Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > but it's an angle to follow. I wonder how max_user_watches would handle > being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! > > thanks, To answer my own questions, I'm now trying this: # echo 10 >/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This > > bug ridden zombie is still around? > > thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B? Pl

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug > ridden zombie is still around? thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B? -- Iain Buchanan I am a friend of the working man, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:35 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 5 May 2010, at 18:24, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> ... > >> man inotify(7): > >> ... When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the > >> directory itself, and for files inside the directory. > >> ... > > > > To repeat my comm

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently > > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. > > dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it woul

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would prevent external media from being unmounted. dnotify al

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Might be I've just asked a similar question on the ZSH mailing list. > Please have a look at inotifywatch from the sys-fs/inotify-tools > package. It can watch a directory tree recursively. it does look interesting, thanks. I would stil

Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-05 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/6/10, Grant wrote: >>> I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open >>> display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as >>> the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does >>> anyone know why this is happening? >> >> Is the use

Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs

2010-05-05 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 05 May 2010 23:20:01 +0200, Matt Harrison wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs: >On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:42:09PM +0200, KH wrote: [snip] >> specific (don't want to hear "moo"): Will I be able to mount a samba >> partition without setting the samba use flag and after unmerging >>

Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs

2010-05-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:42:09PM +0200, KH wrote: > Hi List, > > I just ran in a problem: > > net-fs/mount-cifs ("net-fs/mount-cifs" is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6) > > Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is "client" to a > server running samba. Do I need samba for this anym

Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-05 Thread Grant
>> I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open >> display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as >> the new user.  I've tried restarting with the same results.  Does >> anyone know why this is happening? > > Is the user in the video group? Yes, I s

Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-05 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/5/10, Grant wrote: > I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open > display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as > the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does > anyone know why this is happening? Is the user in the vide

[gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-05 Thread Grant
I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2010 22:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Remember that I said: "I am not sure which HOWTO I followed" ? > > What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? Yep. See pam_mount.conf.xml: It's "aes-256-cbc" in my case. I was now able to luksOpen and I have the decrypted device mounted. Nice. So:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2010 21:39, schrieb Daniel Troeder: >> With this password I get a "bad decrypt" so this explains why it >> fails. > If you cannot decrypt your keyfile (with openssl) then you have just > lost any way to decrypt your partition! > > But there is an idea in the man page of which I didn't

[gentoo-user] How can I redirect all portage messages to syslog?

2010-05-05 Thread Jarry
Hi, is it possible to redirect *all* portage messages to syslog? I mean, I would like to redirect content of all these files into /var/log/messages (if possible in standard structure): /var/log/emerge-fetch.log /var/log/emerge.log /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log Setting PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 10:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 05.05.2010 10:00, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > >> That is a message from cryptsetup. As you are using openssl to get >> the key, I think the problem might be there. > > ok > >> lvcreate -n crypttest -L 100M vg0 KEY=`tr -cd [:graph:] <

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 08:39:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 01:06:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The output looks like standard banner garbage that apps often write to > > the terminal when launched. I suspect an omitted "> /dev/null" somewhere > > Or maybe a --quiet option to

[gentoo-user] Re: arping network profile issue

2010-05-05 Thread Zhou Rui
Sorry it's a test profile, to avoid misunderstanding, post my profile here, and this file not working too. $cat /etc/conf.d/net # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, # please review /etc/conf.d/net.e

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 May 2010, at 18:24, Florian Philipp wrote: ... man inotify(7): ... When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the directory itself, and for files inside the directory. ... To repeat my comment on Iain's original "backup to a cold-swap drive" thread ... Sorry, I starte

[gentoo-user] arping network profile issue

2010-05-05 Thread Zhou Rui
Hi folks, I setup a network interface to switch in two different network with different gateways using config_eth0=( "arping" ), and I can get gateway mac when use arping2 command directly. But the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start always fails, can you help me to find the issue out? $ cat /etc/conf.d/ne

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.05.2010 15:34, schrieb Stroller: > > On 5 May 2010, at 07:54, Iain Buchanan wrote: >> ... >> I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file >> system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want. >> >> Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs a

Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs

2010-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 May 2010 18:42:09 +0200, KH wrote: > net-fs/mount-cifs ("net-fs/mount-cifs" is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6) mount.cifs is now provided by Samba. > Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is "client" to a > server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More spe

[gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs

2010-05-05 Thread KH
Hi List, I just ran in a problem: net-fs/mount-cifs ("net-fs/mount-cifs" is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6) Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is "client" to a server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More specific (don't want to hear "moo"): Will I be able to m

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 5 May, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file > system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want. > > Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want > to register a whole bunch of files

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 May 2010, at 07:54, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want. Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want to register a whole bunch of

[gentoo-user] Android tether and wpa_supplicant

2010-05-05 Thread Fredrik Andersson
Hi fellow gentoo users I'm trying to connect my laptop to my HTC Hero using wpa_supplicant, has anyone done this? this is what I see in wpa_cli when I do scan_result #bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid #02:23:76:81:26:67      2412    240     [IBSS]  G1 And according to the example

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver: undefined symbol: _nv000008gl

2010-05-05 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I moved to stable drivers and nvidia drivers works fine again. [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Available versions: [M]71.86.11!s 96.43.14!s ~96.43.16!s 173.14.20!s 173.14.22!s ~173.14.25!s 180.60!s 185.18.36-r1!s 190.42-r3!s ~190.53!s ~190.53-r1!s ~195.30!s ~195.36.15!s {acpi custom-c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2010 10:00, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > That is a message from cryptsetup. As you are using openssl to get > the key, I think the problem might be there. ok > lvcreate -n crypttest -L 100M vg0 KEY=`tr -cd [:graph:] < > /dev/urandom | head -c 79` echo $KEY | openssl aes-256-ecb > > ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 06:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 04.05.2010 23:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > >> I'm using sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc1 since 02.05.2010 and didn't have >> any issues. >> Please decrypt your partition from the command line, so we can see if it >> is a cryptsetup/luks/kernel p

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 May 2010 01:06:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The output looks like standard banner garbage that apps often write to > the terminal when launched. I suspect an omitted "> /dev/null" somewhere Or maybe a --quiet option to suppress this but keep useful information. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. BillK On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file > system. I've been looking at inotify, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving mail from crontab

2010-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 07:45:24 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 23:40:20 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my > > > gmail account sent from my crontab. > > > > > > First, is related to the title which is: > > > Cron