Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-30 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or with etc-update or similar). Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc, ever

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 May 2011 05:49:21 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something else still needs it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:50 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Thursday 26 May 2011 05:49:21 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Should these

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 May 2011 11:30:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 11:50 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Thursday 26 May 2011 05:49:21 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:27 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I just had a look and noticed that haldaemon is added as a user to a load of groups. The group 'cdrw' only has haldaemon as a user. What shall I do with it? # less /etc/group | grep haldaemon

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] You should still delete it. I assume you mean just the haldaemon, not the group cdrw, right? Then I leave the cdrw empty with no users, correct? -- Regards, Mick This is what I did. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:29:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 13:27 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I just had a look and noticed that haldaemon is added as a user to a load of groups. The group 'cdrw' only has haldaemon as a user. What

[gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have eliminated hal long ago and noted recently in my group list that I have a haldaemon group haldaemon:x:104:haldaemon and a user haldaemon:x:102:104:added by portage for hal:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Valmor de Almeida did opine thusly: Hello, I have eliminated hal long ago and noted recently in my group list that I have a haldaemon group haldaemon:x:104:haldaemon and a user haldaemon:x:102:104:added by portage

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something else still needs it? I think you should do it by hand. In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files or anything

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something else still needs it? I think you should do it by hand. In general, you can assume