Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote >> * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE="suid" >> has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, >> you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other >> X l

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:42:45 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > compared with the hours of fiddling when I started using raid this > was pretty much straight forward - and yes, I know, destroying var > was not necessary, but at that point I just wanted to try it... as I > said, way too easy to t

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2012-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: > > If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will > > learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to > > use that works, it's probably only fair you know up front the odds > > of success are not

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote > > * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE="suid" > has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, > you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other > X login managers will sti

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 01:28:17 schrieb Walter Dnes: > I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I > checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website > http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact > problem, and more importantly, the soluti

[gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution. * Up til now X has been installed suid by default. This is wha

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012, 15:22:58 schrieb Michael Hampicke: > Am 30.12.2012 15:07, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Set both mountpoints as legacy and put them into fstab - I know I could > > zfs > > deal with that, but I feel more comfortable that way. > > Howdy Volker, > > that's a good

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
OK, here is version 2. I had "an excellent adventure" along the way. * At the very last line (COMMIT), iptables-restore said it failed, but no clue whatsoever as to why. * I copied the rules file to a scratch-file, and converted it to a bash script that called iptables each time. * This m

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-30 Thread Adam Carter
> > 2) Does a "-j LOG" return to the chain it was called from, or does it do > > an implicit DROP? > > > > It returns to spot where it was called from. > > Yep, so you could create a new chain to drop and log; /sbin/iptables -N logdrop /sbin/iptables -A logdrop -j LOG --log-prefix 'DROP ' /sbin/ipt

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2012-12-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/12/12 06:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:27:21 +0800 > William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Hi, I have a working gentoo base system on a new RPI B model. I am >> starting to add X and ratpoison with the aim of using omxplayer to a >> nfs share from my mythbox, but hope someone e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-30 Thread Francisco Ares
2012/12/30 Nuno J. Silva > On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > ... > > Keep in mind that the support for videos in powerpoint presentations > will vary greatly across different powerpoint versions, windows versions > and even across different installs of the same version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-30 Thread Francisco Ares
2012/12/30 Nuno J. Silva > On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > ... > > Keep in mind that the support for videos in powerpoint presentations > will vary greatly across different powerpoint versions, windows versions > and even across different installs of the same version

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/29/2012 01:32 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > Two questions I'm not sure about. > > 1) I run a desktop, and use passive ftp. Is there any need for me to > accept RELATED packets? > Probably not, I think the server needs it though. > 2) Does a "-j LOG" return to the chain it was called from,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2012-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:27:21 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, I have a working gentoo base system on a new RPI B model. I am > starting to add X and ratpoison with the aim of using omxplayer to a > nfs share from my mythbox, but hope someone else has been there > before me. > > In reality,

[gentoo-user] Perseverance reaps rewards

2012-12-30 Thread Colleen Beamer
Happy New Year All, I hope you all had a happy holiday. Oddly enough, this e-mail isn't to request assistance although I did post this problem quite a while back and was not able to resolve it. Ever since I got my new desktop computer slightly over a year ago, I have been trying to set up a conn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen

2012-12-30 Thread Matt Harrison
On 30/12/2012 10:55, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:06:51 +, Matt Harrison wrote: > >> All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses > > Current is 5.7.2 final.. > >> * Starting snmpd ... >> pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci >> pcilib: Cannot fi

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 30.12.2012 15:07, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Set both mountpoints as legacy and put them into fstab - I know I could zfs > deal with that, but I feel more comfortable that way. Howdy Volker, that's a good idea. For some reason - with the latest sys-fs/zfs upgrade (0.6.0_rc13) - I foun

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:19:44 +0800 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting > > and recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and > > that these "essential system partitions" contain the tools for > > mounting and recovering n

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi everybody, so I did it. Three disks as a raidz pool, (zfstank), and created zfstank/var and zfstank/data Set both mountpoints as legacy and put them into fstab - I know I could zfs deal with that, but I feel more comfortable that way. Restoring all the data from backup took a long time, but

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting and > recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and that these > "essential system partitions" contain the tools for mounting and recovering > non-essential p

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello All, > > I know this is WAY off- topic, but I have seen topics in many different > areas, probably some gentooers will be glad to share experiences. > > I am trying to create some videos for a M$ Office presentation. Some are > from "recordmydesktop", w

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2012-12-30 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I have a working gentoo base system on a new RPI B model. I am starting to add X and ratpoison with the aim of using omxplayer to a nfs share from my mythbox, but hope someone else has been there before me. In reality, I would like to just run omxplayer on a minimum framebuffer, but not sure

[gentoo-user] Re: net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen

2012-12-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:06:51 +, Matt Harrison wrote: > All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses Current is 5.7.2 final.. > * Starting snmpd ... > pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci > pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. > * start-stop-daemon: failed t