Re: [gentoo-user] system boot

2006-02-26 Thread Pete
/bzImage root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo -- Also, note that - yababa root # /sbin/lilo -t Fatal: open /boot/bzImage: No such file or directory yababa root # - If the root for boot was changed, lilo should have found

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-23 Thread Pintér Tibor
man ps t Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep USER|rsync root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5307 0.0 0.1 38052 29708 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5308 0.2 0.1 38312 29672 pts/0S+ 01

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon sets USER=root - expected behaviour?

2008-10-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/10/6 Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, it simply shouldn't change them, there's no reason to do that (to my knowledge). If start-stop-daemon is executed by a normal user it should either not change the user to root or deny the execution if the user is not root. I think it is a big security

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:52 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Basically I plan to do: - Put the boot partition on a RAID1 - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the root partition get's to small

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:35, Maerlyn wrote: Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. Is there any way to recover my root

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Maerlyn wrote: Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs executed as root cannot connect to X server

2005-05-09 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 5/8/05, Dmitri Vassilenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday May 8 2005 22:14, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: How do I enable programs which are executed by the root to connect to the X server? I think if you're doing this locally, you can just copy .Xauthority in the directory of the user

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/24/05, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 . d-wxrt 18 root root 4096 Sep 6 12:46 .. your root directory should NOT have these perms. try: # chmod 0755 / Thanks Billy. That appears to have solved my issue

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron

2007-04-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
Cant believe I am the only one who has this - 3 systems I have checked so far are all the same - root cant access its crontab. Ive tried rebuilding one without pam (fcron only), but no change. bunyip ~ # esearch fcron [ Results for search key : fcron ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-process

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread maxim wexler
$ls -l `which sudo` ---s--x--x 1 root root 107240 2007-05-21 11:11 /usr/bin/sudo* ^ ^ setuidroot -- Christer Thanks Christer, never saw that command before, but like I told Walter, a listing for sudo is indeed: ---s--x--1 2 root root

[gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Stear
The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem The /mnt/network is drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test After I mount using mount -t smbfs -o username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network the /mnt/network permissions have change to drwxr-xr-x

[gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, I've tried to move my built-in ide (via) and rootfs (reiser) modules outside of the kernel, but when I try to boot the new kernel and its corresponding initramfs, it fails miserably with one of the following messages. If I use root=/dev/hda7 (my root): Unable to mount root fs

Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4

2005-08-25 Thread Ted Ozolins
Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 When it worked from the command line of grub? To be honest, I'm not sure. Can you try something like this: root (hd0,1) title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root fs on uknown - block (0,0)

2006-07-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 12:15, askar k wrote: Hello, I can't find the reason of the problem. I installed newly gentoo 2006.0 (Kernel version 2.6.17) and after reboot I'm having kernel panic with message: --- VFS: Cannot open root device hda5 or uknown block (0,0) Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root fs on uknown - block (0,0)

2006-07-26 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/7/26, askar k [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I can't find the reason of the problem. I installed newly gentoo 2006.0 (Kernel version 2.6.17) and after reboot I'm having kernel panic with message: --- VFS: Cannot open root device hda5 or uknown block (0,0) Please append a correct

Re: [gentoo-user] xhost +local:root ???

2006-09-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Meino writes: my whole system I could allow root to open the X display by typing xhost +local:root ??? . This seems to not to work any longer. [...] Is there any way to allow root to use the X display when a user has opened the session and su'ed to root ? On my system I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-04 Thread Mick
] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * and indeed it is still in: $ ls -la /etc/env.d/gcc/ total 29 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 408 Aug 4 23:03 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 952 Jul 2 06:06 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 15 06:15 .NATIVE - i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 May 15 06:15 config-i686

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Kevin Haddock wrote: I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote machine that I don't have root password to. I have a local account with sudo permissions and an account of the same name on the remote machine. If you don't have the root password then just

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:35:28 Nick Khamis wrote: When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Root login to console or root login to X? Almost every sane distro

Re: [gentoo-user] Information request: root directory not listed by df

2009-09-20 Thread Alan E. Davis
No this was not the full output from df. There was nowhere, however, any reference to /dev/sdc1, the filesystem where the root filesystem / is located. Only the lines in my earlier message: rootfs29694968 2877284 25309184 11% / /dev/root 29694968 2877284

[gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/15/2009 11:22 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: SELinux allows to spread the tasks root needs to do or can do accross several roles. Of course, if only one single person has root access to the system this doesn't make sense. But we're talking about cases where several people (incl. the malicious

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* Are you running it from a root desktop, or from a root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-12 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 12/5/2011, at 6:20pm, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: `date +%l:%M%P` Here's mine: root@fireball / # date +%l:%M%P 12:19pm root@fireball / # And what are your locale settings? Stroller. root@fireball / # locale LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_CTYPE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread Stroller
On 12/5/2011, at 11:57pm, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: On 12/5/2011, at 6:20pm, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: `date +%l:%M%P` Here's mine: root@fireball / # date +%l:%M%P 12:19pm root@fireball / # And what are your locale settings? Stroller. root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 12/5/2011, at 11:57pm, Dale wrote: root@fireball / # locale LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF8 LC_NAME=en_US.UTF8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF8

[gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-23 Thread Adam Carter
Summary; Copied / from sda3 to sdb3 Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 / btrfs noatime,compress=lzo0 0) Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf, but left the root (hd0,0) as it is. So, kernel is loaded from sda but init should run from sdb

[gentoo-user] Re: root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-24 Thread walt
On 07/23/2011 04:49 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Summary; Copied / from sda3 to sdb3 Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 / btrfs noatime,compress=lzo0 0) Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf, but left the root (hd0,0) as it is. So, kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread William Kenworthy
back into the 90's when I started with Gentoo and the learning curve was REALLY steep :) BillK Actually, thats a bit optimistic - 2002 moriah ~ # ls -alth /var/backups/rattus/20110710/tree/etc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 Sep 6 2003 hsf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where does sudo get the PATH ?

2012-10-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
grep -r texlive/2011 ~root /root/.bash_history:cd /usr/local/texlive/2011 /root/.bash_history:grep texlive/2011 * -r /root/.bash_history:grep texlive/2011 . -r /root/.bash_history:grep texlive/2011 .* -r -- N. Hmm Maybe it's building the PATH not explicitly... something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Building an initramfs into the kernel

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Knecht
example init script which probably isn't exactly right for my needs, there is an intermediate step I quickly discovered. After building the new kernel there is an initramfs_data_cpio file created in /usr/src/linux/usr. I copied this file to a new directory under /root and then ran cpio -i -d -H

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-20 Thread walt
On 01/20/2013 01:29 AM, victor romanchuk wrote: just migrated to sys-fs/udev-197 - everything went smoothly and seems to work. the only observation at this time is absence of device file /dev/root whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are referring to that device node: # grep root /etc

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.7.9: Lots of devices are root root rw-------.

2013-02-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! Just built the new kernel 3.7.9 last night, and it's one of these nothing works situations. It seems the problems are with the device files, whose ownership is set to root root (rather than, e.g., root audio) and whose permissions are set to crw--- (rather than the expected crw

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating $PATH variable permanently for root not working

2014-01-05 Thread Alecks Gates
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Not sure what I'm missing... I login as normal user, then su - to root... I've created /root/.bashrc, and added the following: export PATH=${PATH}:/path/I/want/to/add If I logout, then su - back into root

[gentoo-user] dcron problem on new install

2015-11-25 Thread waltdnes
I'm getting a bunch of messages like... > Subject: cron for user root root[ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && > { test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ; } > > /bin/sh: root: command not found /bin/sh does exist... [d531][waltdnes][~] ll /b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> The hard part, getting it to run as root. KDE doesn't like things > >> running as root so it took a hammer and some elbow grease. > > sudo konqueror works here. > This works here as a desktop shortcut.

[gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:52:22 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > >>>> The hard part, getting it to run as root. KDE doesn't like > >>>> things running as ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have already looked into this file but did not find where to set the > UUID of the root partion. > It depends. :) Usually you end up with root=UUID=abc on your kernel command line. It looks like grub-mk

[gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

2017-03-21 Thread thelma
I'm trying to rsync (as root) files and I'm gettng an error rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13) rsync -av computer.MYD thelma@10.10.0.2:/home/thelma/business/Monday/ sending incremental file list computer.MYD rsync: mkstemp "/home/thelma/business/Monday/.computer.MYD.sl2GiP&qu

[gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-01 Thread Grant
My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which conflicts with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will work well with any USB disks that happen to also be attached? crw--- 1 root root 252, 0 Aug 31

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile x11-libs/libXt

2019-07-23 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:51 PM Jens Pelzetter wrote: Hallo all, Am 23.07.19 um 17:14 schrieb Mick: On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:01:01 BST Raffaele Belardi wrote: Am 23.07.19 um 01:31 schrieb Jack: On multilib: $ ls -la /etc/env.d/gcc/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -, Grant Edwards wrote > All my grub.cfg files looks like this: > > > timeout=10 > root=hd0,1 > default=0 > > menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo' { >

[gentoo-user] Emerge --root= headerfiles taken from / or ROOT?

2021-04-23 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I'm just trying setup a small target image with the --root (env SYSROOT), - config-root and --sysroot options, and some builds fail, because the header files as well as cmake include files are not taken from the path specified to root/sysroot, but from /. How can I make emerge/ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron

2007-11-10 Thread Malte Langermann
hey all, Recently, I set up a local news server and want to fetch news by using vixie cron. For security, I want to drop root to news ( only news and root can run fetchnews). So I add one line in crontab by using crontab -e: */5 * * * * news fetchnews Actually, I just follow

Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?

2007-03-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
be in the audio group. -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: http://foros.buanzo.com.ar Consulting and Secure Mail Hosting: http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ $ ls -al /dev/sound/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root

Re: [gentoo-user] grub

2006-07-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 21 July 2006 01:35, James wrote: Hello, I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop. (big compile left to complete). The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c): root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 boot system then boots; Issueing

[gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
I've updated to modular X root: share eix xorg-x11 [I] x11-base/xorg-x11 Available versions: [M]6.8.2-r8 [M]6.9.0-r3 7.0-r1 ~7.1 Installed: 7.0-r1 and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? root: X11 pwd /etc/X11 root: X11 ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote: I've updated to modular X [...] and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? root: X11 pwd /etc/X11 root: X11 ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Sep 20 15:56 Sessions -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?

2010-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
? If they can edit them and no one know it, then root comes along and builds a shiney new kernel with a really nice security hole. This was actually a potential risk once upon a time: http://attrition.org/security/advisory/gobbles/GOBBLES-16.txt More like an actual risk all the time. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] wine configure: error: No OpenGL library found on this system.

2010-11-27 Thread Valmor de Almeida
to check that they exist and are set into whatever you really use. I've checked this. Here is some info. Seems correct to me. Thanks, -- Valmor - eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 * - ll /usr/lib32/libglut* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Grant
-- 1 root portage699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 57 Feb 28 16:40 3_broken.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 34641 Feb 28 16:39 3_errors.rr -rwx-- 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I'm having trouble with this again. I get: # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild total 424 -rwx-- 1 root portage699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-03-01 Thread Grant
I'm having trouble with this again.  I get: # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild total 424 -rwx-- 1 root portage    699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage  34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage     57

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
system nor is there an libxcb-atom, which revdep rebuild mentioned. I have root:512 lib64 ls -l libxcb-aux.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8362 Oct 3 2009 libxcb-aux.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 984 Jul 3 2010 libxcb-aux.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root19 Oct 3 2009 libxcb-aux.so - libxcb-aux.so

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
or directory There is no libxcb-aux now on my system nor is there an libxcb-atom, which revdep rebuild mentioned. I have root:512 lib64 ls -l libxcb-aux.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8362 Oct 3 2009 libxcb-aux.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 984 Jul 3 2010 libxcb-aux.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?

2011-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving him root access. Well, yeah, but only on those defined files... root access is global. You can't limit

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-14 Thread Dale
Stefan Schmiedl wrote: Dale, Saturday, April 14, 2012, 5:46:44 AM, you wrote: D Stefan Schmiedl wrote: I'd expect to see root (hd1,0) in there somewhere. D I tried changing the root line and it still booted sda. Also, note that D I also tried a grub entry that doesn't even have a root

[gentoo-user] Hows this for rsnapshot cron jobs?

2013-04-21 Thread Tanstaafl
intervalyearly 5 And my /etc/crontab now looks like: # for vixie cron # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ # Global variables SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # check

[gentoo-user] vixie cron: PAM ERROR

2014-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron about PAM authentication errors: Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure) Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication failure) Feb 25 09

[gentoo-user] cannot boot system whose root is zfs

2016-01-17 Thread covici
Hi. Using dracut and systemd I am having a terrible time trying to boot a system whose root file system is zfs, along with some other datasets I have created in the pool. the zfs module does load, but it cannot find the pool. It gets to the sysroot.mount service and dies. I think the problem

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiping the old root without killing the new root

2017-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-17, tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > Finally I moved to my new root and it seems to be $HOME > enough to wiupe the old root. > > The old root is on a separate partition to which I will move > the contents of the new root after wiping the new root. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiping the old root without killing the new root

2017-03-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/03/2017 18:24, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Finally I moved to my new root and it seems to be $HOME > enough to wiupe the old root. > > The old root is on a separate partition to which I will move > the contents of the new root after wiping the new root. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

2017-06-10 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I noticed that the root prompt does not include the full path of the > current directory. Normal user: > > me@gentoopc ~ $ cd /usr/bin > me@gentoopc /usr/bin $ > > However, for root: > > gentoopc ~ # cd /usr/bin > gentoopc bin # >

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp - failed: Permission denied (13)

2018-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:10:03 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying rsync directory (daily backups) and on some files I get > "Permission denied" from rsync: (I'm running the rsync as root) Maybe so, but... > rsync -av --delete /Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > Is there a subdirectory 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11' in /lib/firmware/ ? Yes. It was created when I untarred the tarball from kernel.org [thimk][root][~] ll /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11 total 364 drwxr-sr-x 2 roo

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.14 12:23, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > Is there a subdirectory 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11' in /lib/firmware/ ? Yes. It was created when I untarred the tarball from kernel.org [thimk][root][~] ll /lib/firmware/iwlwif

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /usr/bin/playsound (requires libFLAC.so.7) broken /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflac.so (requires libFLAC.so.7) broken /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 08:02, Dale wrote: ... r...@sysresccd /root % mount -v -L root /mnt/gentoo mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda6 I will try type ext4 /dev/sda6 on /mnt/gentoo type ext4 (rw) r...@sysresccd /root % Since ext4 is new and I have no experience

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/24/06, Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config. However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via uname -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andreses
Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via uname -r: malory / # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r` total 212 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 build - /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 source

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread Antoine
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Antoine wrote: I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde Check the permissions and owners in /dev/s{,ou}nd? Benno tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 19 20:29 dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 19 20:29 mixer crw-rw

Re: [gentoo-user] bash: no job control in this shell

2008-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: it's only appears on first console (tty1) but i think i'm ok with kernel and /dev/ permission #ls -alh /dev/tty[0-2] crw--w 1 root root 4, 0 10 set 19:57 /dev/tty0 crw--- 1 root root 4, 1 10 set 20:21 /dev/tty1 crw--- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS weirdness

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
has worked fine for months. This morning I su - to root and asked for an ls of /backup/bullet. It gave me Permission Denied. I cd over to /backup and do ls. I see my backup files for baby and also listed is the bullet directory: baby backup # ls baby-gentoo-etc-050805.tar.bz2 baby

Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED

2007-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         3 May  9 08:25 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         3 May  9 08:25 cdrom1 - hdd lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         3 May  9 08:25 cdrw - hdc appear since loading ide-generic.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread Mick
-x 20 root root 4096 May 29 04:40 / drwxr-xr-x 56 root root 4096 May 29 11:39 /etc Oops! mine looks like this: # ls -ld / drwxrwxrwt 22 root root 648 Apr 6 18:44 / What's wrong here? PS. I do not suffer from Maxim's problem, but clearly something is wrong with my access rights on the root

Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:34, Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my

[gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and non-root), ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. If I log in as a plain user (moi), I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] 2006 livecd (x86)

2006-06-30 Thread James
Hello I just booted one up and I cannot su to root. It wants a passwd and I tried the usual suspects... The default user (gentoo) can issue (sudo) root commands? Certainly the gentoo user does not have the paths set such as root's paths would be set. I definately need the default root passwd

[gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update

2006-07-01 Thread Walter Dnes
So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able to find libXaw.so.8. First, I checked to see what was available... m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 - libXaw6.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update

2006-07-01 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Walter Dnes wrote: So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able to find libXaw.so.8. First, I checked to see what was available... m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 - libXaw6.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

[gentoo-user] hardened: setuid

2006-07-12 Thread James
Hello I was performing a routine security audit using: find / -user root -perm -4000 -print which found these peculiar files: /usr/athena/bin/su /usr/athena/bin/otp /usr/athena/bin/rcp /usr/athena/bin/rsh /usr/athena/bin/rlogin upon greater inspection this is most troubling: -rws--x--x 1

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened: setuid

2006-07-12 Thread Mark Shields
n 7/12/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HelloI was performing a routine security audit using:find / -user root -perm -4000 -printwhich found these peculiar files:/usr/athena/bin/su/usr/athena/bin/otp/usr/athena/bin/rcp /usr/athena/bin/rsh/usr/athena/bin/rloginupon greater inspection this is most

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened: setuid

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: Hello I was performing a routine security audit using: find / -user root -perm -4000 -print which found these peculiar files: /usr/athena/bin/su /usr/athena/bin/otp /usr/athena/bin/rcp /usr/athena/bin/rsh /usr/athena/bin/rlogin upon greater inspection

Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

2006-08-01 Thread frank
to not format the root partition. Is there a way to do so? ... or will an older version of the installation handbook work (installing from the text console without formatting the disks)? Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:19 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/1/06, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[gentoo-user] [OT samba] mapping win user to root in smbusers

2006-09-08 Thread reader
When installing samba from portage one ends up with a smbusers file in /etc/samba that contains (in part): root = administrator admin Which would seem to indicate that windows user administrator or admin will be mapped to root on the linux shares. I wanted to extend that to my win user harry

[gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-03 Thread walt
On 07/03/2009 08:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: There is no PCM channel in alsamixer! Maybe I will try alsamixergui, where I saw switches once. Do you have something like this in /dev/snd?: $ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2009-07-03 04:42 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge and running tests as non-root

2009-07-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:04:38 -0400 Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: In trying to merge the most recent mysql, I am getting this notice at the start of the ebuild: * Testing with FEATURES=-userpriv is no longer supported by upstream. Tests MUST be run as non-root. Is there a way

[gentoo-user] Re: Java jdk

2009-08-03 Thread walt
On 08/03/2009 06:54 AM, James wrote: Well here's what I found: # ls -alg /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache total 13 drwxr-xr-x 4 root 168 Aug 2 16:34 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root72 Mar 26 02:33 .. drwx-- 8 root 520 Jul 17 08:13 registry -rw--- 1 root 1 Aug 2 16:34

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Haddock
I changed the permissions on my machine. On the remote machine, it shouldn't need root permissions just to compile programs, right? -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: Why am I here? But now we know the question is actually: Why is THAT THERE? -Me

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-13 Thread walt
/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2010-02-08 11:53 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-01-29 12:33 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-07-04 09:02 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 -rw-r--r-- 1

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-25 Thread rocwhite168
is 0x10 for x86. Thanks for your suggestion! I tried and it seems the previous problem disappeared but it throws out another error: Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. VFS: Cannot open root device sda5 or unknown-block(2,0) Please

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 April 2011 18:05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error

Re: [gentoo-user] no_root_squash equivalent for virtualbox shared folders?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 15:33:48 walt did opine thusly: I've been trying to share /usr/portage on a gentoo host with a virtualbox gentoo guest, but I'm having an identity crisis ;) The /usr/portage/ share mounts perfectly on the gentoo guest, but even root (on the gentoo guest) can't write

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?

2011-12-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving him root access. Well, yeah, but only on those defined files... I'm not worried about them messing up stuff in /var/www/*, but I am worried about them

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Joseph
On 12/29/13 23:05, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: [snip] file ownership is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796864 Mar 6 2013 Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt Is it mounted Read Only? It's the only thing I can think of. I'm not sure if that would keep it from changing it if it is either. Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-10 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/14 22:37, Joseph wrote: I mount USB stick form camera and I can not change ownership (I'm login as root) drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 32768 Nov 18 2013 DCIM -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Nov 21 2013 _disk_id.pod drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

2015-11-10 Thread wabenbau
typing, for example by a > > keylogger or by detecting the electromagentic radiation of your > > keyboard or by watching your keyboard with a camera, then he can do > > nothing with the root password of your server when root login with > > password is forbidden. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

2015-11-26 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 26.11.2015 um 21:44 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Which file is it? > > running lsusb as users show the printer is recognized: > Brother Industries > > $ lsusb > Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 L

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB2 new layout?

2016-03-22 Thread Dennis Tants
). This is the default entry, created by grub2-mkconfig: set root='hd0,msdos3' --set=root *UUID of /dev/sda3* (root) linux /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda3 ro Here is the one that gets created when I created with the grub shell: set root='hd0,msdos1' --set=root *UUID of /dev/sda1* (boot) linux /kernel root

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