[gentoo-user] Re: Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes

2015-02-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: Poison BL.: Port 995 there indicates SSL POP mail. Thanks. That has to be fetchmail. Verified by stopping it. The solution may be interesting to others. After unsuccessfully playing with the options of fetchmail, I discovered that the reason was a huge mail sitting on my ISP.

Re: [gentoo-user] Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes

2015-02-05 Thread Poison BL.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Greetings, after noticing huge downloads circa ever 2 minutes naturally I wanted to stop that. :) After a reboot followed by startx which opened icewm I issued the command sudo ngrep -t -d net0 | tee system-ngrep_log.txt

[gentoo-user] Re: Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes

2015-02-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
Poison BL.: Port 995 there indicates SSL POP mail. Thanks. That has to be fetchmail. Verified by stopping it. Hartmut

[gentoo-user] Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes

2015-02-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greetings, after noticing huge downloads circa ever 2 minutes naturally I wanted to stop that. :) After a reboot followed by startx which opened icewm I issued the command sudo ngrep -t -d net0 | tee system-ngrep_log.txt in a xterm and waited for one occurrence. Full log:

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc system init actions

2015-02-05 Thread thegeezer
On 05/02/15 11:11, Oleg wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:41:22PM +, thegeezer wrote: howdy, don't use postup for this. netifrc is much cleverer u can directly in /etc/conf.d/net do rules_eth0=( from 77.247.233.224/30 lookup vsd_linknet pref 32001 from all lookup customers

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it seems to be running every day, why? Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab. You might be able to leverage anacron to

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Radeon video cards in the same box.

2015-02-05 Thread Mickaël Bucas
2015-02-05 17:32 GMT+01:00 Linux linux...@204eastsouth.com: ... [ 1066.959] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. ... [ 1066.961] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. [ 1066.961] (II) UnloadModule: radeon ... [ 1067.703] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3

2015-02-05 Thread Matthias Hanft
J. Roeleveld wrote: Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's. The benefit is that

[gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-05 Thread Joseph
I have a cron tab entry: 8 12 1-7 * 1 rsync ... I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it seems to be running every day, why? -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/02/2015 11:57 PM, bitlord wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:22:17 -0800 Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. I can't seem to copy much anything to them. It appears to copy and then hangs, then I get: [ 6841.490036] usb 2-6:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Radeon video cards in the same box.

2015-02-05 Thread Linux
On 2/5/2015 2:46 PM, Mickaël Bucas wrote: 2015-02-05 17:32 GMT+01:00 Linux linux...@204eastsouth.com: ... [ 1066.959] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. ... [ 1066.961] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. [ 1066.961] (II) UnloadModule: radeon ...

[gentoo-user] USB disk: moving from ext3 to ext4

2015-02-05 Thread Grant
Can I move a USB disk from ext3 to ext4 without wiping it? I'd like to benefit from faster disk checking at boot. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-05 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 04/02/15 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work wonders. Good suggestion, will check tmrw and clean

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc system init actions

2015-02-05 Thread Oleg
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:45:00PM +, thegeezer wrote: If you need things to be in place from the beginning then i can understand but you should be looking at /etc/local.d/ postup on net.lo seems like an odd place to hook this kind of thing. I'm totally agree with you and that's why i

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Radeon video cards in the same box.

2015-02-05 Thread Linux
On 2/5/2015 12:11 AM, Mickaël Bucas wrote: Hi Skippy I'm currently running a system with two monitors : one attached to the system board included radeon chip, and one attached to an nvidia card. I've compiled the kernel with the radeon driver, and the module from nvidia is loaded at start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3

2015-02-05 Thread Matthias Hanft
J. Roeleveld wrote: And how will the authentication work that way? Just as you like: --vrdeauthtype null : no authentication at all (useful in a well- secured LAN, cut off from the outside world, for quick-and-dirty testing)

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc system init actions

2015-02-05 Thread Oleg
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:41:22PM +, thegeezer wrote: howdy, don't use postup for this. netifrc is much cleverer u can directly in /etc/conf.d/net do rules_eth0=( from 77.247.233.224/30 lookup vsd_linknet pref 32001 from all lookup customers pref 32050 ) I know about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3

2015-02-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 5 February 2015 09:46:58 CET, Matthias Hanft m...@hanft.de wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... And

[gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 - 1.8.3

2015-02-05 Thread walt
On 02/05/2015 12:46 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... And then connect to the

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-05 Thread Florian Gamböck
Hi Joseph! Am 05.02.2015 um 20:19 schrieb Joseph: I have a cron tab entry: 8 12 1-7 * 1 rsync ... From `man 5 crontab`: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/02/2015 21:19, Joseph wrote: I have a cron tab entry: 8 12 1-7 * 1 rsync ... I was under impression that it will run once a month on Monday but it seems to be running every day, why? As Florian explained, crontab syntax gets weird when you use fields 3 and 5. Basically, what you

[gentoo-user] Re: cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-05 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab. You might be able to leverage anacron to accomplish what you want. Here is a link some options, including a brief intro to anacron. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron#cronie