[gentoo-user] Conditional TMOUT variable

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
Hi All, I've exported TMOUT=1200 to make sure an absent minded colleague does not leave his console logged in as root and walk away. This has the desired effect - except that when I am su'd in via SSH it also kicks in and logs me out midstream whatever I have been doing at the time. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:23:23 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2008 11:19:47 Daniel Iliev wrote: Now let's put the assumptions aside and do a test. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # test $ cat /usr/portage/packages/All/* test1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # test $ cp test1

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:45:40 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, and nor should they. Each filesystem implementing its own encryption layer would be a nightmare. A separate encryption layer on which you create any filesystem you like is much more sensible. It's true for Linux and

[gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-11-30 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to analyze an VFAT image to gather information of its structure. Does anyone know of an VFAT analyzer/editor? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice weekend! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. -

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:35:19 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: First I would try to search for files that have changed recently and than try to find out which program writes to them. find / -mmin -10 Add -xdev to that, otherwise it will search everything, including /proc, /sys and

[gentoo-user] audacious 1.5 not playing

2008-11-30 Thread Michael George
I updated audacious and audacious-plugins from 1.4.6 and .5 to 1.4.1-r1 and r3, respectively. It comes up and seems to operate fine, but it won't play my ogg files. It doesn't even seem to try. I downgraded to 1.4.6/5 and it plays fine. I'll be testing it on mp3 files today, I hope, to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Conditional TMOUT variable

2008-11-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:48:15 +, Mick wrote: I've exported TMOUT=1200 to make sure an absent minded colleague does not leave his console logged in as root and walk away. This has the desired effect - except that when I am su'd in via SSH it also kicks in and logs me out midstream

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 November 2008 12:06:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to analyze an VFAT image to gather information of its structure. Does anyone know of an VFAT analyzer/editor? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice weekend! mcc Do you want to know how FAT works?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 November 2008 11:53:10 Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:45:40 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, and nor should they. Each filesystem implementing its own encryption layer would be a nightmare. A separate encryption layer on which you create any

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 November 2008 11:50:18 Daniel Iliev wrote: real    0m26.747s user    0m2.110s sys     0m1.450s localhost test # time cat test2 /dev/null real    0m29.825s user    0m1.780s sys     0m1.690s This is not a test unfortunately. You did one run on one file and

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-11-30 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Alan, the problem is... :) I own a iRiver T60 mp3 player, which uses the VFAT fs as so many usbstick-like mass storage devices do. It /seems/ (which is equivalent to i dont know, whether...), that the sequence in which the songs are played depend on the sequence they were entered into the

[gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-11-30 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! First of all: Lanmap (http://www.parseerror.com/lanmap/) - lanmap sits quietly on a network and builds a picture of what it sees. Since Lanmap is not on the official portage tree, does any of you know any overlay that provide ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-11-30 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin wrote: You can look this up yourself: You bet I did it. I'm not a noob! That's why I ended up coming here to ask if any of you knew anything about it. The eix-update-remote part I didn't know. Thanks, will give it a try. or search

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-11-30 Thread Justin
Ricardo Saffi Marques schrieb: Justin wrote: You can look this up yourself: You bet I did it. I'm not a noob! That's why I ended up coming here to ask if any of you knew anything about it. The eix-update-remote part I didn't know. Thanks, will give it a try. or search bugzilla I did

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 30.11.2008 13:31: Hi Alan, the problem is... :) I own a iRiver T60 mp3 player, which uses the VFAT fs as so many usbstick-like mass storage devices do. It /seems/ (which is equivalent to i dont know, whether...), that the sequence in which the songs are

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-11-30 Thread Justin
Ricardo Saffi Marques schrieb: Justin wrote: You can look this up yourself: You bet I did it. I'm not a noob! That's why I ended up coming here to ask if any of you knew anything about it. The eix-update-remote part I didn't know. Thanks, will give it a try. or search bugzilla I did

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-11-30 Thread meino . cramer
Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-11-30 14:21]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 30.11.2008 13:31: Hi Alan, the problem is... :) I own a iRiver T60 mp3 player, which uses the VFAT fs as so many usbstick-like mass storage devices do. It /seems/ (which is equivalent to i dont

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-11-30 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin wrote: Shouldn't sound that harsh, sorry. Don't worry, no problem! That's the problem with written text. Does not carry how the sentence would sound if spoken! :-) It looks like that it has a automake style installer included, so just

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-11-30 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Justin wrote: Take a look into the INSTALL.txt. Is written there what to do and which deps are requiered. Additionally fill a ebuild request bug at b.g.o. Next saturday it is bugday, I will try to get time to solve it then. Nice! I will! Thanks! -- Ricardo Saffi Marques

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Pupino
So tomorrow i'll try to find out wich one is guilty and try find a remedy... (now it's 3 am, i'm a bit tired...) i'll post back. Thank you all for the quick help! Davide I found that i had accidentally enable the full debugging output of my wireless card in the kernel, so that was where

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: lsof ? Both find and lsof are good to show what is/has been accessed/changed. However, you may want to think of setting up logrotate and giving it a max size for your log file(s) above which it will rotate them. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel, compiz, mplayer -fs file.avi freeze

2008-11-30 Thread capsel
I cannot solve your problem because I know little of X and nothing about compiz (which I consider futile), but for this kind of problem, you may want to know about the magic SysRq key. It allows you to at least reboot your system cleanly when the system seems locked, and some times can even

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-30 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: ati-drivers will not compile, any version. Using the latest information in Bug 246672, I finally got ati-drivers-8.552-r2 working. thanks James

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dirvish is in portage. tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies. If you want true backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things like versioning, archive

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dirvish is in portage. tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies. If you want true backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: lsof ? Both find and lsof are good to show what is/has been accessed/changed. However, you may want to think of setting up logrotate and giving it a max size for your log file(s) above which it will rotate them.

[gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-11-30 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo help that describes how to change the boot message size during boot? yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation. Thanks for the reply. Wasn't able to find any reference here

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-11-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 01 December 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo help that describes how to change the boot message size during boot? yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-30 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:21:44 pm Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Troeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: You can buy so called archival grade DVD-Rs that should work for 10-20 years in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-30 Thread Eric Martin
Mick wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2008, Eric Martin wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, For some reason my Gentoo rsa public key is not liked by 3.9p1-11.el4_7 sshd, which is running on a CentOS server. On the Gentoo machine I am running net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1. This is what it

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 01 December 2008, Eric Martin wrote: What did you use to generate the key? Also, what does the client / server say for the key fail? I used something like: ssh-keygen -v -t rsa -b 2048. I have even generated a second key pair and tried that too, with no success. The client