've been using motion along with USB cameras for a while. I need to expand my monitoring capacity and I'm wondering if I should consider changing software or hardware. motion seems fairly dead but is stable. I'm reading conflicting info about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I know it has affected someone else as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} video monitoring

2013-11-25 Thread thegeezer
On 11/23/2013 07:03 PM, Grant wrote: I've been using motion along with USB cameras for a while. I need to expand my monitoring capacity and I'm wondering if I should consider changing software or hardware. motion seems fairly dead but is stable. I'm reading conflicting info about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-25 17:15, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} video monitoring

2013-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:51:02 +, thegeezer wrote: the bug bear for scaling up is you do need a usb controller (not just a usb port) per camera if you want anywhere near sensible resolution with usb webcams. This depends greatly on the specific cameras. Microsoft webcams, while giving good

[gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-25 Thread edwardu...@live.com
Hello, My Bash skills are not that advanced, so I am wondering if it is possible to nest one command inside in another command, not in a script,but on the command line,for instance to copy a file to a different destination while changing permissons at the same time, all in one line. --

Re: [gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/11/2013 08:59, edwardu...@live.com wrote: Hello, My Bash skills are not that advanced, so I am wondering if it is possible to nest one command inside in another command, not in a script,but on the command line,for instance to copy a file to a different destination while changing

Re: [gentoo-user] to nest commands

2013-11-25 Thread edwardu...@live.com
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:16:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You don't do it that way. I understand what you want to do, but your description makes no sense. How you do it is by running two commands on one line, one after the other. To copy a file myfile.txt to /tmp and