Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to get rid of kernel modules?

2011-11-14 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:50:29AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote On 11/11/2011 08:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 11, 2011 11:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: Isn't there a selection in make menuconfig asynchronous scsi scan (or something like

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:06:04 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: To convert a UNIX date to a human-readable version the command is : 556: ~ date -d @1321251520 Mon Nov 14 01:18:40 EST 2011 I would like to create a Bash alias or function to do this, but can't get the Bash syntax right: it

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread microcai
http://code.google.com/p/bashttpd/ run with systemd or xinetd 于 2011年11月14日 18:05, J. Roeleveld 写道: On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master'

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: To find out why portage wants the JDK, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/jdk`. Repeat until you find @world or something looking familiar. I bet you have LibreOffice installed with USE=java. There is an old thread from earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:13:34 AM Philip Webb wrote: 14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:06:04 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: To convert a UNIX date to a human-readable version the command is : 556: ~ date -d @1321251520 Mon Nov 14 01:18:40 EST 2011 I would like to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to get rid of kernel modules?

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:50:29AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote On 11/11/2011 08:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 11, 2011 11:02 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote: Isn't there a selection in make menuconfig asynchronous scsi

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: alias th='date -d @$1' was the first try, then adding '+' /or '\' to escape '+' or '@'. I also tried a function along similar lines. That is not how you use alias. What you want is to use a function. Replace the alias line by

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:06:04 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: To convert a UNIX date to a human-readable version the command is : 556: ~ date -d @1321251520 Mon Nov 14 01:18:40 EST 2011 I would like to create a Bash alias or function to do this, but can't get the

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:13:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: It is difficult to say what is wrong with your alias as you haven't shown it alias th='date -d @$1' was the first try, then adding '+' /or '\' to escape '+' or '@'. I also tried a function along similar lines. but my guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Display name and Wacom tablet

2011-11-14 Thread YoYo Siska
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:07:42PM -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti running nvidia-drivers 275.09.07. It supports dual monitors via Twinview. I have a Wacom Inspire3 6 x 8 Tablet. The tablet is working but it covers the entire display across both monitors

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-14 Thread masterprometheus
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:00:15 +0200, masterprometheus wrote: For AMD I'd recommend to go for a 960T : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103995 It's a 95W and as a Zosma it's actually a 6-core. Most of those (not all unfortunately) can be unlocked

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
14 Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: alias th='date -d @$1' That is not how you use alias. What you want is to use a function. Replace the alias line by function th { date -d @$1; } in your bashrc you'l probably be ok. That's what I

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread Michael Mol
Isn't there a kernelland HTTP server? ISTR seeing the option. I don't know anything about it, though. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:10 AM, microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote: http://code.google.com/p/bashttpd/ run with systemd or xinetd 于 2011年11月14日 18:05, J. Roeleveld 写道: On Sat,

[gentoo-user] Re: The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-13, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: My main issue isn't really the lightest in terms of memory or CPU usage, but rather something that's VERY easy to setup the config so that I don't have to spend much time reading manuals. Busybox httpd: Just start it in the directory

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 November 2011, at 07:06, Philip Webb wrote: To convert a UNIX date to a human-readable version the command is : 556: ~ date -d @1321251520 Mon Nov 14 01:18:40 EST 2011 I would like to create a Bash alias or function to do this, but can't get the Bash syntax right: it keeps

[gentoo-user] Re: net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 fails to compile

2011-11-14 Thread walt
On 11/12/2011 08:30 PM, Justin Findlay wrote: I can't get the package net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 to emerge because of a c++ linker error. What can I do to fix this? CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -m32 -Os -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -fno-implicit-templates ^

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread v_2e
There is a very small web server called thttpd which is very lightweight and lets start serving files very quickly. It runs on my home router machine with an old Pentium CPU and several megabytes of RAM and seems to consume about 500 kb of it. Regards, Vladimir On Mon, 14 Nov 2011

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 fails to compile

2011-11-14 Thread Justin Findlay
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -m32 -Os -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -fno-implicit-templates          ^ I'm wondering about that no-implicit-templates.  What happens if you delete it? I was somewhat

[gentoo-user] Firefox desktop icon missing on e17

2011-11-14 Thread Mick
This may apply to other desktops but the problem I report here happens on the e17 rev. 64957 Following the update to firefox-7.0.1 no icon for firefox shows up on the iBar. Looking at /home/michael/.local/share/applications/ I see a file mozilla- firefox-3.6.desktop file - instead of

[gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is always kept up-to-date and works great. After rebooting, the keyboard on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work. The keyboard works in grub and

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is always kept up-to-date and works great. After rebooting, the keyboard on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work. The keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
And if I pull, none of my backed-up systems are secure because anyone who breaks into the backup server has root read privileges on every backed-up system and will thereby gain full root privileges quickly. IMO that depends on whether you also backup the authentication-related files or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
And if I pull, none of my backed-up systems are secure because anyone who breaks into the backup server has root read privileges on every backed-up system and will thereby gain full root privileges quickly. IMO that depends on whether you also backup the authentication-related files or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in 6-12 months.  Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is always kept up-to-date and works great.  After rebooting, the keyboard on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work.  The keyboard works in grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

2011-11-14 Thread Hung Dang
You might need to remerge xorg11 driver. Try below command then reboot X to see if it fix your problem emerge `qlist -I -C x11-drivers/` Hung On 11/14/11 19:25, Grant wrote: I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Michael Mol
It's out of scope for file transfer protocols; it's a daemon/system-local problem. Attach pre-event or post-event scripts serverside for any special munging or protections you'd like to apply. (Such as triggering an LVM snapshot, for example...) (sorry for the top post; in-line can be done in

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
It's out of scope for file transfer protocols; it's a daemon/system-local problem.  Attach pre-event or post-event scripts serverside for any special munging or protections you'd like to apply. (Such as triggering an LVM snapshot, for example...) I must be going about this the wrong way. Am

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
Then I could have the backup server pull that copy from each system without giving it root access to each system.  Can I somehow have the correct ownerships for the backup saved in a separate file for use during a restore? If you're intent on making a two-stage pull work; you can do it by

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Michael Mol
You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, those are flaws. However, you can fix those flaws by applying some magic as a sysadmin. That's why several posts in the thread have mentioned versioning your backups in some fashion. I've mentioned lvm a couple times. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, those are flaws. However, you can fix those flaws by applying some magic as a sysadmin. That's why several posts in the thread have mentioned versioning your backups in some fashion. I've mentioned lvm a couple times. I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Michael Mol
Sure, but you've noted that rdiff-backup is insecure if the source box is violated. What you need, then, is a layer of versioning not subject to that vulnerability. ZZ On Nov 14, 2011 9:34 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant
Sure, but you've noted that rdiff-backup is insecure if the source box is violated. What you need, then, is a layer of versioning not subject to that vulnerability. Does it exist? - Grant You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, those are flaws. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)

2011-11-14 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 05:39:54PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote Fredric Johansson fredric.miscm...@gmail.com [11-11-12 17:32]: But: Now and when I may did install it accidently it is/was true, that Xemacs was needed and would be installed. Why was it pulled in now, if it would have been

[gentoo-user] Tempertaure of NVidia GPUs

2011-11-14 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there any tool to read out the temperature of NVidia GPUs other than the NVidia Setting GUI and nvclock ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Tempertaure of NVidia GPUs

2011-11-14 Thread Hartmut Figge
meino.cra...@gmx.de: is there any tool to read out the temperature of NVidia GPUs other than the NVidia Setting GUI and nvclock ? Perhaps this one? hafi@i5 ~ $ nvidia-smi Tue Nov 15 05:29:24 2011 +--+ | NVIDIA-SMI 2.290.06 Driver Version:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 15, 2011 9:49 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but you've noted that rdiff-backup is insecure if the source box is violated. What you need, then, is a layer of versioning not subject to that vulnerability. Does it exist? Quick and dirty: TARGDIR=/home/versions/$(date

[gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-14 Thread waltdnes
After a recent thread, about udev developers wanting /usr on the same partition as / (or else requiring initramfs), it was pretty obvious that 90%+ of the users here strongly disliked the idea. I went around asking on various lists if it was possible to run Gentoo without udev. After some

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox desktop icon missing on e17

2011-11-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 Nov 2011 22:53:50 Mick wrote: This may apply to other desktops but the problem I report here happens on the e17 rev. 64957 Following the update to firefox-7.0.1 no icon for firefox shows up on the iBar. Looking at /home/michael/.local/share/applications/ I see a file mozilla-

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, November 15, 2011 3:32 am, Grant wrote: You identified a flaw in the system as you were using it. You're right, those are flaws. However, you can fix those flaws by applying some magic as a sysadmin. That's why several posts in the thread have mentioned versioning your backups in

[gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could swap CPUs. After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU boots up to the MythTv screen with no error but does not respond to the USB keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

2011-11-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 15, 2011 1:24 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: After a recent thread, about udev developers wanting /usr on the same partition as / (or else requiring initramfs), it was pretty obvious that 90%+ of the users here strongly disliked the idea. I went around asking on various lists if it

[gentoo-user] multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Do I need to set any particular USE flag to enable multi-threaded decoding with mplayer, or is it just a matter of passing the appropriate 'threads=' on the command line? raffaele